Sources: Justice Department is pursuing court orders to force Apple to extract data from about 12 other iPhones, in cases that don't involve terrorism
Justice Department Seeks to Force Apple to Extract Data From About 12 Other iPhones — Apple embroiled in phone court fights beyond San Bernardino …
Survey: 51% of Americans say Apple should unlock San Bernardino suspect's iPhone to assist FBI, 38% disagree
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Mark Zuckerberg defends Apple in FBI standoff, says “we believe in encryption”, also shares thoughts on AI and Facebook's video strategy, including live video
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Valve releases SteamVR performance tool to test whether a PC is capable of smooth experience running high-end VR
Valve releases tool to test whether your PC is VR ready — See if your system is up for the upcoming HTC Vive. — With HTC beginning to take pre-orders …
Google To Shut Down Google Compare Products In US And UK On March 23
Google's lead generation product known as Google Compare, will start sunsetting this week. — In an email sent to partners and acquired by Search Engine Land, the Google Compare Team told Compare par...
Uber defends screening process after Michigan mass shooting in which driver killed victims between rides, says driver had 4.73 rating and no criminal record
Uber defends driver screening in wake of Kalamazoo mass shooting — Jason Dalton, the Uber driver who shot and killed six people …
AT&T and Intel to test 4G LTE for drones to potentially increase their flight range and reduce signal interference
AT&T, Intel hope 4G will let drones fly higher and further than ever … Yuneec
Mastercard to accept selfies and fingerprints as password alternatives for online payments this summer in UK, US, Canada, and parts of Europe
MWC 2016: Mastercard rolls out selfie ID checks — Credit card firm Mastercard has confirmed it will accept selfie photos and fingerprints …
Oracle buys cloud software startup Ravello Systems, source says for $500M
Oracle buys cloud software startup Ravello Systems for $500 million, source says — Oracle today disclosed that it has acquired Ravello Systems, a company with tools for running enterprise workloads ...
Snapchat introduces custom on-demand geofilters for US, UK, and Canada, with geofences ranging from 20K-5M square feet, prices start at $5
Geofilters are one of our favorite parts of Snapchat. Paresh Dave / Los Angeles Times : Snapchat allowing geofilters for any party, event or company for as little as $5 Annlee Ellingson / Silicon Vall...
HoloLens Start Menu uncovered in videos for actiongram, a new app for creating videos with holograms
HoloLens ‘Start Menu’ Uncovered In Actiongram Videos — Late last night, new information was uncovered about Microsoft's Hololens including a new peripheral to make clicking easier and Actiongram …
Google's Cloud Dataproc service, a fully managed tool based on the Hadoop and Spark open source big data software, comes out of beta
Google launches Cloud Dataproc service out of beta — Google today announced that its Cloud Dataproc service — a fully managed tool based on the Hadoop …
Gogo shares rise after American Airlines drops lawsuit seeking to end service agreement
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Subgraph OS: new Linux-based secure OS aims to be hacker-resistant and user-friendly, even on low-powered laptops
Subgraph OS Wants to Make Using a Secure Operating System Less of a Headache — While tools for message encryption have become easier to use in recent years …
Linux Mint site hacked on Feb. 20: hundreds downloaded a backdoored-variant of the Linux distro; Mint forum data including personal info for sale on dark web
Some people claim that Linux … Paul Ducklin / Naked Security : World's biggest Linux distro infected with malware Stefan Ortloff / Securelist : Beware of Backdoored Linux Mint ISOs Jim Lynch / InfoWor...
Facebook adds a birthday video cam for leaving 15-second posts on friends' timelines, first available on iOS
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ARM announces Cortex A32 CPU, designed for wearables, IoT, embedded systems, and low-cost boards like Raspberry Pi
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica :
Razer Raises At A $1.5B Valuation, With $75M From China's Digital Grid For Immersive Gaming
Razer, the gaming technology company based out of Southern California, has raised another round of funding, a Series C that values it at $1.5 billion, TechCrunch has learned.
Oscar Health Gets $400 Million And A $2.7 Billion Valuation from Fidelity
Oscar Health Insurance just received a massive cash injection from one of the biggest and most conservative investors in the business. — Today Oscar announced that mutual fund giant Fidelity led a $...
Tanium CEO David Hindawi to become executive chairman, CTO Orion Hindawi takes over as CEO
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Fitbit beats estimates with EPS of $0.35 vs $0.25 expected, quarterly unit sales up to 8.2M from 5.3M; shares drop over 14% after hours on quarterly guidance
At first blush it's tough to figure out why investors … Katie Roof / TechCrunch : Fitbit Plummets 16% In After-Hours Trading Re/code : Fitbit Shares Plunge 15 Percent on Guidance Despite Beat Akin Oye...
Microsoft to phase out Skype Qik video chat app as of March 24
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Google plans to provide Fiber to Huntsville, AL on top of the municipally-owned broadband network
Telecoms are returning to their roots with Gigabit internet Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat : Google Fiber is coming to Alabama Kirsty Styles / The Next Web : Rocket City will be the first in the US to...
Cheezburger sold to undisclosed, newly formed overseas private media company; CEO Scott Moore to continue running the site
John Cook / GeekWire :
Google partners with global and regional carriers to push Rich Communication Services through a transition to new Android RCS messaging client
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Foursquare launches new service to tell businesses when their ads bring you into physical store, even if they don't run campaigns in Foursquare or Swarm apps
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