At SXSW, President Obama advises tech industry to compromise on encryption now instead of waiting for Congress to act
Government Can't Let Smartphones Be ‘Black Boxes,’ Obama Says — Obama advises tech industry to compromise before Congress acts — President appears at South by Southwest as FBI sues Apple Inc.
Google's AI Takes Historic Match Against Go Champ With Third Straight Win
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — Google's artificially intelligent Go-playing computer system has claimed victory in its historic match with Korean grandmaster Lee Sedol after winning the third straight game in t...
AdBlock replaces ads with messages from anti-censorship activists through Saturday, in partnership with Amnesty International
Snowden, Pussy Riot, and Ai Weiwei launch AdBlock campaign to protest censorship — Ai Weiwei, Edward Snowden, and Pussy Riot have partnered with AdBlock …
Sources: Instacart cuts commissions for couriers by 50%, reduces fees per drop-off to $1.50 from $4 in SF, LA, and some other metro areas
Grocery-Delivery Startup Instacart Cuts Pay for Couriers — Instacart is the latest on-demand startup to try to contain costs in a tighter funding environment
Instacart says ads from General Mills, PepsiCo, and other consumer goods makers account for 15% of its revenue
Instacart Gets Red Bull and Doritos to Pay Your Delivery Fees — The grocery delivery startup says ads from General Mills, PepsiCo, and other consumer companies account for 15 percent of revenue.
Microsoft launches tool to help Evernote users on Windows move their notes to OneNote
Microsoft launches OneNote importer tool for Evernote users — Microsoft today launched a OneNote importer tool that lets Evernote users bring their content to Microsoft's note-taking tool.
How Kyle Vogt Sold Cruise Automation to GM, Twitch to Amazon
Ten years ago, Justin Kan and Emmett Shear had just sold their app company, Kiko, and were itching for another venture. They had a concept — livestream video — but no idea how to build it. So they s...
Coming at Apple's March 21st event: 4-inch iPhone SE, 9.7-inch iPad Pro & new Apple Watch models
If Apple's most recent hardware events were about going bigger (larger iPhones, a jumbo iPad, and a new Apple TV), Apple's March 21st event is about going smaller.
TP-Link blocks open source router firmware in clumsy effort to comply with new FCC rule regarding RF interference
TP-Link blocks open source router firmware to comply with new FCC rule — Rules for limiting interference could prevent use of DD-WRT and OpenWRT.
Michael Goguen, longtime partner at Sequoia Capital, is out after suit unrelated to firm alleging sexual and physical abuse
Longtime VC Michael Goguen was just hit with an explosive lawsuit — Michael Goguen, a longtime partner at Sequoia Capital who joined the tony Sand Hill Road …
Adobe issues emergency patch for Flash bug
Dell releases new XPS 13 Developer Edition, launches Linux-based Precision laptops worldwide
On the laptop side, Dell may be best known for its Windows devices, but, as some of you may already know, it also offers some killer Linux-based alternatives for prosumers.
Hands-on with Android N: Increased customization, better notifications, and more
We cover everything new we could find in Android's latest update. — The new Android N Developer Preview starts off with a warning and then gives you an option to jump into vision or emergency contac...
Hackers tried to steal nearly $1B from Bangladesh's central bank, got away with $81M
spellchek, spellcheck, spellchekc http://arstechnica.com/... http://twitter.com/... Raju Narisetti / @raju : What a caper: Bangladesh Central Bank finds missing $100 million: a cyberheist spanning at ...
Snapchat's hiring of hardware designers, wearable experts, and former HoloLens recruiter indicates it may be working on AR or VR devices
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New Amazon Alexa Voice Search skill allows you to pay Capital One credit card bill from pre-linked account, check balance, review recent transactions, more
Mellisa Tolentino / SiliconANGLE :
Microsoft says it has never given disk encryption keys to a US government agency, despite backing up recovery keys to cloud since 2013
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard :
Sources: Intel is working with UBS Group to sell part of its venture capital unit, with a portfolio worth up to $1B
Kiel Porter / Bloomberg Business :
Yahoo announces plans to kill off Games, Livetext, Boss, and more regional sites
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Amazon eyes up education, plans a free platform for learning materials
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Verisign: The number of DDoS attacks increased 85% in Q4 2015, compared to Q4 a year ago
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Sources: Slack is raising $200M at a nearly $4B valuation led by Thrive Capital
Business Insider : Tweets: @mattrosoff Tweets: Matt Rosoff / @mattrosoff : BTW Slack is now worth $3.7 to $3.8B. So if rumors true, $MSFT would've been paying a bit more than 2x mkt value. http://www...
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