Matthew Keys sentenced to 24 months under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for his role in 2010 LA Times hack, must surrender to custody June 15, plans appeal
Former Reuters Journalist Matthew Keys Sentenced to Two Years for Hacking — This story has been updated throughout with further information from the sentencing.
Apple hires Cynthia Hogan, top NFL lobbyist and former aide to Joe Biden, as vice president for public policy and government affairs
Apple hires NFL, Biden veteran for key policy role — Apple has hired Cynthia Hogan, a top lobbyist for the National Football League and former aide …
Chrome 50 launches with push notification improvements, no longer supports Windows XP/Vista or OS X Snow Leopard/Lion/Mountain Lion
Chrome 50 arrives with push notification improvements, drops support for old Windows and OS X versions — Google today launched Chrome 50 for Windows …
Vine adds Watch button to channels letting users watch an account from start to finish, as it becomes more of an entertainment platform than a social network
Vine releases a Watch button because scrolling is too much work — Vine, Twitter's social network turned entertainment platform …
Court documents reveal Canadian police have had BlackBerry's global encryption key since 2010
Exclusive: Canadian Police Obtained BlackBerry's Global Decryption Key — A high-level surveillance probe of Montreal's criminal underworld shows that Canada's federal policing agency …
ESPN to live stream three-day drone racing event on ESPN3, and air one-hour roundup specials for TV, as skeptics question the nascent sport's mainstream appeal
Drone racing just became a mainstream sport, thanks to ESPN — There's a hotel in Williamsburg—the expensive part of Brooklyn …
European Parliament adopts tough new data protection rules
The final vote on reforms to Europe's data protection laws has just taken place in the European Parliament, with MEPs agreeing the new data protection directive — bringing to a close some four years o...
How Canadian police intercepted and decrypted over 1M BlackBerry messages from 2010 to 2012
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GoPro poaches top Apple designer Daniel Coster to be VP of design; GoPro shares jump over 18%
GoPro Poached a Top Apple Designer and Shares Are Soaring — Shares of GoPro gpro popped nearly 16% in afternoon trading Wednesday after a report said the troubled camera maker had poached a member o...
Facebook demos personalised avatars for Oculus users based on a 3D scan, VR selfies taken while “visiting” a 360 degree photo
Oculus demos a VR selfie stick — Oculus wants to let you go anywhere in the world instantly, look like yourself, and even take a photo while you're there, and today it demoed how at F8.
Hands on video of Microsoft's Word Flow keyboard for iOS as it enters private beta
A Look at Microsoft's Upcoming Word Flow Keyboard, Now in Closed Beta Testing — Rumors in January suggested Microsoft was working to bring its Word Flow Windows Phone keyboard to iOS …
Facebook working on AI that can automatically tag people in videos, says its director of applied machine learning
Facebook will soon be able to automatically tag your friends in videos — Facebook is making big strides in using its artificial intelligence systems for image recognition …
Twitter generates 1.5% of traffic for typical news organizations, 8 tweets per post, 3 clicks per tweet, says Parse.ly report that analyzed data from 200 sites
Twitter has outsized influence, but it doesn't drive much traffic for most news orgs, a new report says
Obama appoints former NSA director Keith Alexander, Uber CSO, MasterCard CEO, and Corporate VP of Microsoft Research to cybersecurity panel
Obama appoints execs from MasterCard, Uber, and Microsoft to cybersecurity panel — The White House today released a list of names President Barack Obama …
White House threatens veto of GOP's anti-net neutrality “No Rate Regulation” legislation
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Microsoft releases public preview of Project Madeira, a SMB business management service running on Azure in US, along with Windows, iOS, and Android apps
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Official draft of Burr-Feinstein encryption bill released to public
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Ride-hailing startups like HopSkipDrive, Boost, and Zum, compete to provide rides for minors, a niche Uber and Lyft don't fill per policy
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Google launches Android N Developer Preview 2 with new 3D rendering API, launcher shortcuts, and Emoji Unicode 9
N is short for download NOW Niranjan R / International Business Times : Android N Developer Preview 2 shows new emojis and more Kellex / Droid Life : What Else is New in Android N Developer Preview 2?...
Cruise founder Kyle Vogt files complaint in Superior Court against early collaborator making ownership claim ahead of $1B GM sale
There is a long and sordid history of people coming … Kia Kokalitcheva / Fortune : GM's $1 Billion Acquisition Caught in Legal Battle Biz Carson / Business Insider : Car startup Cruise wants to stop a...
Facebook announces new terrestrial connectivity systems, Terragraph and Project ARIES, to bring Internet to underserved urban and rural areas, respectively
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Poshmark raises $25M for its fashion resale marketplace, will expand into Canada, Europe and Australia; founder says 1 in 50 US women have used the app
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Lookout Expands Mobile Security Capabilities With Acquisition of Bluebox Security
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Stewart Butterfield says Slack is working on threaded messages, hopes to update service with the feature by next quarter
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Tony Fadell defends Nest in all-hands meeting after bad press, reports no slowdown in sales growth, claims culture is improving, adds that no company is perfect
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Shopify acquires Kit CRM to bolster bot-based messaging for merchants
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Facebook hires Regina Dugan, head of Google's ATAP and former DARPA chief, to lead new Building 8 R&D group that has budget of hundreds of millions of dollars
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Microsoft, Samsung commit to supporting Facebook's React Native app development framework for Windows 10 and Tizen platforms, respectively
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