Apple opposes unlocking iPhone in Brooklyn drug case, saying the government has not proven its help is necessary
Apple opposes U.S. appeal over iPhone in New York drug case — Apple Inc argued on Friday that the U.S. Justice Department had failed to substantiate that it needed …
Facebook's initial Messenger chatbots are slow, frustrating, and useless
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Researchers uncover GozNym, malware that is a hybrid of Nymaim and Gozi that has stolen $4M from customers of 24 US and Canadian banks in just 3 days
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The Minecraft Generation: How Mojang's virtual sandbox, which sells 10K copies per day, is teaching millions of children to master the digital world
The Minecraft Generation — How a clunky Swedish computer game is teaching hundreds of millions of children to master the digital world. — J
The history of content moderation, the laws that govern internet speech, and how safety works online
The secret rules of the internet — Julie Mora-Blanco remembers the day, in the summer of 2006, when the reality of her new job sunk in. A recent grad of California State University …
India debuts Unified Payment Interface, a system built on top of its existing biometric-backed ID project to simplify digital banking for its 1.2B+ citizens
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Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs Plans Digital City for Google Car, Internet
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Alphabet's Access CEO Craig Barratt says it is looking into providing fixed wireless services where installing fiber is too expensive
Google Fiber wants to beam wireless Internet to your home — Over the past five years, Google Fiber has laid its high-speed Internet in a handful of cities and pledged to come to several more.
Facebook says it won't try to influence how people vote, despite verbal jabs between Zuckerberg and Trump campaign plus staffers' internal questions
Facebook promises not to use its product to influence the US presidential election — Despite some not-so-subtle political jabs …
Sources: Intel planning job cuts significantly larger than last year's 1,100, could come after Q1 financial results on Tuesday
Intel planning for thousands of job cuts, internal sources say — Intel is preparing a significant round of job cuts across business units this spring …
GoDaddy CTO and EVP of Cloud Platform Elissa Murphy is resigning to join Google
GoDaddy's Head Tech And Cloud Guru Resigns To Join Google — GoDaddy's head technology guru is leaving the building and going to Google. — The website hosting company revealed in a regulatory filin...
SF to send letters to 37K Uber and Lyft drivers demanding they obtain $91 business licenses if they drive in the city more than seven days per year
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Huawei VR headset announced in China, works like Samsung Gear VR but with P9, Mate 8 phones
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Quartet Health raises $40M Series B led by GV to expand its behavioral health care platform
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Sling is working on AirTV box able to stream local TV channels, FCC filing shows
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Sources: Verizon readying all IP-based set-top box using OnCue tech, with pay-tv, online services; testing to begin this summer, available Q3 or Q4
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Inside the European Commission's efforts to create a digital single market and how the creative industry is pushing back
Copyright fight club — EU wants to change how millions watch Hollywood films and YouTube videos, but legacy media groups are pushing back hard.
Naked Labs unveils 3D Fitness Tracker, which uses a mirror and scale to scan your body in 3D and track changes over time; set available for preorder at $500
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Google updates Chrome Web Store user data policy with stricter privacy and transparency requirements, gives developers until July 15 to comply
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Yelp's Request a Quote feature, which is opt-in for businesses, lets customers get up to 10 price quotes for a home services job and see response times, rates
Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @fwd Tweets: BuzzFeed Tech / @fwd : Now you can get a price quote on local services like mechanics and even party photographers inside Yelp: http://www.buzzfee...
Researchers detail how they brute forced shortened URLs from OneDrive and Google Maps to access private information; Microsoft and Google respond
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Sources: Disney in advanced talks for equity stake in BAM Tech, the streaming video unit of MLB Advanced Media
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Mitel buys Polycom for $1.96B in enterprise communications consolidation play
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comScore: time spent online on desktop devices declined 9.3% in December, 7.6% in January, 2% in February, and 6% in March compared to the same period last year
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @stevesi , @brianrose , @ia , @markham and @jackmarshall Tweets: Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : Is US desktop Internet use in decline? http://www.wsj.com/....
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