US Department of Justice drops appeal seeking Apple's help in unlocking iPhone in Brooklyn case after it obtains passcode
U.S. Drops Appeal Seeking Apple Help in Brooklyn IPhone Case — The U.S. government said it no longer needs Apple Inc.'s help to get into an iPhone used by a drug dealer …
All Apple Watch Apps Must Be Native Apps Starting on June 1
Apple today informed developers that starting on June 1, 2016, all watchOS apps submitted to the App Store must be native apps built with the watchOS 2 SDK or later. — When the Apple Watch first lau...
An unsecured database with 93.4M Mexican voter records found hosted on AWS, now taken offline
Personal info of 93.4 million Mexicans exposed on Amazon (UPDATED) — In today's installment of “Epic Infosecurity #FAIL,” more than 93.4 million Mexican citizens have had their voter …
Boston district court judge rules FBI hacking in child porn sting was illegal because magistrate judge that issued the search warrant was in another district
FBI Mass Child-Porn Hack Ruled Illegal on a Technicality — When the FBI hacked over 1,000 computers to ensnare consumers …
Monthly data limits by home broadband providers increasingly forcing consumers to cut back or cancel streaming video services in the US
Broadband Data Caps Pressure ‘Cord Cutters’ — Monthly limits by home Internet providers like Comcast and AT&T force people who stream Netflix or Sling TV to ration Web use
AMD climbed 52% Friday after announcing $293M deal to license processor and system-on-chip technology to China-backed joint venture THATIC
AMD Soars on Agreement to License Chip Technology for China — Struggling chipmaker looking for ways to monetize technology
Toosheh lets Iranians use their ubiquitous satellite TV dishes to download videos, cirumventing the nation's slow, expensive, censored internet
The Ingenious Way Iranians Are Using Satellite TV to Beam in Banned Internet — Reza, a 20-something mechanical engineer working …
WeChat PM: chat apps succeed when they streamline high-friction processes like app installation, login, and payment, not when they rely on conversational UI
Bots won't replace apps. Better apps will replace apps. — Lately, everyone's talking about “conversational UI.” It's the next big thing.
Baidu is building a 100-person autonomous car team in Silicon Valley
Chinese search giant Baidu has formed a team dedicated to its self-driving car efforts in Silicon Valley, taking its autonomous car ambitions to Google's home turf. The team, which Baidu announced in...
Sony Offers A Build Of The Android N Developer Preview For The Xperia Z3
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Young fans of Valve's Counter-Strike flock to independent, unregulated sites to bet valuable virtual weapons on pro matches
Virtual Weapons Are Turning Teen Gamers Into Serious Gamblers — The boom in pro video gaming is fueled by $2.3 billion in online bets. Tweets: @business Tweets: Bloomberg / @business : How a boom in...
Twitch launches Friends feature in limited beta, letting users add up to 500 friends, see when they're online, and send them messages with one click
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Six prominent ex-national security officials, who now work at firms with ties to the tech sector, support Apple on encryption
On Encryption Battle, Apple Has Advocates in Ex-National Security Officials — WASHINGTON — In their years together as top national security officials …
Amazon blocks non-Prime members from buying some popular video games like GTA 5 directly from the company, still lets you buy through Marketplace sellers
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Sources: Google plans an in-house startup incubator “Area 120” overseen by Don Harrison and Bradley Horowitz
Google Preps New Corporate Incubator — Sundar Pichai has a new plan to stop Google employees from jumping ship to start companies: Create a startup incubator within Google.
Victory for Uber hinges on district court judge approving settlement, and could later be offset by legislation
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BitTorrent appoints new co-CEOs, plans to launch mobile streaming video service this spring, add ad-supported streaming to its Bundle platform this summer
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Study: 7% of partners in the top 100 VC firms are women; 10% of global venture funding in 2010-15 went to startups with at least one woman founder
Hi, everyone, happy Tuesday! Tina Amirtha / Motherboard : What Numbers Can—And Can't—Tell Us About Gender In Tech
$81M hack of Bangladesh central bank made possible by second-hand $10 switches linking computers connected to SWIFT global payment network, and no firewall
Facebook rolling out setting that lets users turn off all Live notifications
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How storytelling pioneers are experimenting with GoPros, 3-D printers, and homemade camera rigs to invent a new medium, cinematic VR
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Yik Yak settles a lawsuit by a former classmate of co-founders, who claimed he was cheated out of one-third of the company
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Sources: Yahoo received more than 10 first-round offers, valuing core business at about $4B-$8B, will narrow it down to about 7 as soon as next week
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