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Brooklyn

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A 2016 Brooklyn federal ruling rejecting an order to make Apple unlock an iPhone made the borough a focal point in the encryption fight between Apple and the DoJ.

Who they are

Brooklyn appears in technology coverage primarily as a geographic venue and operating base: a federal-court setting for the Apple-iPhone encryption dispute, a launch-event location for Google and Samsung hardware, and home to startups including Underdog and Overtime as well as the Bitcoin Academy initiative.

The recent arc

Coverage peaked in 2016Q2 around the Brooklyn iPhone case, when a federal judge ruled the government could not use the All Writs Act to compel Apple to unlock a device. Subsequent stories tracked the DoJ’s continued demand for Apple’s assistance and then its decision to drop the appeal after obtaining the passcode, making Brooklyn a concrete venue in the broader encryption-policy confrontation.

The recent arc

More recent coverage is dispersed across consumer hardware, startup financing, and technology services. Google chose Brooklyn for its 2022 Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, and Pixel Watch event; Bloomberg reported Samsung’s planned July 2025 Galaxy Unpacked event there, expected to feature AI updates and new Galaxy Z devices. Meanwhile, Brooklyn-based Underdog raised a $35 million Series B in 2022 and a $70 million first Series C tranche in 2025, while Overtime raised a $100 million Series D and Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z launched Bitcoin education classes at a Brooklyn public-housing complex.

The tension

The defining tension is between device security and law-enforcement access: Apple and the iPhone sit opposite the DoJ in the Brooklyn case, where the government sought compelled technical help and the court rejected its All Writs Act theory. The later hardware-event stories add a different competitive layer, with Google and Samsung using the borough as a stage for rival Pixel and Galaxy product cycles.

Why it matters

If this pattern continues, Brooklyn’s significance in tech coverage will be less as a single industry cluster than as a recurring intersection of policy, product launches, and venture-backed consumer platforms. The Apple litigation showed how a local court can shape a national encryption debate, while Underdog’s financing and Samsung’s event suggest the borough remains useful both as a startup base and as a visible venue for major technology announcements; the durability of either role remains contingent on future legal cases and company activity.

Brooklyn has appeared in 49 articles since 2015-02. Coverage peaked in 2019Q3 with 5 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Apple, iPhone, Google, U.S..

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Coverage Timeline

2025-06-24
Bloomberg 19 related

Samsung schedules its next Galaxy Unpacked event for July 9 at 10am ET in Brooklyn, where AI updates, the Galaxy Z Fold 7, and Galaxy Z Flip 7 are expected

and it's when the ‘Ultra Unfolds’ Alex Perry / Mashable : Samsung poised to release new foldables at July 9 Unpacked event Iyaz Akhtar / PCMag : Next Samsung Galaxy Unpacked Set for July 9: Expect New...

2025-03-29
Axios 10 related

Brooklyn-based Underdog, a fantasy sports and sports betting app, raised $70M in a first Series C tranche at a $1.23B valuation from Spark Capital

I'm incredibly excited to be part of this team — not just because of the headline … Jeremy Levine : Very excited to welcome Spark Capital to team Underdog! Bria Elly : Underdog is growing...like a lot...

2025-01-23
Cato Institute 7 related

A US district judge rules that the FBI's warrantless “backdoor” searches of FISA's Section 702 databases violate the Fourth Amendment

but nonetheless, today's decision that Section 702 data cannot be used to spy on US persons without a warrant was hard-fought and actually a pretty big deal.  —  www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... @eff.org :...

2024-03-26
CNBC 3 related

Amazon launches same-day prescription medication deliveries in New York City and the greater Los Angeles area, and plans to add 12+ cities by the end of 2024

The Amazon Pharmacy home screen is displayed on a laptop in Brooklyn, New York, on Nov. 17, 2020.

2022-09-07
9to5Google 23 related

Google announces an in-person Pixel hardware event for October 6 at 10am ET in Brooklyn, where the company will detail the Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, and Pixel Watch

2022-08-15
Crunchbase News 1 related

Brooklyn-based Overtime, which shares original sports content on social media, raised a $100M Series D at a $500M valuation, bringing its total funding to $250M

2022-07-28
Wall Street Journal 6 related

Brooklyn-based fantasy sports app Underdog raised a $35M Series B at a $485M valuation, and plans to launch licensed sports betting in Ohio and Colorado in 2023

Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal :

2022-06-10
TechCrunch 25 related

Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z launch The Bitcoin Academy, giving free financial education classes on Bitcoin at the Brooklyn public housing complex where Jay-Z grew up

Is billionaire-funded crypto education really what low-income people need?  —  Twitter co-founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey …

2022-01-04
New York Times 5 related

A look at Wordle, a viral once-a-day word guessing game created by a Brooklyn-based engineer as a side project that has amassed 300,000 players in two months

The word game has gone from dozens of players to hundreds of thousands in a few months.  It was created by a software engineer in Brooklyn for his partner.

2021-09-26
Wall Street Journal 30 related

US DOJ allows Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou to return to China in a deferred prosecution agreement as part of which Wanzhou admitted to some wrongdoing

hours after the U.S. agreed to free a Huawei executive https://www.wsj.com/... Michael McFaul / @mcfaul : You're revealing your nerdy (and that's a compliment @stanford) ways to suggest that “a Quad m...

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TEXXR tracks 32 tech news articles mentioning Brooklyn, dating back to April 2015. The biggest stories include Brooklyn federal judge rules in drug case that government can't use All Writs Act to... and US Department of Justice drops appeal seeking Apple's help in unlocking iPhone in.... Frequently covered alongside Apple, iPhone, the Justice Department, Optimus Ride, and DoJ.

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