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Apple accuses Nokia of collusion with patent trolls in anti-trust lawsuit; Nokia sues Apple for 32 patent infringements, claims Apple declined licensing deals — Nokia today announced that it has filed several complaints against Apple in Germany and the United States, accusing the Cupertino company of infringing on Nokia patents.
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Tweets: @iphone_news, @uvstaska, @9to5mac, and @inafried
| Laharee Chatterjee / Reuters: |
Honda says it has entered formal talks with Alphabet's Waymo to add self-driving tech to its cars, will provide modified vehicles initially — Honda Motor Co Ltd's R&D unit said on Wednesday it has entered into formal talks with Alphabet Inc's Waymo to add self-driving technology to its vehicles.| Andrew J / The Verge: |
Uber debuts several Snapchat filters unlocked in-app which display travel time to destination, the company's logo, more — Uber's app just got a lot more snappy — Last month, Uber unveiled a totally redesigned and streamlined version of its app that featured a cleaner interface …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Nintendo says Super Mario Run was downloaded 40M+ times in its first 4 days of availability, breaking iOS App Store records — Nintendo has confirmed what we all knew was likely - Super Mario Run got a lot of downloads at launch. The company says that the app was downloaded …
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Nintendo, TouchArcade, Japan Today, Pocket-lint, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, Siliconera, Digital Trends, CNET, The Next Web, Polygon, Tech Times, 9to5Mac, The Verge, and MacRumors. Tweets: @techjournalist
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
House Judiciary Committee's Encryption Working Group report says encryption backdoors pose a security threat, siding with tech experts — Today, the House Judiciary Committee's Encryption Working Group released its year-end report — and the result is good news for technology companies.| Spencer Woodman / The Verge: |
Data mining firm Palantir, co-founded by Trump adviser Peter Thiel, has provided help tracking immigrants for US customs and border authorities — Training materials obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center show Palantir has played a role in a far-reaching customs system
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| Steven Overly / Washington Post: |
White House report: AI will lead to long-term growth in productivity and efficiency but will likely lead to millions of job losses in low-skill sectors — The growing popularity of artificial intelligence technology will likely lead to millions of lost jobs, especially among less-educated workers …
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The White House, Recode, ZDNet, InfoWorld, VentureBeat, BuzzFeed, Quartz, SlashGear, CNBC, Mashable, The Hill, TechCrunch, and GeekWire
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Open Whisper Systems, the developers behind Signal, use “domain fronting” for its Android app to bypass censorship in Egypt and UAE, with iOS update coming soon — Any subversive software developer knows its app has truly caught on when repressive regimes around the world start to block it.
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Open Whisper Systems, Engadget, and Motherboard
Tweets: @wired, @pwnallthethings, and @caseynewton
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
eMarketer cuts growth forecasts for US smartwatch market in 2016 from 60% to 25% YoY, citing lack of clear use case — Apple may still be claimingthat sales of its Apple Watch are “doing great,” but overall, the wearable device category is failing to grow at the rates forecasted earlier.
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Fitbit Blog, VentureBeat, eMarketer and Newsroom Posts, Engadget, TheStreet.com, CNBC, VentureBeat, SlashGear, 9to5Google, Business Insider, Mobile Marketing Watch, 9to5Mac, and Fortune. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Six of ten executives in Twitter's “leadership team” have left this year, including the CTO, COO, VP of Product, VP of Engineering — There were a lot of them. — Who is left at Twitter? — The social communications company has always done a poor job of establishing continuity in its most senior ranks.
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CNBC, Breitbart, CNNMoney, TheStreet.com, Vanity Fair, New York Times, TechCrunch, and CNET
Tweets: @sfiegerman, @alex, @eddyelfenbein, @liberty8988, and @cnn
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
WhatsApp is being used by many immigrants and migrants to stay in touch with family members and friends back home, thanks to its security, simplicity, ubiquity — When Facebook bought WhatsApp for more than $19 billion in 2014, Jan Koum, a founder of the messaging company …
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Reuters. Tweets: @melissarfleming, @nytimes, @tanvi_madan, @skupor, @fmanjoo, and @puiwingtam. Thanks:@ravichandrans25
| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Verizon “supercookie” partner Turn settles with FTC over privacy violations charges that it continued tracking consumers even after they opted out of tracking — The ad tech firm was found continuing to track users even after they opted-out. — Turn, which operates …
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DSLreports, Federal Trade Commission, Turn, Consumerist, MediaPost, Engadget, The Register, and AdExchanger
Tweets: @juliaangwin and @marketingland
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says government requests for account data rose 27% YoY globally; requests to remove posts that violate local law drop 83% — Facebook released its latest transparency report today, detailing government requests for user data for the first half of 2016.
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Facebook, International Business Times, SiliconANGLE, SocialTimes, Mashable, and Reuters
| Owen Bowcott / The Guardian: |
EU's top court rules “general and indiscriminate retention” of electronic communications is illegal, possibly opening UK's Snoopers Charter to legal challenges — Indiscriminate collection of emails is illegal, court rules in response to challenge originally brought by David Davis
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MacRumors, Liberty Human Rights, Engadget, The Verge, BetaNews, bit-tech.net, Patently Apple, Inforrm's Blog, Ars Technica UK, Telegraph, BBC, Boing Boing, Associated Press, v3.co.uk, London Evening Standard, City A.M., The Independent, New Scientist, Dailystar.co.uk, IT PRO, Gizmodo UK, TechCrunch, WIRED UK, Inquirer, and Techdirt
Tweets: @libertyhq, @peterkofod, @ggreenwald, @glinner, @sheldrake, @openrightsgroup, @paul__johnson, @old_pyjamas, @lordstras, and @paul__johnson
| Dan Richman / GeekWire: |
Microsoft wins $927M tech support contract with US Defense Information Systems Agency following company's earlier deal to move all 4M DoD employees to Win 10 — Microsoft has won a $927-million, five-year contract to provide technical support to the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook partners with 17 universities, including MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins, to speed up collaboration on new projects — Facebook's shadowy Building 8 research team needs help from academia to invent futuristic hardware. But today's pace of innovation doesn't allow …
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