Snapchat comes to web for Oscars 'Stories' and other top stories.

• Snapchat comes to web for Oscars 'Stories'

  

  Snapchat has been strictly a mobile app -- until Sunday night at The Oscars. The photo-focused app curated Snapchats submitted -- otherwise known as Stories -- from The Oscars into a desktop-viewable video on snapchat.com.The constantly-playing video is reminiscent to a viewing experience on Twitter Moments. In typical Snapchat style there are filters and captions. It gives viewers a live perspective of the event, separate from the TV screen, and highlights the power of Snapchat to curate live ..

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• Apple vs FBI: Apple's statement to Congress, Apple's lawyer & Warren Buffet weigh in

  

  Apple is set to officially make a statement before Congress tomorrow regarding its refusal to fulfill a judge’s request to help the FBI unlock a suspect’s iPhone in the high-profile San Bernardino attacks. Apple’s General Counsel Bruce Sewell, likely alongside other Apple employees, will deliver the prepared statement below at the hearing titled Balancing Americans’ Security and Privacy before addressing the panel and answering questions from Congress (via The Verge). In the full statement (b..

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• Google says it bears 'some responsibility' after self-driving car hit bus

  

  Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google said on Monday it bears "some responsibility" after one of its self-driving cars struck a municipal bus in a minor crash earlier this month.The crash may be the first case of one of its autonomous cars hitting another vehicle and the fault of the self-driving car. The Mountain View, California-based Internet search leader said it made changes to its software after the crash to avoid future incidents.In a Feb. 23 report filed with California regulators, Google sa..

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• Snapchat employee fell for phishing scam

  

  A Snapchat employee fell for a phishing scam last week, compromising the identity information of other existing and ex-employees. A Snapchat payroll employee opened the wrong email last week to damaging consequences. The message was a phishing scam that impersonated Snapchat's CEO Evan Spiegel. In the email, a hacker posing as Spiegel requested payroll information for existing and ex-employees. The hacker then exposed that information to the outside world. Snapchat issued a public ..

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• Infiniti Upgrades Mid-Size Vehicles Mid-Cycle

  

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• Here are the first amazing games and apps for Microsoft's HoloLens

  

  Microsoft formally announced its long-awaited $3,000 HoloLens development kit on Monday, which developers can buy as a testbed for holographic applications. But Microsoft has also announced its own games—yes, games!—and apps for the platform, some of which look pretty darn amazing.  The games complement Microsoft’s own development tools, all of which can be found at Microsoft’s developer site. (All of the apps are technically coded for Windows 10, but HoloLens-specific apps are referred to a..

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• Google Maps for iOS Gets More Detour-Friendly

  

  Google Maps for iOS Gets More Detour-Friendly Add detours or places like gas stations, restaurants, grocery stores, and more without exiting navigation mode. Good news for those of you who use Google Maps on your iPhone. Now you can add detours to your route for places like gas stations, restaurants, grocery stores, and more — without exiting navigation mode. This feature first arrived on Android in October, but now Google is bringing it to th..

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• Why Gravitational Waves Are Red Herrings

  

  By Deepak Chopra, MD, Menas C. Kafatos, PhD, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D.   When big science gets a major boost, the news goes around the world with an air of celebration. The latest such event was the confirmation of gravitational waves, which were predicted by Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity. As enthusiastically explained by MIT physicist Allan Adams in a recent TED talk , gravitational waves were considered impossible to detect because of their weakness even 25 years ago. But a proje..

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• Quad-core 64-bit Raspberry Pi 3 arrives with WiFi, BT, $35 price

  

  Raspberry Pi Trading launched a $35 Raspberry Pi 3 SBC with a quad-core, 1.2GHz Cortex-A53 Broadcom SoC plus WiFi and Bluetooth. In the course of a year, the Raspberry Pi has moved from one of the more retro community-backed SBCs on the market to one of the most cutting edge. A few days after the Raspberry Pi 3 story leaked online, the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Raspberry Pi Trading, and Element14 formally launched the shiny new 64-bit, wireless-enabled Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. The newly 64-bit h..

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