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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• 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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• 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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• Apple wins legal round in security feud with FBI

  

  Handing Apple a key legal win in its intensifying conflict with the FBI, a federal judge in New York has rejected the government's bid to force the Silicon Valley power to unlock an iPhone in a drug trafficking case.Bolstering Apple's position in a similar legal battle in the San Bernardino County terror probe, U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein concluded that the government does not have the authority to force a company to crack its own security protections against its will, calling it "an u..

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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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• 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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• Infiniti Upgrades Mid-Size Vehicles Mid-Cycle

  

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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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