• The FBI dropped its case against Apple yesterday, a week after it said that an outside entity had offered to help it crack into the encrypted iPhone used by the San Bernardino attacker. The agency says that this hack only worked on this phone (an iPhone 5c running iOS 9), but it still raises questions about the strength of Apple's encryption.
  [Arik Hesseldahl | Re/code]

• Google's Alphabet conglomerate is having problems with some of the people running its operating companies: Nest's Tony Fadell, the leadership vacuum at Boston Dynamics and, most recently, a report of a talent drain at its life sciences division, Verily.
  [Mark Bergen | Re/code]

• There's been a lot of turnover in Uber's policy and communications staff since ex-Google comms chief Rachel Whetstone was brought in to lead the division last year. Since then, she's poached at least five new staffers from Google.
  [Johana Bhuiyan and Mark Bergen | Re/code]

• Reviews of Facebook's Oculus Rift VR device dropped yesterday, and the critical consensus is this: It's an incredible piece of equipment. It also costs $600 and requires a heavy-duty PC to run it, which makes it hard to justify for anyone who isn't a hardcore geek or gamer.
  [Kurt Wagner | Re/code]

• Analysts at Deutsche Bank have a neat theory for why fleets of autonomously driven cars won't crater auto sales: Fewer cars will be on the road, but ideally every car would be constantly driving and would need to be replaced much more quickly.
  [Luke Kawa | Bloomberg Business]

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