Top Stories of the Day // February 23, 2016

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Bill Gates Clarifies Statements On Apple VS FBI, Calls For Safe Guards And Discussion | Every Angle Of The New Samsung Galaxy S7 And S7 Edge | SpaceX’s SES-9 Launch And Why They Land Rockets At Sea | Google Is Closing Google Compare, Its Financial Services Comparison Service | ‘A Small Number’ Of Rift Pre-Orders Were Just Canceled By Oculus | Encrypted Messaging App Telegram Hits 100M Monthly Active Users, 350k New Users Each Day | Hands On With eero, Or A Noob’s Guide To Building An At-Home Wireless Mesh Network |

DAILY TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Matt Burns Bill Gates Clarifies Statements On Apple VS FBI, Calls For Safe Guards And Discussion Editor’s note: A previous version of this post had the headline “Bill Gates Says Apple Should Unlock The iPhone” but Gates appeared on... Read More… Lucas Matney Every Angle Of The New Samsung Galaxy S7 And S7 Edge Samsung aimed to gather the best features of Galaxies past for their S7 line. That included features missing from the S6 like water resistance and a microSD... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Adding Text to Your App has Never Been Easier. See how a startup did it in one sprint with Bandwidth. This case study will tell you exactly how MyNeighbor plugged into the power of Bandwidth's APIs to make its app sing (and text) in just two weeks, start to finish. Learn More… Emily Calandrelli SpaceX’s SES-9 Launch And Why They Land Rockets At Sea This Wednesday at 6:46 pm EST, SpaceX is scheduled to launch the SES-9 communications satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida with their Falcon 9 launch vehicle.... Read More… CATCH UP WITH CRUNCH REPORT Snapchat Lets You Design and Buy Your Own Custom Geofilter Zuckerberg speaks at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Tim Cook calls for a commission to discuss intelligence and civil liberties, Huntesville, Alabama is the newest city to get Google Fiber, Metasensor is a new gadget that adds a security alarm to anything. Watch Now Jon Russell Google Is Closing Google Compare, Its Financial Services Comparison Service Google is closing down its advertising product which served suggestions for a range of financial products, including credit cards, mortgages and insurance... Read More… Lucas Matney ‘A Small Number’ Of Rift Pre-Orders Were Just Canceled By Oculus With the first orders of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset slated to arrive in just over a month, a number of those with pre-orders awoke this morning... Read More… Matt Burns Encrypted Messaging App Telegram Hits 100M Monthly Active Users, 350k New Users Each Day That didn’t take long. Telegram launched just two and a half years ago and is today announcing at Mobile World Congress 2016 it has 100,000,000 monthly... Read More… Sarah Buhr Hands On With eero, Or A Noob’s Guide To Building An At-Home Wireless Mesh Network eero was supposed to go out late last year to those who bought the system during pre-launch but a manufacturing hiccup pushed the ship date to the here and now.... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Senior Product Manager, Liftopia Posted: February 19 Software Engineer, Android, Location Labs Posted: February 19 IoT Security Positions, Canary Posted: February 19 SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service