Top Stories of the Day // March 11, 2016

Watch how easy it is for someone to hack your iPhone | GM buys self-driving car kit startup Cruise, plans to use tech to make driverless cars | UK surveillance powers bill could force startups to bake in backdoors | Apple sends out invites for March 21 event, likely for new iPad and smaller iPhone | U.S. Attorney General defends FBI case against Apple on Stephen Colbert’s show | Sources: India’s Flipkart in talks to raise up to $1b, likely in a down round | My Uber driver apparently moonlights as an underground electronics dealer |

DAILY FRIDAY, MARCH 11 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Katie Roof Watch how easy it is for someone to hack your iPhone With all the hoopla surrounding the FBI-Apple controversy, it may surprise you how easy it is to hack into an iPhone. In this video, Skycure CEO Adi Sharabani... Read More… Sarah Buhr GM buys self-driving car kit startup Cruise, plans to use tech to make driverless cars General Motors (GM) announced today it plans to snap up Cruise Automation, a San Francisco-based startup making sensors that turn regular vehicles into ones... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Come meet our writers at TechCrunch's SXSW party and panels Meet amazing people and catch an unforgettable concert at TechCrunch's SXSW party. Between 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. on Saturday March 12 at The Palm Door - only 2 blocks from the convention center! Free admission! Learn More… Natasha Lomas UK surveillance powers bill could force startups to bake in backdoors While the Apple vs FBI court battle has drawn all eyes to the question of what should be considered 'reasonable assistance' for companies to provide law... Read More… CATCH UP WITH CRUNCH REPORT What's Coming at Apple's Next Event? Apple announces March 21 press event, Americans say robots will take over, Soothe raises $35M, Nest introduces family accounts, Cola launches smarter text messaging Watch Now Romain Dillet Apple sends out invites for March 21 event, likely for new iPad and smaller iPhone Apple has just issued for its next press event on Apple Campus in Cupertino. The event is going to happen on March 21. As usual, Apple wrote a cryptic message... Read More… Catherine Shu U.S. Attorney General defends FBI case against Apple on Stephen Colbert’s show As the iPhone unlocking case becomes more heated, United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch went on late night television to defend the Federal Bureau of... Read More… Pankaj Mishra, Ingrid Lunden Sources: India’s Flipkart in talks to raise up to $1b, likely in a down round After years of raising hundreds of millions of dollars to tap into the burgeoning e-commerce market in India, one of the country’s biggest tech companies... Read More… Fitz Tepper My Uber driver apparently moonlights as an underground electronics dealer Have you ever been riding in an Uber and become suddenly overtaken by the immediate need for a new Android tablet or a Dell Latitude E6420? Yeah, me neither. Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Senior Associate, Growth Marketing at SquareTrade Inc. (San Francisco, CA, United States) Digital Marketing Specialist at Oblong Industries (Los Angeles) DIGITAL PRODUCT MANAGER LEAD at Mystery Tackle Box (Chicago, IL, United States) Software Developer at GTE Financial (Tampa, FL, United States) Chief Financial Office at Immplay Inc. (San Francisco, CA, United States) 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