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Meet Prem Watsa, the man who wants to save BlackBerry

A sucker throwing good money after bad? Or a quintessential financial sharpie who can spot value where others only see a lost cause? In the coming months, we ought to have a clearer idea after Monday’s surprise offer by Fairfax Financial to acquire woebegone smartphone maker BlackBerry for about $4.7 billion in cash. But the man at the center of …

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iPhone 5S Touch ID hacked by fake fingerprints

Hackers claim to have beaten Apple’s Touch ID fingerprint security already, using movie-style fake fingerprints to break into the iPhone 5S. The iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C went on sale last week, and have already seen a number of security problems. To crack the 5S, hackers from the Chaos Computer Club lift a fingerprint from glass or glossy surface, dusting …

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