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Recode Daily: Appeals court will hear arguments on Trump’s travel ban today

The hearing will be livestreamed.

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A federal appeals court will hear arguments at 3 pm PT today on the Trump administration’s bid to lift a judge’s suspension of the president’s immigration ban (audio-only livestream here). Meanwhile, Trump accused the media of failing to cover terrorist attacks and labeled negative polls as “fake news.” — [Adam Liptak / New York Times]

The U.S. House passed the Email Privacy Act, which requires authorities to get a warrant to access emails or other digital communications that are at least 180 days old. Currently, only a subpoena is required. — [Dustin Volz / Reuters]

After being criticized for not doing enough to curb fake news during the U.S. presidential election, Google and Facebook are taking steps to flag false or hoax news articles in France ahead of its April presidential election. — [Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal]

Uber is hiring 30-year NASA veteran Mark Moore to lead its flying-car project, Uber Elevate. — [Brad Stone / Bloomberg]

Sunday’s Super Bowl thriller drew 111.3 million viewers for Fox, tied for the fourth most-viewed TV program ever, but down slightly from last year’s 111.9 million, continuing this season’s ratings falloff. — [John Koblin / New York Times]

On the latest episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask, Recode’s Kurt Wagner says potential investors in Snap’s IPO should note two things: Growth has slowed recently and the shares carry no voting rights. — [Eric Johnson / Recode]

Top Stories From Recode

Periscope CEO Kayvon Beykpour is now running all of Twitter’s live video products, too

An expanded role in a key area for Twitter.

Facebook wants to improve your ad experience and is using AI to help it better understand what content you like

Mid-roll video ads, ads in Instagram Stories and ad experiments in Messenger are just the beginning.

Snapchat added ‘Planet Earth’ to its list of mini shows

The BBC documentary series is coming to Snapchat on February 17.

Full transcript: Color Genomics President Othman Laraki on Recode Decode

Genetics is now a software and data problem instead of a raw laboratory and science problem.

Want to understand the future? Read science fiction, John Markoff says.

Markoff shares some of the most influential sci-fi books that helped him get a leg up as a tech reporter at the New York Times.

This Is Cool

This neural-net tool can color in your line drawings

Upload a sketch and let PaintsChainer add the color, either on its own or according to your hints.


This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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