News of Note for the Internet-Minded – 3/2/16

GE’s tech chief discusses gamification and cars; Apple and the FBI’s faceoff continues; Microsoft will give developers a new toy to play with; man’s best friend takes a disliking to man’s made friend; and more …

• GM exec discusses gamification on wheels (and other things). (Dean Takahashi, VentureBeat)
• New bill in U.S. Senate could be a boon for Internet of Things users. (Stephen Lawson, Computerworld)
• Is that billboard watching you? (Chip East, Reuters)
• Mozilla and Google introduce updated VR feature support. (Kevin Carbotte, Tom’s Hardware)
• What’s the state of wearables? (Ben Davis, econsultancy.com)
• Apple, the FBI and Congress walk into a room … (Roger Cheng, c|net)
• Developers will soon have a HoloLens emulator to play around with. (Frederic Lardinois, TechCrunch)
• Real dog, meet robot dog. (Stan Schroeder, Mashable)
• Mark Zuckerberg thinks it likely will be a decade before VR reaches the mass market. (Tom Simonite, MIT Technology Review)
• Google’s self-driving car that self-crashed into a bus was likely at fault. (Rachel Metz, MIT Technology Review)