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Senate to Americans: Your security is not our problem

The Senate Intelligence Committee just released a draft of long-awaited legislation to tackle the problem authorities have with encrypted communications. [Read more...]

How the Navy's orbiting robots will refurbish civilian satellites

Geosynchronous orbits above Earth are among the most valuable real estate in the solar system. [Read more...]

Livestream's Mevo camera lets you edit video on the fly

Broadcasting live video is one of the biggest tech trends of the last year. It started with Meerkat, but now Facebook and Twitter (via the Periscope app) are unsurprisingly the dominant players in the space. [Read more...]

Watching surgery in VR isn't for the faint of heart

Next month, my mom will retire as a theater nurse. For almost 40 years she's been walking into her hospital on a near daily basis, donning a fresh pair of scrubs and helping a surgical team save people's lives. [Read more...]

Tesla Model S Ludicrous Mode: Brits react

If you put down big money for a Tesla Model S, one of the features you'll never get bored of is Ludicrous Mode. [Read more...]

Man erases thousands of websites with a bad command

As one business owner showed, things can go spectacularly wrong when you don't backup properly. [Read more...]

Homeland Security urges you to uninstall QuickTime on Windows

The Department of Homeland Security is echoing Trend Micro's advice to uninstall QuickTime if you have it on your Windows computer. [Read more...]

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E-Commerce Minute: Friday -- April 15, 2016

The E-Commerce Times -- E-Business Means Business
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Headline Scan
Senate Committee Hears Litany of IRS Cybersecurity Failings
FBI Paid Hackers to Defeat Security of Shooter's iPhone
Publishers vs. Brave Software: Battle for the Ad Viewer
ESPN Adds Drone Racing to Its Summer Schedule
Crafting an Online Strategy, Part 2: Where to Sell What You Make
Amazon's Kindle Oasis: Lightness of Being at an Unbearable Price?
Male Snubbing Ride-Sharing Service Postpones Launch
Fake Loyalty
Officials Named in Panama Papers Cower Behind China's Great Firewall

Today's Story Highlights

Senate Committee Hears Litany of IRS Cybersecurity Failings

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service's cybersecurity measures are woefully
inadequate, according to testimony presented this week to the Senate
Finance Committee. The hearing was convened to look into how the IRS is
safeguarding taxpayer information this filing season and to determine
improvements, said Sen. Orrin Hatch. Agencies, tax preparers and
Congress have failed taxpayers, Sen. Ron Wyden said.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83371.html

FBI Paid Hackers to Defeat Security of Shooter's iPhone

The FBI paid hackers to break onto the iPhone of the San Bernardino,
California, shooter, according to a news report published Tuesday. The
bureau obtained the services of gray hats, insiders said, and apparently
did not get help from Cellebrite, as earlier reports had suggested. Gray
hats are hackers who sell flaws to governments or companies that make
surveillance tools.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83368.html

Publishers vs. Brave Software: Battle for the Ad Viewer

Brave Software is a startup that has ratcheted the ad-blocking game to a
new level, and it is raising a lot of stink in the online community. For
many people, Web-based ads have become an intolerable, costly
distraction. That has led to a variety of ad-blocking approaches. The
use of ad-blocking software is growing, because users feel they are
being attacked by distracting Web-based ads.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83366.html

ESPN Adds Drone Racing to Its Summer Schedule

The International Drone Racing Association and ESPN on Wednesday
announced a multiyear international media distribution deal. Under the
partnership, the network will showcase the 2016 U.S. National Drone
Racing Championships, which will be held on Governors Island in New York
City this summer. The national championships and the 2016 World Drone
Racing Championships will be streamed live on ESPN3.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83365.html

Crafting an Online Strategy, Part 2: Where to Sell What You Make

You're making soap or jewelry or handcrafted leather bags, and you want
to sell them online. Where do you go? What spaces work best? How do you
decide where to sell your wares? It's important to choose the right
selling spaces for your products and business strategy. Selling on your
own site lets you control how your products are represented, while
third-party sites offer a network of customers.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83358.html

Amazon's Kindle Oasis: Lightness of Being at an Unbearable Price?

Amazon on Wednesday launched the Kindle Oasis -- the latest upgrade to
its popular line of e-readers. Along with features that are arguably
revolutionary, it comes with a price point that may shock more than a
few customers. The Oasis is the thinnest and lightest e-reader it has
ever produced, Amazon said. Without the cover, it weighs in at just 4.6
ounces and is only 3.4 mm at its thinnest point.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83353.html

Male Snubbing Ride-Sharing Service Postpones Launch

Chariot for Women, a ride-sharing service that excludes males 13 and
older, reportedly has postponed its launch to sometime this summer due
to heavier-than-anticipated demand. The company originally had planned
to debut the service in Boston next week. Chariot for Women is open to
all women, including transgender women. Children, including boys under
the age of 13, also may ride.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83362.html

Fake Loyalty

There's an interesting connection between customer relationships in
subscription businesses and loyalty, Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo wrote recently.
His article had particular resonance for me, since I just wrote a book
about customer loyalty myself. My research is full of old-style
approaches to customer loyalty that aren't really about loyalty so much
as they are about, shall we say, customer coercion.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83363.html

Officials Named in Panama Papers Cower Behind China's Great Firewall

Chinese authorities have issued censorship instructions to the media
following the release of the Panama Papers, according to news reports
published last week. The leaked documents reportedly listed several top
Chinese officials who used Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca to set up
offshore companies. The names include President Xi Jinping's brother-in-
law Deng Jiagui.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83359.html

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Tech News Flash: Friday -- April 15, 2016

TechNewsWorld -- All Tech - All The Time
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Headline Scan
E2E Encryption Could Make WhatsApp a Spam Magnet
HTC 10 Wins Heaps of Praise With a Sprinkling of 'Buts'
Tiny Nanocraft May Sail to Neighboring Star System
Hortonworks Ramps Up Hadoop Security
Gadget Ogling: Smarter Notes, Livelier Virtual Reality, and Bigger
In-Flight Movies
Facebook Entices VR Content Creators With Open Source Surround Cam
Next Apple Watch Will Be More 'S' Than 2

Today's Story Highlights

E2E Encryption Could Make WhatsApp a Spam Magnet

Facebook's WhatsApp last week announced it would roll out end-to-end
encryption for its users, but the move could make the service more
attractive to spammers. While encryption can safeguard information from
data thieves, it also can block data protectors. The policy "will not
stop the growth of spam on the platform and could make the problem
worse," AdaptiveMobile's Simeon Coney said.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83370.html

HTC 10 Wins Heaps of Praise With a Sprinkling of 'Buts'

HTC this week unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, the HTC 10. The
phone's camera is outfitted with new, larger sensors and 12 million new-
generation UltraPixels. Both the front and rear cameras sport the
world's first optically stabilized, larger-aperture f/1.8 lenses on, the
company said. The rear camera also has a faster laser autofocus.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83369.html

Tiny Nanocraft May Sail to Neighboring Star System

Stephen Hawking and billionaire Yuri Milner on Tuesday unveiled
Breakthrough Starship, an ambitious $100 million effort to send
miniature spacecraft to another solar system, but the program might not
be quite ready to fly. It calls for a team of engineering and
astrophysics experts to develop nanocrafts that could zoom to the Alpha
Centauri star system at 20 percent the speed of light.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83364.html

Hortonworks Ramps Up Hadoop Security

Hortonworks this week announced a series of enterprise security efforts
to bolster performance and data safety with its Hortonworks Data
Platform. The company announced that Pivotal Software will standardize
on Hortonworks' Hadoop distribution. The thrust of the product
announcements concerned updates on applying security policies and
maintaining data governance.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83367.html

Gadget Ogling: Smarter Notes, Livelier Virtual Reality, and Bigger
In-Flight Movies

We've for some time had Moleskine's Smart Notebooks, which allow you to
jot down your thoughts and upload them to Evernote through an app. The
new Smart Writing Set takes that idea and elevates it to a new plane,
letting you quickly turn scrawled notes or doodles into digital files
you can edit using a computer or any mobile app -- no smartphone camera
required.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83352.html

Facebook Entices VR Content Creators With Open Source Surround Cam

Facebook on Tuesday unveiled a high-quality 360-degree 3D camera
suitable for creating virtual reality content. The Facebook Surround 360
system, which made its debut at the F8 developers conference, includes a
production-ready camera -- which costs about $30,000 to build and looks
like a flying saucer from a science fiction movie -- and software for
controlling the camera and for stitching and rendering what the camera
captures.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83361.html

Next Apple Watch Will Be More 'S' Than 2

Most of the changes in the next version of the Apple Watch will be on
the inside and not the outside of the case, according to an investors
note issued Monday by Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities. His comments are
consistent with rumors circulating last summer that the design of the
next version of Apple's wrist computer would remain essentially
unchanged.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83360.html

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