Tuesday 5 December 2017

The Morning After: Spacesuit autopilot

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It's Tuesday, December 05, 2017.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

Real Nintendo games playable on an NVIDIA set-top box? Yes -- and it’s not the Switch. Also, it’s time for Apple to pay up and we’re seriously considering the possibility of a Quentin Tarantino-directed Star Trek. It’s that kind of Tuesday morning.

We’ll make it simple for you.

The best Xbox One games

AAA, indie and even Kinect -- these are the ones every Xbox One owner should have in their library.

In China.

Nintendo games are officially available on the NVIDIA Shield

The NVIDIA Shield just debuted in China, but this localized edition has a very special addition: downloadable (and officially licensed) versions of Nintendo GameCube and Wii games. At launch, the Shield is offering Chinese gamers their first official taste of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Punch-Out.

Money moves.

Apple will start paying Ireland the billions it owes in back taxes

Both Apple and Ireland are appealing an EU decision that their sweetheart tax deal is illegal, but for now, the country is starting to collect billions in back taxes. Reportedly, Apple will begin paying the funds into an escrow account early next year. The other bad news? It can’t use Apple Pay Cash -- that launched yesterday, but it’s only available in the US.

Go.

Google launches Android Oreo Go and Files Go!

Last night Google released both a stripped-down version of its latest OS and a new file manager app. The only Android Oreo Go devices announced so far are headed for India, but Files Go! Is ready for everyone. Now out of beta, it brings AirDrop-like offline sharing and easy cloud backups.

Meet ‘Altered Carbon’

Netflix’s answer to ‘Blade Runner’ debuts in February

Take a little bit of Dollhouse then mix in a lot of Blade Runner and you’ve got Altered Carbon. Netflix’s new sci-fi series debuts February 2nd to tell the tale of a detective digitally resurrected to investigate the murder of the world’s richest man. We’re intrigued.

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

HP Omen X VR backpack review

According to Devindra Hardawar, the HP Omen X is “ an ingenious gaming device.” The only problem? Getting everything necessary to use one as a wearable VR gaming PC will set you back $3,500, and so far, the experience isn’t worth that kind of premium over a traditional VR setup, and wireless VR headsets are on the way.

With one tiny difference.

‘House of Cards’ will be back next year

Kevin Spacey is out, and Robin Wright will take the lead in the series’ final eight episodes.

That’s one way to do it.

How to stream a paid UFC fight: pretend it’s a video game

Twitch streamer AJ Lester streamed Saturday night’s UFC 218 PPV on his channel by pretending to play the UFC 3 open beta.

But wait, there's more...

1. Quentin Tarantino and JJ Abrams are working on a new 'Star Trek' movie

2. Spacesuit 'take me home' feature could prevent a 'Gravity' situation

3. What's on TV: 'The Grand Tour,' 'Psych: The Movie,' 'LocoRoco 2 Remastered'

4. Apple TV updated with smarter HDR and a new sports section

5. The Big Picture: LiDAR strips landscapes down to their bare glory

6. The best VR headsets and games to give as gifts

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Monday 4 December 2017

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Monday -- December 4, 2017

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The Return of Industrial Espionage and the Building New Wave of Scandals
FDA Gives Nod to Apple Watch EKG Reader Accessory
Quantum Key Distribution Gets a Speed Boost
Major Players Roll Up Sleeves to Solve Open Source Licensing Problems

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The Return of Industrial Espionage and the Building New Wave of Scandals

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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84984.html

FDA Gives Nod to Apple Watch EKG Reader Accessory

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given the KardiaBand its stamp
of approval, AliveCor announced Thursday. The device is the first FDA-
cleared personal electrocardiogram accessory designed for use with an
Apple Watch. The KardiaBand allows users to take EKG readings in order
to distinguish between normal sinus heart rhythms and atrial
fibrillation.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84985.html

Quantum Key Distribution Gets a Speed Boost

A method for scrambling data to protect it from the super powerful
computers of the future has received a speed boost from a team of
researchers from Duke and Ohio State universities and the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory. The method uses quantum key distribution to guard
data from prying eyes. The problem in the past with the technology is
it's slow. Transfer speeds typically are measured in kilobits per
second.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84983.html

Major Players Roll Up Sleeves to Solve Open Source Licensing Problems

Four big tech players this week moved to improve their handling of open
source software licensing violations. Red Hat, Google, Facebook and IBM
said they would apply error standards in GNU GPLv3 to all of their open
source licensing, even licenses granted under older GPL agreements.
"This will make everything consistent with GPLv3," said IP attorney
Lawrence Rosen.
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The Morning After: Samsung muses on palm-reading phones

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It's Monday, December 04, 2017.

Hey, good morning!

We’re back to the start of the week, and Samsung is looking into palm reading. It’s also been 25 years since the first text message was sent, which is making us feel a little old.

You could get hints for password without them getting obvious.

Samsung envisions phones that read your palm

There's a good possibility that you've forgotten a password and had to get hints or recover it. But the process for that isn't very trustworthy -- intruders can guess security questions. Samsung might soon have a subtler way of helping you remember your password, though: through palm reading... of a kind. A recent patent application shows that Samsung has been exploring a system that would scan the unique lines on your palm and use them to display hints in the form of incomplete characters. You'd get a nudge in the right direction, but nothing so obvious that a thief could guess it (even if they could use your hand).

The first text message was sent 25 years ago

A lot has changed in a quarter century.

Engineer Neil Papworth sent the first SMS on December 3rd, 1992, when he wrote "merry Christmas" on a computer and sent it to the cellphone of Vodafone director Richard Jarvis.

It's much more than your usual artist page.

Neil Young's huge online music archive opens to the public

Neil Young has been talking up his giant online archive for ages, but he's finally ready to deliver on his promises. The simply-titled Neil Young Archives have launched and include all the media he has produced to date. And we do mean everything -- every song Young has made is available to stream for free (until June 30th 2018) through his Xstream Music service, including unreleased tracks.

The backup thrusters have been inactive since 1980.

NASA wakes up Voyager's slumbering thrusters 37 years later

NASA's Voyager 1 has been drifting farther and farther away from our planet for the past 40 years. Now, the agency has ensured that it can maintain contact with the farthest spacecraft from Earth for at least two to three more years by waking up a set of backup thrusters it hasn't used since 1980.

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