Wednesday 23 January 2019

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- January 23, 2019

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Dutch Doc Wins 'Forget My Suspension' Case
Netrunner's Unique Blackbird Soars to New Heights
Facebook Adds Petition Feature to Global Community-Building Effort
Jaguar I-Pace vs. Tesla Model 3: Which Is the Better Electric Car?
The Evolution of Software Security Best Practices

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Today's Story Highlights

Dutch Doc Wins 'Forget My Suspension' Case

Google must remove search results about medical regulators' conditional
suspension of a Dutch physician in the first "right to be forgotten"
case of its kind in the European Union. After Google and Dutch data
privacy watchdog Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens rebuffed the doctor's
initial attempts to get disciplinary actions purged from online search
results, a district court in Amsterdam sided with the surgeon.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85807.html

Netrunner's Unique Blackbird Soars to New Heights

Blackbird, Netrunner's version 19.01 release, hit the download servers
on Jan. 14, and this distro deserves to be considered bleeding-edge.
Netrunner is a step ahead of other KDE distros, thanks to its solid
integration of classic KDE desktop performance with Web-based
applications and cloud services. That said, if you aren't fondness of
the K Desktop, Netrunner may leave you wanting more desktop simplicity.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85804.html

Facebook Adds Petition Feature to Global Community-Building Effort

Facebook has begun rolling out a new feature that's bound to charm
political activists. Community Actions lets Facebook members create a
page where they can describe what they'd like done, and set up a button
that like-minded members can click to show their support. The page will
show the government agencies and officials notified about the action, as
well as the number of its supporters.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85802.html

Jaguar I-Pace vs. Tesla Model 3: Which Is the Better Electric Car?

To suggest that electric cars are having a painful birth would be a
colossal understatement. Tesla clearly plowed this field and quickly
recognized that the lack of a charging infrastructure was going to be a
problem and, with reasonable effectiveness, dealt with it tactically.
However, those "tactical" chickens are about to come home to roost and
it probably won't be pretty.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85800.html

The Evolution of Software Security Best Practices

Independent software vendors, along with Internet of Things and cloud
vendors, are involved in a market transformation that is making them
look more alike. The similarities are evident in the way they approach
software security initiatives, according to a report from Synopsys.
Synopsys has released its ninth annual Building Security in Maturity
Model, or BSIMM9.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85798.html

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E-Commerce Minute: Wednesday -- January 23, 2019

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Apple Pay's US Expansion Will Fuel Mobile Payment Turf Wars
Future Whisper Coaching: Will AI Do All the Whispering?
Is Facebook's Five-Point Fix-It Plan Enough?
4 Techniques for Validating Enterprise Blockchain
How My E-Commerce Business Soared From 0-$100K in Less Than 4 Months

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Apple Pay's US Expansion Will Fuel Mobile Payment Turf Wars

Apple on Tuesday announced more large retailers will accept Apple Pay:
Target, Taco Bell, Hy-Vee supermarkets in the Midwest, Speedway
convenience stores, and the Jack in the Box fast food chain. With those
additions, 74 of the top 100 merchants in the United States, and 65
percent of all retail locations across the country, now support Apple
Pay, the company said.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85806.html

Future Whisper Coaching: Will AI Do All the Whispering?

The customer experience battle is being fought in the contact center.
Whether it's a service line or an inside sales call making first
contact, the phone is often the medium that matters in moments of truth.
When customers are talking to an inside sales rep or an agent in a
support organization, the ideal interaction is often described by
customers as "a conversation."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85805.html

Is Facebook's Five-Point Fix-It Plan Enough?

Many faithful Facebook users had the rug pulled out from under them
during the last year. Both Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg appeared
before the U.S. Congress and spilled the beans on how the company had
betrayed its members. I don't think the company's leaders realized that
Facebook was doing the wrong thing until recently. Now they have a five-
point fix-it-plan. Will it work?
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85803.html

4 Techniques for Validating Enterprise Blockchain

There's been a lot of hype about blockchain over the past few years.
Nowadays though, there are signs that we may be on the cusp of moving
from the "blockchain will solve all your problems" segment of the hype
cycle into the "blockchain may be useful for a few targeted
applications" segment. Utility-based Darwinism is at work -- we're
starting to see the less likely applications fall away.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85801.html

How My E-Commerce Business Soared From 0-$100K in Less Than 4 Months

Over the past 10 years, I've been a part of at least that many startups.
The tools of the trade have changed rapidly, but the core elements of
successful entrepreneurship remain relatively unchanged. When I first
started out, "social media marketing" was a brand new concept. Now
entrepreneurs have a slew of tools to amplify their brand and grow their
e-commerce revenue.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85797.html

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The Morning After: A better foldable phone?

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It's Wednesday, January 23, 2019.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

This morning, we’re looking at an impressive take on a “foldable” phone and counting Netflix’s Academy Award nominations. Plus, there’s a date for The Expanse on Amazon Prime, and Fender has a guitar that blurs the line between acoustic and electric.

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You’ve gotta see this one in motion.

Xiaomi's flexible phone concept folds on both sides

We haven’t even seen Samsung’s Infinity Flex device yet, but the latest challenger comes from China’s Xiaomi. Its CEO posted a video on Weibo showing a tablet convertible that bends both sides back to shrink down for use as a phone. It’s an impressive trick, but we don’t know how quickly we’ll see anything like this on the market.

Wasn’t this feature in the Galaxy S4?

LG's MWC teaser hints at phones with more touchless gestures

Actually touching your phone is just too much work.

Good luck.

Alphabet made a quiz to help you detect phishing scams

The company's Jigsaw unit has created a quiz for you to test your phishing-detection skills in case spammy emails slip through your email service's filters and reach your inbox. To craft the quiz, the team drew from materials Jigsaw has used to train thousands of journalists, political figures and activists .

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‘Two (maybe three) guitars in one.’

Fender’s acoustic-electric hybrid is a technological wonder

The $2,000 Acoustasonic Telecaster is the first in a series of American Acoustasonic guitars that puts the sounds of an acoustic guitar into the body of an electric guitar. According to Roberto Baldwin, “It sounds like someone has placed a mic up to a traditional acoustic guitar, but you have the option to switch to electric whenever you want to kick out the jams.”

Hulu’s ‘Best Documentary’ nod had nothing to do with the Fyre Festival.

Netflix registers its first Best Picture Oscar nomination for ‘Roma’

It won't surprise you to hear that Netflix is particularly eager for awards this year, and it looks like that thirst might pay off at the Oscars. Alfonso Cuarón's Roma is clearly a front runner after receiving no less than ten nominations, including Best Picture, Leading Actress (Yaliza Aparicio), Directing, Foreign Language Film, Supporting Actress (Marina de Tavira), Cinematography, Original Screenplay, Production Design, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing.

Mark your calendar.

'The Expanse' season three streams on Amazon Prime Video February 8th

Amazon announced the third season of sci-fi series The Expanse will be available for Prime members to stream starting February 8th. The first two seasons of the show, which originally aired on Syfy, are already available to watch on Amazon's streaming platform. Amazon has a fourth season of the show planned, which will be available later this year.

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1. Twitter starts rolling out simplified web interface to some users

2. Waymo will build autonomous cars in Michigan

3. Tesla makes a small cut to its controversial Supercharger price hike

4. UPS will expand its in-building delivery service to 10 more cities

5. Porsche claims its EV factory will be as green as the cars it builds

6. Scientists name ancient shark species after arcade classic 'Galaga'

7. What we're listening to: Joanna Connor and 'Hilarious World of Depression'

8. Starship robots will deliver pizza and coffee to George Mason students

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