Thursday 27 April 2017

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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- April 27, 2017

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Internet Giants Ramp Up Fake News Defenses
Millions May Have Picked Up FalseGuide Malware at Google Play Store
Mobile Ubuntu Gamble to Fizzle Out in June
Our Sci-Fi Future: Silly vs. Terrifying
New Strain of Linux Malware Could Get Serious
The iPhone Model's Impending Obsolescence

Today's Story Highlights

Internet Giants Ramp Up Fake News Defenses

Three major Internet brands this week announced initiatives to combat
"fake news" online. Google revealed that it had tweaked its search
processes to help bring high-quality content to the top of search result
pages. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced a new online publication
that aims to fight fake news by pairing professional journalists with
legions of volunteer community contributors.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84487.html

Millions May Have Picked Up FalseGuide Malware at Google Play Store

As many as 2 million Android users might have downloaded apps that were
infected with the FalseGuide malware, security research firm Check Point
warned on Monday. The oldest of the infected apps could have been
uploaded to Google Play as long ago as last November, having
successfully remained hidden for five months, while the newest may have
been uploaded as recently as the beginning of April.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84484.html

Mobile Ubuntu Gamble to Fizzle Out in June

Canonical will end its support for Ubuntu Touch phones and Ubuntu-
powered tablets in June, and that it will shut down its app store at the
end of this year. The company previously had signaled the system's
demise, but it had not fixed a date. With Ubuntu Touch, a unified mobile
OS based on Ubuntu Linux, Canonical hoped to establish a marketable
alternative to Android and iOS.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84485.html

Our Sci-Fi Future: Silly vs. Terrifying

The future is now, or at least it is coming soon. Today's technological
developments are looking very much like what once was the domain of
science fiction. Maybe we don't have domed cities and flying cars, but
we do have buildings that reach to the heavens, and drones that soon
could deliver our packages. Who needs a flying car when the self-driving
car is just down the road?
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84479.html

New Strain of Linux Malware Could Get Serious

A new strain of malware targeting Linux systems, dubbed
"Linux/Shishiga," could morph into a dangerous security threat. Eset
disclosed the threat, which represents a new Lua family unrelated to
previously seen LuaBot malware. Linux/Shishiga uses four protocols --
SSH, Telnet, HTTP and BitTorrent -- and Lua scripts for modularity,
wrote Detection Engineer Michal Malik and Eset researchers.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84481.html

The iPhone Model's Impending Obsolescence

VCRs gave way to DVD players, which in turn have given way to streaming
services. Brick cellphones evolved into flip phones, which were swapped
out for two-way pager phones and then wiped out by the iPhone model.
Tape players gave way to the Walkman CD player, which gave way to the
iPod, which also ended up in the iPhone model. I think we soon will see
another big industry shift.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84472.html

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The Morning After: Amazon's fashion camera and 'Call of Duty: WWII'

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It's Thursday, April 27, 2017.

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TV dinners for foodies? The beginning of the end for net neutrality? Someone beating up a poor robot? Must be a Thursday. We also hear more on the next Call Of Duty title and Amazon’s new fashion camera. Really.

Profits are up, and 'Pokemon' is pretty much a license to print money.

Nintendo Switch could outsell the Wii U in its first year

Nintendo's profits are up. It's claimed an operating profit of $1.6 billion (178 billion yen) for the last quarter, which is almost a billion dollars more than the same quarter in 2016. It's the company’s first financial results after its Switch console went on sale, and since March 3rd, it's sold 2.74 million units. The company believes sales will stay strong, forecasting 10 million more Switch consoles sold by this time next year. That prediction, shy of 13 million, would put it toe to toe with the total sales of its predecessor, the Wii U, over its entire lifetime.

Ajit Pai wants to do away with rules preventing throttling, blocking and paid prioritization.

FCC Chairman outlines his plan to gut net neutrality

The future of net neutrality has been uncertain since the November election of Donald Trump. His FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, has made it clear he intends to scale back some of the regulations surrounding ISPs, but details have been scarce. Now we have an idea of the framework the commission will be pursuing, and it begins with revoking the classification of ISPs as a "common carrier" service under Title II, which has essentially treated the internet as a public utility for the last two years.

Drunkenly attacking a connected bot with cameras wasn’t smart.

Man arrested after knocking over a 300-pound security robot

The Knightscope’s K5 may not be the cutest robot, but that doesn't mean drunks get to knock it over.

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Return of the webcam?

Amazon Echo Look is a voice-controlled camera for fashion tips

Meet Echo Look, an Alexa-powered camera designed around taking your own fashion photos and videos. If you want to show off your daily wardrobe, you just have to ask the Look to take a snapshot -- you don't have to take a selfie in front of a mirror to get a full-length picture. And since it includes a depth-sensing camera, it can blur the background to make shots pop. The real party tricks come when you're not sure about your outfit, however. The Look's Style Check service blends AI algorithms with fashion specialist advice to provide a second opinion -- and hopefully get you buying more outfits, you clothes horse.

It's a step back in time for the franchise for a few reasons.

'Call of Duty: WWII' takes you back to Omaha Beach November 3rd

Call of Duty: WWII will launch November 3rd on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. As you might expect, the game takes place largely in Europe between 1944 and 1945, ultimately pushing toward Germany after fighting through Nazi reinforcements on Normandy Beach and through the grimy streets of France and Belgium. As for the story, there's a big focus on the brotherhood of your squad -- something captured in HBO's Band of Brothers and Steven Spielberg's epic Saving Private Ryan.

Mobile earnings dropped off in Q1, but it expects the Galaxy S8 will turn things around.

Samsung's chip business kept things looking up to start 2017

Samsung's quarterly earnings are in, showing the company's highest quarterly profit since Q3 2013. That's despite the Galaxy Note 7 recall, and a markdown in the price of its Galaxy Note 7, apparently because the company's chip business (making memory, processors and camera sensors for phones) is booming. As a company, it brought home the $8.75 billion in operating profit expected, and looks forward to better results next quarter, since it will include sales of the new Galaxy S8 phones.

But wait, there's more...

1. Nomiku Sous Chef essentially offers TV dinners for foodies

2. 'White Collar' crime tracker mocks police profiling bias

3. How 'Puyo Puyo Tetris' tricked me into liking puzzle games

4. 'The Protectors' shows how VR can help save African elephants

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Wednesday 26 April 2017

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ECT News Network Weekly Newsletter: Wednesday -- April 26, 2017

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This Week's Top News Headlines From the E-Commerce Times

Apple Slashes App Store Affiliate Commissions
(Posted 26-Apr-17)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84482.html

Uber Boss Practices Brinksmanship With Apple
(Posted 24-Apr-17)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84478.html

Google Mulls Ways to Banish Bad Ads
(Posted 22-Apr-17)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84477.html

Microsoft Inches Toward a World Without Passwords
(Posted 20-Apr-17)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84471.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From TechNewsWorld

Millions May Have Picked Up FalseGuide Malware at Google Play Store
(Posted 26-Apr-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84484.html

Our Sci-Fi Future: Silly vs. Terrifying
(Posted 25-Apr-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84479.html

The iPhone Model's Impending Obsolescence
(Posted 24-Apr-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84472.html

Facebook's Latest Moon Shot: I Think, Therefore I Type
(Posted 21-Apr-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84475.html

Apple May Be Getting Its Innovation Groove Back
(Posted 20-Apr-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84470.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From CRM Buyer

Then and Now
(Posted 26-Apr-17)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/84483.html

Salesforce, QuintilesIMS Team to Push New Therapies to Market
(Posted 25-Apr-17)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/84480.html

Healthgrades' CareChats Aims to Tear Down Doctor-Patient Wall
(Posted 21-Apr-17)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/84476.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From LinuxInsider

New Strain of Linux Malware Could Get Serious
(Posted 25-Apr-17)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/84481.html

A Window Into the Linux Desktop
(Posted 21-Apr-17)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/84473.html

Moby, LinuxKit Kick Off New Docker Collaboration Phase
(Posted 20-Apr-17)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/84474.html

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The Morning After: Flying cars vs. blimps.

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It's Wednesday, April 26, 2017.

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In case you missed it yesterday, one Google cofounder is making a flying (kinda) car, while the other has a secret blimp, Uber is having a pretty awful year (already), and there’s a for-real tricorder. The makers of it reckon it's better than the Star Trek one. Bold claims.

It’s not even May.

Uber's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad 2017

Uber could be the world's most valuable startup, with estimates pegging the company as being worth around $70 billion. Its business, and its CEO, have always garnered controversy, but Uber has been able to survive whatever slings and arrows were thrown its way. So far. This year, however, has been, well, very tough.

Wouldn’t you?

Of course Sergey Brin has a secret zeppelin

Since his Google co-founder Larry Page is working on a “flying car,” it only makes sense that Sergey Brin has an aerial hobby project too. In this case, Bloomberg reports that the mission is a dirigible, with an ex-NASA director leading the project. Even if it flies, however, the biggest hurdle could be explaining the difference between helium and hydrogen.

The X keeps it fresh

LG has OLED, Samsung has QLED and so Vizio has XLED

Vizio has finally unveiled its new for 2017 4K sets, and like Samsung, it's rebranding LCDs to compete with OLED. Whatever you call it, the new P- and M- series televisions should bring high picture quality at value prices, but without that tracking scheme the FTC fined it for.

The XPrize Tricorder winner is half real medical device, half Dr. McCoy.

XPrize winner says its Tricorder is better than 'Star Trek'

The Tricorder XPrize finally has a winner. The Final Frontier Medical Devices' DxtER isn't so much an all-in-one scanner as collection of noninvasive medical-diagnosis gadgets. Even so, its creators claim the DxtER package is better than Star Trek's fictional tricorder. Unlike the fictional tricorder, the winning XPrize entry is actually a small collection of specialized and smart medical devices that interact with the user's tablet. This includes a compact spirometer that can measure the strength of a patient's lungs, a Mono test kit, medical-grade heart-rate and respiration monitors, and devices like the DxtER Orb, which doubles as a thermometer and stethoscope. Perhaps most importantly, it's designed for patients to use themselves.

Fight as Rocket Racoon, Chun Li, Hulk and more this September.

The Avengers take on gaming icons in 'Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite'

After a year of silence, Capcom has announced eight new characters for its crossover fighter -- Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. Doubling down on Marvel's Cinematic Universe, Hulk, Thor, Hawkeye, Ultron and Rocket Racoon join the playable roster. On the Capcom side, you’ll be able to duke it out as Street Fighter's Chun Li, Resident Evil's Chris Redfield, and Strider's Strider Hiryu. It launches on PS4, Xbox One and PC on September 19th for $59.99.

An artificial womb could transform care for extremely premature infants.

Scientists successfully grew fetal lambs inside 'uterus-like' bags

Doctors at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have developed a new artificial womb that could benefit the tens of thousands of critically preterm (younger than 26 weeks) births in the US each year. According to a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the research physicians successfully kept fetal lambs alive inside a "uterus-like" plastic sack for up to four weeks -- longer than any similar device before it.

It didn't take long for the supercomputer to figure out how anxious I am.

IBM's Watson looked into my soul and 'drew' my portrait

IBM's "Art with Watson: Hidden Portraits," is an exhibit featuring portraits of historic personalities like Marie Curie and Nikola Tesla, which Watson helped artists create by feeding them data collected using its natural language and personality insights APIs. IBM also had a Watson cognitive photo booth, where the supercomputer made portraits of visitors based on five different aspects of their personality: anxiousness, openness, agreeableness, extraversion and conscientiousness. Watson asks a set of personality trait questions, then draws a cognitive portrait represented by tiny icons of each of those aforementioned traits.

Come spend some time in the Genius Grove.

Apple sees its redesigned retail stores as community spaces

Apple is banking on the (vaguely) social aspect of its stores. It’s both redesigning its 100 largest stores and launching new workshops to turn its stores into community spaces of sorts. The shops are still very much geared toward sales, but you'll have more reasons to swing by on a frequent basis. The workshops revolve around new in-store Creative Pros who host free sessions based around Apple tools and Apple-friendly devices.

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