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Tech News Flash: Monday -- July 9, 2012

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Twitter Tweaks Search to Trim Tweet Mountains
DARPA Wants to Give Robots More Staying Power
Samsung Declared Winningly Unhip
Stuxnet Is Dead, Long Live Stuxnet
The Dirty Suicidal Secret of Facebook
The Higgs Boson: Another Feather in Linux's Cap
Color Splash Studio for iPhone: This Pony's Learned Some New Tricks
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Goes for Phablet Fame

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be transformative for our business. It would drastically accelerate how
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Today's Story Highlights

Twitter Tweaks Search to Trim Tweet Mountains
Twitter has given its site an overhaul designed to simplify its search
functions and provide users with suggestions when they're unsure of an
exact handle or hashtag. The site's upgraded search results will now
more closely resemble those of a Google search.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75581.html

DARPA Wants to Give Robots More Staying Power
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued an open call to
the robotics industry soliciting expert proposals to create more power-
efficient robots. The agency aims to maximize robotic technology
potential and improve the power efficiency of current robots by 2,000
percent.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75576.html

Samsung Declared Winningly Unhip
Today in international tech news: Samsung wins a ruling against Apple
but is declared "not as cool" in the process. Also: Google launches a
gay rights campaign; Germany backs off legislation that would allow
local governments to sell sensitive information; and investigators rule
that the infamous flaming Samsung phone had been microwaved.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75578.html

Stuxnet Is Dead, Long Live Stuxnet
Those who follow the exploits of Stuxnet will remember June 24, 2012, as
Big Sleep day for the infamous malware. On that day, it stopped
replicating. "It's more like neutered, rather than dead," said Eric
Byres, CTO and vice president for engineering at Tofino Security
Products.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75573.html

The Dirty Suicidal Secret of Facebook
The last time we had a major "social networking" type of effort it was
with collaboration, and the poster child for the effort was Lotus Notes.
It largely failed -- not because the idea wasn't a good one, but because
the company fundamentally didn't understand that the market was being
made hostile to the concept.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75570.html

The Higgs Boson: Another Feather in Linux's Cap
It's not exactly any secret that Linux dominates the world of high-
performance computing, so perhaps it should go without saying that last
week's exciting Higgs Boson announcement would involve Linux in some
not-insignificant way. The reality, however, turns out to be far greater
than marginal significance.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75574.html

Color Splash Studio for iPhone: This Pony's Learned Some New Tricks
Back in October of last year, I reviewed Color Splash Studio, an app for
Mac OS X by Mac Phun that lets you turn color photos black and white
then paint the color back into certain elements. The result: Artsy
photos that pop. I liked the app then, and I still like it today, and
now there's a version for the iPhone as well that shares the same name:
Color Splash Studio.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75572.html

Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Goes for Phablet Fame
In a followup to its Galaxy Note hybrid phone-cum-mini-tablet, Samsung
is reportedly planning to release its successor, the Galaxy Note 2,
sometime this year. The Galaxy Note 2 will apparently arrive with a 5.5-
inch screen -- a fifth of an inch larger than the one found on the
original Galaxy Note, which is itself an enormous handset.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75571.html

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