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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- July 10, 2012

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Headline Scan
Law Enforcement Feasts on Cellphone Data
The Secret Life of Sequoia
Intel Pumps $4.1B Into Dutch Chip Tool Builder
Jolla Keeps the MeeGo Dream Alive
Gabi Knows More About Your Facebook Profile Than You Do
Scientists Get Robot to Walk Like a Man

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Today's Story Highlights

Law Enforcement Feasts on Cellphone Data
A congressional inquiry conducted at the behest of Rep. Edward Markey,
D-Mass., found that law enforcement agencies made 1.3 million requests
to cellphone carriers in 2011. They sought such information as
individuals' text messages, their locations, and even lists of phone
numbers they called when in the vicinity of a particular tower, whether
they belonged to people under investigation or not.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75589.html

The Secret Life of Sequoia
IBM's Sequoia supercomputer headed the latest Top500 list of the world's
fastest supercomputers. The twice-yearly roster was released at the 2012
International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, in June.
Delivered to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2011, Sequoia
is scheduled for operational deployment this year.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75585.html

Intel Pumps $4.1B Into Dutch Chip Tool Builder
Today in international news: Intel invests billions in a Dutch
semiconductor equipment maker; Kickstarter heads to the UK; NBC
Universal unveils its Olympic streaming package for subscribers only;
and the extradition hearing for Megaupload's Kim Dotcom will have to
wait.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75588.html

Jolla Keeps the MeeGo Dream Alive
MeeGo, the ill-fated Nokia mobile operating system project that had the
plug pulled on it earlier this year, is being revived. JollaMobile, a
company consisting of former Nokia executives and techies, has announced
that it will release a new MeeGo smartphone later this year. That goal
is reachable, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75584.html

Gabi Knows More About Your Facebook Profile Than You Do
Your Facebook News Feed can occasionally be a source of insightful
commentary, valuable information, enjoyable time-wasters and interesting
miscellaneous brain droppings. But those kinds of posts are often
scattered among updates that aren't so intriguing at all: info
automatically posted by apps, check-ins for Tuesday-night get-togethers
halfway across the country, in-jokes you were never in on, etc.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75582.html

Scientists Get Robot to Walk Like a Man
A baby's first step is often considered the hardest and the most
significant. Human babies, which are among those that are altricial at
birth, are unable to walk and must "learn" to do so, often by mimicking
the movements of other people. Now engineers with the University of
Arizona have developed a set of robotic legs that essentially also work
by mimicking the movements of humans.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75579.html

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