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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- December 17, 2013

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Snowden Amnesty Idea Kicked Around
myLifter Turns Smartphone Brains Into Bulk-Hoisting Brawn
US, Canada Take Heat for Fighter Jet-Escorted Santa
DaisyDisk Helps Keep Your Hard Drive Fresh
Google Buys Military Robot Maker Boston Dynamics

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Today's Story Highlights

Snowden Amnesty Idea Kicked Around
NSA official Rick Ledgett, who has been with the agency for 25 years,
suggested offering whistleblower Edward Snowden amnesty, but Gen. Keith
Alexander squashed the idea. About 31,000 of the possibly 1.7 million
documents Snowden stole from the agency contain information that could
be helpful to enemies of the U.S., Ledgett said, and it would be worth
discussing a Snowden amnesty to secure them.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79647.html

myLifter Turns Smartphone Brains Into Bulk-Hoisting Brawn
Having been asked by a neighbor to help haul her kayak onto her SUV one
weekend morning last summer and finding it quite difficult -- that's
with two of us doing the lifting -- I saw myLifter as an obvious choice
for this week's Crowdfunding Spotlight. myLifter is a
smartphone-controlled mini-winch now looking for funding through a
Kickstarter campaign.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79640.html

US, Canada Take Heat for Fighter Jet-Escorted Santa
Some people are objecting to North American Aerospace Defense Command
online updates on the whereabouts of Santa. The Campaign for a
Commercial Free Childhood is particularly off-put by a video that shows
Santa's sleigh being escorted by fighter jets. NORAD maintains that the
images are safe for children, pointing out that it has depicted jets
accompanying Santa, Rudolph and Co. since the 1960s.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79646.html

DaisyDisk Helps Keep Your Hard Drive Fresh
Since the dawn of personal computing, managing storage has been a
persistent challenge. Certainly the pressure has eased up on the desktop
with the proliferation of 1 TB hard drives, but for laptops and
lightweight notebooks, the struggle continues. One of the problems with
grappling with all the data on a hard drive is transparency. Eyeballing
thousands of file names in the Finder is both tiresome and inefficient.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79627.html

Google Buys Military Robot Maker Boston Dynamics
Google has added to its portfolio of robotics acquisitions by snapping
up Boston Dynamics. The company has conceived research robots for the
military and is renowned for its agile robots that have a firm sense of
balance. One can run faster than any human. While Boston Dynamics has
not sold commercial robots, it has carried out extensive research and
experimentation in the robotics field.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79643.html

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