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Tech News Flash: Monday -- February 24, 2014

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How Facebook Got Snookered in WhatsApp Deal
Spanish Woman's Twitter Musings Lead to Terror-Related Conviction
Europe's PLATO to Hunt for Earth Look-Alikes
Google's Project Tango Struts Into the Spotlight

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Today's Story Highlights

How Facebook Got Snookered in WhatsApp Deal
It's not often I see news that surprises me, but Facebook paying nearly
$20 billion for an instant messaging app had me scratching my head.
People have been paying too much for properties for some time, but this
is crazy money for a class of product that stopped being trendy nearly a
decade ago. I've come up with three reasons, none of which are mutually
exclusive, as to how Facebook was tricked.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80019.html

Spanish Woman's Twitter Musings Lead to Terror-Related Conviction
Twenty-one-year-old Spaniard Alba González Camacho was convicted of
inciting terrorism thanks to some ill-conceived tweets about a far-left
terrorist organization. She became the first person in Spain to be
convicted of such charges for Twitter posts. González Camacho implored
the terror group "Grapo" to murder politicians. Grapo was responsible
for 80-some killings, mostly in the 1970s and 80s.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80028.html

Europe's PLATO to Hunt for Earth Look-Alikes
A new space observatory expected to launch by 2024 will seek out Earth-
sized planets and super-Earths orbiting distant stars, the European
Space Agency announced Wednesday. Dubbed "PLATO," for "PLAnetary
Transits and Oscillations of stars," it will use 34 small telescopes and
cameras to search for planets around as many as a million stars spread
over half the sky.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80018.html

Google's Project Tango Struts Into the Spotlight
Google is making an increased push into the 3D imaging sphere with the
announcement of its Project Tango technology. The project is aimed at
helping mobile devices fully map a 3D space to give them the same type
of understanding of space and motion that humans have, through a blend
of robotics and computer vision tools. The prototype smartphone Google
unveiled has myriad sensors.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80022.html

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