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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- August 28, 2014

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Hacker Attacks on Healthcare Providers Jump 600 Percent
Robo Brain Teaches a Robot to Fish
A Big Honking iPad Could Roll Right Over Apple's Speed Bump
Kano's Alejandro Simon: If This, Then Do That

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Today's Story Highlights

Hacker Attacks on Healthcare Providers Jump 600 Percent
The recent data breach at Community Health Systems, in which Chinese
hackers stole the personal information of 4.3 million patients, was
another sign of a disturbing trend: Healthcare providers are coming
under cyberattack at an alarming rate. "We've seen a 600 percent
increase in attacks on the healthcare sector in the last 10 months,"
said Carl Leonard, senior manager at Websense Security Labs.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80959.html

Robo Brain Teaches a Robot to Fish
Researchers are building Robo Brain, a large-scale computational system
that collates information from the Internet, from computer simulations,
and from real-life robot trials -- and learns from it. That knowledge
base will be used to drive prototypes for robotics research, household
robots and self-driving cars. The researchers have begun downloading an
assortment of images and documents.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80957.html

A Big Honking iPad Could Roll Right Over Apple's Speed Bump
While the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 is working to establish itself as the
perfect tweener device between tablet and laptop, one hot rumor suggests
that Apple's answer for more working space on an iPad will come in the
form of a bigger screen -- 12.9 inches of touch-sensitive glory. The
rumor comes from Bloomberg, which vaguely cited "people with knowledge
of the matter."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80956.html

Kano's Alejandro Simon: If This, Then Do That
Imagine a world where playing Pong and Minecraft gives people the power
to program their computers. That world is Kano. A crowdfunded startup,
it took the idea behind Lego to teach computer programming by playing
first-generation computer games. Kano launched on Kickstarter in
November 2013. More than 13,000 people from some 50 countries raised
$1.5 million in 30 days.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80954.html

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