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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- December 16, 2014

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Skype Begins Dismantling the Language Barrier
Sony Sends News Outlets a Stern but Toothless Warning
Should We All Be Contributing to FOSS?

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Today's Story Highlights

Skype Begins Dismantling the Language Barrier
Microsoft on Monday announced the first phase of its Skype Translator
preview program, which initially will facilitate conversations between
English and Spanish speakers. It will convert spoken words both ways. It
also will translate instant messages in 40 languages. Translations occur
in near-real time. Participants must run Windows 8.1 or Windows 10
Technical Preview on a desktop or tablet.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81491.html

Sony Sends News Outlets a Stern but Toothless Warning
On behalf of Sony Pictures Entertainment, high-powered attorney David
Boies has sent a letter to several news outlets demanding that they
refrain from publishing stories based on material hackers recently stole
from the company and that they destroy the pilfered data. The letter to
the news organizations claims the stolen information is "protected under
U.S. and foreign legal doctrines."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81489.html

Should We All Be Contributing to FOSS?
It's surely a testament to the shocking nature of the recent news about
Devuan that the Linux blogosphere has been a rather quiet place of late.
Yes, there was last week's Turla news, and yes, the holiday season is
looming large, likely dampening more than a few spirits. Still, the
atmosphere definitely has been subdued down at the blogosphere's seedy
Punchy Penguin Saloon.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81490.html

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