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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- January 15, 2015

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Microsoft's 'Spartan' Browser Will Bulge With Features
Facebook Adds Amber Alerts for Missing Kids
Google Translate App Gets Silver Tongue
Google's Project Ara Smartphone Puzzle Is Coming Together

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Today's Story Highlights

Microsoft's 'Spartan' Browser Will Bulge With Features
Rumors about Microsoft's new browser, code-named "Spartan," have been
heating up: It will be an app; no, it will not. It will replace Internet
Explorer -- no, it will not. It will use Microsoft's Trident rendering
engine and the Chakra JavaScript engine developed for IE 9. Probably.
Spartan will look and work more like lightweight browsers such as Google
Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. No, it won't.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81586.html

Facebook Adds Amber Alerts for Missing Kids
Facebook on Tuesday announced that it has begun a new effort to help
find missing children by incorporating Amber Alerts into the news feeds
of its 185 million U.S. users. Through the effort, which is part of a
partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children,
the alerts are sent only to users in targeted search areas. They're
shown on both desktop and mobile devices.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81583.html

Google Translate App Gets Silver Tongue
Google has released a new version of its Translate app for Android and
iOS. It now lets users instantly translate text in foreign languages
using their smartphone cameras. The translation will appear overlaid on
the smartphone screen. Translate app features available on iOS for the
first time are camera mode, including Word Lens; and conversational
mode, said Google spokesperson Roya Soleimani.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81582.html

Google's Project Ara Smartphone Puzzle Is Coming Together
Google on Wednesday shed fresh light on Project Ara, its modular Android
smartphone initiative, including plans to pilot the project in Puerto
Rico through food truck-style stores. Project Ara will offer a
smartphone endoskeleton; users will be able to add the functionality
they want piece by piece, rather than being confined by the hardware
configurations determined by operators and providers.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81581.html

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