Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- February 25, 2015
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Volvo Talks Up Its Self-Driving Cars
Valve To Put Steam Behind VR Efforts With New Headset
Google Puts Blogger Porn Under Wraps
Open Source vs. Proprietary Firms on the IoT Battleground
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Today's Story Highlights
Volvo Talks Up Its Self-Driving Cars
Volvo last week revealed the latest developments in its Drive Me project, showing off a complete system that could make it possible to
integrate self-driving cars into regular traffic with drivers behind the
wheel. Volvo is making progress toward its goal of releasing 100 self-
driving vehicles to consumers on selected roads around Gothenburg --
Sweden's second largest city -- by 2017.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81734.html
Valve To Put Steam Behind VR Efforts With New Headset
Valve on Monday announced that it's getting into the virtual reality hardware business. In a terse tease posted to the Web, the company
trumpeted its intentions to reveal its SteamVR hardware system next week
at the 2015 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Valve also
announced that it is looking for developers and publishers to create
content for its new VR hardware system.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81750.html
Google Puts Blogger Porn Under Wraps
Google will place a privacy curtain around sexually explicit images and video on its Blogger platform if users fail to remove the content of
their own volition by March 23. The measure falls short of outright
censoring the content or terminating users. However, it does restrict
access to the owner or admins of the blog and the people with whom the
owner has shared it.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81747.html
Open Source vs. Proprietary Firms on the IoT Battleground
A battle is brewing over control of the Internet of Things marketplace. Consumers see only convenience and extensions to their always-on mobile
devices. Product makers see a pathway to streaming data that can be
monetized from buyers' connections. Will history repeat itself, as open
source begins to take on the current, yet unsustainable, walled-garden
core of the IoT?
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81741.html
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