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Tech News Flash: Monday -- March 2, 2015

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Headline Scan
Mobile World Congress 2015, or Why Your Smartphone Is Crap
Gadget Ogling: Scooting Around, Scratching Wood, Knocking on Doors
The Apple Watch Mystery Won't Be Solved March 9
DeepMind AI Exterminates Space Invaders, Pac-Man
Malicious Emailers Find Healthcare Firms Juicy Prey
Pearl OS Could Be a Gem in the Making

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Today's Story Highlights

Mobile World Congress 2015, or Why Your Smartphone Is Crap
Don't you just love big industry events like Mobile World Congress? I
mean, you've had whole weeks to enjoy the new phone you got last
quarter, and now you'll hear about a bunch of incredibly wonderful stuff
that will make that new phone look like your grandmother's favorite car
-- you know, the one she fell in love with in the 1960s. Unfortunately,
I'm not going to make things better.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81760.html

Gadget Ogling: Scooting Around, Scratching Wood, Knocking on Doors
Even for someone endlessly in awe of our ability to traverse continents
in just a few hours, traveling is increasingly a chore. Anything I can
add to trips to make them even a touch more enjoyable is nothing to
sniff at. A suitcase with a built-in, motorized scooter may be just what
I need to freshen up journeys. Warning: It's carry-on size, but it's far
beyond typical carry-on luggage weight.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81761.html

The Apple Watch Mystery Won't Be Solved March 9
The fog shrouding the Apple Watch won't be lifted on March 9. Apple's
invite to its media event displays the tease "Spring Forward," which
likely refers to the shift in daylight savings time -- and time itself.
Sure, we'll learn more about the Apple Watch's functionality, but the
mystery is whether most of us new buyers suddenly will turn into watch
wearers for longer than a few months.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81762.html

DeepMind AI Exterminates Space Invaders, Pac-Man
Researchers at Google's DeepMind subsidiary in England have developed an
artificial agent they call a "deep Q-network" that learned to play 49
classic Atari 2600 arcade games by just diving in. The DQN algorithm
performed at more than 75 percent of the level of a professional player
in more than half the games. It achieved the maximum attainable scores
in certain games, such as Breakout .
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81757.html

Malicious Emailers Find Healthcare Firms Juicy Prey
Healthcare providers have garnered growing interest from hackers in
recent months. More evidence of that trend appeared last week in a
report on email trust. An email that appeared to come from a healthcare
company was four times more likely to be fraudulent than an email
purportedly from a social media company like Facebook, one of the
largest creators of email on the Internet, Agari found.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81755.html

Pearl OS Could Be a Gem in the Making
If you favor the OS X environment, Pearl OS might be a Linux distro to
feed your fancy. Pearl OS is a revival of the discontinued Pear OS
distro. It picks up where Pear left off in early 2014. Pearl OS has two
desktop versions: XFCE and MATE. Both are based on Ubuntu Linux distro
version 14.04 Mini release. The two flavors of Pearl OS are customized
to look and act like the OS X operating system.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81748.html

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