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Tech News Flash: Friday -- April 10, 2015

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Emojis Get Real in New iOS
Chrome Web Store Gives Bad Extensions the Boot
Devs Rev Up for a Weekend of Galactic Problem-Solving
Heartbleed Threat Won't Fade Away
Early Reviews Give Apple Watch One and a Half Thumbs Up

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Today's Story Highlights

Emojis Get Real in New iOS
Apple on Thursday released a new version of iOS that adds racial
diversity to its emoji library. In addition to the fair-skinned faces
found in prior versions, the new assortment includes brown, black and
golden yellow mugs. What's more, there are emojis of same sex couples
and families, too. "Emoji have become huge for people," said Kantar
Worldpanel ComTech's Carolina Milanesi.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81924.html

Chrome Web Store Gives Bad Extensions the Boot
Google recently purged some 200 extensions from its Chrome Store
inventory. Extensions and add-ons let users add functions and features
to the Chrome Web browser, but bad extensions can expose users to a
greater risk of spyware and malware. A major problem with many browser
add-ons is ad injectors. The clean-up resulted from increasing user
complaints.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81925.html

Devs Rev Up for a Weekend of Galactic Problem-Solving
More than 10,000 software and hardware developers, scientists and space
fans will spend this weekend huddling in rooms in 136 cities around the
world to participate in NASA's International Space Apps Challenge -- a
hackathon for space wonks. Using IBM's Bluemix, they will develop apps,
software, hardware, data visualization and platform solutions to help
explore space and to improve life on Earth.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81917.html

Heartbleed Threat Won't Fade Away
This week marks the first anniversary of the Heartbleed vulnerability
that caused a panic across the Internet last year. While the flaw
appears to have faded from the recollections of Net denizens, it still
poses danger at many sites in cyberspace. Heartbleed was discovered in
April 2014 in an open source library, OpenSSL, used by the SSL protocol.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81921.html

Early Reviews Give Apple Watch One and a Half Thumbs Up
The prelaunch reviews of the Apple Watch are out, and though they're
generally favorable, they include a few niggling complaints. A select
group of reviewers were loaned an Apple Watch for a week. Overall, their
consensus is that it's a fine device for tracking health and fitness,
it's great for making digital payments, and it has excellent battery
life.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81918.html

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