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Tech News Flash: Friday -- August 14, 2015

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Headline Scan
Windows 10 FUD Fades Fast
Xiaomi Unveils Redmi Note 2 as US Twinkles in Its Eye
The Pichai Era: Google's New Age of Innocence?
Study: Chinese Hackers Are Savvy, Surgical
BQ's Ubuntu Bows on World Stage
Qualcomm Ups the Ante With Next-Gen Processor Innovations
Everybody Can Run - Not Walk - to the Rapture
Hacker Demos $30 Gizmo That Unlocks Keyless Car, Garage Doors
IBM to Buy Watson a Pair of Eyes

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Today's Story Highlights

Windows 10 FUD Fades Fast
Complaints about Windows 10 keep rolling in, but so far none appears to
have stuck. The latest brouhaha is over certain privacy settings.
Windows 10 gives users many options to disable certain data-gathering
and reporting features, but it appears that some communications to
Microsoft servers still slip through. So far, there doesn't seem to be
anything shifty or harmful about those interactions.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82379.html

Xiaomi Unveils Redmi Note 2 as US Twinkles in Its Eye
Xiaomi has announced its new Redmi Note 2, getting a jump on Samsung's
announcement of two new smartphone entries. Xiaomi's Redmi Note 2 comes
with a 2-GHz octacore Mediatek Helio X10 CPU and 16 GB of flash memory.
The Redmi Note 2 Prime edition comes with a 2.2-GHz octacore MTK Helio
X10 CPU and 32 GB of flash memory. The phones will sell in China at
price points equivalent to about $125 to $140.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82377.html

The Pichai Era: Google's New Age of Innocence?
"A" is for new Google parent company "Alphabet," for Sundar Pichai's
"ascension" to CEO, and for a slimmed-down search engine company that
seeks to become more "agile." Consumers may wonder if that "A" also
stands for "altruism." Pichai's work ethic and congeniality helped drive
his ascension to the top, and he'll need both to redirect the mounting
mistrust of Google -- his greatest challenge yet.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82376.html

Study: Chinese Hackers Are Savvy, Surgical
A clandestine group of sophisticated Chinese hackers have infected
scores of sites on the Web and stolen documents from industrial and
government organizations with surgical precision, according to a Dell
SecureWorks study released last week. Dubbed "Threat Group 3390," the
cybergang has used infected websites of some 100 organizations across
the globe.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82374.html

BQ's Ubuntu Bows on World Stage
BQ last week opened an Ubuntu global store accessible to anyone who
wants to buy an Aquaris Ubuntu Edition handset. BQ recently launched the
BQ Aquaris E4.5 and E5 HD Ubuntu Edition smartphones in Europe. Both BQ
and Canonical, which provides commercial support for Ubuntu Linux, have
acknowledged network frequency and mobile operator compatibility issues
in some countries, including the U.S.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82370.html

Qualcomm Ups the Ante With Next-Gen Processor Innovations
Qualcomm on Wednesday unveiled its Adreno 5xx GPU architecture next-
generation visual processing technology and its 14-bit Spectra image
signal processing unit at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles. The first two GPUs to
use the new architecture, the Adreno 530 and 510, will be integrated in
Qualcomm's forthcoming Snapdragon 820 and 620/618 processors. The
Snapdragon 820 also will feature the 14-bit ISP.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82369.html

Everybody Can Run - Not Walk - to the Rapture
With the post-apocalyptic adventure game Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
, Sony may have a cult classic on its hands. The PlayStation 4 exclusive
became available Tuesday. The Chinese Room, a game development studio
that previously worked exclusively on PC and Mac titles, developed
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture with the support of Sony and SCE's Santa
Monica Studio.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82367.html

Hacker Demos $30 Gizmo That Unlocks Keyless Car, Garage Doors
Infamous security researcher Sammy Kamkar last week demonstrated a
gadget that can intercept wireless signals to unlock cars and garage
doors. Kamkar showed off the device, which cost him just $32 to make, at
the DefCon conference in Las Vegas. RollJam works with a wide array of
motor vehicles -- including Nissan, Cadillac, Ford, Toyota, Lotus,
Volkswagen and Chrysler, according to Kamkar.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82362.html

IBM to Buy Watson a Pair of Eyes
IBM last week announced a $1 billion deal to acquire Merge Health, a
provider of enterprise imaging and clinical system, with the goal of
giving the supercomputer "eyes." There are compelling synergies in the
marriage of Merge's medical imaging and IBM's notable resources in
analytics, cloud and cognitive computing, noted Jon Peddie Research's
Kathleen Maher.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82360.html

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