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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- February 18, 2016

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DHS Ready to Share Intelligence With Private Sector
Cook Takes Encryption Battle to the Streets
Google's Virtual Reality Tinkering May Get More Real
Glitches Mar Makulu's Appeal
Mattel's 3D Printer Will Let Kids Do More Than Play With Toys
Unity and SteamVR Unite for Native Vive Support

Today's Story Highlights

DHS Ready to Share Intelligence With Private Sector
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security this month will start sharing
threat information with a small number of hand-picked companies under
the newly enacted Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act. DHS hopes to
collect threat indicators from companies and redistribute them to other
companies so everyone gets a better view of threats and can use that
knowledge to bolster defenses.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83127.html

Cook Takes Encryption Battle to the Streets
CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday brought Apple's dispute with the FBI to the
public. Cook penned an open letter explaining the company's resistance
to a federal magistrate's order to create software that would let
authorities access data in an iPhone used by the shooters in last year's
San Bernardino terrorist attack. Carrying out the order could undermine
the security of all iPhone users, Cook argued.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83124.html

Google's Virtual Reality Tinkering May Get More Real
Google reportedly is developing a standalone virtual reality headset
that will be several steps removed from its Cardboard VR. Instead of
relying on a user's smartphone and a lens-fitted cardboard headset, it
will have all the necessary components built in. It also won't have to
rely on a PC or a console for processing power as do Sony's PlayStation
VR, HTC's Vive and Oculus VR's Rift headsets.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83121.html

Glitches Mar Makulu's Appeal
Makulu 10 Xfce edition continues developer Jacque Raymer's track record
of pushing the limits with useful and innovative features to keep his
distro line a step ahead of the crowd. He released Makulu 10 Xfce this
week after more than 12 months in the making. The focus is stability,
speed and social integration. The Xfce edition can claim success with
two of those three goals.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83120.html

Mattel's 3D Printer Will Let Kids Do More Than Play With Toys
Mattel last week announced that it is giving its ThingMaker a high-tech
makeover by equipping it with 3D capabilities. Using the 1960s
iteration, children could create small toys, such as dragons and
flowers, by pouring liquid plastic into molds, which were heated and
cooled. The updated ThingMaker was designed in partnership with
Autodesk, which created the 3D app that works with the printer.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83115.html

Unity and SteamVR Unite for Native Vive Support
Unity Technologies last week announced that the Unity Platform has been
retooled to offer native support for SteamVR, the software foundation
for HTC Vive. The move will save effort and resources, whether
developers build made-for-VR titles or merely build virtual reality
support into traditional games. In addition, Valve introduced an
advanced rendering plug-in developed for Unity.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83116.html

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