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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- March 22, 2016

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Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs, DoT Team to Ease Gridlock
Car Computers Are Vehicles for Hacking, Warns FBI
Apple Brings Back That 4-Inch Feeling
Scientists Track Sloshed Tweeters in Real Time
Could Anonymous Get Trump Elected?
Malware Exploits Apple DRM to Infect iPhones

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Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs, DoT Team to Ease Gridlock
The U.S. Department of Transportation last week announced a partnership
with Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs to help cities ease gridlock
using Google's vast array of technology and traffic data. Sidewalk Labs
will work with the seven finalists in the DoT's Smart City Challenge on
a plan to help ease congestion and improve mobility to disadvantaged
communities under a program called "Flow."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83262.html

Car Computers Are Vehicles for Hacking, Warns FBI
The FBI, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration last week issued a warning about the
threat of automobile hacking. Computers that control steering, braking,
acceleration and lights, as well as wireless technologies used in
keyless entry, ignition control and navigation systems, provide portals
for cyberattack, the agencies said.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83266.html

Apple Brings Back That 4-Inch Feeling
Apple on Monday announced a pair of new products in old sizes -- the 4-
inch iPhone SE and the 9.7-inch iPad Pro -- banking on user preferences
for the familiar form factors to lessen their hesitancy to upgrade.
Although Apple's hour-long "Loop You In" event was short on surprises,
it was slimmer on filler as well. Among the notable extras, Apple
announced a price cut bringing the Apple Watch to $300.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83263.html

Scientists Track Sloshed Tweeters in Real Time
Applied machine learning techniques can identify tweeters' behaviors in
real time and locate them to within 100 meters, according to a paper
Rochester University computer scientists published earlier this month.
The team focused on discovering patterns of alcohol use in urban and
suburban settings to better understand where and how people drink.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83261.html

Could Anonymous Get Trump Elected?
Much of the analysis that I've seen regarding the U.S. presidential
election season concludes that it is progressing like the Goldwater vs.
Johnson election in the 1960s, when the Republican Party torpedoed its
own candidate, ensuring a Democratic Party win. This is happening
despite statistics that suggest Hillary Clinton is an extremely weak
candidate.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83258.html

Malware Exploits Apple DRM to Infect iPhones
Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 on Wednesday
announced they had discovered in the wild a method of infecting
nonjailbroken iPhones with malware by exploiting design flaws in Apple's
digital rights management technology. The flaw has been exploited since
2013 largely as a means to pirate iOS software, but this is the first
time it's been used to infect iPhones with malware.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83259.html

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