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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- March 9, 2016

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Toyota's Project Blaid Gives Visually Impaired More Freedom
Samsung Galaxy S7 Review Buzz: It's the Bee's Knees
Gadgets: Lingering Echoes, DIY Scanner Projects, and Empowered Pitchers
Quantum Computer Leap Could Make Today's Encryption Passe
Epic Games Founder Rails Against Microsoft's Walled Garden
FBI Would Hurtle Us Back to Encryption Jurassic, Apple Warns

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Toyota's Project Blaid Gives Visually Impaired More Freedom
Toyota on Monday introduced a concept for a piece of wearable tech that
could help the visually impaired better navigate the world around them.
Dubbed "Project Blaid," the mobility device would sit atop a wearer's
shoulders and use cameras to sense the layout of indoor spaces. Wearers
would be able to ask the device about objects and areas in a room, the
company said.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83212.html

Samsung Galaxy S7 Review Buzz: It's the Bee's Knees
Reviews of the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge came out Tuesday, and they
were overwhelmingly positive. "What the S7 line does, and does smartly,
is it comes back to the basics and does the basics well," remarked Ramon
Llamas, a research manager at IDC. Samsung is "hitting the right notes
with improved battery life, external storage capacity and the quality of
the camera."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83209.html

Gadgets: Lingering Echoes, DIY Scanner Projects, and Empowered Pitchers
Amazon is doubling down on its Alexa personal assistant with two new
models of the Echo speaker: Echo Dot and Amazon Tap. The Dot is a more
compact version of Echo. While it does have its own speaker, it
apparently has nowhere near the quality of the Echo proper. As a
standalone device, it looks more suited to standing in as an alarm clock
and delivering the day's headlines than playing music.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83205.html

Quantum Computer Leap Could Make Today's Encryption Passe
Researchers at MIT and the University of Innsbruck last week announced
that they had designed and constructed the world's first scalable
quantum computer, a development that could make existing encryption
technology obsolete. They built the computer using five atoms in an ion
trap. The researchers used laser pulses to carry out an algorithm on
each atom to correctly factor the number 15.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83207.html

Epic Games Founder Rails Against Microsoft's Walled Garden
Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney last week called on Microsoft to remove
the walls it's building around the Windows Store with its Universal
Windows Platform initiative. The problem is that it is impossible to
install and update UWP apps from third-party publishers outside of the
Windows Store, he wrote in an op-ed. Microsoft could remove the option
to support apps that haven't been approved.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83204.html

FBI Would Hurtle Us Back to Encryption Jurassic, Apple Warns
The FBI's efforts to compel Apple to unlock an iPhone used by one of the
slain San Bernardino terrorists could threaten national security,
charged Craig Federighi, Apple's SVP of engineering, in an op-ed piece
published Monday. Terrorists and criminals could launch attacks on vital
infrastructure through access "to just one person's smartphone," he
maintained.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83203.html

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