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Tech News Flash: Friday -- April 15, 2016

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E2E Encryption Could Make WhatsApp a Spam Magnet
HTC 10 Wins Heaps of Praise With a Sprinkling of 'Buts'
Tiny Nanocraft May Sail to Neighboring Star System
Hortonworks Ramps Up Hadoop Security
Gadget Ogling: Smarter Notes, Livelier Virtual Reality, and Bigger
In-Flight Movies
Facebook Entices VR Content Creators With Open Source Surround Cam
Next Apple Watch Will Be More 'S' Than 2

Today's Story Highlights

E2E Encryption Could Make WhatsApp a Spam Magnet
Facebook's WhatsApp last week announced it would roll out end-to-end
encryption for its users, but the move could make the service more
attractive to spammers. While encryption can safeguard information from
data thieves, it also can block data protectors. The policy "will not
stop the growth of spam on the platform and could make the problem
worse," AdaptiveMobile's Simeon Coney said.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83370.html

HTC 10 Wins Heaps of Praise With a Sprinkling of 'Buts'
HTC this week unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, the HTC 10. The
phone's camera is outfitted with new, larger sensors and 12 million new-
generation UltraPixels. Both the front and rear cameras sport the
world's first optically stabilized, larger-aperture f/1.8 lenses on, the
company said. The rear camera also has a faster laser autofocus.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83369.html

Tiny Nanocraft May Sail to Neighboring Star System
Stephen Hawking and billionaire Yuri Milner on Tuesday unveiled
Breakthrough Starship, an ambitious $100 million effort to send
miniature spacecraft to another solar system, but the program might not
be quite ready to fly. It calls for a team of engineering and
astrophysics experts to develop nanocrafts that could zoom to the Alpha
Centauri star system at 20 percent the speed of light.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83364.html

Hortonworks Ramps Up Hadoop Security
Hortonworks this week announced a series of enterprise security efforts
to bolster performance and data safety with its Hortonworks Data
Platform. The company announced that Pivotal Software will standardize
on Hortonworks' Hadoop distribution. The thrust of the product
announcements concerned updates on applying security policies and
maintaining data governance.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83367.html

Gadget Ogling: Smarter Notes, Livelier Virtual Reality, and Bigger
In-Flight Movies

We've for some time had Moleskine's Smart Notebooks, which allow you to
jot down your thoughts and upload them to Evernote through an app. The
new Smart Writing Set takes that idea and elevates it to a new plane,
letting you quickly turn scrawled notes or doodles into digital files
you can edit using a computer or any mobile app -- no smartphone camera
required.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83352.html

Facebook Entices VR Content Creators With Open Source Surround Cam
Facebook on Tuesday unveiled a high-quality 360-degree 3D camera
suitable for creating virtual reality content. The Facebook Surround 360
system, which made its debut at the F8 developers conference, includes a
production-ready camera -- which costs about $30,000 to build and looks
like a flying saucer from a science fiction movie -- and software for
controlling the camera and for stitching and rendering what the camera
captures.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83361.html

Next Apple Watch Will Be More 'S' Than 2
Most of the changes in the next version of the Apple Watch will be on
the inside and not the outside of the case, according to an investors
note issued Monday by Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities. His comments are
consistent with rumors circulating last summer that the design of the
next version of Apple's wrist computer would remain essentially
unchanged.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83360.html

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