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ECT News Network Weekly Newsletter: Wednesday -- May 25, 2016

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This Week's Top News Headlines From the E-Commerce Times

Oculus Riles Users Over Piracy Block That Fails Anyway
(Posted 25-May-16)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83544.html

Yahoo Bids Could Seriously Underwhelm
(Posted 24-May-16)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83541.html

New SF Store Showcases Apple's Trademark Creativity
(Posted 24-May-16)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83540.html

Vendors Gain Congressional Support on IT Pricing
(Posted 23-May-16)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83537.html

Hacker Hawks 2-Year-Old Cache of 117M LinkedIn User IDs
(Posted 23-May-16)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83535.html

Google Challenges Right to Be Forgotten in French High Court
(Posted 20-May-16)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83533.html

Nokia Stages Smartphone Comeback
(Posted 20-May-16)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83529.html

China Subjects Tech Imports to Heavy Security Scrutiny
(Posted 19-May-16)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83526.html

Tweets May Soon Breeze Past 140-Character Limit
(Posted 19-May-16)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83522.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From TechNewsWorld

OnePlus Offers Free Headsets to Lure Crowd to VR Smartphone Launch
(Posted 25-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83545.html

Google's Abacus May Count Out Passwords
(Posted 24-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83543.html

Versatile iBot Wheelchair to Make a Comeback
(Posted 24-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83542.html

The Rise of Drone Racing, Part 1
(Posted 24-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83515.html

Microsoft Tightens Screws on Terrorists Posting Online
(Posted 23-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83539.html

Google's New Custom Chip May Not Live Up to the Hype
(Posted 23-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83531.html

Using the Scientific Method to Pick the Best US President
(Posted 23-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83521.html

Hyperloop Dreams Are Getting Real
(Posted 21-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83490.html

Gang Surrenders Key to TeslaCrypt Ransomware Kingdom
(Posted 20-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83534.html

Google Patents Tech to Limit Injuries in Vehicle-Pedestrian Accidents
(Posted 20-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83527.html

Gadget Ogling: Speedy Tortillas, Racing Robots, and Real-Time 3D
(Posted 20-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83532.html

Flaw Puts a Billion Wireless Mice at Risk
(Posted 20-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83528.html

Google Plots Home Invasion
(Posted 19-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83525.html

BitTorrent Live Aims to Iron Out Live-Streaming Kinks
(Posted 19-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83523.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From CRM Buyer

Deeper Connections
(Posted 23-May-16)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/83538.html

Selling Imagination in the IoT Era
(Posted 19-May-16)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/83524.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From LinuxInsider

Rebellin Linux Offers Best of Both Gnome Worlds
(Posted 24-May-16)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/83536.html

Apache Guru Behlendorf to Helm Hyperledger Project
(Posted 20-May-16)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/83530.html

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Tech News Flash

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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- May 25, 2016

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Part of the ECT News Network

Headline Scan
OnePlus Offers Free Headsets to Lure Crowd to VR Smartphone Launch
Google's Abacus May Count Out Passwords
Versatile iBot Wheelchair to Make a Comeback
The Rise of Drone Racing, Part 1
Rebellin Linux Offers Best of Both Gnome Worlds
Microsoft Tightens Screws on Terrorists Posting Online
Google's New Custom Chip May Not Live Up to the Hype
Using the Scientific Method to Pick the Best US President

Today's Story Highlights

OnePlus Offers Free Headsets to Lure Crowd to VR Smartphone Launch
The 30,000 virtual reality headsets OnePlus announced it would give away
as part the unveiling of its OnePlus 3 smartphone were snapped up
Monday, the day they became available. OnePlus has set up a VR space
called "The Loop" in which it will unveil the OnePlus 3. The Loop can be
accessed only by users of the OnePlus Loop VR headsets, made by AntVR.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83545.html

Google's Abacus May Count Out Passwords
By the end of the year, Android devs will be able to use a trust API
from Google's Project Abacus in their apps, Google ATAP Director Dan
Kaufman suggested at last week's I/O conference. The API, which will run
in the background continually, is aimed at doing away with passwords. It
will use a smartphone's sensors to create a cumulative trust score that
will authenticate users.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83543.html

Versatile iBot Wheelchair to Make a Comeback
Toyota and DEKA Research and Development last week announced an
agreement that will revive development of the iBot, a wheelchair that
can climb stairs. The companies revealed their pact to develop mobility
solutions for the disabled community at the annual convention of the
Paralyzed Veterans of America. One of the first initiatives under the
agreement will be to resurrect the iBot.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83542.html

The Rise of Drone Racing, Part 1
Tearing through open spaces and timing each turn to burst out of them, a
seeming continuum of drones weaves through a set of obstacles lap after
lap, until the stutter of a pilot's joystick breaks the cadence of this
competitive concert and destroys the illusion. It's the drama --
anticipating and reacting to those human moments -- that has propelled
drone racing to the spotlight.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83515.html

Rebellin Linux Offers Best of Both Gnome Worlds
Rebellin Linux is a smart-looking, fast distro that is both lightweight
and secure. It is well worth checking out. The Rebellin line avoids the
pitfalls that befall many Debian GNU/Linux derivatives. It does not
maintain a warehouse full of desktop versions. It is neither a
minimalistic Linux line nor a distro stuffed with bloat from packages
typical users will never need.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83536.html

Microsoft Tightens Screws on Terrorists Posting Online
Microsoft last week announced plans to crack down on terrorist content,
perhaps in response to the Obama administration's intense effort to get
Silicon Valley's help in preventing organizations like ISIS from using
social media as a recruiting and fundraising tool. Microsoft has amended
its terms of use to prohibit the posting of terrorist content on its
various platforms.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83539.html

Google's New Custom Chip May Not Live Up to the Hype
Google last week announced the Tensor Processing Unit, a custom
application-specific integrated circuit, at Google I/O. TPU was built
for machine learning applications and has been running in Google's data
centers for more than a year. Google's AlphaGo software, which thrashed
an 18-time international Go champion in a match earlier this year, ran
on servers using TPUs.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83531.html

Using the Scientific Method to Pick the Best US President
I've been thinking a lot this week about what it takes to select a
strong CEO and being annoyed by robocalls from the different campaigns.
On one such call, when asked what I'd do if given the choice between
Clinton and Trump, my response was "move to Canada." That apparently
wasn't what they were looking for. Boards often have to select from a
very small pool of CEO candidates, and they don't get the "move to
Canada" option.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83521.html

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Tech News Flash

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Tech News Flash: Saturday -- May 21, 2016

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Headline Scan
Hyperloop Dreams Are Getting Real
Gang Surrenders Key to TeslaCrypt Ransomware Kingdom
Google Patents Tech to Limit Injuries in Vehicle-Pedestrian Accidents
Gadget Ogling: Speedy Tortillas, Racing Robots, and Real-Time 3D
Flaw Puts a Billion Wireless Mice at Risk
Apache Guru Behlendorf to Helm Hyperledger Project
Google Plots Home Invasion
BitTorrent Live Aims to Iron Out Live-Streaming Kinks

Today's Story Highlights

Hyperloop Dreams Are Getting Real
The Hyperloop -- the high-speed transportation concept Elon Musk has
promoted heavily -- is edging closer to becoming a reality. Russia plans
to develop a Hyperloop network for freight transportation, the country's
transport minister announced Friday. MIT last week unveiled its
Hyperloop Pod, a prototype of its award-winning design concept intended
for human travelers.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83490.html

Gang Surrenders Key to TeslaCrypt Ransomware Kingdom
Eset on Wednesday announced that it has fashioned a free tool that
victims of all variants of the TeslaCrypt ransomware can use to unlock
affected files. After the criminal gang behind TeslaCrypt recently
abandoned support of the malicious software, an Eset analyst contacted
the group anonymously, using the channel offered to ransomware victims,
and asked for the universal master decryption key.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83534.html

Google Patents Tech to Limit Injuries in Vehicle-Pedestrian Accidents
The United States Patent and Trademark Office earlier this week granted
Google a patent for "Adhesive Vehicle Front End For Mitigation of
Secondary Pedestrian Impact." The patent application, filed a year and a
half ago, credits Google employees Alex Khaykin and Daniel Lynn Larner
as the inventors of the new technology. This latest patent grant is for
"a system for protecting a colliding object from a secondary impact."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83527.html

Gadget Ogling: Speedy Tortillas, Racing Robots, and Real-Time 3D
Flatev is a pod-based system for instant tortillas in the mold of a
Keurig coffee maker. Insert a pod of fresh dough -- you have several
choices, all organic -- then adjust settings for type of dough and
desired crispiness, and 90 seconds later you'll have a fresh, warm
tortilla. There's a heated drawer to keep your tortillas warm while you
make as many as you need.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83532.html

Flaw Puts a Billion Wireless Mice at Risk
Wireless mice and keyboards are the perfect accessories for a world in
which devices increasingly are shuffling off their connection coils, but
those accessories -- especially untethered rodents -- also can create
new threats for those who use them. One such threat is Mousejack. The
attack exploits a vulnerability found in 80 percent of wireless mice.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83528.html

Apache Guru Behlendorf to Helm Hyperledger Project
The Linux Foundation on Thursday announced that Brian Behlendorf, a
primary developer of the Apache Web server, has joined the Hyperledger
Project as executive director. The project is a collaborative effort to
advance blockchain technology by identifying and addressing important
features for an open standard for distributed ledgers that will apply
across industries.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83530.html

Google Plots Home Invasion
Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off the company's annual I/O developers
conference on Wednesday with a keynote address that included previews of
a batch of new products. Among those showcased were Google Assistant, a
tool that can understand and respond to complex questions in real time;
and Home, Google's highly anticipated response to Amazon's Echo speaker.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83525.html

BitTorrent Live Aims to Iron Out Live-Streaming Kinks
BitTorrent on Tuesday announced at the Internet & Television Expo an
application called "BitTorrent Live" that applies its distributed file-
sharing technology to video streaming. BitTorrent is able to speed up
file downloads by storing pieces of a file on computers throughout the
Net and reassembling them when a request is made for the file.
BitTorrent Live does the same for streaming live video.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83523.html

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Tech News Flash

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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- May 18, 2016

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Headline Scan
Otto Kits Out Big Rigs With Aftermarket Self-Driving Tech
Motorola Shows Off New Moto G Collection
Google to Dim Flash Player in Chrome Browser
Forked Debian Beta Is Rough Around the Edges
Facebook Looks Into Bias Claims
Could the Next Disruptive Consumer Product Be a Flip Phone?

Today's Story Highlights

Otto Kits Out Big Rigs With Aftermarket Self-Driving Tech
Otto on Monday introduced a self-driving kit designed to help those
behind the wheel of big rigs drive more safely and efficiently. The
company is developing a suite of sensors, software and other truck-
related enhancements that could be retrofitted into existing vehicles.
The technology has been tested in Otto's research fleet, and the company
completed an autonomous demo on public highways.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83519.html

Motorola Shows Off New Moto G Collection
Motorola on Tuesday unveiled three new smartphones: the fourth-
generation Moto G, the Moto G Plus and the Moto G Play. The Moto G and
Moto G Plus can be customized using Moto Maker, while the Moto G Play
can not. All three run Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow. The Moto G and Moto G
Plus became available Tuesday in Brazil and India. They will be rolled
out elsewhere over time.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83517.html

Google to Dim Flash Player in Chrome Browser
Google last week announced that it would minimize use of Adobe's Flash
Player in its Chrome Web browser by the end of the year by turning off
its default status. When Chrome encounters a Web page, it will report
the presence of Flash Player only if a user has indicated that the
domain should execute Flash or if the site is in one of the top 10
domains using Flash, ‎Google's Anthony LaForge said.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83512.html

Forked Debian Beta Is Rough Around the Edges
The Devuan GNU/Linux community's much-awaited Devuan Linux Jessie 1.0
beta release is available. It took two years for disgruntled Debian
community members to make good on their promise of a systemd-free Debian
distro. They rejected a Linux-wide trend to replace older init processes
such as Upstart and System V with systemd. The process of forking Debian
into Devuan took much longer than expected.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83514.html

Facebook Looks Into Bias Claims
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last week announced that the company would
investigate allegations that its Trending Topics feature had an
anticonservative bias. "We have found no evidence that this report is
true," he said, referring to a news report that kicked off the storm.
"If we find anything against our principles, you have my commitment that
we will take additional steps to address it."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83511.html

Could the Next Disruptive Consumer Product Be a Flip Phone?
Smartphones appear to be losing their luster, and the king of
smartphones -- Apple -- clearly is not having a good year. Suddenly, I'm
hearing that there is an upswing in flip phones, making this feel a bit
like a Game of Thrones episode, when a believed-dead king returns to
seize the throne by surprise. Clearly, the market is looking for the
next big thing.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83494.html

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