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Tech News Flash: Saturday -- August 20, 2016

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Uber Revs Engine in Self-Driving Race
Edward Snowden Sheds Light on Shadow Brokers
The Linux Foundation Gives PNDA a Home
Intel's Project Alloy Tosses Reality Into a Blender
The Growing Scourge of Cyberbullying, Part 2
Super-Sophisticated Spyware Spotted After 5-Year Run
Google Duo Aims to Make Video Calling Super-Easy

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Uber Revs Engine in Self-Driving Race
Uber on Thursday announced plans to begin testing semi-autonomous
vehicles in Pittsburgh later this month. Its first partially self-
driving Volvo XC90 vehicles reportedly will be assigned at random to
customers who use the company's app. Each of the prototype cars will
have an actual human on board to act as copilot and monitor the
vehicle's performance from the driver's seat.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83819.html

Edward Snowden Sheds Light on Shadow Brokers
Edward Snowden has injected himself into an escalating cyberstruggle
that could affect the U.S. presidential election. The reported hack of
The Equation Group might have been a warning shot from Russia, Snowden
claimed. The group, which is widely believed to be a front operation for
the NSA, apparently was hacked over the weekend by a previously unknown
outfit called the "Shadow Brokers."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83817.html

The Linux Foundation Gives PNDA a Home
The Linux Foundation on Tuesday added PNDA -- the Platform for Network
Data Analytics -- to its project menagerie. PNDA provides an open
source, scalable platform for next-generation network analytics. It
integrates data from multiple sources on a network and works with Apache
Spark to crunch the numbers in order to find useful patterns in the data
more effectively.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83816.html

Intel's Project Alloy Tosses Reality Into a Blender
Intel on Tuesday presented its virtual reality vision -- a vision that
mixes virtual and real worlds into a kind of merged reality -- to
developers attending a conference in San Francisco. Mixing reality and
unreality sometimes can be a recipe for disaster, but Intel thinks it
will be a formula for success. At the center of Intel's vision is its
Project Alloy mobile headset and its cutting edge RealSense software.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83815.html

The Growing Scourge of Cyberbullying, Part 2
The digitization of everything has decreased the degrees of separation
between everyone. While that interconnectedness has solved many
problems, old and new, digitization has worsened one age-old problem:
bullying. An online bullying epidemic is now pushing parents, teens,
teachers and technology companies to try even harder to mitigate the
misery inflicted on its victims.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83812.html

Super-Sophisticated Spyware Spotted After 5-Year Run
Symantec and Kaspersky Lab last week separately announced the discovery
of a highly sophisticated APT that had eluded security researchers for
at least five years. A previously unknown group called "Strider" has
been using Remsec, an advanced tool that seems to be designed primarily
for spying. Its code contains a reference to Sauron, the main villain in
The Lord of the Rings .
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83811.html

Google Duo Aims to Make Video Calling Super-Easy
Google on Monday launched Google Duo, a one-on-one video calling app
that runs on iOS and Android. The app will be available worldwide in the
next few days, said Justin Uberti, principal software engineer at
Google. Duo switches from cellular service to WiFi, and transitions from
high-speed to lower speed wireless service smoothly, promising to let
users continue video calls uninterrupted.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83809.html

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