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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- November 3, 2016

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Headline Scan
Microsoft Sees 3D Future for Everyone
Lenovo's Yoga Book Aims for Top Shelf
Q4OS+Trinity Gives New Meaning to Lightweight
Microsoft: Google's Policy Endangers Windows Users
MIT's Nightmare Machine Churns Out AI-Generated Horror
Apple vs. Microsoft: Remixing the Magic
Bot Armies Boost Candidates' Popularity on Twitter
Apple Brings a Surprising Touch to MacBook Event
Microsoft Open Sources AI Toolkit
Conspiracy Theories in the Information Age, Part 1
Xiaomi Debuts Magical Mi Mix

Today's Story Highlights

Microsoft Sees 3D Future for Everyone
Microsoft last week unveiled its new vision for bringing 3D to the
masses through a modernized version of its Paint application for Windows
Paint 3D will be available in the Windows 10 Creators Update. Anyone
who would like to start creating and sharing in Paint 3D can do so by
joining the Windows Insider Program -- available for PC and Phone -- the
company said.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84041.html

Lenovo's Yoga Book Aims for Top Shelf
Lenovo's recently unveiled 2-in-1, the Yoga Book, is available in
Android Marshmallow and Windows 10 Home versions. Reviews have been
mixed, with some praising its look and feel, but some considering its
capabilities not up to scratch. Its Intel Atom processor doesn't provide
enough power for a workhorse device, they've argued. The Android version
costs $500 and the Windows version goes for $550.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84055.html

Q4OS+Trinity Gives New Meaning to Lightweight
Q4OS is a lightweight Linux distro that offers some worthwhile
alternatives to more established distros. Q4OS version 1.6.1 "Orion,"
released this summer, has as its main claim to fame the developing
Trinity desktop. Trinity is a breakaway fork from the KDE 3 community. I
took a detailed first look at this new distro last year, primarily to
assess the Trinity desktop.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84049.html

Microsoft: Google's Policy Endangers Windows Users
Google on Monday posted to the Internet a previously unpublicized flaw
that could pose a security threat to users of the Microsoft Windows
operating system. Google notified both Microsoft and Adobe of zero day
vulnerabilities in their software on Oct. 21, wrote Neel Mehta and Billy
Leonard, members of Google's Threat Analysis Group, in an online post.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84053.html

MIT's Nightmare Machine Churns Out AI-Generated Horror
In honor of Halloween, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Media Lab launched the Nightmare Machine website, which
allows visitors to vote on AI-generated horror images created via an
open source deep neural network algorithm developed last year.
Scientists from the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organization collaborated on the project.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84048.html

Apple vs. Microsoft: Remixing the Magic
What I think is funny in this market is that most people can look at two
companies, see the difference in their performance, and not learn the
fundamental lesson. The core magic is this: having someone who is
running the company who both understands the technology and understands
either the customer's current needs -- or how to manipulate customers to
need what you make.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84046.html

Bot Armies Boost Candidates' Popularity on Twitter
Internet bots have many useful online purposes, but they have a dark
side, too, as three researchers demonstrated in their analysis of
Twitter traffic during the first presidential debate between Hillary
Clinton and Donald Trump. Bots are used to automate functions on the
Net. For example, if you belong to several social networks, you could
use a bot to post a photo to all of them at once.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84044.html

Apple Brings a Surprising Touch to MacBook Event
Apple on Thursday unveiled two new MacBook Pro laptops, adding a touch
more power to the line. Both the new 13-inch and 15-inch models will be
offered in silver and space gray. They have a Touch Bar that replaces
the row of function keys found on laptops, as well as a Touch ID
fingerprint scanner incorporated into the power button. They sport a
Force Touch trackpad that's twice the size of the trackpad in previous
models.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84040.html

Microsoft Open Sources AI Toolkit
Microsoft has released an updated version of its Microsoft Cognitive
Toolkit as an open source Beta. The deep learning system is used to
speed advances in areas such as speech and image recognition and search
relevance on CPUs and Nvidia GPUs. It also works with Microsoft's Azure
GPU offering. The toolkit's developers initially were looking for a tool
to speed up and improve their own research.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84043.html

Conspiracy Theories in the Information Age, Part 1
One of the most volatile conspiracy theories in recent times ended with
a whimper last month, when Republican presidential candidate Donald
Trump made the terse statement, "President Barack Obama was born in the
U.S. Period." Though birthers may be with us always, it seems many have
turned their attention to other potentially scandalous topics -- and
they need look no further than the Internet.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84039.html

Xiaomi Debuts Magical Mi Mix
Xiaomi on Tuesday fired another shot in the shrinking bezel wars, as it
announced a smartphone with a front that's more than 90 percent display.
The Mi Mix is a 6.4-inch phone that's stylishly crafted by French
designer Philippe Starck. It sports a feature set that indicates Xiaomi
wants to compete at the high end of the smartphone market. The Mi Mix
has a screen-to-body ratio of 91.3 percent.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84037.html

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