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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- February 23, 2017

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GE Digital VP Beena Ammanath: For Most Women, STEM Is an Uphill Battle
Rich Content Makes WhatsApp Look a Lot More Like Snapchat
Open Source IoT on Steady Enterprise March
Facebook Puts More Work Into Social Networking
Microsoft Makes VR Drone Fight Simulator Available on GitHub
Could IBM's Watson Fix President Trump?
Facebook Gets More In-Your-Face

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GE Digital VP Beena Ammanath: For Most Women, STEM Is an Uphill Battle
Beena Ammanath is VP for data and analytics at GE Digital. She has
worked in the data analytics field for more than 20 years and serves as
board director at ChickTech, a nonprofit dedicated to recruiting girls
and women into the tech workforce and retaining them once they're there.
Ammanath also serves on the Cal Poly Computer Engineering Program
Industrial Advisory Board.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84321.html

Rich Content Makes WhatsApp Look a Lot More Like Snapchat
Facebook has rolled out a WhatsApp update that could threaten Snapchat's
share of the mobile app messaging market. The update allows WhatsApp
users to share photos and videos through the app's status area.
Moreover, like WhatsApp text messages, content shared through status
updates is protected by end-to-end encryption -- a key distinction
between WhatsApp and its competitors.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84316.html

Open Source IoT on Steady Enterprise March
Enterprise IT decision makers have been exploring the potential of
Internet of Things technologies, but they are not rushing IoT projects
into development and are showing caution in their adoption commitments,
according to survey results Red Hat released Wednesday. Of the 215
participants in the company's survey, "Enterprise IoT in 2017: Steady as
she goes," 55 percent indicated that IoT was important to their
organization.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84322.html

Facebook Puts More Work Into Social Networking
Facebook last week launched new features for advertising job openings on
the network. Although many companies already have been using Facebook to
find workers, the new functionality formalizes its job search
capabilities, the company said. U.S. and Canadian businesses can use the
company's new jobs bookmark to list open positions and allow users to
apply directly from the site.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84318.html

Microsoft Makes VR Drone Fight Simulator Available on GitHub
Microsoft has introduced an open source virtual reality toolkit for the
training of autonomous drones. The beta software became available on
GitHub last week. The toolkit is designed to allow developers to "teach"
drones how to navigate the real world by recreating conditions such as
shadows, reflections and even objects that might confuse a device's on-
board sensors.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84309.html

Could IBM's Watson Fix President Trump?
President Trump offers a good emulation for a future artificial
intelligence system, suggests a column I read earlier this month, and
his presidency may be an early warning of what could happen if we should
fail to think through its training and information sources. Cathy
O'Neil, the author of the piece, compares artificial intelligence to
human intelligence that is mostly id.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84312.html

Facebook Gets More In-Your-Face
Facebook this week announced new features for News Feeds videos, along
with an app for TV. News Feed videos now have sound turned on by default
in mobile devices. This can be disabled in the Settings menu. A larger
format to present vertical videos now is standard on iOS and Android
devices. The feature became available as a preview last year. A Watch
and Scroll feature lets users minimize the video they're watching and
drag it to any corner of the screen.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84310.html

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