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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- December 5, 2019

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Headline Scan
Amazon Ratchets Up Competition in 5G, Hybrid IT
Twitter Sets Up Privacy Center but Moves to Skirt GDPR
EU Digital Czar to Probe Facebook's and Google's Data Wrangling
Tapping AI for a Future of Better, Faster, Cheaper Gift Shopping
HPC and AI Are Changing the World
A Glimpse of Our Wireless Future
How the Quantum Tech Race Puts the World's Data at Risk
You've Come a Long Way, Linux-Baby

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Amazon Ratchets Up Competition in 5G, Hybrid IT
Among the highlights of Amazon Web Services re:Invent are three
announcements that strengthen its presence in the enterprise hybrid IT
infrastructure market: AWS is teaming with Verizon to deliver 5G edge
cloud computing; the first AWS Local Zone is located in Los Angeles; and
AWS Outposts are generally available. These moves "close some huge
competitive gaps," observed tech analyst Rob Enderle.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86397.html

Twitter Sets Up Privacy Center but Moves to Skirt GDPR
Twitter's new Privacy Center will give users more clarity on what it
does to protect the information people share. The center will host
everything relevant to Twitter's privacy and data protection work,
including initiatives, announcements, new privacy products and
communication about security incidents, noted Twitter Data Protection
Officer Damien Kieran and Product Lead Kayvon Beykpour.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86395.html

EU Digital Czar to Probe Facebook's and Google's Data Wrangling
The European Union has launched a probe into how Google and Facebook
gather, process, use and monetize data for advertising purposes. The
European Commission has begun distributing questionnaires as part of a
preliminary investigation into Google's and Facebook's data practices.
Facebook and Google join Amazon as targets of the EU's "digital czar,"
Margrethe Vestager.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86391.html

Tapping AI for a Future of Better, Faster, Cheaper Gift Shopping
If you are like me, every Christmas you dread shopping because figuring
out what everyone wants is a bit of a nightmare. You don't know what
folks want in your price range. If you find out, there is no easy way to
be sure they haven't bought it themselves, or that someone else didn't
get it for them. Choosing sizes and colors adds to the nightmare. These
problems aren't limited to Christmas.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86381.html

HPC and AI Are Changing the World
During the recent SC19 supercomputing conference, the top semiconductor
and systems vendors discussed and demoed the highest-performance
computing solutions in the world. While it's easy to imagine these
platforms solving some of the most challenging problems, and simulating
everything from the human genome to climate change, there are thousands
of other applications that can benefit as well.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86389.html

A Glimpse of Our Wireless Future
Last week I attended a Qualcomm event that took me through the coming
wave of both 5G and WiFi 6 products, touched on the millimeter wave, and
at least spoke to 6G. From this I think I can begin to picture the world
as it will exist by the middle of the next decade, and it is kind of
fascinating. Qualcomm has spent nearly $50B -- yes billion -- advancing
its wireless initiatives.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86385.html

How the Quantum Tech Race Puts the World's Data at Risk
The technology one-upmanship between the United States and China is fast
becoming the new space race. There's been a lot of talk in the press
about the competition to reach 5G, but little traction outside of the
tech community about something more momentous: the dangers of computing
in a post-quantum world. The recent news from Google about its quantum
capabilities is exciting.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86382.html

You've Come a Long Way, Linux-Baby
When Linux first emerged from its cocoon in a frenzied Usenet thread, it
is doubtful that almost anyone imagined the project would ascend to
global prominence. Even more astonishingly, its dominance was driven as
much, if not more, by its adoption by the private sector -- although it
posed an antithesis to its business model -- as by any of its other
notable traits.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86383.html

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