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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- February 18, 2015

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Apple Awarded Patent for Hybrid VR Headset
Gadget Ogling: An On-the-Go Digital Safe and a Portable Power Plant
NSA Suspected of Spreading Super-Resistant Malware
Sony Gets Glassy-Eyed
Encryption Can Create Stormy Weather in the Cloud
Is Paltrow More Qualified Than Mayer to Run Yahoo?

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Today's Story Highlights

Apple Awarded Patent for Hybrid VR Headset
Apple has been awarded a patent for a virtual reality headset that can
use an iPhone or iPod as a display. Patent number 8,957,835 was awarded
by the USPTO to Apple for a "head-mounted display apparatus for
retaining a portable electronic device with display." The abstract
describes a device similar to the Gear VR, which weds a Samsung Note
smartphone to a headpiece designed by Oculus.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81719.html

Gadget Ogling: An On-the-Go Digital Safe and a Portable Power Plant
Welcome to a new edition of Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, your weekly
guide to the best and worst of gadgets that have just rolled off the
production line for the first time or have the proverbial ink still
drying on their press releases. On our conveyor belt this week are a
gas-powered portable charger, a clever key fob, a flash drive for secret
keepers and a pocket ghost detector.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81714.html

NSA Suspected of Spreading Super-Resistant Malware
Kaspersky Lab on Tuesday announced the discovery of what may be the most
sophisticated malware ever. The malware's creators, whom Kaspersky has
dubbed "The Equation Group," use a never-seen-before tactic to infect
hard drives' firmware. The technique "makes traditional antivirus and
antimalware software practically useless," said Protegrity VP of
Products Yigal Rozenberg.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81716.html

Sony Gets Glassy-Eyed
Sony's SmartEyeglass Developer Edition SED-E1 will be available
generally next month in the United States, the UK, Germany and Japan.
The smart glasses -- Sony's first -- also will be released in March to
business customers in France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and
Sweden. Sony's SmartEyeglass, priced at $840, resembles a regular pair
of eyeglasses with a sporty black frame design.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81715.html

Encryption Can Create Stormy Weather in the Cloud
Encryption has received a lot of attention lately as a solution to the
growing data breach problem, but one of the hang-ups dogging the
technology has been its ability to play nice in the cloud. That's
especially true if an organization wants to control the keys by which
its data is scrambled and use services offered by a cloud provider
beyond simple storage.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81711.html

Is Paltrow More Qualified Than Mayer to Run Yahoo?
While working on a piece about bad decisions recently, I revisited Yahoo
CEO Marissa Mayer's decision not to hire Academy Award winner and
successful lifestyle author and blogger Gwyneth Paltrow for a lifestyle
editing position...because she didn't have a college degree. Let's
explore the idea of Paltrow running Yahoo -- and we'll also take a look
at my product of the week: an amazing new curved phone from LG.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81709.html

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