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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- March 19, 2015

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Musk: Technology May Revoke Your Driver's License
The Road Ahead for Self-Driving Cars
Windows Hello Waves Off Passwords
Q4OS Is a Bare-Bones Business Tool
Talking Barbie Says Hello, Parents Say Goodbye

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Today's Story Highlights

Musk: Technology May Revoke Your Driver's License
There will come a time, in a future not so far away, when it will be
illegal for the average person to drive a car, predicted Tesla CEO Elon
Musk. Autonomous vehicles will be exponentially safer, he said Tuesday
at Nvidia's 2015 GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California.
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang took the stage with Musk for an unrehearsed
conversation about the future of cars.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81841.html

The Road Ahead for Self-Driving Cars
While several automakers are currently in the process of developing
autonomous vehicles, the road ahead for self-driving cars could be long,
with numerous obstacles to overcome. According to the recent Autonomous
Vehicles 2015-2035 report, published by IDTechEx, the challenges and
technology have much in common. So far, progress toward a completely
driverless car is in the slow lane.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81840.html

Windows Hello Waves Off Passwords
Microsoft on Tuesday announced Windows Hello, a feature that allows
users to access computers and devices running Windows 10 via face
recognition, iris identification or fingerprint matching. In addition,
the company raised the curtain on Microsoft Passport, a programming
system that IT managers, software developers and website authors can use
for signing in to websites and applications.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81839.html

Q4OS Is a Bare-Bones Business Tool
Q4OS has the potential to become a new attention-getter among up and
coming Linux distros. But this distro has a way to go before its
development reaches full functionality. Right now it is working its way
to a non-beta version 1.0 release. New beta versions are frequently
released, often a few weeks to a month apart. The latest release was
version 0.5.25 on February 4.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81829.html

Talking Barbie Says Hello, Parents Say Goodbye
It's not so much Hello Barbie's talking -- it's her listening that has
parents up in arms. Here's how Hello Barbie works: A kid presses on the
doll's belt buckle and speaks into a microphone in the doll's necklace.
An AI system processes and analyzes that speech in the cloud. Responses
are then streamed back to the doll, who replies to the kid -- all over a
secure WiFi connection to the Internet.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81837.html

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