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Tech News Flash: Friday -- July 17, 2015

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Headline Scan
Pluto Pix Push Interest in Space Exploration
Swipes, Taps and Cursor Movements Can Foil Cyberthieves
Social Networks Funneling More News
Flash Furor Grows Despite Adobe's Latest Fix
Google Photos Backup Keeps Collecting Until You Make It Stop
Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata Leaves Legacy of Charm
Report: Android Wear Smartwatches to Get Together

Today's Story Highlights

Pluto Pix Push Interest in Space Exploration
Photos transmitted from 4 billion miles away by NASA's New Horizons
Pluto space probe have sparked fresh interest in space exploration. New
Horizons traveled more than 3 billion miles over a nine-and-a-half year
stretch to reach the Pluto system. A close-up image of a region near
Pluto's equator shows mountains reaching 11,000 feet in height. The lack
of craters suggests they're relatively new.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82281.html

Swipes, Taps and Cursor Movements Can Foil Cyberthieves
Swipes, taps, cursor movements and other ways of interacting with
electronic devices can be used to protect online merchants from Net
fraudsters. Many people are familiar with biometric authenticators like
irises, fingerprints and voices, but it turns out that how we behave
with our machines, including typing speed and the use of keyboard
shortcuts, can authenticate our identities, too.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82280.html

Social Networks Funneling More News
News consumption on Facebook and Twitter has increased significantly in
the last two years, according to a report from the Pew Research Center
and the Knight Foundation. Sixty-three percent of Twitter and Facebook
members surveyed said they got news from those social networks. For
Twitter, that's an 11 point increase from 2013, when 52 percent of its
members said they got news there.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82276.html

Flash Furor Grows Despite Adobe's Latest Fix
Three new vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player have been reported over
the past two weeks, triggering a storm of protest and leading Mozilla
and Google to ban the plug-in from their Firefox and Chrome browsers.
"It is time for Adobe to announce the end-of-life date for Flash and to
ask the browsers to set killbits on the same day," Facebook CSO Alex
Stamos tweeted Sunday.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82275.html

Google Photos Backup Keeps Collecting Until You Make It Stop
Uninstalling Google's Photos app doesn't turn off backup sync, meaning
photos taken with Android devices could be saved to the company's cloud
storage, even if the user doesn't intend to store them there, Google
acknowledged on Tuesday. The issue came to light last week, when a
BizJournals editor reported finding hundreds of family photos he had
deleted from his phone stored in Google Photos.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82271.html

Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata Leaves Legacy of Charm
After more than a decade of shaping fan-forward Nintendo philosophies,
President Satoru Iwata died Saturday at 55. Iwata had been struggling
with cancer for about a year. The one-time programmer and long-time
video game enthusiast worked his way through the Nintendo ranks. He
succeeded Hiroshi Yamauchi in 2002, becoming the first Nintendo
president who wasn't a member of the Yamauchi family.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82264.html

Report: Android Wear Smartwatches to Get Together
It's rumored that the next version of Android Wear, reportedly scheduled
for release in August, will bring tap gestures and watch-to-watch
communications. The update initially was scheduled for launch on July
28th. "For now, these features simply bring parity between Android Wear
and watchOS," said IDC analyst Jitesh Ubrani, but neither platform
"offers a compelling use case" as yet.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82270.html

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