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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- February 25, 2016

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Headline Scan
Atlas Robot Turns the Other Cheek
The Downside of Linux Popularity
Security Pros to Users: Do as We Say, Not as We Do
Facebook Gives Us More Ways to Push Each Other's Buttons
Facebook TIPs the Scales Toward Better Networking
Greenwave Brings Unity to IoT Networks
Dell's Embedded PCs Take the IoT to the Mainstream
Samsung Raises Curtain on Galaxy S7 Models

Today's Story Highlights

Atlas Robot Turns the Other Cheek
Google-owned Boston Dynamics on Tuesday gave the world a look at the
latest version of Atlas, a bipedal robot that someday could threaten
manual laborers' livelihoods. Boston Dynamics certainly didn't say or
imply that the fast-progressing Atlas robot would force humans out of
their jobs. The clandestine group merely demonstrated the latest build
of the bot, and gave it a cringeworthy battering.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83157.html

The Downside of Linux Popularity
Popularity is becoming a two-edged sword for Linux. The open source
operating system has become a key component of the Internet's
infrastructure, and it's also the foundation for the world's largest
mobile OS, Google's Android. Widespread use of the OS, though, has
attracted the attention of hackers looking to transfer the dirty tricks
previously aimed at Windows to Linux.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83158.html

Security Pros to Users: Do as We Say, Not as We Do
IT pros -- the gatekeepers of company security policies -- are willing
to bend the rules to get things done, according to Absolute Software,
based on survey findings it released last week. Forty-five percent of IT
pros confessed they knowingly worked around their own security policies,
according to the survey. Moreover, 33 percent admitted to hacking their
own or another organization's systems.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83156.html

Facebook Gives Us More Ways to Push Each Other's Buttons
Facebook on Wednesday rolled out a new set of options for its 1.5
billion monthly users to use when responding to posts in their News
Feeds. The six "Reactions," as Facebook has termed them, allow users to
make more nuanced responses to posts rather than simply clicking on
Like. The additional options are Love, Haha, Wow, Sad and Angry.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83154.html

Facebook TIPs the Scales Toward Better Networking
Facebook on Sunday at the 2016 Mobile World Congress announced its
Telecom Infra Project, an engineering initiative aimed at developing new
technologies and approaches to building and deploying telecom network
infrastructure. TIP will bring together telecommunications companies,
infrastructure providers, system integrators and other technology
companies, according to Facebook's Jay Parikh.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83151.html

Greenwave Brings Unity to IoT Networks
Greenwave Systems on Monday announced the expansion of its AXON Platform
to unite mobile machine-to-machine and residential IoT networks into one
fully manageable network service. Mobile carriers, telecommunications
operators and service providers can use AXON for Mobile IoT to integrate
a variety of communications protocols into the same standard IP-based
language.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83149.html

Dell's Embedded PCs Take the IoT to the Mainstream
Dell on Tuesday announced the release of its first purpose-built
industrial PC products for the mainstream market: the Embedded Box PC
3000 Series and 5000 Series. The products are a response to the growing
embedded computing market and the lack of reliable devices, Dell said.
The embedded systems market is expected to reach $23.1 billion in 2019,
according to a Technavio study.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83145.html

Samsung Raises Curtain on Galaxy S7 Models
Samsung on Sunday introduced two new models of its flagship Galaxy
smartphone line at the annual gala for the mobile world, the Mobile
World Conference in Barcelona, Spain. Both phones have similar features,
but one, the Galaxy S7 Edge, has a 5.5-inch display, the same size as
the iPhone 6s Plus. The units have curved screens that support quad HD
resolution, as well as a slight curve on the back.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83146.html

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