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Tech News Flash: Saturday -- May 21, 2016

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Hyperloop Dreams Are Getting Real
Gang Surrenders Key to TeslaCrypt Ransomware Kingdom
Google Patents Tech to Limit Injuries in Vehicle-Pedestrian Accidents
Gadget Ogling: Speedy Tortillas, Racing Robots, and Real-Time 3D
Flaw Puts a Billion Wireless Mice at Risk
Apache Guru Behlendorf to Helm Hyperledger Project
Google Plots Home Invasion
BitTorrent Live Aims to Iron Out Live-Streaming Kinks

Today's Story Highlights

Hyperloop Dreams Are Getting Real
The Hyperloop -- the high-speed transportation concept Elon Musk has
promoted heavily -- is edging closer to becoming a reality. Russia plans
to develop a Hyperloop network for freight transportation, the country's
transport minister announced Friday. MIT last week unveiled its
Hyperloop Pod, a prototype of its award-winning design concept intended
for human travelers.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83490.html

Gang Surrenders Key to TeslaCrypt Ransomware Kingdom
Eset on Wednesday announced that it has fashioned a free tool that
victims of all variants of the TeslaCrypt ransomware can use to unlock
affected files. After the criminal gang behind TeslaCrypt recently
abandoned support of the malicious software, an Eset analyst contacted
the group anonymously, using the channel offered to ransomware victims,
and asked for the universal master decryption key.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83534.html

Google Patents Tech to Limit Injuries in Vehicle-Pedestrian Accidents
The United States Patent and Trademark Office earlier this week granted
Google a patent for "Adhesive Vehicle Front End For Mitigation of
Secondary Pedestrian Impact." The patent application, filed a year and a
half ago, credits Google employees Alex Khaykin and Daniel Lynn Larner
as the inventors of the new technology. This latest patent grant is for
"a system for protecting a colliding object from a secondary impact."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83527.html

Gadget Ogling: Speedy Tortillas, Racing Robots, and Real-Time 3D
Flatev is a pod-based system for instant tortillas in the mold of a
Keurig coffee maker. Insert a pod of fresh dough -- you have several
choices, all organic -- then adjust settings for type of dough and
desired crispiness, and 90 seconds later you'll have a fresh, warm
tortilla. There's a heated drawer to keep your tortillas warm while you
make as many as you need.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83532.html

Flaw Puts a Billion Wireless Mice at Risk
Wireless mice and keyboards are the perfect accessories for a world in
which devices increasingly are shuffling off their connection coils, but
those accessories -- especially untethered rodents -- also can create
new threats for those who use them. One such threat is Mousejack. The
attack exploits a vulnerability found in 80 percent of wireless mice.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83528.html

Apache Guru Behlendorf to Helm Hyperledger Project
The Linux Foundation on Thursday announced that Brian Behlendorf, a
primary developer of the Apache Web server, has joined the Hyperledger
Project as executive director. The project is a collaborative effort to
advance blockchain technology by identifying and addressing important
features for an open standard for distributed ledgers that will apply
across industries.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83530.html

Google Plots Home Invasion
Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off the company's annual I/O developers
conference on Wednesday with a keynote address that included previews of
a batch of new products. Among those showcased were Google Assistant, a
tool that can understand and respond to complex questions in real time;
and Home, Google's highly anticipated response to Amazon's Echo speaker.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83525.html

BitTorrent Live Aims to Iron Out Live-Streaming Kinks
BitTorrent on Tuesday announced at the Internet & Television Expo an
application called "BitTorrent Live" that applies its distributed file-
sharing technology to video streaming. BitTorrent is able to speed up
file downloads by storing pieces of a file on computers throughout the
Net and reassembling them when a request is made for the file.
BitTorrent Live does the same for streaming live video.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83523.html

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