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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- July 7, 2016

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Headline Scan
Sidewalk Labs: Taking It to the Streets in Columbus
HummingBad Mucks Up Android's Works
New Apple Health App to Serve as Organ Donation Matchmaker
Blogosphere Chews on Android Nougat
Symantec Scrambles to Fix Flaws After Google Sounds Alarm
What If We've Got Big Data and Analytics All Wrong?
Gadget Ogling: Artsy Audio, Stress Detectives, and Wee Violins
Google Opens Faster Big Data Pipe Between US and Japan
Nothing Ghostly About Devialet's Phantom Gold Sound

Today's Story Highlights

Sidewalk Labs: Taking It to the Streets in Columbus
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs, a sister company of Google, recently began
negotiating a plan to help restructure the public transportation system
in Columbus, Ohio, after the city won the Obama administration's
national competition to ease traffic gridlock issues. Sidewalk Labs will
leverage its cloud-based transportation data to help Columbus implement
a smarter public bus and parking system.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83663.html

HummingBad Mucks Up Android's Works
More than 85 million Android devices worldwide have been taken over by
the Yingmob, a group of China-based cybercriminals who created the
HummingBad malware, according to Check Point. HummingBad establishes a
persistent rootkit on Android devices, generates fraudulent ad revenue,
and installs additional fraudulent apps. HummingBad reportedly has been
generating revenue of $300,000 a month.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83667.html

New Apple Health App to Serve as Organ Donation Matchmaker
Apple and Donate Life America have partnered to offer an organ donation
app with the next iOS 10 update. iPhone users will be able to register
for the program with a couple taps of a button. They'll be able to sign
up to make organ, eye or tissue donations, automatically entering their
information in the National Donate Life Registry, which is managed by
Donate Life America.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83665.html

Blogosphere Chews on Android Nougat
Google last week revealed the official name of its next mobile operating
system: "Android Nougat." The OS previously went only by "Android N,"
and Google invited the blogosphere to fill in the blanks. The choice
sparked some derision, particularly among those who had preferred
"Nutella." "What is nougat anyway?" asked John Jackson, a research VP at
IDC. "It's like the 'nog' in eggnog; it doesn't exactly stand alone."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83668.html

Symantec Scrambles to Fix Flaws After Google Sounds Alarm
Symantec last week confirmed that it had developed fixes for a series of
eight vulnerabilities found in its portfolio of security products for
enterprise and consumer customers, after an outside researcher
identified the problem. A researcher from Google's Project Zero alerted
the company, but there was no evidence of the vulnerability being
exploited in the wild.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83662.html

What If We've Got Big Data and Analytics All Wrong?
Every once in a while I run into a little company that comes at an
existing market as if the folks already in it are idiots -- and
sometimes they are right. Here's the thing: What often happens is a
company breaks out in a segment, and everyone groups around that
company's ideas and emulates them. Few initially stand up and say, "Wait
a minute -- what if they're wrong?"
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83656.html

Gadget Ogling: Artsy Audio, Stress Detectives, and Wee Violins
I don't think any product range beats speakers for running the design
gamut from gorgeous to ghastly. There are so many to choose from, in all
shapes, sizes and colors, that there's something for everyone -- plus a
few things no one should buy. But what if your sound system were a piece
of art, literally? Case of Bass has created a boombox print that houses
a speaker system in a shadow box.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83660.html

Google Opens Faster Big Data Pipe Between US and Japan
Google on Wednesday unveiled its latest investment in long-haul undersea
fiber optic cabling. Dubbed the "Faster Cable System," it is the
highest-capacity undersea cable built to date, providing 60-Tbps
bandwidth between the United States and Japan. It is about 10 million
times faster than an average cable modem, Google noted. Google is one of
six members of the Faster Consortium.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83659.html

Nothing Ghostly About Devialet's Phantom Gold Sound
Devialet, the French company that has built a reputation in the audio
market for high-end wireless speakers, on Tuesday announced its newest
addition: the $3,000 Phantom Gold. The Phantom Gold looks something like
a futuristic Faberge egg, and it's priced like one, too. That said, it
has some ear-pleasing and ear-splitting specs. Devialet has given it a
power boost to 4,500 watts.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83657.html

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