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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- August 31, 2016

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Intel's Kaby Lake Chip Promises Deeper Internet Immersion
Zen's Place in the Computing World
Election Season Spawns Scams With Political Twist
Nextdoor Tackles Racial Profiling at Street Level
Snazzier Fitbits Sport Beefed-Up Feature Sets
StandWithLeslie and Obliterate Internet Trolls
The Peppermint Twist Is Still Cool

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Intel's Kaby Lake Chip Promises Deeper Internet Immersion
Facing a shrinking market for personal computers and a stalled market
for tablets, Intel on Tuesday unveiled its 7th-generation processors,
code-named "Kaby Lake," which deliver more speed and power than its 6th-
generation chipsets, while improving battery efficiency. Intel has
positioned the new Kaby Lake chipsets as ideal for the immersive
Internet.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83857.html

Zen's Place in the Computing World
AMD, which has been clawing its way out of the doldrums, recently
showcased its octacore, 16-thread Summit Ridge desktop processor
featuring its Zen core in a performance match-up against Intel's
octacore Broadwell-E Core i7-6900K CPU. The two similarly configured
processors were locked at 3 GHz for the test, in which they ran the
multithreaded Blender rendering application.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83853.html

Election Season Spawns Scams With Political Twist
Dirty tricks during political campaigns are nothing new, but the
Internet and the proliferation of mobile devices have allowed tricksters
to up their games a notch. It came to light last week, for example, that
Donald Trump's campaign app was hoovering the address books on his
supporters' phones. Trump's app wasn't doing anything illegal. It wasn't
even trying to hide what it was doing.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83854.html

Nextdoor Tackles Racial Profiling at Street Level
Nextdoor last week rolled out to all 110,000 of its neighborhoods a new
form-based process for making crime and safety reports. Implementation
of the tool reduced incidents of racial profiling by 75 percent in areas
where it was tested, according to CEO Nirav Tolia. Some Nextdoor members
had begun using the site to post problematic messages targeting racial
minorities.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83850.html

Snazzier Fitbits Sport Beefed-Up Feature Sets
Fitbit on Monday announced two new fitness trackers with sleeker looks,
more durable construction and greater data-gathering capabilities. The
Fitbit Charge 2, priced at $149.95, features continuous heart-rate
tracking. It uses the data to generate a cardio fitness score and
provides guidance for improving it over time. The Charge 2 displays
real-time exercise stats.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83849.html

StandWithLeslie and Obliterate Internet Trolls
I think there's a legitimate argument for removing one category of folks
from the gene pool, because they spend the little time they are given on
Earth making other folks' lives miserable. Back when I was playing MMOs,
some twisted folks -- known as "griefers," would lie in wait to mug
lower level characters and find creative ways to destroy the fun in a
game, often eventually killing it.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83843.html

The Peppermint Twist Is Still Cool
The Peppermint operating system is built around a concept not found in
most Linux distros. It is a hybrid combination of traditional Linux
desktop applications and cloud-based infrastructure. Peppermint 7 is a
lightweight distribution based on Ubuntu 16.04. The key to its process
of linking full desktop functionality to cloud apps is an in-house
developed application dubbed "Ice."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83846.html

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