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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- October 11, 2016

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Headline Scan
Yahoo Makes It Harder for Email Users to Jump Ship
All Systems Go for Andromeda
Google Resurrects Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
Google's New Fonts Chip Away at Written Language Barriers
Consumers Warned of Exploding Samsung Washers
Nevada Issues Historic License to Paralyzed Race Car Driver
Torvalds Blows Stack Over Buggy New Kernel
Insulin Pump Susceptible to Hacking
Galaxy Note7 Snaps, Crackles and Pops, Spurring Evacuation of Plane

Today's Story Highlights

Yahoo Makes It Harder for Email Users to Jump Ship
Yahoo in recent days disabled autoforwarding for Yahoo Mail -- and in at
least one corporate client's case, it disabled the webmail deletion
feature. The autoforwarding feature "is under development," reads a
statement on the Yahoo site. "While we work to improve it, we've
temporarily disabled the ability to turn on Mail Forwarding for new
forwarding addresses."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83983.html

All Systems Go for Andromeda
Although Google didn't drop any new details on the progress of Andromeda
at its Pixel event, that doesn't indicate any tempering of enthusiasm
for the new operating system. Andromeda reportedly is a mashup of
Android and Chrome, with features from Chrome having been ported into
Android rather than the other way around. It's expected to show up next
year in a new laptop, dubbed "Pixel 3."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83981.html

Google Resurrects Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
This almost sounds like a plot for a novel. Microsoft creates a
successful strategy called "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" and then
promptly forgets it, resulting in a string of failures. Google, which up
to now seemed happy to repeat Microsoft's mistakes, accidentally picks
up a successful Microsoft practice and uses it against Apple -- likely
taking out a number of its Android partners.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83972.html

Google's New Fonts Chip Away at Written Language Barriers
Project Noto, one of Google's most ambitious undertakings ever, has
reached a milestone: Noto now supports 800 languages and 100 writing
scripts. Google and Monotype launched the open source initiative to
create a typeface family that supports all the languages in the world,
even rarely used languages. Both serif and sans serif letters with up to
eight weights are supported.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83979.html

Consumers Warned of Exploding Samsung Washers
That's the situation Samsung found itself in last week when the U.S.
Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a warning about certain top-
load washing machines made by the company between March 2011 and April
2016. "CPSC is advising consumers to only use the delicate cycle when
washing bedding, water-resistant and bulky items," reads a statement at
the commission's website.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83977.html

Nevada Issues Historic License to Paralyzed Race Car Driver
The state of Nevada last week issued paralyzed former Indy driver Sam
Schmidt a license to drive a specially made autonomous vehicle, equipped
with a series of high-tech sensors and other equipment that will allow
him to operate it with head motions, voice commands and breathing
techniques. The license allows Schmidt to operate the Arrow SAM car
alongside regular passenger traffic.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83974.html

Torvalds Blows Stack Over Buggy New Kernel
Linux creator Linus Torvalds this week apologized for including in the
just-released Linux 4.8 kernel a bug fix that crashed it. The bug the
dev was trying to fix has existed since Linux 3.15, "but the fix is
clearly worse than the bug ... since that original bug has never killed
my machine," Torvalds wrote. Kernel work, like brain surgery, is not
foolproof, noted tech analyst Al Hilwa.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83975.html

Insulin Pump Susceptible to Hacking
Medical device manufacturer Animas on Tuesday warned that its OneTouch
Ping insulin pump system was susceptible to hacking. "We have been
notified of a cybersecurity issue with the OneTouch Ping, specifically
that a person could potentially gain unauthorized access to the pump
through its unencrypted radio frequency communication system," reads the
company's letter to users of the device.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83969.html

Galaxy Note7 Snaps, Crackles and Pops, Spurring Evacuation of Plane
Southwest Airlines on Wednesday evacuated a plane after a Samsung Galaxy
Note7 began popping and issuing thick smoke. Samsung last month began
replacing Galaxy Note7s globally, following reports of several of the
devices catching fire or exploding. It blamed the problem on an
"isolated" faulty battery cell issue. The latest incident reportedly
involved a replacement phone.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83967.html

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