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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- February 16, 2017

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Headline Scan
Watson Joins Cybersecurity Warriors' Ranks
Apple's Cook Blasts 'Mind Killing' Fake News
Munich City Government to Dump Linux Desktop
Samsung's Chromebook Pro Earns Respect
Lumina Adds Luster to Linux Desktop
Tesla Goes Underground and Uber Takes to the Skies: The Birth of Magic
Capsule8 Launches Linux-Based Container Security Platform
Gadgets: Gaming's New Virtual Reality Frontier and Personal Cargo Robots

Today's Story Highlights

Watson Joins Cybersecurity Warriors' Ranks
IBM this week announced Watson for Cyber Security, a powerful new ally
for organizations that want to protect their data from Net marauders.
The new offering bolsters the ability of information security pros to
analyze the flood of information from the roughly 200,000 events that
pour into their Security Operations Centers, or SOCs, every day. As much
as 80 percent of it is unstructured data.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84308.html

Apple's Cook Blasts 'Mind Killing' Fake News
Apple CEO Tim Cook has called for a campaign against fake news. Its
purveyors -- largely interested only in getting the most clicks -- are
defeating the people who are trying to tell the most truth, he said.
Fake news is "killing people's minds in a way," Cook remarked. The
worldwide epidemic of fake news requires a crackdown by both government
and tech, he suggested.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84304.html

Munich City Government to Dump Linux Desktop
Munich city officials turned lots of heads 10 years ago, when they voted
to swap out Microsoft Windows with LiMux -- a custom desktop version of
the Linux operating system, based on Ubuntu Linux. The current municipal
government wants to dump LiMux and replace its 15,000 computers with
Windows 10. The city's general council this week voted to investigate
the costs of building a Windows 10 client.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84307.html

Samsung's Chromebook Pro Earns Respect
Some early reviewers of the Samsung Chromebook Pro characterized it as a
"MacBook killer," but others were more restrained in their enthusiasm.
Jointly developed with Google and first demoed at CES 2017, the
Chromebook Pro is slated for release next month. Samsung's Chromebooks
basically are lightweight productivity tools that rely heavily on access
to cloud-based resources.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84300.html

Lumina Adds Luster to Linux Desktop
The Lumina Desktop Environment desktop is a standout in the crowded
field of Linux GUIs. Lumina is a compact, lightweight, XDG-compliant
graphical desktop environment developed from scratch. Its focus is on
giving users a streamlined, efficient work environment with minimal
system overhead. Lumina was first developed for the BSD family of
operating systems, such as FreeBSD and TrueOS.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84301.html

Tesla Goes Underground and Uber Takes to the Skies: The Birth of Magic
As in crazy short, in a very short period of time we have two very
different companies looking at two very different ways to eliminate
traffic. Tesla wants to tunnel under the ground to avoid traffic, while
Uber wants to fly overhead. Transportation has been a tad static for the
last 40 years or so, and that apparently is about to change big time.
This is just the start.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84295.html

Capsule8 Launches Linux-Based Container Security Platform
Cybersecurity startup Capsule8 this week announced that it has raised
$2.5 million to launch the industry's first container-aware, real-time
threat protection platform designed to protect legacy and next-
generation Linux infrastructures from existing and potential attacks.
CEO John Viega, CTO Dino Dai Zovi and Chief Scientist Brandon Edwards,
all veteran hackers, cofounded the firm.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84297.html

Gadgets: Gaming's New Virtual Reality Frontier and Personal Cargo Robots
Regular readers will know that I've played games my entire life. I hold
deep reverence for the care and attention that go into creating these
experiences, and I've rarely met a game I didn't want to conquer. Yet I
am nervous about virtual reality. I've tried it and found those
disorientating worlds difficult to handle, though I suspect that over
time I could grow more accustomed to it.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84294.html

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