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Tech News Flash: Monday -- August 7, 2017

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Headline Scan
While You Wait: 4 Potentially Higher-Status Alternatives to the iPhone 8
Facebook Takes Another Stab at Neutralizing Fake News
HBO Cyberattack Driven By Mysterious Motives
Automotive Grade Linux Reaches Key Car Platform Milestones
Dual-Lens Camera Revealed in Leaked Note8 Images
WSL to Ship With Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
HomePod Devs Stumble Upon Next iPhone Design Clues
Why Facebook's Willow Beats Apple's Saucer
Amazon's Secret 1492 Health Team Sets Sail
The Elusive Total Linux Convergence Dream
Flash Flames Out - but It Will Smolder for a While
SparkyLinux 5: Great All-Purpose Distro for Confident Linux Users
Who's Right About AI? Musk's Dire Warnings Meet Zuckerberg's Cheerful Optimism

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Today's Story Highlights

While You Wait: 4 Potentially Higher-Status Alternatives to the iPhone 8
At a rumored $1,400 sale price the coming iPhone 8 likely will test just
how much people are willing to pay for a new phone -- particularly, how
much parents are willing to fork over for their kids. While iPhones once
conveyed status and sense of luxury, similar to a brand like Cadillac,
pretty much everyone and their brother has iPhones today. The first few
customers who get their hands on the latest model will be envied for
about a week.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84725.html

Facebook Takes Another Stab at Neutralizing Fake News
Stung by charges that it allowed fake news stories to proliferate during
the 2016 election cycle, Facebook on Thursday began rolling out broadly
a feature meant to regain the trust of its members. The tool effectively
will surround questionable stories with related news stories offering
different perspectives -- a strategy intended to help readers discern
where the truth lies.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84726.html

HBO Cyberattack Driven By Mysterious Motives
HBO on Wednesday admitted that it had been targeted by a cyberattack,
confirming an anonymous email the alleged hackers distributed to media
outlets last weekend. Among the content that may have been compromised
were upcoming episodes of the series Ballers , Barry and Room 104 ,
along with script outlines of the channel's hit show Games of Thrones .
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84723.html

Automotive Grade Linux Reaches Key Car Platform Milestones
Automotive Grade Linux has released version 4.0 of the AGL infotainment
platform and announced new projects to support telematics, instrument
cluster, heads-up-display and a virtualization component. The group also
announced that seven new companies have joined AGL and The Linux
Foundation. The breadth of the seven new companies indicates the range
of open source involvement in the auto industry.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84724.html

Dual-Lens Camera Revealed in Leaked Note8 Images
Photos posted to Twitter show the next Samsung Note phone will have a
dual lens camera. Reporter Evan Blass posted a photo of the front of a
black Note8 to Twitter on Monday. On Tuesday, he added front and back
images of gold and black versions of the phone, as well as a stylus
device called the "S Pen." The latest photos show a dual lens camera at
the back of the phone.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84718.html

WSL to Ship With Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
Microsoft has announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux will emerge as
a fully supported part of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update when the
OS ships later this year. The new status means that early adopters in
the Windows Insider program no longer will see the subsystem's status as
"beta," beginning with Insider build 16251, Microsoft Senior Program
Manager Rich Turner noted.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84719.html

HomePod Devs Stumble Upon Next iPhone Design Clues
Developers combing through the code for the Apple HomePod have found
clues to what appear to be features in the next generation of iPhones,
and they tweeted their discoveries on Sunday. The firmware for HomePod,
Apple's $349 smart speaker expected in December, apparently contains
much of the codebase for future iPhones. One of the goodies in the
HomePod's code is a new biometric method for unlocking an iPhone.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84714.html

Why Facebook's Willow Beats Apple's Saucer
Facebook knocked it out of the park with its financials last week, and a
lot of its success comes from Zuckerberg's unique focus. Unlike other
firms that jump from project to project, ranging widely from what makes
them money -- like Google -- Facebook stays close to what made it
successful. There is no stronger evidence than when you compare the two
office projects from Apple and Facebook.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84712.html

Amazon's Secret 1492 Health Team Sets Sail
A secret Amazon team, dubbed "1492," reportedly has been working on a
skunkworks project devoted entirely to healthcare. The unit has been
developing hardware devices and software applications related to
electronic medical records, telemedicine and other health-related
issues. Amazon's aim is to cover the bases in the healthcare arena,
likely a bid to cash in on its massive profit potential.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84709.html

The Elusive Total Linux Convergence Dream
Regular readers know that I usually stick to the well-charted territory
of essential terminal commands and practical overviews of Linux history,
since they are immediately useful to newcomers. Thankfully for
beginners, the basics don't change very quickly -- but that's not to say
that Linux is a stagnant ecosystem. Far from it. Linux can be found at
the very frontier of emerging computer trends.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84710.html

Flash Flames Out - but It Will Smolder for a While
Adobe has decided to pull the plug on its much maligned Flash format,
citing the growing use of HTML5, WebGL and Web Assembly open standards.
Helper apps have evolved over time to become plugins, which then further
evolved to become open Web standards, Adobe noted. However, because
gaming, education and video have come to depend heavily on Flash over
the years, its phaseout will be gradual.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84706.html

SparkyLinux 5: Great All-Purpose Distro for Confident Linux Users
When I first reviewed the Game Over edition of SparkyLinux several years
ago, I called it one of the best full-service Linux distros catering to
game players you could find. That assessment extends to last month's
release of the non-gaming edition of this distro. Based on the testing
branch of Debian, SparkyLinux 5.0 features customized lightweight
desktops.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84704.html

Who's Right About AI? Musk's Dire Warnings Meet Zuckerberg's Cheerful Optimism
Two of Silicon Valley's most influential visionaries, Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, this week engaged in a public spat
over the future of artificial intelligence and whether the government
should take the wheel to counter the threat this emerging technology
might pose to mankind. Musk, a longtime advocate of AI, has expressed
fears that intelligent machines could pose a risk to civilization.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84702.html

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