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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- April 12, 2018

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What Should We Expect From AI?
Standards Milestone Could Mark Beginning of End for Passwords
Palo Alto Networks Sales VP Amy Slater: Be Human
Researchers to Put Facebook's Role in Elections Under Magnifying Glass
Open-Sourced Windows File Manager Gets New Life on Windows 10
Turning Social Media From a Problem Into a Solution

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What Should We Expect From AI?
Fear mongering about killer robots and the recent deaths connected with
Uber and Tesla autonomous vehicles have rekindled concerns about AI in
the machines around us. We are well beyond answering Alan Turing's
question, "can machines think?" There is now good reason to ask how we
should think of AI, and what we should expect from it. There have been
phenomenal advances in just the past few years.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85269.html

Standards Milestone Could Mark Beginning of End for Passwords
A Web standards milestone could point to the end of the road for pesky
passwords. The new standard, WebAuthn, has won near-final approval from
the World Wide Web Consortium. WebAuthn defines a standard API that can
be incorporated into browsers and Web infrastructure. It opens the door
for new ways for users to authenticate themselves on the Internet that
are more secure and convenient than passwords.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85268.html

Palo Alto Networks Sales VP Amy Slater: Be Human
"People have a fear that if they show any type of vulnerability, that's
a bad thing," said Palo Alto Networks Sales VP Amy Slater. "But I've
learned over time that people want to work with and learn from humans.
I've modified the way that I was leading, and in doing so I've become
more approachable. Instead of being stiff and by-the-book, I started to
create my own brand of being human."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85255.html

Researchers to Put Facebook's Role in Elections Under Magnifying Glass
A group of nonprofits have agreed to fund an initiative to study
Facebook's role in elections and democracy. The organizations will pay
the expenses of researchers, and Facebook will give the scholars access
to proprietary data that has met the company's new standards for
heightened user privacy protection. "This is a critical first step,"
said Larry Kramer, president of the Hewlett Foundation.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85265.html

Open-Sourced Windows File Manager Gets New Life on Windows 10
Microsoft has rummaged deep into its archive for its latest contribution
to the open source community: Windows File Manager. Originally bundled
with Windows in 1990, File Manager was a replacement for the command-
line interface in MS-DOS. The program was used to search, open, copy and
delete files until it was replaced by Windows Explorer, which followed
the introduction of Windows 95.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85262.html

Turning Social Media From a Problem Into a Solution
The shooting incident that took place last week at YouTube had less to
do with guns than with the failure of the police to act on information
in a timely way and the inability of social media to be anything but
part of the problem. Google has been giving this issue little more than
lip service, but I expect it has become motivated to do more, given that
YouTube was the latest target.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85257.html

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