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• Uber Will Add Panic Button to its App in India

  07-02-2015 23:13
  
  Uber riders in India will soon have an added safeguard in case of emergency. According to the company’s blog, starting February 11th, the app will provide users in India with an in-app panic button to notify police that something’s wrong.
  In addition, Uber will provide what it calls a “safety net” feature. With it, riders will be able to “easily share their trip details and real-time location with up to 5 friends and family members,” according to the company.
  The additional safeg
  
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• Rep. Issa Calls So. Calif. Edison Tech Layoffs 'Deeply Disturbing'

  07-02-2015 19:11
  
  The layoffs of IT workers at Southern California Edison (SCE) has drawn the attention of U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, (R-Calif.), who called reports that the H-1B visa program is being used to replace part of SCE's workforce "deeply disturbing."
  "Based on the information currently available, this appears to be an example of precisely what the H-1B visa is not intended to be: a program to simply replace American workers en masse with cheap labor from overseas," Issa said in a statement released la
  
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• Protect Yourself From Hackers and the NSA

  07-02-2015 13:00
  
  The downside of email, chat, text and messaging apps is that they make you feel like you're communicating privately, with only the intended recipients. And that your messages are private. Until they're not.
  The employees and management at Sony Pictures Entertainment could tell you that.
  On Nov. 24, the North Koreans (or the "Guardians of Peace" hacker group, or a disgruntled employee, or Russia) downloaded more than 100TB of Sony data and then irreversibly erased Sony PC and server data. The
  
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• Lawmakers question White House influence on FCC's net neutrality turnaround

  07-02-2015 02:20
  
  A U.S. congressional committee has asked FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler whether the White House improperly influenced his decision to seek tighter regulation of Internet service providers.Wheeler proposed a set of rules last May that would have taken a light touch on net neutrality, allowing practices like paid prioritization of traffic in some cases. In November, President Barack Obama took a tougher stance, saying he favors regulating Internet companies as if they were utilities. The draft Open I
  
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• Hackers target health care as industry goes digital

  07-02-2015 00:55
  
  With more health providers and insurers incorporating IT into clinical care, hackers are viewing the health care industry as their next target.“Cybercriminals know that the health industry is moving into EHRs and there’s more data to steal,” said Ann Peterson, program director at the Medical Identity Fraud Alliance, an organization that works to reduce medical fraud.Electronic health records, or EHRs, are increasingly being used by hospitals and doctors’ offices to store information s
  
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• No end in sight to the growth of cloud analytics

  07-02-2015 00:30
  
  It’s no secret that cloud computing and data analytics are both rapidly growing areas of IT. Put them together, and you get a winning combination that’s expected to grow by more than 26 percent annually over the next five years.That’s according to market-tracking firm Research and Markets, which on Friday released a new report on the global cloud analytics market.Increased adoption of data analytics is one of the major drivers in this market, Research and Markets found. More specificall
  
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• What the Seahawks Bad Call Teaches Us About Decision-Making

  07-02-2015 00:19
  
  I was watching the interview between Matt Lauer and Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll on the Today Show yesterday. They were discussing team’s bad -- and it really was bad -- call at the end of the Super Bowl. The play also showcased one of the big problems yet to be addressed with analytics and the artificial intelligence (AI) enhancements that will build on limited initial offerings like Apple’s Siri.I paid particular attention to the Super Bowl this year because Paul Allen, one of Mi
  
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• Netflix said to be developing live-action 'Legend of Zelda' series

  07-02-2015 00:15
  
  “The Legend of Zelda,” the popular fantasy-themed video game published by Nintendo, is said to be coming to Netflix as a live-action series.Netflix is developing the series apparently in the early stages, as the streaming media company is still seeking a writer, according a report Friday in the Wall Street Journal citing an unnamed source. The source described the show as like the popular fantasy series “Game of Thrones,” but for a family audience, according to the report.Netflix is w
  
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