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• With Watson Element, Apple and IBM aim to transform education

  22-10-2016 14:00
  
  Apple and IBM this week merged strengths in a new way to target the education market. IBM Watson Element for Educators, a new iPad app from the companies, is designed to provide teachers with a more holistic view of students' academic progress, accomplishments, interests and learning activities in grades K-12. 
  IBM began working on the initiative in 2013 and accelerated development following its 2014 partnership with Apple, which led to the creation of the MobileFirst for iOS program. The
  
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• Always-on group video chat arrives

  22-10-2016 13:01
  
  Question: Why not launch video sessions with family, friends or co-workers and leave them running all the time?
  Answer: Because if feels weird to be on camera all day.
  Now, a new generation of video chat apps offers flexible new ways to maintain always-ready video chat sessions without making people feel like they're always on display.
  The secret is to be "always on" and available, but not "always live."
  Always-on video chat is perfect for digital nomads like me, as well as work-from-home telec
  
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• U.S. indicts Russian for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, Formspring

  22-10-2016 02:11
  
  The U.S. has charged a suspected Russian hacker with breaking into computers at LinkedIn, Dropbox and a question-and-answer site formerly known as Formspring.On Thursday, a federal grand jury indicted 29-year-old Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin following his arrest by Czech police in Prague on Oct. 5.LinkedIn has said that Nikulin was involved in the 2012 breach of the company that stole details from over 167 million accounts. However, a U.S. court filing unsealed on Friday only g
  
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• How the Dyn DDoS attack unfolded

  22-10-2016 01:52
  
  Today's attacks that overwhelmed the internet-address lookup service provided by Dyn were well coordinated and carefully plotted to take down data centers all over the globe, preventing customers from reaching more than 1,200 domains Dyn was in charge of.
  The attacks were still going on at 7 p.m. Eastern time, according to ThousandEye, a network monitoring service.
  Dyn’s service takes human-language internet addresses such as www.networkworld.com and delivers the IP addresses associated w
  
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• An IoT botnet is partly behind Friday's massive DDOS attack

  22-10-2016 00:54
  
  Malware that can build botnets out of IoT devices is at least partly responsible for a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that disrupted U.S. internet traffic on Friday, according to network security companies.Since Friday morning, the assault has been disrupting access to popular websites by flooding a DNS service provider called Dyn with an overwhelming amount of internet traffic.Some of that traffic has been observed coming from botnets created with the Mirai malware that
  
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