Friday, June 16, 2017

Ford adds Android Auto and Apple CarPlay to cars using over-the-air updates and other top stories.

  • Ford adds Android Auto and Apple CarPlay to cars using over-the-air updates

    Ford adds Android Auto and Apple CarPlay to cars using over-the-air updates
    (Reuters) – Ford Motor Co said on Friday it would delve into the growing arena of “over-the-air” software updates, adding Android Auto and Apple CarPlay to its Sync 3-equipped 2016 vehicles for the first time via a wireless software update. The latest upgrade to Sync 3, Ford’s interactive touch-screen system, will be accomplished through an over-the-air (OTA) update using Wi-Fi, not unlike how new software gets uploaded to smartphones by manufacturers. After Tesla Inc’s early lead in 2015 intro..
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  • Destiny broke my heart. But I'm ready to open up to Destiny 2

    Destiny broke my heart. But I'm ready to open up to Destiny 2
    I like Destiny, but I don’t love it. I’m hoping I’ll love Destiny 2. Bungie recently revealed a ton of details about the online shooter, which is coming out on September 8 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (a PC version is also coming, but Bungie isn’t being specific about when it will release). The first Destiny was fun when you were playing with friends, but it had a lot of problems. The story was lame, and it was hard to find people to play with. Still, I had a great time with it for a while af..
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  • The “fail-safe” Svalbard seed vault designed to save us from crop failure just flooded thanks to climate change

    The “fail-safe” Svalbard seed vault designed to save us from crop failure just flooded thanks to climate change
    The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the remote Arctic is meant to be a “fail-safe” backstop against doomsday scenarios that could kill off humanity’s food supply. Located on an island between Norway and the North Pole, and lodged inside a mountain, the vault was designed to withstand major disasters, “natural or man-made,” and “stand the test of time,” according to its website. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (AP Photo/John McConnico)But as with much of the land above the Arctic circle, the mounta..
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  • Wanawiki is the WannaCry fix that might save affected PCs—if you work fast

    Wanawiki is the WannaCry fix that might save affected PCs—if you work fast
    If you own a Windows XP or Windows 7 PC that's been hit by the WannaCry ransomware, there's good news: French researchers have created a software utility called wanawiki that can potentially unlock an infected PC.Matt Suiche, the founder of CloudVolumes and Comae, published a blog post that describes how Benjamin Delpy's wanawiki tool works: It sniffs out the prime numbers used by the ransomware to reconstruct the key used to encrypt your PC. Once the wanawiki tool is run, the software can bas..
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  • Tim Cook is testing a new Apple Watch device that monitors his blood sugar levels

    Tim Cook is testing a new Apple Watch device that monitors his blood sugar levels
    Tim Cook is not only acting CEO at Apple, but he’s also one of its beta testers.This week, CNBC reported that Cook has been testing a new device that monitors his blood sugar levels. This glucose monitor is a prototype attached to Cook’s Apple Watch that can track how food consumption and exercise affects the CEO’s blood sugar levels.Back in February, Cook told students at the University of Glasgow that he had been continuously wearing a glucose monitor, but did not confirm it whether it ..
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  • Jeff Kaplan Promises More Overwatch Animated Shorts Are on the Way

    Jeff Kaplan Promises More Overwatch Animated Shorts Are on the Way
    There has been an influx of exciting news for Overwatch fans leading up to the game’s first anniversary. Blizzard has been busy teasing new skins, maps and emotes. Players know to expect a special game mode to be added to the arcade in honor of the big day. Even a special livestream will help usher in the second year of Overwatch as the game continues to captivate gamers everywhere. But before there was an official Overwatch eSports league and before there was even an Overwatch game that player..
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  • Uber threatened to fire engineer at center of Waymo trade secret lawsuit

    Uber threatened to fire engineer at center of Waymo trade secret lawsuit
    Uber has issued a sternly worded letter to Anthony Levandowski, the engineer at the center of a lawsuit alleging theft of trade secrets from Google parent Alphabet’s self-driving technology unit Waymo. The gist? Comply with the court’s orders or risk being terminated. Levandowski is the former technology lead for Google’s autonomous vehicle unit and co-founder of self-driving truck startup Otto, which Uber acquired for $680 million last summer. He is also accused of downloading tens of thousan..
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  • Android O's most exciting new feature is a total game-changer

    Android O's most exciting new feature is a total game-changer
    Google shared more details about its next major Android release during its opening keynote at Google I/O 2017. There are many user-facing features that Android fans will appreciate, but also several under-the-hood changes that should make Android even better in the coming years. One of them was actually unveiled a few days before Google’s developer event kicked off, and Google only mentioned it briefly during the event. But Project Treble is an amazing trick, at least in theory, that could fina..
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  • Seven things we learned about WannaCry

    Seven things we learned about WannaCry
    WannaCry is one of the biggest cyber attacks ever. Getty Images How much worse can all this hacking get?This past week saw one of the worst cyberattacks ever, striking hospitals and businesses around the world. The attack encrypted -- or scrambled -- the files on more than 300,000 computers in 150 countries, and demanded victims pay ransom of at $300.Here are the things we've learned so far.There..
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  • How does Google Assistant stack up against Siri on an iPhone?

    How does Google Assistant stack up against Siri on an iPhone?
    Some of the biggest news to come out of Google I/O this week was that Google Assistant is coming to iOS, looking to take a shot at Siri, Apple's own entrenched AI assistant. While Assistant has been available on Android for a while now, how does the AI ...
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