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Daily Tech Headlines – May 17, 2017

Qualcomm sues Apple suppliers, AMD announces new heavy-hitting hardware, Bragi adds real-time language translation to its wireless earbuds.

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Your Private Driver: Voice-operated Security Breaches and Other Things

This is a returning and soon to be weekly column that offers news, insights, analysis, and user tips for rideshare platforms like Uber and Lyft.

This week’s column is going to tackle a few different topics, since there’s a lot going on in the general tech world that’s relatable to how we work and play in the rideshare world.

OK Google, ask Siri where Alexa went

Last week there were a lot of conversations on DTNS about voice-operated assistants and how they fit into our lives. The general consensus seemed to be that talking to a box that controls your lights and adds things to your shopping list is cool, but talking to your phone is just dumb. Well, unless you’re driving. With hands-free laws becoming the norm in many states, simply playing with even a dash-mounted phone to perform tasks like getting directions or playing a podcast while driving can get you pulled over by an attentive officer of the law.

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DTNS 3031 – Pirates of the Pirates of the Caribbean

Biz Stone returns to Twitter, HTC’s squeezable phone Pirates gets pirated, but does Disney care? And when and whether its OK for your medical data to help medical apps.

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 16, 2017

HTC’s squeezable phone, Google Assistant for iPhone, Instagram gets face filters.

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DTNS 3030 – The Problem with Procrastination

The latest on WannaCry including why a security researcher was able to turn it off, plus an easy way to handle verification codes by text message in Android and chatbots for Skype video calls.

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 15, 2017

WannaCry ransomware breaks, Legend of Zelda on your phone, and the last Itanium.

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DTH Sunday History Break

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DTH Saturday History Break

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DTNS Special – Can a phone be a laptop?

Mark Spoonauer, Editor-in-Chief of Tom’s Guide and Laptop Mag talks with Tom Merritt about the Samsung Galaxy S8 and whether DeX can really replace a laptop.

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DTNS 3029 – It’s Only 99 Countries!

A look inside Elon Musk’s first Boring test of a tunnel for your car, HP’s audio driver/keylogger and the worst worldwide malware attack since Code Red.

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