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Fire at Samsung facility affects website, media portal

Google's smart contact lenses could aid the visually impaired

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April 21, 2014
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NTT launches browser-to-browser chatroom with avatars

If you don't mind being represented by a feline avatar, NTT Communications has a quirky video chatroom just for you.

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Issue highlights

1. Fire at Samsung facility affects website, media portal

2. Google's smart contact lenses could aid the visually impaired

3. Activists want net neutrality, NSA spying debated at Brazil Internet conference

4. Most but not all sites have fixed Heartbleed flaw

5. Even the most secure cloud storage may not be so secure, study finds

6. Thornton May: Your privacy map is probably wrong

7. What Google is getting out of Ingress

8. Steve Jobs' character becomes issue in Silicon Valley no-hiring case

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Fire at Samsung facility affects website, media portal

A fire at a Samsung facility in South Korea on Sunday resulted in a temporary outage that shut down its website and caused the company's Smart TV products to report error messages. READ MORE

Google's smart contact lenses could aid the visually impaired

In today's accessible technology roundup: Google wants to embed cameras in contact lenses, Apple gets a patent for a new GUI for touch devices to improve accessibility and a hacker develops a virtual cane for the blind READ MORE

Activists want net neutrality, NSA spying debated at Brazil Internet conference

A campaign on the Internet is objecting to the exclusion of issues like net neutrality, the cyberweapons arms race and surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency from the discussion paper of an Internet governance conference this week in Sao Paulo, Brazil. READ MORE

Most but not all sites have fixed Heartbleed flaw

The world's top 1,000 websites have been patched to protect their servers against the "Heartbleed" exploit, but up to 2% of the top million were still vulnerable as of last week. READ MORE

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Even the most secure cloud storage may not be so secure, study finds

Some cloud storage providers who hope to be on the leading edge of cloud security adopt a "zero-knowledge" policy in which vendors say it is impossible for customer data to be snooped on. But a recent study by computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University is questioning just how secure those zero knowledge tactics are. READ MORE

Thornton May: Your privacy map is probably wrong

The privacy maps being created today are primarily designed to avoid lawsuits. READ MORE

What Google is getting out of Ingress

Official answer 1: Nothing! Official answer 2: Geo-map games! People's answers: more than you can imagine. READ MORE

Steve Jobs' character becomes issue in Silicon Valley no-hiring case

Tech workers suing over an alleged no-poaching agreement among Silicon Valley firms are fighting an attempt by defendants to ban evidence that might portray Steve Jobs as a bad guy. READ MORE

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