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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- October 31, 2013

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NSA Caught Siphoning Data from Google, Yahoo Servers
Hyperloop Project Revs Up
Google+ Gets a Makeover
Security Flaw Found in 'Staggering Number' of iOS Apps
Adobe Hack Victim Count Skyrockets to 38M
How to Prepare for a Power Outage
Apple's New iWork: 3 Steps Forward, 1 Step Back
Tomahawk Music Player Takes Listening to a New High

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Today's Story Highlights

NSA Caught Siphoning Data from Google, Yahoo Servers
The National Security Agency has reportedly tapped fiber-optic cables
that connect Google's and Yahoo's overseas servers and accessed vast
amounts of data including email and other personal information. Included
in the data culled by the NSA is information on hundreds of millions of
users, many of whom are American.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79324.html

Hyperloop Project Revs Up
A project to build a super-high-speed transportation system in
California is gaining traction. JumpStartFund on Thursday revealed its
users had voted to select the official name, "Hyperloop Transportation
Technologies Inc.," for the company undertaking the challenge. aerospace
engineer Marco Villa, Ph.D., and civil engineer Patricia Galloway,
Ph.D., will lead the project.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79323.html

Google+ Gets a Makeover
Google has introduced a slew of changes that will make it easier to
enhance and share digital media on Google+. It unveiled the new features
at a Tuesday event in San Francisco, where it also revealed that Google+
now has 540 million active monthly users who upload 1.5 billion photos
each week. Several of the Google+ updates are aimed toward helping users
work with those photos.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79319.html

Security Flaw Found in 'Staggering Number' of iOS Apps
A flaw found in a "staggering number" of apps for the iPhone and iPad
could be exploited to send malicious information to the gadgets,
researchers at Skycure reported Tuesday. The vulnerability allows
enterprising hackers to redirect an app's communication with its
appointed server to one operated by nefarious parties. The flaw could
affect other mobile platforms too.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79322.html

Adobe Hack Victim Count Skyrockets to 38M
After initially estimating that a mere 3 million customers had been
affected by the security breach it announced at the start of October,
Adobe on Wednesday admitted that the actual number now looks to be
closer to an eye-popping 38 million. In addition, the breach seems to be
more far-reaching than initially thought, extending to the Photoshop
family of products as well.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79318.html

How to Prepare for a Power Outage
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the American Red Cross and
local governments can all provide copious documentation on ways to
prepare for weather and other disasters, but it's often geared toward
perishable food and single-family homeowners in the 'burbs -- not
information-hungry urban dwellers. Typically omitted are some very
simple tricks that you can put into play now.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79315.html

Apple's New iWork: 3 Steps Forward, 1 Step Back
Real updates to Apple's iWork suite of apps -- Pages, Numbers and
Keynote -- have been a long time coming, so when Apple updated the suite
with a free upgrade that plays well with iOS 7 and with Web browsers,
plenty of users jumped into the new version without looking.
Unfortunately, a good many found they had leapt into a shallow pool full
of sharp rocks.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79317.html

Tomahawk Music Player Takes Listening to a New High
The trick to designing an all-purpose music player is to make it work
the way you want. The Tomahawk Music Player performs that trick very
well. It could well be a better listening choice than any other cross-
platform music player application. It runs on a variety of Linux
distros, Microsoft Windows and the Apple OS platforms. This flexibility
is important to me as a user because I work on all three.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79311.html

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