OTHER EARTHS, OUT THERE: Our world is 'not unique' [Wed Jan 7 2015]

Daily Headlines 7 January 2015

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Business News Brandis and PwC silent on Xmas Eve metadata quiz No comment on 36-month metadata retention question and timing of consultation Tor pedo torpedoed: Ex-US cybersecurity guru jailed for 25 years in abuse pics sting Maintains innocence, claims he was just trying to 'defeat Tor' Arrr: The only Pirate in European Parliament to weigh in on copyright Hmmm. What do YOU think 19 January report will say? Qualcomm prez says nowt about $1bn China fine rumours CES 2015 Aberle remains tight-lipped on speculation 'Twas the night before Christmas, and Rossi was OUT! Not an Acer bod stirred as pres left EMEA house Lenovo: We now OWN IBM's shrinking Euro server biz. It's OURS! Happy New Year HP et al, the Chinese are coming for ... you! FREE EBOOKS: Apple falls into line with EU refund laws Buy digi-thing, return within 14 days. What could go wrong? UKIP website TAKES A KIP, but for why? Updated Domain name doesn't expire until next year ... Twitter hit by giant go-slow days after last mega-wobble #SLOWMOTIONFAIL Suits vs ponytailed hipsters: What's next for enterprise IT Comment Enrico tells you what you won’t see in 2015 Siri, are you afraid of Facebook's new speech recognition tech? Zuck & Co gain mobile speech APIs with Wit.ai gobble Channel News Dixons Carphone bye-bye'd 800 staff since merger Half went from Dixons' Hemel HQ as folk say 'meh' to Acton Avnet TS names vet Zammit as global el presidente Man from Brussels dispatched to improve distie's fortunes Data Centre News No one trusts Oracle, shrieks CCL as cloudy ball misses its goals If only they did as I want them to, sighs pressure group Cap’n Ericsson and his great SEABORNE CLOUD wheeze CES 2015 A life on the ocean wave, a node on the rolling deep Micron stacks its 3D NAND high in 2015 Technology continuing to scale with ‘higher densities, lower cost per bit’ IDC: Who's HOT and who's NOT (in object storage) in 2014 EMC's presence shrinks Hardware News Ford recalls SUVs … to fix the UI Clueless control placement puts drivers at risk TCL confirms plans to 'bring back' Palm – provided you tell it how CES 2015 Firm seeks input on reviving former PDA king 'in a meaningful way' Mock choc shock: 3D candy printer is good news for sweet-toothed swingbellies CES 2015 Bad news: It squirts Hershey's Chip bods ride the Snapdragon, yell: Mobes are consoles, lightbulbs are mobes CES 2015 Pumping Qualcomm's 810 crazytech Samsung revs flashy 1TB road warrior (then crawls away) CES 2015 Handy, easily moved about, pretty secure too Kodak fires a Bullitt at oldsters with 3G mobe launch CES 2015 Point-and-shoot mobe to sell more printer paper, perhaps? Samsung forks 4K with Tizen tellies CES 2015 Some UHD sets are more equal than others, says Korean colossus The weirdly-synched life of the Google Nest household Like The Truman Show, only in the cloud Sony's well and truly 4Ked with skinny TVs and cheap cams CES 2015 Kaz and Co. crack the $1K barrier for 4K Handycams Networks News WAM, bam, thank you QAM CES 2015 MagnaCom uncloaks high capacity modulation at CES Verizon wants to sell 'antiquated' copper assets, stick to wireless for voice Death knell for wired xDSL 'Open' SIMs, brain chips and Google's Nest: What to expect in wireless in 2015 Analysis We look at events that will shape the industry this year Marriott: The TRUTH about personal Wi-Fi hotel jam bid We'll just block conference and convention areas instead Security News Morgan Stanley fires rookie for stealing thousands of fat cats' financial files Bank lost data on 10 per cent of its most valuable customers Ex-Microsoft Bug Bounty dev forced to decrypt laptop for Paris airport official Airside Clouseau in search of something, anything Dev put AWS keys on Github. Then BAD THINGS happened Fertile fields for Bitcoin yields - with a nasty financial sting Snowden leaks lack context says security studies professor Slideware is not a good place to start asessing an intelligence program says OMG Cyber! author Thomas Rid GoGo in-flight WiFi creates man-in-the-middle diddle Join the mile-high club by getting screwed with fake certs HTTPS can be set as your super-cookie Even your security can be abused Software News Microsoft flings Office apps for Android slabs at world+dog Right, never mind that iPad, then Science News Hubble scope snaps ENORMO SPACE ERECTION: Pillars of Creation 20 years on Pics Gaze on the awesome Eagle nebula while it's still there OTHER EARTHS, OUT THERE: Our world is 'not unique' 'Recipe for habitable planets' issued by Harvard SpaceX rocket HOVERSHIP supply mission postponed Next crack will be Friday A Cambridge boffin told me YOU'RE A BIG, FAT LIAR Brainboxes develop fib-detecting tech Boffins spy I in your little eye Reflections on the cornea contain recognisable images

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