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Phys.org Newsletter Sunday, May 4


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Latest News On TECHNOLOGY:
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CHINA FINES SINA OVER 'INDECENT' CONTENT
Chinese authorities have slapped Internet giant Sina Corp. with a fine of more than $815,000 over "unhealthy and indecent content", the company announced.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-05-china-fines-sina-indecent-content.html#nwlt

ACER FOUNDER SHIH SET TO RETIRE SIX MONTHS AFTER RETURNING TO LEAD REFORMS
Stan Shih, founder of Taiwan's struggling personal computer maker Acer, said Sunday that he plans to retire as the chairman next month, six months after he returned to launch a series of reforms, the company and media said.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-05-acer-founder-shih-months-reforms.html#nwlt

GM BEGINS TALKS TO SETTLE IGNITION SWITCH LAWSUITS
A mediator for General Motors has begun negotiations about settling more than 300 claims related to a deadly ignition switch problem in some older model small cars.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-05-gm-ignition-lawsuits.html#nwlt

EXPLORING THE LATEST APPLE-SAMSUNG DISPUTE
Many of today's smartphones share similar features, from responsive touchscreens that let users unlock the phone with a flick of a finger, to pop-up animations that offer a shortcut to dialing a number or storing it in a digital address book.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-05-exploring-latest-apple-samsung-dispute.html#nwlt

EUROPE'S CYBERSECURITY POLICY SETTINGS UNDER ATTACK
Even as Europe powered up its most ambitious ever cybersecurity exercise this month, doubts were being raised over whether the continent's patchwork of online police was right for the job.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-05-europe-cybersecurity-policy.html#nwlt

JURY SAYS SAMSUNG INFRINGED APPLE PATENTS
A California jury awarded Apple $119 million—far less than it demanded—in a patent battle with Samsung over alleged copying of smart phone features, and the jury made the victory even smaller by finding that Apple illegally used one of Samsung's patents.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-05-jury-samsung-infringed-apple-patents.html#nwlt

MATH STUDENT DETECTS OAUTH, OPENID SECURITY VULNERABILITY
(Phys.org) —To get right to the point, a doctoral candidate in math has discovered two holes in OAuth and OpenID that could leak data and redirect victims to unsafe sites. Friday's tech sites accordingly were buzzing with news of the discovery about a vulnerability in OAuth and OpenID protocols. Be cautious, said the reports, of links that ask you to log in through well known sites such as Facebook and Google. The OAuth 2.0 and OpenID login tools are "used by many websites and tech titans" including Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, among others," said Aloysius Low, writer at CNET Asia and Seth Rosenblatt, who covers Google and security for CNET News.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-05-math-student-oauth-openid-vulnerability.html#nwlt

CARNEGIE MELLON GROUP SHOWS IPAD SKEUOMORPHISM
(Phys.org) —The Human Interfaces Group at Carnegie Mellon, led by the group's director Chris Harrison, an assistant professor of Human Computer Interaction, have done work that shows how traditional hand movements to perform tasks such as measuring and erasing can be naturally applied to the digital screen, improving on a natural interaction with computers. They have come up with TouchTools, a gesture design approach. With TouchTools, you manipulate tools on the screen just as you would in real life; the idea is to make software more natural to use. They are showing the world their TouchTools concept, which Gizmodo recently referred to as "skeuomorphism applied to interaction design."
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-05-carnegie-mellon-group-ipad-skeuomorphism.html#nwlt




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