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This guide is a great way for determining which IoT platform is the best fit for your business. This guide will teach you how to break down the different aspects to consider when selecting an IoT solution. [Learn More!] [President Obama Says He Can't Pardon Snowden] From the difficult-decisions department Joe Mullin, writing for Ars Technica:A campaign to pardon NSA leaker Edward Snowden, launched in combination with a fawning Oliver Stone film about him, hasn't made any headway. The request spurred the entire membership of the House Select... [Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers, To Focus On Products That Return More Profit] From the killing-things department Apple has disbanded its division that develops wireless routers in a move that further sharpens the company's focus on consumer products that generate the bulk of its revenue, Bloomberg reports. From the article:Apple began shutting down the... [Ask Slashdot: Could A 'Smart Firewall' Protect IoT Devices?] From the home-network-of-things department To protect our home networks from IoT cracking, Ceaus wants to see a smart firewall: It's a small box (the size of a Raspberry Pi) with two ethernet ports you put in front of your ISP router. This firewall is capable of detecting your IoT devices... [Android User Locked Out Of Google Accounts After Moving To A New City] From the Google-home-addresses department Slashdot reader troublemaker_23 shares a post from ITWire An Android user has been locked out of his Google account apparently because he moved... The explanation offered by Google support staff was that since his address details differed,... ['Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It.'] From the dilemma department The New York Times ran a strong opinion piece that talks about one critical reason why everyone should quit social media: your career is dependent on it. The other argues that by spending time on social media and sharing our thoughts, we are... [Tesla Acquires SolarCity: Little Can Stand in Elon Musk's Way When He Wants Something] From the my-way-and-only-my-way department An anonymous reader shares a CNBC report: You have to hand it to Elon Musk. He didn't just sell the deal of his life last week when shareholders of Tesla and SolarCity agreed to a merger. He pulled off the deal amid widespread criticism from... [Google Plans To Remove 'In the News' Section From Its Desktop Search Following 'Fake News' Criticism] From the making-amendments department Nathan McAlone, reporting for BusinessInsider: Following criticism over fake news on its platform, Google plans to remove its "In the news" section from the top of desktop search results in a matter of weeks, according to a source familiar with... [China Says Terrorism, Fake News Impel Greater Global Internet Curbs] From the things-China-says department China's ambitions to tighten up regulation of the Internet have found a second wind in old fears -- terrorism and fake news. Chinese officials and business leaders speaking at the third World Internet Conference held in Wuzhen last week called for... [Panasonic Invests $60 Million In World's First Laundry-Folding Robot] From the money-well-spent department An anonymous reader quotes a report from Telegraph.co.uk: Panasonic has invested tens of millions of dollars in a robot that can reduce the time it takes to wash clothes by sorting clean items and folding them into neat piles. The electronics... [Microsoft's x86 on ARM64 Emulation: A Windows 10 Redstone 3 Fall 2017 Feature] From the emulation-love department Mary Jo Foley, reporting for ZDNet:Since January 2016 (and maybe before), there's been talk that Microsoft was working on bringing x86 emulation to ARM processors. Sources of mine are now saying that this capability is coming to Windows 10, though... [4K Netflix Arrives On Windows 10, But Only Via Microsoft's Edge Browser] From the new-hardware-required department An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Netflix 4K streaming is finally heading to Windows PCs this week. While a number of TVs and set-top-boxes already support 4K Netflix streams, the PC has largely been left out of the high-quality... [Oracle Buys Dyn DNS Provider] From the big-shark,-small-shark department Oracle announced today it is buying DNS provider Dyn, a company that was in the press lately after it was hit by a large-scale DDoS attack in October that resulted in many popular websites becoming inaccessible. From a TechCrunch report:Oracle... [Walmart Tests Blockchain For Use In Food Recalls] From the foiling-foodborne-diseases department An anonymous reader quotes a Bloomberg article about Walmart: Like most merchants, the world's largest retailer struggles to identify and remove food that's been recalled. When a customer becomes ill, it can take days to identify the product,... [EFF Report Finds 74% Of Censorship News Stories Are About Facebook] From the forbidden-photos department An anonymous reader writes: OnlineCensorship.org just released a new report "to provide an objective, data-driven voice in the conversation around commercial content moderation." They're collecting media reports about censorship on Facebook,... [Samsung and Panasonic Accused Over Supply Chain Labour Abuses in Malaysia] From the dirty-tricks department Samsung and Panasonic, two of the world's leading electronics brands, are facing allegations that workers in their supply chains are being duped, exploited and underpaid in Malaysia. 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