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We cover the breaking news out of CES, Ford’s new found love for the Amazon Echo, the first big LastPass release after LogmeIn & how Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s words were freed from old floppy disks.

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• Linux Action Show at SCALE 14x | Teespring
• Nvidia Announces New Drive PX 2 ‘Supercomputer In A Lunchbox’ For Self-Driving Cars | TechCrunch
• NVIDIA CES 2015 press conference: DRIVE PX Computer Vision (part 7) – YouTube
• Ford meets Amazon: Automaker to integrate Echo and Alexa with SYNC, linking cars to homes – GeekWire
• Ford is finally adding CarPlay and Android Auto to its cars | The Verge
• LogMeIn adds emergency break-in feature to LastPass •
• EFF Confirms: T-Mobile’s Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Applies Indiscriminately to All Video | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Oculus Rift preorders start in less than 48 hours, but price and ship date still a mystery – GeekWire
• How Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s words were freed from old floppy disks | PCWorld
• ProGo – A Revolutionary Carry-on Backpack by Ari — Kickstarter

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We look into the near future with two trendsetting stories that impact technology in cars & 4K TV’s big successor. Then we peek into the near past with one promising technology that failed & the first author to hunt a hacker.

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Ford Ditches Microsoft Partnership On Sync, Goes With QNX

Ford’s in-car infotainment system known as Sync will soon evolve to add a capacitive touch screen, better integration with smartphone apps and, eventually, support for Android Auto and Apple CarPlay in version 3, thanks to a switch of operating systems. After years of teaming with Microsoft, the automobile giant has switched to BlackBerry’s QNX, a real time operating system renowned for stability.

LG To Show Off New 55-Inch 8K Display at CES

One of the most in-your-face buzzwords of the past year has been “4K,” and there’s little doubt that the forthcoming CES show in early January will bring it back in full force. As it stands today, 4K really isn’t that rare, or expensive. You can even get 4K PC monitors for an attractive price. There does remain one issue, however; a lack of 4K content. We’re beginning to see things improve, but it’s still slow going. Given that, you might imagine that display vendors would hold off on trying to push that resolution envelope further — but you just can’t stop hardware vendors from pushing the envelope. Earlier this year, both Apple and Dell unveiled “5K” displays that nearly doubled the number of pixels of 4K displays. 4K already brutalizes top-end graphics cards and lacks widely available video content, and yet here we are looking at the prospect of 5K. Many jaws dropped when 4K was first announced, and likewise with 5K. Now? Well, yes, 8K is on its way. We have LG to thank for that. At CES, the company will be showing-off a 55-inch display that boasts a staggering 33 million pixels — derived from a resolution of 7680×4320. It might not be immediately clear, but that’s far more pixels than 4K, which suggests this whole “K” system of measuring resolutions is a little odd. On paper, you might imagine that 8K has twice the pixels of 4K, but instead, it’s 4x.

The Cuckoo’s Egg

The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage is a 1989 book written by Clifford Stoll. It is his first-person account of the hunt for a computer hacker who broke into a computer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL).

• Amazon.com: CUCKOO’S EGG eBook: Clifford Stoll: Kindle Store

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