Android apps run securely on Chrome OS in Linux containers

With first-quarter shipments exceeding Macs in the United States, Chromebooks are very popular. Schools and enterprises choose Chromebooks for their very streamlined use case: low cost, fast boot security, simplicity and ease of administration.Chromebooks just got a little more complicated, but for the better, with Google’s announcement that the Android Play Store will be available on Chromebooks and that Android apps will run on the Chrome operating system. The million Android apps—which include popular apps such as Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word and Skype and games such as Clash of Clans and Angry Birds—will remedy the Chromebook’s relative app sparsity.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Data is being ‘hoarded,’ not commercialized

Massive amounts of data is being collected, but isn’t being used to generate business growth, says a public body that has recently completed funding a 2.5-year research project on the subject.Big data should be used in an entrepreneurial way to create “profitable information-based products and services,” says British government agency Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in a press release.At the moment, it’s just being “hoarded.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Stale beer no more: This app can tell you when it’s past its prime

There's a good chance your tastebuds would tell you when you're drinking stale beer, but now science has come to the rescue to spare them that pain.You can thank the chemists at Spain's Complutense University of Madrid, who have developed a sensor and Android app that can tell you when you shouldn't even bother having a sip.To monitor a beer's freshness, brewers often use chromatography techniques to measure indicative chemicals including furfural, a compound that appears during the aging process and gives beer a stale taste. The problem is, those techniques can be time-consuming and expensive.In this new work, published recently in the journal Analytical Chemistry, the researchers devised a system including sensor discs that detect the presence of furfural in beer. Made from a polymer similar to what's used to manufacture contact lenses, the sensors change color from yellow to pink when they come into contact with a beer containing furfural.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: the “buy now” button

Enter the “Buy Now” button. A team of researchers from UC Berkeley and Case Western have published a study showing that customers think they are getting traditional ownership rights when they buy digital media online, even when a vendor’s site includes legal terms (often buried in click-wrap agreements) purporting to limit those rights. —deeplinks

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Worm infects unpatched Ubiquiti wireless devices

Routers and other wireless devices made by Ubiquiti Networks have recently been infected by a worm that exploits a year-old remote unauthorized access vulnerability.The attack highlights one of the major issues with router security: the fact that the vast majority of them do not have an auto update mechanism and that their owners hardly ever update them manually.The worm creates a backdoor administrator account on vulnerable devices and then uses them to scan for and infect other devices on the same and other networks."This is an HTTP/HTTPS exploit that doesn't require authentication," Ubiquiti said in an advisory. "Simply having a radio on outdated firmware and having its http/https interface exposed to the Internet is enough to get infected."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worm infects unpatched Ubiquiti wireless devices

Routers and other wireless devices made by Ubiquiti Networks have recently been infected by a worm that exploits a year-old remote unauthorized access vulnerability.The attack highlights one of the major issues with router security: the fact that the vast majority of them do not have an auto update mechanism and that their owners hardly ever update them manually.The worm creates a backdoor administrator account on vulnerable devices and then uses them to scan for and infect other devices on the same and other networks."This is an HTTP/HTTPS exploit that doesn't require authentication," Ubiquiti said in an advisory. "Simply having a radio on outdated firmware and having its http/https interface exposed to the Internet is enough to get infected."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worm infects unpatched Ubiquiti wireless devices

Routers and other wireless devices made by Ubiquiti Networks have recently been infected by a worm that exploits a year-old remote unauthorized access vulnerability.The attack highlights one of the major issues with router security: the fact that the vast majority of them do not have an auto update mechanism and that their owners hardly ever update them manually.The worm creates a backdoor administrator account on vulnerable devices and then uses them to scan for and infect other devices on the same and other networks."This is an HTTP/HTTPS exploit that doesn't require authentication," Ubiquiti said in an advisory. "Simply having a radio on outdated firmware and having its http/https interface exposed to the Internet is enough to get infected."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

‘It’s time to take a stand’

“It’s time to take a stand,” says Redditor Grnslv, posting at r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt, “a subreddit dedicated specifically for Information Technology rage!”The stand in this case: opposition to compensation measured in calories. His screen capture explains: Redditor Grnslv Not everyone participating in the ensuing discussion was a hardliner.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

‘It’s time to take a stand’

“It’s time to take a stand,” says Redditor Grnslv, posting at r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt, “a subreddit dedicated specifically for Information Technology rage!”The stand in this case: opposition to compensation measured in calories. His screen capture explains: Redditor Grnslv Not everyone participating in the ensuing discussion was a hardliner.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Google’s intelligent assistant, Google Home, was never a top-secret project

The announcement of the Google Home intelligent assistant was an unexpected but not really a surprise announcement. Leaks did not ruin the surprise, but rather Google’s open approach to innovation did. Through participation in open forums and open source projects, published papers, and the release of application programming interfaces (APIs), Google publicly signals its direction.Google Home was built using the Google Assistant software platform that was also announced this week. Think of Google Home generally as a hardware competitor to Amazon Echo, and Google Assistant is a software platform like Google Now but much more context aware and intelligent.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

6 Google I/O announcements Apple fans should care about

Google I/O thinks outside the boxImage by Blair Hanley FrankThis year, Google took a different approach to its Google I/O developers conference. First of all, it was mostly outdoors, at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. (Fun fact about Shoreline: While now it’s literally in Google’s backyard, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was an original partner in launching the concert venue with legendary promoter Bill Graham, and Woz’s name still adorns one of the boxes that the press sat in during the keynote.) And while previous Google I/O keynotes have featured moonshots like Google Glass, this year’s keynote was pretty down-to-earth. No self-driving cars or alien-looking wearables, just new versions of Android and Android Wear, plus some cross-platform apps and a voice-activated device for the home. In fact, a lot of the announcements should even be interesting to Apple fans, from new apps to a huge selection of smartwatches. Here’s what you should care about, and when you can expect it all to launch.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Google goes after the enterprise, but at I/O, proof is MIA

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Google executives say the company isn't the consumer-oriented business of its youth.Now, they say, Google is focused on the enterprise.But some users and industry analysts attending Google I/O here this week said they didn't see evidence of a business focus at the developer conference."You don't see it in the announcements. You don't really see it in the sessions," said Jorel Perez, a San Antonio-based mobile web developer who works for a Fortune 500 financial services company. "When we go to a conference, we have to say why we're going and why it will be beneficial. I would like to be able to hear something here that I could go back and say, 'Here's something that will immediately bring value across the enterprise.' That's just not going to happen."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

7 Android features from Google I/O that Apple should borrow

Google wrapped up its annual I/O keynote presentation on Wednesday after unveiling its version of FaceTime, its version of Apple Watch Complications, and its version of Siri on steroids. But Google also announced a few new features, especially as part of Android N and Android Wear, that Apple users have not experienced yet.Here are a few features that we hope Apple “borrows” from Google for its upcoming iOS and watchOS. You can read about all the new Android N and Android Wear 2.0 features on our sister site Greenbot.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Google I/O 2016: Every Android app – really – is coming to Chrome

Google’s bringing its entire Android mobile app library to Chromebooks – the company announced today at its annual I/O developer conference, thanks to an innovative system of containerization.Every Android app on Google Play will run on Chrome OS devices – as long as their hardware is compatible. (For example, an app requiring a cellular modem might not work on most Chromebooks.) A list of compatible devices will be maintained here. The feature will be rolled out to the developer channel within the next couple of weeks, and will be in the hands of users “later this year.”+MORE FROM GOOGLE I/O 2016: Google declares war on copy and paste + Google dives into the future with a focus on A.I. +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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