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As Apple continues to grow and expand its user base it has two options.

The company must either give up on its pathologically secretive, central command ways or it's going to have acknowledge security as an issue and dramatically expand its efforts to detect and correct issues.

So far it hasn't really done either one and the longer it maintains the status quo, the greater the risk to the company's user base.

#applesecurity

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Apple fumbles security firm’s attempts to monitor Flashback
Security firm Dr. Web is credited with understanding the scope of Flashback, the Mac botnet malware making the news. But Apple has gotten in the company's way…

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For those interested in hearing more of Larry Burns' thoughts on the future of…

For those interested in hearing more of Larry Burns' thoughts on the future of transportation, check out this great presentation he did a couple of years ago.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/114133424228405038490/posts/TbqytJ8zauW

#larryburns #reinventingtheautomobile #autonomousvehicles

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Until his retirement in 2009, Larry Burns was SVP of research and development for…

Until his retirement in 2009, Larry Burns was SVP of research and development for +General Motors for 11 years where he led a team that worked on all kinds of really cool technology. Larry oversaw development on tech as ranging from robotics to fuel cells to autonomous vehicles and I was lucky enough to chat with him on a number of occasions.

GM has been researching semi and fully autonomous vehicles since at least the early 1990s and in 2007 a fully autonomous Chevy Tahoe built by GM and Carnegie Mellon University won the DARPA Urban Challenge. I was lucky enough to ride shotgun in "Boss" at CES in 2008 as it magically avoided obstacles in the parking lot of the Las Vegas convention center.

Following that victory Burns and director of advanced technology vehicle concepts Christopher Borroni-Bird turned their attention scaling down the technology to create personal urban mobility vehicles that debuted as the EN-V concepts during the 2010 Shanghai world expo.

Burns, Borroni-Bird and William Mitchell wrote a book on their ideas called Reinventing the Automobile that among other things looks at how cars can evolve to become more compatible with increasingly crowded urban environments in the 21st century. Smaller footprint vehicles that can drive and park themselves and be shared will likely be a big part of providing point-to-point personal mass transit in the coming years.
http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Automobile-Personal-Mobility-Century/dp/0262013827/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334063568&sr=1-8

#larryburns #autonomous #autonomousvehicles

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Self-driving vehicles on near horizon, GM's former r&d chief says
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Self-driving vehicles, once thought to be a thing far in the future, will be available by 2020, Larry Burns, former head of r&d at General Motors, said today. Speaking at the U…

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With abusive and corrupt cops like Michael Reichert on the loose in America, who…

With abusive and corrupt cops like Michael Reichert on the loose in America, who wouldn't be nervous when they get pulled over for a traffic stop?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/31/drug-search-trekies-stopped-searched-illinois_n_1364087.html

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GigaOM's +Kevin Fitchard takes a look at the driver assist technologies in the…

GigaOM's +Kevin Fitchard takes a look at the driver assist technologies in the 2013 Ford Fusion and how they will be the building blocks for semi and fully autonomous vehicles later this decade.
#ford #2013fordfusion #fordfusionstory

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Ford is ready for the autonomous car. Are drivers?
The auto industry has already developed all of the technology necessary to create truly autonomous vehicles. The reasons there aren’t driverless cars all over the road today is in part a cost issue, b…

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Ugh, this is great for the crew at Instagram, but I hate seeing big companies like…

Ugh, this is great for the crew at Instagram, but I hate seeing big companies like Facebook buy up everything interesting.

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Facebook buys Instagram (insert groan here) | Android Central
Facebook has purchased Instagram for $1 billion.

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Be careful of who you donate money too!

Be careful of who you donate money too!

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Why Did The World's Biggest Car Auction Raise Money For This Birther Scammer Of A Wounded Vet Charity?
Another day. Another Barrett-Jackson controversy involving a president. This weekend the famous classic car auction helped raise $950,000 for a Marine veteran's project for wounded warriors.

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Lawmakers must be kept under constant surveillance to make sure they don't pass…

Lawmakers must be kept under constant surveillance to make sure they don't pass bills like this.

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Even worse than SOPA: New CISPA cybersecurity bill will censor the Web

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Even worse than SOPA: New CISPA cybersecurity bill will censor the Web — RT
An onrush of condemnation and criticism kept the SOPA and PIPA acts from passing earlier this year, but US lawmakers have already authored another authoritarian bill that could give them free reign to…

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This is a big part of why my Facebook usage has been cut dramatically over the past… 1

This is a big part of why my Facebook usage has been cut dramatically over the past year.

I don't want frictionless sharing. I want to be reminded to think before I post and If I want to share something I read, I want to actively do it, not have it happen automatically. If G+ ever goes down this path, I will be rethinking my use of this site as well.

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Yet more evidence that Facebook is dangerous in ways that its users do not understand (via Columbia Journalism Review) — and this case involves the journalism business' either naive or abusive behavior. Media organizations are exposing readers of their journalism to seriously problematic "sharing" that readers plainly don't realize is happening.

This is not an aberration. It is Facebook's basic method. For allegedly responsible journalism organizations to be part of it, however, is a violation of audience trust.

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The Ethics of Social News Apps
I don't know about you but my Facebook feed has gotten creepy and cringeworthy these days, and it's thanks to news organizations. Here's a list of stories that have popped in my news feed …

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