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Summary: Google's new incubator could help it keep talent by providing new business plans with funding, but is it enough? Google headquarters Alphabet-owned Google is working to launch an in-house startup incubator that could prevent top tech talent from leaving to budding companies in Silicon Valley, according to a report from The Information. The startup incubator will be called " Area 120 ," and will be lead by Don Harrison and Bradley Horowitz. Employee's teams will be accepted into the program based on their business plans, where they can accept outside funding for their project or create a company under Google. The move would allow employees to work on Google's "special projects" full time. The company allots employees 20 percent of their work day to new projects, which have formed the beginnings of Gmail and other hit Google services. Retention is a widely discussed issue in the tech...

Summary: Newark Police Department in New Jersey was forced to spend four days cleaning up after a virus attack. A virus infected computer systems at Newark Police Department in New Jersey last week, taking four days to clean up. The police department said there was no evidence of any sort of data breach and that the attack "did not disrupt the delivery of emergency services to our citizens". "Through the efforts of the city's and the division's IT, as well as assistance from the Essex County Prosecutor's Office, New Jersey State Police and federal authorities, we were quickly able to get the system cleaned and operational in four days," said a police spokesperson . According to one report, the virus temporarily locked down the servers, blocking access to the program used to track and analyze crime data . In accordance to police protocols, Newark reported the breach to the FBI, New Jersey state police, and the county prosecutor...

Summary: As its Hadoop Summit Europe event ramps up in Dublin, Hortonworks makes several announcements. Much of the news furthers the schism in the Hadoop space, between Hortonworks' technology and Cloudera's. As Hortonworks' Hadoop Summit event kicks off in Dublin today, the Hadoop distribution vendor has a full slate of announcements. The announcements themselves are substantial and impressive, and I'll cover each of them here. As you read through them, however, keep in mind that they at once highlight and reinforce the idea that the "retail" Hadoop world is becoming split in two -- as Hortonworks and Cloudera each introduce unique components in their distros that often meet corresponding needs and requirements. Announcements, please First off, a bit of a bombshell. Pivotal , which entered the Hadoop distribution race over three years ago, with the introduction of Pivotal HD, will now be reselling Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) , which...

Summary: There's the Internet of Things -- DVRs, refrigerators, and cars -- and then there's the Internet of civic things -- electrical power grids, oil and gas production facilities, and highway traffic management. Linux has a role to play in both. The Linux Foundation SAN DIEGO -- The Linux Foundation announced today at the Embedded Linux Conference & OpenIoT Summit a new project: The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP). This, an open-source framework, is meant to provide the foundation needed to deliver essential services for civil infrastructure and economic development on a global scale. And what, you ask, is a Civil Infrastructure Platform? According to the CIP FAQ , it's "Any technical systems responsible for supervision, control, and management of infrastructure supporting human activities, including, for example, electric power generation and energy distribution, oil and gas, wa...

Summary: Google downplays the importance of Java to Android, to disprove Oracle claims that it's owed $9.3bn in damages. Google has filed a rebuttal to Oracle's claim that it's due $9.3bn in damages for unlicensed use of Java code in Android. Google disputes Oracle's claim that the Java APIs got app developers on board with Android early. Google says its own damages expert "strongly disagrees" with the financial relief Oracle has demanded, ahead of the companies' May district court retrial over claims that 37 Java SE application protocol interfaces in Android infringed Oracle's copyright. Oracle has argued that the Java APIs were necessary to get app developers on board with Android early, which helped Google net billions in profits through app sales and mobile advertising. Oracle's damages expert estimated that Google has made $8.8bn in "profits apportioned to infringed Java copyrights" and that those profits should ...