Symantec sets to protect connected vehicles from zero-day attacks

Symantec introduced Symantec Anomaly Detection for Automotive to protect against zero-day attacks and never-before-seen issues facing modern connected vehicles. Bringing Symantec’s extensive security and sophisticated analytics expertise across complex networks to the vehicle, Anomaly Detection for Automotive provides the crucial ability to identify issues for early remediation.

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TomTom selected by Volvo to provide maps, navigation and live traffic info

TomTom has been selected by Volvo Cars as the provider of location and navigation content and services for its new infotainment platform. From 2019, Volvo Cars’ customers across the globe*, across all carlines on the SPA and CMA platforms, will be able to enjoy an exceptional navigation experience powered by TomTom’s complete suite of components, both embedded and cloud based.

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Deezer sells Stitcher to E.W. Scripps

Less than two years after Deezer bought podcast app Stitcher, the streaming music service is selling it off to media company E.W. Scripps for US$4.5 million. The Stitcher team will be joining Midroll Media, a podcast producer and advertising network. At the moment, Deezer says podcast content will be available on their platform. For how long, we can’t say. According to Scripps, Stitcher has 8.5 million registered users and is installed in 50 models of cars. The company didn’t say though how many active users the service has. Stitcher believes this acquisition will help both advertisers and content partners with “an expanded portfolio of opportunities” to help reach their target audience. We can’t say yet how they’d do that though.

Source: Engadget

Google turns your Live Photos into GIFs

A new Google app for iOS will turn your shaky Live Photos shot into a looping gif with its new app. Motion Stills combines Live Photos with their own video stabilization technology and their auto-creating gif capabilities to bring you images with moving foreground and backgrounds that are frozen. Think cinemagraphs. Without going into the technical explanation of how their technology works, it’s like Google added a virtual tripod to reduce the shakiness and its algorithm separates the moving objects in the foreground from the background to create the movement. Another thing is it chooses an optimal loop point so it cuts off before any awkward moments after you’ve thought you’ve ended a video but it’s still recording. It does this photo magic on your phone so it won’t even need to be online. But, of course, if you want to share these on social media, you’ll need to be connected.

Source: Engadget