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Chevy takes on Tesla and the US military can't guard its own Twitter accounts I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update we are back from CES and still a little disoriented from the week-long gadget extravaganza but the tech news isn't slowing down going on now is the Detroit Auto Show where we're getting first looks at the 2016 Chevrolet Volt it said to have an improved 50 mile pure electric range the current model only goes for about 12 miles on pure electric power and don't confuse the Volt with the Chevy concept the bolt which promises to be an affordable pure electric car with a 200 mile range Chevy hopes to beat Tesla to the punch here giving it a price tag of thirty thousand dollars and you may be drooling over the new Ford GT it's a 500 horsepower twin-turbo carbon fiber Beast no electric assist hybrid here for didn't give a price but to put it in perspective the last GT that came out 10 years ago how to start in price 140 thousand dollars and you can find our full coverage of the detroit auto show over at cnet meanwhile samsung revealed a brand new smartphone but the korean company waited until a week after CES to announce it maybe it wanted to keep the spotlight on other products like televisions well the samsung galaxy a7 is a new eight core 4g smartphone it's follow-up to the all-metal galaxy a5 and galaxy a3 this a seven unfortunately doesn't have the newest version of Android lollipop instead it's loaded with 4.4 kitkat it has a 5.5 inch screen on the back there's a 13 megapixel camera and on the front there's a 5 megapixel camera with auto selfie mode at least you take a photo with a voice command or a wave of your hand and private mode gives your files and documents an extra layer of security no price and release date given yet aside from shiny new cars and phones there's going to be plenty of talk about privacy and cybersecurity this week and next week as President Barack Obama proposes new ways to boost our online security one such law being proposed is that all companies have 30 days to notify customers that they've had personal info hacked right now there's no one national law that governs what to do about a data breach President Obama is also proposing that companies cannot sell student data for non education purposes now while President Obama was talking about cybersecurity to the Federal Trade Commission the official Twitter and YouTube accounts for US Central Command were hacked by a group claiming to be Isis talk about embarrassing well that's your tech news update you can find more details on all these stories at cnet com and follow along on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey