MyShake Is A Smartphone Application That Can Help Predict Earthquakes

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrLQt58jJiyaI8f7opz_XHr1gwfPmAK0hRYc_TNYq-Xgad_WHE0rbdfNsqxp7lf8wCYHjNOCZ0swWkE2HrXGftlUBxIEhjXTNIsvo_e9DmQqIqqwyrq8wHFo5K1EfZDo71oELHF_Q3fgE/s1600/App-MyShake-Can-Help-Predict-Earthquakes-4-798x350.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrLQt58jJiyaI8f7opz_XHr1gwfPmAK0hRYc_TNYq-Xgad_WHE0rbdfNsqxp7lf8wCYHjNOCZ0swWkE2HrXGftlUBxIEhjXTNIsvo_e9DmQqIqqwyrq8wHFo5K1EfZDo71oELHF_Q3fgE/s640/App-MyShake-Can-Help-Predict-Earthquakes-4-798x350.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;">Have you heard about MyShake? It’s an amazing app that has been designed by researchers at University of California, Berkeley</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;"> and Deutsche Telekom’s Silicon Valley Innovation Center. The app transforms your smartphone into an earthquake detector via use of accelerometers and brilliant algorithms. It can detect tremors and warn scientists – all in under a couple of milliseconds.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7n52iIsnv_wR7iZz7HMa-9Km73lDZi3eVaEaKWzTDwpw_yxK7AnT_t8Y7ZJOkK8Z_wLjHITvOXrCdHH5rhn527m8G9peeiHMZpjV_a2F4OjUVu_67lYj8WX9pL4Bp9THhQVQEs3guEWg/s1600/App-MyShake-Can-Help-Predict-Earthquakes-3-610x407.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7n52iIsnv_wR7iZz7HMa-9Km73lDZi3eVaEaKWzTDwpw_yxK7AnT_t8Y7ZJOkK8Z_wLjHITvOXrCdHH5rhn527m8G9peeiHMZpjV_a2F4OjUVu_67lYj8WX9pL4Bp9THhQVQEs3guEWg/s640/App-MyShake-Can-Help-Predict-Earthquakes-3-610x407.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 20px;"> As per the team responsible for the app’s creation, using sufficient number of smartphones that are running the app, users can be notified about the earthquakes’ imminence in the given region.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 20px;"> Because of MyShake, each smartphone is transformed into a link of a huge network of earthquake detectors, all working in harmony to achieve the desired result. It was crucial to develop an algorithm for differentiating between earthquakes and other shaking and tremor-subjugation of the smartphone. The next difficulty was the battery consumption and that’s where the Deutsche Telekom stepped in to save the day.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxE6IyRw1VFO0raYykfzONIQ6VPSU_9Rwtdai1RMwdZvuxYUNpf8DtmUI6mPc0JgYzEclXgrqEz_0ScpUSOch2WPAkrrohpvflAjgjSlI8z-76IO3oLSQKA49_QLbUpfkpvzRO3QU6acU/s1600/App-MyShake-Can-Help-Predict-Earthquakes-2-610x407.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxE6IyRw1VFO0raYykfzONIQ6VPSU_9Rwtdai1RMwdZvuxYUNpf8DtmUI6mPc0JgYzEclXgrqEz_0ScpUSOch2WPAkrrohpvflAjgjSlI8z-76IO3oLSQKA49_QLbUpfkpvzRO3QU6acU/s640/App-MyShake-Can-Help-Predict-Earthquakes-2-610x407.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 20px;"> Richard Allen, director of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory at the University of California, said, “As seismologists we are always struggling to think about how to collect more data about earthquakes. We’re data-limited in our finds. We need more data so that we can understand the physics of earthquake processes so that we can better predict what will happen in future earthquakes, and so that we can build better buildings, and think of other strategies to reduce the effects of future earthquakes.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 20px;"> MyShake, upon detecting a tremor, sends the data to the central server that is placed at Berkeley Seismological Laboratory. The data includes the location, time and magnitude – this data is then compiled to a large network of data streams incoming from various app users. This allows scientists to warn users of potential incoming earthquakes before they hit.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0QeRbcbAv7GKD28RWWQj7cBhmgY_mVRGUhLDHw5DjFaFO4ogqcEfm_n-ntPmrftJsL7NoAR0NVPRqnmM-c80eai7ikV_9wVREWgeGIBUsrVPL8Q5YyEytJRw8JBVWNAG5ac0JHlKnAjs/s1600/App-MyShake-Can-Help-Predict-Earthquakes-610x433.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0QeRbcbAv7GKD28RWWQj7cBhmgY_mVRGUhLDHw5DjFaFO4ogqcEfm_n-ntPmrftJsL7NoAR0NVPRqnmM-c80eai7ikV_9wVREWgeGIBUsrVPL8Q5YyEytJRw8JBVWNAG5ac0JHlKnAjs/s640/App-MyShake-Can-Help-Predict-Earthquakes-610x433.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 20px;"> <br /></div>  <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">However, in order to make this program viable and effective; a large number of devices need to be running the free app. So go on, download it and become an effective member of earthquake</span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br />

MyShake Is A Smartphone Application That Can Help Predict Earthquakes

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Here’s How A Drone Can Actually Kill You With Its Propellers

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This 30 Million Dollar Forest Farm In Sahara Desert Will Be Watered Using Solar Energy

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH8Az2JvgjIbqviI9l-uTliqNyxROy5ts8Dsl7GM8hwKxfoiSEDHj29wAzQCMWrF7bMdL4LOYML5mnH4PbRRBB_TETo7N-wfoBPW3AZU6Myw3j7aP_WKKPpif_t-yBj7gIT0m0jfIZvfA/s1600/30-million-dollar-farm-in-Sahara-desert5-634x350.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH8Az2JvgjIbqviI9l-uTliqNyxROy5ts8Dsl7GM8hwKxfoiSEDHj29wAzQCMWrF7bMdL4LOYML5mnH4PbRRBB_TETo7N-wfoBPW3AZU6Myw3j7aP_WKKPpif_t-yBj7gIT0m0jfIZvfA/s1600/30-million-dollar-farm-in-Sahara-desert5-634x350.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;">Sahara desert is the largest sandbox in the world. It covers an astonishing 9.4 million square kilometers in the mid-western part of Africa and is growing each year. To give a rough estimate of its size, the mainland United States is just 8 million square kilometers. It is a harsh, unforgivable landscape with sand storms and mercury shooting up more than 122-degree Fahrenheit in the daytime. But, we have seen what the sheikhs have been able to achieve in the United Arab Emirates’ cities like Dubai and Abu Dhabi. So, some optimistic investors have started a new project called Sahara Forest Project (SFP) and aim to bring cultivation back to the ever-expanding desert. They want to build a farm and will reportedly invest more than 30 million $ into it.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJaEIL-pSjoCLZbBuBmwizuDVQKyebXsoeb5Ma9yrmPYO0aVKLLp7KnFRjb8GbZkiS0VD8WMxDu_VzD2X0fi8QrMmT5xmbIN5LJ5U8l-MjlmSF773moOW-MUxEsJe5-XkU_hwKoUY1Lp0/s1600/30-million-dollar-farm-in-Sahara-desert4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJaEIL-pSjoCLZbBuBmwizuDVQKyebXsoeb5Ma9yrmPYO0aVKLLp7KnFRjb8GbZkiS0VD8WMxDu_VzD2X0fi8QrMmT5xmbIN5LJ5U8l-MjlmSF773moOW-MUxEsJe5-XkU_hwKoUY1Lp0/s1600/30-million-dollar-farm-in-Sahara-desert4.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0buwXO13uxzTuGx-DALnojmMCzZVuFic_2qTmtCWOLoQVYdTL07wGayc73HlJRWOan6EMJFtZoAGvJEJndUrttiHiES5VE_M0enmqS2MniAbR9dzOxtNeWaLUPdZNXswDynTqRjOfkt8/s1600/30-million-dollar-farm-in-Sahara-desert.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0buwXO13uxzTuGx-DALnojmMCzZVuFic_2qTmtCWOLoQVYdTL07wGayc73HlJRWOan6EMJFtZoAGvJEJndUrttiHiES5VE_M0enmqS2MniAbR9dzOxtNeWaLUPdZNXswDynTqRjOfkt8/s1600/30-million-dollar-farm-in-Sahara-desert.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;">In a bid to diversify the environment and bringing jobs to the local economy, the SFP will focus on two raw materials readily available in any desert; Sunlight and saline water. They aim to harness solar energy in various ways from cooking and heating to power generation. Saline water, they will have to treat through reverse osmosis, distillation or other modern methods. The bottom line is to start a financially viable system that will provide food and jobs for the people and start forestation of the large expanse of the desert in the long-term. The unprocessed water will also be used to cool down the sheds where crops are grown. The first project is set to be launched in Tunisia where there is an acute shortage of water, and much of the country is overrun with sand. The project has the full support of the Tunisian government which is working frantically to reduce the effects of global warming in the already hot desert areas.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZajipTko0aTRmKvwxi77CHDA8-AFzz4SULo84OvexdjMq9GEMi29fj6-vCugTUAswo6FW4arcEy8TWrlOt2nriaUdKv9lUnHNLkgW78UvWHlfLkKEY37-G6nYtCfQtOQRwrrKPLEpds8/s1600/30-million-dollar-farm-in-Sahara-desert3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZajipTko0aTRmKvwxi77CHDA8-AFzz4SULo84OvexdjMq9GEMi29fj6-vCugTUAswo6FW4arcEy8TWrlOt2nriaUdKv9lUnHNLkgW78UvWHlfLkKEY37-G6nYtCfQtOQRwrrKPLEpds8/s1600/30-million-dollar-farm-in-Sahara-desert3.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_4_oLKXkH8xrEXgaabkRSEaw4avuV2g83NINX7ptnuwBAKDsXcN3IqYMNjpvL3SUYcBpShuWMxyJziWyxrPodE4TCfSxuHdjoMIubjqKyNoYAHOAwDzGj2srhhCVSMnYJ6Cm6aSC2AfA/s1600/30-million-dollar-farm-in-Sahara-desert2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_4_oLKXkH8xrEXgaabkRSEaw4avuV2g83NINX7ptnuwBAKDsXcN3IqYMNjpvL3SUYcBpShuWMxyJziWyxrPodE4TCfSxuHdjoMIubjqKyNoYAHOAwDzGj2srhhCVSMnYJ6Cm6aSC2AfA/s1600/30-million-dollar-farm-in-Sahara-desert2.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;">King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Professor </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;">Heribert Hirt believes that the area has the same problems like the ones that will face astronauts trying to cultivate on Mars. The dust and sandstorms throughout the deserts cover much of the solar panels and necessary equipment with layers of particulates that affect their operation. But, he also believes that we have to try to make it happen because the desert is predicted to grow and eventually fill in the entire continent. The SFP project plans to have a 4,000-hectare facility, provide jobs to 6,000 people and produce almost 170,000 tonnes of food per year. As the professor said, it needs to be done, no matter the cost. </span></div> <br />

This 30 Million Dollar Forest Farm In Sahara Desert Will Be Watered Using Solar Energy

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This Young Pakistani Engineer Is Going Against The Norms To Promote Science Among Women

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM2nlAn5fXn5snNMgc9p9ewrtDUMkm1A6VqEmfx4SbF8oyg9L8sijHKS6NA4kfvpoIkyCEvaB9qxpKn531GLaknoIKbXiJL9dCV5pF-LYqF0UOfRsbwd5dKM_OI8ntkxSux55Jhs5U4Ik/s1600/WEP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM2nlAn5fXn5snNMgc9p9ewrtDUMkm1A6VqEmfx4SbF8oyg9L8sijHKS6NA4kfvpoIkyCEvaB9qxpKn531GLaknoIKbXiJL9dCV5pF-LYqF0UOfRsbwd5dKM_OI8ntkxSux55Jhs5U4Ik/s640/WEP.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">We all know what STEM is and how it shapes the world around us. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) is the backbone upon which the world of the future is being developed and this goes to show just how crucial it is that our young ones take an interest in it. What are we babbling about? We are actually setting up the tone for the introduction to an amazing initiative that has been started by a Pakistani female, Ramla Qureshi; WEP – Women Engineers Pakistan.</span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;"><br /></span> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjif9kjrY4aJ_bcNtd2TJ-EX95E2OvNA90n0UM7axQPtG-l5jQANDaQzYGNQidCjt6i1ZcvoxW-n4ebnXo-4xCH00tbkms2A24qWl33ZcDoTsC5H99RqayWS-lTMb9AbgLUwPOxjXmDmUo/s1600/WEP+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjif9kjrY4aJ_bcNtd2TJ-EX95E2OvNA90n0UM7axQPtG-l5jQANDaQzYGNQidCjt6i1ZcvoxW-n4ebnXo-4xCH00tbkms2A24qWl33ZcDoTsC5H99RqayWS-lTMb9AbgLUwPOxjXmDmUo/s640/WEP+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;">WEP is basically a small non-profit group that is working towards the promotion of Science and Technology along with its myriad of applications within the female population of Pakistan. According to Ramla, as per the World Economic Forum Gender Gap Survey; Pakistan is ranked second last out of 142 countries and WEP was founded to alleviate this gap and has been working ever since its foundation towards making things happen.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 20px;"> WEP has campus ambassadors in major engineering universities of Pakistan that make it possible for the WEP team to interact with the enrolled engineering students via seminars and conferences. WEP makes use of this forum to shed a light on the practical world that awaits the young engineers once they are done with their studies while preparing the female students to counter issues such as the workplace or glass-roof harassment. WEP also screens CVs and is hoping to provide graduate profiling to engineering firms in the future. You can check out WEP Facebook page here.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 20px;"> As part of its outreach program, the WEP campus ambassadors visit schools and talk to girls in hopes of dismissing their fear for math and physics at secondary school level.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 20px;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo2DefnjFy227ZHtwwfxBkmaKvUNaa73nwrqerCnS1xIiyd-msLa3KRzzBvx6z8KRlhyphenhyphenPJmZAytG9RRyLPeUbQfv0FG506GNZDxQcGnUxEtNMpxTmA313iJTdHbYsfJOCAMFjfwKg7Rck/s1600/WEP+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo2DefnjFy227ZHtwwfxBkmaKvUNaa73nwrqerCnS1xIiyd-msLa3KRzzBvx6z8KRlhyphenhyphenPJmZAytG9RRyLPeUbQfv0FG506GNZDxQcGnUxEtNMpxTmA313iJTdHbYsfJOCAMFjfwKg7Rck/s640/WEP+3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 20px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 20px;"> Ramla Qureshi, 25 years old, is a Fulbright Scholar and MS student in structural and earthquake engineering at State University in New York and runs WEP from there. She says, “The basic reason I started with WEP was to engage the left out half percentage of the country. We have such talented women, but we as a nation do not provide proper avenues for them to practice their faculties. Diversity in engineering is one the major topics under discussion worldwide today. We hope to encourage more girls towards STEM, and hope to direct them toward engineering social entrepreneurship in order to break the shackles of their mind from the myths of job saturation.”<br />Similarly, Lenovo began an initiative last month for Women’s History Month to honor 10 women kick starters under the age of 31 who are making huge strides in the world of technology. There are so many amazing initiatives right now that are working to empower women in STEM fields that deserve our attention and awareness.</div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;"><br /></span>

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Prince Philip’s Bond-style Aston Martin Is Up For Auction

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWwaeQKSa0ef9CFG5CsaMuFiWsXaK0yIk1_u2Gprcdaap8Egl2O2ZKxPJw4dPjv_m9NCGDjsURBCmpiappooMYI6TANPa8erJ9mGAEZuBuzp94j-yIzBryHvqKd82dIy7rTfh3uARRwb0/s1600/Prince-Philips-Aston-Martin5-798x350.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWwaeQKSa0ef9CFG5CsaMuFiWsXaK0yIk1_u2Gprcdaap8Egl2O2ZKxPJw4dPjv_m9NCGDjsURBCmpiappooMYI6TANPa8erJ9mGAEZuBuzp94j-yIzBryHvqKd82dIy7rTfh3uARRwb0/s640/Prince-Philips-Aston-Martin5-798x350.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;">So it seems Sean Connery’s portrayal of British 007 agent James Bond wasn’t the only one who could pull off the hype around the famous Aston Martin of the character. Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;">had this 195,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;"> Lagonda Drophead Coupe that had special attachments for the Royal family to communicate and get ready for their royal responsibilities most of which involved dressing up and turning up at the right moment in the right place. The 62-year-old car was specially designed for the then young prince and was in his use for a better part of the decade. It is recently up for auction and is expected to fetch around 400,000£ for the seller.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLuHg-D4xUspxLCGBjfDneJIx8s2TaO4gunNVkAhxrHt6VR9ZKbk5hlFpASRyRFHE4Or83WIZUFJWZsLRhgDP3ASsxOX-SvA2H90JZPeimsF741Brkv8TGi-ORccTIPOiJPVoBbIb09EM/s1600/Prince-Philips-Aston-Martin4-610x455.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLuHg-D4xUspxLCGBjfDneJIx8s2TaO4gunNVkAhxrHt6VR9ZKbk5hlFpASRyRFHE4Or83WIZUFJWZsLRhgDP3ASsxOX-SvA2H90JZPeimsF741Brkv8TGi-ORccTIPOiJPVoBbIb09EM/s640/Prince-Philips-Aston-Martin4-610x455.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;">James Bond’s Aston Martin had impossible gadgetry to aid his skills like bullet proof window screen, 7.6 mm machine guns, a tracking system, an ejector seat, a weapons tray and a nail maker that make special spiked nails for Mr.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;"> Bond to use. The Royal Aston Martin, on the other hand, had a special radio</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;">, the telephone (since mobile phones weren’t invented) which he used to prank call the Buckingham Palace and a special vanity mirror for the queen where she could add last touches to her outlook before making an appearance. It has only done 50,000 miles in its entire life and therefore, it must be in an amazing condition since it has been recently serviced as well. The wireless telephone is the most intriguing piece of gadgetry from that era, and it could prove a great addition to any collection of classic cars. There is also a little bit of history attached to this car as the owner and the Queen rode on it to inaugurate the M1 motorway and make appearances in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9KOr4lEkXUYki6DbaEILAtwj1e6rW002Gw0AOmfAuD0-Dt8CBtGWO8T3lrkOzoMWvKxiZHyu8bD07gCHAc5VoAAjNJqvlkY9GdJKQhu-bYkOCxXCnhtmzpGjN7ChCN6FH1bNlNFDsmbk/s1600/Prince-Philips-Aston-Martin2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9KOr4lEkXUYki6DbaEILAtwj1e6rW002Gw0AOmfAuD0-Dt8CBtGWO8T3lrkOzoMWvKxiZHyu8bD07gCHAc5VoAAjNJqvlkY9GdJKQhu-bYkOCxXCnhtmzpGjN7ChCN6FH1bNlNFDsmbk/s640/Prince-Philips-Aston-Martin2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJkWnl87h2HTWEZxY7eaD8r9EaLoR_RExOVXxrT68TrIzi_9NtjG0dWx_NlXCt2z6R-58EpQbhyphenhyphenFpMxpfkQOr-lMV4BQ24yw5msurPot7gPEPjXkupFmwHu3oHZQzVHxY_5hoCu8PkWZw/s1600/Prince-Philips-Aston-Martin3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJkWnl87h2HTWEZxY7eaD8r9EaLoR_RExOVXxrT68TrIzi_9NtjG0dWx_NlXCt2z6R-58EpQbhyphenhyphenFpMxpfkQOr-lMV4BQ24yw5msurPot7gPEPjXkupFmwHu3oHZQzVHxY_5hoCu8PkWZw/s640/Prince-Philips-Aston-Martin3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div> <br />

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Router worth 10$ Blamed in Bangladesh Bank Hack.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIHTP3utcnLTwkbsgqhkGyQBljzFGaKeCkzK7odLjEsz5CLkp_8JIZnEN8NcQcajqzxMSLlFMkf7RT0VH0o-aL2iqn-ezNHgax4-h83m6mznDE4DBmelFpj7frkZdwSchMyW8I_Fzr5v8/s1600/Bangladesh+Bank+hack.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIHTP3utcnLTwkbsgqhkGyQBljzFGaKeCkzK7odLjEsz5CLkp_8JIZnEN8NcQcajqzxMSLlFMkf7RT0VH0o-aL2iqn-ezNHgax4-h83m6mznDE4DBmelFpj7frkZdwSchMyW8I_Fzr5v8/s640/Bangladesh+Bank+hack.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="story-body__introduction" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Hackers managed to steal $80m (£56m) from Bangladesh's central bank because it skimped on network hardware and security software, reports Reuters.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 23px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The bank had no firewall and used second-hand routers that cost $10 to connect to global financial networks.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Better security and hardware would have hampered the attackers, Reuters said, quoting an official investigator.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35773061" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The hackers aimed to steal $1bn</a> but made mistakes that led to the theft being spotted and stopped.</div> <h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Better defence</h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> A firewall would have made attempts to hack the bank more "difficult", Mohammad Shah Alam, a forensic investigator who works on the Bangladesh team investigating the theft, told Reuters.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The second-hand hardware also meant that basic security steps to segregate network traffic were not taken, he said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The cheap routers have hindered the investigation, said Mr Alam, because they collected very little network data that could be used to pinpoint the hackers and shed light on their tactics.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The hack took place in early February and involved hackers getting access to the core network of Bangladesh's central bank. They used this privileged access to transfer cash from Bangladesh's account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to other banks.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> A spelling mistake in one of the transfer orders alerted bank staff and meant the hackers only managed to steal $81m. This has been traced to accounts in the Philippines and to casinos in the same country. Most of the cash has yet to be recovered.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Bank security experts said the bank should have spent more time and money protecting the network for its central bank.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> "You are talking about an organisation that has access to billions of dollars and they are not taking even the most basic security precautions," Jeff Wichman, a consultant with cyber firm Optiv, told Reuters.</div> <br />

Router worth 10$ Blamed in Bangladesh Bank Hack.

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Uber settles over employee status row

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjJpNqx34A1SCtzTfFNcbTg8ByscVVshvqEp1lEzI5svIJ9Mkqa6Q4Vs0M1_QbmLV1BfOPHfqlQLvL1u6y0Wy0Yw5LrB_nw-3_x0FBT2SLg3kvbfpaSyw4XkXnbLdmUPTpIL-2XUuzIkg/s1600/Uber+settles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjJpNqx34A1SCtzTfFNcbTg8ByscVVshvqEp1lEzI5svIJ9Mkqa6Q4Vs0M1_QbmLV1BfOPHfqlQLvL1u6y0Wy0Yw5LrB_nw-3_x0FBT2SLg3kvbfpaSyw4XkXnbLdmUPTpIL-2XUuzIkg/s640/Uber+settles.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="story-body__introduction" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Taxi-hailing firm Uber has agreed to pay up to $100m (£70m) to settle a US legal action over whether drivers should be classified as employees or independent contractors.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 23px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Drivers had argued that they should be classed as employees, entitling them to claim expenses and other rights.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The decision to settle will come as a relief to Uber and others in the on-demand economy who use contractors.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> But critics will be disappointed the case is not going to trial.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://newsroom.uber.com/growing-and-growing-up/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In a blog post</a>, Uber boss Travis Kalanick said he was pleased with the settlement, which means drivers will continue to be independent contractors.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Drivers value their independence - the freedom to push a button rather than punch a clock, to use Uber and Lyft simultaneously, to drive most of the week or for just a few hours," he said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> But he acknowledged: "We haven't always done a good job working with drivers.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> "It's time to change."</div> <h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Grievances</h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Uber has agreed to some changes in its business practices, including a better policy explaining why it was terminating drivers' contracts.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> It also said that it would help create a drivers' association in California and Massachusetts - where the actions were brought - that would act in a similar way to a union and be able to bring grievances to management's attention.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Some 450,000 drivers use the Uber app each month in the US, according to Uber.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> One of the lawyers for the drivers, Shannon Liss-Riordan, said there would be disappointment that the case was not now going to trial but added that there was a "significant risk of losing" if the case moved forward.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> This is partly because a federal appeals court had recently agreed to review an order allowing Uber drivers to sue as a group.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The settlement does not prevent future court, or US labour bodies, classing Uber drivers as employees, Ms Liss-Riordan added.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Out of the $100m proposed payment, $84m will go to drivers in the first instance. Uber has agreed to a second payment of $16m if the firm goes public and its valuation increases one and a half times from its December 2015 valuation within the first year.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The deal must now be approved by US District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco.</div> <br />

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VR Shipments getting a Load in 2016

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPc7TQ9VG4t1JJxXlmvJN7qX9C0Vx2MknKr5tceXDoiHDWglUJyDRfBN5BYIRad91I5N23wmrypE4_9Wa9bDGRuZc51gfP311sRu0j628A0u15Cm_MVHkU8lZf2f_ORldAs6OGntZgUTw/s1600/VR+Shipment.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPc7TQ9VG4t1JJxXlmvJN7qX9C0Vx2MknKr5tceXDoiHDWglUJyDRfBN5BYIRad91I5N23wmrypE4_9Wa9bDGRuZc51gfP311sRu0j628A0u15Cm_MVHkU8lZf2f_ORldAs6OGntZgUTw/s640/VR+Shipment.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="story-body__introduction" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> More than nine million virtual reality (VR) headsets will be shipped in 2016, suggests research by analyst firm IDC.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 23px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The estimate is far more than the 350,000 headsets that were sent out last year, it said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Some of the growth will be down to the first consumer-ready versions reaching customers, said the firm.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> However, most numerous will be the "screenless" systems that use smartphones as their main display.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> IDC <a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS41199616" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">said it expected about two million headsets</a> from Oculus, HTC and Sony to be shipped to consumers in 2016. The Oculus Rift headset began shipping on 28 March, HTC Vive headsets are due to start being dispatched this month and Sony's PlayStation VR should be available in October.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> All these headsets are called "tethered" systems because they work with a PC or a game console that pipes images to their display.</div> <h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Movement sensors</h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Consumers will buy these headsets because they want to play video games in VR, said Lewis Ward, director of gaming at IDC. He said he expected to see lots of VR games appear in time for Christmas, which would boost sales.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> In addition, said the research, there was growing interest in augmented-reality systems, such as Microsoft's HoloLens headset, that use a transparent display to overlay images and information on what people see. Few of these systems were ready for mainstream use, it added.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> However, said IDC, screenless systems such as Samsung's Gear VR would be more popular than the tethered headsets.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> These require a smartphone capable of handling the high-quality video used for VR and which possess sensors that can monitor movement and adjust what a user sees to give the impression of immersion in a computer-generated scene.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> It said it expected other firms to release screenless viewers later this year to accelerate take-up.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> By 2020, shipments of VR headsets should hit 64.8 million a year, it predicted.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> IDC said headsets that lack electronics, such as Google's Cardboard viewer, were not included in its estimates.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The figures from IDC stand in contrast to those produced by analyst firm Gartner, which predicted that only 1.4 million VR headsets would ship in 2016.</div> <br />

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Microsoft and Google agreed to drop complaints against each other.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYCTqXgTVBeuFAkJo2_E6KWPLOMGpa6uS0Ynl-TUjl2Eoc8j2WHTW5iLxAczhLQEvPvU1t6beIn4RUWTG6YR3zttoWpxfvwRW9Mui-iN568oBs8TfjDa5EajPEDeZfVsRQtJQwXmnnzww/s1600/Microsoft+office.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYCTqXgTVBeuFAkJo2_E6KWPLOMGpa6uS0Ynl-TUjl2Eoc8j2WHTW5iLxAczhLQEvPvU1t6beIn4RUWTG6YR3zttoWpxfvwRW9Mui-iN568oBs8TfjDa5EajPEDeZfVsRQtJQwXmnnzww/s640/Microsoft+office.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> <span class="articleLocatio</span>n" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc's Google have reached a deal to withdraw all the regulatory complaints against each other, the companies told Reuters.</span></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Microsoft has agreed to withdraw its regulatory complaints against Google, reflecting our changing legal priorities. We will continue to focus on competing vigorously for business and for customers," a Microsoft spokesperson said in an email.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Google, in a separate email, said the companies would want to compete vigorously based on the merits of their products, not in "legal proceedings".</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The companies in September agreed to bury all patent infringement litigations against each other, settling 18 cases in the United States and Germany.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"... Following our patent agreement, we've now agreed to withdraw regulatory complaints against one another," Google said on Friday.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Google's rivals had reached out to U.S. regulators alleging that the Internet services company unfairly uses its Android system to win online advertising, people with knowledge of matter told Reuters last year.</span></div> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="focusParagraph" style="background-color: white; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><span id="midArticle_0" style="background-color: white; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><span id="midArticle_1" style="background-color: white; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><span id="midArticle_2" style="background-color: white; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><span id="midArticle_3" style="background-color: white; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span class="first-article-divide" style="background-color: white; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><span id="midArticle_4" style="background-color: white; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span class="second-article-divide" style="background-color: white; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><span id="midArticle_5" style="background-color: white; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span></span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The European Commission also accused Google last year of distorting internet search results to favor its shopping service, harming both rivals and consumers.</span></div>

Microsoft and Google agreed to drop complaints against each other.

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China Shuts down Apple's Book and Movie Services.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVAFYkhZq6l_ZDOClbfRu7jFNmQ2m-c2MOV4DpVLWjfAwjNXA3SeuDydaWcuQCuqpd3PFV8-_NgWsThC1ROl8OX8Ge8oYsyAmA0CVWaUMidlyXcZFyOdOPzgb_yVsskqlKwRqLUWXNP8M/s1600/China+Shuts+down+Apple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVAFYkhZq6l_ZDOClbfRu7jFNmQ2m-c2MOV4DpVLWjfAwjNXA3SeuDydaWcuQCuqpd3PFV8-_NgWsThC1ROl8OX8Ge8oYsyAmA0CVWaUMidlyXcZFyOdOPzgb_yVsskqlKwRqLUWXNP8M/s640/China+Shuts+down+Apple.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="story-body__introduction" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> China has shut down Apple's online book and movie services as it imposes strict rules governing what can be published on the net.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 23px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Regulations were unveiled in March that outlawed foreign ownership of online publishing services.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The rules also required that all content shown to Chinese people must be stored on servers based on the Chinese mainland.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Apple said it hoped access to the services would be restored soon.</div> <h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Online threat</h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Currently, anyone in China who visits the iBooks store or tries to use iTunes Movies service is greeted with a message in Chinese saying the services were "unusable",<a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-china-idUSKCN0XJ0CD" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reports Reuters.</a> Both services have only been available in China for about six months.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The move has widely been seen as a blow to Apple which is keen to ensure its products are popular and sell well in China, because the region is the second biggest market for its products. The shutdown comes only days before Apple reports its second quarter financial results.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The services were shut down on the orders of China's media watchdog - the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television. The action is believed to be part of a wider attempt by China's government to consolidate its control over the internet and media organisations.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> China has defended the restrictions saying online publishing had to be monitored to combat terrorism and foreign ideas that could prove harmful.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The strict rules are also seen as a way to foster the success of indigenous net Chinese firms such as Huawei, Alibaba and Tencent.</div>

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San Bernardino phone hack cost FBI more than 1 Million Dollars.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW89zz2H3THR78OOEz8tfucAgv4eurpTkov1dNVlKurRqTqu2-b2uEcVi-iBLjI2j9r2gdVnBFkhyphenhyphenJrzs4Qw4EEsXOOAz-ijFo0ZsDHRbfsA9-Uo9ud08B767dcX_0OGbwXzeNmGRRDDE/s1600/FBI+hack+1million+dollar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW89zz2H3THR78OOEz8tfucAgv4eurpTkov1dNVlKurRqTqu2-b2uEcVi-iBLjI2j9r2gdVnBFkhyphenhyphenJrzs4Qw4EEsXOOAz-ijFo0ZsDHRbfsA9-Uo9ud08B767dcX_0OGbwXzeNmGRRDDE/s640/FBI+hack+1million+dollar.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="story-body__introduction" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The FBI paid at least $1.3m (£900,000) to hack into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino killers, it has been estimated.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 23px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The figure was calculated based on comments by FBI director James Comey, who said that the agency had paid more to get into the phone than he "will make in the remaining seven years" in his post.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> That would make it the largest publicised fee for a hacking job.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Mr Comey added that it was "worth it".</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The calculation was based on a projection of Mr Comey's annual salary which, in January 2015, was $183,300. This has been multiplied over the next seven years and four months that he remains in his job. The figure does not factor in pay rises or bonuses.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The FBI has never named the security firm or group of hackers that helped unlock the phone, but whoever it was provided either software or hardware that helped crack the four-digit identification number without triggering a security feature that would have erased all data after 10 incorrect guesses.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Mr Comey said that the same method could be used on other 5C iPhones running IOS 9 software.</div> <h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Privacy debate</h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> According to research firm IHS Technology, there are about 16 million such phones in use in the US and more than 80% of them run iOS 9 software, according to Apple.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The case has been hugely controversial, largely because of the spat with Apple, which had been resisting a court order requiring it to write new software to allow officials to access Syed Rizwan Farook's phone.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Farook and his wife killed 14 in San Bernardino, California, in December. Both were shot dead by police.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The FBI argued that it needed access to the phone's data to determine if the attackers worked with or were supported by other people and were planning other targets.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> It is unclear how much information has been gleaned since the phone was opened. Some US news outlets have reported that, so far, the FBI has not found anything of interest on the device.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The case has raised the debate over whether technology firms' use of encryption is a good thing for consumer privacy or damaging to public safety.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> There is big money to be made from helping the authorities to find bugs in software.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Last year, Zerodium - a firm that negotiates bug bounties - offered $1m for a web-based exploit against iOS 9 and that bounty was subsequently claimed.</div> <br />

San Bernardino phone hack cost FBI more than 1 Million Dollars.

The FBI paid at least $1.3m (£900,000) to hack into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino killers, it has been estimated. The ...

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New World Record has been Achieved in 5g Wireless Spectrum Efficiency

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7HxFXl919Ngy1KYBdtLUW9eLCFAveMzPNcAzMAG3-kWfgS-yXtjrV0Z0iO2amOBZWHHOHwaS9zdmR8vOlsELmxw9b0xiOTUQ1AOZrA7ZjIRFqMb8Fw3ieXGBym8yHyEd_IwO7qsMnaXQ/s1600/5G+Wireless+Spectrum+Efficeiency.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7HxFXl919Ngy1KYBdtLUW9eLCFAveMzPNcAzMAG3-kWfgS-yXtjrV0Z0iO2amOBZWHHOHwaS9zdmR8vOlsELmxw9b0xiOTUQ1AOZrA7ZjIRFqMb8Fw3ieXGBym8yHyEd_IwO7qsMnaXQ/s1600/5G+Wireless+Spectrum+Efficeiency.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.1; margin: 5px 0px 0px;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><br /></u></span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.1; margin: 5px 0px 0px;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Achieving 1.59Gbit/s over a 20MHz radio channel</u></span></span></div> <dl class="dl-horizontal dl-custom" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 20px 0px 0px;"> <dt style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: left; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.42857; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 70px;">Date:</dt> <dd id="date_posted" style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;">March 23, 2016</dd> <dt style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: left; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.42857; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 70px;">Source:</dt> <dd id="source" style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;">University of Bristol</dd> <dt style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: left; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.42857; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 70px;">Summary:</dt> <dd id="abstract" style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;">New research by engineers has demonstrated how a massive antenna system can offer a 12-fold increase in spectrum efficiency compared with current 4G cellular technology.</dd></dl> <div class="lead" id="first" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px;"> New research by engineers from the Universities of Bristol and Lund, working alongside National Instruments (NI), has demonstrated how a massive antenna system can offer a 12-fold increase in spectrum efficiency compared with current 4G cellular technology.</div> <div id="text" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> <div style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> Multiple antenna technology, referred to as MIMO, is already used in many Wi-Fi routers and 4G cellular phone systems. Normally this involves up to four antennas at a base station. Using a flexible prototyping platform from NI based on LabVIEW system design software and PXI hardware, the Bristol configuration implements Massive MIMO, where 128 antennas are deployed at the base station.</div> <div style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> The hardware behind this demonstration was provided to Bristol University as part of the Bristol Is Open programmable city infrastructure. Lund University has a similar setup, the LuMaMi testbed, enabling researchers at both sites to work in parallel with their development.</div> <div style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> Bristol's Massive MIMO system used for the demo operates at a carrier frequency of 3.5GHz and supports simultaneous wireless connectivity to up to 12 single antenna clients. Each client shares a common 20MHz radio channel. Complex digital signal processing algorithms unravel the individual data streams in the space domain seen by the antenna array.</div> <div style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> The Massive MIMO demonstration was conducted in the atrium of Bristol's Merchant Venturers Building and achieved an unprecedented bandwidth efficiency of 79.4bit/s/Hz. This equates to a sum rate throughput of 1.59Gbit/s in a 20MHz channel.</div> <div style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> Professor Andrew Nix, Head of the CSN Group and Dean of Engineering, said: "This activity reinforces our well established propagation and system modelling work by offering a new capability in model validation for Massive MIMO architectures. This is a truly exciting time for our PhD students and opens up further opportunities for collaborative research with our national and international partners."</div> <div style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> Ove Edfors, Professor of Radio Systems at Lund University says: "We see massive MIMO as the most promising 5G technology and we have pushed it forward together with partners in Bristol and in our EU project MAMMOET. It is a pleasure seeing those efforts materialize."</div> <div style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> Mark Beach, Professor of Radio Systems Engineering in the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Manager of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Communications, added: "Massive MIMO is one of four core activities in '5G and beyond' wireless research at Bristol. This demonstration was made possible by the cohort training offered within our CDT in Communications. The CDT gives Bristol a unique edge to conduct activities at scale."</div> <div style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> Fredrik Tufvesson, Professor with the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University explained: "It has been an exciting journey, hosting Bristol researchers Paul Harris and Siming Zhang as the group in Lund developed and tested the reference design. Our state-of-the-art test-beds show the culmination of significant effort from many researchers and it is fantastic to see these results from the Bristol deployment."</div> <div style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> The collaborative research project with Lund University and National Instruments included five Bristol based PhD students under the collective guidance of five academic supervisors. In Lund seven PhD students and six supervisors contributed, making it a huge interdisciplinary research effort.</div> <div style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> Paul Harris, PhD student in Bristol, explained: "My PhD training at Bristol alongside a two-month secondment at NI (Austin) put me in a unique position to use this cutting-edge equipment and support my fellow postgraduates with their state-of-the-art research in next generation wireless." Steffen Malkowsky, PhD student in Lund, continued: "Our joint secondment at NI led to a very close and fruitful collaboration that we have now brought back to Europe."</div> <div style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> James Kimery, Director of RF Research and SDR Marketing at NI, commented: "With much discussion around 5G, NI is excited to work with top research institutions such as Bristol and Lund universities, and organizations like Bristol is Open to drive the standard forward. This Massive MIMO reference design system demonstrates the power and productivity researchers can achieve with NI tools and technologies."</div> <div style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> Paul Wilson, Managing Director Bristol Is Open, remarked: "This is truly outstanding work putting Bristol at the forefront of 5G wireless connectivity. We are looking forward to moving this facility outdoors in late 2016 as part of the BIO Harbourside deployment."</div> <div style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> Spectrum and power efficient wireless communications are core to Bristol University's Communication Systems & Networks (CSN) Group and the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Communications as well as to the department of Electrical and Information technology at Lund University.</div> <div style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> Viktor Öwall, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University, concluded: "Our openness, very similar goals, backgrounds and structures have enabled this remarkable achievement."</div> </div>

New World Record has been Achieved in 5g Wireless Spectrum Efficiency

Achieving 1.59Gbit/s over a 20MHz radio channel Date: March 23, 2016 Source: University of Bristol Summary: New research by engi...

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PlayStation 4K Specs, Price, Release Date Rumors Console to 14nm/16nm chips with 3D Transistors.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0_po-XVsZx8gZfRXdm9fgzlWP8_6zU14CHCYLLJxcjalu_E5e42JKcDTWlvCrxhdScd-CXkiSFIGBiIYj98Wmibg6LWAy8VopMjbAVRfhcmm8tE-Qt8iQ39GZKM1FNZTUglE1aap1XVw/s1600/Play+Station+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0_po-XVsZx8gZfRXdm9fgzlWP8_6zU14CHCYLLJxcjalu_E5e42JKcDTWlvCrxhdScd-CXkiSFIGBiIYj98Wmibg6LWAy8VopMjbAVRfhcmm8tE-Qt8iQ39GZKM1FNZTUglE1aap1XVw/s400/Play+Station+4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6;">To all PlayStation gamers and enthusiast out there, as we all know by now, Sony will be releasing a new PlayStation console soon. However, it is not yet the PlayStation 5. The new console will be featuring a 4k resolution, increasing every game's visuals.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">A potential PlayStation which has 4K features might be named PlayStation 4.5 or PlayStation 4k. People may also call it PS4 Slim because of the existing APU shrunk to a 14/16nm production process, enhanced with minor boosts to functionality. The ability to shrink down the size of the chip can either be used to make things devices portable or be used to double up the previous size's power in terms of performance.<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">  </span></span></div> <div class="p402_premium" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">According to <a href="http://www.thecountrycaller.com/68711-sony-corp-adr-sne-playstation-45-is-twice-more-powerful-new-details-leaked/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #067fd6; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Country Gamer</a>, the updated version of the PS4 won't actually feature much on performance improvements, however, when it comes to a graphics, it will stand out among all gaming devices out there.</span></div> <div id="div-gpt-ad-inread" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">According to <a href="http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-in-theory-playstation-4k-is-real-but-why-is-sony-making-it" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #067fd6; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Euro Gamer</a>, here's what we might expect:</span></div> <ul style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.2; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 1.1rem; padding: 0px;"> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Twice as powerful in boost in GPU performance to the PlayStation 4.</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Polaris will have support for 4K, HDMI 2.0, HDCP 2.2 and HDR.</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Would have the same price when the PlayStation 4 was first released at £359/$399.</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Games will still be the same but with enhanced visuals as the resolution may be get past 1080p.</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The console would be full compatible with 4K screens, including the next-gen media.</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The console also be compatible with PlayStation 4's previous games.</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">HDR support for gaming on 4K displays, even if gaming stays at 1080p resolution.</span></li> </ul> </div>

PlayStation 4K Specs, Price, Release Date Rumors Console to 14nm/16nm chips with 3D Transistors.

To all PlayStation gamers and enthusiast out there, as we all know by now, Sony will be releasing a new PlayStation console soon. Howev...

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Xbox One Followup Won’t Be Incremental Upgrade Like the PlayStation 4.5

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzF2XrtLT7Au_ZcIsm6vYbE0iVnSvPRs4IQOl9mZuwyuFfSp9PF_-SCJHZQynjI-o2EDBYRN19gOndiDx0OAaH459lk4ggXWHI19b5NTz7vSYZ1tjTkzyiprFOpGTOkr7UbhDZ7OpKEzI/s1600/Xbox+1.5+vs+Playstation+4.5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzF2XrtLT7Au_ZcIsm6vYbE0iVnSvPRs4IQOl9mZuwyuFfSp9PF_-SCJHZQynjI-o2EDBYRN19gOndiDx0OAaH459lk4ggXWHI19b5NTz7vSYZ1tjTkzyiprFOpGTOkr7UbhDZ7OpKEzI/s1600/Xbox+1.5+vs+Playstation+4.5.jpg" /></a></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">Rumors are flying about Sony’s PlayStation 4.5, a.k.a. the PS4K. Depending on who you want to believe, the PS4’s mid-generation refresh could wind up being a solid step forward in regard to hardware capabilities and may even introduce some 4K options for fans. It may even be designed to provide a better overall experience for users of PlayStation VR. Bear in mind that this is all just rumor for now, of course.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">One thing that’s not a rumor is that Microsoft won’t be following the same track with the Xbox One. Xbox head Phil Spencer made it pretty clear recently that fans shouldn’t expect an “Xbox One-and-a-Half” because if the company is going to release any new hardware then it will be a more significant upgrade to the current console.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">Speaking at the recent Build Developers Conference, Spencer unveiled some of Microsoft’s plans for the Xbox One moving forward and the company’s efforts to make developing for both the Xbox and Windows platforms easier. When asked about the PlayStation 4.5 rumors, he pointed out that he had no inside knowledge about what was going on over at Sony. He did elaborate and say that Microsoft wouldn’t be taking any half-steps forward in technology, however:</span></span></div>

Xbox One Followup Won’t Be Incremental Upgrade Like the PlayStation 4.5

Rumors are flying about Sony’s PlayStation 4.5, a.k.a. the PS4K. Depending on who you want to believe, the PS4’s mid-generation refresh...

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Xbox One Backward Compatibility: Xbox 360 RDR and Call of Duty announcements coming soon?

<br /> <br /> <section class="text-description" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; transform: none;"><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; transform: none;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8OykwmcVgY_s5FI_i-2nRQJOplUmBaxjT-cg3vDWhnGa501YmkfzLSTq9MRx9hiMHHjgOjhtc00NFKeRPpJ_v7YlxulcQsLG_mN_SomWA2YinrSAjzTQ85IEPxlFwBfZC0AlGxa1c8-A/s1600/Call+of+Duty+Xbox+one.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8OykwmcVgY_s5FI_i-2nRQJOplUmBaxjT-cg3vDWhnGa501YmkfzLSTq9MRx9hiMHHjgOjhtc00NFKeRPpJ_v7YlxulcQsLG_mN_SomWA2YinrSAjzTQ85IEPxlFwBfZC0AlGxa1c8-A/s320/Call+of+Duty+Xbox+one.jpg" width="248" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> The last few weeks has seen over ten new games added, Left 4 Dead 2 being the most highly sought of the bunch.</div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; transform: none;"> While others like Dead Space, Alan Wake and Dead Souls have proved popular additions, fans are still waiting for the most voted for titles to appear.</div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; transform: none;"> Currently, the Xbox feedback page that allows fans to choose which games have the highest backing, currently includes six Call of Duty titles but only one has so far been confirmed.</div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; transform: none;"> Call of Duty: Black Ops has been revealed as an <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/gaming/657315/Xbox-One-Backward-Compatibility-games-Xbox-360-Microsoft" style="border: 0px; color: #bb1a00; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transform: none;" target="_blank">Xbox One Backward Compatibility</a> game and could soon be joined by others.</div> </section><br /> <div class="p402_hide htmlappend" style="background-color: white; 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Xbox One Backward Compatibility: Xbox 360 RDR and Call of Duty announcements coming soon?

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FBI trick for breaking into iPhone likely to leak, limiting its use

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLPjU6luf5_yvS2XyavOE4wXTiQV6uwFkzLolkN4nSDBBXV4BAkwoNJSVeh424dg4h0Zpm-KBlZt7cFYY1Fbuk9kzJBLyxWhSh78RlNjvKoyqv_JCMuYSF2BwdlwhcTtg94wBd_eqVQMw/s1600/iPhone+5c+FBI.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLPjU6luf5_yvS2XyavOE4wXTiQV6uwFkzLolkN4nSDBBXV4BAkwoNJSVeh424dg4h0Zpm-KBlZt7cFYY1Fbuk9kzJBLyxWhSh78RlNjvKoyqv_JCMuYSF2BwdlwhcTtg94wBd_eqVQMw/s1600/iPhone+5c+FBI.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> The FBI's method for breaking into a locked iPhone 5c is unlikely to stay secret for long, according to senior Apple Inc engineers and outside experts.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> Once it is exposed, Apple should be able to plug the encryption hole, comforting iPhone users worried that losing physical possession of their devices will leave them vulnerable to hackers.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> When Apple does fix the flaw, it is expected to announce it to customers and thereby extend the rare public battle over security holes, a debate that typically rages out of public view.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> The Federal Bureau of Investigation last week dropped its courtroom quest to force Apple to hack into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, saying an unidentified party provided a method for getting around the deceased killer's unknown passcode.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> If the government pursues a similar case seeking Apple’s help in New York, the court could make the FBI disclose its new trick.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> But even if the government walks away from that battle, the growing number of state and local authorities seeking the FBI’s help with locked phones in criminal probes increases the likelihood that the FBI will have to provide it. When that happens, defense attorneys will cross-examine the experts involved.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDXMCaEKBuINTB0274yMgAv_cUWWVvfH5PrOCknUaU6hoHREQFamL7Q5luoQjK6SPQyTHWuWkWxGaXSinct9vgFErfl9eKbkgeC23SJuY0SmKPJMN5RkQhjWZltVZmHH7dwEY4ia4zxU/s1600/iPhone+5c+FBI+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDXMCaEKBuINTB0274yMgAv_cUWWVvfH5PrOCknUaU6hoHREQFamL7Q5luoQjK6SPQyTHWuWkWxGaXSinct9vgFErfl9eKbkgeC23SJuY0SmKPJMN5RkQhjWZltVZmHH7dwEY4ia4zxU/s1600/iPhone+5c+FBI+2.jpg" /></a></div> <br /></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> Although each lawyer would mainly be interested in whether evidence-tampering may have occurred, the process would likely reveal enough about the method for Apple to block it in future versions of its phones, an Apple employee said.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> "The FBI would need to resign itself to the fact that such an exploit would only be viable for a few months, if released to other departments," said Jonathan Zdziarski, an independent forensics expert who has helped police get into many devices. "It would be a temporary Vegas jackpot that would quickly get squandered on the case backlog."</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> In a memo to police obtained by Reuters on Friday, the FBI said it would share the tool "consistent with our legal and policy constraints."</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> Even if the FBI hoards the information - despite a White House policy that tilts toward disclosure to manufacturers - if it is not revealed to Apple, there are other ways the method could come to light or be rendered ineffective over time, according to Zdziarski and senior Apple engineers who spoke on condition of anonymity.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> The FBI may use the same method on phones in cases in which the suspects are still alive, presenting the same opportunity for defense lawyers to pry.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> In addition, the contractor who sold the FBI the technique might sell it to another agency or country. The more widely it circulates, the more likely it will be leaked.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> “Flaws of this nature have a pretty short life cycle,” one senior Apple engineer said. “Most of these things do come to light.”</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> The temporary nature of flaws is borne out in the pricing of tools for exploiting security holes in the government-dominated market for “zero-days,” called that because the companies whose products are targets have had zero days’ warning of the flaw.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> Many of the attack programs that are sold to defense and intelligence contractors and then to government buyers are purchased over six months, with payments spaced apart in case the flaw is discovered or the hole is patched incidentally with an update from the manufacturer, market participants told Reuters.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> Although Apple is concerned about consumer perception, employees said the company had made no major recent changes in policy. Instead, its engineers take pride in the fact that a program for breaking into an iPhone via the web was recently purchased by a defense contractor for $1 million, and that even that program is likely to be short-lived.</div> <span class="focusParagraph" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span id="midArticle_1" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span id="midArticle_2" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span id="midArticle_3" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span id="midArticle_4" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span id="midArticle_5" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span id="midArticle_6" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span class="first-article-divide" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span id="midArticle_7" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span id="midArticle_8" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span id="midArticle_9" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span id="midArticle_10" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span class="second-article-divide" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span id="midArticle_11" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span id="midArticle_12" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span id="midArticle_13" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span class="third-article-divide" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span id="midArticle_14" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span id="midArticle_15" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><span id="midArticle_0" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><br /> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> They said most iPhone users have more to fear from criminals than from countries, and few crooks can afford anything like what it costs to break into a fully up-to-date iPhone.</div>

FBI trick for breaking into iPhone likely to leak, limiting its use

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