I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly 10 years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit,” Levison wrote at the time. “After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations.
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The ‘Smith’ project includes a device that sounds like a bit of a hardware beast. The screen itself is not 3D but the device features four cameras, one at each corner of the device that will be used to track eye and head motions in order to move the interface around to ‘give the impression’ of 3D.
Apple’s $147 billion cash hoard now counts for nearly 10 percent of all corporate cash held by non-financial companies
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An FAA advisory committee has concluded passengers can safely use hand-held electronic devices, including those connected to onboard Wi-Fi systems, during all portions of flights on nearly all U.S. airliners, according to one of the group’s leaders.
Today’s 21.5-percent drop pales in comparison to the Bitcoin crash of April 2013, when the currency lost half its value within six hours as an anonymous owner was giving away bitcoins on reddit. Another noted “Bitcoin crash”—which bottomed out in October 2011—saw the currency slowly lose more than 90 percent of its value over the course of four months. (via Amid Silk Road uncertainty, Bitcoin value drops over 20% in 3 hours | Ars Technica)
European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes, who supervises the European Union’s digital portfolio, has been encouraging the bloc’s companies to tout their privacy creds. “Privacy is not only a fundamental right,” she said in Estonia this summer. “It can also be a competitive advantage.”
Selon un document obtenu par Numerama, la CNIL prévoit d’imposer aux journaux en ligne différentes mesures destinées à limiter la liberté de la presse en vertu du “droit à l’oubli” des personnes évoquées dans les articles. Au programme : désindexation des articles, anonymisation, et accès aux archives limité aux seuls abonnés.