Tim Cook in Washington: Meetings w/ Sen. Hatch & Dept of Veterans Affairs, dinner w/ Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump
Tim Cook has held a pair of notable meetings in Washington D.C. this week according to reports. First, BuzzFeed News reports that Cook met with Senator Orrin Hatch on Capitol Hill, while Politico reports that he also went to dinner with Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner. Apple VP of environment, policy, and social initiatives Lisa Jackson was also in attendance at the dinner. Cook’s meeting with Senator Hatch, a republican from Utah, is the latest evidence of strong connection betw..>> view originalFBI request for Twitter account data may have overstepped legal guidelines
By Dustin Volz | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON The FBI appeared to go beyond the scope of existing legal guidance in seeking certain kinds of internet records from Twitter (TWTR.N) as recently as last year, legal experts said, citing two warrantless surveillance orders the social media company published on Friday.Twitter said its disclosures were the first time the company had been allowed to publicly reveal the secretive orders, which were delivered with gag orders when they were issued in 2015 and..>> view originalZuckerberg defends immigrants threatened by Trump
While other tech leaders glad-hand with The Donald, Mark Zuckerberg is facing him head on. Today the Facebook CEO called out the president for his unAmerican views that demonize immigrants, while also tactfully encouraging the few positive policies and comments Trump has offered on the subject. You should read Zuckerberg’s full Facebook post on the topic embedded at the bottom of this story, but the highlights include: “Like many of you, I’m concerned about the impact of the recent executive ..>> view originalRussia Grounds Proton-M Rocket for 3 Months
MOSCOW — Russia's workhorse Proton-M rockets will be out of service for three and a half months because of engine problems, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Saturday during a visit to the factory in the city of Voronezh where the engines are manufactured.Rogozin said some employees at the factory had been involved in faking documentation linked to the rocket and pledged that those responsible would be "harshly punished.""It's lucky that it didn't end in an accident," he told journalis..>> view originalUS no longer has geography as defense, ally in cybercombat
WASHINGTON (AP) — A lack of geographic boundaries in cyberspace or any rulebook for conduct is making the United States a juicy target for hackers in the internet age. For a foreign enemy it's easier and cheaper than ever to attack from a perch in ...>> view originalApple has filed a patent for some sort of vaporizer
The US Patent and Trademark Office this week published a patent application by Apple that details a peculiar vaporizer technology. The document, filed last year, outlines plans for an apparatus that can regulate temperature to release heat from a ...>> view originalSolved? Cracking the code of metallic hydrogen
January 27, 2017 —With just one proton and one electron, you’d think there isn’t much to learn about the simplest atom in the universe. Yet hydrogen is full of secrets, and a Harvard team says they’ve cracked one more.Scientists have been chasing hydrogen’s elusive metallic form for over 80 years, foiled by the confoundingly high pressures required to create it. Now, researchers have caught the tell-tale glint of metal in their apparatus, according to a paper published Thursday in Science. Expe..>> view originalCisco, Bosch, and Foxconn are building blockchain tech for the internet of things
(Reuters) – Cisco, Bosch, and several other companies have set up a consortium to work on how blockchain can be used to secure and improve “internet of things” applications, as sectors beyond finance seek to benefit from bitcoin’s underlying technology. The group, which also includes Bank of New York Mellon, Foxconn, security company Gemalto and blockchain startups Consensus Systems (ConsenSys), BitSE and Chronicled said on Friday that they will collaborate to develop a shared blockchain prot..>> view original
Saturday, February 11, 2017
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