Acer Chromebase 24 (CA24I) CES 2016: The screen has a full HD resolution...

Apple's 40th Anniversary| The Verge

Google and Acer built a 24-inch desktop computer for video conferences | The Verge

2018 Tesla Model 3 Release Date, Price and Specs - Roadshow

2018 Tesla Model 3 Release Date, Price and Specs - Roadshow

Feds have asked Google for help breaking into phones, too - CNET

A host of technology giants, including Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Google filed a friend-of-the-court brief, also known as an amicus, earlier this month throwing their support behind Apple.

Until now, Google's dealings with the government over smartphone data have been out of the spotlight. It's unclear how many times each company complied with the requests.

"We carefully scrutinize subpoenas and court orders to make sure they meet both the letter and spirit of the law," a Google spokesperson said. "However, we've never received an All Writs Act order like the one Apple recently fought that demands we build new tools that actively compromise our products' security. As our amicus shows, we would strongly object to such an order."

Feds have asked Google for help breaking into phones, too - CNET

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The Acer Chromebase 24 Is A Killer Chrome OS PC

The Acer Chromebase 24 sports a vivid 23.8-inch IPS display pushing a roomy resolution of 1920×1080 (known as FHD in abbreviation speak). A speaker grill sits beneath the screen (which will also be available with an optional 10-point multi-touch display).

The model will be available in a range of configurations, with a range of Intel Core processors promised. Yup, the low-power slow-poke Intel Celerons used previously give way to proper desktop processors.

A sleek chassis houses both the screen and system innards, while the switch to a traditional monitor stand enables the screen to be repositioned between 5 and 30 degrees.

The Acer Chromebase 24 Is A Killer Chrome OS PC

Apple could learn how the feds unlocked an iPhone - CNET

Apple wants to know how the FBI decrypted an encrypted iPhone. But will the feds be forced to talk?

On Monday, the US Department of Justicedropped its demand that Apple help it unlock an iPhone 5Cused by Syed Farook in December's terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California. That's because the FBI succeeded in unlocking the phone with the help of an unknown third party.

Apple could learn how the feds unlocked an iPhone - CNET

Lessons from Apple vs. the F.B.I. - The New Yorker

"It now appears as though the F.B.I. seized on the San Bernardino case as an opportunity to pursue a policy agenda that it has had for years, and that it oversold its case. The agency said that it was unable to unlock the iPhone 5C without Apple’s assistance. But as Daniel Kahn Gillmor, a technology fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union, pointed out in a blog post published on March 7th, this claim didn’t ring entirely true. In his piece, which included pictures of an iPhone 5C’s circuit board, Gillmor described how investigators could work around the auto-erase feature by removing the device’s NAND flash memory and backing it up, then trying every conceivable four-digit passcode combination. “If the FBI doesn’t have the equipment or expertise to do this, they can hire any one of dozens of data recovery firms that specialize in information extraction from digital devices,” he wrote. It’s not known for certain if the F.B.I. used the method that Gillmor recommended to get into Farook’s phone. But the post suggested that the Bureau hadn’t exhausted all of the technological possibilities for accessing the data. This may damage its credibility if it gets into a similar legal dispute in the future."



Lessons from Apple vs. the F.B.I. - The New Yorker

Article: Using Samsung Pay makes me feel like a rock star -- and you should be one, too.

Article: Using Samsung Pay makes me feel like a rock star -- and you should be one, too

Google unveils Fiber Phone, a $10/month home phone service coming to all Fiber cities

"Fiber Phone includes unlimited local and nationwide calling (“nationwide” means U.S.-only because Google Fiber is still only available in one country), as well as “the same affordable rates as Google Voice for international calls.” You can keep your old phone number(or pick a new one), use call waiting, caller ID, and 911 services. Like Google Voice, Fiber Phone also transcribes your voice messages for you and sends them over as a text or email."

Google unveils Fiber Phone, a $10/month home phone service coming to all Fiber cities

Google Penetrated China's Firewall for 102 Minutes

Google Penetrated China's Firewall for 102 Minutes

"After parting ways with The People's Republic Of China a few years back, Google saw their services replaced by local elements such as Baidu and WeChat, even as their market share grew globally, for the most part. Although they recently began an initiative to get back in the good graces of the most populous nation in the world, their services are still mostly blocked by China's Golden Shield Project, also known as the Great Firewall. This means that any IP address in mainland China cannot access Google's services without going through a virtual private network. Between the hours of 11:30 PM Sunday night and 1:15 AM, Chinese local time, Google's newest servers' IP addresses weren't registered to the Great Firewall's databases. This meant that, for just over an hour and a half, everybody in China was able to access Google."

Don't give a crap about VR? Here's why you should - CNET

Don't give a crap about VR? Here's why you should - CNET

"If your eyes glaze over and your senses go numb at the mere mention of virtual reality, this is a message for you. Because I think you'll come around, and you'll thank me when you're prepared for the rush of VR experiences to come. Maybe not today, but in the next couple of years when it becomes part of your everyday life.

That's because virtual reality is one of those things that really hits home when you've actually tried it for yourself. Suddenly, all the videos of people riding a VR roller coaster and gushing after they'vetried VR for the first time make a whole lot of sense. You get to be part of the club."

'Burner' phones could be made illegal under US law that would require personal details of anyone buying a new handset | News | Lifestyle | The Independent

'Burner' phones could be made illegal under US law that would require personal details of anyone buying a new handset | News | Lifestyle | The Independent

"Burner phones might be about to be banned in the US.

A Congresswoman has proposed that everyone buying a phone in the country would have to register with personal ID, to stop criminal activities being planned with handsets that can be bought anonymously and then thrown away.

Forcing shops to require customers to give over identification when buying cheap phones or pre-paid SIMs could be one of the most important ways that terrorists are able to communicate, according to California Congresswoman Jackie Speier, who proposed the bill.

"Burner phones might be about to be banned in the US.

A Congresswoman has proposed that everyone buying a phone in the country would have to register with personal ID, to stop criminal activities being planned with handsets that can be bought anonymously and then thrown away.

Forcing shops to require customers to give over identification when buying cheap phones or pre-paid SIMs could be one of the most important ways that terrorists are able to communicate, according to California Congresswoman Jackie Speier, who proposed the bill."