Friday 29 April 2016

Storage Device and iAccess MicroSD Reader from Leef

 
For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Leef to give MacRumors readers a chance to win the 32GB Leef iBridge, an iPhone-compatible storage device, the Leef iAccess, a microSD card reader, and a 64GB microSD card to go along with it.

Leef's iBridge is designed to expand the available storage on an iPhone or iPad by connecting to the Lightning port on Apple's devices. The iBridge can store photos, videos, music, and other files, freeing up valuable space on an iOS device, and it can also be used for backups. With the included USB 3 connector, it can quickly transfer files between a Mac and an iOS device.

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With the Leef app, content stored on the iBridge can be accessed on an iPhone or iPad, so music, videos, and photos can be viewed or played directly from the device. A wide range of audio, video, and document files are supported, from .MP4, .MKV, and .AVI to .WAV, .AAC, and .AIFF. There's also a built in tool for taking and storing photos right on the iBridge.

Apple's stock suffers worst week since 2013

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Apple was set on Friday to have its worst week on the stock market since 2013, as worries festered about a slowdown in iPhone sales and after influential shareholder Carl Icahn revealed he sold his entire stake.

Tuesday 26 April 2016

Twitter adds function to report multiple abusive tweets at same time

Update aims to speed up reporting process for those suffering from online abuse and will be rolled out to users in coming weeks
Twitter has improved its anti-harassment tools, adding the ability to report multiple abusive tweets at the same time.

Apple, Twitter and Facebook under scrutiny

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Image caption Out with the old: Facebook employees see the old Sun Microsystems logo when they head home
Sun Microsystems was a Silicon Valley giant. 
Founded in the 80s, the company sold hardware and software to thousands of companies, and during the dot.com boom it was bringing in $5bn (£3.4bn) in revenue each quarter. But then the bubble burst, and the firm went into a catastrophic downward spiral.
Its share price plummeted and, in 2010, the scraps of Sun Microsystems were bought up by Oracle — and that was that.
Six years on, I'm driving towards San Jose, past the Menlo Park headquarters of Facebook. On the side of the road, there's a big "Like" billboard, and you'll often find a bevvy of techy tourists waiting to have their picture taken in front of it - like some kind of social media Taj Mahal.
But most striking about the Facebook sign is what's on the reverse side: a logo for Sun Microsystems, the previous tenants at this location.

US government drops another iPhone case against Apple

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Image caption Apple says it has received 5,000 requests for help gain access to iPhone data in 2015
The US government has dropped a case against Apple that sought to compel the company to provide access to an alleged New York drug dealer's locked iPhone.
The Department of Justice said Apple's help was no longer necessary as the passcode had been obtained.
A similar case involving a phone used by the San Bernardino gunman was dropped when the FBI got help from a third-party to unlock the handset.
The DoJ denied either case was about setting a court precedent.
The cases revolve around cracking the four-digit security number that accesses the phone without triggering a security feature that erases all data after 10 incorrect guesses.

Google partners Uber on driverless cars


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Image caption Google wants self-drive cars with no steering wheels or pedals
Google has formed a coalition with carmakers and taxi-hailing companies to help steer the regulations needed to make self-drive cars a reality.
Including Ford, Volvo, Uber and Lyft, it will lobby lawmakers and regulators on some of the legal barriers.
Former US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration official David Strickland will be its spokesman.
The coalition also aims to convince the public of the benefits of driverless cars.
"Self-driving technology will enhance public safety and mobility for the elderly and disabled, reduce traffic congestion, improve environmental quality, and advance transportation efficiency," the group said in a statement.

BeautifulPeople.com dating site data sold online


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Data stolen from a dating website aimed at "beautiful people only" has been traded online.
The details of more than a million members including their weight, height, job, and phone numbers were discovered unencrypted online in December 2015.
They have now been sold on the black market, said security expert Troy Hunt.
The firm said the data belonged to members who joined before July 2015 and that no passwords or financial information were included.
Security researcher Chris Vickery, who originally discovered it, told the BBC the firm acted quickly after he notified them - but by then, data had already been sold on.

"They published it openly to the world with no protection whatsoever," he said.
Beautiful People originally claimed the content was from a test server but Mr Vickery said the data itself was still genuine.
"Whether or not it's in the test database makes no difference if it's real data," he added.
"The breach involves data that was provided by members prior to mid-July 2015. No more recent user data or any data relating to users who joined from mid-July 2015 onward is affected," Beautiful People said in a statement.
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Image caption People wishing to join the website are first rated by existing members
Beautiful People has been contacted by the BBC for further comment.

Public information

Now the compromised data appears to have been sold on the black market, security expert Troy Hunt told Forbes.
"Now it's public, cybercriminals have the opportunity to use this information to steal personal identities or more," said David Emm, principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab.
"Unfortunately, once a breach of this nature has been made, there is not much that can be done."
Cybercriminals use the genuine identities to synthesise new ones, and they tend to act within a month of receiving stolen data, said John Lord, managing director at identity data intelligence firm GBG.
"Organisations need to take action and use more data, analytical insights and triangulation of multiple-identity proofing techniques to minimise the potential effects of identity theft for both the user and the businesses serving them," he said.

Beauty secrets

People hoping to join the Beautiful People website submit photographs which are then rated by existing members of the opposite sex for 48 hours.
If they get enough positive votes, they are then granted membership.
The firm claims more than 700 marriages have taken place between people who met on its website.

Empty DDoS threats earn extortion group over $100,000

Armada Collective cybercriminal group asks companies for protection fees to avoid DDoS attacks.
Credit: Gerd Altmann / Pixabay

There's no evidence that companies that declined to pay extortion fees to the Armada Collective were attacked, researchers say

Since early March, hundreds of businesses have received threatening emails from a group calling itself the Armada Collective, asking to be paid between 10 and 50 bitcoins -- $4,600 to $23,000 -- as a "protection fee" or face DDoS attacks exceeding 1Tbps.
While many of them did not comply, some did; the group's bitcoin wallet address shows incoming payments of over $100,000 in total. Yet none of the companies who declined to pay the protection fee were attacked, website protection firm CloudFlare found.
The company talked with more than 100 current and prospective customers who received an extortion email from the Armada Collective, as well as with other DDoS mitigation providers whose customers have been threatened by the group.

Apple Watch Developers Talk Gaming as Apple's Wearable Turns One Year Old

The Apple Watch turned one year old on Sunday, and Macworld decided to use the device's anniversary as an opportunity to revisit the state of gaming on Apple's first wearable. While the launch of the Apple Watch brought a wave of excitement for users and developers alike, the subsequent months saw a noticeable dive in both buzz-worthy Apple Watch game announcements and user interest, with a few exceptions.

As it was in April 2015, developers still believe that what works best for Apple Watch games are short, "quick-hit experiences" that get users in and out of fun, engaging games before raising their wrist grows tiresome. Everywhere Games CEO Aki Järvilehto, whose company created one of the first popular Apple Watch games, Runeblade [Direct Link], believes that as well as quick bursts of entertainment, wrist-worn games should "grow with the player" over the course of a few days, weeks, and even months.

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The company's viewpoint has netted an enthusiastic fanbase who have created detailed wiki pages and generate an active subreddit on Runeblade. According to Everywhere Games' statistics, active players log into the game about 100 times per day. Runeblade crafted a bite-sized RPG experience that's become a model for other Apple Watch games, but another popular blueprint being followed by developers comes from Three Minute Games' interactive fiction experience Lifeline [Direct Link], which puts players in the shoes of the only person who can communicate with a distant, stranded astronaut.

Monday 25 April 2016

U.S. exploring ways to disclose number of Americans caught in data grabs: spy chief

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Monday his office was looking at “several options” to publicly disclose an estimate of the number of U.S. persons caught incidentally in Internet surveillance intended for foreign targets.“We are looking at several options right now, none of which are optimal,” Clapper told reporters at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor news organization, though he cautioned the task would be difficult and potentially run afoul of privacy considerations.

Wednesday 20 April 2016

Can 'sweaty billboard' help fight Zika virus?

A billboard that attracts and kills mosquitoes has been designed by marketing agencies in Brazil.
The board releases a mixture of a lactic acid solution that mimics the smell of human sweat and carbon dioxide, which is in human breath.
Its inventors have released the blueprint for free and are encouraging people around the world to make them.
However, one expert warned it could attract insects to areas where there are many humans.
The two companies behind the Mosquito Killer Board, Posterscope and NBS, believe it could help in the fight against the Zika virus, which is carried by mosquitoes.
The insects are drawn to the aroma from the board from a distance of up to 2.5km away, the board's inventors say.
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They are then trapped inside it and can be seen in the message it bears, which explains its purpose.
So far, they have installed two of the Mosquito Killer Billboards in Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil.
The firms will not be selling the advertising space inside the billboard.

Tuesday 19 April 2016

Apple complies with greater proportion of US data demands

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Image caption The firm released its latest transparency report this week
Apple is consistently more compliant with US requests for access to users' information than with the rest of the world on average, it has emerged.
Its own figures showed that, in 2015, Apple released data on users' devices to US authorities 80% of the time, compared to 55% when it came to the UK.

Monday 18 April 2016

YouTube live-streams in virtual reality and adds 3D sound

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Image caption YouTube will broadcast virtual reality views of the Coachella festival
YouTube is introducing live-streamed 360-degree videos on its service.
The Google-owned platform said select concerts from California's Coachella festival would be the first to use the virtual reality facility.
In addition, it announced videos on its service could now be enhanced with "spatial audio", which simulates the effect of sounds coming from different directions and distances.
One expert said the innovation could greatly enhance VR experiences.

WWDC to Be Held June 13 to June 17 in San Francisco

As we reported in January, Apple plans to hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on June 13 to June 17 in San Francisco, at the Moscone West convention center where the conference has been held for the past several years.

The official WWDC dates have leaked courtesy of Siri (via 9to5Mac), who, when asked when WWDC will be held responds: "The Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will be held June 13 to June 17 in San Francisco. I'm so excited!"

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While today's information counts as official confirmation that the conference will be held from June 13 to June 17, the dates in question were already known based on scheduling information at Moscone West. Since January, the Moscone Center has been booked for the first, second, fourth, and fifth weeks of June, leaving only the third week open for Apple.

YP Holdings plans first-round bid to merge with Yahoo: Bloomberg

Saturday 16 April 2016

Oracle, Google fail to settle Android lawsuit before retrial

Oracle Corp and Alphabet's Google unit failed to settle a long running copyright lawsuit over the Android operating system ahead of a retrial scheduled for May, according to a court docket.The case involves how much copyright protection should extend to the Java programming language, which Google used to design Android. Oracle is seeking billions in royalties for Google's use of some of the Java language, while Google argues it should be able to use Java without paying a fee.

Game On - Posh Frocks and Dinner Jackets

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are not what the BAFTA Games Awards are about. The awards celebrate "outstanding creative achievement" in the games industry. Adam Rosser was at Tobacco Dock to cast an eye over events at the show and at EGX Rezzed.

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MLB says Multitasking Increased Live Viewing 86% Year-Over-Year in its 'At Bat' iPad App

 
In February, Major League Baseball introduced multitasking to its At Bat iPad app, allowing users to view its video inside the app while using Slide Over and Split View as well as outside the app with picture-in-picture. MLB tells TechCrunch that the adoption of the features has had a "profound impact" on live video consumption on iPad.

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During the first two weeks of the current baseball season, MLB found that fans who had the multitasking update spent 20 more minutes per day watching live video on the iPad compared to last year. On average, fans who used the new multitasking options while watching video were spending 162 minutes a day watching MLB's content, which is an 86 percent increase from last year. Fans who did not use the multitasking features while watching video watched an average of 101 minutes per day.

Friday 15 April 2016

Five websites that turn your used electronics into money

 There are many trade-in programs to choose from. Here are the top five.
How do you make a brand new device cheaper? Sell your old one.
Here five sites where you can trade in used electronics for cash or gift cards, in no particular order.

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Amazon trade-in

Payment method: Amazon gift card
Turnaround time: Two business days
After using Amazon's tool to identify the product you wish to send in, and describing its condition, you'll be given a value.
Once you ship the item (Amazon covers shipping) Amazon will ensure the item matches your original description. If it all checks out, your Amazon account is credited with an Amazon Gift card for that amount. If the item is in better condition than you described, Amazon promises to give you the higher value.
Your gift card is usually available within two business days after Amazon receives the items.
The drawback? With Amazon's trade-in program, your money is locked to your Amazon account.

Best Buy trade-in

Payment method: Best Buy gift card
Turnaround time: 10 business days
Getting a quote is as simple as picking a product category, manufacturer, model and condition. Once you've filled out the questionnaire, the tool will estimate the value of the item. The offer amount, if you choose to accept it, will only be awarded as a Best Buy gift card.

Mathieu Flamini: Arsenal's biochemical midfielder


Arsenal's French midfielder Mathieu Flamini wins a header during the English Premier League football match between Arsenal and Chelsea at the Emirates Stadium in London on January 24, 2016
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Image caption Climate change "is the biggest problem of our time," says Arsenal's Mathieu Flamini
For years Arsenal midfielder and French international Mathieu Flamini kept a big secret. Another tabloid football scandal? Not quite.
Eight years ago he co-founded a company that he hopes will help save the planet - GF Biochemicals (GFB).
He has been telling the BBC about his involvement, something he kept secret even from his Arsenal teammates and others close to

New 'Ultra-Thin' MacBooks Launching in Second Half of 2016 May Sport Metal Injection Mold-Made Hinges

Last November it was reported that Apple was working with suppliers to "fully redesign" many of the MacBook's internal components to achieve a slimmer design. Today, DigiTimes reports one of those redesigns is a move to metal injection mold-made hinges.

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Metal injection molding is a metalworking process that's used to create very small metal pieces that are typically used by Apple for the internals of products like iPhone and Apple Watch. Apple is looking to use the technology for its MacBook hinges to save space and achieve an "ultra-thin" design, according to

Apple Begins Promoting 'Live Tune-In' Feature on New Apple TV Splash Screen

Apple today began promoting a new feature on the fourth-generation Apple TV called "Live Tune-In," which lets users jump directly into the live streams of select apps using Siri. The company is specifically promoting CBS, ESPN, and Disney XD as apps that support Live Tune-In, but it hasn't disclosed yet how soon other apps that have live channel functionality will gain the new feature as well.

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To use Live Tune-In, Apple TV users can speak into the Siri Remote using commands like "Watch CBS," or specifically ask to "Watch ESPN live." Other features on the new splash screen of the Apple TV include

Steel jobs 'can be saved by tech', says energy researcher


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Image caption New techniques allow impurities to be removed from scrap steel, turning it back into a high-quality material
The UK steel industry is doomed unless it embraces cutting-edge technology, a Cambridge professor has warned.
Prof Julian Allwood said the only way to save steel jobs was to make high-value products for industries in which the UK leads the world.
New methods could scrub impurities from recycled steel to make products for the aerospace and car industries, he said.
It comes as efforts are being made to save thousands of jobs at Tata Steel's Port Talbot steel plant in south Wales.
The announcement by the Indian company that it is to sell its UK business is the latest blow to an industry which has seen a succession of job cuts.

New steel

Prof Allwood said current plans for the steel industry did not go far enough, because they did not utilise the latest technology.
In his six-year study on the steel sector, the predicament of the industry appears stark.
"The global steel industry today has more capacity for making steel from iron ore than it will ever need again," he said.
"On average, products made with steel last 35 to 40 years, and around 90% of all used steel is collected. This is easy because it's magnetic.
"The supply of steel collected from goods at the end of their life therefore lags the supply of new steel by about 40 years."

UK steel crisis

  A worker inside a Chinese steel factory
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What's going wrong with Britain's steel industry?
Who might buy Tata in Port Talbot?
Is China to blame for steel woes?

Prof Allwood said the steel market would continue to grow - but all future demand growth could be met by recycling the existing stock of steel.

Microsoft's new bot 'still learning'

 
Microsoft has unveiled a programme which identifies images in pictures.
Microsoft's latest bot, designed to describe the contents of photographs, says it is "still learning" after receiving mixed reviews online.
The BBC found "Captionbot" was able to recognise James Bond actor Daniel Craig but not an Apple watch.
A bot is a computer program that is able to communicate with humans using artificial intelligence.
The tech giant's Twitter chatbot Tay had to be taken offline after it began tweeting abuse.
"The more you chat with Tay the smarter she gets," the firm said when it launched, but people soon found they were able to teach the Twitter account to tweet extreme views and inappropriate remarks.
Tay's successor, Captionbot, has a stable of "siblings" including a bot which matches faces with celebrities, one which guesses the age of the person in a photograph and another which guesses dog breeds.
Built by Microsoft's Cognitive Services division, it uses the developer's' computer vision API (application programming interface) which extracts information from images from input such as tags.
It also uses the firm's Emotions API which analyses facial expression for a range of "universally communicated" emotions including anger, disgust, happiness and surprise.
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Great monarch butterfly migration mystery solved

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Image caption Monarch butterflies are the only insects to migrate such a long distance
Scientists have built a model circuit that solves the mystery of one of nature's most famous journeys - the great migration of monarch butterflies from Canada to Mexico.
Monarchs are the only insects to migrate such a vast distance.
So, by teaming up with biologists, mathematicians set out to recreate the internal compass they use to navigate on that journey.
The findings are published in the journal Cell Reports.
Lead researcher Prof Eli Shlizerman, from the University of Washington, explained that, as a mathematician, he wants to know how neurobiological systems are wired and what rules we can learn from them.
"Monarch butterflies [complete their journey] in such an optimal, predetermined way," he told BBC News.
"They end up in a particular location in Central Mexico after two months of flight, saving energy and only using a few cues."
Prof Shlizerman worked with biologist colleagues, including Steven Reppert at the University of Massachusetts, to record directly from neurons in the butterflies' antennae and eyes.
"We identified that the input cues depend entirely on the Sun," explained Prof Shlizerman.
"One is the horizontal position of the Sun and the other is keeping the time of day.
"This gives [the insects] an internal Sun compass for travelling southerly throughout the day."
Having worked out the inputs for this internal compass, Prof Shlizerman then created a model system to simulate it.

Autonomous sphere drone delivers water and other news


BBC Click's Stephen Beckett looks at some of the best of the week's technology news, including Facebook rolling out artificial intelligence-powered chatbots on its Messenger platform and the "FreeMotionHandling" sphere - a helium-filled autonomous drone - which can deliver bottles of water and other objects.

Pepper spray university UC Davis 'hid search results'

Students at UC Davis are sprayed with pepper spray
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The university at the centre of a pepper spray row paid consultants more than $175,000 (£123,000) to bury online search results about the incident.
In 2011, a police officer pepper-sprayed students protesting at UC Davis, California, at close range.
The university later hired consultants to "eradicate references" to the incident in search results.
UC Davis said it wanted the reputation of the university to be "fairly portrayed".
An officer was seen spraying the protesters at close range
Videos of the incident, which have been viewed millions of times online, show a police officer pepper-spraying students who were peacefully protesting on the university campus.
In a statement issued at the time, university Chancellor Linda Katehi said she was "deeply saddened" by the event and took "full responsibility for the incident" but refused to resign when challenged by the university's academic staff association.

HTC 10 Wins Heaps of Praise With a Sprinkling of 'Buts'

By Richard Adhikari
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HTC this week unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, the HTC 10.
The phone's camera is outfitted with new, larger sensors and 12 million new-generation UltraPixels. Both the front and rear cameras sport the world's first optically stabilized, larger-aperture f/1.8 lenses on, the company said.
The rear camera also has a faster laser autofocus. The front UltraSelfie camera has a wide-angle lens and screen flash. Both cameras take sharp, high-resolution photos, even in low light, according to HTC.
"Is it a good camera? Yes. Is it a sexy style? Of course," said Ramon Llamas, a research manager at IDC.
HTC "deserves credit for makes its 10 one of the best camera phones on the market today, but mass-market consumers are not rushing into stores for snazzy camera phones, and they remain niche differentiators for now," remarked Neil Mawston, an executive director of research at Strategy Analytics.
"We expect the HTC 10 to sell reasonably well in the United States and worldwide, but it isn't an iPhone killer or an HTC savior," he told TechNewsWorld.

Apple Stores Celebrate Earth Day With Green Logos and Staff T-Shirts

In honor of Earth Day next Friday, April 22, Apple has updated the logos of over one hundred of its retail stores with green leaf accents in countries around the world, and provided retail employees with matching green t-shirts to wear. Apple is also promoting stores that run on 100% renewable energy with new signage.

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Apple Store photos shared by Instagram users Pierre Atruz and Ethan Masselli

Wednesday 13 April 2016

Facebook’s next big Stuff: Bots for Messenger

Facebook’s next big thing: Bots for Messenger


Mark Zuckerberg said bots offered advantages over using dozens of specialised apps
Humans, we've got company.
No longer satisfied with being the dominant network for our humble species, Facebook is now courting a different type of user: bots. And eventually you'll be able to talk to them as if they were your mates.
"Could you transfer £100 to my brother, please?" you might one day ask your bank. Or maybe, "Do you have any blue shirts in my size?"
Sometimes they'll ask you things too, with something like: "Do you want to hear today's top stories?"
Right now the conversations will be structured - with Messenger bots suggesting things you can say. But the goal is natural conversation, and it could be a huge step.
Chief David Marcus says Facebook has taken steps to prevent hackers abusing the bots
If what Facebook has promised today at its F8 developer conference comes to pass, the effect on our everyday lives could be enormous. It could be, according to Facebook's head of messaging David Marcus, a return to more personal interactions.
"Before the internet era, everything was conversational," he told the BBC.
"But then we traded conversations for scale."
One of the bots being launched on the service today will be from Spring, an artificially intelligent concierge service.
"Spring is actually going to build an experience where everything is automated except customer service," Mr Marcus explained.
"It's bot for 99.9%, but then if you have a problem, a human can actually jump in and sort out your problem.
"That's the best of both worlds."
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Image caption Facebook wants people to use bots instead of apps to make bookings and purchases

EU watchdogs demand revisions to Safe Harbour replacement

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Image caption Privacy regulators say they cannot accept the proposed data transfer pact in its current state
A panel of EU privacy watchdogs has demanded changes to a pact meant to govern cross-Atlantic data transfers.
The group urged the US and European Commission to revise and clarify several points in the proposed Privacy Shield agreement in order to safeguard EU citizens' personal information.
The Privacy Shield is meant to replace an earlier data transfer pact called Safe Harbour.
Safe Harbour was invalidated by a court decision last year.
The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party said it was still concerned about the possibility of "massive and indiscriminate" bulk collection of EU citizens' data by the US authorities.
It added that it wanted further guarantees about the powers a US official would have to handle complaints from EU citizens.

Apple's iPhone 7 is COMING: Specs, Release Date & Hardware Rumours

Rumours Richard Goodwin
 

2016 COULD see the release of the iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus AND the iPhone SE -- now wouldn't THAT Be special!

Apple is REALLY shaking things up in 2016. The company has now officially launched a 4in iPhone called the iPhone SE and added a new product to its iPad Pro range, the iPad Pro 9.7. This all happened at the company’s annual town hall meeting, where Tim Cook discussed his company’s plans for the rest of the year as well introducing a bunch of new environmental initiatives.
By now we've heard many rumours claiming the iPhone 7 will be the thinnest iPhone ever - ultra-thin, super-thin, the thinnest of the thin! Wafer thin? Anyway, the latest blurb down the grapevine claims this extreme thinness will go hand-in-hand with a couple of hardware innovations.
We’re even starting to get trickles on information through about Apple’s 2017 iPhone — the iPhone 7s. This handset will be the first iPhone to use OLED display technology, opening up lots of design possibilities for Apple with future iPhones — iPhone EDGE, anyone? Word on the street suggests Apple is so keen on making the switch from LCD to OLED it has fast-tracked the transition for next year — OLED was originally said to be happening in 2018.