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EU ‘ s Netop Afsluttet Copyright-Lovgivning, Der Omskriver Reglerne for Web
Billede: Getty For to år, den Europæiske Union, er blevet mulling over en alvorlig revision af loven om ophavsret. Men sidste år blev det stadig mere klart, at de centrale bestemmelser i den truende copyright direktiv, udgør en alvorlig trussel mod den frie udveksling af oplysninger online, kultur fair brug, og muligheden for nystartede virksomheder…
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Dating App’s Reputation Schmeared by Data Breach
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Remote-Controlled Probe Picks up Radioactive Debris at Fukushima for the First Time
A plant official walking near reactor No. 2 of the Fukushima plant. Image: AP Tepco, the state-owned operator of the badly damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, has conducted an important test in which a remote-controlled probe managed to grasp several small grains of radioactive debris, AFP reports. The successful operation marked an important achievement for the…
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Secretly Filming Students’ Cleavage Is Illegal: Canada’s Supreme Court
Supreme Court of CanadaPhoto: Dig Deeper (Wikipedia Commons) In 2015, Ontario high school teacher Ryan Jarvis was caught secretly recording the chests of female students with a spy pen. But Jarvis was acquitted after the Ontario Court of Appeal reasoned that the students didn’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy at the public school. Today,…
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Apple Prime Would Be a Gigantic Hit, Huh?
Photo: Getty It’s imminent. Multiple outlets now report that Apple will announce new video streaming and news subscription services at a celebrity-studded event in Cupertino on March 25. BuzzFeed News cited anonymous sources who said the event would take place at Steve Jobs Theater and focus on the news service. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman corroborated that…
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California Governor Wants You to Get a Cut of the Cash Tech Companies Makes From Your Data
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty) California Governor Gavin Newsom has asked his aides to create a “digital dividends” proposal for a plan that would allow consumers in the state to get a portion of the money that tech companies make from using their personal data. The new governor announced his intentions in his State of the…
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New Research Could Help Keep Stink Bugs Out of Your House
Brown marmorated stink bug Photo: Alpsdake (Wikimedia Commons) You don’t just see one stink bug. You see seemingly infinite stink bugs: in the couch, among the dishes, somehow under your pillow. Sure, try to kill them—they’ll just come right back. New research from scientists in Virginia measures just how small the smallest gaps must be…
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To Stop the Wall, Democrats Agree to Fund Mass Surveillance Near U.S. Border
Central American immigrants stand at the U.S.-Mexico border fence while crossing the border from Mexico on February 01, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. The migrants turned themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents, seeking political asylum in the United States.Photo: Getty / John Moore A spending bill expected to pass the House and Senate on…
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New NASA Mission Will Look Back at Billions of Years of Cosmic History
Conceptual image of SPHEREx.Image: Caltech A newly approved NASA mission, called SPHEREx, will use a space-based observatory to study the early conditions of the Universe and hunt for the celestial ingredients required for life. Proposed in 2016, the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer mission, or SPHEREx for…
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Facebook Is Negotiating a Record Multi-Billion Dollar Fine for Its Privacy Problems: Report
Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty) Facebook is in active negotiations to resolve the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into the company’s privacy failures, according to a new Washington Post report, talks that could result in a multi-billion dollar fine or a heavyweight court battle. The report didn’t include an exact figure and said that landing on an…