#Court Rules Cops Don't need A Warrant To Get Your Cellphone Records A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the public has no reasonable expectation of privacy
when it comes to their cell phone location records. Cops don need a search warrant to get access to cell tower location records
when investigating criminal cases because this information belongs to a third party, according to the ruling. The case centered on Miami resident Quartavious Davis,
who was convicted of robbery, possession of a firearm, and conspiracy in 2012 after investigators obtained 67 days of Daviscell phone records from Metropcs1,
606 records in total. Davis was sentenced to 162 years in prison. The case was appealed to the 11th U s. Circuit court of appeals on the grounds that Davisfourth Amendment rights were violated.
On Wednesday, the court ruled with a 9-2 vote that the overnment obtaining of a court order for the product of Metropcs business records did not violate the Fourth Amendment.
The ruling stated that even though the cell tower records concerned Davis, they did not belong to him
because they were created by a third party. Therefore, Davis did not have a right to privacy around that information.
Because the public is aware that they can be tracked through their cell phones, the ruling argues that people should have no reasonable right to expect privacy around those records.
The ruling also compared cell phone location data to surveillance tapes in stores, saying that hose surveillance camera images show Davis location at the precise location of the robbery,
Using the example of information Google GOOGL-1. 71%collects from its usershich includes names, email addresses, telephone numbers, credit card data, online history, devices used,
meaning that Google users wouldn have a right to privacy around that data. The dissent continued, nd why stop there?
Nearly every website collects information about what we do when we visit. So now, under the majority rule, the Fourth Amendment allows the government to know from Youtube. com what we watch,
or Facebook. com what we post or whom we riend, or Amazon com AMZN-0. 38%what we buy,
or Wikipedia. com what we research, or Match. com whom we datell without a warrant.
A few concurring judges also offered caution about the implications of the case. his case is certainly about the present,
but it is also potentially about the future, Judge Jordan wrote. have some concerns about the government being able to conduct 24/7 electronic tracking (live
In a statement on Tuesday, ACLU staff attorney Nathan Freed Wessler noted that other courts of appeal are grappling with the question of cell phone location tracking
GMP corporate spokesperson, told me in an email. Schnure couldn say how big or small those promised savings will be:
a Southern California Edison spokesman told me via email, ut as prices decline for energy storage,
¢he me via Twitter. Even at twice that price, he said, grid-level batteries offer utilities a return on investment now:
The low hanging fruit was the copy cat web design for internet cannabis sites based on already popular traditional internet sites.
#Goodbye iphone Bulge: This Technology Reduces Lenses To The Thickness Of A Credit card A team of scientists at the Harvard School of engineering
Taking the iphone 6 as an example, the rear isight camera uses five individual lens elements stacked on top of each other,
resulting in a thick lens module which creates the familiar protruding lens bulge at the back of the phone t
#Whatsapp For ios Will Receive Voice Calling Feature In A few Weeks Whatsapp the instant messaging app that Facebook acquired for $19 billion last year hit 700 million monthly active users
At the Facebook f8 conference this week, Whatsapp cofounder Brian Acton said that the ios version of the messaging app will gain the highly anticipated free voice calling feature within the next few weeks, according to Venturebeat.
Whatsapp cofounder Jan Koum also said at the Mobile World Congress event that mobile phones will be sold in Germany with the Whatsapp brand.
Whatsapp launched a desktop client service called Whatsapp Web. The desktop version of Whatsapp only works for Android, Windows phone, Blackberry and Nokia S60 devices right now though.
Hopefully, Whatsapp Web will support ios devices soon. If you have a jailbroken iphone, then you can already access the voice calling feature on Whatsapp.
To use the voice calling feature on Whatsapp with a jailbroken iphone, you can follow these instructions that Thefusejoplin. com provided:
1.)You will need to install Appsyn and download the latest Whatsapp BETA version. Then you have to add the cydia. angelxwind. net and apt. imokhles. com repository on the Cydia sources. 2.)Download the latest version of the Whatsapp beta application and Whatsapp Call Enabler.
You have to make sure that Whatsapp Call Enabler is activated in the settings. 3.)After voice calls are activated,
you will need to have someone call you through Whatsapp and restart your iphone. Why did Facebook acquire Whatsapp?
During a keynote at Mobile World Congress last year, Facebook CEO Zuckerberg said that the acquisition was linked to his vision for Internet. org.
Internet. org is an initiative to bring the Internet people who do not have access
since two-thirds of the world is connected not. The amount that Facebook paid for Whatsapp was particularly interesting
because the messaging app is far from profitable. Whatsapp lost $230 million in the first half of last year on revenues of approximately $15 million, reported The Wall street journal
. While Facebook generates most of its revenues from advertising, Whatsapp charges 99 cents per year for a subscription after one year of free service.
However, Koum acknowledged that Whatsapp scaled back efforts to generate revenue following the acquisition i
#The XX Factor: Getting More Young Women Ready For STEM Jobs More girls and women than ever before are studying
when only one game has made it to American iphone Top 20 download chart. This is a radical,
On March 1, 2011,17 out of Top 20 most popular iphone apps in America were games. It was not unusual to have half a dozen new games enter the Top 20 each week each at least getting fair sampling by the public.
many of the rare recent download winners on the US app chart are relatively low-budget, indie titles like Mr. Jump.
The robot battle game eal Steel World Robot Boxingis likely the best known Reliance Games app it has 7. 5 Million downloads,
while the cluster of three Real Steel tie-in apps has garnered 47 Million downloads. The Real Steel franchise has shown broad global appeal
or TV series can generate downloads across the globe, even years later. Real Steel is a 2011 movie that grossed $300 Million.
Earlier this March, eal Steel Champions a new spin-off app by Reliance Games, hit Top 5 of US ipad download chart.
Manish Agarwal, the CEO of Reliance Games, Digital, had some interesting comments about using licensed IP for developing mobile games. he biggest challenge is identifying play mechanics that fit both the license
which has become something of a gatekeeper in South korean mobile game market. Koreans increasingly use Kakaotalk as an app discovery mechanism,
Reliance has decided to use Facebook as the social media network for its apps. Few Western app vendors apart from Supercell and King have attacked seriously Korea notoriously insular market It is impressive that Reliance is tackling Korea seriously from the start.
Backers included major VC players like Adreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Google Ventures hope what youl see is the regulations get cleared very soon
The company is pushing an Internet of things (Iot) slant on LED LIGHTS. LEDSENSE units include sensors that can determine building temperature
#Will Payments On Facebook Be Successful? Facebook: The Social Graph Of Payments Today March 17th, 2015 Facebook has entered into payments in a very big way 1. This is perhaps the biggest news in this sector since its inception.
Much like Wechat a sort of Facebook of China along with Alipay with their hundreds of millions of users to send money via instant message.
To become a person to person payment system in the US the company must apply for
and be granted a money transmitter license in every state. Facebook has been approved money transmitter licenses in every US state and territory along with many European and Asian countries.
My good friend Faisal Khan has been researching this for a number of years. In the US
One could argue that Google system was a communication platform centered around Gmail, but it was linked not fully to the chat system.
and there is a tipping point where one can be certain that the recipient can be found on Facebook.
It turns out a vast majority of Facebook 500 million monthly users are logged on to Facebook Messenger with about 80 million payment cards on file.
With Facebook Payments, the entire system is built currently around the Messenger platform. Fundamentally person to person payments are a form of deep communication
and Facebook Messenger is a logical jumping off point. A vast majority of person to person payments begin with a conversation, perhaps already within messenger.
How Does Facebook Payments Work? To use the system, the sender will need to associate a US based debit card with a Visa or Mastercard logo to their Facebook account.
If the user already has a debit card on file with Facebook from gaming, advertising, or donations, this can be the default card.
The system will allow for the user to image the card via a camera or to manually enter the card into the setup form.
Specimen of Facebook Payments payment sending sequence. To send money press the button in the Messenger message composer,
Specimen of Facebook Payments payment receipt screen. The money is removed instantly from the sender debit account
and delivered to the recipient Facebook associated debit card. Facebook uses the debit card network and the recipient bank
and can take about 24 hours to become usable. Both sender and recipient will see a confirmation message detailing the transfer status and time.
Along the way, Facebook will send the recipient notices to claim the money. As an added security feature, Facebook may ask users some extra security questions before a transfer can be authorized.
This may take the form of id you ever own a red caror n what city did you live in during the period of 1984 1986 etc.
Banking On Debit cards Facebook is currently a debit card based system and is using a similar system that Square adopted for Square Cash 2,
and optimizations made by Facebook to make the system more fault tolerant and redundant. Facebook is also using more recognized APIS that will have the ability in the future to also allow payments from credit cards using the full extent of systems like Visa VPP API 2. The system will also be able to easily scale to countries outside the US
and localize from a technical standpoint and a regulatory stand point. I am rather certain that Facebook has negotiated with a number of regional debit card networks to lower effective rates that Facebook will pay for each transaction.
This will actually be a win/win for both camps. The debit card networks will see a huge growth of aggregate transactions allowing the networks to continue to be relevant and vital in this new space.
And Facebook will of course see lower costs than most companies in this space. I see this pattern perhaps playing out through the world and thus
By the next Facebook developer conference we may see this presented along with very unique useless for the APIS Facebook most certainly will produce.
Now The Person To Person Payments Party Is Ready To Begin Facebook is entering into a market that has many existing solutions,
including: Google Paypal Venmo Square Banks And others It is very clear that a sort of shakeout will commence that will define competing products and perhaps remove a few products from the market.
There is little doubt that the landscape will be changed far one year from now. Square Square Cash seems to be in a very vulnerable position before Facebook Payments 3 and
I tried to present the case days after the product was announced that this will prove to be a huge waste of time, talent,
Paypal+Venmo Paypal and Venmo will see a challenge from Facebook Payments. There is no doubt about it.
and marketing needed to respond to Facebook. There are many ways that Paypal and Venmo can stay vital and relevant because of the scale they have achieved already.
Google Google has been sending person to person money via Gmail for over two years and although it is not breaking any records,
or a picture is quite genius. Google will need to lower costs and continue to innovate.
and a system that will surprise even Facebook. The plans have been in process for quite some time and unlike Facebook
Paypal, Google, and Square, Apple will not handle any payments themselves. High Likelihood Of Success There is little doubt that Facebook will be successful In person to Person payments.
If not just by the size of the user base and the utility this new feature will offer.
One can surmise that at some point, even though currently there is no revenue model from Facebook pavements,
there is a path where the cards on file will become a source for payments for products and services from merchants.
Specimen of revenue sources at Facebook. The Payment isruptionera Is Now Officially Over In less then 12 months
and listed Apple, Facebook, and retailers themselves. Today, Apple Pay, Facebook Payments, and MCX/Currentc are here.
It was fun times as my thesis and postulations were controversial and constrain. This was the height of the ayments disruptionmania
and many medical schools now use e-learning tools like webcasts and online study aids to broaden enrollment
when it opened two small program sites in Kenya and Haiti, it delivered classes to students in many of the world poorest places.
a web and mobile application that supports workforce skill building. The app delivers informational content to distributed teams,
In the Philippines, for example, a group of doctors founded an online community called Healthxph that uses social media to mobilize discussion about healthcare topics.
In neighboring Indonesia, more than three-quarters of doctors in major cities reported using the Internet regularly to build their knowledge and skills
Premera is stressing that the company will not email or call customers about the breach. To protect against phishing attacks,
and links or replying to emails about the breach. Based in Mountlake Terrace, Washington, Premera is one of the largest health insurance providers in the Pacific Northwest, with $7. 6 billion in revenue in 2013 and 1. 8 million members in Washington and Alaska n
#Youtube Now Lets You View And Upload 360-Degree Videos Youtube has announced that it is now supporting 360-degree video uploads.
Some of the cameras that are compatible with Youtube 360-degree video uploads include Bublcam, 360cam by Giroptic, Allie by IC Real Tech, the SP360 by Kodak and the RICOH THETA.
This means that viewers can watch videos in any direction for a different perspective instead of just where the camera is facing.
said Youtube staff in a blog post. ou could let viewers see the stage and the crowd of your concert, the sky and the ground as you wingsuit glide,
When you upload a Youtube video with a 360-degree camera, the viewer is able to tap on the video
If you are using the Youtube app on an Android device then you can pan around the video simply by moving your smartphone and tablet around.
As of right now, the 360-degree Youtube videos are supported by just the Chrome browser on the desktop and the Youtube app on Android devices.
Youtube said that 360-degree videos will be supported on other platforms in the near future like the iphone and ipad.
Youtube also has plans to make the 360-degree videos accessible through virtual reality platforms, which is the best way to view immersive content.
The experience feels very similar to Google GOOGL-0. 94%Street view . If you are near the Youtube Space L a. studio on Bluff Creek Drive in Los angeles,
the Creator Tech team is letting people try out the 360-degree cameras and put together those types of videos with help from the staff between now through April.
When you are ready to upload 360-degree videos on Youtube, you can find technical information on Github with a Python script to insert the correct video metadata.
Youtube plans to make the process of uploading 360-degree videos automatic, but that script will be required in the meantime.
Keep in mind that the quality of the 360-degree videos are not as high as we see in the standard Youtube videos.
The 360-degree videos need to be at 24 25 or 30 frames per second.
And the 360-degree videos take up about four-to-five times the bandwidth of regular Youtube videos.
Youtube set up a playlist of some 360-degree videos so that you can see multiple examples.
Here are a few examples of the new 360-degree videos on Youtube (watch these using Google chrome on your desktop
or the Youtube app for Android to see the 360-degree controls) e
#In Historic Turn, CO2 EMISSIONS Flatline in 2014, Even as Global economy Grows A key stumbling block in the effort to combat global warming has been the intimate link between greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth.
and smartphone to provide users with insight of actions happening in and around the vehicle via realtime data,
live video and image playback that can be viewed with the Lyfelens app on a user smartphone.
and pairs with the phone via Bluetooth when the user is in the vehicle, but the user will not have instant push notifications of vehicle activity,
How Social media Is Killing The Concert Experience I usually avoid Times square, but I had bought my ticket to see American Authors five months earlier
but instead she smiled at her phone, here Wi-fi here. My friend wasn alone. Before the first jubilant percussion beats could settle,
Our smartphones, and the instant communication they lend tempt us to forget the real moment in which we are involved.
nd the ubiquity of smartphones has resulted in a huge percentage of the audience at any given show barely paying attention to the action onstage.
According to T-Mobile, 47%of audience members text during shows. There are obvious downsides to introducing a smartphone into the concert mise-en-scene.
It is distracting for fellow fans and, depending on the type of concert and proximity to the stage, the artists.
it is not difficult to find concert recordings on Youtube. Most artists produce live session music videos,
There are redemptive qualities to inviting phones into concert spaces. Having a little recorded segment despite grainy quality and muffled sound is treasured a
My friend was sending emails while I played ninja to avoid flailing ipads the mini ones feel mega
and Twitter campaign#bestdayofmylife, after their biggest hit. Besides adding another incentive for all phones on deck,
they ran the tagged photos on a huge onstage screen for parts of the performance.
the lead singer triumphantly produced his iphone to capture the audience sing-along. I smiled, but felt weird.
It is not just rock concerts that add phone screens to the light show. The San francisco Symphony orchestra actually set aside weet seatsin
Frampton is no social media scrooge, he one of the few artists who personally engages with his online fan base.
Pink floyd cofounder Roger Waters told his Facebook followers that he ould never turn on a cell phone at any musical event.
Prince posts his urple Ruleswhen touring that forbid phones in the concert hall. Outcries like these do not seem to be just about profit and image
These artists are not damning social media, but reminding fans that there is a spiritual and emotional connection between music and the listener,
then smartphones detract from that, and if the purpose of social media and mobile messaging is communication,
a concert distracts from that. To everything there is a season. The nearly limitless accessibility provided by smartphones fuels the idea that sharing things is more important than doing things.
While sharing might be caring, we must remember that obsessive documenting changes the artistic structure of a concert atmosphere. he need to ocumentone life in every detail is a mania that can subtract from one enjoyment of the moment,
but not necessarily including a pod of iphones. Placing a screen between eyes and stage alters the DNA of a piece.
Twitter has a unique place in the social media sphere in that it was created purposefully for live events.
Twitter mission statement iso give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.
According to Twitter website, more than 80%of active users tweet from their phones, making the flutter of the little blue bird at concerts less surprising.
Where is the line between engaging in Twitter purpose and engaging in the concert purpose?
Smartphones invading musical experiences are inevitable, but so are creative solutions. Some artists request that pictures
giving fans the peace of keeping phones on their person while removing the temptation to use them.
but I did not feel present until my iphone was in my pocket. I told myself be here now.
#Facebook's first satellite will beam Internet to rural Africa starting in 2016 With the exception of a select few locations,
As result, only about 20 percent of the population is able to connect to the Internet.
Facebook hopes to change those statistics with a new project in its Internet. org initiative.
As part of this program, Facebook is partnering with French satellite communications provider Eutelsat to beam an Internet connection to remote parts of Africa."
"I'm excited to announce our first project to deliver Internet from space, "wrote Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in a Facebook posting.
Facebook is working with Eutelsat to provide Internet access to sub-Saharan portions of Africa via Eutelsat's new AMOS-6 geostationary satellite,
which will cover West, East and Southern Africa. Amazingly, the satellite will deliver affordable broadband Internet using off-the-shelf consumer equipment for connectivity
--so it'll be easy and cheap to build more of these satellites in the future. Eutelsat is setting up a new company in London to oversee its African broadband business
while Facebook will work locally in Africa to deliver Internet service to rural communities. The satellite-based service is expected to go online in mid-2016.
The African satellite project is part of Facebook's broader Internet. org initiative which debuted in 2013.
Through Internet. org, Facebook wants to connect the world by providing internet access to developing countries worldwide.
Internet. org was criticized highly for providing access only to Facebook and a handful of other web sites and services instead of the full, open internet.
Internet. org responded to critics by recently expanding its service to include any sites that meet Facebook's development criteria a
if you are talking on the phone with someone you know very well, and they are crying,
It also could be incorporated readily into most smartphones. Depth cameras work by projecting a pattern of dots
and used directed evolution techniques to identify molecules that bound near the active site of ß-Gal,
affording the parasite time to grow out of site from the immune system. Some these parasite-derived red blood cell surface proteins have an affinity for carbohydrate residues found on the surface of cells lining blood vessels.
As if smartphones can't already do enough, soon they may be able to scan three-dimensional objects
When used in conjunction with a smartphone, the system offers the potential of diagnosing diseases in remote locations from anywhere in the world.
Patients can then snap a shot of the film with their smartphone camera and send it off to a medical professional for analysis,
#"Google maps for the Body"zooms in from whole organs down to individual cells The algorithms used for zooming in
and out on Google maps and Google street view have made it possible to visually traverse through layers of the body starting with a whole joint and drilling all the way down to the cellular level.
Google, Brown and Stanford universities, Cleveland Clinic, and optics and medical device manufacturer Zeiss. It uses imaging technology originally developed to scan for defects in silicon wafers,
and with help from Google's Maps algorithms the researchers can zoom and pan through a whole organ or tissue joint all the way down to individual cells.
Unlike Google's Body Browser, which visualizes the layers of the body in three-dimensional rendered graphics,
this so-called"Google maps for the Body"uses real images that get seamlessly stitched together and layered on top of each other."
Through the Internet of things (Iot) and the Internet of Everything (Ioe), smart sensors have the potential to significantly help our societies resolve countless global challenges.
View all Sensors are linked very closely to the Iot, as its core function is to collect valuable data.
Through the Iot, large amounts of quality, sensor-based data can be collected at any time and from anywhere,
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