Friday, January 31, 2014

Network find: Play Lego again - but digital! - STERN.DE

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F ast as beautiful as before: A collaboration between Google Chrome and Lego brings the colorful plastic bricks from the carpet in the browser. With “Build with Chrome” takes a few minutes out of different colored blocks and a few Sonderteilchen (doors or windows) to cobble together a small, architectural masterpiece. Then you can place his building directly on a world map and publish it.

Initially the project according to Google Chrome blog was built by a group of Australian programmer as an experiment, but has now been released for all other Lego fans. Fortunately, there lurks behind the colorful stones enormous potential for addiction. We hereby warn you: once begun, is it not going back as soon

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With passwords of other services: unknown E-mail Accounts crack at Yahoo - ABC Online

a hacker attack unknown e-mail accounts have cracked at Yahoo. The company encourages its customers on to change the passwords: For the attack apparently the hackers stole data, which are also used in other companies

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The Internet company Yahoo reports a hacker attack on email accounts. The attackers used this confidential information which was believed to have been acquired by a data theft at another company, Yahoo announced on its official blog. “We have no indication that they are purchased directly through the systems of Yahoo.”

hackers often make use of the fact that internet users use the same passwords for different accounts. Yahoo also announced, users had been called to change their passwords. How many user accounts are concerned, the Group was not known. He did not name the name of the other company.


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Elevated levels of radiation at Sellafield - New Germany

In the British reprocessing plant at Sellafield unusually high levels of radioactivity has been measured.

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10 000 employees of the nuclear complex at Sellafield in northwest England said on Friday, to stay at home. The reason for this extraordinary measure: it had been measured in the north of the sprawling complex excessive levels of radioactivity, informed the company that operates the Sellafield Ltd. with. But if it were not for a leak, but to natural background radiation from radon. Cause for concern, therefore, not give it. “If this had happened during a working day, we would have sent people normally go home.” There was no risk to public or employees. The system worked normal, albeit with reduced crew. On Monday, all employees would normally expect to serve.

the Department of Energy in London gave the all-clear. “We are in constant contact with Sellafield,” said a spokesman told the BBC. “But we have no reason to assume that this is serious when they say it.” Nevertheless, the company that operates the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna informed on the measure.

nuclear complex at Sellafield is located in north-west England on the Irish Sea. On the grounds is the 1963 commissioned in 2003 and decommissioned nuclear power plant in Windscale. Sellafield has since been used exclusively for the storage of nuclear waste and reprocessing of used fuel. Also, here uranium / plutonium mixed oxide fuel elements are manufactured. Also send German power plant operators used fuel rods for reprocessing to Sellafield. On the grounds are still quite a few Castor with highly radioactive waste to be transported back to Germany.

It is not the first time that the nuclear complex in Cumbria had an unscheduled return to the Irish Sea to operate. Due to the snow storm and had to be temporarily suspended work in March 2013. At the time, a spokesman told the BBC television that it had sent the workers due to weather conditions back home, so they should arrive too sure there. The huge Sellafield site consists of a total of 1,300 buildings. On the grounds there are, among others, a nuclear power plant and a reprocessing plant.

But a real burden Sellafield could be if it had to be removed one day. 2013 has estimated the cost at 68 billion pounds (83 billion euros) a committee of the British House of Commons. Before the area was cultivated with nuclear reactors, fuel reprocessing plants and factories since the late 1940s, it housed a munitions factory. No one knows exactly what types of waste stored there yet.

the time of the recent incident is extremely inappropriate for the British government. Because also on Friday, the Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron met with French President François Hollande – among other things, to discuss enhanced cooperation in the field of nuclear power. Among other things, the French company EDF to build a nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in the county of Somerset in the south west of England – the first new building in the UK for decades. Here are also Chinese investors on board. The EU Commission has, however, initiated a procedure against the financing of the construction. She suspects prohibited State aid, because the operators is a very high current price guaranteed.

Thursday, January 30, 2014

News at Facebook: News App "Paper" is on Monday - Augsburger Allgemeine

Facebook has confirmed rumors of a news app. The app “Paper” is to appear in the U.S. on Monday. In a clip the innovation you can already view in advance.

Facebook to compete with the newspaper? For months there have been rumors about a news app from Facebook, now the company bosses have confirmed the speculation. The app “Paper” is already on 3 February appear. But this is true only for Facebook customers in the United States. Whether, and if so, when “Paper” to be published in Germany, is currently unclear.


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The app here is strongly reminiscent of a Flipboard. The News can be sorted by various topics. The content for its app refers Facebook of known publications as well as from smaller blogs and pages. And of course, users can – in a classic style Facebook – share the content and liken. (AZ)

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Google is growing thanks to high advertising revenue

Google surpasses the expectations of analysts – but is the earnings per share in the fourth quarter of 2013, well below the predictions. Motorola has apparently sold just in time.

Google surpasses the expectations of analysts – but is the earnings per share in the fourth quarter of 2013, well below the predictions. Motorola has apparently sold just in time.

With its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2013, Google provides 24 hours of the announcement of the deal, the justification for the sale of its mobile subsidiary Motorola in China’s Hardware Lenovo Group by: by almost a quarter of the sales of mobile-Bauer has collapsed compared to the prior-year quarter, they contribute to a rapidly growing loss of now $ 384 million per quarter to the fact that Google with its latest quarterly figures missed analysts’ forecasts scarce.

Although the Group generated sales growth of 17 percent to $ 16.86 billion per quarter expectations, but profit per share of $ 12.01 was significantly among the predictions.

Google proves with the latest quarterly figures, especially the importance of the advertising business for the Group: A mere $ 1.6 billion of sales do not result from the advertising business, but from the area of ??hardware and content.

Thus, the area was able to grow by 100 percent compared to the same quarter last year, Google’s CFO Patrick Pichette said: “The growth in sales was primarily through content and app sales in the Play Store driven “, even Google’s new TV stick Chrome Cast’ve helped.

Large dependence on the advertising market

But Pichette can not deny: 90 percent of the revenue for the quarter resulting from advertising, Google is extremely dependent on the advertising market. At the same time Google must admit that the cost per click – so the price for a successful ad on Google – have dropped significantly once again, alone in the last quarter by 11 percent

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Google loses, therefore, the constant battle against the price decline in its core business – and still gaining in sales, since new forms of advertising the price decline per ad offset: 31 percent more paid clicks of its users as in the prior year quarter, Google.

This amazing growth, the Group also owes the success of the 2012 introduced “Product Listing Ads” (PLAs), advertisements with images of individual products that are listed next to the search results .

According to analyzes of the U.S. advertising service provider Marin Software, the demand of commercial customers explodes after this form of ads, Google’s U.S. advertisers tripled in the past year their budgets for the PLAs.

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currently leads Google’s new display form in the international market, in the past quarter, Google has started, according to Chief Business Officer Nikesh Arora PLAs in eight countries.

Arora also announced other new forms of advertising: In its map service Google Maps will continue to integrate more local ads on mobile devices, the Group Facebooks wants success in the field of app-install advertising imitate.

the sale of Motorola commented on the Google-Manager in its analyst call just barely: The deal with Lenovo was “a win for the Android ecosystem.” Given the growing losses here just in time Google has pulled the ripcord and sold billions loss.

How the deal is reflected in the books, it becomes clear only in the coming quarters. But it is already clear: Google’s first attempt to emancipate themselves from Werbegschäft is, for the time being failed

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New core of Google’s hardware division is the just acquired startup Nest, which will continue to play with Google’s resources in the back on an international role. However, whether nest can alleviate alone Google’s dependence on the advertising market in the medium term, is doubtful in light of this most recent ones.

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Chinese Consolidated on a shopping spree: Lenovo is buying Google for $ 2.9 billion ... - ABC Online

Google sells the mobile phone business of Motorola after less than two years to the Chinese Lenovo Group. The world’s largest PC manufacturer pays only $ 2.91 billion. Many important secret but does not change the owner.

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the deal, the companies announced on Wednesday. Google announced Lenovo get with the deal the brand name Motorola and about 2000 patents. However, the majority of patents to the former subsidiary will still belong to Google. The company was never able to lead into the black its mobile subsidiary. The Internet giant had been paid $ 12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility in 2012. Lenovo According to insiders advise on the purchase by Credit Suisse, Google Lazard.

The world’s largest computer manufacturer Lenovo had announced a few days ago, for $ 2.3 billion abzukaufen the U.S. company IBM the contractual weak server business. The Chinese gain with the purchase of access to the major U.S. mobile phone market, which is dominated by Apple.

Google had submitted the offer for Motorola in August 2011 and for months waiting for a release by international regulators. The acquisition was only completed in May 2012. Even under Google’s Directed Motorola wrote previously losses. Not even new models like the Moto X could not change.


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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Evolution - Neanderthal DNA increased risk for diseases - Süddeutsche.de

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sex with the Neanderthal to modern man has indeed brought its genetic diversity. But also a few medical problems.

The question is now answered: Yes, Neanderthals and modern humans definitely had sex with each other – and probably more than once and in different regions of Europe. Finally, the genetic material of living in Africa today is not human contains about 1.5 to 2.1 percent genetic material that clearly stems from the Neanderthal .

Two recent studies now show that this DNA is not uniformly distributed in the human genome. There are totally free sections and those in which it occurs frequently, for example in genetic sections that structure and type of keratin in human influence ( Nature and Science, online, 2014) .

These proteins are found in the skin and the hair. This may have helped the anatomically modern humans to adapt on their way from Africa to the cooler regions of Europe or Asia, the researchers write. The color of the skin plays about the vitamin D metabolism play a role.

Both studies indicate that the sexual partners of humans and Neanderthals at the time of their confrontations were genetically not fully compatible. This in turn could be the explanation why there are in certain areas of the human genome no Neanderthal traces.

“That was the price of the crossing,” says population geneticist Joshua Akey of the University of Washington, one of the authors of the Scienc e-study. Harvard researcher David Reich adds: “When humans and Neanderthals mixed, they were at the limit of biological compatibility.”

The researchers found in the studied genomes of a total 1004 people living today regions that are completely free of Neanderthal genetic material. “In these parts of our genome variants Neanderthals were obviously a disadvantage and were quickly selected out of the gene pool of modern humans,” Svante Pääbo, director says at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.

The corresponding gene regions for example, lie on the X chromosome, thus affecting the fertility of men. They carry the X chromosome, only one copy and are therefore particularly sensitive to adverse genetic variants. On the X chromosome there is virtually no Neanderthal contribution.


Neanderthal genes are to blame for some diseases

“It’s often the case that in hybrids between closely related species, the male offspring fertility problems,” says Pääbo. The result: They were slow infertile. The new results suggest that we may therefore adopted modern human DNA from Neanderthals more women than men.

The scientists also identified Neanderthal genetic variants in the human genome that may have an impact on many diseases. “These gene variants could weakly interact with the human genome and thus cause disease in us,” says Reich. Maybe they increase the likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes, Crohn’s disease and lupus disease, a rare autoimmune disease. Even an influence on smoking behavior appears to be possible.

variants such as type 2 diabetes were probably initially no effect. The disease occurs only if you have access to an abundance of food, so Pääbo. “From the Neanderthals are both gene variants that protect us, as such, pose an increased risk for certain diseases,” says the researcher.

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Google sells Motorola mobile phone division to Lenovo

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Google sells the mobile phone business of Motorola after less than two years to the Chinese Lenovo Group. The world’s largest PC manufacturer pays $ 2.91 billion. Google had paid $ 12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility.

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Looking at the raw numbers, then the deal for Google is at first sight an end with terror: Twelve and a half billion dollars, Google had paid for not even two years ago for Motorola Mobility. Now the Internet giant gets just under three billion dollars for the equivalent of about 2.1 billion euros. However, Google had justified the purchase from the beginning so that Motorola in the mobile sector holds a variety of patents. And the lion’s share of these patents reserves Google now, they are excluded from the sale.

Google CEO Larry Page, thus encompassing a day before he is required to submit the current quarterly figures, the emergency brake – because even in Google’s Motorola guidance on writing massively in the red, in the previous quarter alone nearly $ 250 million loss. New models such as the Moto X Moto and G have not changed anything. Dominating the market for smartphones is used worldwide by Samsung and Apple.


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Google pulls So now, in the field of hardware back and focuses on the software: The in-house Android operating system runs on more than 80 percent of all smartphones, even on the models of Samsung. In addition, Google is by Motorola now another problem going on: so far looked the other smartphone manufacturers exactly that Google gave to no extra treat his own Motorola models, such as when distributing updates to the current system version

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Lenovo’s motives are clear: the world’s largest PC manufacturers want some time big move into the smartphone business and now get the Motorola brand, introduced to the comparatively low price. For Lenovo is not the first deal this way: Even a few years, the Chinese have bought the IBM PC and laptop division, and the first last week, even the server business

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The Chinese manufacturer Lenovo purchased the smartphone maker Motorola for 2.91 billion U.S. dollars, as the current owner Google confirmed.

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Lenovo buys from Motorola and Google paid 2.91 billion U.S. dollars, as Google CEO Larry Page writes on the Google blog. He defends it as an important step for Android: Google could better focus his energy on Android, Lenovo could as the largest and fastest growing PC maker better made “super competetive ‘market. The Motorola brand wanted to Lenovo, according to Page continue, as it also happens with ThinkPad, the IBM 2005-selling notebook brand.

Google Motorola 2012 had bought, including a patent portfolios for 12.5 billion U.S. dollars, but suffered a shock absorber in the dispute with Apple. The patents remain, according to Page with Google to “defend the entire Android ecosystem.” The When the purchase is completed, is still unknown, there still must agree to various U.S. and Chinese authorities.

a subordinate clause mentioned Page, that the sale does not mean major change for Google’s other hardware stores, as examples, he mentioned the wearable and home market, so Google and the Glass House technology only recently purchased. The robot development is likely to propel Google ahead. Perhaps meant the Page but also in response to the rumors, Google wants the Android Nexus ad series in favor of more Google Edition devices. (jow)

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Apps in the focus of NSA and GCHQ - Angry Birds in Monitoring Mission - Süddeutsche.de

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The intelligence community NSA and GCHQ monitor mails, phone calls and text messages – this is known. But even smartphone apps are not sure how “Guardian” and “New York Times” report now. In Angry Birds, Facebook, or Google Maps can even be win especially delicate information.

Angry Birds, Google Maps, Facebook: Not just phone calls and text messages can the U.S. NSA and the British counterpart GCHQ recorded and analyzed, also of Apps can be serially filtering user information. The report of the British Guardian and the New York Times consistently relying on more secret Snowden documents.

data leaks in popular smartphone applications, the secret, for example, information about the site or access the phone model, write the media. And also very personal data is collected from the various apps and can be filtered by the intelligence from the data streams: age, gender, relationship status, sexual orientation, level of education or number of children – no information from user profiles is safe from NSA and GCHQ, the findings.

“Each of the Google Maps uses, supports GCHQ”

Especially the searches on Google Maps and other mapping services to have been evaluated in a big way. Firstly, a database has been set up to “every cell tower in the world to locate,” on the other, numerous searches were evaluated, the Guardian . A Light for the secret – in a document of 2008 it says: “That means in a sense that everyone who uses Google Maps on his smartphone, working to support a GCHQ system . “

from the documents that come from the collection of the whistleblower Edward Snowden, however, do not indicate the extent to which actually make the secret of its potential use -. how many data packets from apps are so routinely stored and evaluated

In his speech, data monitoring and reform of intelligence practices, U.S. President Barack Obama has spoken out for better protection for metadata phone calls. The immense amount of data that can be gained from smartphone apps, he had, however, no mention emphasizes the Guardian .

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NSA secret spy data on game apps from - FAZ - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The NSA and its British partner service GCHQ also have data on the visor that is collected about users of apps, which reported the New York New York Times with respect to documents of the British secret service. As one example called the “New York Times” on Monday the popular game “Angry Birds”. The two secret lurking in the background, to access information such as place of residence, age or gender of the players, it said. The paper referred to in his report on documents from the collection of the informant Edward Snowden.

That way collect a lot of data about users mainly free apps, has long been an issue. A classic example is an application that could shine a flashlight the smartphone flash – and by the way information such as the current location and the identification number of the device thumbed. These data were then passed on to advertising networks. The Android app had been downloaded at least 50 million times.

But many apps collect the data with the explicit consent of the user, for example, social networks or online mapping services. The intelligence services had worked among other things together to tap off location information when a target person Google Maps use – or to get at address books when someone Apps of online networks may establish, writes the “New York Times”

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In a secret British document of the year 2012 was the talk that you can access apps that contain the details of how the political or sexual orientation of users. At the same time the extent of data collection with the help of apps based on the available documents remains unclear curtailed the sheet. In the internal presentations sources such as “Social Apps”, “Geo-apps” or data would be called from mobile advertising. There also hot, these data could answer questions such as: “Where was my target person, as she did that?” Or “Where is my target person go?”

The new revelations add another piece of the puzzle for added knowledge about the great monitoring system of the NSA. Was already known that the American secret service various types of electronic communications taps, as well as accompanying information about phone calls, contents of address books and at least in the past, the internal traffic between data centers of Internet companies such as Google and Yahoo.

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Hunters from northern Spain had dark skin and blue eyes - Spiegel Online

Barcelona – He had dark skin and dark hair, but blue eyes. The read Spanish scientists from the genome of a man who lived as hunters and gatherers in what is now northern Spain over 7000 years ago. The results of the genetic analysis shows that the Europeans were at that time not yet everywhere light-skinned, the researchers write Carles Lalueza-Fox from the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva in Barcelona in the journal “Nature”. Also interpreted the results indicate that the eye color had changed sooner than could the skin pigments.

examined genome derived from a skeleton, which had been, together with a second skeleton found in 2006 deep in a cave of the Cantabrian Mountains in Léon in northern Spain. The uniform, cold ambient temperature at 1500 meters above sea level, the bones and teeth were well preserved. The skeletons were La Braña 1 and 2 baptized, named after the archaeological site of La Braña-Arintero. The researchers took samples from a tooth of La Braña 1 and were able to decipher its genome. It is according to information provided the first complete genome of a European from the period before the introduction of agriculture.

No milk, no crops

Not surprisingly for scientists, that the man could digest starch bad and was lactose intolerant. The genetic makeup of people have adapted only in the course of agriculture in the diet with crops and milk, the researchers write.

However, the studied hunter-gatherers already had an immune system that is less susceptible to pathogens made him that are transmitted from animals. This could indicate that hunter-gatherers already had such genetic changes, although they held no cattle, highlight Lalueza-Fox and his colleagues. So far went Evolutionary biologists believe that these modern gene variants have only been introduced with the livestock.

The research team compared the genome with the past and present people. It turned out that the hunter-gatherers was related to a group of people that was once widespread throughout Europe and to Lake Baikal in Russia. The vote also consistent with findings of cultural objects, such as Venus figurines, which were found in an area from Western Europe to Siberia, the researchers said. The gene pool of this group could be partially preserved in present-day northern Europeans.

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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Mobile phone maker is following suit: objectors Apple is now planning yet more iPhones - ABC Online

identifies substantial iPhones condense. Apple plan for this year, two models with screen sizes from a good 4.5 and 5 inches (11.5 and 12.7 cm), reported that “Wall Street Journal”. The plans could change, and that it was restrictive, citing initiated persons.

Apple itself manifests itself not traditionally to new products, the “Wall Street Journal” lay with his information about upcoming Apple products but often right.

Larger Smartphones are popular in China

Both new models would have an aluminum housing, wrote the newspaper said. Apple wants 5c give up the plastic casing of the current model iPhone again. The Group had invested a lot of money in an advertising campaign for it, according to media reports, the more expensive iPhone 5s sold but much better.

Apple previously refused to the trend toward large screens so that the smartphone can still be operated with one hand. For quite some time is therefore speculated that Apple could jump on the trend to larger displays. Especially in the Chinese market is becoming increasingly important are more popular smartphones.


New display technology to improve image

The Group had long indicated that larger displays often have a worse picture. CEO Tim Cook had, however, taken a softening of the position a few months ago: He pointed out that with advances in display technology, you now should not have to compromise on image quality.

Apple usually brings in a new-generation iPhone out, most recently in September. Main rival is Samsung with its Galaxy series, which runs on the Android operating system from Google.


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Meanwhile, Cook can currently focus not only on new products. The notorious for its hard stance U.S. investor Carl Icahn, who switched to Apple’s billion-money mountain, increasing pressure on the Group’s management.

now he stuck within a day by half a billion dollars in Apple stock. Thus, the value of its investment had grown to $ 3.6 billion, Icahn said on Thursday.


Apple is worth $ 500 billion

In an open letter, he reiterated again after the call for a significantly higher dividend to shareholders. The company had too much money for a rainy day. Apple had recently rejected Icahn’s demand to buy shares worth at least $ 50 billion in the current fiscal year.

Overall, the price of Apple’s stock about 500 billion dollars worth. Icahn is known to exert great pressure on companies with small positions. He currently also called for an elimination of the payment service PayPal of the online trading platform Ebay, in which it holds less than one percent of the shares.


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The search engine giant Google to six secretly filmed sex pictures of ex-motorsports boss Max Mosley not redistribute.

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it must continue to refrain from displaying the photos from the video of a private sex party with prostitutes in the search results for “Google.de” judged the Hamburg Regional Court on Friday. The images violated the 73-year-old heavy in his privacy, said the chairman of the press chamber, Simone beetles.


An exceptional case

If Google displays the photos in the future, threatened by the decision of the court a fine of up to 250,000 euros. The verdict is possible at the Higher Regional Court (OLG) Hamburg.

In this particular case is inconceivable that the images could be published admissible in any context, stressed beetles. Exceptionally, will therefore generally prohibits the dissemination of photos – and not, as is usual in similar methods, the prohibition is limited to a particular context or a particular link

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Google criticized “censorship”

Mosley has been warned operators of sites individually, so that the images are no longer accessible. About the Google search results, the images were always re-distributed, said Beetle. The Group had also not sought to develop about filtering software to prevent future violations. The press chamber did not elaborate on how Google is to apply the ruling technically.

In previous hearings, the judge had but brought about filtering software into play. Google defends itself against and criticized’ll then from the search engine a “censorship machine.”


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The Mars Rover

“Opportunity” is an oldie of his profession. For years, he rolls over the surface of the red planet and takes pictures, analyzed soil samples studied minerals. Recently photographed “Opportunity” with its panoramic camera the same place twice at an interval of twelve days, as NASA announced at a formal presentation for the tenth anniversary of the Mars mission.

presented the comparison, the space scientists surprised to find that distinguished the later image at one point. Now lay there on the rocky surface of Mars, a mysterious asteroid which had not previously located there. “Mars makes but always good for a surprise,” said Steve Squyres, principal investigator of the Mars mission.


Geriet the stone under the wheels?

Squires stated that “Opportunity” is not directly rolled over the area in question, but one to two meters past it. How then came the rounded boulders, which resembles with its dark indentation in the middle of a donut, in its place? The researchers have two theories as to how the English language news site “CNN” reported. Most likely, therefore, was that the stone fell under one of the wheels rolling and was thrown into place.

The second theory is related to the possible existence of a “smoking hole” together. If located near such a crater, the stone could have been cast out also from the throat. Squyres believes this but unlikely.


“We are totally messed up”

currently investigating “Opportunity” the enigmatic rock, measures and photographed in more detail. An exciting finding, the researchers have thus been obtained. The dark piece in the center was different from “everything we have seen so far.” It contains an unusual amount of sulfur and magnesium, as well as twice as much manganese as anything ever discovered on Mars.

“We are totally confused and have a wonderful time. Everyone from the team discusses and argues, “the space scientists is at” CNN quoted “. Maybe driving the same routes brings the Mars research now even on a new path.


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Friday, January 24, 2014

Mars Rover for ten years on "Red Planet" - tagesschau.de

Mars Rover for ten years on “Red Planet”

“Opportunity” is not forgotten

Also a Mars robot shows signs of aging. But despite arthritis and problems with saving information the little rover “Opportunity” always provides new discoveries. Exactly ten years he is on the “Red Planet”.

By Martin Ganslmeier, NDR Radio Studio Washington

Michael Meyer, chief scientist of NASA, can not exactly remember the landing of “Opportunity”: packed in thick air bag hit the Rover 25 January 2004 on Mars.

“The airbags made sure that he bounced several times before he really came to a halt,” says Meyer. Then drove “Opportunity”, the solar wings and put the first inch back on the Red Planet.


“No one would have expected”

At the time, NASA was hoping that the little rover would hold three months and one kilometer to travel. Ten years later, running “Opportunity” and still has almost 40 kilometers behind. “No one would have expected at the time: That a Mars rover even after ten years, still works – and very productive,” said John Callas, manager of the Rover program

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“Opportunity” is considerably smaller than its high-tech successor “Curiosity”, who is traveling on the other Mars-half. Also has “Opportunity” no laser on board. But he already has five Martian crater explored and 170,000 images returned to Earth.

After ten years he was suffering under natural age-related wear and tear, says Callas. Like other seniors he had sometimes problems with saving information as well. And: “The control right front clamps The robot arm has arthritis and two of scientific devices no longer work…”

Nevertheless, the little rover always provides new discoveries. He recently joined the edge of a large crater on the far oldest Martian rocks. The analysis showed that before 3.7 billion years water must have flowed over them. That there was once water and thus the opportunity for primitive life on Mars, already one of the first discoveries of “Opportunity” had shown that small stones, which were called “blueberries” because of their shape. They turned out to be iron oxides – also an indication of a water-containing environment

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2020, there could be tight for the little pioneer

As long as the Rover goes on like this, so long hold on the space agency to him, promises NASA scientist Steve Squyres. Menacing as the infirmities of age “Opportunity” are already the budget constraints of NASA: $ 14 million per year cost of operating the rover

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2016 will send a drilling vehicle “Insight” on the “Red Planet”, to explore the interior of Mars NASA. 2020 followed with even more high tech a Rover. In times of tight budgets, NASA could then be tight for “Opportunity”, the small pioneer among rovers.

Stand: 25.01.2014 03:13 clock

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Snowden in chat "espionage not all bad" - FAZ - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

© REUTERS Vergrößern Edward Snowden in Live Chat: A reform of the intelligence services is possible

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The former intelligence official Edward Snowden can imagine the foreseeable future, no return to the United States. “Unfortunately this is not possible given the current laws for the protection of informants,” it said on Thursday in Snowden statements attributed in the live chat on the website freesnowden.is / asksnowden. Under the current legal situation he had “no chance of a fair trial.”

Internet users were able to Twitter questions to Snowden addressed, the answers appeared on the supporter’s website. There complained former intelligence officials that the law for the protection of so-called whistleblowers is very incomplete, in America. Unlike government employees he had an external employee that is also not entitled to immunity had if he had alerted through official channels to the secret spying programs of the National Security Agency.

President Barack Obama Snowden had repeatedly accused America added to the disclosure of internal documents to journalists unnecessary harm. For guidance on government misconduct there had been “other ways”, he argued. Snowden disagreed: “My case shows clearly the need for a comprehensive reform of whistleblower protection.” The current laws are “full of holes”, the protection offered “weak” and the procedure for reporting misconduct “ineffective”

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America’s Attorney General Eric Holder had previously confirmed by the news channel MSNBC, that the United States was not prepared to amnesty for Snowden. A pardon “would be going too far,” said Holder. However, the government could imagine a “conversation” with the international arrest warrant sought by former intelligence officials, if this acknowledges his responsibility for leaking state secrets.

Snowden had worked as an employee of the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton for the NSA and had access to confidential information about the spying programs. End of May 2013 he sat down with the secret documents from his former place of employment Hawaii in the Chinese special administrative region of Hong Kong from. There he began to pass the documents relating to the systematic monitoring of the Internet and the spying of phone calls to the media.

The revelations sensation world-wide outrage over the extent of U.S. spying programs. The American Justice issued an international arrest warrant against Snowden for espionage. The former intelligence officials fled to Russia, which granted him asylum in early August for a year.

the Internet chat Snowden said on Thursday that espionage was not all bad. The problem was but “the new technique of arbitrary mass surveillance” in which governments “every day billions and billions and billions of innocent communications data” skimming. “We must work together to agree on a sensible international norm for the limitation of espionage,” he wrote.

Obama last week announced a reform of the intelligence services to stop, among other things, the collection of telephone connection data of American citizens in its current form. The data should be skimmed off while still, but no longer stored by the NSA itself. Obama also said to strengthen the protection of privacy of foreign citizens and forbade the monitoring closely allied leaders. Basically, however, he held fast to the Spähprogrammen.

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+ + + 23:40 n-tv.de terminated Live Ticker + + +
The Q & A with Edward Snowden is over, also n tv.de now complete live coverage. The editorial team will of course continue to support the topic.

+ + + 23:10 Snowden calls for protest on + + +
Edward Snowden finished the question and answer session after almost two hours set was a. He thanked all those seeking information and calls U.S. citizens to write to their representatives in Congress. “This is a gobales problem,” he writes. He concludes with a call for a demonstration on 11 February.

+ + + 23:05 Snowden: Pay attention to high-level players + + +
@ mperkel: It is said that there is a balance of privacy and security. I think espionage makes us less safe. Do you agree?

Snowden: intelligence agencies have a duty and working at NSA, CIA and other agencies population is not on the hunt for you. You must pay attention to the high-level actors, such that authorize unconstitutional practices and not reliable mechanisms such as the secret FISA court (Decide about monitoring people suspicion of espionage, editor’s note), 99.97 percent of all government that answers positively to requests (only 11 out of 33,900 requests were rejected in 33 years).

Even the president agrees that our monitoring programs go too far. We’re wasting money and time that could be better used to pursue serious dangers.

+ + + 22:54 “There were several death threats” + + +
@ mrbass21: Intelligence sources have been several death threats against you. Do you fear for their lives?

Snowden: It worries me, but for different reasons than you might suspect. These government employees feel so sure that they say journalists publicly that the fifth Amendment to the Constitution was outdated (right of an accused to a fair trial and more, ed). These are the same people who tell us we should trust them that they (Editor’s protection against unreasonable searches, note) and First Additional eighth to fourth (including freedom of expression and freedom of the press, ed). That should worry us.

+ + + 22:46 “In the direction of preventive determination” + + +
@ Ferenstein: What is the largest and most realistic danger of massive data storage

Snowden: Exemplary mass data storage is a euphemism for mass surveillance. There are two major threats. First, the “chilling effect”. Human behavior changes when we know is watching us. We are less free because we act less free. Numerous studies are proof of this

Second, they create records of our daily activities, even if we do anything wrong. This allows “retroactive determination”. When you become conspicuous, the government has a record of your daily life, according to current law by up to five years in the past.

When a Company monitors the sum of its social activities routinely, it moves toward an infrastructure for preventive investigation.

+ + + 22:35 “National laws solve the problem is not” + + +
@ Luke Reuter: How should the international community respond to the new revelations to monitor? What must be done?

Snowden: We must work together and agree on a reasonable international standard to limit espionage. No one should live hacking critical infrastructure such as hospitals and power plants. This can be cast in international law.

We must recognize that national laws do not solve the problem of indiscriminate surveillance. A ban in Burundi stops no spies in Greece. We need a global forum and global funding to develop safety standards that defend our privacy rights. Not laws, but better encryption and better research.

+ + + 22:27 “The world needs more dedication” + + +
@ wikileaks: The Ecuadorian consul in London, Fidel Navarez, lost his job because he helped you had to get to safety. Do you want to tell his family something?

Snowden: Fidel is an incredibly brave man, and he has done everything possible that a person’s rights to protect, whom he had never met. The world needs more of this kind of dedication to have to do the right thing.

+ + + 22:19 “I am not protected” + + +
@ jaketapper: Under what circumstances would you return to the U.S.

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Snowden: A return is the best solution for the U.S. government, the public and myself However, with the current legal situation not possible because I’m not protected. I have been sued for a 100 year old law (for spying could Snowden up to 30 years in prison come, editor’s note), which was never intended for it to be used against people who have acted in the public interest . It says I have no hope of a fair trial. But perhaps the U.S. Congress will revise the Act Protection for whistleblowers.

+ + + 22:10 Snowden answered questions + + +
“I’m going into overtime,” writes former NSA employee. Actually, only one hour was scheduled for the question and answer session. However, the initial responses also appeared only after 21 clock.

+ + + 22:04 Snowden: Congress will not ignore report + + +
@ Valio_ch: Do you think that the mentioned report of the Government Commission will ever have influence

Snowden: It is inconceivable that Congress will ignore it, as there are no reasons is to maintain the current practices upright

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(The following is a quote from the report which states that the suspension of the massive wiretapping in the United States has no negative consequences for specific investigations, ed)

+ + + 21:57 “Not every spy is bad” + + +
@ RagBagUSA: What do you think is a reasonable scope of the NSA? Something espionage is certainly necessary, right?

Snowden: Not every spy is bad. The biggest problem currently is the arbitrary mass surveillance, daily catch at the governments billions and billions of innocent communication processes. The threat underlying causes fewer deaths per year than falls in bathtubs. Congress has determined that we no longer provide these practices security.

It is a global problem, and the U.S. must take the lead in the solution. Otherwise, we set a precedent, and every dictator can simply do the same. The NSA is well enough equipped to specifically monitor, not en masse and complete populations. If our capabilities allow you to monitor the phone by Angela Merkel, we should not waste time trying to create call lists of grandmothers in Missouri.

+ + + 21:48 “I have never stolen passwords” + + +
@ MichaelHargrov1: Have you thought of the privacy of their colleagues, while you steal their login data

Snowden: The report of the Reuters news agency is wrong. I have never stolen passwords or a mass of colleagues duped.

+ + + 21:44 Snowden: 120 million constitution breaks + + +
@ except field: Do you think that it was striking that Obama’s NSA speech to a Commission report held for privacy and civil rights?

Snowden: The time of his speech appears to be particularly interesting, as was also alleged that there had been “no abuse”. But we have seen more cases of intentional abuse as halted by monitoring terrorist activities, or even attacks.

An independent, commissioned by the government-commissioned study has discovered a single case. The monitoring had no legal basis, the mass surveillance was illegal and must be stopped, it said. The U.S. government has 120 million times disregarded the Constitution, but does not prevent terrorist attack it. That’s a success rate of 0 percent.

+ + + 21:34 Snowden: No one wanted to risk his job + + +
@ VilleThompson: What do you think about Obama (in 2012 revised ed ) Protection Act for whistleblowers?

Snowden: These laws do not protect workers in the field of national security. There are too many gaps. It gives the impression that the laws discourage more likely to pass wrongdoing. Had I my knowledge publicly reported to the U.S. Congress, I would have been sued as a felon.

I have many of my colleagues reported the violations of the law, but no one wanted to risk his job. An example is Thomas Drake (NSA whistleblower who was indicted in 2010 as a spy, editor’s note). My case shows that a reform of the law is urgently needed. We need independent mediator. Even the president seems to believe that my action was necessary.

+ + + 21:22 Snowden: Encryption has weak points + + +
@ midwire: How fast can decipher NSA and other encrypted with AES news? Is e-mail encryption effectively?

Snowden: Right used, strong encryption works. At risk are the endpoints (ie, computers and other communication devices, editor’s note). If someone steals the key, each encryption is useless.

+ + + 21:16 Snowden: Official responsible Pull + + +
The first question-answer pair is here:

@ savagejen: Do you think that our democracy manages to recover from the damage that has caused the NSA spying

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Snowden: Yes. Our values ??make our country strong, not a snapshot of our authorities. We can correct laws and pull Official responsible.

+ + + 20:58 Snowden’s main statements here Ticker + + +
on Twitter questions lawn just so over. Faster than every second rattle down the marked # AskSnowden posts. Soon it starts. We will translate the main thrust of NSA whistleblower.

+ + + 20:49 How did Snowden at his security level? + + +
Behind the scenes, the workup of the NSA scandal is also underway. However, it is also about the question: How could Edward Snowden is such a high level of security in order to get all its information about the National Security Agency? This reports the American edition of the Russian news website rt.com. The privately held company “U.S. Investigations Services LLC” should therefore have forged over several years in 665,000 cases, candidate testing procedures in order to reduce the workload. The U.S. Justice Department has sued the firm.

+ + + 20:40 Snowden calls allegations “absurd” + + +
In the U.S., the assumption was made public, Snowden had before his flight to Moscow with the Russian secret service FSB cooperates and is possibly a spy of the Kremlin. The ex-NSA employee called the accusation a few days ago “absurd.” He would probably not first traveled to Hong Kong and had also not been stuck forty days in the transit zone of the Moscow airport Sheremetyevo, so Snowden.

+ + + 20:29 Snowden manifests itself to perhaps Obama + + +
Exactly one week ago, U.S. President Barack Obama has outlined his plans for the reorganization of the U.S. intelligence services. The listened to groundbreaking – are there but probably not. Too many details he was silent.

+ + + 20:18 hoax circulating protocol + + +
The public colleagues have previously chatting “spying”. This shortens the waiting time. Bottom line: If meet Barack Obama, the NSA, Edward Snowden, ADAC, “The Wendler” and Markus Lanz, it might be amusing

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+ + + 20:15 n-tv.de starts the Live Ticker + + +
in three quarters of an hour we go. The so far last time was Edward Snowden last summer in a live chat on the go. This time reaches the hashtag # AskSnowden to possibly get a reaction of the whistleblower. He answered questions from around the world.

Source: n-tv.de

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12.6 million requests, 884,000 German affected

The theft of user accounts startles the Germans: Within hours the BSI has registered 12.6 million inquiries from concerned citizens. For background fact, there are new details.

The theft of user accounts startles the Germans: Within hours the BSI has registered 12.6 million inquiries from concerned citizens. For background fact, there are new details.

After millions of theft of online access has already been processed 12.6 million inquiries about Internet users, the Federal Office for Security in Information Technology (BSI) to Wednesday noon. That said BSI president Michael Hange.

Among them were 884,000 victims. The Authority was trying to cope with the onslaught of requests, Hange said on the sidelines of a conference on cyber security. The test site was on Tuesday temporarily unreachable because many concerned citizens wanted to check their mail data.

The authorities already knew more about the case. The delay in the alert action was inevitable, Hange said.

The supreme authority for IT security in Germany had announced on Tuesday that 16 million user accounts have been hijacked. The warning spread very quickly.


A new dimension

BSI web page, could check on the people, whether they are concerned, after a short time went under the flood of inquiries to its knees. Hange said the site had now been reprogrammed.

The Authority is in the process to solve the congestion problems. The rush of inquiries have a new dimension.

for the BSI

Hange said the BSI have already experienced before December of the theft. Previously, he had told Bayerischer Rundfunk, the authorities knew of it since December. Just before Christmas, the BSI then got the release for it to issue a warning, he said.

“Such an action must, however, be extremely well prepared,” he said. The BSI have, for example, used the time to program a security check and resolve privacy issues. The chief authorities assured: “We have made very quickly There’s nothing faster..”


prosecutors discovered the data

The stolen records contained According to the BSI usually an email address and a password. Researchers and prosecutors were pushed to the data and have it transferred to the Federal Office.

Not all affected mail addresses would still be used, stressed Hange. Many of the captured addresses were not from Germany, but from other EU countries. It should therefore be assumed that behind the theft put an international network. Identity theft is known as a form of crime. The dimension of the current event, but spectacular.

The access emerged in the analysis of botnets. The networks are hijacked computers that have been infected often without the knowledge of users with malicious software. Criminals use such zombie computers, for example, to mass e-mails to send advertising or malicious programs.

In Cyber ??Security Conference Hange said: “With botnets can easily swindle millions of dollars.” Many hackers go there simply to make money. From cyber attacks all are affected: citizens, government and business

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Alone on the power of the federal government, there are, according to BSI 2000 to 3000 attacks per day. About five attacks a day are at such a high technical level that an intelligence background was to insinuate.

Many companies are, according to the experts victim of cyber attacks, these silent for fear of reputational damage but often.

Read here how you can protect yourself.

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Mysterious boulders discovered: NASA puzzles over mysterious donut stone on ... - ABC Online

The Mars Rover

“Opportunity” is an oldie of his profession. For years, he rolls over the surface of the red planet and takes pictures, analyzed soil samples studied minerals. Recently photographed “Opportunity” with its panoramic camera the same place twice at an interval of twelve days, as NASA announced at a formal presentation for the tenth anniversary of the Mars mission.

presented the comparison, the space scientists surprised to find that distinguished the later image at one point. Now lay there on the rocky surface of Mars, a mysterious asteroid which had not previously located there. “Mars makes but always good for a surprise,” said Steve Squyres, principal investigator of the Mars mission.


Geriet the stone under the wheels?

Squires stated that “Opportunity” is not directly rolled over the area in question, but one to two meters past it. How then came the rounded boulders, which resembles with its dark indentation in the middle of a donut, in its place? The researchers have two theories as to how the English language news site “CNN” reported. Most likely, therefore, was that the stone fell under one of the wheels rolling and was thrown into place.

The second theory is related to the possible existence of a “smoking hole” together. If located near such a crater, the stone could have been cast out also from the throat. Squyres believes this but unlikely.


“We are totally messed up”

currently investigating “Opportunity” the enigmatic rock, measures and photographed in more detail. An exciting finding, the researchers have thus been obtained. The dark piece in the center was different from “everything we have seen so far.” It contains an unusual amount of sulfur and magnesium, as well as twice as much manganese as anything ever discovered on Mars.

“We are totally confused and have a wonderful time. Everyone from the team discusses and argues, “the space scientists is at” CNN quoted “. Maybe driving the same routes brings the Mars research now even on a new path.


Video: Rosetta spacecraft is to “hibernation” wake up