A bill to end spy agencies’ bulk collection of Americans’ telephone data advanced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, setting up a potential showdown over the program, which expires on June 1. The House Judiciary Committee voted 25-2 to approve the “USA Freedom Act,” seeking to tighten control of a program publicly exposed two years ago by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. The bill would bar
By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A California civil liberties group launched a mobile application on Thursday that will let bystanders record cell phone videos of possible cases of police misconduct and then quickly save the footage to the organization’s computer servers. The California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said the app will send the video to the organization and preserve it even if a phone is
By Nivedita Bhattacharjee MUMBAI (Reuters) – After losing top engineering talent for years to America’s tech heartland of Silicon Valley, India is luring them back as an e-commerce boom sparks a thriving start-up culture, unprecedented pay, and perks including free healthcare for in-laws. India’s IT industry has long been seen as a back-office backwater, even by its own engineers who started moving abroad in their droves in the 1970s. The
Goldman Sachs will be the first major bank to invest heavily in Bitcoin, giving the cryptocurrency a much-needed shot in the arm. Sachs has secured a partnership with Chinese investment firm, IDG Capital Partners, claims The New York Times. This partnership will lead a $50 million investment into startup Circle Internet Financial which wants to use Bitcoin’s technology to improve consumer payments. The massive hype around Bitcoin in 2013 has
Introduction Premium PCs are far from all about gaming and given the performance on offer it’s no surprise that a high-end rig takes on just about any task with consummate ease. Think of the 4K screens and other elements as a springboard that helps apps shine and deliver an experience that will have you asking yourself why you didn’t buy a premium PC before. The Windows Store makes it easier
Best Tech 2015 TechRadar is all about helping you choose the right tech products for you. That’s why we review the specific products we do, while offering a veritable smorgasbord of helpful buying guides and product round-ups to help you find the cool gadgets, perfect play things and workplace wonders. Whether it be an ideal camera phone for your mum or a kick-ass Blu-ray player to pair with your new
Unlike the sensors inside the vast majority of digital cameras, the sensor inside Leica’s Monochrom doesn’t have a ‘traditional’ RGGB Bayer pattern filter. This means that it can’t produce colour images, only black and white – hence the camera’s name. It also means that each photosite on the sensor is used to create a pixel in the image without any interpolation. The end result is black and white images that
Of all the crazy, backward-looking, self-indulgent ideas you could possibly think of, this surely has to be at the top of the list – you would think. But the more you learn about the Leica Monochrom (Typ 246), the more you realise is that there’s some sound reasoning behind a camera capable of shooting only in black and white. More on this shortly. This is actually the second Leica Monochrom,
Year in and year out, our friends at PC Gamer would look on at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (or E3) in Los Angeles Calif. with wanting eyes. While Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony showed off their wares with bombast, the excellent games and infinitely more powerful hardware on the PC received no such spotlight. In 2015, that changes. Finally, the editors at PC Gamer asked themselves, “Why don’t we just
By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) – Early adopters of the Apple Watch, Apple Inc’s first new product in five years, are complaining that a number of its key functions are disrupted by their tattoos. Owners of Apple Watch – including this reporter, who bought a 42mm version with stainless steel case and black classic buckle for A$1,029 ($822) – have found that their inked skin confuses the sensors on the
