Last week the U.S. government decided data stored digitally doesn't hold the same Fourth Amendment rights as physical items, Engadget reports.
The government issued the statement in briefs filed last week as a part of an ongoing conversation between the U.S. and Microsoft about what sort of data is protected and where.
Ealier this year a New York judge ruled that U.S. search warrants are good on all digital information, even if that data is stored overseas. Microsoft — which was at the center of the issue after withholding information held on a server in Ireland, Engadget says — challenged the government, saying digital and physical property should be protected equally. Last week, the company finally got its answer.
Other tech companies have weighed in on Microsoft's side. Verizon said the U.S.' decision would lead to "dramatic conflict with foreign data protection laws," Ars Technica reports. Apple and Cisco advised the government to seek cooperation with other nations through treaties, which the U.S. has said is not practical.
The Irish government, however, thinks the way for the U.S. to get the original data held on the Irish servers that started this battle is through the already-established "Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty," Ars Technica says. A senior counsel for the Irish Supreme Court called the treaty the most efficient method, something the United States disagrees with.
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Sometimes, you can find secrets in the strangest places—and it seems Chinese hackers are well aware of that fact. According to the New York Times, digital attacks from China have recently been focussing on more obscure federal agencies.
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Tesla has confirmed a report from British news site AutoExpress that it will be rolling out its 3rd generation vehicle, to be called the Model 3, for sale in 2017.
It's designed to challenge BMW's 3-Series, the site says.
"The new car is rumoured to be about 20% smaller than the Model S," AE says. "Key to the new model, which Musk said should retail for around $35,000 is cheaper battery technology made possible by Tesla's forthcoming gigafactory."
Musk is hoping his gigafactory battery manufacturing plants will double the world's supply of lithium ion batteries.
Musk also told the site the Model 3 is likely to have a range of over 200 miles. “We want people to fall in love with their car and look forward to driving it,” he said. The Model S has a range of 300 miles.
Musk had alluded to most of this at Tesla's 2013 shareholder meeting. But there'd been lots of speculation about what it would be called — Musk had once said it would be called the Model "E," but was sued by Ford for rights, causing Musk to bemoan that Ford had killed SEX (Tesla's first car was the Model X).
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On July 20th, 1969, with "one small step," Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. But why did he get to go first?
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Tesla's next electric car officially has a name: The Model 3 . It seems like an all-around average sedan, no crazy up-swinging falcon doors or other outlandishness. Even the $35,000 price is pedestrian. It's also what could make it as important to automotive history as the Model T.
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The average amount of time mobile users spend within apps each month has grown significantly over the past two years. However, that doesn't mean they're using a significantly higher number of apps overall.
- iPhone and Android users above the age of 18 in the U.S. each spent an average of over 30 hours per month within apps during the fourth quarter of 2013, according to new data from Nielsen, compiled in the chart above from BI Intelligence. That's up 65% from the same period two years ago.
- Growth in time spent accelerated between 2012 and 2013. Time spent per person grew 26% year-over-year between 2011 and 2012; growth ticked up to 31% between 2012 and 2013.
- These same users navigated an average of 26.8 apps per person each month during the fourth quarter of 2013. That's up just 15% from two years ago, when users navigated an average 23.3 apps per month.
- But looking at the most recent data, it's clear that the number of apps used has actually plateaued. Between 2011 and 2012, growth in the number of apps used was 15%, but between 2012 and 2013, it grew just 1%.
This development is important in the context of the recent movement toward "app unbundling," tech companies increasing tendency to package specific services into standalone apps to provide users with a more tailored experience.
BI Intelligence recently reported how app unbundling may prove successful in emerging markets in providing users with more streamlined apps that take up less storage capacity and suck up less cellular data. But this U.S. data shows that in developed markets users seem to have found a reliable pool of robust apps that they stick to to complete their tasks. Getting users to download a greater number of apps with fewer services may take some convincing.
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