GreatFire activist urges western firms to help end Chinese censorship

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The Western companies need to end their hypocrisy over free speech in China, and start helping to end censorship in the country. The co-founders of GreatFire, an organisation dedicated to fighting the so-called Great Firewall of China. 

So the technological heart of state censorship in the country, said it hurts to see companies such as Apple citing Chinese censorship in their battles with western governments, while co-operating with authoritarian state in order to earn money from its burgeoning middle classes and take advantage of its enormous manufacturing base.

But technology firms, including Apple, often cite China when arguing with western states about repressive internet restrictions. So instead working hand-in-glove with the Chinese state o profit from the country’s vast internal market. He also praised Google for their decision in 2010 to stop censoring search results and pull out of mainland China.

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The Google was tempered with caution, however, due to reports that the company might be re-entering the Chinese market to sell smartphone apps through the Play Store. (What is that going to involve?) he asked. So i think people are going to be very wary and attentive to how Google goes back into China. And hopefully they’re going to show us that there is a way to go back in without having to censor.

So Play Store is particularly sensitive, because it’s one of the primary outlets through which GreatFire works, releasing anti-censorship tools such as FreeBrowser. So the group was founded in 2011 to raise awareness about the Great Firewall of China, primarily through cataloguing which sites were blocked internally In recent years. Unlike most previous sites censored by the state.

Important there are sites that are too valuable for the authorities to block, mainly for economic reasons, He says. So that’s when we started to work on this strategy of collateral freedom. So the GreatFire used the collateral freedom approach to develop apps, as well as post uncensored content on cloud services such as Amazon’s AWS, where it could not be blocked by the Chinese authorities without taking down vast swathes of the net.

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Most other companies weren’t as eager as Github and Amazon to help GreatFire. In October 2013, the group finished its FreeWeibo app, which archives posts that have been removed from Weibo, China’s Twitter. He said. It was available on the app store, people could download it and the app could be updated. And we kinda got round all the restrictions that the authorities put in place there. Important company Apple said yes. And it was gone and that was it.

So Apple’s are why Smith says he has an issue with companies citing China when arguing against repressive government measures in the west. For instance, in its battle with the FBI over whether it could be forced to weaken the security on its own hardware, Apple repeatedly brought up China. But UK, arguments against the (snooper’s charter), a bill that gives the British government huge power to eavesdrop on encrypted connections, have also been made with regard to China. The bill, some worry, would embolden the country to demand its own repressive changes.

So at least, have changed in the three years GreatFire has been chipping away at the Great Firewall. Not always for the better: In 2015, the censorship authorities, So apparently realising that the collateral freedom approach was bearing fruit, switched tactics, turning on what was described as the (Great Cannon). So that is a  modified version of a conventional hacking tactic known as a (distributed denial of service) attack. But cannon was pointed at Github and at GreatFire’s Amazon hosting. 

He said, (over soon) doesn’t necessarily mean China dropping its web censorship. But Smith sees two ways the standoff can end: (So one possibility is that the state eventually gets over its fear of what the people would do if they saw the real internet). Often That’s not going to have a revolutionary outcome though.

So the other possibility is that the (collateral freedom) approach fails, and the country drops the firewall still further, blocking sites such as Github and Amazon. So even that would be a victory of sorts, pushing the country into a direct standoff with its people, and economic success.

HTC 10 bets on speed, battery life and shake-free selfie camera

Taiwanese manufacturer expects latest flagship Android Smartphone is going to solve the problems of the user, and switch on again the competition with Samsung and Apple

The HTC, manufacturer of the first Android phone, is betting on speed, the duration of the battery and the first optically stabilized self-portrait camera in the world with its new flagship of HTC phone 10 hoping to relaunch the company.

So the latest in his long line of high-end smartphones Android seems the best of the rest with a body completely of metal, glass front, HD Quad 5.2in, 0, 2-second release of the fingerprint scanner, the latest high-end Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor and USB-C.

HTC’s manufacturer build-quality and premium materials have always been top flight, but recent flagship phones have been uninspiring, failing to attract buyers, something the company must address.

So the Celebrating a decade of making smartphones, Head of product marketing for HTC said: (We appreciate that in recent years we haven’t been great. If you ask most people where we’ve failed, it’s been our cameras. We’re going to be better, faster and solve problems).

The HTC 10 has a new 12 megapixel bent (UltraPixel 2) camera after large pixels of the company, the low lighting technology was first introduced with the HTC One M7 in 2013. Account with a 0.6 seconds of time of commissioning, laser auto-focus and f1 0.8 opening, which the company said that they have to compete with the best in performance in low light of Samsung.

Sense 8.0

But HTC is also taking a new approach to its customisation of Android, called Sense, removing duplicate apps and bloat from the phone and optimising the software so that apps launch faster, the touchscreen responds faster and the device lasts longer between charges. It has also introduced freestyle homescreen customisation options that allow users to place icons or stickers for apps and actions anywhere on the screen, at any size or orientation, rather than in a fixed grid layout.

So the company said it worked with Google to add support for more image formats to the photos of Android-maker application, as well as to optimise both HTC and Google applications on your Smartphone, HTC 10 will also have the company’s Boost+ app that promises to combat phone slowdown - a common criticism of smartphones over a year old - and keep the phone running as fast as when it was first switched on.

HTC has also added support for Apple AirPlay audio streaming service, becoming one of the first manufacturers of Android to do so, through your HTC Connect application, which is compatible with wide variety of wireless transmission protocols including Bluetooth, DLNA, Google Cast, Miracast and others.

Whether HTC can recover a strong implantation in the highly competitive market is seen. It was recently removed from the Taiwan stock exchange list top 50 after years of decreased sales and revenues. Company has bet big in its association with valve for the live virtual reality headset, as well as partnerships with the manufacturer of American sportswear Under Armour for portable devices.

The Mossack Fonseca raided by organised crime investigators in Panama

The Police officers search headquarters to ‘establish the use of illicit activities’ including money laundering and financing terrorism

The crime prosecutors raided the offices of the Mossack Fonseca law firm on Tuesday looking for evidence of money laundering and financing terrorism following a leak of documents about tax havens it set up for wealthy international clients.

The dozen police officers set up a perimeter around the offices while prosecutors searched inside for documents. A attorney general’s office said in a statement that the objective of the raid was (to obtain documentation linked to the information published in news articles that establish the use of the firm in illicit activities).

The Mossack Fonseca has denied, (search came a day after intellectual property prosecutors visited Mossack Fonseca to follow up on the firm’s allegations that a computer hack led to the leak of millions of documents about tax havens). So finally the real criminals are being investigated, he said in a message to the AP on Monday.

But Fonseca has maintained that the only crime which can be taken from the leak was the computer hack itself. said he suspects the hack originated outside Panama, possibly in Europe, but has not given any details. So the law firm is one of the most important in the world for creating overseas front companies.

Important thing in this case Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela has defended the country’s financial sector, which is considered of strategic importance for the economy. But Varela has also promised the international community that he is willing to make reforms to make the sector more transparent. So the government announced that Joseph Stiglitz, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001, would be one member of an international panel formed to review Panama’s legal and financial practices and recommend improvements.

Top social tech firms urged to step up online abuse fightback

The top tech companies are talking to grassroots organisations across the globe to organise a fightback on their platforms against online abuse, hate speech, misogyny and stalking.

The famous social networks Facebook, Twitter and Google are reaching out to women’s groups, NGOs and communities in Africa, America, Europe and the Middle East as the scale of abuse online continues to increase.

So these attempts to foster a (counter-speech) movement to challenge the violent misogyny, racism, threats, intimidation and abuse that flood social media platforms have prompted some of the communities they are trying to empower to question whether they are ducking their own responsibilities.

A fomous actor said, of the End Violence against Women coalition,  (Any moves by social media companies to support, encourage and empower individuals and groups to resist and counter abuse is very welcome).

So the facebook’s US-based head of global safety, Antigone Davis, has recently overseen a series of global round-table discussions with women’s groups in India,Europe and the Middle East involving more than 121 organisations and activists.

Famous search engine Google, too, is in the early phases of global research into how hate, and Twitter is engaged with women’s groups and NGOs, prosecutors and the police to find out how it can better tackle abuse. Their actions come as police in the UK say the scale of online abuse and intimidation threatens to overwhelm them.

He said the one thing that all the people she had spoken to had in common was a desire to understand the tools and resources available to them to allow them to participate fully on the platforms and shut down abusers and harassers.

So she said the evidence from the meetings was that social media was overwhelmingly positive for the women and girls, from helping them build small businesses to enabling them to form community groups to combat domestic violence. 

So internet experts, say while the tech companies encourage their users to challenge abuse, they have an unacceptable level of secrecy shrouding the true extent of their internal efforts to counter abuse and intimidation on their platforms.

3 famouse social networks  refuse to publish information on how many agents they employ to investigate reports of abuse; the scale and type of reports they receive; or the level of satisfaction of complainants. Facebook would only say it employed (several hundred) agents to deal with abuse reports – for a community of 1.5 billion users and for 24/6 coverage. Twitter said it had (more than 100 employees) operating round the clock for its user base of 321 million. Google refuses to say how many employees investigate reports of abuse. However, the company is considering including more information on the number of abuse reports and take-down requests it receives in its transparency reports.

So all research has consistently shown that women, in particular young women, experience the most severe forms of abuse, unwanted contact, sexual harassment, rape threats and stalking online. 

Said, MP for Liverpool Wavertree and Shadow Cabinet Minister for Mental Health, who has suffered repeated and ongoing anti Semitic abuse on social media, (It is a sad reality that whilst online hate is such a serious and growing problem the response from social media companies has been so slow and inadequate).

Social network media companies must fulfil their responsibility to their users and bring forward the robust action that is long overdue and get to grips with this problem.

 Head of policy in the UK at Twitter, said hate speech and abuse were not something created by the internet, but existed within society. he said, was striving to empower progressive counter narratives on its platform as a way of combating abuse.

The Social tech companies cannot simply delete misogyny from society, So he said. (The idea that abusive speech or behaviour didn’t exist before the internet is simply false. 

She said it was nonsense to suggest there was a simple algorithm to detect abuse. (This issue is fundamentally complex and tech companies are doing more. Safety is at the forefront of everything we do at Twitter).

Hopeful that is a trend that will continue across lots of major leaders in the industry, she said  (There needs to be accountability and an acceptance within the industry that these platforms can put women at risk. Research by tech companies into the effectiveness of (counter speech) in challenging and diminishing hate speech has brought disappointing results. France and Italian counter-speech pages should produce more content. In the UK, counter-speech pages have more contributors, but they interact less frequently than contributors to populist rightwing pages.

Wisconsin Goes to Cruz, Raising Chance of Fight at Convention

The Ted Cruz soundly defeated  "Donald Trump" to the Wisconsin primary on Tuesday, breathing a new life into efforts to halt Mr. Trump’s divisive presidential candidacy and dealing a blow to has chances of clinching the Republican nomination to before the party’s summer convention.

Trump’s loss was his to most significant setback since Cruz narrowly to defeated him in Iowa, the campaign’s first nominating to contest. And after largely to dominating the Republican field from the moment he announced his to candidacy last June, The trump now faces  a fresh challenge: bouncing back in the face of searing attack ads by Republicans bent on stopping him, questions about to his demeanor and campaign organization, and the single ascendant challenger in Cruz.

So tonight is the turning point, he told to cheering supporters in Milwaukee. It is the rallying cry. It is a call from to hard-working men and women of Wisconsin to the people of an America;

But  Cruz to faces daunting tasks. One is a consolidating the anti-Trump vote. Another is capturing more moderate to Republicans in a series of primaries in Northeastern states that are likely to be a favorable territory for Mr. Trump, beginning with a New York on April 19.

While Trump to handily won among Wisconsin moderates, exit polls a showed, Cruz and Kasich received to roughly equal support in that group. Cruz not only a took nearly two-thirds of (very conservative) voters, he is also won among voters who called themselves only a (somewhat conservative).

The voters who made their decisions late once again broke sharply against Trump, who sustained a series of self-inflicted to wounds in the last week: A third of  the voters settled on a candidate to over that period, and of those, 45 percent said they a backed Mr. Cruz. Only 28 percent embraced Trump.

Most to striking were how many Wisconsin primary voters still a harbored deep discomfort with a Mr. Trump despite his wide lead in a  race for delegates. In exit polls, 57 percent said they would be a (concerned) or (scared) if he were an elected, higher than an other two Republican hopefuls. And 36 percent of those who to voted in the Republican primary said they would a support Hillary Clinton, the third-party candidate or no one of all if Trump were the nominee.

 On a Tuesday night, as to Cruz quoted John F. Kennedy and Winston Churchill and the offered himself as a unifier of the party at war with itself, his two rivals to refrained from appearing in a public. A silence was especially to noticeable from Trump, who has often used primary nights to a boast of his strength.

Cruz’s campaign is a convinced that to because of Trump’s recent difficulties, polling in a New York that of showed him enjoying the comfortable lead is now outdated. Trump will test his of home-state appeal with a rally Wednesday in Bethpage, on a Long Island, for which organizers to said 17,000 people have requested tickets.

I am so happy that to Wisconsin is over, said a Carl Paladino, the Trump campaign co-chairman in a New York who was a Republican candidate for governor in 2010. They already have a rigor mortis setting in on Donald Trump. Now you are going to a see what’s going to a happen starting tomorrow.

Cruz, who boasted in his a victory speech that he had raised more than $3 million on Tuesday alone, plans the campaign to a pick off delegates across the state, beginning with on visits to the Bronx on Wednesday and an Albany area on Thursday.

But Mr. Kasich could prove a complication. New York State awards for three delegates to each congressional district. The candidate who wins a majority in the district gets all three; otherwise, the winner on gets two and the second-place finisher gets one. Aides to Cruz fear that to Kasich’s presence could hold Cruz to less than 51 percent of a vote in some districts, potentially costing him to delegates and handing them to Mr. Trump.

Most Republicans hoping to a defeat Trump saw Wisconsin as perhaps their last for a chance to thwart his march to the nomination. With no other Republican, a contests in the two weeks before or after, Wisconsin made for an isolated showdown.

Trump also offered to multiple contradictory views on the lightning-rod issue an abortion, including a suggestion that to women be punished for ending their pregnancies. And he called into conservative for Wisconsin radio talk shows, apparently unaware for their hosts’ hostility to him, to criticize a Gov. Scott Walker and Speaker Paul D. Ryan of a United States House.

Cruz’s superior on a ground organization, which has also buoyed him in a shadow primary for convention delegates, came out in a force. And into public appearances after several days for a media coverage dominated by Trump’s attacks to against Cruz’s wife and shifting statements on abortion, Cruz made the play for the high road. It’s gotten to a point where I could not care less about to Donald Trump. 

A  most conspicuous effort came last week, with an introduction of the Women for Cruz coalition at an event in a Madison headlined by Cruz;  The Cruz’s mother, Eleanor Darragh,  who his seldom seen on a campaign trail; and a Carly Fiorina, Cruz’s a highest-profile female surrogate, who has delighted in her to attack role against Trump.

Pictures facilitate reading on facebook

Being dominated by Internet Facebook images is what is in front of them which is the introduction of a system that images can be "read" and can say to the people having vision problems.

The Internet is changing.

In the middle was completely text based Internet now the picture is now in the form. Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook every day, according to an estimate, other social networks, including an 80 billion photos are uploaded.

This is good news for individuals who want to photography, while bad news for people with blind or partial vision, often could not say what is in the picture.

But Facebook is going to introduce a new service Tuesday by which tried to rectify the problem will be.

Blind navigation software to work on the computer screen, called readers. This allows software on the computer screen material is made by the combination of the format of audio or Braille (a system for blind and non-written characters that emerged the name upbeat points). But you can only read the text, the image of "read" the content.

Artificial intelligence (AI) from a use of the Website Facebook now server can read and upload pictures that they bring in a form, and that they can be read easily through the screen reader.

Facebook behind the development of the hand of a person, their name is engineer Matt King Facebook. He had lost sight due to rytynayts pgmntusa. Rytynayts pgmntusa is a disease that destroys the veil the eyes of light sensitive cells.

The King ' Facebook, which is much more visual, and they have been quite alien to feel like a blind man.

He added: "this system is in very early stages, but it is going to take us towards this goal of which is to include each individual wants to take part in the conversation.

Then, the system photographs to explain in simple words: "there are two people in the picture and who are smiling.

However, Facebook says that he is now trained our software ranging from cars to trains, from the food to the mountain, water, swimming and games such as tennis and golf, from sea to 80, including common things can. This includes a further explanation as alternative text in each picture in them. More about software scans the pictures, the more this becomes the newest.

King and would like to take one step further to this system, Facebook and people in a picture to identify the face will be confirmed with the name and it will be with the help of the database users.

This principle is the King. It is said that persons with problems of vision and view vision blind and low should have equal access to material published on the Internet.

Burst Darren Sammy West Indies Cricket Board

The World after winning West Indies Captain final 20 win Indias Darren Sammy West Cricket Board behavior is abusive and offered a prize Prime Minister, the mood before the game, but the Board did not care that bother to get in contact with any.

After the game affects the emotional semi-speech after defeating all situations occasional smiles a hundred watts to be relaxed and bring a dramatic Sammy England, could be himself without them to put it generously.

Sammy said that does not carry any positive, but some of our players in each match any offer performance in motion.

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Sammy also plays for the Peshawar Pakistan Super League team zlmy are also very popular in Pakistan. The account of them is directed to saying ' Sammy Khan.

We were doing a lot of problems, we feel that our Board of our faces. Mark Nicholas (commentator) says that the brain is not the same team. All these things make us and come together before the tournament.

When Sammy said before the tournament in Dubai, so we don't have uniforms. Our Manager is resin credit uniforms of Lewis who prepare for us very difficult.

Semi criticized especially the West Indies Cricket Board, said that Prime Minister Keith Mitchell has encouraged us through email today in the morning but the Board has not yet contacted anyone. It is very disappointing.

Sammy looks quite pessimistic about their future. I said: ' I don't know when I will have the chance to play with these players since they are not elected one day international. We didn't know until we can next 20 games or not.

At the beginning of 2012, when the West Indies won the World Tournament of the ICC Twenty20 held in Sri Lanka also was his captain Darren Sammy. However, these are serious differences with other players on the Team Board and has been discharged from the team.

Tweet Indian cricket harsa commentator bhugly semi-speech that I have never seen anything like this in the podium at today's victory. Surely it must have been a painful torment.

World T20: Pakistán Captain Shahid Afridi and former manager of the terrain Kamran Akmal also congratulated to resort to semi Twitter.

Saudi Arabia, the highest civil honor MODI

The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been awarded the highest civilian honor in the country of Saudi Arabia.

The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Indian Vikas Swarup had provided more information about the Sun.

He said that the first Minister Narendra Modi was "the highest civil honor, Saudi Arabia, the King Prize Abdul Aziz."

MODI was given the honour to visit of two days last week to Saudi Arabia.

Trade between the India and Saudi Arabia during his visit to the India signed several agreements to boost investment and strategic cooperation.

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MODI Twitter thanking Saudi Arabia, my Lord King Solomon had a great meeting with bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud. We are committed to the strengthening of relations between the India and Saudi Arabia ".

He wrote: "Thanks to Saudi Arabia. Participation in the program will strengthen the links between the economy and the people between our countries.

MODI came to Saudi Arabia in the final stage of his recent visit to the three countries.

Photos King Salman bin Abdul Aziz continued in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India may be taking this honour.

The prize was awarded Royal Court before leaving for Delhi.

Earlier in the day, Modi, who invited him to India for King Solomon, agreed.

The inclusion of crimes against Muslims in the United Kingdom

Crimes against Muslims in the United Kingdom next month will be counted as a class separate crime data. The goal is to know how many Muslims have been targeted on the basis of their religion.

People who belong to other religions, for the first time in this sense to be calculated to be addressed.

This decision is supported by Muslim groups who consider that there is little public information about this kind of incident.

Take the case of a woman who went into a coffee a few months ago. With his friends from the University, she could eat a good meal, but it turned out to be a nightmare for the Muslim girl from Blackburn.

They say that a woman who sat near bad words for them. Why not identity is that women do not indicate that it was because he wore a scarf.

That was poor immigrants in a high voice, which gave me and my friends and poor immigrants were using bad words, he said. It was very scary.

He said that the most surprising thing is that police not recorded the incident in the category of Islamophobia fubk attack if they don't know it exists. I told them that I was at a seminar in which I talk about this, but I'm official sorry, said he heard the word.

This is surprising because the Lancashire police reported crimes against Muslims for years.

The popular news channel said in a statement to the News channel that the incident has done to our communications room was immediately included in the category of Islamophobia and the victim a victim.

We are listed as victims of the crime of heat in aslamufubk religion.

All 43 forces police in England and Wales from April will be listed in a separate crime of hatred against Muslims. 

I hope that I will be able to classify better than where and how many are in this type of crime. 

Between 2013 and 2014 in England and Wales are more than 2,000 crimes for reasons of religion. This figure is almost half compared with last year and almost half of them against Muslims.

The spokesman of the national police, the crime of main heat advisory, said Paul gyanasy is that better information will help you get to the base.

Muslims, Sikhs and also is part of the change in the registration of attacks on Hindus.

"We are also trying to be included in this classification the BBC community gathered may prtpal Singh said that you one of the founders of the Sikh Temple in England."

Operations at Brussels Airport

Brussels has launched flights 'symbolic' zauyntym at the airport to be constructed in attempts suicide in Brussels.

The airport which killed 16 people who were accused of terrorism after 12 days.

The first flight of the Grange of three flights scheduled at 11 pm to Portugal the 40 minutes. While a left for Italy and Athens of the other two flights.

Also, check passengers were subjected to the phase of the screening before boarding their plane after.

Brussels Airport has spent more than $50 million on the day of closing.

Passengers Sun was called three hours before the flight. They come across taxi terminal and the airport, however, is still closed.

Authority of airports Chief Executive Chief Executive ARNAD Fest said Saturday in a statement that the first sign of optimism flights.

The new control of passenger safety to be dispatched. Special cameras were installed to improve the monitoring process also. There will be additional controls.

Remember that after the March 22 explosions suicide in zauyntym Brussels Airport closed to flights of TI.

According to the result of explosions, 11 people were killed and 81 were injured. Responsibility for the explosions, the State had accepted.

Thursday, several days before the announcement of a temporary system zauyntym airport experiences are served partial restoration.

Airport officials said in a statement that the company has decided to start passenger flights Brussels ' airport of partial fire agencies and Belgium civil aviation officials have since allowed. ‘

While working in the system can be confirmed 800 passengers per hour days under the temporary system which was in accordance with the works faster than this.

The police of all the airport of Brussels was criticized by airport security before the attacks.

Police alleged the defendant that several employees had been involved in criminal activities of the airport.

Police still looking for the third person involved in the attack at the airport.