Nintendo pushed out some necessary updates for its popular Pokemon game, which are:
The update is available now at their respective app stores.
There's a new Star Trek movie coming out next week, and fans of the franchise are waiting to see it.
But, one dedicated fan (by the name of Jürgen Kaiser) has spent the last seven years making a stop-motion, hour-long film starring the crew from the NX-1 which he has named Star Trek Enterprise II: The Beginning of the End (or Der Anfang vom Ende in his native German).
It's set after the end of Season 3 of the Star Trek: Enterpriseseries starring Scott Bakula, who's presented here as an action figure along with series favorites like the characters T'Pol and Tip Tucker.
It wasn't cheap. In an interview with Würzburg's Main-Post, Kaiser claims the project cost him about as much as a small car. It all came out of his pocket, and he won't even allow donations out of fears that those who hold the rights to Star Trek might pull his labor of love off of YouTube.
To view this fantastic film, click here.
“Three judges from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a ruling this week that will affect everyone from whistleblowers to your ex who is still, somehow, using your Netflix password to watch Jessica Jones,” Ethan Chiel reports for Fusion. “The court ruled that sharing passwords is a criminal act.”
“The case concerns David Nosal, a headhunter who used to work for a firm called Korn/Ferry. Nosal left the job in 2004 and recruited former colleagues who used the password of a person still with the company to download information from Korn/Ferry’s database for use at the new firm,” Chiel reports. “For that, Nosal was charged in 2008 with hacking under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a.k.a ‘the Worst Law in Technology.'”
“The new Ninth Circuit decision was decided 2-1 in the government’s favor. Judge M. Margaret McKeown, in the majority, insists that Nosal and his co-conspirators ‘accessed trade secrets in a proprietary database through the back door when the front door had been firmly closed’ putting the case “squarely within the CFAA’s prohibition on access ‘without authorization,'” Chiel reports. “But Judge Stephen Reinhardt disagreed, and as Motherboard points out, appears to have a better sense of what constitutes hacking, the purported purpose of the CFAA. Reinhardt expressed concern that that decision by the majority criminalizes all password-sharing, including your giving out your parent’s Netflix password to your friends.”
Read more in the full article here.
In a rare move, Apple has highlighted an engineer who is blind and is working on developing technologies such as VoiceOver with the company's quality design team.
Castor has been blind since birth, but growing up, was encouraged by adults to experiment with gadgets like computers in spite of the steeper learning curve, according to Mashhable. She received an iPad for her 17th birthday, and says she was impressed by the fact she could use it out of the box, unlike other electronics which can sometimes require expensive add-ons or software for people with disabilities.
She eventually went to Michigan State University, and was hired as an intern at Apple following a 2015 job fair in Minneapolis. That internship turned into her current full-time position.
Castor notes that she programs using a combination of alphabetic and Nemeth (mathematical) Braille, and actually prefers Braille when reading meeting agendas as well, since she can "see" the grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Nevertheless she uses VoiceOver alone to navigate devices.
Some of her more recent work includes adding accessibility support for Swift Playgrounds, Apple's iPad-based code learning app.
Apple is planning to further improve accessibility features in OS updates due this fall. watchOS 3, for example, will be able to tell time through vibrations on an Apple Watch, and the arrival of Siri in macOS Sierra should expand Mac voice commands.
