Oracle IT giant Google finance an anti-organization

Although devoted to economic transparency, the US organization Campaing for Accountability, founded in 2015, has refused to disclose the names of those who fund. Last spring, the organization which aims to "expose bad behavior" companies launched a project specifically dedicated to Google, the "Google Transparency Project." He is particularly interested in this company lobbying efforts, primarily from the White House.

Fortune magazine questioned the source of funds for the organization to conduct its investigations, and finally discovered that Oracle, a software giant, funded in part its existence. After initially refused to admit, the company finally admitted: "Oracle is actually a contributor (among others) of the Transparency Project. This is important information that the public needs to know, "said Friday, August 19 Vice President Ken Glueck, in the columns of the magazine.

Oracle is known for its hostility to Google. After a long legal battle, the company lost in May trial to 9 billion against Google. Oracle accused of having used, without paying license, features its Java program to design the mobile operating system Android. After six years of proceedings, the court eventually sided with Google in May. But Oracle does not stop there and called last week a new trial - which could be the third in the case.

ALSO READ: Google won a major legal battle against Oracle

Links to the White House

"The Google Transparency Project is a research project to help the general public to monitor the impact of this company on our government, our politics and our lives," it said on the initiative's website:

"Google is one of the most assertive advocates for transparency in government, business and society at large, but does not submit itself to this level of transparency. She may encourage others to open up, the company is very opaque on its own operations and agreements with the government. "
In partnership with specialized media like The Intercept, the Google Transparency Project, for example, revealed information on the links between the Obama administration and Google, based in particular on the number of visits by representatives of the company at the House white - over 400 since 2009.

Besides Oracle, other entities that finance Campaign for Accountability are not known. Microsoft, which has also long been in conflict with Google, said that he was not one.

Three associations filed a QPC on military planning law

The French Data Network (FDN), oldest ISP in France, FDN Federation, which brings together twenty of access to independent regional Internet providers and the Quadrature du Net, defense association of Internet freedoms filed a priority question of constitutionality (QPC) on the controversial Article 20 (formerly Article 13) of the law on military programming, announced the FDN, Wednesday, April 16.

Adopted by a narrow majority 20 December 2014, the law allows "administrative access to connection data", specifically "collection, with electronic communications operators (...) treaties information or documents or preserved through their networks. "

READ: Final adoption of the controversial military program law

FDN denounced "an invasion of privacy," and the lack of legal guarantees for maintaining the confidentiality of correspondence, such as between a lawyer and client. It also points out the challenge to the protection of sources for journalists, the connection metadata to know with whom they exchange messages. Finally, it condemns the blurring of terms, including "information" and "documents", which may as well refer to content of e-mails and SMS.

Introduced in 2008, the QPC is a legal device, subject to eligibility, ask the Constitutional Council review of a legislative provision that would impair the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution in order to obtain the repeal .

As stated in the FDN, it is the State Council or not to transmit the QPC to the Constitutional Council. If it is entered, it will then have three months to decide.

MACBOOK AIR THE BEST P2

APPLE MACBOOK (2016)

Price as reviewed	$1,599
Display size/resolution	12-inch 2,304 x 1,440 screen
PC CPU	1.2GHz Intel Core M5-6Y54
PC Memory	8GB DDR3 SDRAM 1866MHz
Graphics	1536MB Intel HD Graphics 515
Storage	512GB flash storage
Networking	802.11ac wireless, Bluetooth 4.0
Operating system	Apple El Capitan OSX 10.11.4

A keyboard you may like, but won't love

This is still the thinnest Mac that Apple has ever made. Part of the reason for that is the butterfly mechanism under the keyboard. The nearly edge-to-edge keyboard has very large key faces, yes, but the keys are shallow, barely popping up above the keyboard tray and depressing into the chassis only slightly. It takes some getting used to, especially if you're accustomed to the deep, clicky physical feedback of other MacBooks or the similar island-style keyboards of most other modern laptops. It took a while to get used to, and it'll never be my favorite keyboard, but I found it was easy to acclimate to after a few days of heavy usage, and I've easily written more than 100,000 words on the 2015 version of this system.

The touchpad retains the Force Touch feature found in both the previous MacBook and the current 13-inch MacBook Pro. (A version of this migrated to the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus as 3D Touch.) A set of four sensors under the pad allow you to "click" anywhere on the surface, and the Force Click effect, which combines the sensors with haptic feedback (or, as Apple calls it, "taptic"), allows you to have two levels of perceived clicking within an app or task. That deep click feels to the finger and brain like the trackpad has a stepped physical mechanism, but in fact, the movement you feel is a small horizontal shift, which, even when fully explained, still feels like you're depressing the trackpad two levels.

I'm more of a tapper than a clicker, and the first thing I do on any new MacBook is turn on tap-to-click in the settings menu (which is still inexplicably turned off by default), so I have not given Force Touch much thought since it was introduced, with the exception of deep-clicking on addresses occasionally to bring up a contextual map pop-up. Here's another Mac trackpad tip: besides the tapping feature under the trackpad preferences menu, you should go to the accessibility menu and look under Preferences > Accessibility > Mouse & Trackpad > Trackpad options to turn on tap-to-drag.

A small but sharp screen

The 12-inch Retina display has a 2,304x1,440-pixel resolution, which gives you a very high pixel-per-inch density, as well as an aspect ratio that sticks with 16:10, as opposed to the 16:9 aspect ratio found on nearly every other laptop available now, and in HDTV screens.

The slightly glossy screen works from wide viewing angles and is very clear and bright. On-screen icons, text and images all scale well to be very viewable despite the smaller size and higher resolution. While the bezel around the display is thin, it's nowhere as minimalist as the barely there bezel on the excellent Dell XPS 13.

MacBook Air the best p1

The 12-inch MacBook, on top of a 13-inch MacBook Pro, on top of a 13-inch MacBook Air.

the modest updates to Apple's 12-inch MacBook laptop don't go far enough to make it the new must-have machine for everyone. At the same time, there's a sizable enough boost to performance and battery life that the system can no longer be considered an outlier only suited for a very limited audience that values portability over productivity.

Nor is it the only player in the game. Since the 2015 original, we've seen super-thin laptops such as the upcoming HP Spectre shaving millimeters from previous versions, or tablet hybrids such as theMicrosoft Surface Pro 4 and Samsung Galaxy TabPro S showing off what Intel's new Core M chips can do in a small, reasonably priced package.

But even if it's closer to the middle of the road than the it was last year, the 12-inch MacBook is still a love-it-or-hate-it laptop. It seems to inspire either fierce loyalty or intense derision, at least judging from comments on my review of the original version, and social media feedback on any follow-up stories since. A new set of updates for 2016, including new processors for faster performance and better battery life, plus a new rose gold color option, may help throw off some of that shade, but not all.

bigger MacBook Air and Pro systems. The keyboard was unusually shallow, in order to fit into such a thin body. And most of all, the single USB-C port was a hard pill to swallow for those convinced of the need for separate power, video, and data ports.

It was not the perfect laptop for everyone, or even most people. But over time, I found myself appreciating Apple's exercise in strictly enforced minimalism. I turned to it more and more often, especially for on-the-go computing in coffee shops around New York, eventually declaring it as my all-around favorite (as of March 2016, at least). But, it could still get bogged down with too many programs and windows open, and the battery life wasn't at the level where it could go days and days between charging sessions. The USB issue turned out to be less serious than I feared, and only two or three times in the months after the product's original release did I find myself stymied by a lack of ports (although when I did get stuck with a USB key and a misplaced converter dongle, it was very annoying).

With this 2016 update, Apple has addressed some, but not all, of the issues with the original. Both this system, and other computers with the second generation of Core M processors (confusingly part of Intel's sixth generation of Core chips, also known by the codename Skylake), are closer to the mainstream levels of performance seen in laptops with more common Core i3 and Core i5 processors from Intel.

Along with new Core m3 and m5 CPUs (the M series now follows the same 3/5/7 format as the Core i-series chips), the new MacBook gets Intel's updated 515 integrated graphics, which won't make you a gamer, but may help with video application performance. The speed of the internal flash memory has also improved, but I doubt that's something casual users would even notice.

Frankly, the most obvious difference between the 2016 MacBook and the 2015 model is the new addition of a fourth color option, rose gold, which is already available on iPhones and iPads. Sadly, our review sample is a rather straitlaced space gray (silver and gold are the other two options).

Note also that we're testing the step-up model, which costs $1,599 in the US (£1,299 and AU$2,199), and includes an Intel Core m5 processor and a big 512GB of storage. The base $1,299 model (£1,049 and AU$1,799) has the Core m3 and 256GB of storage.

Color aside, the body is identical to last year's model, weighing a hair over two pounds and measuring 13.1mm thick. The HP Spectre packs a 13-inch display (but only a 1,920x1,080-resolution one) into a 10.4mm body, but at the cost of more weight, at 2.45 pounds. That coming-soon HP also uses Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs, which should give it a significant performance boost. It's becoming increasingly obvious that PC makers need to balance size, weight, performance and battery life, but can usually max out two out of those four at best.

laptop

Much more than just a computer, a laptop is your entertainment, social, business, and education hub. Whatever you want to use your laptop for, we can help you find the right one. A great place to start is ‘Our Experts Love’ laptops. These have been specially selected by out experts because they feature the latest technology and are full of exciting features.

 

Galaxy Note 7: a new Samsung very difficult to repair

After the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, the site iFixit was interested in the latest PHABLET Samsung. The Note 7 will not be a terminal that the best hackers can easily repair.

Announced in early August - and already passed in our hands the time to deliver our first impressions video - the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 will be available in France on 2 September, but has already had an operation in heart open the US side. And this is the famous site iFixit which it is stuck.

The latter, which usually refers to office when looking for a step-by-step to replace a smartphone screen (for example) regularly presents scores "repairable" devices. In other words, it asks whether the manufacturer has designed an eco-friendly product that will not be obliged to cast the slightest failure. And on the subject, the Galaxy Note 7 is not a model of its kind. Notice to hackers, you'll struggle to repair your mobile in case of breakage.

The damage to a superb finish

In the video made by iFixit, the site first reported on the club's arguments Galaxy Note 7. Screen 5.7 inch Super Amoled, wireless charging, a large battery of 3500 mAh, a fingerprint reader and even iris recognition to unlock the device. A nice appetizer that is missing elsewhere not to remember that the Note 7 enjoys a beautiful design and a curved glass finish that quickly ... play tricks on him.

According to iFixit facade and Note 7 of the glass back is very difficult to disassemble without the glass from cracking due to the extensive use of glue. iFixit even states that it is "probably impossible" to replace the front glass screen without breaking the touchscreen Super AMOLED is right behind.

And if some good points remain, such as the design in modules that it would be possible to replace (the camera, the retinal scanner, etc.), the ax falls when iFixit announced his note 4/10. This is an observation that is not without reminding us of the criticisms of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge who received a score of 3/10 in the same removal.

Other interesting details

This video also tells us that the image sensor Note 7 is the same as the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, namely the Sony IMX 260 12 Mpix, whose performance has allowed us to classify it in the third position of our "Top 10 best smartphones for the photo. "

The iFixit website also reviews the storage capacity (64GB) and RAM (4 GB) from Samsung manufacturing ... nothing aston

Disassembly can also see how Samsung has made to its smartphone meets IP68. This especially goes through a waterproof jack connector. Finally, if you want to get a better idea of the design of Note 7, iFixit publishes the complete procedure of dismounting on its website.

SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 7

THE SMARTPHONE THAT SEES BIG

The Galaxy Note 7 gives you the ability to get things done. Work and play more with the S-Pen, our ultimate stylus, which allows you to write little reminders and big ideas as they run through your mind. As the sun in the rain, through the design resistant to water and 7 Galaxy Note S-Pen stylus, you do not have to interrupt your activities.

KEY FEATURES

Quad processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

Screen Quad HD Super AMOLED 5.7 inch

photo-video camera 12MP

EVEN WRITE IN THE RAIN

With resistance to water 1 Galaxy Note 7 and S-Pen stylus, write notes or take pictures even in the rain.

EASY TO KEEP. BEAUTIFUL TO WATCH.

Featuring a large Super AMOLED screen with rounded edges, the Galaxy Note 7, incredibly thin, features a curved design that naturally wife ... your hand and your pocket. Check out the video HDR for the first time. And with a single scan of the Galaxy Note 7 edge, instantly reacting to a publication or stay abreast of the latest news ..

UNLOCK-THE GAZE.

Discover the revolutionary device for iris recognition Galaxy Note 7. A new way to unlock your device that allows you to securely keep the content that matters to you.

DIMENSIONS AND WEIGHT

153.5 x 73.9 x 7.9 mm

169g