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According to CNBC reported that a growing number of United States households, number of Apple products more than the number of spouses or children. Now, more than half of the United States families each have at least one Apple device, but according to the 2010, United States married couples is the only 48% in the family home, and families with children under 18 years of age account for only 33.5% throughout the United States.

Of course, it’s just a comparison of data, to highlight the company’s growing obsession with power and our Apple products.

Family owned Apple products are increasingly beyond the traditional family: in 2011, only 20% of the United States complete families couples children and 34% of them have two or more than two Apple products, and most of these Apple products are bought for the child.

There is one troubling: 28% of iPhone users said, prefer a week not to see ambiguous objects, don’t give up cell phones.

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NetEase tech news on March 6, according to foreign media reports, the Democratic Senator from New York chaersi·shumo (Charles e. Schumer) revealed a few days ago, Apple and Google have agreed to meet with Shu Mo, Smartphone privacy vulnerabilities, application can access the user’s personal photo album free discussion of issues. Outgoing foreign media last week, Apple’s mobile phone and Google Android mobile phone vulnerabilities, developers can be invoked without the user’s knowledge of the private photos. Developers can even obtain location information of each photo on the Apple Smartphone.

Shu Mo said in a telephone interview, who on Monday had made initial contact with Apple and Google executives, “we ask them if they can find a way to prevent free access to user personal information, they are friendly, open, and this situation must be changed. ”

Shu Mo said on Monday, after the privacy problems, he’s going to United States Federal Trade Commission wrote a letter, requested the investigation of Apple and Google. United States Federal Trade Commission spokeswoman Claudia Bourne Farrell confirmed that the Committee had received the letter, but declined to make further comment.

Shu Mo wrote in his letter that “the user’s private photo album, address book, and other user information without the user’s permission and without permission, it’s frightening. ”

Shu Mo pointed out that if Apple and Google could not agree to solve this problem, he will have to take further action. Shu Mo said, over the years other companies cooperate with them to resolve the conflict, “I believe that we don’t need to take legal action to change the situation. If you do not have access to change, we have turned to the Federal Trade Commission, if still does not work, we will take legislative action. ”

United States Federal Trade Commission has issued a warning to all companies in the industry, require all companies should strive to protect users ‘ privacy, once involving privacy issues, they can.

United States Federal Trade Commission Privacy and personal information protection Department official Christopher n. Olsen pointed out in an interview with the media, “the industry should redouble their efforts to protect the privacy of users, or you could face additional pressure on Congressional legislation. ”

Currently, Google spokeswoman Gina Scigliano said that no information need to be explored in greater depth. Apple spokeswoman declined to comment.

United States Navy’s new pilotless attack helicopter armed—the latest high-tech monitors multiple mold sensor seeker (MMSS) HDTV cameras, the unmanned attack helicopters equipped with mid-range infrared sensors and laser radar, 3D plotting equipment, long range, high resolution of eye-safe laser, and was named “fire Scout”, will be used to patrol the high seas Pirates of the wild.

Piracy has increasingly become an industrialized country priority issues to be solved, the pirate ship is usually pretty small, it is difficult to detect, the pirate ransom hijacked oil tanker and other expensive goods and great confusion, and many pirates came from poor areas.

Ken Heeke describes ONR NAWWD project “fire Scout”, and pointed out that control of robotic systems that are available through the video stream to find the ship. “Fire Scout” resolution capability is provided by the automatic object recognition software, and then use the laser radar, send information through analysis of 3-D images of these ships.

The laser radar system for project development is Utah State University [PDF], has to do more work in testing. If the testing goes well, “fire Scout” should be the pirates pose a great threat. In addition to pirates, United States Navy is planning a variety of other advanced combat readiness.

According to China’s National Defense Science and technology information network reported United States Office of Naval Research is developing a new military robots for fire-fighting tasks of the Navy, the robot designed to be first sea trial is planned for 2013. Marine automatic fire fighting robot (SAFFiR) is a humanoid robot, the future will be in the United States Navy warships deployed to handle fires on the ship. When a fire occurs, the robot can automatically (without human starts) in the handling and use of fire-fighting equipment, including the use of fire-extinguishing grenades.

This degree of autonomy requires system equipped with extremely advanced algorithms. Therefore, United States Office of Naval Research is developing to help fire autonomous mobile robot and collaboration technology in concert with human firemen.

Navy fire-fighting robot will interface with advanced equipment, so that we can perceive humans indicates (gestures) and respond to it. Observation of robot can also make use of smoke. As with human firefighters, marine fire fighting robot will be able to walk on the surface and over obstacles. Fire fighting robot of this flexibility of both self and in the face of emergencies are free through the narrow aisles or climbing stairs. Robot will be equipped with a variety of sensors and recording devices, May 30 minutes on a single charge.

Marine automatic fire fighting robot technology used by Virginia-based technology company CHARLI-L1-robot, the robot not only can be used for fire-fighting work, if in the United States Marine Corps put into use, you can also play different roles.

The robot plan after 18 months in the former United States Navy warships “Shadwell” on a sea trial. The ship mid 70 retired in 1988 and became United States Navy test ship of fire research, and for fire fighting training. (Comprehensive technical and Economic Research Institute of China shipbuilding industry Cheng Zhinian)

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According to a report from the Pew survey shows that 19% people have Tablet PCs across the United States, and 22% Americans never have access to the Internet, and since 2009 has been a very stable to maintain this data.

Cause without access to the Internet for many reasons, 10% people are not online because of poverty or low income, but more may be due to other causes, such as 31% no Internet population belongs to the elderly, they are in the process of growing up and there is no involvement of the Internet, so they’re not interested in. Some felt online there is no use, some think they learn. 12% said it was not online is because they don’t have a computer.

Most of the Internet users are already using a high speed network, still at low speed Internet users or want access to the Internet can reduce the price of the network environment, either because there is no high-speed network connection service.

Implementation of UAV reconnaissance missions of the United States Air Force pilot has been released, current anthropology analyst is to analyze the pilots using unmanned aerial vehicles captured images in order to determine the importance of the information. However, unfortunately, the analysis expert can’t keep up with the demands of the army. The United States Secretary of the air force maierke. Donely said: image analysis for already a few years later, military needs through the now unmanned on-camera work.

So of problem in 2010 on has exists, a predator who no machine collection to information is 2000 a analysis expert for analysis, according to cable magazine reporter sibinsaiakeman analysis, to to these capture to picture easy management and analysis, on must to no machine capture to of all upload to a automation software in the to, this is why analysis always with does not Shang, “because it not like clear DVR cache so simple. ”

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Top 30 Apple iPhone application vendors, including Twitter,Facebook and Foursquare, recently received a United States Justice Department’s letter and ask them to provide these applications collect consumer data and methods. According to Reuters news, the event was by the United States House of Representatives Committee on energy and Commerce investigation launched by a link in.

The objectives for the event was in the Apple store is listed as “installed” applications, these vendors must feedback to the letter by April 12. At present Twitter,Facebook and Foursquare to comment on the incident. Although this event is mainly used for Apple’s platforms, but sources say, Google’s Android platform and escape the fate of being investigated.

Most popular iPhone and Android applications, including social networking tools, being exposes in the case without the users permission, access and upload your address book data in user equipment, by user complaints. In early March this year, 18 companies have been prosecuted, including Facebook, Apple, Twitter and Yelp, they are distributed to violate privacy of mobile applications.

United Kingdom report in the daily mail, United States Pentagon plans to spend heavily to create a team can have “indicates that read” forces, soldiers can use unique helmet in battle each other on “reading” each other’s thinking. The device is expected within the next 5 years in battlefield role. This is like many science fiction scene in the high-tech, electrode on the helmet was first used extracts from the soldiers thought the password, and then pass it back to the computer, after a digest and then passed on to the other soldiers on the battlefield.

Was set up in 1958, United States Department of Defense Advanced research projects Agency (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has been committed to the field of national defense technology development and application, including the study of human thinking. The Agency and the University of California, Irvine, Maryland and Philadelphia laboratories scientists cooperation, is trying to improve the so-called “synthetic telepathy”, so that it can be used on the battlefield. In their view, 2017 of such technology can be put to use.

But some human rights activists opposing viewpoints to this technology, they worry that once this new technology is abused, the possible infringement of civil liberties.

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Today, in the United States State Department organized in the Town of Tall, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a question and answer session revealed a very Geek News: before the State will use Chrome instead IE browser, in fact on February 14 and they have started the installation of Chrome browser. But some of the software also does not work in Chrome, so they have to use IE browser.

This is a great opportunity for Google take down government agencies, before they had been trying to make the main United States Government departments using their Google Apps suite for business and communication.

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Beijing time on April 6, according to foreign media reports, a scholar at Harvard University, nonprofit United States digital public library (Digital Public Library of America, hereinafter referred to as DPLA) run will launch in April next year, will provide at least 2 million books for free. Harvard Library of the University scholars and writers luobote·daerdun (Robert Darnton) earlier this week in Colombia speaking to the school of law, DPLA is a nonprofit project, originally proposed in October 2010 idea, and “will run in April 2013, initial collections include at least 2 million public domain books, as well as a number of special collections, and far more informative than what Google can provide.

Non-profit United States digital public library in April next year to run

The project received the Sloan Foundation (Sloan Foundation) and Arcadia Fund (Arcadia Fund) funding, and has set up a Steering Committee members by the nonprofit and foundation leaders, comprising government officials, scholars and managers of public libraries.

Dalton joined the Steering Committee, on behalf of Harvard University said, the digital library is the idea behind “all nationals, in fact is free to everyone in the world to understand United States cultural heritage”.

At present, DPLA Steering Committee consultations on copyright issues, which was launched with Google “Google Book Search” the problems faced by the same. Google’s book digitization project was ultimately the authors, publishers of infringement proceedings.

Dalton said, Google Book Search “was initially a good idea”. He said: “by virtue of their technical strength, energy, wealth and audacious, Google began on the world’s best libraries of books to digitize. But the search engines across the boundaries of public libraries and books. ”

He said, Google of failed can summary out a section lessons, is established a large of digital library is may of, but “so a library of design and run must meet public interests”, and DPLA non-profit organization is “is committed to public of interests”, in collection by copyright protection books of process in the must protection “books industry of legitimate rights and interests of”, avoid “destruction of legal action”.

Dalton said, most books published a few weeks after stopping sales, generating revenue potential of these books will disappear completely after a few years. He said: “through its agreements with publishers and authors, who after a long time has been able to maintain the commercial value of precious books will exclude from a DPLA. Therefore, DPLA will not damage the economic interests of the copyright holder, but to win their cooperation. ”

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