Laptops

No matter where you go, you probably see people leaning over looking at their cellphones. Chances are, you’ve seen it in your own house. Hey, you might even do it yourself.

Transportation Security Administration agent Kevin Effan, left, allows a screened passenger to board his American Airlines flight. (AP Photo)
A lawsuit by a legal watchdog was filed Monday against the U.S. government over the surge in warrantless searches of laptops and cellphones of travelers to the U.S., including citizens, which has amounted to more than 5,000 searches in February alone and seems to disproportionately target Muslims and those traveling from Muslim-majority countries.

The unsettling fact is that border officials have long had broad powers — many people just don’t know about them. (AP Photo)
A NASA scientist heading home to the U.S. said he was detained in January at a Houston airport, where Customs and Border Protection officers pressured him for access to his work phone and its potentially sensitive contents.

The Congo has experienced all five-year’s of the Syrian civil war every year for a ten-year period.

On September 9, California regulators took a step toward becoming the first U.S. state to require energy efficiency standards for computers and monitors, which account for 3% of home electric bills and 7% of commercial power costs in the state. [1]
The California Energy Commission released a report, its final one, claiming the proposed standards could save consumers $373 million annually. The projected energy savings under the plan equal the electricity used each year by all the homes in San Francisco.

Developers at the University of Michigan are nearing the end of a project that will allow blind people to participate in digital culture much more readily than ever before.
While those without visual impairments often rely on screens, laptops, and tablets to help them accomplish tasks, the technology to allow blind people to do the same has been sorely lacking.

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