Editor’s note: Tech Pick of the Week is a weekly compilation of articles that focus on technology and written by international sources. The selection was compiled by Kyiv Post IT reporter Denys Krasnikov, who can be reached at [email protected].
BBC: Cracked iPhone — Should you be worried?
Activist Aki Rose holds a placard reading “Secure Phones Saves Lives” while protesting in front of the U.S. District Court in Riverside, California, on March 22, 2016. © AFP
The U.S.
government’s declaration that it has “successfully accessed the data stored
on (San Bernardino gunman) Farook’s iPhone and therefore no longer
requires” assistance from Apple, ends a six week-long legal clash between
the tech firm and the FBI.
But it
leaves the issue at the heart of the dispute unresolved: could the FBI have
forced Apple to help it unlock the device?
More iPhone
vs FBI
here.
Ars Technica: Braille displays — A blind spot
of the mainstream tech industry
With braille literacy falling, we take a look at some alternative, cheaper braille displays. © Andrii Degeler
Although
the way we read printed or written text hasn’t changed much over the last 600
years, the media used for carrying the words have evolved significantly. From
animal skin and waxed wooden plaques to paper, and from there to LCD screens
and e-ink, there’s now a wide choice of extremely affordable reading devices
that can be used everywhere. Thanks to this, there’s virtually no limit in the
selection of books to read, both in digital and physical form.
Well,
that’s how things work for sighted people, anyway. For the blind, getting to
read a book of their choice could be much more complicated matter.
More braille displays here.
Mashable: Grinning British man with EgyptAir
hijacker wanted the ‘selfie of a lifetime’
One of the passengers of hijacked EgyptAir flight MS181 Ben Innes poses for a photograph with the EgyptAir hijacker Seif Eldin Mustafa.© Paul Smith
The
grinning man in
the photo with the hijacker of an EgyptAir
flight on March 29 basically just did it for the “selfie of a
lifetime.”
He’s
26-year-old Ben Innes, who is from Leeds and lives in Aberdeen. He told The
Sun: “I’m not sure why I did it — I just threw caution to the wind while trying
to stay cheerful in the face of adversity.”
More selfie
of a lifetime
here.
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