58

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/564301/Flying-car-reality-2017-aermobil
Flying car a reality by 2017

57

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/grand-theft-auto-tv-drama-by-bbc-show-will-follow-making-rockstar-video-game-1492419
Grand Theft Auto TV drama by BBC: Show will follow 'the making' of the Rockstar video game

• BBC declared it was making a television drama based on Grand Theft Auto
• The show is more likely to be about the development of the Rockstar game (more like a documentary) and its behind the scenes moments.
• The man behind the BBC drama has clarified that the series will be on the making of the hottest game of the year.
• Engadget reports that the show will be a "one-off, feature-length drama running 90 minutes"
• Two-part show on GTA is rumoured to be aired in September this year on BBC 2.

BBC 2s show will not be some fictional drama speaking about Lester and his gang of miscreants. Instead BBC has explained that the drama will most likely be a behind-the-scenes look at the development of the GTA. 

The Grand Theft Auto series will be transitioning to BBC 2 for a two part episode explaining the development behind making the game and the background on the criminals lifestyles within the game. Based off the latest release of GTA V that was released in three waves. September 2012 released for PS3 and Xbox 360. September 2013 re release for the definitive version on PS4 and  Xbox One. and the final release of the game on the PC platform has been confirmed for a Spring 2015 window. 

56

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/20/google-anti-competitive-ftc-report
FTC report recommended suing Google for anti-competitive practices

• Google for violating antitrust rules before the agency settled its investigation in 2013
• The FTC settled its multi-year investigation of Google in 2013
• Google had manipulated its search results to hurt rivals.
• Speculation about potential consumer and competitor harm turned out to be entirely wrong
• 19-month review, covering 9 million pages of documents and many hours of testimony, the FTC staff and all five commissioner agreed that there was no need to take action

Key staff members at the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) were in favour of suing Google for violating antitrust rules before the agency settled its investigation in 2013, according to a confidential report cited by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

The report by the staff of the FTC’s competition bureau argued that the owner of the world’s biggest search engine illegally took information from rival websites to improve its own results and placed restrictions on websites and advertisers. The report recommended suing Google for several of its business practices. The FTC settled its multi-year investigation of Google in 2013, concluding that the company had not manipulated its search results to hurt rivals.

55

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/20/google-illegally-took-content-from-amazon-yelp-tripadvisor-ftc-report
Google 'illegally took content from Amazon, Yelp, Trip Advisor,' report finds

• Google search practices investigation creates at least the appearance that politics, and not merits, drove the FTC’s ultimate conclusion.”

• America’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted unanimously to end its investigation into Google in early 2013 after extracting concessions from the Silicon Valley Company.
• The findings, contained in a report produced in 2012 by FTC staff to advise commissioners before their final decision on the case, claim Google also caused “harm to many vertical competitors”.
• Inits 2013 settlement, the FTC ruled against Google on scraping. Rivals can now opt out of having their content lifted, without fear of being demoted in the search rankings.

Google manipulated its search results to promote its own services over those of rival websites in ways that led to “real harm to consumers”, a previously unpublished report by American regulators has concluded. But documents accidentally handed to the Wall Street Journal show the FTC’s own investigators claim Google’s “conduct has resulted – and will result – in real harm to consumers and to innovation in the on-line search and advertising markets”.

In my opinion I think that Google being a massive cooperate business shouldn't have taken data and used it in this way to make their business more profitable. Manipulating the search criteria is not ethical and people may question Google as a business of being bias at presenting search results. 

54

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/05/gaming-streamer-gets-swatted-as-online-griefing-enters-real-world
Gamer raided by Swat team in front of 60,000 viewers

Joshua Peters, was targeted by anonymous attackers in the middle of a Twitch stream of the browser game Runescape. The veteran was confronted by 10 armed SWAT team members where they had arrived at the veteran’s house and was in shock.

Facts/Phrases:

• Before ending the show, the streamer turned back to the audience, and addressed his attacker. “I see you posting my address. I had police point a gun at my little brothers because of you. They could have been shot, they could have died. Because you chose to swat my stream. I don’t give a shit about what you have against me, or what I did to you. For that I am at a loss for words. Your gripe is with me. But do not involve my family in this. They don’t deserve it.”

In my opinion,this has been caused due to the advancement of new and digital media. This is because the rise has introduced newer cyber crimes, like taking peoples networks or channels down for publicity.

53

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/27/google-backtracks-on-porn-ban-in-blogger
Google backtracks on porn ban in Blogger

• Google has backtracked on plans to ban sexually explicit images from its blogging platform Blogger, in the face of widespread opposition from users

The company had initially announced a ban on “sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video”, with just a few exceptions for content which offered “a substantial public benefit, for example in artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts”.

• Jessica Pelegio, a social product support manager at Google, wrote: “We’ve had a ton of feedback, in particular about the introduction of a retroactive change (some people have had accounts for 10+ years), but also about the negative impact on individuals who post sexually explicit content to express their identities.
• “Blog owners should continue to mark any blogs containing sexually explicit content as ‘adult’ so that they can be placed behind an ‘adult content’ warning page,”
• Since at least 2012 The company has warned users to “not use Blogger as a way to make money on adult content”, and says it does not allow “illegal sexual content, including image, video or textual content that depicts or encourages rape, incest, bestiality, or necrophilia.”

That ban, which has been in place since November 2014, was matched by social news site Reddit this week. The company’s chief executive, Ellen Pao, said that “effective 10 March, Reddit will prohibit any photograph, video or digital image of a person who is nude or engaged in a sexual act if the subject has not given permission for it to be used”.

I think that the internet is changing everyday and evolving therefore the rules and regulations businesses have for their consumers will forever be changing. More companies are becoming more lenient on pornography laws whereas some are become more harsh 

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http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/16/yahoo-passwords-sxsw-encryption-tools-google
Tired of forgetting your password? You don't need one any more, says Yahoo

• Two step verification works by a user logging in with their usual fixed password
• Sends code to mobile phone which is entered on computer
• The “on-demand” password service is opt-in and currently only available in the US.

Yahoo have introduced a new method of entering credentials onto their website. Eliminating the need of memorising passwords and and improving security. 

Yahoo Mail now offers a service similar to “two-step verification”, a security measure employed by other email providers, but the difference is the removal of the first step.

Taking away passwords will have a huge spike in phone hackings and privacy issues may arise.

Steps:

1) Sign in to your Yahoo.com account.

2) Click on your name at the top right corner to go to your account information page.

3) Select “Security” in the left bar.

4) Click on the slider for “On-demand passwords” to opt-in.

5) Enter your phone number and Yahoo will send you a verification code.

6) Enter the code and voila!

Index

• Reading the Riots
• Post-colonialism: theory and clip task
• Post-colonialism: Destiny Ekaragwa film analysis
• Feminism: post-feminism article and No More Page 3 research
• Feminism: waves and feminism and online activism
• Collective identity and the media

Snapchat

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/12/snapchat-worth-15bn-after-alibaba-invesment
Snapchat 'worth $15bn' after Alibaba invesment

• Alibaba is investing $200m in Snapchat
• Snapchat value $15bn
• Snapchat was first released in 2011
• Share price stands at $81.99
• Snapchat, which allows its 100m users to send messages that disappear in seconds, had sought capital to extend its core service

Alibaba is investing $200m in Snap Chat, boosting its current valuation of $5 to $15. The funding from the Chinese ecommerce company, first reported by Bloomberg, means that Snapchat’s worth has increased by $5bn in a matter of months. It dwarfs the $3bn offered by Facebook for the company in late 2013.

I think that snap chat as an organisation will not do well in a few years, people are starting to drift away from using snap chat and is a dying social networking platform. Snapchat have no way of income as the services they provide are free and ad less, therefore the company is only supported from funds from the bank. Future development can show that the business can be profitable when a subscription model or adverts start to appear. 

Index

1. 12/09/2014 - iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus have had record breaking sale figures
2. 13/09/2014 - ISIS release video showing execution of British hostage
3. 15/09/2014 - Minecraft sold: Microsoft buys Mojang for $2.5bn
4. 17/09/2014 - Sony Turnaround Effort Falters, Expects $2.15 Billion Yearly Loss
5. 18/09/2014 - iOS 8 causes bandwidth spikes nationwide, despite slow uptake
6. 21/09/2014 - Labour minimum wage promise would see £8 per hour rate by 2020
7. 22/09/2014 - Traffic halted on M25 as 13 'illegal immigrants' flee lorry
8. 22/09/2014 - Microsoft delays Chinese launch on Xbox one consoles
9. 28/09/2014 - Sam Pepper accused of sexual assault
10. 29/09/2014 - Islamic State crisis: Iraq air strikes 'halt IS advance'
11. 03/10/2014 - Celebrity victims of naked photo hack join together to sue Google $100M
12. 06/10/2014 - Microsoft gets $1bn in Android royalties from Samsung

13. 06/10/2014 - Revenge pornography
14. 13/10/2014 - Apple's iPhone-based 'Pay' launches this week
15. 02/01/2012 - Snapchat Hack
16. 16/10/2014 - Netflix price increases hurt subscriber growth
17. 20/10/2014 - Google Search Engine
18. 20/10/2014 - Social Networking sites automatically' hand over Isis terrorists' data
19. 24/10/2014 - Facebook will now let you post anonymously
20. 03/11/2014 - Facebook sets up 'dark web' link to access network via Tor
21. 10/11/2014 - ITV under pressure to axe Dapper Laughs show over misogyny claims
22. 14/11/2014 - Twitter's debt assigned 'junk' status
23. 14/11/2014 - Phone and web data plan under fire for interfering with privacy
24. 17/11/2014 - Google Project Loon
25. 17/11/2014 - YouTube's Subscription Music Service
26. 21/11/2014 - Now e-cigarettes can give you malware
27. 08/12/2014 - UK set to be first country in which more than half of ad spend goes digital
28. 08/12/2014 - French journalism school executive accused of plagiarism
29. 08/12/2014 - YouTubers ads for Oreo banned for not making clear purpose of videos
30. 05/01/2014 - North Korea responds with fury to US sanctions over Sony hack
31. 25/12/2014 - Lizard Squad DDOS Sony Microsoft
32. 05/01/2014 - Apple faces lawsuit over storage space on iPhones and iPads
33. 05/01/2014 - Study claims more than 80% of 'dark net' traffic is to child abuse sites
34. 05/01/2014 - Driverless cars to be tested in UK
35. 05/01/2015 - Microsoft Nokia 215
36. 05/01/2015 - Mark Zuckerberg starts online book club, sells out Amazon
37. 05/01/2015 - Streaming: the future of the music industry, or its nightmare?
38. 05/01/2015 - Superman ‘ecstasy’ pill deaths are result of ‘illogical and punitive drugs policy’

39. 09/02/2015 - Windows 10: Ambitious But Realistic
40. 09/02/2015 - How social networking is changing journalism
41. 09/02/2015 - Spain moves to protect domestic media with new 'Google tax'
42. 09/02/2015 - Does the Sun really speak to more people than Russell Brand?
43. 09/02/2015 - Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook censorship despite Charlie Hebdo support
44. 09/02/2015 - YouTubers ads for Oreo banned for not making clear purpose of videos
45. 09/02/2015 - BuzzFeed launches its own 'public chat' channel in messaging app Viber
46. 09/02/2015 - Who, What, Why: How does Google's Autocomplete censor predictions?
47. 09/02/2015 - Revenge porn victims’ helpline launched in UK

48. 09/02/2015 - Google Maps: a decade of transforming the mapping landscape

49. 09/02/2015 - Snapchat
50. 09/02/2015 - French law blocking terrorist and child abuse sites comes into effect
51. 13/03/2015 - 

collective identity

1) Who are you?
This is about creating an identity for yourself and how our ideas on self image are. There is a certain way we are and a difference of how we want to be seen. The way the media informs us about fashion etc. has an influence on how we use it.
Rise of the individual

2) Media saturation is constant media surrounding everybody, whether it be TV or online. I agree we do live in a media saturated world but this may not be a bad thing as media is needed in the world as a way of communication and innovation of technology and future developments.
We as individuals are in control of our public image when it comes to the internet and such.
Data mining is a good idea as it provides consumers with the benefit of being introduced to products they may be interested in.

3)

The movement is a Twitter trend called #TwitterSilence, and it involves an ironic day of quiet in protest of women's inability to speak out on Twitter without incurring some form of abuse.

Chad Evans

• On 20 April 2012 Chedwyn Evans, a 23 year old professional footballer, was convicted of rape at Caernarfon Crown Court
• On Friday 17th October 2014 at 5am he was released from custody and will continue the fight to clear his name
• Complainant who was alleged to have been raped in this case stated when interviewed by the police and subsequently maintained in Court that she could not remember anything at all, other than a very brief period in a take-away

Ched Evans, the footballer convicted of rape, has faced criticism from fans and women's groups alike over his potential return to the sport

Stopped league one offering him a long term deal ruined his football career.

21,000 people backed the petition in less than 24 hours, 

160,000 signatures in September.

Among the fastest-growing online petitions ever - has changed the minds of football mangers

Twitter, where she has around 2,000 followers

"We do believe he has the right to work. We believe that it does not have to be in a role where he influences views about sexual violence, and his presence on your pitch will do this."

Women are being harsh on Chad Evans even though he has done something wrong, many children look up to him as a role model. Everybody makes mistakes and being drunk and committing these crimes are different to being sober. Maybe the petition should be about illegalising alcohol rather than stopping him from having a successful career. The substance caused him to make these actions and he should be accounted for them.

What if the woman alleged of being raped isn't telling the truth about the night and is lying about not knowing.