Google details the process it uses for “right to be forgotten” requests

Back in May, the European Union put a law into place that it believed would protect an individual’s “right to be forgotten”. This meant that anyone could request to have themselves removed for a search engine’s results, and all search engines would have to comply with the rules.

Naturally being the biggest search engine on the internet, Google has been the most public subject of this new law. Today, the company has revealed which countries have made the most requests for links to be removed from search results. Google also made public the process it uses for delisting links.

Google says that the Dutch have made 5,500 requests, the Italians have made 7,500 requests, the Spanish have made 8,000 requests, the British have made 12,000 requests, the Germans have made 16,500 requests, and the French have topped the list with 17,500 requests.

Of the thousands of requests that have been made across the European Union, Google has delisted about 53% of the as requested. Another 32% of the requests have been denied and the search results are still available. The remainder are requests where the decision is pending while Google requests more information from the requester.

Once an individual has filled in the online form with the details of the search terms they want delisted, each request has to be evaluated individually by Google employees, something that requires a “significant hiring effort” according to Google.

Guided by a panel of independent experts, which includes the founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales, they have to evaluate “whether the search results in question include outdated or irrelevant information about the data subject, as well as whether there’s a public interest in the information”.

Read more about the story at The Verge.

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The FWS is phasing out neonicotinoid pesticides and GMOs

Two non-profit organizations have been filing countless lawsuits, legal petitions, and administrative actions to stop the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) for the last decade. Why? In order to stop the FWS from using genetically engineered crops and bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides in national refuge farming programs.

Using genetically engineered crops and bee-killing pesticides is counterintuitive as it ultimately interferes with the very plants and animals that the refuge system is designed to protect. Thankfully, the FWS announced in an internal memorandum earlier today that the agency will ban neonicotinoid pesticides. The agency also plans to phase out genetically engineered feed for wildlife by 2016.

“GE crops and toxic pesticides violate the basic purposes of our protected national lands,” said Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of Center for Food Safety. “We applaud the Fish and Wildlife Service for recognizing what our legal challenges have repeatedly stated and courts have repeatedly held: that they must stop permitting these harmful agricultural practices.”

National Wildlife Refuge System Chief James Kurth said in the FWS memorandum that the agency has demonstrated its ability to “successfully accomplish refuge purposes over the past two years without using genetically modified crops, therefore it is no longer possible to say that their use is essential to meet wildlife management objectives”.

Read more about the story at Take Part.

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Apple has switched on its new continent delivery network

Good news of users of iOS or OS X, your downloads are about to get a whole lot faster, assuming they haven’t already. Apple has quietly switched on its own content delivery network (CDN) which enables it to deliver files directly instead of having to rely on other services.

The content delivery network is reportedly much larger than Apple actually needs, a good sign that the technology company is putting itself in position to deliver rich, high-definition content to users in the near future. It will also make it much easier for Apple to launch its software.

Apple’s servers tend to get overloaded whenever the company updates iOS or OS X because everyone tries to download it at once, causing issues for many people. This new system, however, will enable Apple to deliver its software updates much more smoothly. This couldn’t come at a better time considering that Apple is rolling our iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite soon.

This is also good news for Apple TV, which is currently struggling to acquire content from cable providers. Content providers have been reluctant to yield too much ground to Apple, but this nre content delivery network shows that Apple is still optimistic.

Read more about the story at GigaOM.

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After talks fail, Argentina defaults for the second time in 12 years

Argentina has defaulted for the second time in 12 years after attempts to secure a deal with holdout creditors failed, thus setting up stock and bond prices for declines on Thursday and making it more likely that a recession could worsen this year.

The third-largest economy in Latin America failed to strike a deal in time to meet a midnight deadline for a coupon payment on exchange bonds following a long, arduous legal battle with hedge funds that rejected the country’s debt restructuring following its 2002 default.

“It is going to complicate life for businesses like YPF which were going to look externally for financing,” said Camilo Tiscornia, a former governor of Argentina’s central bank. State-controlled energy company YPF needs funds to develop Argentina’s huge Vaca Muerta shale formation.

Argentina had fought, in vain, to secure a last-minute suspension of a ruling by United States District Judge Thomas Griesa in New York to pay holdouts $1.33 billion plus interest. He ruled that Argentina could not service its exchange debt unless it paid holdouts at the same time.

“This is a very particular default, there is no solvency problem, so everything depends on how quickly it is solved,” said analyst Mauro Roca of Goldman Sachs.

As bad as things are for Argentina now, this is nothing compared to the mayhem that followed the country’s economic crash in 2001 when the economy collapsed around a bankrupt government, resulting in the loss of millions of jobs for Argentina’s civilians.

“Our base case is that a default would be cleared by January 2015,” said Alberto Bernal, a partner at Miami-based Bulltick Capital Markets. He projected that a default would cause the economy to shrink 2 percent this year compared with a previous market consensus for a 1 percent contraction.

Read more about the story at The Wall Street Journal.

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Sony turned down EA’s new EA Access subscription plan

Yesterday, Electronic Arts announced its new EA Access program which grants users unlimited access to EA’s most popular titles, early access to new titles, and a 10% discount on all digital purchases. The subscription-based service costs $5-per-month or $30-per-year, and is the first such service from a third-party publisher on this generation of consoles.

The service will be testing beta soon, and the initial line-up of games will include FIFA 14, Madden NFL 25, Peggle 2, and Battlefield 4. NHL 15, FIFA 15, NBA LIVE 15, and Dragon Age: Inquisition are expected to be available for early-access once it gets closer to their release dates. Unfortunately for PlayStation users, this service will only be available on the Xbox One.

The fact that EA Access will be exclusive to the Xbox One was considered a big win for Microsoft, and made a lot of PlayStation 4 owners upset with EA. However, as it turns out, EA actually did approach Sony about making the service available on the PS4, but was turned down. Apparently, Sony believes that EA’s subscription plan isn’t as good as Sony’s PlayStation Plus offerings.

“We evaluated the EA Access subscription offering and decided that it does not bring the kind of value PlayStation customers have come to expect,” a Sony representative told Game Informer. “PlayStation Plus memberships are up more than 200% since the launch of PlayStation 4, which shows that gamers are looking for memberships that offer a multitude of services, across various devices, for one low price. We don’t think asking our fans to pay an additional $5 a month for this EA-specific program represents good value to the PlayStation gamer.”

Sony’s reasoning with turning EA down seems fairly petty and anti-competitive. The company is essentially preventing third-party services that compete with Sony’s own services from being on the PlayStation platform. The worst part is that they’re doing it under the guise of protecting PlayStation users.

Read more about the story at Ars Technica.

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The aspen-covered mountains of Colorado

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Tropical fish are invading temperate waters

The last few years have seen a growing trend of tropical fish species moving closer to the poles and invading temperate aquatic ecosystems. As the world’s oceans continue to warm, tropical fish species are now able to make a home in temperate oceans which were previously unsuited to their needs. As a result, native kelp forests and sea grass meadows are being wiped out by the invaders.

This is a phenomenon known as “tropicalization”. The southern coast of Japan is one of the most striking examples of this phenomenon as 40% of the areas famous kelp and algal beds have disappeared in just the last twenty years or so. As the kelp forests disappear, so too do the local fish. This is incredibly damaging to the fishing industry in the area which is the livelihood of thousands of families.

“In tropical regions, a wide diversity of plant-eating fish perform the vital role of keeping reefs free of large seaweeds, allowing corals to flourish,” said Dr. Adriana Verges of University of New South Wales, lead author on a new paper outlining the problem. “But when they intrude into temperate waters they pose a significant threat to these habitats. They can directly overgraze algal forests as well as prevent the recovery of algae that have been damaged for other reasons.”

While the entire ocean is warming, there are a few “hot spots” around the world where the damage is especially bad. In these areas, climate change is causing currents that transport tropical waters to the poles to become stronger, and therefore, increasing the warming rate of these areas to two to three times that of the global average.

One such hot spot is in Australia, where the strengthening of the East Australian Current has contributed to a growing number of tropical fish species in Sydney Harbor every summer for the last few years. Unicornfish, parrotfish, and rabbitfish are some of the tropical species which have most effectively infiltrated temperate waters.

The influx of plant eating fish has a profound impact on local ecosystems and can lead to barren reefs, thus affecting the biodiversity of the area. Experts say that the most effective way to combat the influx of tropical fish is to eat them. This is a delicate issue, however, as these fish are vital to their own ecosystems.

Read more about the story at National Geographic.

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California businesses unite to preserve the state’s waterways

Twelve local Waterkeeper organizations and the California Coastkeeper Alliance have announced the launch of a network of California businesses that will begin working together to protect the state’s rivers, streams, ocean, coasts, and bays.

Called the Blue Business Council, the network of business so far includes: Channel Island Outfitters, Clif Bar, h2hotel, Hotel Healdsburg, Humboldt Bay Oyster & Tourism, New Belgium Brewing, Patagonia, Pro SUP Shop, Pura Vida Bracelets, Santa Barbara Adventure Company, and Shelter.

“As an outdoor business with our headquarters in coastal California for 40 years, we care deeply about protecting and cleaning-up our waterways to ensure that they are swimmable, fishable and drinkable,” said Hans Cole, environmental campaigns and advocacy manager at Patagonia, ”The Blue Business Council brings a strong new voice on this front, and we support California Coastkeeper Alliance’s efforts to engage this group of likeminded citizens and businesses in action and advocacy.”

California’s rivers, coasts, and bays feed a $106 billion tourism industry as well as a $39 billion fishing industry. Despite this, nearly half of California’s waterways are too polluted to swim in, fish in, or drink out of. Cities along the state’s coast spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year to clean up garbage and marine debris.

“Water is a renewable resource, but it is not inexhaustible,” said Sara Aminzadeh, executive director of California Coastkeeper Alliance. “California’s current drought underscores the need for decisive action and innovative policy reforms to protect our blue economy.”

The members of the Blue Business Council understand how important clean, abundant water is to the state, that’s why they’ve taken the Clean Water Pledge. This mean that they have pledged to support initiatives that strengthen California’s economy by making its coasts and waterways safe and clean.

Both the California Coastkeeper Alliance and the members of the Blue Business Council will be celebrating Swimmable California Day on July 25. The day was officially designated by the California legislature last year in recognition of Californians’ right to clean coasts, beaches, estuaries, rivers, streams, and lakes.

Read more about the story at California Economy Reporting.

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Ten images of Yosemite National Park

The Yosemite National Park is a 750,000 acre testament to the beauty of nature. The granite cliffs, raging waterfalls, and groves of giant sequoias come together to form a landscape that looks like it was hand crafted by God himself. Abraham Lincoln himself set the land aside for preservation in what was the first such act in American history. Check out these pictures and see what I’m talking about.

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State district judge strikes down a Colorado city’s fracking ban

In an effort to protect the “state’s interest” in oil and natural gas, a Colorado state district judge struck down the city of Longmont’s voter-approved ban on hydraulic fracturing last Thursday.

Boulder County District Court Judge D.D. Mallard ruled that the city’s ban interfered with the state’s interests and the concerns over health risks were insufficient to warrant banning fracking.

“While the Court appreciates the Longmont citizens’ sincerely-held beliefs about risks to their health and safety, the Court does not find this is sufficient to completely devalue the State’s interest,” Mallard wrote.

Longmont voters approved the ban back in November 2012, but the Colorado Oil and Gas Association fought tooth and nail to have it overturned, and now they’ve succeeded.

Earthworks, the Sierra Club, Our Health, Our Future, Our Longmont, and the other environmental groups listed as defendants plan on appealing the decision. Fortunately, Judge Mallard ruled that the ban will be kept in place while an appeal is considered.

“While we respectfully disagree with the court’s final decision, [Mallard] was correct that we were asking this Court, in part, to place protection from the health, safety and environmental risks from fracking over the development of mineral resources,” Kaye Fissinger, president of Our Health, Our Future, Our Longmont, said in a statement on Earthworks’ website.

“It’s tragic that the judge views the current law in Colorado is one in which fracking is more important than public health; reversing that backwards priority is a long-term battle that we’re determined to continue.”

The city of Longmont has already spent $116,324 defending the ban as of the end of June. The environmental groups have argued that the language the industry relied on to get the ban overturned was written far before modern practices like fracking, Mallard said the issue should be taken up with a higher court or state legislators.

“This decision means two things: The judge has invited us to seek the change we need either through the higher courts or the legislature,” said Bruce Baizel, Earthworks Energy Program director. “We fully intend to pursue the former on appeal, while the latter underscores the need for the citizens of Colorado to get out and support the Environmental Bill of Rights ballot measure this Fall.”

Read more about the story at The Huffington Post.

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Buzz Aldrin’s Reddit AMA Experience for #Apollo45

Social news site Reddit has always had some pretty amazing AMAs (Ask Me Anything) with celebrities ranging from movie stars and music composers to world leaders, including President Barack Obama. One of their most recent ones with astronaut Buzz Aldrin made from some pretty amazing conversations.

Fox News jumped on the information quickly and came up with a list of the top 10 things they learned from Aldrin’s AMA. There are some interesting things in here, but we thought it was especially cool that his mother’s maiden name is “Moon.”

It was meant to be. Here’s the video:

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Lyft finally has approval to continue with its New York City launch

Lyft is finally launching in New York City, but it’s making some concessions to do so. After a back-and-forth battle between Lyft and the city, the two have finally struck a deal that will allow Lyft to begin offering service throughout the city’s five boroughs, but only so long as Lyft drivers register with the city’s Taxi & Limousine Commission.

That makes Lyft’s operation in New York distinctly different from its modus operandi: Lyft’s fleet is usually composed of anyone who has a car and some free time, but in the city they’ll all have to be registered cab drivers. Recode reports that Uber’s UberX service, which usually operates like Lyft, follows these same rules in New York.

Yesterday’s agreement suggests that the commission might be accepting technology with the potential to upend how it does business. As part of the new agreement, Lyft drivers will meet a host of requirements. They’ll submit to annual drug testing, attend a state-certified driving course every three years and get fingerprinted.

Lyft said it would continue to work with the TLC on new rules for peer-to-peer transportation in New York. As part of its agreement with the city, Lyft will pause operations in Buffalo and Rochester by Aug. 1 while it works with the Attorney General’s office to “align New York State’s insurance laws and regulations with emerging technologies of the 21st century.”

Lyft initially attempted to launch in New York City earlier this month, quite blatantly skirting the local taxi laws, perhaps in an attempt to force a regulatory showdown. Certainly, it got just that. Regulators jumped on Lyft before a single one of its cabs hit the road, stopping its launch because of its failure to follow the laws in place governing taxi services.

The two sides had something of a public war of pointed fingers over the launch holdup, but ultimately it appears that Lyft has just agreed to follow the law. It’s apparently legal issues that are holding up Lyft’s operations in Buffalo and Rochester too, and Lyft makes it sound as though some regulations will need to change around insurance before it can start up again in those locations. Read more about the story here.

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Bose is suing Beats of noise-cancelling headphones

The Bose Corporation has filed a legal complaint against Beats Electronics for allegedly infringing patents related to its noise-canceling headphones. Bose claims that Beats is infringing upon 50 years of research and development of noise cancellation technology that is protected by 36 U.S. patents and applications.

In a statement from Bose public relations director Carolyn Cinotti, she said that the company doesn’t comment on ongoing litigation. “We can share that for over 30 years, Bose has made significant investments in the research, development, engineering and design of the proprietary technologies found in our headphones. Bose’s patented technologies enable the exclusive performance found in our QuietComfort Acoustic Noise Cancelling headphones. We are committed to protecting our investment, protecting our customers, and defending the patents we own.”

“To protect its investments, Bose has sought patent protection, and owns many patents and patent applications. Because Bose invests heavily in research and development, and because Bose has built its reputation on producing superior products through innovative technology, Bose’s continued success depends in substantial part on its ability to establish, maintain, and protect its proprietary technology through enforcement of its patent rights,” said Bose in its complaint.

In May, Apple announced that it was paying $3 billion to acquire Beats Electronics and Beats Music, the streaming music service that launched in January. It hopes to gain approval for the deal in September, CEO Tim Cook said earlier this week.

In the legal complaint, Bose specifically accused the Beats Studio and Beats Studio Wireless headphones for infringing patents embodied within its latest noise-canceling headphone models. Beats sells its Studio headphones with “Adaptive Noise Cancellation” features through its website BeatsByDre.com and retailers with locations throughout the country, including Best Buy, Staples, Target, and Radio Shack.

Bose is asking the court for a declaration that Beats infringed the aforementioned patents, an injunction from “continued infringement,” an award for damages, an order that finds Beats’ infringement is willful and relief that the court deems as just. Read more about the story here.

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Twitch.tv is becoming more and more like regular television

Gameplay streaming service Twitch has announced a new feature which brings it closer to broadcast TV. Twitch users will be able to promote streams from other users during their downtime. They will essentially be able to host another user’s gameplay stream even when they’ve stopped broadcasting themselves. It’s like embedding somebody else’s video on your website.

Any viewers who are in your channel while you’re playing a hosted stream will be attributed to that stream, and will be given the option to subscribe to it from your page. Your stream will not be listed in the active channel directory while it’s playing a hosted stream, either. The original broadcaster will get the views, follows, and (if signed up for the program) ad impressions during Host Mode.

The service believes that this feature is beneficial for both. The host is able to keep viewers engaged to their channel even when they’re offline and they can use the feature to point out interesting streams or promote streams from friends or family.

This seems to open up interesting cross-promotional possibilities: If you’re done streaming development of your game, you could turn your channel over to other games’ devs at off-hours. It also seems likely that popular streamers may open up opportunities to get your content into their channels.

Channels using Host Mode won’t appear in Twitch’s live directory, meaning viewers won’t be able to find the channel until the mode is turned off. Host Mode is only available on the Twitch website for now, with mobile support yet to be announced. On other platforms, the host channel will appear offline, but chat will continue to work.

“At our core, Twitch is a live video destination, so we’re very interested in increasing the social connectivity between users,” said Yoh Suzuki, senior product engineer at Twitch. “We want to help our community discover new broadcasters and give users new and better ways of communicating with each other. Host Mode is a significant step in this direction with other new social features just around the corner.” Read more about the story here.

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Google celebrates the Chromecast’s first birthday with free music

Google launched the Chromecast exactly one year ago yesterday, and the $35 streaming stick has made some impressive progress in the intervening 365 days. The media player has added a ton of features, but Google also revealed that it has powered over 400 million Casts thus far, which involve users running software on their Android, iOS or PC device to displays connected to the Chromecast.

Chromecast is Google’s stripped down strategy for taking over your living room with a low-cost ($35) streaming HDMI stick that will ‘cast’ things from your mobile devices (and desktop) to your TV screen. It launched a year ago without much notice and more or less resurrected Google’s media platform ambitions.

The device is also now more international than ever, with sales extending across 20 countries including the latest addition, Ireland, as of this writing. 30,000 stores now stock the Chromecast, too, in addition to its online availability through Google Play devices store. The app now has support for scores more apps than it did at launch, can mirror the screens of select Android devices, and has sold “millions” of units according to Google.

As for Chromecast apps, Google revealed that more than 6,000 developers have produced over 10,000 apps. However, the company only launched its Chromecast SDK back in February, so that number should continue to increase. And since no birthday would be complete without presents, Google is giving Chromecast owners a free 90-day trial subscription to its streaming music service Google Play Music All Access. That offer is redeemable through September.

Chromecast is becoming more and more of true streaming over-the-top device replacement thanks to lots of iteration and feature additions, but its special power of Casting from Android devices is being baked into Android TV means that the Chromecast could become a transition device as its features are rolled into third-party settop boxes, TV sets and other devices. If Android TV succeeds, users should be able to get their casting elsewhere. In the meantime, however, $35 remains an amazing price to pay for an accessory that does what Chromecast can do, especially given how keen Google seems to be on continuous improvement for the gadget. Read more about the story here.

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Facebook Messenger is getting a mobile payments system… eventually

Earlier this month, PYMNTS.com reported that Facebook is testing a “Buy” button that allows certain customers to purchase items placed in the news feed or on ads on the site with a click or two. But don’t expect Facebook to compete against the likes of Kmart.com or Walmart.com anytime soon.

When the company first announced it had hired David Marcus, the former president of PayPal, the industry took it as a strong hint that Facebook was looking to monetize its messaging app. After all, Marcus joined PayPal after parent-company eBay acquired his mobile-payments startup Zong in 2011, first leading PayPal’s mobile efforts before taking the lead as president.

During a July 23 second-quarter earnings call with analysts, Cheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, acknowledged the “small test” being done in the U.S. only, but cautioned against looking too deeply into it. “It streamlines the process for buying from our clients,” she said. “No one’s buying from us. We’re just streamlining the process of buying from our clients.”

In an earnings call on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg focused heavily on messaging. Messaging is a natural area for Zuckerberg to place his attention, not just because of WhatsApp but also because competitors in Asia are proving there’s a big market and a lot of money in it. One thing that he didn’t want to discuss much on the conference call was when exactly the messaging products would start generating revenue.

That’s OK. Facebook reported impressive quarterly earnings, with revenue surging 61 percent. The stock rose in extended trading past its all-time closing high. So shareholders are inclined to believe whatever Zuckerberg has to say right now. With messaging, the CEO was adamant that Facebook would not “take the cheap and easy approach and just try to put ads in.” Zuckerberg said: “We’re going to take the time to do this in the way that we think that’s going to be right over multiple years.”

Zuckerberg did suggest that payments, an area Marcus is well-versed in, will probably be a part of the equation. This would be something of a new model for Facebook, which made 92 percent of its revenue last quarter, or $2.68 billion, from ads. But payments is the standard business model for messaging apps around the world, including the one Facebook just bought, and it’s looking to be a mega business. Read more about the story here.

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Light pollution and the death of the night sky

It’s sad how many people have never seen the stars, I mean REALLY seen them. Our obsession with keeping things illuminated is responsible for destroying one of the most beautiful views that nature has to offer: the Milky Way. Miles away from populated areas, the night sky is filled with more stars than can possibly be counted, and occasionally, the inner regions of our galaxy, the Milky Way, can be seen. The reason you can’t get views like that in the city is because of something called light pollution. All the light we use to illuminate our cities essentially outshines the stars, and leaves us with a blank sky. Don’t believe me, look at some of these pictures.

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