Patch Flash: Adobe mouth 19 vulnerabilities including one already operated – ZDNet France

Adobe Flash patch again just before the end of the year. The publisher publishes a new security patch that fixes a total of 19 security vulnerabilities in Flash Player, but also in the AIR SDK and the environment

The flaws are considered critical and allow an attacker to execute code on the victim machine. All previous versions of Flash to the 20.0.235 version are affected. Adobe also states that one of the flaws corrected is already operated under attacks: CVE-2015-8651 vulnerability is known and used by cybercriminals as part “of limited, targeted attacks.” The Flash maintaining and correcting these flaws is the 20.0.0.267. The correct version is 20.0.0.233 for AIR. Adobe has released a security bulletin summarizing information on the fix.
 

It’s not such a large patch that aired earlier this month, which corrected no less than 77 different software vulnerabilities to the company. Rest Adobe has offered a loaded 2015 years side vulnerabilities: a total of 316 bugs were unearthed only on Flash! A figure significantly higher than in 2014: according to journalist Michael Horowitz, Adobe patchait about 12 bugs per month in 2014 against 26 per month in 2015.
 

Several factors come into play to explain this sudden resurgence of vulnerability. Hacking hacking Impact Team, increasing popularity of Flash vulnerabilities among cybercriminals; the reasons are not lacking. Adobe has recently recognized that it was time for the technology to “retire”. The rise of HTML5 also pushes the tool owner of Adobe in the nettles.

New setback for Free Basics, Internet Free Facebook – The Tribune.fr

This new door slam he will snowball? After being suspended in India, Free Basics Facebook application also has been shunned by the Egyptian authorities. According to Reuters , the latter did not renew the authorization necessary to offer this service, which was launched two months ago in the country. According to an anonymous source quoted by the agency, the suspension would not be related to “security issues” – in reference to the important role of social media in the Egyptian revolution of 2011. But ignore, for now, the reasons for this decision.

Driven by Facebook, Free Basics aims to provide Internet access to people in developing countries who lack access often lack of means. The project, initially launched in 2013 under the name “Internet.org” was renamed “Free Basics by Facebook” last September. As the name suggests, aims to provide, via a mobile app, a range of free Internet services in the areas of health, employment, or local information (like the weather for example). Targeting in particular the Africa, Latin America and Asia, Free Basics is available in 37 countries through partnerships with local telecom operators.

Accusations of favoritism

Presented as a philanthropic activity by Mark Zuckerberg – “Connectivity is a human right” , repeats the pattern of the social network to promote her platform – the initiative wipes for several months flocks of criticism. In India, the same service is temporarily suspended since Dec. 23. This decision emanates from the telecom policeman, who asked Reliance Communications, the operator offers Free Basics, to stop offering it.

It should be said that in India, Free Basics raises questions on its compliance with net neutrality. This principle ensures, for all, equal treatment of all data exchanged on the Internet. But Basics of Free India, it is decided that Facebook services available, even in favor certain. Thus, there are a light version of social network or access to Bing search engine. But Google Search and YouTube are paying hand. Waiting to give the green light to Free Basics, or on the contrary, definitively slip him a stick in the wheel, the Indian telecoms watchdog has launched a public consultation on this subject, which ended Wednesday.

Intense lobbying Facebook

Besides compliance with net neutrality, critics accuse Facebook of using Free Basics to magnify its base of subscribers cheaply, playing good Samaritan. Faced with these criticisms, the American mastodon has put the dishes in the large. In the wake of the suspension of Free Basics, he multiplied the advertisements in the press to defend her baby.

Better, Zuckerberg himself has cracked a long article in the column Time of India . Dubbed “Free Basics protects net neutrality” , it considers that in today’s world, “everybody must have free access to Internet based services” . The head of Facebook Free Basics thus seen as an indispensable lever to create jobs and reduce poverty. Thus, “who can be against that? “, he loose. In response to all sites and applications may not be available or free, he replies through several comparisons. Among them, he cites libraries that “does not contain all of the books” existing, but provide still an essential service.

A threat to democracy?

A pitch sweep as many defenders of Internet freedom. Including the influential journalist-entrepreneur Nikhil Pahwa. Also published in a forum in the Time of India at the same time as that of Mark Zuckerberg, he knock out Free Basics. In his eyes, it could “hurt Indian democracy” . From an economic point of view, it considers in particular that the app could particularly harm the ecosystem of startups, if access to certain services should be subject to discrimination.

Facebook, the stakes are high: India is around 400 million Internet users, and according to Nikhil Pahwa, it should count 500 million by 2017. It is therefore a key market. Especially if Free Basics had to suffer a setback, other countries might possibly be tempted to do the same.

Test: Microsoft Lumia 950 – Le Journal du Geek

There he is! The Lumia 950, the smaller of the two flagships at Microsoft is finally available. It arrives with a fresh OS and dock named Continuum. The dock 10 and Windows Mobile will be a dedicated grip. Windows Mobile 10 will nevertheless be mentioned in this test, since it is officially launched with the 950 and it is unthinkable to test a smartphone without considering the system under which it is running.

Important note: at the end of the writing of this test, the 10.0.10586.29 update was available. So we started testing the 950 with the new version installed. Note that the test 950XL was realized early in this version.

The back cover is easy on the hand, despite the toy sensation procured

On the menu of the Microsoft Lumia 950:

– Windows 10 Mobile
– AMOLED screen of 5.2 “
– Gorilla Glass 3
– Definition of 1440 × 2560 or 564ppp a density of
. > – Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 808 MSM8992
– GPU Adreno 418
–
32GB internal memory – MicroSD memory port (up to 200GB)
– 3GB RAM
– APN with a 20 megapixel sensor format 1 / 2.4 “
– Pureview
Technology – Objective Zeiss 26mm wide angle with an aperture of F / 1.9
– triple LED Flash
– Front camera of 5 megapixels
– Front lens with aperture F / 2.4
– Video recording up to 4K / 30fps with optical stabilization and capture of stereo sound
– WiFi 802.11
– Bluetooth v4.1 A2DP
– A C-USB port (USB-C-A to USB cable supplied)
– Battery 3000 mAh
– Size 145 x 73.2 x 8.2 mm
– Weight 150g

When we know the fluidity of Windows Phone 8.1 with less muscular configurations, this promises. Unfortunately, the 950 is the first mobile market sold with Windows 10 mobile …

Windows 10: more than 200 million installations – Clubic

The latest system of Microsoft would have surpassed the 200 million installations worldwide since its official release.

24 hours of its availability, the Windows 10 operating system was installed 14 million machines. A month later, Yusulf Medhi, vice president of the Windows and Devices Division stated via his Twitter account that the new system had been installed on 75 million PCs.

In early October, Terry Myerson, vice President at Microsoft, communicated on sales of 110 million installations. According to the specialized website Winbeta.org, five months after its release, the system is now installed on over 200 million devices.

On average, then dénombrerait 40 million new installations each month. The question is whether Microsoft will confirm the new figure officially and if the rate of adoption of Windows 10 will continue to accelerate. Recall that the update is still free for holders of a valid license of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. Also, Microsoft is just beginning to diversify its range of smartphones running Windows Mobile 10.

By 2018, Microsoft intends to reach the symbolic milestone of one billion devices running on Windows 10.

At the North Pole, the thermometer shows 20 degrees higher than normal season – Le Figaro

VIDEO – A depression affecting the North Atlantic generates temperatures between 0 and 2 ° C in the region, much higher than those normally found at that time. In other parts of the world also, the illustrations of an exceptional winter climate-continue.

A summer time months December. It’s a bit the feeling that we had, in France and elsewhere in recent weeks, but that’s the reality of the current situation in the North Pole. Wednesday, mercury is achieved between 0 and 2 ° C, above the level of 20 degrees to the normal season. Usually the temperature approaches freezing point only during the summer.

This temperature increase is due to a “powerful and violent” depression that affects the North Atlantic under Canadian weather services . After knowing in eastern Canada a Christmas unusually warm (15.9 ° C on December 24 in Montreal often close to averages of -10 ° C usually), this depression has won the North Atlantic Ocean. She is currently centered on Iceland, making it drop the pressure of the air at 928 hectopascals and resulting winds 140 km / h and waves of 15 meters high.

The Arctic is one of the most affected by global warming areas of the globe, such as illustrates this photo taken in August 2005. The current temperature readings in the area correspond to the normal seasonal summer Photo credit:. PETER WEST / AFP

“This is an extremely powerful and extremely violent depression, so it’s not surprising that temperatures are pushed so hot and north winds affecting England, “where the army was mobilized against weather, told AFP Natalie Hasell, meteorologist at the Canadian Ministry of the Environment. “This deep depression advancing warm air to the North Pole, where temperatures are at least greater than 20 degrees C compared to the normal” lying “around the freezing point 0, 1 and 2 degrees “added the specialist in extreme weather events.

US scientists from the North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) found that the mercury had climbed sharply the past two days, from -37 ° C Monday -8 ° C Wednesday on a tag in the Arctic located about 300 km from the North Pole.

Too early to link this phenomenon to climate change

The Arctic is the region most affected by global warming globe, now with higher temperatures of three degrees minimum compared to pre-industrial times, according to international institutes. The snowfalls are more frequent there, strongest winds and the sea ice is in constant decline for over 30 years.

It would be too early to link the mild temperatures observed at the end 2015 at the North Pole global warming, warned Natalie Hasell, noting that meteorologists are not based their conclusions on a “one anomaly “. Especially since the Canadian National Meteorology has no records of temperatures on the roof of the Earth. However, “it’s really weird to have temperatures around 0 in late December at the North Pole,” noted the expert. Natalie Hasell emphasizes that depression, with warmer temperatures would move in the coming days to Siberia in northern Russia.

The El Niño phenomenon in question

Capital of Inuit territory of Nunavut, northeast of Canada under the Arctic Circle, Iqaluit recorded at Christmas temperatures of -4.6 ° C and -4.9 ° C, -21 ° C against average, never seen again. Baffin Island, on which is Iqaluit, even experienced rains in December, said David Phillips, meteorologist at the Canadian Ministry of the Environment. “This is probably El Niño who ventures to North,” he told AFP. This climatic phenomenon that occurs every four to seven years on average and has already made about him this year. Caused by a change in direction of the trade winds over the equatorial Pacific Ocean, El Niño episode in 2015 knows probably the most powerful in the last 100 years. Coupled with global warming, it generated extreme weather events such as floods, tornadoes, heat waves.

These non-standard temperatures at the North Pole echo many events of an exceptional winter climate of the plan. Particularly soft in Europe, it already generates a disturbance of vegetation, while there are flowering trees as bright spring. At the same time, the city of Istanbul faces on Wednesday in disturbances in its transportation due to heavy snowfall. Turkish Airlines has canceled 265 flights departing and arriving at Ataturk Airport and 37 others who were to take off or land at Sabiha Goksen. The airline company Pegasus costs low has in turn canceled 34 flights.

If the arrival of a white winter coat is a frequent occurrence in Turkey, the amount of snowfall is her unusual . The Istanbul Municipality announced Wednesday it had mobilized 1,000 vehicles and machines to keep the roads open, while praying the population to limit its movements. Further snowfalls are expected on Thursday. A similar phenomenon had occurred in February.

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India suspends “Free Basics”, the free Internet service Facebook – 20minutes.fr

web According to the Indian authorities, mobile Zuckerberg undermine Net Neutrality …

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  • Updated 12/30/2015 at 19:22

India gives a headache to Mark Zuckerberg. As Bloomberg reports the site, Indian authorities decided to suspend Free Basics, a free service created by Facebook, allowing access to a simplified version of social networking, weather, a search engine etc. On behalf of net neutrality, the Trai (the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has asked Reliance Communications, the operator responsible for the service, to ban the service.

Lack of neutrality and favoritism

Since February, the Indian mobile application allows customers to connect to the Internet for free. Until then nothing problematic, if not as to which Internet users connectaient was designed by Facebook, which decided the partners that can participate in this project. Widely accused of favoritism, the social network has subsequently decided to open nominations to all, while retaining ultimate control.

Despite this effort, the Trai still decided to ban the service , raising the question of Net neutrality. For the Indian telecoms regulator, the social network would continue to promote certain services, and in other departs. Eg via Free Basics, a search on Google is paying, on Bing, no. “We have no problem with the free internet from the moment where it all OPEN. Free Basics is only a means to lock users to the Facebook ecosystem. There are no Google or YouTube, “said Mahesh Murthy, boss of an Indian startup interviewed by Bloomberg. “It is not possible that the rich have access to the entire Net when poor, they can only access Facebook.”

Facebook launched a support campaign

Faced with this rejection of the Indian authorities, Facebook was quick to strike back against. In addition to a support campaign (petition, billboards), founder of the social network in person spoke via a platform in the Times of India. “ In every society, there are basic services that are so important to the welfare of the people they should be freely available,” said Mark Zukerberg, “it is not our interests commercial (…) but to allow for access to basic services to people so that they benefit from the opportunities offered by the Internet. “

If Free Basics is present in 37 countries, India, with its 400 million Internet users, still remains an important market for Facebook. The standoff is therefore only beginning

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iPhone 6c: a small but high-end model – ZDNet France

As we know, a new iPhone could point the tip of his nose early 2016. The iPhone 6C, low cost declination iPhone 6S, would
 a smaller screen than the 6S, 4 inches (like the iPhone 5C), and pricing
  revised down.

This information comes from Techweb, a Chinese media whose source comes from the Taiwanese company Foxconn, Apple’s supplier. Last November the site AppleInsider also announced that Apple was preparing a new iPhone entry.

Today, another source Foxconn has released some information to the Chinese website MyDrivers. The new terminal would board an Apple A9 chip and 2GB of RAM, as the last iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. It is equipped with a 1640 mAh battery. In short, Apple has clearly not want to position the smartphone in the low-cost … Besides, its price would be around 550 euros. However, the biometric sensor
 Touch ID would be present, but not the 3D Touch function.

  range of smartphones from Apple would expand if so, the iPhone is 6C
 positioning alongside the iPhone 6S and 6S More came on the market last September. We can
 still wonder about Apple’s model for strategy
  smartphone entry. The last test, the iPhone released in 5C
 in September 2013, had not met with the expected success. Still, the
 release date of this new model matches the Chinese New Year. A
 important market for Apple, where the iPhone 6C could flourish.
 
 

Apps: good deals, specials of 30 December for iPhone, iPad and Android – 01net

Find a selection of specials available for Android, iPhone and iPad on official blinds. These price reductions and free passes are valid at time of publishing this article. Some of these promotions have a very limited life span and it is possible that they disappear blinds quickly. Always check the price before downloading an application

The iPhone / iPad applications discounted

-. Lost Echo € 1.99 – old price 2 € 99

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Solve puzzles and mini-games triumph to pierce the mystery of this & amp; click

-. Free 3D Earth – Old price € 2.99
Accurate weather forecast for tomorrow to know the time.

– Free Dragonlair – Old price € 0.99
sixty Explore levels and complete your missions in this dungeon game.

– Free Crazy Bill – Old price € 0.99
Eliminate the zombies that stand in your way in this exploration game with retro graphics.

– Cut the Buttons Free – Old price € 1.99
Cut the Buttons HD Free – Old price € 2.99
Enjoy your multitouch screen to cut a maximum of stitched buttons.

– Mods and Textures for Minecraft Crafting Free – Old price € 1.99
Unpublished mods and exclusive textures dedicated players to Minecraft.

– Free WeightDrop PRO – Old price € 0.99
A powerful tool to track his weight curve and calculate their BMI.

– Quick Fav Dial € 2.99 – Old price € 3.99
Easily manage and access your favorite contacts.

The discounted Android Apps

– Flockers € 0.50 – Old price € 1.99

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Guide sheep overexcited to freedom in this game from the same laboratories that Worms

-. Worms 2 € 0.79 – Old price € 4.99 Find
worms Worms and participate in a new explosive battle.

– Habit Streak Pro € 1.61 – Old price € 2.99
A virtual coach designed to help you keep your resolutions.

– Write € 1.61 – Old price € 1.99
A simplified text editor for your Android tablet.

– Workouts Daily € 2.99 – Old price € 5.99
Enjoy detailed programs and videos to practice your sport exercises daily.

– Divide by Sheep € 1.09 – Old price € 2.99
Save sheep premature death in this mathematical puzzles game.

– Piano Master € 1.99 – Old price € 2.99
Reveal virtuoso in you in this rhythmic and musical play.

Publishers, developers do not hesitate to inform us of your temporary or permanent declines in prices.

Year-end Bulletin Windows 10: could do better in 2016 – ZDNet France

If there is a product that has marked the news of Microsoft in 2015, it was Windows 10. Having struggled considerably with Windows 8, Microsoft had to speed with a new version of its OS. And the company has three ways for the least unexpected.

Image: James Martin / CNET
                                         

• First, Microsoft has offered free upgrades from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 first year, except for Windows Enterprise customers who purchase the operating system with volume licensing.
• Then, the new operating system has emancipated conventional process with the Windows Insider program. Certainly this was not the first time that Microsoft proposed public pre-releases for OS ,. But here the different “builts” proposed by the editor of Redmond have affected millions of participants.
• Finally, the Windows 10 Development Team is committed to provide continuous updates , promising to “keep up to date throughout the life of the device – no extra charge.” In July, less than two weeks before the official release of Windows 10, the company updated its Support Lifecycle page with details of this case.

Sure , Windows 10 would not be a major release of Microsoft without its share of controversy (in my opinion over-sized). And Windows 10 on this plane also hit the headlines this year. Some problems have been caused even internally, with members of Microsoft (certainly at the request of lawyers) publishing poorly written ads to the point that they seemed to hide something.

But many others were simply the result of a search of pure sensationalism from a specialized press begging an easy audience. After this brief reminder of the facts, so here are my 2015 report card for Windows 10

Adoption of Windows 10. A

Microsoft had set an ambitious target by publicly declaring its intention to set up Windows 10 over a billion devices in two or three years ahead. The company clearly takes the right direction on this point.

24 hours after the release of Windows 10, July 29, the operating system already running on 14 million devices. A month later, we were at 75 million units, a figure that reflects strong demand from early adopters. And on October 6, 110 million devices were running Windows 10 (it is the latest official figures).

Judging by the numbers of analysts, the update period shows a trend strong and stable until the end of 2015. At December 28, two sources showed impressive levels of adoption. And we would be today 200 million installations.

Upgrades and updates: C-

Many times described Microsoft Windows 10 as a tool “Windows as a Service”. A term for holding the idea that new features will emerge progressively to regular updates, two or three times a year, rather than being proposed at the proposed new versions about every three years.

The new system was tested for the first time in November with the transition to the 1511 version of Windows 10. This update has had its share of problems, and a particularly troublesome bug has forced the company to withdraw updating its servers a few days to put together a patch.

The monthly cumulative updates, however, are a welcome change and the November launch of Windows Update for Business eliminates worries many business customers for untimely updates that may interfere business.Reste that all this could be greatly improved. Microsoft must arrive at the size of the smooth upgrade files. That of November caused problems on this point. Here is one of Microsoft’s priorities for 2016

Privacy:. B

The level of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) for Windows 10 and the issue of user privacy data was pretty amazing this year. And Microsoft responded to the most paranoid criticism by dry communication and very legal.

The fears of users about privacy have fueled serious charges (and false). Windows 10 contain a keylogger (not true). Sting Windows 10 files on your hard drive (actually not). Windows 10 listen to your conversations (not yet).

In fact, Microsoft is in the software sector, not in the collection of personal data. Yes, Windows 10 collecting more data by telemetry that all previous versions, and default collection policies are more aggressive than in previous versions. The data is anonymised and used to ensure that the updates are working properly, but also to prioritize the development of features.

Then, yes, your files are indexed if you choose to download them to onedrive so you can search them. And you can give permission to Cortana to access your email and your contact list to find appointments and identifying the right person when you give it a touch. This is not to “espionage”. That’s just the way services operate online

. Security: A –

There are a lot of innovation under the hood of Windows 10, and most is absolutely invisible to mere mortals. Credential Guard, for example, adds a safety-based virtualization in Windows 10 company, making it almost impossible for hackers to steal credentials type attacks using Pass-The-Hash or Pass-The-Ticket. There are also improvements to multi-factor authentication with Device Guard functionality, which allows to lock a PC running Windows 10 so narrowly that malware may simply not work.

user side, the good news side security is the arrival of Microsoft Edge, rid of the legacy of add-ins and ActiveX which weighed on its predecessors. And full disk encryption is enabled by default on almost all new devices with Windows 10 as soon as you connect to a Microsoft account

. Applications: C

Despite some signs to ramp the end of 2015, the Windows application store 10 is still low compared to its rivals. The main reason is the enormous installed base of machines running Windows 7 that only work with office applications. If you are a developer, it is still and always the platform you are going to target.

The announcement by Microsoft early in 2015 an ambitious project of porting Android apps to Windows, and then, by year-end, its abandonment did not help either. For developers who have had to live the fiasco of Silverlight, all at more wicked sense of déjà vu.

The availability of mobile Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote) is finally a positive development, but there is still much work to do in 2016

Customer Support business. B –

Windows 10 offers some great tools for deployment and management for companies and all of its signatures management software for IT pros (System Center Configuration Manager, for example) has been made compatible with Windows 10. The most anticipated feature is Enterprise Data Protection, however, absent from the Update November 2016 and expected.

Given the languid pace with which companies move toward major OS updates, it does not pose a particular problem though. They have everything they need today to conduct pilot projects to large-scale updates in one or two years

Tablets and smartphones. A strengthening

The tablets equipped with Windows 10 are almost all of Surface, and the dramatic decline and global tablet sales does not bode well for the future.

At the very end of 2015, Microsoft has launched two new phones that work with Windows 10, but not new to the bottom that suggests that the platform could change something in the coming year to the position of Windows Mobile devices on the market.

Editor’s note: This article is a translation from ZDNet.com. Accordingly, the Notes mentioned are modeled on the North American system.

 

BMW Air Touch: embedded interface to drive a gesture – Clubic

If the next CES will allow BMW to present its i8 Spyder, the show will also be an opportunity for the brand to share his vision of the car of the future, with the demonstration of its AirTouch system.

AirTouch, the manufacturer presented as the future of embedded interfaces, is the result of a compromise reached between the in-house Rolls-Royce teams and those of BMW.

In October, the Director of Rolls-Royce design, Giles Taylor, had summoned the press to discuss the integration of technology to automobiles. He had developed the idea of ​​spending the buttons on touch interfaces while the convergence between vehicles and technology continues to be required.

He said that Rolls-Royce had rejected touchscreens because traces fingers of these systems. But Rolls-Royce is also part of the BMW team and the latter is in charge of onboard infotainment systems. Both manufacturers have managed to get their stories and have therefore AirTouch product.

This system promises to deliver all the necessary technology to the passenger without compromising the style of a Wraith or Phantom . So BMW says that this new technology will allow the display “ to be managed as a touchscreen without contacting the surface .”

Thanks to numerous sensors, driver or passenger can adjust the navigation settings infotainment system or a smartphone with a simple hand movement, all in a fairly intuitive way indicates the manufacturer. An interface to discover during the CES, which will open next January 6th and you can find ads on Clubic.

Researchers are still hoping a last revival of Philae – Eco News .com

Published December 29, 2015 to 23 h 54 min (Updated December 30, 2015 at 5 am 37 min) by Michele Lejeune

the deep silence of Philae, scientists are unable to continue the Rosetta mission if the situation does not improve. So it would end with the end of the robot / laboratory that has not reconnected for several months. “The

With deep silence of Philae, scientists are unable to continue the Rosetta mission if the situation does not improve. So it would end with the end of the robot / laboratory that has not reconnected for several months.

“The probability that we have a contact decreases and As time progresses, but we can not say today that this is definitely over, “said Philippe Gaudon, Rosetta project manager at CNES in Toulouse (France)
” We continue to listen and hope even until the end of January, “he said.

Philae, after ten years of traveling as a passenger Rosetta conducted November 12, 2014 in a historic first landing on Comet 67P /Tchourioumov-Guérassimenko.

Après several unexpected rebounds, it stabilized in the shade, between two cliffs. The robot worked for 60 hours before shutting down for lack of sufficient sunlight for its solar batteries.

Philae was the victim of a difficult arrival

It was a great and exciting adventure full of discoveries, but all good things must end. Philae unresponsive to attempts to contact even when Rosetta is closer to his sidekick. The robot / laboratory no longer has the strength to turn and it should not be discussed again. This should result in the judgment of the mission that still required an investment of 20 years.

The CNES retains some hope even if it is very thin, because according to the head of project, Philippe Gaudon, chances to reconnect diminish over time. It is therefore impossible to pronounce the final judgment of the mission, but it nevertheless seems inevitable. The last contact dates back to July 9, from that date, he is plunged into a deep silence and this is probably the result of his landing in November 2014.

The two beeps may not be owned Philae

The robot / laboratory not in a favorable zone that optimizes recharge its batteries. Moreover, Philae is about to move away from the Sun, its solar panels capture less and less energy. All hopes are for now based on two very slightly beeps heard on the night of December 21 to 22 and a second was even recorded on Christmas Day. However, the teams in charge of the mission can not say with certainty about the origin of beeps, it is perhaps not Philae.

Ten years of travel

Philae, after ten years of traveling as a passenger Rosetta conducted November 12, 2014 in a historic first landing on Comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko. After several unexpected rebounds, it stabilized in the shade, between two cliffs. The robot, equipped with 10 measuring instruments designed in Grenoble, worked for 60 hours before shutting down for lack of sufficient sunlight for its solar batteries.

The Rosetta mission will end in September 2016 with landing of the latter on Tchouri.

More on Philae

Philae is a lander ESA transported to a 510 million kilometers of the Earth by the space probe Rosetta until it arises on the comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko the 12 November 2014 , more than ten years after leaving Earth.

This is the first controlled landing on a comet nucleus. Its instruments send the first images ever taken from the surface of a comet and are expected to make the first analysis in situ the core composition of the comet.

Both harpoons which were anchored Philae the ground who was not deployed, the robot bounced twice before stabilizing at about a kilometer from the originally planned site, near-vertical position. For this reason, the two measuring instruments dedicated to soil analysis are not yet operational. Scientists have initially preferred time postpone commissioning to ensure not to cause rebound or rotation of the module. Indeed, the gravitational pull of the comet is much lower than that of the Earth, mass Philae gives a weight on the comet equivalent to an object with a mass of one gram to Earth .

14 November 2014 23 h 19 , despite initial concerns about its autonomy of 60 hours, the contact is restored with Philae . The data received indicate that it has successfully conducted the first drill in a comet nucleus. To optimize its sunshine, the robot is lifted from 4 cm and operated a rotation of 35 ° on him -even. However, this maneuver was not enough to recharge the batteries immediately and Philae remains in hibernation waiting for better conditions. The comète67P / Tchourioumov-Gerasimenko passing perihelion in August 2015, sunny conditions evolve favorably during the following months.

13 June 2015 , Philae has contacted with Rosetta for about 2 minutes to 22 hours and passed forty seconds of data that has been captured by Rosetta while flying over the lander to 20 km altitude. A maneuver of the probe was immediately programmed to allow it to fly again LG. (Source Wikipedia)

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India and Facebook écharpent on net neutrality – The World

The Indian telecom regulator (TRAI) ordered, Wednesday, December 23, with the operator Reliance Communications to temporarily suspend his partner offers with Facebook. In India, the mobile operator offers the Basics Free service, which allows to use the Internet in a limited and lightweight way: it is possible to use a search engine, read the news, watch the weather, and of course use the Facebook sites and products. The whole, free.

If the Indian regulator has closed the door to Facebook, it is because its differentiated and incomplete access to the Internet between in his conflict with the principle of net neutrality, which theoretically ensures equal access to the Internet at all, as explained by TRAI:

“The question arose as to whether to allow a telecom operator to offer prices for different access to different content. As long as this question has no answer, it would not be appropriate to let this situation continue. “

Facebook, master of free

So, Facebook is master of the services available for free from Free Basics. For example, it is possible to access articles from the BBC, but the user wishing to read LeMonde.fr will pay. It is the same for search engines, as only that of Microsoft, Bing, is free.

The service was only launched in late November in India, but was already in control of the collimator from the beginning. Facebook had illico asked users to stand up for Free Basics India. Many observers have criticized the offer of social network and risks to net neutrality. “Free Basics / Internet.org [Facebook initiative to connect the developing world] is against freedom” , deplored eg Times of India in its editorial.

Offer Free Basics exists in thirty other countries, including some in Africa and Latin America. But India is an important market for Facebook, the second largest after the United States, with nearly 135 million users already. It is also a country where much of the population is not yet connected to the Internet, but could use Facebook if it was

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Facebook responded on Monday: CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued a forum on the website of Times of India , saying surprised ongoing debate in India.

“If we think that everyone should have access Internet, we must defend Free Basics. This is why more than thirty countries have recognized it as an agreement program with net neutrality and good for consumers. “

libraries ” do not contain all the books, but they still offer a world of possibilities “, argues he, and hospitals ” do not offer all treatments “, while comparing Free Basics for a public service and ensuring that it was not contrary to net neutrality.

Mark Zuckerberg, Internet access, limited but free, offered by Facebook helps break a barrier, and to bring the Net people who did not know the existence or did not know how to approach it. “Half of the people who use Free Basics to connect the first time to the Internet will begin to pay for full access within thirty days” , he said.

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