A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website. Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
Speaking on stage in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress, the Facebook CEO said he doesn't think requiring back doors would be "the right thing to do" nor would it be an effective way to get data from the iPhone of deceased San Bernardino shooter, Syed Farook. "We've already shared our statement," said Zuckerberg. "We're pretty sympathetic with Tim and Apple on this one."
Last Thursday, Facebook (FB, Tech30) joined other Silicon Valley companies in backing Apple, which has vigorously opposed an FBI demand to alter part of its iOS software so that authorities won't get locked out of the iPhone that Farook used.
Such demands "create a chilling precedent and obstruct companies' efforts to secure their products," Facebook said in a statement at the time. Zuckerberg had stayed silent on the subject until Monday, while leaders from Google (GOOG) andTwitter (TWTR, Tech30) made public comments supporting Apple last week.
"We build secure products to keep your information safe and we give law enforcement access to data based on valid legal orders," Google CEO Sundar Pichai tweeted in a series of tweets on Wednesday. "But that's wholly different than requiring companies to enable hacking of customer devices & data. Could be a troubling precedent."
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