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...
Google appealed to France's highest court after CNIL ordered it to delete some of its search results globally
In 2015, the Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL) said Google should respect French "right to be forgotten" rulings worldwide. But Google said the ruling could lead to abuse by "less open and democratic" countries. The company is now appealing against a 100,000-euro (£76,000) CNIL fine.The "right to be forgotten" refers to a landmark ruling passed by the European Union's Court of Justice (ECJ) in May 2014. It gives people the right to have results linked to their name removed from search websites, if they "appear to be inadequate" or "irrelevant". Google says results can end up removed "even when those links point to truthful and lawfully published information like newspaper articles or official government websites". Companies offering services to European citizens must comply with the ruling, even if their websites are not hosted in Europe. Google said it had reviewed almost 1.5 million requests, o...