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...
Apple opposition, that has resisted pressure from U.S. enforcement to unlock encrypted iPhones, this month rehired a high knowledgeable in sensible cryptography to bring a lot of powerful safety features to a large vary of shopper merchandise. Jon Callas, WHO co-founded many well-respected secure communications firms as well as PGP corporation, Silent Circle and Black phone, rejoined Apple in could, Associate in Nursing Apple representative same. Callas had worked at Apple within the Nineteen Nineties and once more between 2009 and 2011, once he designed Associate in Nursing cryptography system to shield information keep on a Macintosh laptop. Apple declined to detail his new role, and Callas declined to comment. The Cupertino, California-based company has clashed with the U.S. government over whether or not Apple ought to facilitate enforcement access encrypted client info keep on its devices. Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Justice asked federal judges in Californi...