Sunday, January 31, 2016

Facebook and Instagram prohibit weapons sales between private individuals – PianetaCellulare.it

Facebook bans private sales of weapons on its social network that boasts over 1.5 billion and a half of users on the photo-sharing service Instagram owned by him. Facebook has indeed updated its rules of use in which it is now explicitly indicated that it is forbidden for users who are not authorized dealers, using Facebook and Instagram for to sell weapons or negotiate transactions between individuals.

“Over the past two years, more and more ‘people use Facebook to find products or buy things with each other,” said Monika Bickert, head of product policies of Facebook. “We update our rules for regulated products to reflect this evolution.”

The ban on selling weapons through Facebook, which is applied only to the transitions between private companies and non-licensed, joins the already ‘banned sale of illegal drugs and pharmaceuticals. Companies with license can continue to put the catalog, and promote products on Facebook.

The social networks are not only used by terrorists to communicate, but it turned out that they are also used for the sale of illegal products, as weapons. Facebook has been under heavy pressure from the administration and the attorneys general of the states to stop Facebook posts and messages on Instagram for arms sales before following the massacre at the school in Sandy Hook in Newtown, in Connecticut, in December 2012, where they were murdered 20 children and 6 adults, and then after the attack in San Bernardino, California, Dec. 2, in which two terrorists killed 14 people and injured more ‘than 20 with weapons purchased legally in the United States.

Although Facebook was not directly involved in the sale of weapons, has served as a place for the distance selling of illegal weapons, without that buyers SHOULD SUBMIT checks. The Social Network, with nearly 1.6 billion monthly visitors, had become one of the largest markets in the world for guns, as reported by the New York Times .

Facebook He said it would rely on his vast network of users to report any violations of the new rules, and intends to delete posts that violate. Apart from this, the company said it could restrict users or severely limit the ways in which publish on Facebook, depending on the type and severity of past violations. If the company has evidence that somebody’s life is in danger, Facebook could work with the police to resolve the situation.

The New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, who lobbied for the application of restrictions on sales of illegal guns on Facebook and other sites, praised the new rules of the company: “Today’s announcement is another positive step towards our common goal to stop the sale of illegal weapons online once and for all, “he said in a statement.

In March 2014, Facebook has restricted sales of firearms, such as blocking minors from viewing messages on arms sales and asking Facebook pages used to promote the private sale of goods and services to include language that remind users to respect the laws. Over the past two years, a survey by VentureBeat found that adults and children were connected to Facebook to find pages that were selling firearms at times in violation of federal laws.

Now, therefore, users of Facebook and Instagram is prohibited to sell or buy privately firearms, and even parts of weapons and ammunition. It remains banned trade also marijuana, drugs and illegal drugs.

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Milan , January 30, 2016 – 22:23

Fifteen minutes. That was enough until recently to buy a gun on Facebook or Instagram. Age or minors, for the purchase was not necessary even an ID card. Featured, virtually speaking, he was all over. Semi-automatic with the plastic handle pink revolvers with inlaid football and assault rifles. All for a few hundred dollars.



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Rifles d’assault, revolvers and pistols: Facebook prohibits weapons

 

The petitions mothers

As easy as putting a like . It’s hard to believe. The mechanism was immediate: we are linked to one of the hundreds of pages, we got in touch with sellers amateur, they took agreements for the transaction and shipment. And the “game” was made. Now, however, from Menlo Park, home of the most populous social network of the earth, they have rethought. And the product manager Monika Bickert made the announcement: “From now on Facebook and Instagram will be prohibited from selling firearms between individuals. ‘ To denounce the existence of hundreds of profiles used for the arms trade, among the first, had been the site tech US VentureBeat . Then they had come the petitions online platform Change. Even groups of parents had moved while the Attorney General of New York Eric T. Schneiderman gave his blessing. For a long time Facebook has entrenched the ads policy (the rules for banner ads): “We do not allow advertising of drugs, tobacco, drugs, weapons and other goods for adults, “it was the official position. What then were the users (and sold) on their pages had no business of the social network.

Company moral

The music on arms sales has changed only when the White House came to the village. After the attack in San Bernardino in California last December, which killed 14 people, and even after the school massacre Sandy Hook Connecticut that saw 20 children die in 2012, Obama has launched a campaign in favor of a greater regulation of the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. About to win this battle without the help of Silicon Valley, however, was an illusion. So, exactly how to fight the propaganda of Isis or cyber bullying, the White House chose to dictate the line network. That once again it is appropriate: “In the last two years, more and more people use Facebook to find products or buy things with each other,” said the statement of Facebook. And again: “We update our rules for regulated products to reflect this evolution.” As if to say, we do what they ask us to do. The colossus which each connect each month 1.6 billion users turns (unwillingly) in a company that decides for the moral good of its citizens-customers. No matter what Facebook knows our secrets. Or that Twitter knows what we are going to vote. Now CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey protect us from suicide, avoiding that our eye falls on pictures that are too violent or pornographic, try to shelter our children from attacks by classmates and also to come to the rescue women were molested and sexually assaulted.



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All solved then? Apparently, not. Weapons ban will only affect transactions between private parties. It will not be in force for the authorized companies that will continue the promotion of their products on both Facebook and Instagram. So if any manufacturer of weapons will make marketing through the social network with the goal of increasing sales you can do. The second amendment (the one that guarantees Americans freedom to arm themselves) is therefore far from going into retirement. Online and offline. But not only. It is still not clear what will happen when the e-commerce via Messenger (Facebook chat that from March last year has opened the possibility to shop) will be fully operational. Zuckerberg will really be willing to say no to trade agreements by millions of dollars with gun manufacturers? But above all: how much longer the White House will have the power to dictate the line to Silicon Valley and the Network?

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Facebook crackdown on weapons prohibited private sale – BBC



Milan , January 30, 2016 – 22:23

Fifteen minutes. That was enough until recently to buy a gun on Facebook or Instagram. Age or minors, for the purchase was not necessary even an ID card. Featured, virtually speaking, he was all over. Semi-automatic with the plastic handle pink revolvers with inlaid football and assault rifles. All for a few hundred dollars.



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Rifles d’assault, revolvers and pistols: Facebook prohibits weapons

 

The petitions mothers

As easy as putting a like . It’s hard to believe. The mechanism was immediate: we are linked to one of the hundreds of pages, we got in touch with sellers amateur, they took agreements for the transaction and shipment. And the “game” was made. Now, however, from Menlo Park, home of the most populous social network of the earth, they have rethought. And the product manager Monika Bickert made the announcement: “From now on Facebook and Instagram will be prohibited from selling firearms between individuals. ‘ To denounce the existence of hundreds of profiles used for the arms trade, among the first, had been the site tech US VentureBeat . Then they had come the petitions online platform Change. Even groups of parents had moved while the Attorney General of New York Eric T. Schneiderman gave his blessing. For a long time Facebook has entrenched the ads policy (the rules for banner ads): “We do not allow advertising of drugs, tobacco, drugs, weapons and other goods for adults, “it was the official position. What then were the users (and sold) on their pages had no business of the social network.

Company moral

The music on arms sales has changed only when the White House came to the village. After the attack in San Bernardino in California last December, which killed 14 people, and even after the school massacre Sandy Hook Connecticut that saw 20 children die in 2012, Obama has launched a campaign in favor of a greater regulation of the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. About to win this battle without the help of Silicon Valley, however, was an illusion. So, exactly how to fight the propaganda of Isis or cyber bullying, the White House chose to dictate the line network. That once again it is appropriate: “In the last two years, more and more people use Facebook to find products or buy things with each other,” said the statement of Facebook. And again: “We update our rules for regulated products to reflect this evolution.” As if to say, we do what they ask us to do. The colossus which each connect each month 1.6 billion users turns (unwillingly) in a company that decides for the moral good of its citizens-customers. No matter what Facebook knows our secrets. Or that Twitter knows what we are going to vote. Now CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey protect us from suicide, avoiding that our eye falls on pictures that are too violent or pornographic, try to shelter our children from attacks by classmates and also to come to the rescue women were molested and sexually assaulted.



The second amendment offline

All solved then? Apparently, not. Weapons ban will only affect transactions between private parties. It will not be in force for the authorized companies that will continue the promotion of their products on both Facebook and Instagram. So if any manufacturer of weapons will make marketing through the social network with the goal of increasing sales you can do. The second amendment (the one that guarantees Americans freedom to arm themselves) is therefore far from going into retirement. Online and offline. But not only. It is still not clear what will happen when the e-commerce via Messenger (Facebook chat that from March last year has opened the possibility to shop) will be fully operational. Zuckerberg will really be willing to say no to trade agreements by millions of dollars with gun manufacturers? But above all: how much longer the White House will have the power to dictate the line to Silicon Valley and the Network?

January 30, 2016 (modified January 30, 2016 | 22:47)

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Saturday, January 30, 2016

The oceans too hot push amphibian species on Earth – News24web

 
 

 Crab Because of the ocean warming amphibian species that inhabit it, move on land. because it can breathe easier. And ‘what emerges from a study by a group of scholars from the University of Florence, coordinated by Stefano Cannicci, together with colleagues at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, the most authoritative institution for the study of climate change in Europe . The researchers examined for this study crabs on many rocky shores in Tuscany that belong to common species pachygrapsus marmoratus . In practice, the researchers showed that the amphibian species in order to cope with rising temperatures determined by Climate Change , go from a Breathing aquatic to Air . In practice the water move to dry land.

It is a fundamental mechanism in the evolutionary history that allowed the colonization of land by species predominantly lubbers that have been able to adapt the unsettled climate. The same is being repeated today with the crabs as proven by this research published in the journal Nature .

Google makes the smartphone that recognizes faces and objects – PianetaCellulare.it

Google with Movidius make our smartphone smarter. A human being can now ‘instantly recognize objects in a room and quantify even the telephone, one day, may do so. More specifically, the cameras in our smartphones may soon be equipped with the technology of machine learning (machine learning) which may help users in many situations.

In the future still not well defined, but still close, will be our smartphone directly, and not an application, to recognize our face or object that is part of the camera. In fact, Google is working with the start-up Movidius, specializing in chip to integrate the technology of image recognition and faces directly in phones, in hardware and not software. It ‘as reported by the Wall Street Journal .

Movidius worked with Google on the first one of the famous projects of Google, Tango Project. Using a set of cameras and sensors, the technology Movidius in Project Tango allows devices to create three-dimensional maps of the interior spaces, such as the kitchen or the living room of a house. Therefore, future smartphones could have the ability to not only know where they are, but also where they travel in space in an indoor environment (technology useful for indoor navigation).

This new collaboration between Movidius and Google is not part of a project that has been given a name, but potentially used to develop a chip to integrate hardware in phones of the future so that they are able to understand what they’re looking through the camera – literally imagine that the camera of a smartphone will be the eye of the device, able to figure out who or what is in front.

In some ways, this ability to recognize images and faces in Android devices is already ‘available, only that it is in level of software, contained in an application. The Google Photos already recognizes people and objects that are in the photos, which associates the tag based on what ‘is found and so the files – then you can easily find all the photos taken in New York looking’ Cnew york ‘as a keyword. The application of Amazon, however, allows you to search products in the catalog simply by framing camera with the product you want to search.

The evaluation of artificial emotions through human faces is a hot topic among companies Silicon Valley, especially in the last two years. Companies like Facebook and Google have invested heavily in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and image recognition. Facebook, for example, has experienced a facial recognition technology: a feature that scans a user’s photos and suggests friends who find in them so it should tag, while another feature scans the smartphone’s camera roll to find photos with friends on the social network. Facebook also released Moments, an application that allows users to organize their photos by grouping them by event and friends.

One of the disadvantages of today’s technology image recognition software level is that the device must It is connected to the Internet to communicate with external servers because the workload for information processing is heavy. Today the whole process of analysis does not take place locally on the phone, but everything happens outside, so the data collected by the phone is sent via the Internet to the server where it is processed and then the information returned in your device (and here you could also open a separate chapter on privacy).

The technology Movidius could enclose the learning ability of a machine in a small chip that can be installed within the body of a smartphone. These chips will give the next generation devices autonomous capability to collect data through the camera, process them locally on the device and then return to the user the information they want in a time almost immediately.

But in practice, what we can do thanks to the technology of Movidius? By simulating the human brain, the technology will allow mobile devices to perform identify objects in real time with no internet usages ranging from the permit financial transactions to support blind people.

Among how many years we will see this intelligence on our smartphones do not know. “This collaboration is going to lead to a new generation of devices that Google will launch. It will be launched in the not too far away,” said the CEO of Movidius, Remi El-Ouazzane, techtimes .

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Facebook and Instagram, weapons sales between private now prohibited – PianetaCellulare.it

Facebook bans private sales of weapons on its social network that boasts over 1.5 billion and a half of users on the photo-sharing service Instagram owned by him. Facebook has indeed updated its rules of use in which it is now explicitly indicated that it is forbidden for users who are not authorized dealers, using Facebook and Instagram for to sell weapons or negotiate transactions between individuals.

“Over the past two years, more and more ‘people use Facebook to find products or buy things with each other,” said Monika Bickert, head of product policies of Facebook. “We update our rules for regulated products to reflect this evolution.”

The ban on selling weapons through Facebook, which is applied only to the transitions between private companies and non-licensed, joins the already ‘banned sale of illegal drugs and pharmaceuticals. Companies with license can continue to put the catalog, and promote products on Facebook.

The social networks are not only used by terrorists to communicate, but it turned out that they are also used for the sale of illegal products, as weapons. Facebook has been under heavy pressure from the administration and the attorneys general of the states to stop Facebook posts and messages on Instagram for arms sales before following the massacre at the school in Sandy Hook in Newtown, in Connecticut, in December 2012, where they were murdered 20 children and 6 adults, and then after the attack in San Bernardino, California, Dec. 2, in which two terrorists killed 14 people and injured more ‘than 20 with weapons purchased legally in the United States.

Although Facebook was not directly involved in the sale of weapons, has served as a place for the distance selling of illegal weapons, without that buyers SHOULD SUBMIT checks. The Social Network, with nearly 1.6 billion monthly visitors, had become one of the largest markets in the world for guns, as reported by the New York Times .

Facebook He said it would rely on his vast network of users to report any violations of the new rules, and intends to delete posts that violate. Apart from this, the company said it could restrict users or severely limit the ways in which publish on Facebook, depending on the type and severity of past violations. If the company has evidence that somebody’s life is in danger, Facebook could work with the police to resolve the situation.

The New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, who lobbied for the application of restrictions on sales of illegal guns on Facebook and other sites, praised the new rules of the company: “Today’s announcement is another positive step towards our common goal to stop the sale of illegal weapons online once and for all, “he said in a statement.

In March 2014, Facebook has restricted sales of firearms, such as blocking minors from viewing messages on arms sales and asking Facebook pages used to promote the private sale of goods and services to include language that remind users to respect the laws. Over the past two years, a survey by VentureBeat found that adults and children were connected to Facebook to find pages that were selling firearms at times in violation of federal laws.

Now, therefore, users of Facebook and Instagram is prohibited to sell or buy privately firearms, and even parts of weapons and ammunition. It remains banned trade also marijuana, drugs and illegal drugs.

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Facebook and Instagram, prohibited the sale of weapons between private individuals in the United States – TecnoAndroid


 

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Facebook announces officially that the weapons will no longer be sold between private individuals, on the platform. Changing the rules regards the United States.

In the US weapons are freely marketable , without particular limitations. Just misuse of this possibility, exposes American citizens to constant risks.

It is not uncommon to read news related to massacres made by individuals who were not supposed to possess weapons of any gender. In particular, many young writers are actions against innocent citizens.

For some time, the US government tried to force Facebook to limit as much as possible the use of its platforms as a means of disseminating their own ads for sale at weapons of any kind.

Today, in an official note, it came the final announcement.

Facebook and Instagram not host more negotiations between private, concerning arms sales.

shopping , with a valid permit, can continue their normal activities on both platforms Zuckerberg.

It is a goal important, considering the wide spread of the two social networks, capable of connecting millions of users.

Of course, the possibility that only authorized stores can sell through Facebook and Instragram help monitor The commercializzazioni dangerous objects such as weapons.


 

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Friday, January 29, 2016

The smartphone that recognizes faces. Google will do – The Republic

The AIM is to integrate the technology directly into the hardware. Thus, it will also work without the aid of third-party software and internet. In the future it will be directly smartphones, in fact, and not individual applications, to recognize the face of those who use them or object that frame. Google, as reported by the Wall Street Journal , is working with the startup Movidius, specializing in chip to integrate the technology of image recognition, including face, directly in phones, in terms of “hardware” and not software. The facial recognition technology, in particular, is also used by Facebook but hardly debut in Italy and in Europe, at the moment, given the position of the Guarantors Privacy.

Movidius announced ad-hoc collaboration that will help to bring in mobile devices Google the future of “deep learning”, the ‘”learning” of the machines made possible by artificial intelligence technology that mimics the human brain. So Google will allow mobile devices to carry out “in-house” type of processing – very complex – required by image recognition, rather than relying on remote data centers.

Google already uses the technology of image recognition in His Photos application, where you can do a search for keywords – such as “food” or “children” – getting the photos grouped ad hoc. However this is an operation that requires you to have previously uploaded photos online and requires an internet connection to allow the software to analyze the images and return results. Instead integrating technology in hardware, smartphones could identify objects in real time with no internet uses that range from the authorization of financial transactions to help blind people.

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The AIM is to integrate the technology directly into the hardware. Thus, it will also work without the aid of third-party software and internet. In the future it will be directly smartphones, in fact, and not individual applications, to recognize the face of those who use them or object that frame. Google, as reported by the Wall Street Journal , is working with the startup Movidius, specializing in chip to integrate the technology of image recognition, including face, directly in phones, in terms of “hardware” and not software. The facial recognition technology, in particular, is also used by Facebook but hardly debut in Italy and in Europe, at the moment, given the position of the Guarantors Privacy.

Movidius announced ad-hoc collaboration that will help to bring in mobile devices Google the future of “deep learning”, the ‘”learning” of the machines made possible by artificial intelligence technology that mimics the human brain. So Google will allow mobile devices to carry out “in-house” type of processing – very complex – required by image recognition, rather than relying on remote data centers.

Google already uses the technology of image recognition in His Photos application, where you can do a search for keywords – such as “food” or “children” – getting the photos grouped ad hoc. However this is an operation that requires you to have previously uploaded photos online and requires an internet connection to allow the software to analyze the images and return results. Instead integrating technology in hardware, smartphones could identify objects in real time with no internet uses that range from the authorization of financial transactions to help blind people.

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29 January 2016

A new edition of the Tg of diregiovani.it

Maturity: announced the subjects of the second test
The moment awaited “understandable anxiety and impatience”, as it has been defined by the Education Minister, Stefania Giannini arrived. With a video ad via the social network of the Ministry of Education, the head of the department of Viale Trastevere in Rome he announced the subjects of the second round of the upcoming final exams to be held from next June 23. For high schools, Greek for the Classic; Mathematics for Science; Foreign language for high school Language. On the page of the website of the Ministry of Education for the State Examination there is a list of all subjects. There is also a list of the disciplines entrusted to external commissioners. This year will be finally 211 institutions involved in the project ESABAC, for the release of dual-degree Italian and French. The Ministry has also made available the publication on the outcome the State Exam in 2015.

“Risk of electric shock”, Apple withdraws defective adapters
“Risk electric shock if touched. ” With this motivation Apple released a statement in which announces the withdrawal of some adapters dangerous. “In very rare cases – wrote on the company portal – adapters for AC wall outlet Apple bipolar designed for use in continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Argentina and Brazil may break and create the risk of electric shock if touched. These adapters for wall outlets, supplied with some Mac and iOS devices between 2003 and 2015, were also included in the World Travel Adapter Kit Apple “. To protect customers and their safety, Apple has decided to replace free adapters for the wall outlet affected by the problem with a new, redesigned adapter. All stakeholders, will make the replacement of the stakeholders using the procedure described on Apple’s site.

“GUERRILLA RADIO – Vittorio Arrigoni, the possible utopia”
Vittorio Arrigoni, activist convinced, bloggers who testified over the network every day what was happening in the Gaza Strip and critical uncomfortable to many, lives on in the pages of “Guerrilla Radio – Vittorio Arrigoni, the possible utopia”. Nearly five years after his death, Stephen “S3Keno” Small devotes a graphic novel license plate Round Robin Publisher. The art of comics, thanks to its immediacy of communication, can get to where the books sometimes do not arrive and “capture” readers of all ages. Eight chapters in eight different moments of the life of “Vik”. Eight pieces of a puzzle, strictly in chronological disorder, then the reader can dial, redial and deepen as it sees fit. Not only in Gaza tables S3Keno, but also Africa, Eastern Europe and Peru, all important stages in the life of Arrigoni. A moving book in which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the horror and senselessness of war are opposed to the humanitarian effort and to a life spent in favor of the oppressed.

Facebook, feelings Reactions are expressed with the
Facebook revolutionized, within it, a way to express feelings. Enough with the simple and classic ‘Like’ arrive emoticons that will allow us to express ‘love’, ‘anger’, ‘amazing’ and ‘sadness’ at the bottom of the post. The arrival of smilies also puts an end to rumors on the button ‘I do not like’ repeatedly suggested and tell the truth always denied. The rumor comes from an authoritative magazine, Bloomberg, and the source is the same direction of the company in Menlo Park. The new mood will be made available to all users in the US as early as next week and, in a matter of days or perhaps another week, they will land in Europe, including Italy. Many see this new opportunity offered by Facebook a way to collect more data on users. With the ‘Like’ it was difficult to understand exactly the mood of the readers now, especially for advertising purposes, we will better understand the tastes of the individual and therefore better calibrate the commercials to appear on the boards.

I’m too ‘white: Spike Lee unleashes the storm on Oscar
“How is it that for the second consecutive year all twenty candidates actors are white? We do not know acting? And it is better not to go to look at the other categories. ” With these words, Spike Lee launched the hashtag OscarSoWhite, a real earthquake for the world of cinema that is spreading like wildfire across Hollywood. Given the circumstances, therefore, the next edition of the Academy Awards, to be held on February 28, will be certainly one of the most ‘controversial’. The critique of African American filmmaker is not limited to skin color, but aims to highlight the lack of representation of all minorities, including women. And the boycott of the ceremony known by VIPs seems already party: among the first to join Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett Smith, the British actor David Oyelowo, protagonist of the film Selma last year and Michael Moore and has always known dissertatore in open contrast with all the Hollywood industry.

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Apple recalls Faulty Adapters: Acknowledge them as – PianetaCellulare.it

It ‘a rare thing that Apple calls its product, but this time also the Cupertino company admits it was wrong: Apple has activated a program of voluntary recall of AC adapters made by some countries to to prevent the risk “very rare” that the two poles adapters to break and potentially can cause an electric shock to the user .

Apple has determined that in very rare cases , adapters for AC wall outlet Apple bipolar designed for use in continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Argentina and Brazil could break and create the risk of electric shock if touched. ‘Also interested in Italy, so if you have an Apple product you are invited to check the adapter you have.

The adapters are affected by the replacement program for wall outlets and are provided with Mac and some iOS devices between 2003 and 2015 , also included in the World Travel Adapter Kit Apple.

“Customer safety is first among priorities Apple “writes the Cupertino company in a statement,” therefore, the company voluntarily decided to replace free of charge all Adaptec outlet affected by the problem with a new, redesigned adapter “.

Apple invites customers who discover they possess a defective adapter to make the replacement of the stakeholders using the procedure THIS PAGE support. Replacement is FREE.

The “replacement adapter to the AC wall outlet Apple” does not affect other adapters for wall outlets, including those used in the United States, the United Kingdom, China and Japan and the Apple USB power.

HOW TO IDENTIFY IF ADAPTER MUST BE REPLACED

Take up the adapter for your device Apple (everyone will have more ‘than one) and compare it with what you see in the image below. Adapters for the wall outlet that may have problems and therefore need to be replaced are 4 or 5 characters, or are not in any slot on the inside where they connect to the Apple. The redesigned adapters have a region code 3 letter slot (EUR, KOR, AUS, or ARG BRA).

HOW TO APPLY FOR A FREE REPLACEMENT

Enter the page of the Apple support and choose one of the options available: replacement at the nearest Apple Store or an Apple Authorized Service Center, requiring the replacement via web, by contacting Apple support. As part of the replacement process, you need to check the serial number of the Mac, iPad, iPhone or iPod, so Apple invites you to have it available when you contact Apple technical support. You can find the serial number: on the surface of the product, if the product sn iTunes syncs with iTunes on Mac by choosing About This Mac from the Apple menu on the iPhone / iPad / iPod touch / iPod in Settings & gt; General & gt; Info.

It ‘also interested in Italy, so if you have an Apple product are urged to check the adapter you have, and spread the voice of your acquaintances.

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Apple recalls Faulty Adapters: Recognize how and Replace – PianetaCellulare.it

It ‘a rare thing that Apple calls its product, but this time also the Cupertino company admits it was wrong: Apple has activated a program of voluntary recall of AC adapters made by some countries to to prevent the risk “very rare” that the two poles adapters to break and potentially can cause an electric shock to the user .

Apple has determined that in very rare cases , adapters for AC wall outlet Apple bipolar designed for use in continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Argentina and Brazil could break and create the risk of electric shock if touched. ‘Also interested in Italy, so if you have an Apple product you are invited to check the adapter you have.

The adapters are affected by the replacement program for wall outlets and are provided with Mac and some iOS devices between 2003 and 2015 , also included in the World Travel Adapter Kit Apple.

“Customer safety is first among priorities Apple “writes the Cupertino company in a statement,” therefore, the company voluntarily decided to replace free of charge all Adaptec outlet affected by the problem with a new, redesigned adapter “.

Apple invites customers who discover they possess a defective adapter to make the replacement of the stakeholders using the procedure THIS PAGE support. Replacement is FREE.

The “replacement adapter to the AC wall outlet Apple” does not affect other adapters for wall outlets, including those used in the United States, the United Kingdom, China and Japan and the Apple USB power.

HOW TO IDENTIFY IF ADAPTER MUST BE REPLACED

Take up the adapter for your device Apple (everyone will have more ‘than one) and compare it with what you see in the image below. Adapters for the wall outlet that may have problems and therefore need to be replaced are 4 or 5 characters, or are not in any slot on the inside where they connect to the Apple. The redesigned adapters have a region code 3 letter slot (EUR, KOR, AUS, or ARG BRA).

HOW TO APPLY FOR A FREE REPLACEMENT

Enter the page of the Apple support and choose one of the options available: replacement at the nearest Apple Store or an Apple Authorized Service Center, requiring the replacement via web, by contacting Apple support. As part of the replacement process, you need to check the serial number of the Mac, iPad, iPhone or iPod, so Apple invites you to have it available when you contact Apple technical support. You can find the serial number: on the surface of the product, if the product sn iTunes syncs with iTunes on Mac by choosing About This Mac from the Apple menu on the iPhone / iPad / iPod touch / iPod in Settings & gt; General & gt; Info.

It ‘also interested in Italy, so if you have an Apple product are urged to check the adapter you have, and spread the voice of your acquaintances.

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Thursday, January 28, 2016

Apple recalls power adapters in Europe – Tom’s Hardware

Apple has launched the calling a set of adapters for the wall outlet provided with some Mac and iOS devices between 2003 and 2015. “In very rare cases, adapters Apple two pole interested may break, resulting in a potential risk of electric shock if you touched, “reads the official statement. Specifically, Apple is aware of 12 cases of breaking in the world. The problem has also affected the packages that included with international adapter kit.


 
 
 
 

The markets are subject to call only continental Europe (also Italian), Argentina, Australia, Brazil, South Korea and New Zealand.


 
 

“The safety of our customers is a top priority for Apple: therefore invite users not to continue to use the adapters to the wall concerned. For information on how to replace these adapters with new and redesigned components, customers can visit the page dedicated web, “continues the statement.

 
 
 
 

The two-prong adapters interested report 4 or 5 characters, or no character , where the slot inside the adapter connects to the Apple chief. For more information on how to identify an adapter that has the problem, customers can visit the website of the program.


 
 

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Apple, recall for power supplies Mac and iOS in Europe – The Republic




PROCEDURA Recall launched a series of adapters for the wall outlet provided with some Mac and iOS devices between 2003 and 2015. “In very rare cases adapters Apple two pole interested may break, resulting in a potential risk of electric shock if touched, “says the official note of Cupertino. Specifically, Apple is aware of 12 cases of breaking in the world. The problem has also affected the packages that included with international adapter kit.

The markets are subject to call only continental Europe (also Italian), Argentina, Australia, Brazil, South Korea and New Zealand. “The safety of our customers is a top priority for Apple: therefore invite users not to continue to use the adapters to the wall concerned. For information on how to replace these adapters with new and redesigned components, customers can visit the web page” , continues the statement.

The two-prong adapters interested bring 4 or 5 characters, or no character, where the slot inside the adapter connects to the Apple chief. For more information on how to identify an adapter that has the problem, customers can visit the website of the program.

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Clean water with the skins of citrus fruits: the Australian research – Leonardo.it

The peels of citrus would be an excellent method for purifying water. This was stated by a group of Australian researchers led by professor of synthetic chemistry, Justin Chalker (Flinders University in Adelaide), in a study released in 2015. skins of citrus fruits – and in particular those of the oranges – would in fact be able to purify water by removing all toxic substances that may be present in it, thanks to the extracts obtainable from them.

extracts the skins of citrus – especially oranges – have the power to intervene on large areas so that, if the study were to continue and you should find a concrete method to exploit its potential, it could intervene to purify the sea by the presence of mercury , to give a concrete example. It would be enough to mix the skins of citrus fruits to the waste oil to ensure that the waters in which those would not inquinassero.

It would be a truly amazing, not forgetting the fact that the ‘ pollution is one of the first problems against which man has to think to fight to protect the environment, themselves and future generations. In more it would be a method to take advantage of all ecological waste in a positive way, both those of the processing of petroleum and those of the food that is consumed at the table (in this case the skins of citrus fruits).

If you think of the vast amount of limonene that is produced during the processing of citrus fruit and how this, joining sulfur, can be a good solution to the mercury that haunts the waters, you understand how the idea of Australian researchers, in itself, is really important.

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Orange peels to purify water, researchers ready to clean up oceans and aqueducts – Imprint Unika

                 
                  
         

Orange peels for purifying water. Yes, the orange, or rather its waste, from problem can become a valuable resource. Apparently the list of the qualities of this fruit is ongoing. A group team of researchers led by Professor of Synthetic Chemistry Justin Chalker of Flinders University in Adelaide, with the collaboration of the Centre for Nanoscale Science and Technology at the University of Tulsa, the Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Lisbon and that of Cambridge, has been conducting a study of great thickness, published in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition showing that, since the waste oil industry and those of citrus, you can purify the water of the oceans, and clean up the aqueducts yet the piping from contamination of mercury.

The compound identified by scientists is a polysulphide carried out starting from industrial wastes of sulfur and limonene, present in the peels of citrus fruits. It is a polymer non-toxic and inexpensive, formed by two compounds readily available. Oil plants produce in fact more than 70 million tons of sulfur per year, while the machinery dealing with the citrus produce over 50 million tons of limonene.

The sulfur-limonene acts as the glue with mercury, preventing the spread in water and soil. The goal of researchers is to use the polymer as a coating for pipes or water filters, in order to remove the metal. The operation may also be realized on a large scale, thanks to the action of extended “bed” of polymer.

There is talk of a toxic metal present in significant quantities in the waters of the world and, even if it is invisible to the naked eye, according to the allegations to research published in “Nature” of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the Wright State University, the Laboratory of Geo-Environmental Sciences of the Université Paul-Sabatier in Toulouse and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in Den Burg, there are about 60,000 to 80,000 tons of mercury present in the ocean because of human activities.

         
         
             
                 
 
 

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