The photos were published by the Dutch-language website One More Thing, which reports that they were leaked from China – China gelekte – and presumably were shot by a component supplier.

One thing is certain, however: if Apple does introduce its next-generation iPad with a bonded display, that'll make it even more difficult to repair – not that iPad repairability has ever been among Apple's concerns.

Snowden asked: "Does Russia intercept or store or analyse the communication of millions of individuals?" He went on to ask whether increasing the effectiveness of internal security systems could ever justify such actions.

He said Russia did not have a comparable programme, stating: "Our agents are controlled by law. You have to get court permission to put an individual under surveillance. We don't have mass permission, and our law makes it impossible for that kind of mass permission to exist."

66 percent expect to get raises in the next year and 56 percent expect to eventually become millionaires.

95 percent feel they are one of the most valued employees at their organization.

80 percent said that outsourcing has been a positive factor in the quality of work at their organization.

The facial recognition database is part of the bureau's Next Generation Identification (NGI) programme which is a large biometric database being developed to replace the current Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS).

"This means that even if you have never been arrested for a crime, if your employer requires you to submit a photo as part of your background check, your face image could be searched - and you could be implicated as a criminal suspect, just by virtue of having that image in the non-criminal file," said the EFF.

Netflix's decision to pay Comcast for a direct connection to the Comcast network has resulted in significantly better video streaming performance for customers of the nation's largest broadband provider.

Comcast is among several ISPs who have refused payment-free interconnection. Verizon and AT&T are still demanding money from Netflix, with customers paying the price in poor video quality.

Light-absorbing glow-in-the-dark road markings have replaced streetlights on a 500m (0.3 mile) stretch of highway in the Netherlands.

Part of that vision included weather markings—snowdrops, for instance, would appear when the temperature reached a certain level. For now though, the stretch of the N329 highway in Oss features only the glow-in-the-dark road markings, created using a photo-luminescent powder integrated into the road paint, developed in conjunction with road construction company Heijmans.

The scandal is that giant enterprises are doing nothing to contribute to the development, testing and validation of the free software on which they depend. They are takers, pure and simple.

But rather than use the Heartbleed bug as a reason to indict open source as being unreliable, what really needs to happen is to use this as a wakeup call. All of those companies—from Yahoo to Dropbox—that used OpenSSL without doing anything to help create and improve the product are paying for that neglect now. Once they spend millions to fix the problem, perhaps they can spend a few thousand more to help fund development of this critical security library.

Qin Zhihui invented a story that the government gave 200m yuan (£19m) in compensation to the family of a foreign passenger killed in a high-speed train crash in 2011, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Online rumours are particularly pervasive in China, where traditional media is heavily regulated by the government and public trust in the media is low.

Landmark Technology, LLC makes no products and offers no services, something that can easily be surmised by its "address" in Tyler, Texas. It does, however, generate lawsuits and demand letters, most referencing patent 6,289,319: 'Automatic Business and Financial Transaction Processing System.' Or, as the EFF puts it more succinctly: paying with a credit card online.

Landmark's physical address in Tyler, Texas shares office space with other patent trolls, including Techdev Holdings, Eon Corp. IP Holdings and US Ethernet Innovations. Lockwood's m.o. seems unchanged from a decade ago: send demand letters and follow up with a lawsuit.

North Korea’s first “home-grown” smartphone, revealed with much pride and hyperbole by state media last year, appears to be little more than a made-in-China piece of landfill Android.

It isn’t clear for certain whether the Arirang is actually just a rebranded version of the lowly Uniscope, although judging by the product numbers for each it appears as if the North Koreans haven’t done a very good job of covering their tracks.