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JB Hi-Fi may replace cleaners with robots

JB Hi-Fi is considering replacing some of its cleaning contractors with robots in a bid to automate and save costs, according to one of the company’s non-executive directors, Wai Tang.In a roundtable discussion ahead of International Women’s Day, Ms Tang said disruption and volatility in the sector had led to many changes. Meet Method-2, the manned robot A South Korean giant robot has taken its first baby steps while shaking the ground beneath its weight.

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Sessions’ path to remake Justice Department may be clearer

The political cloud over Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to step back from any investigation touching the Trump campaign may have a silver lining for a law enforcement officer who appears preoccupied by violent crime, drugs and immigration. Now that Sessions will no longer oversee any investigation into the 2016 election, his path to continue a refashioning of the Justice Department may be even clearer.

NASA to do feasibility study on manning Orion Spacecraft’s first flight

Days after the US President Donald Trump promised to “unlock the mysteries of space”, Nasa has kicked off a study to assess the feasibility of adding a two-member crew to the first unmanned flight of the agency’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft called Exploration Mission-1 .William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator of NASA’s human explorations and operation mission directorate in Washington, said they would be looking at a “big, crisp list of all the things we would physically have to change” on the vehicle in order to accommodate astronauts.

The Impeachment Of Hillary Clinton

February 20 – House Judiciary Chair Bob Goodlatte announced today that the impeachment proceeding against President Hillary Clinton would proceed directly to a vote of the full House. “We know everything we need to know,” said Goodlatte.

UPDATE 1-Three men sentenced in New Jersey for hacking, spamming scheme

Three men have been sentenced for their roles in a wide-ranging hacking and spamming scheme that targeted personal information of 60 million people, including Comcast Corp customers, prosecutors said on Thursday. Timothy Livingston, 31, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William Martini in Newark, New Jersey, on Tuesday to four years in prison after pleading guilty to charges stemming from his role in a scheme that prosecutors said generated $1.3 million.

Film exposes underworld of U.S. children sold online for sex

When Mary Mazzio first heard about middle-school girls from her hometown of Boston suing a website on which they had been sold for sex, the self-described “recovering lawyer” was blown away. Soon enough, pouring over a copy of the court case, Mazzio was plunged into a corner of the internet she had not suspected even existed: the world of classified ads website, Backpage.com.

Turning Protests Into Action With Technology

Tweet by tweet, post upon post, and petition after petition, Americans are voicing their views of government with the most powerful amplifier ever known: the Internet. Although we have lived with this tool for decades, the combined and continued acceleration of globalization and technology has opened the doors to government – while enabling fabricators of fake news – in ways that were inconceivable in the age of AOL dial-up.

Judge in guards’ murder trial to rule on text messages

Prosecutors in the upcoming trial of three jail guards charged with fatally beating mentally ill inmate Michael Tyree and assaulting another inmate want to introduce text messages that they claim show the guards were motivated by their general contempt of prisoners, and the pleasure they took in seeing them suffer. “This motive is illustrated in the texts found on their phones wherein they express humor and enjoyment at pain or discomfort experienced by the inmates, regardless of who inflicts it,” Braker wrote.

Trump administration signals that some temporary bans on entry into U.S. could become permanent

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly pauses while speaking at a news conference at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, to discuss the operational implementation of the president’s executive orders. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly pauses while speaking at a news conference at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, to discuss the operational implementation of the president’s executive orders.

Apalachin man gets 5 years for child porn

Apalachin man gets 5 years for child porn Police say Brandon Kie, 31, pleaded guilty in September Check out this story on pressconnects.com: http://press.sn/2jBHpva An Apalachin man was sentenced to serve five years in a federal prison for receiving child pornography through the internet and a computer. Police say Brandon Kie, 31, pleaded guilty in September, admitting he used a computer to connect to several child porn websites in 2014 using peer-to-peer file sharing software programs and, on numerous occasions, received and downloaded more than 500 images and more than 12 videos that depicted minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Second ‘celebgate’ hacker sentenced to nine months in prison

For his part in the “celebgate” celebrity hacking scandal , 29-year-old Chicago man Edward Majerczyk will be sentenced to nine months in federal prison. Last July, Majerczyk agreed to plead guilty to felony computer hacking charges, admitting that he scammed more than 300 people, including 30 celebrities, in order to steal their Gmail and iCloud account info.

Microsoft victory in overseas email seizure case is upheld

An equally divided federal appeals court refused to reconsider its landmark decision forbidding the U.S. government from forcing Microsoft Corp and other companies to turn over customer emails stored on servers outside the United States. Tuesday’s 4-4 vote by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan let stand a July 14 decision that was seen as a victory for privacy advocates, and for technology companies offering cloud computing and other services worldwide.

‘Celebgate’ hacker sentenced to nine months for stealing nude photos

A Chicago man was sentenced to a stint in jail Tuesday for hacking online accounts belonging to Jennifer Lawrence , Kirsten Dunst , Kate Upton and Hope Solo , among dozens of other celebrities two years ago that ended up online. Edward Majerczyk was sentenced to nine months in prison after admitting to hacking the online accounts of at least 30 celebrities, and will have to pay $5,700 to one of his victims as partial compensation for treatment after the stolen photos were published on the Internet.

Feds Find $20 Million Hidden Under A Mattress In Massachusetts

When federal authorities raided an apartment in Westborough, Mass., earlier this month, they found money hidden under the mattress – approximately $20 million. Photos show a box spring stuffed with bricks of cash that were seized during a Homeland Security investigation linked to a pyramid scheme involving a company called TelexFree.

Amazon removes Indian flag doormat link after visa threat

Amazon.com removed doormats resembling the Indian tri-colour flag from its Canadian website, after an Indian government threat to rescind visas of the US company’s employees if they did not stop selling the product. “If this is not done forthwith, we will not grant Indian Visa to any Amazon official,” she added.

Energy assurance is critical to Air Force missions

Imagine that you’re looking at the camera feed of an MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft-commonly known as a “drone,” but which we in the Air Force call an “RPA”-flying somewhere in the Middle East and tracking a known member of an international terrorist organization. This aircraft is controlled by a pilot at an Air Force Base in the United States.

CNRP rejects deal ‘proviso’

Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng, left, and deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha, right, at a meeting in Phnom Penh in 2015. Prime Minister Hun Sen is using prisoners as bargaining chips to try and force Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy leader Kem Sokha to sign a declaration that would be used to kick opposition president Sam Rainsy out of the party, the latter claimed yesterday.

Greek police find weapons at captured extremist’s hideout

In this file photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011, suspected terrorist Pola Roupa and alleged member of the Revolutionary Struggle group, wears handcuffs as she arrives for a trial at the maximum security Korydallos prison, western Athens. Greek police on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017 recaptured the convicted far-left militant wanted for more than four years after she absconded during her trial on domestic terrorism charges.

Cocorose London inventor makes A 1m turnover after being rejected by 100 facotries

The shocking moment a Chicago teen gang – including two girls – ‘kidnap and torture’ special-needs man while streaming the ordeal live on Facebook and screaming racist and anti-Trump remarks Trump’s revenge? The Donald plans to cut staff at CIA headquarters and ‘restructure’ agency amid fears ‘the intelligence world has become too politicized’ in wake of Russian hacking saga How the Queen was almost SHOT by one of her own guards after she took 3am stroll through Buckingham Palace grounds REVEALED: Matt Lauer was ‘kept in the dark’ about Megyn Kelly’s move to NBC – and was only told about it the morning the rest of world found out Trump mocks Obamacare ‘lie’ – and Democrats’ ‘head clown’ Chuck Schumer – as he says they must work with GOP to pass a ‘much less expensive’ replacement Menendez brothers serving life for 1989 murders of their wealthy Beverly Hills parents reveal how they have … (more)

US auto sales hit a record 17.55M in 2016, led by SUVs

Six Mexican veterinarians who say they were recruited to work as animal scientists at an Idaho dairy farm have filed a federal human trafficking lawsuit against the dairy’s owners and the lawyer who arranged… Six Mexican veterinarians who say they were recruited to work at an Idaho dairy farm as animal scientists have filed a federal human trafficking lawsuit against the dairy’s owners and the lawyer who arranged work… U.S. consumers bought a record number of new cars and trucks in 2016. A repeat performance in 2017 could be a tall order.

Donald Trump, hacking expert

So now Donald Trump is a hacking expert? After all of this time saying that he and no one else knows what is going on, that has changed 180 degrees to being a cyber security expert? Is this another sales pitch or is this the real deal? Apparently Mr. Trump feels he knows more than all of America’s intelligence agencies. In fact, Mr. Trump has continually defended Russian espionage while lambasting the US intelligence agencies who have unanimously reported Russian hacking in the last election.

NASA’s Favorite Photos of 2016

There are a group of unsung heroes at NASA, the people who travel the world to capture key events in our exploration of space. They share their images with all of us, but most of the time, it’s not just the pictures of launches, landings, and crucial mission events that they capture.

Youths among dead as Philippine gunmen kill seven in ‘drugs den’

Three minors were among seven people shot dead by suspected vigilantes in the Philippines at a house storing illegal narcotics, police said on Thursday, in the latest killings during a bloody and murky war on drugs. Two unknown gunmen arrived on motorcycles and entered what police called a drugs den north of the capital Manila late on Wednesday.

Dark Skies for International Copyright: 2016 in Review

It’s hard to imagine that a year ago we were celebrating “positive movement” towards reforms to European copyright law, expecting that the European Commission would be soon proposing new copyright exceptions and other measures to modernize Europe’s aging copyright regime. Instead, what we got was a proposal to force user-generated content websites to do deals with copyright holders to scan and filter users’ uploads , along with a proposal to give news publishers the power to impose a link tax on third-party websites such as news aggregators.