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Four experimental mobile features to try on inauguration day

Preparations for the inauguration are under way at the US Capitol. The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab will be testing features across three platforms during the event. Photograph: Internacion/REX/Shutterstock.  As part of our mission, the Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab experiments with new ways of telling stories on small screens. On inauguration day, be a part of our experimental group to try out new mobile live blog features and notifications. We’ll be testing four features on three platforms. These experimental features will supplement the Guardian’s overall coverage of the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States on Friday 20 January. Here’s what we’ll be testing: Get a live video stream inside a notification iOS users can watch the ceremony and other key moments as they happen. We will send a notification to your lock screen containing a live video stream from the Reuters news agency. Just tap the notification to expand and you’ll be able to watch r

Why SpaceX wants to put 4,425 internet satellites into space

Elon Musk is not one to let setbacks slow him down, even when setbacks involve the explosion of a rocket containing cargo precious to fellow tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg. As of this week, SpaceX, where Musk is CEO, is back in the business of launching rockets. And Musk is pushing ahead on his outsize ambitions for the company. After 17 successful launches between 2012 and 2015, SpaceX initially planned to launch 20 rockets in 2016. Largely because of the aforementioned explosion — the company’s second rocket loss in two years — it managed only eight. On Twitter, Musk called the Sept. 1 incident “the most difficult and complex failure we have ever had.” But if last year ended on a sour note for SpaceX, 2017 is starting off with more promise. After spending months investigating and resolving the issues that caused the September explosion, the company launched a Falcon 9 on Jan. 14, deployed 10 satellites, and successfully re-docked the rocket booster at sea. The satellites are

Big surge in cyberattacks on Russia amid US hacking hysteria – Russian security chief

Even as the united states continues to publicly accuse Russia of severa hacking attacks with out presenting any proof, it actually actively uses its personal blessings in our on-line world for surveillance and intelligence functions, Russia’s protection leader has said. “Obama’s administration accuses Russia of hacking attacks with out giving any evidence, but deliberately ignores the fact that every one primary net servers are placed on US territory and are used by Washington for intelligence and other functions geared toward preserving [US] dominance inside the international,” the head of Russia’s protection Council, Nikolay Patrushev, said in an interview with Rossiiskaya Gazeta every day. He additionally burdened that Moscow has visible “a growing variety of tries to inflict harm to Russian records systems from abroad.” those tries consist of “hacking assaults and unsanctioned collection of private facts” and involve using worldwide internet operators and carriers, with the m

Why Mobile Payment Technology Is Leap-Frogging In Latin America

The arena of cellular payments is one of the hottest segments of the monetary era enterprise. based totally in Miami, Yellow Pepper has been a pioneer of mobile price generation in Latin the usa, wherein an enormous market want and a millennial-wealthy population of early adopters converge. Yellow Pepper has carried out this before. Years in the past, the YellowPepper crew targeted the untapped Latin American cell banking marketplace and developed a latest platform to enhance the general patron experience. even as continuing to develop the cellular banking side of the business, Yellow Pepper is now centered on another untapped opportunity: cellular charge answers for consumers inside the area. The employer, based in 2004 in Boston, provides economic institutions with the brand new era that alters the way wherein purchasers and outlets transact. Yellow Pepper is undergoing a boom spurt, recently deploying its mobile payments technology in Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico and seeking t