Thanks James Coffey
The Kate Fitzgerald inquest jury returned a verdict of death by suicide yesterday evening.
Kate’s parents Tom and Sally Fitzgerald declined to comment.
PR executive Kate took her own life, inquest jury finds (Gareth Naughton, Irish Independent)
Jury Finds PR Consultant Died By Suicide (Carl O’Brien, Irish Times)
Previously: Kate Fitzgerald on Broadsheet
My God. It’s full of Apps…
Stupid Calculations has worked out that – tiled and stacked together – the 352,292,000-odd iPhones sold since the launch in 2007 would form a one-iPhone thick monolith screen (based on the average screen area of all iPhone models) 868m wide and 1,542m tall – wider than Central Park and taller than any skyscraper in Manhattan.
More stats on the 2001: A Space Odyssey style monophone here.
Jenny writes [via BS App]
Austerity rocks. Literally.
Brandon Bryant, a former drone operator tells NBC’s Richard Engel that on his retirement from the US military he was given a certificate showing his involvement in the deaths of 1,626 people.
Former drone operator says he’s haunted by his part in more than 1,600 deaths (NBC News)
They’re three to a shed, Joe…
Dublin last night.
(Thanks Greg Tierney)
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David Devlin writes [viaBS App]:
Spellcheck must still be down in Montrose…
Previously: Bad Spellcheck to Continue
“In a country where we expect free wifi with our coffee, why shouldn’t we have it in our schools?” —President Obama in North Carolina today
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 7, 2013
We are not questioning the legality under the Patriot Act of the court order disclosed by The Guardian. But we strongly object to using that power in this manner. It is the very sort of thing against which Mr. Obama once railed, when he said in 2007 that the surveillance policy of the George W. Bush administration “puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide.”
President Obama’s Dragnet (Editorial, New York Times)
The front page of the Huffington Post showing their feelings about the latest intelligence gathering revelations in the US. The New York Times also posted a critical opinion of their president. Ironically, Barack Obama’s office tweeted about providing wifi in schools earlier.
NSA taps in to internet giants’ systems to mine user data, secret files reveal (Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill / The Guardian)
Guardian pic via Simon N Ricketts
Previously: They’re Bugging Everyone
