The Daily Populous

Wednesday April 5th, 2017 evening edition

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Google and a group of top Android phone makers have sealed a new agreement to collectively defend themselves against patent lawsuits.

The group, which also includes Samsung, LG, and HTC, have agreed to share patents covering “Android and Google Applications” on any device that meets Android’s compatibility requirements.

The patents will be shared for free, and the group is supposed to be free and open for any company to join.

The agreement’s proper name is the “Android Networked Cross-License,” but the group is calling it PAX for short.

“Pax” means “peace” in Latin, and Google says the agreement is about reaching a legal peace within the tech world.

“In the world of intellectual property, patent peace often coincides with innovation and healthy competition that benefit consumers,” writes Jamie Rosenberg, an Android business VP with Google.

For Google, this agreement also helps to open the Android ecosystem up to smaller companies that may be interested in making a device but fear litigation.

The hug heard around the company. : talesfromtechsupport

Authored by np.reddit.com

I replace the ram and take the unit back to the exec.

I log in with my creds and enable viewing hidden or protected files and I see that the hidden folder was from 2014.

I had to turn off my skype for business as the attaboys kept coming in one after the other.

LGBT Job Discrimination Is Prohibited by Civil Rights Law, Federal Appeals Court Rules

Authored by nbcnews.com

A federal appeals court in Chicago ruled Tuesday that long-standing federal civil rights laws prohibit discrimination on the job against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees.

The decision, from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago said "discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is a form of sex discrimination.".

But the appeals court, in an 8-3 decision, said "it would require considerable calisthenics to remove the 'sex' from 'sexual orientation.'".

New Jersey teen gets accepted by all 8 Ivy League schools

Authored by cnn.com

High school senior has also been accepted into Stanford.

A New Jersey teenager has to make a decision soon most high school seniors can only dream of -- deciding on which Ivy League school to attend in the fall.

The problem, if you want to call it that, is that she was accepted into all of them.

Being as Canadian as possible, under the circumstances

Authored by theglobeandmail.com

So what are "the circumstances" under which we feel and become most Canadian?

And although the backgrounds of each were very different, all three had come to roughly the same conclusion.

But let us then pay greater attention to defining, expanding and appreciating "the circumstances" under which we become "most Canadian.".