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Google Maps just got lost for a few hours

Re: OpenStreetMaps, Here, Michelin

I am still looking for a good off-line map utility.

I used to have Here Maps on my phone. The interface was easy, the maps good and updated regularly, and it did not require the latest phone/tablet to work. The main advantage was that it all worked off-line. Searches, route planing , voice guidance were all consistent and reliable

Then they went to v2 and the 3D interface, and broke everything good about it. They probably broke the things I didn't like as well.

Deleted it and still looking for a replacement.

Astroboffins baffled as Curiosity rover takes larger gasps of oxygen in Martian summers

A local anomoly

I presume the astroboffins have ruled out a local effect of the rover driving over the soil releasing who-knows-what and then measuring it?

FBI Director wants 'adult conversation' about backdooring encryption

Creating your own enemies

OK, so you convict and imprison those who do not create weakened encryption.

You now have only criminals who have strong encryption.

You have created your own enemies. And they can talk about you behind your back because you rely on having the keys to unencrypt messages - you now know you do not have to develop your own, so you don't have anyone to break encryption anymore.

Idiot.

French Colonial Marines to get Aliens medic-datalink

Have I got it wrong ...

... or does this seem like a whole lot of targets bleeping there whereabouts for smart bullets to follow to the source?

Expensive, but almost guaranteed hits ...