1,058 applicants cleared by Mars One for next step toward one-way Mars trip

Mars One says it has picked 1,058 aspiring spacefliers to move on to the next round in its search for the first humans to live and die on the Red Planet.

The Dutch-based nonprofit wants to start launching groups of four on one-way trips to Mars by 2024, with the long-term goal of creating the first permanent settlement on Mars. More than 200,000 people registered their interest in Mars One's project by the time the initial application window closed on Aug. 31. Those who get to move on to the next, more rigorous selection phase were notified by email on Monday.

The group's co-founder Bas Lansdorp said in a statement that it was challenging to separate "those who we feel are physically and mentally adept to become human ambassadors on Mars from those who are obviously taking the mission much less seriously." He added that some even appeared nude in their application videos.

Of those who made the first cut, 297 are from the United States. Canada is the second most represented country with 75 candidates, followed by India with 62 and Russia with 52. All told, Mars One is looking at applicants from 107 different countries, according to figures released by the group.

Nearly 77 percent of the people who made the first cut are employed, while about 15 percent are still in school. About 55 percent of the applicants are male, and most are quite young: 357 are under 25 and 415 are under 35, while just 26 are over 56. The oldest person to make it to the next round is 81.
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Apple denies working with NSA on spying malware

Apple Inc. responded on Tuesday to reports that the National Security Agency had developed a system to hack into and monitor iPhones called "Dropout Jeep," saying it never worked with the U.S. spy agency and was unaware of efforts to target its smartphones.
Germany's Der Spiegel reported this week that a secretive unit of the NSA, now under fire for the extent and depth of it's spying programs around the world, makes specialized gear and software to infiltrate and monitor a plethora of computing devices, including mobile phones.

The report included an NSA graphic dated 2008 that outlined a system in development called DROPOUTJEEP, calling it a "software implant" that allows infiltrators to push and pull and retrieve data from iPhones such as contact lists. Der Spiegel referred to it as a "trojan," or malware that helps hackers get into protected systems.
The report, which surfaced on Sunday, did not suggest that Apple had co-operated with the U.S. spying agency on so-called backdoors.

The iPhone was a relatively new-fangled gadget in 2008. It hit the market in 2007 and proceeded to help revolutionize the mobile phone industry.
"Apple has never worked with the NSA to create a backdoor in any of our products, including iPhone. Additionally, we have been unaware of this alleged NSA program targeting our products," the company said in a statement.

"We will continue to use our resources to stay ahead of malicious hackers and defend our customers from security attacks, regardless of who's behind them."
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Samsung’ gigantic 12.2-inch tablet reportedly headed to AT&T

It appears that Samsung has yet to plug the leak, because once again news regarding the Galaxy Note Pro has surfaced, this time in the form of a carrier for the oversized tablet. According to @evleaks, AT&T is the first provider to agree to carry the 12.2-inch Galaxy Note Pro, a tablet which shares many of its specs with the Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition). Those specs include a 2,560 x 1,600-pixel LCD display, a 2.4GHz quad-core processor, 3GB of RAM, 8-megapixel rear camera, a 9,500 mAh battery and Android 4.4 KitKat. The previous leak revealed that the tablet will launch internationally in the first quarter of 2014, but there was no word as to whether the U.S. would be a part of the initial rollout. If this new report is to be believed, chances are good that the tablet will indeed hit U.S. shores in the near future.

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