Weekly News Flash.

Weekly News Flash

6/18/15

Strait from the UNSC Lunar Base 1, here is your weekly news on Earth.

· Highlight:

In Charleston, South Carolina nine were killed, including a pastor, in a shooting in a historical African-American church. It was confirmed by the police that a Caucasian man named Dylann Roof caused the shooting. He is currently under custody by the FBI.

http://news.yahoo.com/shooting-erupts-church-charleston-south-carolina-021744448.html

· Politics:

President Obama was deeply sorrowful he heard the news of the Charleston shooting. In his words it was called “senseless murders”. In return, he responded by criticizing the lack of gun laws. The president claims that less deaths will happen if it is harder to get your hands on a gun.

"Now is the time for mourning and for healing, but let's be clear: At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency." The president said on his speech.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/06/18/president-obama-calls-charleston-shooting-senseless-criticizes-gun-laws/

· Technology:

After Snowden’s reveal of how the U.S. government inquires and handles personal information, the Electric Frontier Foundation (https://www.eff.org/) report annually on tech companies like Yahoo, Apple, Adobe, Google, etc. to see how well they handle personal information. According to them, companies like Yahoo, Apple, and Adobe were given good results. However, WhatsApp and AT&T came in last.

List: https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-requests-2015

Article: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/18/in-report-on-data-collection-practices-whatsapp-and-att-fail-the-test/?ref=technology&_r=0

Something That Will Piss You Off:

You know how Fox News always rip on violent video games?

Well guess what they got: http://www.foxnews.com/category/tech/video-games

· Gaming:

As we all know, E3 is on so I’m just going to link some gameplay videos. Let’s all ride hype train!

Star Wars: Battle Front multiplayer Gameplay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXU5k4U8x20

Final Fantasy VII E3 Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kznek1uNVsg

Mass Effect Andromeda E3 Trailer: