What is it about Kim Dotcom? He never, ever, feels the need to hide from the fact that he is not only seen as criminal, but also a villain. A rich, rich villain in the technology world. This week a New Zealand judge struck down police requests to seize Dotcoms assets, remember in 2012 when a raid of his new zealand mansion resulted in these assets being first seized? I like saying assets and seized. Well now these police must give back the 16 million dollars in stuff (cars, paintings, rich people stuff) they took from him! They have 2 weeks to comply, but recent Tweets from Dotcom infer that he is getting is assets back.

More big news. Comcast is going to be allowed to purchase Time Warner Cable for 45 billion, and kill net neutrality. Doing this, of course means internet cost can soar and TWC basically folds itself into Comcast because it has to. So basically we as consumers or small businesses will have to pay more for what we already have. There is so much bad coming out of this it’s sickening. Even Netflix is going to be badly affected, possibly having to raise costs to pay “speed tolls” to IPS.

OnePlus, a smartphone company, has just announced its new One! It has some impressive specs, a price of only 299 unlocked, and is a beautiful array of customizable covers! It’s packed with a quad-core 2.5Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, 3GB of RAM,all tucked under a 5.5-inch Gorilla Glass screen. Additional specs include NFC, LTE, GPS, Bluetooth 4.0, and hefty battery.

WHAT THE TECH

A new smart jacket is in the works. It is being called a jacket that can act as a mobile phone! Wires and sensors are installed inside the jacket, and speakers fitted into one of the pockets. Instead of a phone screen, a display was sewn into the jacket sleeve showing a line of rolling text. When the jacket wearer gets a message, they feel a vibration their collar. This could be used in vital emergency conditions, such as firefighting.

Conversnitch, the eavesdropping lamp that can live Tweet your conversations? It has already been used to as an experimental surveillance project to pick up snippets of conversations in New York. One website says its designed to raise questions about the nature of public and private space in the era we live in now, where most of anything could be recorded and spied upon. I find it very strange.