I used my iPad to shoot video of my brother’s wedding. I want to get the file into my computer, but it’s too large to email or place in my Dropbox account. Any ideas on solving my problem?

A:

You can transfer the file to a computer using the iPad’s charging/syncing cable. Just plug it into the computer and if it’s a Mac, launch iPhoto and you can use its import function to transfer the video. If it’s a modern Windows PC, a window should appear and you can use its import function to transfer the video. On a PC running the old Windows XP, you would use the Scanner and Camera Wizard. Apple has an article explaining all this.

Q:

What is the best way to transfer files from my old computer with Windows XP to my new computer with Windows 7?

A:

I’d suggest trying the built-in file transfer utility in Windows 7, called Windows Easy Transfer. It’s automated and can operate over a network, or by using USB flash drives, external hard disks or a special cable called an Easy Transfer Cable, which costs under $20.

Q:

How do you remove pictures from an iPhone? I have tried to delete them, but I have been unsuccessful.

A:

In the Photos app, in the Camera Roll, which is the main repository for pictures you take on an iPhone, there’s a trash-can icon at the lower right of the screen when you are viewing a photo. Tap it and select “Delete Photo.” The same thing works with Photo Stream, the optional feature that wirelessly syncs pictures among all your Apple devices.

To delete photos synced from a computer via a cable, you have to connect the device to the computer, de-select the albums you chose in the iTunes program and then re-sync.

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In a statement published on its corporate blog, David Shannon, the company’s corporate counsel, said that “it’s not practical to build silicon or systems to address every part of the expanding market. Adopting a new business approach will allow us to address the universe of devices.” He said Nvidia had licensed an earlier GPU core to Sony for use on the Playstation 3, and Intel pays it $250 million a year in licensing fees as the result of a settlement of a lawsuit in 2011.

At least part of this can be attributed to Nvidia’s hiring of Bob Feldstein from rival Advanced Micro Devices. Feldstein was one of a batch of AMD execs who bolted for greener pastures in 2012.

Feldstein’s job at AMD was to run licensing for its ATI graphics chips, and that technology landed in Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s Wii, among other consoles.

“This is the right time for Nvidia to be doing this, too,” said analyst Patrick Moorhead of MoorInsights and Strategy and a former AMD exec. “Nvidia’s Kepler-based graphics give them the best competitive hand. I could very well see an Apple and Samsung interested in their graphics patents.” He also sees Nvidia technology being used in smart TVs, which so far haven’t been much of priority for the company.

One company likely to be hurt by the move, he said, is Imagination Technologies, which provides most of the licensable graphics for smartphones, a key target of today’s move.

Thus, Twitter just put up a vague blog post that promises more features to come for its popular Vine video app. And as AllThingsD just reported, a new video offering from its Instagram photo-sharing unit will be the sole product launch at a Facebook event this Thursday.

Which means, it was time for Twitter, which has the most popular such product in the space, to crow.

“Over the next few weeks, we’ll be introducing some exciting new parts of Vine,” said its blog post today. “As always, we’ll share details on updates as we release them.”

Instagram plans to release its video product at a press event at the social networking giant’s headquarters, according to sources, marking the first time the robust, 100-million user photo-sharing network will offer more than static images.

It will have to catch up to Vine, which is now available on both Apple iPhone and Google Android, and which recently announced 13 million users. The new features are presumably to keep clear of Instagram’s splash in the pool.

Until it’s all sorted out, here’s Vine’s clever “thank you” video to users, which it also released today:

Instagram plans to release a video product this Thursday at a press event at Facebook’s headquarters, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter, marking the first time the robust, 100-million user network will stray from being strictly a photo-sharing app and dive head first into the world of moving pictures.

The new video product is something that the service said it was planning to do for two years now, and there have been numerous rumors about it in recent weeks. As was first reported by TechCrunch, it’s actually going to happen this week. Sources said that Thursday’s event will solely be focused on Instagram’s new video product and there will be no other Facebook product reveals.

While details of the product have been kept under wraps, sources said Facebook is seeking to differentiate itself from Vine, the popular instant video app from Twitter, which is now available on both Apple iPhone and Google Android. It recently announced that Vine has 13 million users.

The worry, said sources, is that this late-to-the-video-app-party offering will be seen as a copy of that, much as Facebook’s Poke service was received as a copycat to the explosively growing SnapChat.

In a sense, video on Instagram is not a complete surprise. After the rise of products like Viddy and Socialcam last summer, many have expected some sort of mobile video offering from either Facebook or Instagram.

As it happened, that so-called “Instagram of video” turned out to be neither Viddy nor Socialcam, but rather Vine, the standalone app offering from Twitter.

Twitter has become one of Facebook’s largest competitors — and coincidentally enough, the company that ultimately lost out on acquiring Instagram to Facebook in a whirlwind, billion-dollar acquisition deal.

So, not so coincidentally, Vine just did a “Thank you to our community” post on its company blog, with the promise of more features to come soon (see Vine video below).

With its success, Twitter has loudly trumpeted the fact that Vine has hovered around the No. 1 most downloaded free app in the App Store for weeks, a position only solidified by the recent release of Vine for Android.

Obviously, Facebook — and therefore Instagram — cares about video. But the question now is, can Instagram pull off a video product without screwing up its user experience and turning off users?

Part of the appeal of Instagram as it stands today lies in its simplicity. Scroll down the ever-flowing cascade of photos in your stream and the movement is seamless, easy to ingest. Its elegance and ease of use is one of the key reasons why Instagram has seen such a rapid growth curve over its short lifespan.

The introduction of video directly into the stream could break up that simple flow, potentially putting off many who have come to love the ease of moving quickly through the feed. Think of the time it takes to look at a photo and that low threshold for attention is exactly what makes them so easy (and addictive) to consume.

It’s simply not the same with video, which takes more time to load and view. So it will be interesting to see how Instagram — still led by co-founder Kevin Systrom — handles the integration.

To that point comes the issue of how long the videos themselves will be. Ex-Reuters employee Matthew Keys reported that videos would range between five and ten seconds — somewhere in between Vine’s six-second sweet spot and Viddy’s longer 30-second times. Again, it’s TBD on whether or not users will have the patience for it.

Facebook has gone after competitors in the past with varying degrees of success. Poke has been a spectacular flop. Same with the Quora-like Facebook Questions, and the very Foursquare-ish Facebook Places.

In other words, just because Facebook is aping your product, doesn’t mean you’re gonna get crushed.

Is it fair to call video on Instagram a Vine clone? Maybe, maybe not. The new product isn’t here yet, so we don’t know exactly how it will work.

But let’s be clear: Facebook wants to own mobile video just as badly as anyone else.

Until we know more, please enjoy Vine’s claymation-style thanks video:

Note that this doesn’t count as news, as Apple has already said iTunes Radio would show up on Apple TV.

But now there is proof!

Here’s a short version:

And here’s one that goes 9 minutes. It’s narrated, presumably, by Isaac.

Back? Okay. What would be truly interesting, of course, would be if Apple opened up Apple TV to the rest of the world, so that screen full of apps was replicated many, many times over. Just like Roku does with its Web TV platform.

But note that, contrary to a last-minute flurry of hopeful rumors, Apple did not open up Apple TV at its WWDC conference this month. Just like it has not done for several years now. Instead, there are just a handful of apps from outsiders, like Hulu, Netflix and the Wall Street Journal (which, like this site, is owned by News Corp.).

We still don’t know why Apple hasn’t opened up Apple TV, and it’s a little bit vexing. After all, opening up the iOS platform to outsiders was a crucial step in the iPhone’s evolution.

On the other hand, note that HBO Go did finally come to Apple TV this year, but there’s no HBO app on Apple TV; instead HBO subscribers can beam their shows from their phones and tablets to their TVs using Airplay.

That’s not quite as easy as clicking on an app on the box (for starters, it means you can’t do anything else with your phone while you’re streaming “Game of Thrones” to your TV) but it does point out a way that Apple can flesh out its experiment while it waits to get really serious about this TV thing. One day.

Maybe you can get into the endorsement business.

And Adam Winnick says he can help. Backed by $500,000 in angel money, he is launching Subblime, a site he’s describing as “a social hub for YouTube influencers.” A more practical way of describing the site would be “a place where YouTube celebrities can list stuff they like or have been paid to like.”

Those celebrities have their own pages of lists; here’s one from “WhatsUpElle,” who Winnick lists as a cofounder:

Right now, the money part is embryonic, but Winnick imagines a mix of different ways for YouTubers to profit, from basic affiliate links to more sophisticated cost-per-action ad campaigns. At some point, he thinks he’ll take a 50 percent split of revenue that video celebrities make from his site; for now, the talent keeps 100 percent.

So, all of that makes sense, in a Pinterest-meets-Web-video way. The only question is whether people who are famous on YouTube, who are already figuring out how to sell stuff, want to aggregate on another place to do that.

Winnick says he’ll have embeddable widgets so YouTubers can also sell/endorse stuff on their Tumblrs and other properties. But he argues that there’s a benefit to hanging out with other people who make popular videos, because fans of one video star are likely fans of another: “I give them a platform where they can engage the audience.”

On Tuesday morning in Tokyo, Mr. Loeb’s Third Point LLC sent a letter from him to Sony Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai that reiterated the billionaire investor’s argument that Sony should sell a 15 percent to 20 percent stake in its entertainment arm, which comprises the company’s well-known movie and music businesses.

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According to sources close to the company, Yahoo is considering paying up to $50 million for Qwiki, the New York startup that makes an Apple iPhone app that allow users to turn photos, music and videos into short movies automatically.

While deals such as this often go sideways, sources said that Qwiki and Yahoo are in advanced stages of discussion over the acquisition.

Qwiki recently released that app, but began as a multimedia search offering, with another iPad app that creates video summaries of search terms, as well as other video-creation tools for storytelling. And last year it hooked up with Yahoo news partner ABC News on a publishing platform to quickly create interactive stories.

While all that pivoting seems unusual, the company recently settled on its mobile-only focus, which is just what Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been aiming Yahoo’s efforts at, looking to create a series of daily apps and services to reinvigorate its offerings.

She has also been on the lookout for talent. Qwiki is led by CEO and co-founder Doug Imbruce, but its other co-founder is Louis Monier, the founder of the AltaVista search site, who left the company in 2011.

“We don’t want to be the world’s 10th video-sharing app. There are plenty of those,” said Imbruce to Lauren Goode in an interview in February. “We want to be the first real storytelling app.”

Over its history, Qwiki has raised just over $10 million from a range of investors, including Lerer Ventures and Lightbank, as well as Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin.

This is yet another acquisition target for Yahoo, which has been on a buying spree of late, mostly of inexpensive mobile app companies. But it also forked over $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr several weeks ago.

Yesterday, I reported that Yahoo was also close to purchasing address book app creator Xobni for $30 million to $40 million.

I reached out to Qwiki for comment, but have not heard back as yet.

We have a long list of CEOs who are asking to get in.

– Daniel Roth, LinkedIn executive editor, on its Influencers program

According to numerous sources close to the company, Yahoo is offering to pay $30 million to $40 million for the maker of address book apps and plugins.

That’s below the more than $40 million raised by the San Francisco-based startup from a variety of venture capitalists, including First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures and Khosla Ventures. Launched in 2008, Xobni — which is “inbox” spelled backwards — received its initial round of funding in 2006 from Y Combinator.

Sources inside Yahoo said that, as envisioned at the current acquisition offer, Xobni common shareholders might not get any of their investment back over preferred ones, which might hold up or even scotch any deal. Yahoo could certainly offer more, although sources said that seemed unlikely.

As with most of these purchases, any deal might also simply fall apart. But other sources noted that the company has been shopped to several different companies and that Yahoo has offered the best price and is the most natural home for it, given its strong email offerings.

Sources said the deal was of particular interest of Yahoo co-founder David Filo, who still plays a key tech role at Yahoo and has worked previously with Xobni’s CEO Jeff Bonforte. Before he headed Xobni, Bonforte was VP of social search and the real-time communications for Yahoo.

Bonforte would certainly be a nice re-hire for the Silicon Valley Internet giant, which is in need of leadership in the key communications area.

AllThingsD.com had previously reported on Yahoo’s interest in Xobni. It has been mulling the company — as well as a spate of others all over the tech landscape — for a while.

As Liz Gannes noted, Xobni “could be a fit for Yahoo’s mail and productivity tools, as it neatly creates automated profiles for each email contact with correspondence history and social network data.” Its products have expanded from just an Microsoft Outlook plugin to supporting Google’s Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Apple’s iCloud, and it also offers Smartr Contacts apps for Android and iPhone.

If the deal is complete, it continues Yahoo’s buying binge under CEO Marissa Mayer, who appears to be using M&A as a talent recruitment tool — essentially, if you can’t hire them, buy their company.

Among her recent purchases are a spate of mobile app companies, for which she has only spent $16 million in total, with the exception of Summly for a lot more. And, of course, she also bought Tumblr for cool $1.1 billion.

Although not the inventor of the tool, Twitter has dominated conversations centered around the hashtag (#) for quite some time. As we saw last week, however, Facebook wants in on the action, introducing hashtags to its users, so that they can follow individual topics throughout the network.

Why ape some of your stiffest competition, ultimately validating their little language of pound symbols?

Here’s why: It’s all about the second-screen audience.

Data from Nielsen’s latest research shows that nearly half of smartphone owners and tablet owners (46 percent and 43 percent, respectively) said they use their devices as second screens while watching TV every day. And nearly half of that activity on tablets is directly related to the shows they’re watching (one-third for smartphone users).

Think on this: It’s been Twitter’s major pitch to advertisers to tack little hashtag addendums and catchphrases onto the end of their commercials. From there, a viewer can do a quick search for the hashtag to track conversation about the ad and connect with other folks. Same with TV marketers: Identify a hashtag with your show and viewers can talk about the action in real time.

That demographic is ripe with potential for seeding ads. Twitter, for instance, lets advertisers stick promoted tweets for their products in with those specific hashtag searches. So, if you’re a viewer watching an NFL game on the couch and search the hashtag #MondayNightFootball, for instance, that’s prime real estate for companies such as Frito-Lay or Budweiser to slot a promoted tweet right in there.

And that’s a lot of potential ad dollars being lost by Facebook over to Twitter. Facebook even said that on any given night during prime-time television hours, there are between 88 million and 100 million people active on Facebook. Give those folks a way to use hashtags and follow content more easily on the social network, and you’re giving Facebook’s ad guys an easier way to sell against said hashtags.

Granted, Facebook’s hashtags are a) only rolled out to a small percentage of users for the time being and b) not on mobile yet, only the Web. But this is merely a temporary stopgap.

Facebook’s larger problem is whether or not viewers will associate hashtags with Facebook, just as they already do with Twitter. It seems like it’s working on Instagram, so perhaps that will translate to Facebook’s mobile apps.

And perhaps even more problematic: Part of why it’s so tough for Twitter to court and retain mainstream, average non-techie users is because of the opacity that the language of hashtags and @symbols creates. If you’re someone in, say, the Tide detergent demographic, you may not be as able to figure out just what a hashtag actually is. Try selling that to an advertiser.

Personally, I anticipate Facebook’s adoption will only make the language more accessible to the mainstream; stick the hashtag in everyone’s faces, and you’ll be forced to learn what it means. That, paired with the fact that it’s floating over to other platforms like Vine, Path and most recently Google+, and I’d guess it reaches a tipping point.

The heat is on to see where the ad dollars go from here.

Well, Jay-Z is way too smart for that!

The brand-endorser/value-adder/Beyonce’s husband/musician has a big deal with Samsung to give away free copies of his new album to people who download an app to their Galaxy devices.

So it would totally be embarrassing if he tweeted about that from an iPhone, right?

No problem! As Amanda Lucci notes, sometime between April 3 and today, Mr. Z, or whoever social-messages on his behalf, switched his Twitter account over from iPhone to Android. Disaster averted!

Jay-Z has switched from iPhone to Android since his last tweet, HOW CONVENIENT pic.twitter.com/93ddm7Vos0

– Amanda (@alucci) June 17, 2013

Bonus Jay-Z handset info: As our intrepid Mike “Tats-a-plenty” Isaac notes, Mr. Z, or whoever social-messages for him, wasn’t that attached to iOS, anyway. A little more than a year ago, he (or whoever) was still using a BlackBerry to tweet.

Luckily, because Mr. Z (or whoever) is an infrequent Twitter user, we can see exactly when he switched over: September 2012.

Still! If you’re the kind of person who has an intense interest in all things Apple, you might have found items of interest during Cue’s testimony at Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in lower Manhattan. Particularly the parts where Apple’s attorney asked Cue to talk about Steve Jobs.

I’m not sure why Apple lawyer Orin Snyder wanted Cue to spend time discussing his late boss, because I can’t see how it has any bearing on the case. But, then again, my legal training consists of watching some “L.A. Law” back in the ’90s.

So, in any case, for the record: Apple wants you to know that Steve Jobs wasn’t just into the idea of iBooks and an iBookstore, but was intimately involved in its product design and launch in the fall of 2009 and early 2010.

For instance:

• The “page curls” in the iBook app, which show up when you flip an iBook’s page? That’s Steve Jobs’s idea.
• It was Jobs’s idea to pick “Winnie-the-Pooh” as the freebie book that came with every iBook app. Not just because Jobs liked the book, Cue said, but because it showed off iBook’s capabilities: “It had beautiful color drawings, that had never been seen before in a digital book.”
• Jobs was also specific about the book he used to show off the iBook during his initial iPad demo in January 2010. He picked Ted Kennedy’s “True Compass” memoir, because the Kennedy family “meant a lot to him,” Cue said.

Again: Will any of this have any bearing on the trial’s outcome? Seems unlikely. But we are approaching the end of this process. Closing arguments are scheduled for Thursday.

In recent years, the Cannes Lions ad festival had already morphed beyond ad agencies and large consumer companies such as Procter & Gamble Co. to include technology giants such as Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. This week, more of the smaller ad-tech companies, some with initial public offerings in their future, will be mingling on the famous Croisette to woo deep-pocketed marketing chiefs and ad firms.

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“They had a relationship that was not positive. You heard a lot of negative things from them.”

– Apple media boss Eddy Cue, testifying during the DOJ antitrust trial Monday, describing the way book publishers viewed Amazon, circa 2009

In a live online Q&A at the Guardian today, Edward Snowden, the man who leaked the PRISM documents and much more, called those initial tech denials “misleading.” But he said the leaks were having his desired effect, saying, “We’re finally beginning to see more transparency and better details about these programs for the first time since their inception.”

Snowden added that Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple could have used their heft to blow the whistle themselves. “They are legally compelled to comply and maintain their silence in regard to specifics of the program, but that does not comply them from ethical obligation,” he wrote.

In an answer to another question, Snowden said, “More detail on how direct NSA’s accesses are is coming,” perhaps indicating further documents to be published, or his own elaboration.

Here’s Snowden’s comment on the tech denials in full:

Their denials went through several revisions as it become more and more clear they were misleading and included identical, specific language across companies. As a result of these disclosures and the clout of these companies, we’re finally beginning to see more transparency and better details about these programs for the first time since their inception.

They are legally compelled to comply and maintain their silence in regard to specifics of the program, but that does not comply them from ethical obligation. If for example Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple refused to provide this cooperation with the Intelligence Community, what do you think the government would do? Shut them down?

In a disclosure published overnight, the company said that from Dec. 1, 2012, to May 31, 2013, it had received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests affecting between 9,000 and 10,000 accounts or devices. That works out to an average of two accounts or devices per request.

The disclosure follows similar ones by Facebook on Friday and Microsoft on Saturday. And, as with the Facebook and Microsoft disclosures, Apple has aggregated into a single bucket the number of requests it received from federal agencies like the FBI and local, state and county agencies around the country. Apple did not specify whether any of the requests were made under authority granted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Apple said the requests came from a range of state, federal and local agencies. Most involved police investigations into routine criminal matters like robberies, searches for missing children and attempts to prevent a suicide.

Certain kinds of information can’t be provided to law enforcement even when requested, Apple said. These include the contents of FaceTime and iMessage conversations, which are encrypted, and not retained by Apple in the first place. Requests of Siri, its voice-activated search service on the iPhone, are not logged, either.

The Web video service will have exclusive worldwide first-run rights to a new batch of original programming from the studio, though it isn’t spelling out exactly what that programming will be.

The idea: DreamWorks will mine its existing movie portfolio, along with upcoming movies, to create more than 300 hours of new shows. If I were betting, I’d expect to see a “Shrek” series, for starters.

The context: Kids’ shows are a big deal for Netflix, and it used to get a lot of them from Viacom’s Nickelodeon, but that deal expired last month. Now Amazon has exclusive rights to lots of Nick shows like “Dora the Explorer.”

Meanwhile, Netflix has been building up a library of replacement stuff, like a deal to bring Disney shows like “Jake and the Never Land Pirates” to the streaming service.

This is the third deal Netflix and DreamWorks have announced in recent years.

In 2011, the two companies announced a deal to bring DreamWorks movies to Netflix after they appeared in theaters, replacing a deal the studio had with Netflix rival HBO (that will formally kick in next year, when “The Croods” shows up on the digital service). And in February, Netflix announced that DreamWorks would bring a spinoff show from its upcoming “Turbo” feature to the service in December.

It will always be the case that much is classified that need not be classified. But that’s not the real problem. The real problem is how much is classified that needs not to be classified if we want to be a democracy.

– Daniel Ellsberg, in conversation with investigative journalist Brad Friedman on KPFK/Pacifica Radio

OED chief editor John Simpson announced the addition of the word — both as a noun and as a verb — in his June update.

Obviously the word “tweet” was in the dictionary before, dating back to at least 1851 as an imitative word for bird calls. But the definition has now been expanded to include its use to include: “To make a posting on the social networking service Twitter. Also: to use Twitter regularly or habitually.” It also includes its use as a noun for the messages.

One weird thing about this: The OED had already added “retweet” as far back as 2011, alongside such gems as “mankini,” “jeggings” and “sexting.” No explanation from Simpson why “retweet” got in first.

The addition, Simpson said, violates at least one rule for inclusion in the OED, specifically the one that says that a “new word needs to be current for 10 years before consideration for inclusion. But it seems to be catching on,” he wrote.

Whatever the reason, “tweet” was just one of a batch of tech-related words and phrases added to the OED in the last year. Among the others is “big data,” the fashionable phrase and subject of glossy photo books that evokes the act of analyzing large data sets for otherwise undetectable patterns.

Other tech-related words added this year are “crowdsourcing,” “mouseover,” “e-reader” and “re-direct.”

The book will be updated with a new afterword, said the New York publisher.

But new art, taken by Norman Seeff in 1984, should attract a lot of attention. The original striking and simple black-and-white photo of Jobs on the hardcover jacket of “Steve Jobs” — which was taken by Albert Watson in 2006 — showed the legendary tech figure later in his life and was an image Jobs approved. The new one has Jobs in the exact same thumb-on-chin pose, with the exact same intense gaze that he was well known for.

Simon & Schuster has declined to release sales figures for the high-profile book, but it was Amazon’s best-selling book in 2011 after it was released in the fall of that year.

The paperback version will come out almost two years later, which is a longer time between hardcover and paperback releases than most books.

Here are the two photos — provided to AllThingsD by Simon & Schuster — for you to compare:

That’s the word from White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough who appeared on the CBS Sunday morning talk show “Meet the Press.”

Asked directly by host Bob Scheiffer if Obama feels the privacy of Americans has been violated, McDonough said, “He does not.”

Additionally, he said, Obama took a skeptical look at existing surveillance programs when he first took office in 2009 and made substantive changes to them. The White House, he said, took pains to get Congress involved in authorizing the programs. Every member of Congress, McDonough said, has been briefed on the programs, and they were approved after a vigorous debate.

If the president is going to make a stronger case about the operation, privacy protections and other aspects of Prism and other surveillance programs, it would be a logical follow-on to a deal struck between the government, Facebook and Microsoft late Friday, allowing those companies to disclose how many national security requests they’ve received.

Here’s a preview of at least some of that defense. The Associated Press is reporting this morning that terrorist plots in the U.S. and at least 20 other countries were broken up using data collected from the programs. The story cites unnamed intelligence officials who go on to say that fewer than 300 phone numbers were checked against a database of millions of phone records gathered by the NSA.

The disclosures were made to members of Congress on Saturday. Intelligence officials say they’d like to declassify more details about the plots themselves so that Americans can have a sense about the benefits of the surveillance programs, but they haven’t gotten that far yet. Problem is that doing so might reveal still-secret counter-terrorism tactics.

Facebook disclosed Friday that it had received requests for information on as many as 19,000 accounts during the last half of 2012. Microsoft made similar disclosures the next day. Google and Twitter are still arguing with the government over the terms of the disclosure they’d like to make.

You can see McDonough’s comments in the video below.

Damien Evans (pictured), an archaeologist with the University of Sydney, is a bit of an Indiana Jones with a GPS receiver and a laser-carrying helicopter. He and his team led correspondents with Australia’s The Age on an expedition to explore a forgotten city complex called Mahendraparvata not far from the popular tourist attraction Angkor Wat. Angkor Wat dates to about the year 1125 and is to this day considered the world’s largest religious monument.

They found it using a technology called lidar, which isn’t, strictly speaking, new: It has been around since the 1960s. But its application to the field of archeology has been yielding some impressive results recently, especially when it comes to finding lost cities in jungles. Last year it was used to locate another lost city in the jungles of Honduras.

Lidar scans taken from a helicopter that had flown over the site were combined with GPS coordinates, giving archeologists the precise location of where the ruins are, essentially hiding under the growth of jungle.

The Age also sent a cameraman who shot the 10-minute video below.

(Image is a screen grab from an early portion of the video.)