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<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Tata+Communications&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Tata Communications</a> is now holding hands with <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Hewlett+Packard+Enterprise&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Hewlett Packard Enterprise</a> (HPE) in order to support the roll-out of the <keyword id="4169440" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="LoRa-network">LoRa network</keyword>.<br />
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According to an exchange notification, the company will also work with HPE to provide a range of domestic and cross-border IoT connectivity and management services, particularly for applications requiring elements of mobility, such as connected cars, fleet management and transportation services.<br />
<br /> “As part of our commitment to innovation and in driving digital transformation globally, we are creating a cohesive, resilient and highly secure network to deploy IoT applications in India," Anthony Bartolo, president, Mobility, IoT and Collaboration Services, <keyword id="6370462" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Tata-Communications">Tata Communications</keyword>, said regarding the partnership.<br />
<br /> LoRa is a <keyword id="757465" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="wireless-communication">wireless communication</keyword> technology that is dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT) / Machine to Machine (M2M) communications network and provides for a network that is a low-power, secure, bi-directional which organisations can use to connect objects.<br />
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Reportedly, Tata Communications plans to expand its LoRa network to 60 cities by the end of 2017.<br />
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The project would involve connecting devices, applications and other IoT solutions over the LoRa network in smart buildings, campus, utilities, fleet management, security and healthcare services in nearly 2,000 communities, covering over 400 million people where the first phase of the roll-out targets Tier 1, 2, 3 and 4 cities in India.

Tata communication partners with HP to roll out a wireless communication technology-LoRA network

New data has revealed that rat infestation in <keyword id="72226" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="new-york-city" source="Orion">New York City</keyword> has increased 70 per cent from the same time two years ago.<br /><br />The data by the city's FOX 5 news network said that 21,500 sightings were reported in the city between January 1 and September 30 this year, a huge jump from 18,601 sightings during the same period in 2021, reports Xinhua news agency.<br /><br />Through the month of April, New Yorkers reported seeing around 7,400 rats.<br /><br />According to the Fox 5 report, the New York City Council will vote on a plan of action to handle the rodents later this month.<br /><br />The plan includes almost $5 million to mitigate the issue, but Fox 5 reported that experts said the funds were not enough.<br /><br />Lora Lopez, an IT consultant and lifetime resident of New York, told Xinhua she couldn't even safely walk her dog outside, as her canine "has almost been bitten" by rats over the past year.<br /><br />Records show that roughly 300,000 affluent New York residents fled the city in the spring of 2020.<br /><br />New residents have moved in and taken their place.<br /><br />Covid restrictions forced restaurants to set up tables outside, and some customers "would just throw their trash, like their dirty napkins, on the ground and not pick them up", Lopez said.<br /><br />"This sudden uptick in poor hygiene was a major reason for the rat infestation," she added.<br /><br />Rodents, such as rats, can spread many diseases, including rat-bite fever and monkeypox, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<br /><br /><strong>SEE ALSO: </strong><a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/sensex-up-654-points-nifty-up-191-on-falling-crude-rising-global-markets/articleshow/94932550.cms">Sensex up 654 points, Nifty up 191 on falling crude, rising global markets</a><br /><a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/finance/news/rural-recovery-underway-says-morgan-stanley/articleshow/94935646.cms">Rural recovery underway says Morgan Stanley</a>

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<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>AP Images</span></p><p class="caption">Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie are divorcing.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Thursday.</p><ol><li><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-divorce-mackenzie-bezos-2019-1?r=US&amp;IR=T">Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie announced they are divorcing</a>.</strong> The pair have been married for 25 years, and MacKenzie drove across America with Bezos to start Amazon.</li><li><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/national-enquirer-claims-photos-jeff-bezos-alleged-affair-2019-1?r=US&amp;IR=T">The National Enquirer, a longtime ally of President Trump, says it's about to release scandalous photos of Jeff Bezos' alleged affair</a>.</strong> Hours after Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos announced their divorce, the National Enquirer reported it tracked romantic involvement between Bezos and a former TV anchor.</li><li><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/former-facebook-employees-describe-brutal-job-performance-reviews-2019-1?r=US&amp;IR=T">Facebook's job evaluations are so ruthless that "meeting most" expectations could lead to getting fired, former employees say</a>.</strong> Former Facebook staffers told Business Insider that receiving two consecutive reviews of "meets most" expectations - which is equivalent to a "B" grade - would ultimately result in an employee being fired.</li><li><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-privately-woos-sellers-at-ces-for-5000-a-month-program-2019-1?r=US&amp;IR=T">Amazon is holding invitation-only meetings with small sellers at CES to convince them to pay it another $5,000 a month</a>.</strong> In room called One Amazon at the Venetian in Las Vegas, Amazon is holding meetings to convince companies who sell their products on Amazon to join a new coaching program called Amazon Growth.</li><li><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-displays-5g-prototype-smartphone-ces-2019-2019-1?r=US&amp;IR=T">Samsung had a 5G smartphone prototype on display at CES</a>.</strong> It was the closest official look we've had to future smartphones from Samsung that come with 5G compatibility.</li><li><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-met-chinese-premier-li-keqiang-2019-1?r=US&amp;IR=T">Elon Musk got some time with China's Premier Li Keqiang in a sign that the heat is going out of Trump's trade war</a>.</strong> Li said he hoped Tesla could be "a promoter of the stability of Chinese-US relations" in a sign that the two countries' trade war may be thawing.</li><li><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lora-dicarlo-accuses-ces-of-sexism-after-innovation-award-was-revoked-2019-1?r=US&amp;IR=T">A sex-toy company accused CES of sexism after being stripped of an innovation award</a>.</strong> The Osé personal massager, the startup Lora DiCarlo's first product, originally won the CES Innovation Award in the robotics-and-drones category.</li><li><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-phone-number-logo-shows-up-on-iphones-in-scam-calls-2019-1?r=US&amp;IR=T">A new type of scam call causes Apple's logo and phone number to pop up on iPhone lock screens</a>.</strong> Because iPhones come with the number for Apple's help line pre-loaded in contacts, that means that Apple's logo and name pops up on the iPhone caller ID when an attacker manages to successfully fake the call's origins.</li><li><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-has-hired-facebook-critic-sandy-parakilas-the-ft-reports-2019-1?r=US&amp;IR=T">Apple has reportedly hired Sandy Parakilas, a former Facebook employee who has become a prominent critic of the social network</a>.</strong> According to the Financial Times, Parakilas will join Apple's privacy team and work to ensure new products protect users' security and privacy.</li><li><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/deliveroo-roy-blanga-steps-down-as-coo-2019-1?r=US&amp;IR=T">Deliveroo, the $2 billion food delivery startup coveted by Uber, has lost its COO</a>. </strong>Roy Blanga stepped down in December, sources told Business Insider.</li></ol><p>Have an Amazon Alexa device? Now you can hear 10 Things in Tech each morning. Just search for "Business Insider" in your Alexa's flash briefing settings.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tried-22-day-revolution-beyonce-vegan-diet-weight-loss-2017-9">I went on Beyoncé's 22-day diet - and I lost 15 pounds</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

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<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Carlos Valdes Lora</span></p><p class="caption">Neil deGrasse Tyson interviews Edward Snowden.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Ever since he <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/snowden-took-level-1-and-level-3-documents-2014-8">leaked NSA records of government spying</a> in the summer of 2013, Edward Snowden has been one of the biggest news stories of the decade. </p><p>But even with all <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/snowden-russia-china-and-nsa-files-2015-6">that's have been written about him</a>, it can be hard to get a clear idea of exactly <em>why</em> he put himself into a situation where he's now wanted by the US government and exiled in Russia.</p><p>In <a href="http://www.startalkradio.net/show/a-conversation-with-edward-snowden-part-1/">a new interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson on his StarTalk podcast</a>, Snowden describes just what he thinks is at stake with government spying. </p><p>Here's the transcript, which comes on about 42:30 of the episode: </p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>When you're talking about invading everybody's private communications, their associations, the network of who they call on the phone, you're getting their political affiliation</strong>. You're getting the people who matter the most to them based on the frequency of the communications. You get indications of their travel. You get the books that they read, you get the things that they buy. You get the people that they love.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>And you can get indications of who they are today, but who they want to be.</strong> For example, maybe they're looking at applying to a certain college program or a method of study or a fellowship or they're looking to get a job at a certain kind of company.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">These are intensely private things that have traditionally been up to the individual to disclose and share with people they trust.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">But if the government knows all of that, about all of us, regardless of whether we've done anything wrong, it invests them with an extraordinary and unprecedented measure of power, not only to know about us, but to act upon this information, particularly when these programs are regulated by secret policy rather than public law, <strong>what that means is they can disempower the public, the citizens, of their country around the world, at the flip of a switch</strong>.</p><p>For more from the Tyson interview with Snowden, <a href="http://www.startalkradio.net/show/a-conversation-with-edward-snowden-part-1/">head to the StarTalk website</a>.</p><p> </p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/lego-dimensions-trailer-2015-7">We're finally getting a better idea about the story driving LEGO's next video game and it looks awesome</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="9leWtrdjpKnqMNR-ZPv3geVBkhfxbCP-" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

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In a bid to give an impetus to local hardware and product innovation in the country, <keyword id="176127" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Intel-India">Intel India</keyword> recently announced the top 10 finalists of the <keyword id="28115" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Intel">Intel</keyword> &amp; DST - Innovate for <keyword id="2868794" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Digital-India-Challenge">Digital India Challenge</keyword> 2.0.<br />
<br /> The shortlisted solutions were seen as those which could potentially accelerate the country’s Digital India vision. It comprised of projects in healthcare, smart cities, sustainability, and <keyword id="6355165" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Agriculture">agriculture</keyword>.<br />
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The selected teams will now advance to the 8-week NanoAccelerator program at the T-Hub start-up incubator in Hyderabad.<br />
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Under the program, each team will receive grants up to Rs. 3,00,000 from T-Hub to create minimum-viable products (MVPs). They will also have access to engineering support and hardware kits from Intel, and access to the Intel® Maker Lab in Bengaluru as well as the IoT Lab at T-Hub.<br />
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With inputs from design and user interface firms about developing user experience, the teams will undergo virtual team management and prototype monitoring. They will also receive weekly mentoring by a cross panel of experts from Intel, T-Hub and MyGov, as well as from technical specialists, venture capitalists, and business modelling experts.<br />
<br /> The accelerator phase will culminate on Demo Day, a showcase event at <keyword id="3401025" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="t-hub-hyderabad">T-Hub Hyderabad</keyword>, where the teams will present their prototypes to a panel of venture capitalists, technology experts and industry stalwarts.<br />
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<strong>Here are the finalists of the Intel Digital India Challenge:</strong><br />
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<strong>FOCUSING ON SMART CITIES</strong><br />
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<strong>Oizom</strong><strong> Instruments Pvt. Ltd.</strong><br />
Oizom is an environmental big data company focused on ambient air-quality. Using a dense network of low cost air pollution monitors, Oizom acquires environmental data on real time-basis. Once Oizom has a pool of environmental big data using artificial intelligence and machine learning, it will provide an environmental monitoring and prediction structure for the future.<br />
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<strong>IoTrek Technology Pvt. Ltd.</strong><br />
IoTrek is developing an IoT infrastructure to provide Data As A Service (DaaS). The Infrastructure consists of an IoT network and application management in the fields of energy management, asset management and environment management. IoTrek enables devices to talk to each other to bring about intelligent solutions through the LoRa network.<br />
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<strong>FOCUSING ON HEALTHCARE</strong><br />
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<strong>AllizHealth</strong><br />
AllizHealth is a healthcare technology venture in the preventive health space. AllizHealth provides an integrated platform through its proprietary health risk assessment to predict the risk of every individual against various non-communicable diseases by digitally connecting them with various ecosystem partners.<br />
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<strong>NeuroTech</strong><br />
NeuroTech is a hardware start-up developing consumer wearables with a focus on Brain Computer Interface (BCI). NeuroBuds is a smart earphone that tracks brain activity with an in-built panic detection mode to predict and detect brain-related health issues.<br />
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<strong>iNICU</strong><br />
iNICU is an integrated system which monitors real-time clinical data from connected devices, laboratory, and bedside observational data and presents it in a medically comprehensive and user-definable formats to reduce mortality in NICU environments.<br />
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<strong>Thyrometer</strong><br />
Thyrometer is a battery operated portable thyroid measurement solution to encourage non-reported cases in rural and sub-urban areas in India. It allows users to detect thyroid at home and in local dispensaries and works in the direction of reducing time and efforts needed to get thyroid diagnosed.<br />
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<strong>SUSTAINABILITY<br />
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Gayam</strong><strong> Motor Works</strong><br />
Gayam Motor Works is an electric automobile company that designs, locally manufactures and sells electric vehicles. Its portfolio includes electric four and three wheeled vehicles and electric bikes (bicycles). The vehicles have sustainable energy at their core, enabling savings on fuel, zero emissions, cost effectiveness, low-maintenance and reduced noise pollution.<br />
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<strong>Banyan Sustainable Waste Management Pvt. Ltd.</strong><br />
Banyan Nation is a waste management and recycling venture that leverages mobile technology to integrate India’s fragmented waste management supply chain from collection and aggregation to recycling of plastics. Banyan’s smart waste technology platform allows cities to integrate the informal sector recyclers as well as manage city waste and recycling operations through on-field sensors like biometrics attendance devices, bin sensors, and GPS truck routing.<br />
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<strong>Waste Ventures India</strong><br />
Waste Ventures India offers doorstep waste and recyclable collection services to households, businesses and waste pickers. It addresses the challenges of finding scrap dealers, fixed pricing and service accountability by streamlining India’s $2-$3bn recyclable collection market.<br />
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<strong>AGRICULTURE</strong><br />
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<strong>E-DeWeeder</strong><br />
It offers a service to enhance crop yield with its precision farming equipment. Its vision-based machine creates digital data for weeds and<br />
controlls it with a radio frequency selective application which delivers precise cell necrosis in weed plants.

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<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Fox Business Network is set to announce the field&#xa0;for the first Republican debate series&#xa0;of the year.<p>And it appears there will be a major shuffling of the&#xa0;lineup for Thursday's main event.</p><p>Following the network's decision last month to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-business-gop-debate-rules-polls-2015-12" target="_blank">tighten debate qualification rules</a>, it seems&#xa0;unlikely that former Hewlett-Packard&#xa0;CEO Carly Fiorina and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) will qualify for&#xa0;the main debate stage.</p><p>Seven&#xa0;candidates appear likely to qualify for the main event, according to an analysis of recent surveys: Front-runner Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida), retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R).</p><p>That would constitute the smallest number of GOP candidates yet on the main stage. Paul, Fiorina, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R), and former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pennsylvania) would be relegated to the undercard event.</p><p>To qualify for the primetime debate stage, Fox&#xa0;Business requires candidates to place in the top five in either Iowa or New Hampshire based on an average of the five most-recent state polls recognized by the network. Or, candidates can place in the top six nationally. Candidates who do not make the main stage can qualify for the preceding "undercard" debate by registering at least 1% in at least one of the five most-recent national polls.</p><p>This leaves some ambiguity. In announcing its criteria last month, Fox Business did&#xa0;not specify which polls it plans to use to determine the debate field. (The network did not respond to a request for comment Monday.)</p><p>It&#xa0;<a href="http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2015/12/22/fox-business-network-announces-entry-criteria-for-gop-primary-debates-on-jan-14/">said only</a> that polls must&#xa0;be "conducted by major nationally and state recognized organizations that use standard methodological techniques (i.e., live interviewers, random digit-dial sampling techniques and include both landlines and cell phones)."</p><p><span>Among the most recent national polls of likely Republican primary voters that appear to meet Fox Business' qualifications - conducted by International Business Daily/TIPP, Fox News (two separate polls), CNN/ORC, and Quinnipiac University - Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Carson, Christie, and Bush would qualify. </span><span><span>The same holds true in a scenario in which&#xa0;the network substitutes the earlier Fox News poll for an ABC/Washington Post poll.&#xa0;</span></span><span><span></span></span><span><span>&#xa0;</span></span></p><p><span><span>Kasich would grab the seventh spot because of his status in the top five&#xa0;in New Hampshire.&#xa0;The five most-recent polls of New Hampshire GOP voters&#xa0;were&#xa0;conducted by Monmouth University, NBC and the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, The&#xa0;Boston Herald, and the radio station WBUR. 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<p><strong><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Jürgen Olczyk/Open Road Films</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></strong>The new film "Snowden" is a wildly entertaining thriller centered around the most-wanted man in the world, though I was left with many more questions than when I started.</p><p>The Oliver Stone-directed film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden takes viewers through most of Snowden's adult life in a series of flashbacks amid interactions with journalists in a Hong Kong hotel.</p><p>While the story will be fascinating for many, it glosses over a number of unanswered questions in the Snowden saga.</p><p>To be clear, the movie is not supposed to be a documentary or definitive account of Snowden's life, but I hoped, nevertheless, it would shed at least some light on a younger version of the ex-NSA contractor who leaked thousands of documents to journalists in 2013, which it did not do.</p><p>Instead, it starts with his apparent Special Forces training with the US Army. The extent of his army career has never been all that clear, and the Pentagon only confirmed that he enlisted as a Special Forces recruit in May 2004 who was discharged four months later.</p><p>(Business Insider has tried unsuccessfully to get Snowden's military discharge document released, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/10/edward-snowden-army-special-forces">as has</a> The Guardian).</p><p>The film shows Snowden going through what seems to be Army basic training where stress fractures wear and tear on his body until finally, he breaks his legs jumping from the top bunk during an early-morning wakeup. The real Snowden, for his part, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/10/edward-snowden-army-special-forces">told</a> The Guardian his legs were broken in a training accident.</p><p>"There are plenty of other ways to serve your country," the doctor, who recommends an administrative discharge, tells him in the film.</p><p>The film's pace is brisk. Soon after his Army washout, Snowden is undergoing an intensive polygraph and interviewing for a position with the Central Intelligence Agency. Here we meet Corbin O'Brian, Snowden's CIA recruiter, instructor, and main antagonist in the film, who is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/magazine/edward-snowdens-long-strange-journey-to-hollywood.html">quite obviously named</a> after the villain in George Orwell's "1984."</p><p>He even says Orwellian things like, "Secrecy is security and security is victory."</p><h2>'I'm going to give you a shot, Snowden'</h2><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlSAiI3xMh4">Open Road Films/YouTube</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Actor Rhys Ifans plays Corbin O'Brian quite well, offering a spooky and secretive man who appears to be the driving force in Snowden's career. In interviewing Snowden, O'Brian says he ordinarily would not have hired him, but in 2006 - the height of the Iraq war - "these are not ordinary times." He tells Snowden he's getting his shot, and in turn, Snowden promises he won't let him down.</p><p>At this point, the real CIA recruiter O'Brian is based on (if he exists) is probably kicking himself.</p><p>Still, Snowden is portrayed as something of a boy genius.</p><p>In his initial CIA training, he aces a five-hour-long test in 40 minutes. He rapidly moves up the chain and <a href="https://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden/">gets advanced training</a> before heading to Geneva on an assignment - one that ultimately begins his slow disillusionment with the government and the messy business of intelligence gathering.</p><p>While Snowden's longtime girlfriend Lindsay Mills was non-existent in Laura Poitras' documentary "Citizenfour" - except for a brief shot of her reuniting with him in a Moscow apartment - "Snowden" makes her a central character that moves along the plot and makes things much more interesting.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Courtesy of Open Road Films</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>That was a particularly good move since, despite various movies depicting exciting things happening in intelligence circles or in the military, the truth is that much of what is actually done is painfully boring. Sure, battles and spy craft happens, but Hollywood doesn't really care for the less glamorous work of reading through raw intelligence and writing endless reports, or Snowden's real job <a href="https://news.vice.com/article/edward-snowden-leaks-tried-to-tell-nsa-about-surveillance-concerns-exclusive">of taking clueless NSA employees</a> step-by-step through the process of opening a document, for example.</p><p>Stone adds more action to the mix by having drone strikes on computer screens in the workplace, which often seem out of place. Gordon-Levitt sometimes delivers lines that make Snowden seem like the most important person in the intelligence field, instead of just one man among more than 800,000 people <a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/">with</a> top secret security clearances.</p><p>"Our government is hemorrhaging billions of dollars to Chinese hackers and I've been hired to shut them down," he tells his girlfriend, Lindsay Mills, at one point in the film.</p><h2>The crown jewels in the Rubik's Cube</h2><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlSAiI3xMh4">Open Road Films/YouTube</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Eventually, Snowden ends up working at the NSA facility in Hawaii, taking a contract systems administrator job with Dell and later, Booz Allen Hamilton.</p><p>Though I'm pretty sure it was just done for the sake of expedience and Hollywood being Hollywood, the facility there is somewhat open - almost like a Silicon Valley startup - with the offensive hackers hitting China over there, while Snowden and others protecting US networks sit over there. No doors, no key cards.</p><p>This seems far outside the reality - especially so for an NSA facility. Sensitive compartmentalized information (SCI) literally means compartmentalized, to the point where one NSA analyst wouldn't even know what the guy in the next cubicle is working on. But for "Snowden," the typical office banter happens regularly, and friendships are formed among coworkers in different departments.</p><p>One such friendship is integral to Snowden's later whistleblowing, according to the film, when he meets an NSA hacker named Gabriel Sol (played by Ben Schnetzer). Through Sol, he quickly gains access to top secret programs that would later be exposed.</p><p>Perhaps the most notable is Prism, which gave the agency direct access to data on the servers of Facebook, Google, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data">and other tech giants.</a> Sol later taps into a random woman's webcam and watches her live as Snowden looks on, uncomfortably - likely an allusion to a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data">program exposed in 2014</a> called Optic Nerve, which allowed British spies to intercept millions of webcam images from Yahoo users.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Jürgen Olczyk/Open Road Films</span></p><p class="caption">Snowden and Gabriel Sol.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Another friend in particular actually keeps his mouth shut when he sees Snowden downloading the critical NSA files to an SD card. It's a moment of high drama, but it's doubtful this even happened, especially when the film's climactic scene is put up against the reality: Instead of grabbing all the files in one day, Snowden apparently started downloading the cache more than a year before he met with journalists in Hong Kong, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-snowden-dell-idUSBRE97E17P20130815">according</a> to a report from Mark Hosenball in Reuters.</p><p>That scene features this exchange: "The NSA may come after you," Snowden tells his coworker. He responds: "I don't know what you're talking about."</p><p>Then he just lets Snowden grab a bunch of top secret documents hidden inside a Rubik's Cube, finally walking out the front door with a smile on his face (Snowden has never said how he actually grabbed the files). And before he hops in the elevator, Snowden has an unspoken exchange of, <em>I'm leaving right now with tons of files and you're never going to see me again, wink wink, </em>with his old friend Gabriel.</p><p>These interactions make it seem like intelligence professionals support what Snowden did, but that's a sentiment not backed up in statements from various officials, on the record or said anonymously. One former hacker with NSA's elite hacker unit, Tailored Access Operations, put it this way: "I can't believe anyone listens to him," the source told Business Insider. "It's so infuriating. He was the help desk administrator for the government."</p><h2>Unanswered questions</h2><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Jürgen Olczyk/Open Road Films</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Overall, the film was fairly good. If you're searching for a solid flick offering a look into the world of the CIA and the NSA, you'll get it. And if you're a fan of Edward Snowden and believe he's a patriot, this movie is going to support that viewpoint.</p><p>But Snowden skeptics will be left wanting.</p><p>Many important questions go unanswered or are breezed past, and it ultimately does a disservice to its subject matter and the viewer. These include the open question of what Snowden was doing for the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/questions-about-snowden-2015-6">11 days he spent in Hong Kong <em>before</em></a> he met journalists, his somewhat questionable claim of being "<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/snowden-says-us-stranded-him-in-russia-2014-5">stranded</a>" in Moscow, and whether he took any stolen documents with him to Russia.</p><p>For example, in the film Snowden proclaims "I no longer have any access to the data myself" as he deletes files on his laptop in a Hong Kong hotel room. But his claim to have destroyed the documents was contradicted in an interview he gave to the South China Morning Post, <a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1268209/snowden-sought-booz-allen-job-gather-evidence-nsa-surveillance?page=all">in which he said</a> he would like to leak more documents later to "journalists in each country to make their own assessment, independent of my bias, as to whether or not the knowledge of US network operations against their people should be published."</p><p>"Snowden" also moves a bit too quickly at times for its own good, leaving out any mention of Snowden's childhood or how he ended up in a CIA interview. He <a href="https://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden/">apparently first got a top secret</a> clearance working as a security guard, for example, which is not in the film. There is also little revealed of his new life in Russia, where he has been living under asylum since 2013.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.startalkradio.net/show/a-conversation-with-edward-snowden-part-1/">Carlos Valdes Lora</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>All that viewers see of that is a cameo appearance by the real Snowden at the end of the film where he delivers a powerful speech <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/magazine/edward-snowdens-long-strange-journey-to-hollywood.html">from the second home</a> of Anatoly Kucharena - a Kremlin-connected lawyer who <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/world/europe/snowdens-lawyer-comes-with-high-profile-and-kremlin-ties.html">represents Snowden</a> in Moscow and wrote a novel loosely based on his flight from the US. Stone optioned that book, and Luke Harding's "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Snowden-Files-Inside-Worlds-Wanted/dp/0804173524">The Snowden Files</a>," for the basis of the film.</p><p>"Snowden" is held up by strong performances, most notably in Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the title character. He absolutely nails Snowden's voice and mannerisms; so much so that it's often hard to distinguish him at times from the real thing. And then there are similarly strong performances turned in by Zachary Quinto as journalist Glenn Greenwald and Nicholas Cage as Hank Forrester, a disillusioned NSA employee who acts as a mentor to Snowden, ultimately praising his haul of top secret documents by the end of the film.</p><p>"He did it. 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