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WORLDS COLLIDE IN
BATMAN VS SUPERMAN’
FBI: ATTACKER’S
PHONE POSSIBLY
ACCESSIBLE WITHOUT
APPLE HELP
APPLE GOES ‘BACK TO THE FUTURE’ WITH
SMALLER iPHONE AND iPAD PRO MODELS
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EMOJIMANIA: FANS AND BRANDS
CRYING TEARS OF JOY
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TOP 10 APPS 100
iTUNES REVIEW 104
TOP 10 SONGS 174
TOP 10 ALBUMS 176
TOP 10 MUSIC VIDEOS 178
TOP 10 TV SHOWS 180
TOP 10 BOOKS 182
NAVY FUNDS AUTISMSCREENING APP, HOPING FOR HELP WITH PTSD 08
GOOGLE HELPS OFFER VASTLY FASTER INTERNET IN CUBA 30
ONLINE LODGING SERVICE AIRBNB OPENS CUBA LISTINGS TO WORLD 36
HIGH COURT WON’T HEAR APPEAL IN NFL VIDEO GAME LAWSUIT 44
iPHONE SE: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL, TOO 72
FACEBOOK’S ZUCKERBERG MEETS WITH CHINA’S PROPAGANDA CHIEF 80
TWITTER MARKS 10TH BIRTHDAY SEARCHING FOR FOLLOWERS, PROFITS 94
BOX OFFICE TOP 20: ‘ALLEGIANT’ FALTERS, ‘MIRACLES’ ASCENDS 120
JOHNS HOPKINS RESEARCHERS FIND FLAW IN IMESSAGE ENCRYPTION 140
NEW RULES PROMISE TO SPICE UP CONTEST IN F1 146
SCIENCE: SPACE STATION CARGO LAUNCHES BY LIGHT OF NEARLY FULL MOON 158
HEALTH: J&J EXPANDS PROJECT THAT AIMS TO PREDICT, PREVENT DISEASES 164
TAXI PROTEST CAUSES TRAFFIC CHAOS IN INDONESIAN CAPITAL 184
EXPERTS SEE LITTLE CHANCE OF CHARGES IN CLINTON EMAIL CASE 188
US CHARGES 3 IT TIES TO SYRIAN ELECTRONIC ARMY FOR HACKING 198
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The app, which uses a general algorithm, could
be expanded to PTSD to monitor people over time
if speech and other signals are taken into account,
according to Pedja Neskovic, who oversees the
project in the Office of Naval Research.
“It can find patterns, not just in facial
expressions but in different kinds of data sets,
such as brain signals and speech, and it can
be used on a continuous basis,” he said. “It’s a
completely new world.”
William Unger, a PTSD expert and clinical
psychologist at the Providence VA Medical
Center, sees potential for an app to be used tohelp screen for PTSD if it can prove reliable for a
large population over time. It’s always good to
have additional tools, he said.
“This is a technology in its infancy. You don’t know
where it will go,” he said. “So does this science and
this study really then lead to additional questions,
additional technological developments which
help us to move forward? It very well may. So I’m
very excited, even though I’m saying it’s very far
off from having utility.”
M. David Rudd, an expert in suicide prevention
and PTSD in military personnel, is skeptical.
Rudd said he can’t see the extrapolation to PTSD,
calling it “a pretty big gap to leap.” He worries
about an app rendering erroneous results, a
concern Unger also expressed.
“It’s the introduction of technology where
technology is not particularly needed and not
particularly useful,” said Rudd, president of
the University of Memphis. “As a society, this is
what we do. It’s kind of the medicalization of a
problem that’s emotional and interpersonal in
nature. I just don’t get it.”
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The Navy has been working with the researcher
who developed the algorithm for the app,
Guillermo Sapiro, for about 20 years, supporting
his research on image processing and data
analysis. The Navy has invested hundreds of
thousands of dollars in the app, Neskovic said.
PTSD often goes undiagnosed. Patients may
not recognize the link between their symptoms
and a traumatic event they experienced or may
not be willing to talk about that event, while
sometimes symptoms are obscured by other
issues, according to research published by the
American Academy of Family Physicians.
Some veterans don’t want to feel like there’s
something wrong with them and try to cope on
their own, Unger said.
The app, as it’s designed for autism, shows funny
videos designed to make children smile, laugh
or express emotions. The way their head, lips,
eyes and nose move is recorded, encoded and
analyzed with the camera and app. If a child isn’t
responding, that’s also classified.
Duke University is studying whether it’s feasible
for caregivers to screen kids for autism using
a mobile phone at home. The app can be
downloaded for free.
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Unlike a tool like WebMD, where the user needs
to identify their symptoms and know the right
questions to ask, the app does the behavior
analysis automatically. The user just has to
watch the videos, said Sapiro, an electrical
engineering professor at Duke. He stressed that
the app isn’t meant to replace specialists; it’s a
pre-screening tool.
The institutional review board at Duke
approved the research. The initial results show
that people are willing to use the app and
they’re sending high-quality, usable videos,
Sapiro added.
Neskovic and Sapiro envision developing a
PTSD app within five years. They’re investigating
whether it could also possibly reveal signs of
mild traumatic brain injury and depression.
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When it comes to emojis, the future is very,
very ... Face with Tears of Joy.
If you don’t know what that means then you: a)
aren’t a 14-year-old girl. b) love to hate those tiny
pictures that people text you all the time. Or c)
are nowhere near a smartphone or online chat.
Otherwise, here in 2016, it’s all emojis, all the
time. And Face with Tears of Joy, by the way, is a
bright yellow happy face with a classic, toothy
grin as tears fall.
EMOJIMANIA:FANS ANDBRANDS CRYING
TEARS OF JOY
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The Face was chosen by Oxford Dictionaries
as its 2015 “word” of the year, based on its
popularity and reflecting the rise of emojis to
help charitable causes, promote businesses
and generally assist oh-so-many-more of us in
further expressing ourselves on social media
and in texts.
The Beyhive knows. The collective fan base of
Beyonce recently spammed Amber Rose with
little bumblebee emojis when they sensed a diss
of their queen.
Taco Bell also knows. Emoji overseers approved
a taco character last year after a yearlongcampaign by the company to get one up and
running, rewarding users of said taco on Twitter
with gifts of free photos, GIFs and other virtual
playthings to celebrate.
So what’s it all about? Here’s a look at the past,
present and rosy future of emojis:
WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?
While there’s now a strict definition of emojis as
images created through standardized computer
coding that works across platforms, they have
many, many popular cousins by way of “stickers,”
which are images without the wonky back end.
Kimojis, the invention of Kim Kardashian, aren’t
technically emojis, for instance, at least in the
eyes of purists.
In tech lore, the great emoji explosion has
a grandfather in Japan and his name is
Shigetaka Kurita. He was inspired in the 1990s
by manja and kanji when he and others on a
team working to develop what is considered
the world’s first widespread mobile Internet
platform came up with some rudimentary
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characters. They were working a good decade
before Apple developed a set of emojis for the
first iPhones.
Emojis are either loads of fun or the bane of
your existence. One thing is sure: There’s no
worry they’ll become a “language” in and of
themselves. While everybody from Coca-Cola
to the Kitten Bowl have come up with little
pictographs to whip up interest in themselves,
emojis exist mainly to nuance the words regular
folk type, standing in for tone of voice, facial
expressions and physical gestures - extended
middle finger emoji added recently.
“Words aren’t dead. Long live the emoji, long
live the word,” laughed Gretchen McCulloch, a
Toronto linguist who, like some others in her
field, is studying emojis and other aspects of
Internet language.
Emojis have been compared to hieroglyphs, but
McCulloch is not on board. That ancient picture-
speak included symbols with literal meaning,
but others stood in for actual sound.
Emoji enthusiasts have played with telling word-
free stories using their little darlings alone and
translating song lyrics into the pictures, “but
they can’t be put together like letters to make a
pronounceable word,” McCulloch said.
THE EMOJI OVERSEERS
Back when Kurita was creating some of the
first emojis, chaos already had ensued in trying
to make all the pagers and all the emerging
mobile phones and the newfangled thing
called email and everything else Internet-ish
that was bubbling up speak to each other. And
also to allow people in Japan used to a more
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formal way of communicating make themselvesunderstood in the emerging shorthand.
Enter the Unicode Consortium, on the coding
end. It’s a volunteer nonprofit industry
organization working in collaboration with the
International Organization for Standardization,
the latter an independent non-governmental
body that helps develop specifications for
all sorts of things, including emojis, on a
global scale.
Unicode, co-founded and headed by Mark Davis
in Zurich, has a big, big mission, of which emojis
have a place: making sure all the languages in
the world are encoded and supported across
platforms and devices.
The key word here is volunteer. Davis has awhole other job at Google, but he has dedicated
himself to the task above. He also co-chairs the
consortium’s emoji subcommittee, a cog in a
vetting process for new emojis that can take up
to two years before new ones are put into the
Unicode Standard for the likes of Apple, Google,
Microsoft and Facebook to do with what
they wish.
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Where does Davis sit with the rapid riseof emojis?
“It has been a surprise. We didn’t fully
understand how popular they were going to be,”
he said.
At the moment, Unicode has released 1,624
emojis, with more options when you factor in
modifiers for such things as skin tone. The emoji
subcommittee fields about 100 proposals for
new emojis a year. Not all make it through the
vetting process.
“We don’t encode emoji for movie or fictional
people, or for deities. And we’re not going to
give you a Donald Trump,” Davis said.
Gender, he said, is among the next frontiers
for emojis. Demand for a female runner, for
instance, will be voted on in May as critics
have questioned a male-female divide. The
consortium is trying to come up with a way to
more easily and quickly customize emoji for
gender, hair color and other features, Davis said.
“Personally, I am very much looking forward to a
face palm emoji,” he joked.
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EMOJI LOVERS AND HATERS
Meet Elle Brown. She’s a 9-year-old “kidpreneur”
from Plant City, Florida. She makes emoji-theme
jewelry and key fobs that she sells at school and
church, and that her mom sells from her desk at
an insurance firm.
“My favorite one is the “poo” emoji, and the
money emoji,” said Elle.
People of all ages buy from her mom, Zee Brown.
“It’s like having Girl Scout cookies. People come to
me,” she said.
While marketers are all over emojis these days,professional brander Kevin Winslow in Boise,
Idaho, was a reluctant adopter.
“I thought they were rather silly. It didn’t seem
to me like something a grown-up would use,”
he said. “Now they’re a necessity in social media
campaigns. Sometimes they help do away with
the exclamation point, which I also despise.”
Vivian Rosenthal is founder and head of Snaps,
a platform on which keyboards full of branded
images are launched, including marketing
campaigns intended to support social causes,
such as the plight of refugees.
With nearly half of all Instagram posts now
including at least one emoji and with more than
270 billion text messages sent a day across allmobile devices, brands are trying big time to
monetize emojis, Rosenthal said.
“Basically, messaging is social 2.0,” she added.
“People want to convey more and more
emotion. The language of the future is a
visually based language. It’s very universal
and democratic.”
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Rosenthal estimated somewhere around 6
billion emojis and stickers are sent every day
across devices and services.
EMOJIS AND THE YOUNGINS
Clearly, emojis are the darlings of the Millennial
and GenZ generations. Other age groups are in
the game, but Tayfun Karadeniz said age isn’t the
entire story.
He’s the founder and head of EmojiXpress,
a third-party app for iOS that supplies users
with every emoji available in the Unicode
Standard. He’s also a new voting member of theUnicode Consortium.
Of roughly 50 million downloads of his app over
the last three years, 80 percent of his users are
female. Are they just about the fun? Are we, in
the grand scheme, now dependent on emojis in
some profound way?
“I wouldn’t say our society would break down if
we didn’t have them, but you could also ask why
do we need art, why do we need TV shows?”
Akash Nigam, the 23-year-old co-founder and
chief executive of Blend, a group messaging
app focused on Millennials and GenZers, thinks
emoji use among those age groups has a slightly
more urgent element.
“They’re integral to their daily lives,” he said.
“With this audience, it’s kind of like the punch
line. Whoever uses the most unique emojis
alongside a very witty text kind of gets the most
kudos. Everybody is always pounding their
keyboards looking for emojis that haven’t been
used. I mean, yeah, you could paint a picture or
write an essay, but it doesn’t feel the same.”
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Google is opening a cutting-edge onlinetechnology center at the studio of one of Cuba’s
most famous artists, offering free Internet at
speeds nearly 70 times faster than those now
available to the Cuban public. President Obama
says Google’s efforts in Cuba are part of a wider
plan to improve access to the Internet across
the island.
GOOGLE HELPS
OFFER VASTLY
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IN CUBA
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The U.S. technology giant has built a studio
equipped with dozens of laptops, cellphones
and virtual-reality goggles at the complex run
by Alexis Leiva Machado, a sculptor known as
Kcho. President Barack Obama said Sunday that
Google was also launching a broader effortto improve Cubans’ Internet access across the
island. Neither he nor the company gave details.
In an exclusive tour of the site with The
Associated Press on Monday, Google’s head
of Cuba operations, Brett Perlmutter, said the
company was optimistic that the Google+Kcho.
Mor studio would be part of a broader
cooperative effort to bring Internet access to the
Cuban people.
“We want to show the world what happens
when you combine Cuban creative energy with
technology that’s first in class,” he said.
The studio will be open five days a week, from 7
a.m. to midnight, for about 40 people at a time,
Kcho said.
The project has limited reach but enormous
symbolic importance in a country that has long
maintained strict control of Internet access,
which some Cuban officials sees as a potential
national security threat. Officials have described
said the Internet as a potential tool for the
United States to exert influence over the island’s
culture and politics.
The connection at the Kcho studio is provided
by Cuba’s state-run telecommunications
company over a new fiber-optic connection
and President Obama’s comments indicate
that the new Google-Cuba relationship was
negotiated at the highest levels of the U.S. and
Cuban governments.
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Perlmutter declined to comment on any broader
plans by the company, but said that the Kcho
center would feature upload and download
speed of 70 megabytes per second, blazingly
fast in comparison with the public WiFi available
to most Cubans for fees of $2 an hour, nearly a
tenth of the average monthly salary, for an hour
of access at roughly 1 megabyte per second.
Kcho said he was paying for the new connection
himself but declined to say how much he was
being charged.
Google has been trying for more than a year to
improve Cuba’s access to the Web with large-scale projects like those it has carried out in
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other developing countries. Kcho has long
maintained close relationship with the Castro
government and became the first independent
source of free Internet in Cuba last year when he
began offering free WiFi at his studio.
Soon after, the Cuban government announced
that it was opening $2-an-hour WiFi spots across
the country in a move that has dramatically
increased Cubans’ access to the Internet,
allowing many to video-chat with families
abroad and see relatives for the first time.
Cuba still has one of the world’s lowest rates of
Internet penetration.
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Online lodging service Airbnb is allowing
travelers from around the world to book stays in
private homes in Cuba after the San Francisco-
based company received a special authorization
from the Obama administration, Airbnb
announced Sunday.
Airbnb was the first major American company to
enter Cuba after Presidents Barack Obama and
Raul Castro declared detente on Dec. 17, 2014.
The service handles online listing, booking and
ONLINE LODGING
SERVICE AIRBNB
OPENS CUBA
LISTINGS TOWORLD
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payments for people looking to stay in private
homes instead of hotels. Cuba has become its
fastest-growing market, with about 4,000 homes
added over the last year.
Airbnb had only been allowed to let U.S.
travelers use its services in Cuba under a
relatively limited Obama administration
exception to the half-century old US trade
embargo on the island. The expansion of that
license gives Airbnb the ability to become a
one-stop shop for travelers seeking lodging
in private homes, which have seen a flood of
demand from travelers seeking an alternative to
state-run hotels.
Airbnb’s new authorization was announced
on the morning of an historic three-day trip by
Obama to Cuba and a day after Starwood Hotels
announced that it had signed a deal to run
three Cuban hotels, becoming the first U.S. hotel
company in Cuba since Fidel Castro took power
in 1959 and took over the island’s hotels. Airbnbsaid world travelers could begin booking in
Cuba in April 2, the anniversary of the country’s
start of operations on the island.
Also on Sunday, Marriott International Inc. said it
had gained Treasury Department authorization
to pursue a deal in Cuba. The hotel company,
which is based in Bethesda, Maryland, said
it is in talks with potential partners on the
island. Its CEO, Arne Sorenson, is in Cuba with
Obama’s delegation.
All hotels in Cuba are now owned by
government agencies and many are known for
poor service and decrepit infrastructure. Foreign
hotel chains operate some of the island’s larger
and more luxurious hotels, which are running at
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full capacity thanks to a post-detente boom in
tourism that saw visitor numbers surge nearly 20
percent last year.
One of the first openings in Cuba’s centrally
planned economy came when the government
allowed families to rent rooms in their homes
for a few dollars a night, starting in the 1990s.
That has become a full-blown private hospitality
industry, with many Cubans using capital from
relatives abroad and even foreign investors to
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transform crumbling homes into the equivalents
of small boutique hotels.
Many websites allow foreigners to book Cuban
private homes, known as “casas particulares,” but
none has emerged as a dominant player. Many
travelers still find it hard to guarantee bookings
and make electronic or credit card payments.
Airbnb is promoting its service as a solution to
those problems in Cuba.
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The Supreme Court is staying out of a dispute
between game maker Electronic Arts Inc. and
former National Football League players who
accuse the company of using their likenesses
in the popular Madden NFL video game series
without approval.
The justices on Monday let stand an appeals
court ruling that said the company’s use of
the player’s likenesses was not protected as
“incidental use” under the First Amendment.
HIGH COURT
WON’T HEAR
APPEAL IN NFL VIDEO
GAME LAWSUIT
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The former players sued Electronic Arts in 2010
over the company’s use of “historic teams” and
players in Madden NFL games from 2001 to
2009. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled
in 2012 that the player lawsuit could proceed.
Electronic Arts previously settled a similar case
brought by college football and basketball
players for $40 million.
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ALL OF THE EVENTS AND REACTION
FROM THE MARCH 21 KEYNOTE
So, it happened: the latest big Apple keynote,
at the company’s Cupertino campus on March
21, and it’s fair to say that what we got tallied
pretty well with what we expected. The headline
announcements were undoubtedly those of
new, smaller versions of the iPhone and iPad Pro
that harked back to Apple models of the recent
past in more ways than simply their dimensions.
However, there were many other events from
the stage to get Apple fans of all stripes excited.
WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED
In the run-up to the Cupertino giant’s Easterevent, there was - as per usual - plenty of
speculation about what would be unveiled,
centering on the prospect of a 9.7-inch version
of the normally 12.9-inch iPad Pro, a 4-inch
iPhone bearing the SE name and updates to the
MacBook and iMac ranges. Sure enough, the first
two possibilities came to fruition in some style,
although we got also new bands and a price
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drop for the Apple Watch, an updated tvOS for
the Apple TV and the release of iOS 9.3.
Having said that, there was inevitably a certain
elephant in the room at Infinite Loop, one that
CEO Tim Cook wasted little time in banishing.
After a timeline flashback to mark Apple’s 40th
birthday, Cook reiterated his company’s staunch
position on customer privacy and security in
reference to its high-profile squabble with the
FBI over the locked San Bernardino iPhone.
Cook certainly couldn’t be accused of trying to
downplay the issue, declaring the seriousness
with which Apple took the matter - and what
he regarded as its responsibility to protect user
data - just one day before its court date with the
United States government to discuss it. But of
course, this was a product launch keynote rather
than a political rally, so it was appropriate that
by about five minutes after the event started,
Cook had already reminded the audience that
the number of Apple devices around the world
had now exceeded one billion.
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Shifting her focus to reuse and recycle
programs, Jackson then spoke about a new
research and development program, “Liam”, a
robot that helps to disassemble the iPhone into
its component parts for recycling purposes. Shealso announced a new recycling promotion,
whereby Apple device owners wouldn’t need
to pay a thing to hand back their old devices to
the company.
ResearchKit was another of the lower-key
subjects of interest at the keynote, with
Apple hailing the positive impact that it had
already had on healthcare in the US, citing
its role in the early identification of autism in
children. Then, 20 minutes into the keynote,
the company announced CareKit, a framework
for the development of apps for both carers
and self-carers, along with news that the first
CareKit app would be for Parkinson’s disease.
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APPLE WATCH AND TV ALSO COME IN
FOR SOME LOVE
As convinced as many attendees were of
the very real importance of projects like
CareKit, they also knew that it would not be
what hogged the following day’s newspaper
headlines - and nor would the Watch, which
in line with widespread expectations, was not
the subject of any new hardware or software
developments. Instead, Cook was back to
announce various new wrist straps for the
device, including Woven Fabric straps and new
Sport band colors.
Watchers of the Watch who hadn’t yet taken
the plunge with a purchase may have also been
pleased to hear that the stylish timepiece just
became a bit more attainable, the 38mm Apple
Sport Watch now priced at a mere $300 - $50
less than before. Of course, those with their eyes
on the 18-karat-gold Apple Watch Edition still
face the prospect of a more than $10,000 hole intheir bank account.
Cook then moved onto the subject of the Apple
TV, stating that there were now more than 5,000
apps for the device available to download. It
was then revealed that tvOS was receiving a
free update for owners of the latest TV, reducing
the amount of on-screen text at the same time
as introducing a folder system to empower
users to make their home screen even cleaner
and better-organized. The new tvOS’s version
of Siri also now supports voice dictation for
such purposes as searching through apps and
password commands.
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THEN, IT WAS TIME FOR THE BIG
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Finally, the unveilings that the gathered press
corps had truly come to see! About half an hour
into the keynote, Apple was ready to start talking
about the latest 4-inch iPhone. In the words of
Apple’s Vice President of product marketing
Greg Joswiak, “Some people simply love smaller
phones. And the 4-inch phone is often their first
iPhone. Some people asked and pleaded with
us. So we’re calling it the iPhone SE. Our most
powerful 4-inch phone ever.”
Although we will go into more detail aboutthe technical specifications of the iPhone SE
in a later issue, it largely resembles a smaller
iPhone 5s with some of the 6’s design
features. Its choice of space gray, silver and
gold metallic finishes is the same as that of
the iPhone 6, except that rose gold has also
been added. The smaller handset also houses
the 6s’s 64-bit A9 chip, so there should be fewcomplaints about performance. The 16GB base
model will retail for $399, with the 64GB version
rising to $499.
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Then, there’s the small matter of the iPad Pro.
Again, it represents a bet by Apple that devices
fitting its more traditionally favored proportions
will be a hit with buyers, its 9.7-inch screen being
the same size as the original iPad’s and current
iPad Air’s. Purchase a 9.7-inch iPad Pro, then, and
you will benefit from many of the 12.9-inch Pro’s
most distinctive features, including Apple Pencil
support, an A9x processor and four speakers - or
“Pro Sound”, to use Apple’s favored term. Prices
in the US will start at $599 for the 32GB with Wi-
Fi model, while the 32GB Wi-Fi + Cellular model
will go for $729. Again, we will cover the new
iPad Pro more in-depth in a future issue.
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WHY APPLE MAY HAVE DECIDED
TO DOWNSIZE
As you might expect, much of the commentary
in relation to the keynote centered on the
new headline-grabbing iPhone and iPad
models. Apple’s decision to release a smaller
screen size on an iPhone for the first time
since the September 2014 release of the 4.7-
inch iPhone 6 might seem curiously contrary
in a smartphone market that has been
characterized in recent years by ever-increasing
display proportions. However, this only
hardened the certainty of many observers that
the device is aimed at existing Apple users as
much as it is the market as a whole.
Those targeted users would appear to be the
owners of smaller Apple handsets - such as the
iPhone 5, 5s and 5c - 60% of whom have not yet
upgraded to an iPhone 6 or newer, according
to Cook’s own estimate. Apple is evidently
convinced on the basis of this that there is astrong market to tap into for the SE, a conviction
that would seem further supported by the lack
of industry competition.
With so many other smartphone manufacturers
having pursued the ‘bigger is better’ approach
with the screen sizes of their recent devices, the
alternatives for prospective SE owners from the
likes of Samsung, HTC and Motorola are generally
poorer quality, more budget-oriented versions
of their larger brethren, rather than the almost
flagship-quality phone that the SE represents.
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colors” in favor of a premium look more akin to
top-of-the-line iPhones.
However, not everyone was convinced that
Apple had struck the right formula with the SE,
one of the sternest critics being Editor-In-Chief
and CEO of 24/7 Wall St., Douglas A. McIntyre,
who mused that “Apple management gambles
that a cheap product should not undermine
its image, a long-shot decision. A revenue lift
from the iPhone SE comes with a brand value
downgrade.” However, he was writing his words
prior to the official unveiling of the device.
NO SHORTAGE OF HUMOR ON THE
SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES
Apple may have a certain clean image, but it is
not one without humanity, as its aforementioned
efforts to help make the world a better place so
well demonstrate. The actual owners of Apple
devices are also a very down-to-earth lot, as
shown by the humorous responses online to
various aspects of the keynote.
One Reddit user, for instance, asked “How
does one pre-order Liam?”, adding “I don’t see
anything up on the store yet”, in a post that we’re
not even entirely sure was a joke - although
many of the responses, such as “I want it in rose
gold” and “The camera bump kills it for me”, just
made the thread all the more brilliant. Therewere also many comedic responses to the
smaller size screen, such as one tweet that
showed a doctored screenshot of the Apple
website with the words, “iPhone SE. Fine, we
made a small one again.”
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A LOWKEY EVENT, BUT AN
IMPORTANT ONE
Could the March 21 keynote have been slightly
more... dramatic? Couldn’t we have had some
more outlandish products? Have Apple’s
product launches even become... dare we say it...
boring? After all, this was another Apple keynote
that focused on relatively minor changes to and
reinterpretations of existing devices, instead of
presenting an entry into an all-new category.
However, that’s not necessarily a bad thing,
according to SlashGear writer Chris Davies. While
admitting that “Familiarity breeds contempt”and “The Internet had, collectively, braced
itself for an underwhelming Apple event today
and... was unsurprisingly unsurprised”, Davies
posited that “to some extent”, he and other
technology industry watchers were “our own
worst enemies. Our expectations are so vast, so
all-encompassing, it’s hard to imagine, short
of wheeling out a self-driving car with theApple logo, how Tim Cook & Co. might have
satisfied us.”
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“Encouraging updates”, Davies added, “isn’t sexy
in the same way that new, segment-busting
software is. But it’s arguably more important.” He
was far from the only informed observer to feel
this way, CCS Insight’s Geoff Blaber insisting that
“A new price point and new hardware shouldnot be underestimated. The iPhone SE and iPad
Pro 9.7 could be viewed as largely iterative but
nonetheless they are still crucial products for
Apple as it looks to bolster growth across two
crucially important categories.”
Sometimes, then, even merely incremental
updates can be vital, and even more than that,
with its latest keynote, Apple has demonstrated
that looking back to the past can sometimes
be the best way to look forward. We certainly
can’t wait to get our own hands on the iPhone
SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro, not least as if there’s
any company that has consistently shown the
beauty and worth of gradual, step-by-step
improvements in delivering the very best
products, it is Apple.
by Benjamin Kerry & Gavin Lenaghan
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iPHONE SE:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL, TOO
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As it struggles to match the success of its big-
screen iPhones, Apple is now contending that
small can be beautiful, too.
The giant tech company showed off downsized
versions of its signature iPhone and iPad Pro
tablet on Monday, hoping they’ll appeal to first-
time buyers and those who have shied away
from the bigger-screen models Apple has sold in
recent years.
At a time when overall smartphone sales are
slowing, Apple touted its new four-inch iPhoneSE as the “most affordable” new phone the
company has offered. While it comes with an
upgraded camera, faster processor and other
features, the SE has a starting price of $400,
or $50 less than the older iPhone 5S that it’s
replacing. By contrast, the iPhone 6S Plus, which
had been Apple’s newest and biggest phone,
starts at $750.
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The company also knocked $50 off the price of
its Apple Watch, showed off some new bands
for the wearable gadget, and announced some
software enhancements for its mobile devices
and the Apple TV system.
Apple’s spring product event came one day
before the tech giant is set to square off with
authorities in federal court over the FBI’s
demand for help unlocking a mass shooter’s
encrypted iPhone. The dispute has dominated
headlines in recent weeks, as Apple CEO Tim
Cook acknowledged in brief remarks at the
opening of Monday’s event.
“We did not expect to be in this position, at odds
with our own government,” he said. “But we
believe strongly that we have a responsibility to
help you protect your data and your privacy.”
Few of Monday’s announcements surprised
industry experts. Analysts say Apple clearly
hopes the new devices will broaden its appeal
and get more people to use the latest versions
of its lucrative online services - such as Apple
Pay, Apple Music and the mobile App Store - at a
time when overall sales of Apple’s sleek iDevices
are leveling off.
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“We’re at a point, in a mature market, where
it’s about having niche products that satisfy
different needs,” said veteran tech industry
watcher Bob O’Donnell of Technalysis Research.
Apple is packing some new features into these
smaller packages. The new SE, for example,
has the same four-inch screen as the iPhone 5S
that Apple began selling in 2013. But the new
phone has the company’s latest A9 processor,
a 12-megapixel camera and a secure chip that
allows the use of Apple Pay, the company’s
digital payment service. Apple Pay was
previously only available with iPhone 6 and
6S models.
Apple hopes the phone will appeal to first
time buyers as well as those who find larger
models cumbersome, said Apple executive Greg
Joswiak. He said the company sold 30 million
4-inch iPhones last year.
But most analysts expect the new phone to
sell modestly compared to the company’sother models. And while they may give Apple
a boost during the historically slow spring and
summer months, analysts say the new devices
may not be new or different enough to
command the excitement Apple’s other recent
releases have enjoyed.
“It’s not going to be a big blockbuster,”
said O’Donnell.
Several financial analysts had projected Apple
could sell about 15 million of the new model this
year, although most were expecting it to have
a higher starting price. By comparison, analysts
estimate Apple has sold 265 million of the larger
iPhone 6 models over the last two years.
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While shoppers bought a record 74.8 million
iPhones in the final three months of 2015,
Apple has signaled demand in the current
three-month period will fall short of the 61
million iPhones sold in the January-March
quarter last year. Overall smartphone sales
are slowing around the world, as most people
already own one.
Apple also showed off a new version of its iPad
Pro, with a 9.7-inch screen and many of the
features Apple offered with the 12-inch iPad Pro
tablet that Apple introduced last year - including
the ability to work with a detachable keyboard
and stylus. The smaller screen Pro has a starting
price of $600 without cellular capability, while
the bigger Pro starts at $800.
While sales of Apple’s iPad have been declining
for several years, its rival Microsoft has
successfully launched a new line of Surface
Pro tablets that come with a detachable
keyboard. Apple marketing chief Phil Schillerargued Monday that the iPad Pro is the
“ultimate replacement” for computers running
Microsoft Windows.
Apple is also promoting new uses for its
devices, particularly in health care. On Monday,
for instance, the company announced CareKit,
a set of tools for developers who create
mobile apps for medical use. Such apps could
help patients monitor chronic conditions
such Parkinson’s disease and share that data
with their doctors. Last year, Apple released
ResearchKit, similar tools for apps that collect
data for health research.
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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg
held a rare meeting with China’s propaganda
chief, at a time when Chinese authorities aretightening control over their cyberspace.
Liu Yunshan told Zuckerberg in their meeting
Saturday that he hopes Facebook can share its
experience with Chinese companies to help
“Internet development better benefit the people
of all countries,” China’s official Xinhua News
Agency reported. Zuckerberg was in Beijing to
attend an economic forum.
China has called for the creation of a global
Internet “governance system” and cooperation
between countries to regulate Internet use,
stepping up efforts to promote controls that
activists complain stifle free expression.
Facebook and other Western social media,
including Twitter, are banned in China.
FACEBOOK’S ZUCKERBERG
MEETS WITH CHINA’S
PROPAGANDA CHIEF
Image: Shu Zhang
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Image: Mark Schiefelbein
Zuckerberg has long been courting China’s
leaders in a so far futile attempt to access the
country with the world’s largest number of
Internet users - 668 million as of last year.
China has been increasing control over its
Internet, dubbed the Great Firewall because
it is already heavily censored. Liu, a member
of the Politburo Standing Committee, the
ruling Communist Party’s top leadership
panel, recently said that all Internet users
must not cross the “baseline” when discussing
China’s governance.
Chinese censors have introduced a slate ofnew regulations to better enable them to
police digital and social media as closely as
traditional publications. The country’s top
Internet regulator has repeatedly warned that
an untamed cyberspace would pose a risk to
domestic security, and that the government
should decide who to allow into “its house.”
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WORLDS COLLIDE IN
‘BATMAN VS SUPERMAN’
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Zac Snyder’s thundering and grim “Batman v
Superman: Dawn of Justice” offers the kind of
blunt, mano-a-mano faceoff usually reserved for
Predators, Godzillas and presidential candidates.
And just as has often been said of this electionyear, “Batman v Superman” takes a once
almost charming tradition and plunges it
into the gutter. Long gone are the telephone
booths, corn fields or any other such tokens of
innocence. And given the prevailing climate,
Snyder may have judged the rock’em-sock’em
moment wisely. Gentlemen, keep your fists up
and your capes neatly tucked.
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“Batman v Superman,” as heavy and humorless
as a Supreme Court decision, is an 18-wheeler
of a movie lumbering through a fallen world.
It hurtles not with the kinetic momentum of
“Mad Max: Fury Road” nor the comparatively
spry skip of a Marvel movie, but with an operatic
grandeur it sometimes earns and often doesn’t.
This is “Paradise Lost” for superheroes. It twists
and grinds two of the most classic comic
heroes, wringing new, less altruistic emotions
out of them until their dashing smiles turn to
angry grimaces.
After a handsome, impressionistic montageof Batman’s iconic childhood, the film picks
up where Snyder’s Superman reboot “Man of
Steel” left off but from a different perspective.
Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) is driving through
the falling debris of Metropolis while Superman
(Henry Cavill) careens carelessly above.
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Snyder has channeled the backlash over the
high death-toll finale into Wayne, who bitterly
watches Superman from the dust-filled air on
the ground - a cheap evocation of Sept. 11
designed to add solemnity where there isn’t any.
Months later, the two are still distrustfully
circling each other. Snyder, working from a script
by Chris Terrio (“Argo”) and David Goyer (“Man
of Steel”), delves into their opposite natures:
one a godlike power from another planet who
favors primary colors, the other a well-equipped
human prone to a darker palette.
At a party thrown by Lex Luthor (the badlymiscast Jesse Eisenberg), the billionaire-inventor
who’s secretly weaponizing Kryptonite, their two
alter-egos are surprisingly passive aggressive.
Kent, the reporter, queries Wayne about “the
bat vigilante problem,” while Wayne, citing the
laudatory coverage of Superman in the Daily
Planet, voices his distaste for “freaks who dress
like clowns.”
Both are combating a new environment for
superheroes best articulated by none other than
astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, who, on TV,
describes supermen as altering man’s assumed
supremacy in the universe like Copernicus’
discoveries did. “We’re criminals, Alfred,” Batman,
fresh from torturing a foe, tells his butler (Jeremy
Irons, adding an icy flare to the character).
“We’ve always been criminals.”
Luthor’s plot gradually brings the heroes into
the same orbit, along with Wonder Woman (Gal
Gadot). But it’s the genuine rigor of Snyder’s
engagement with the psychology of Superman
and Batman that keeps the film grounded
and the rivalry plausible. Seeing the two warp
toward villainy may be a trick, like “Seinfeld’s”
Jerry and Kramer switching apartments,
but “Batman v Superman” is serious about
contemplating the curious positions these all-
powerful beings occupy in a world that has
grown to resent their might.
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It’s in some ways an ideal film for Snyder, an
exceptionally un-subtle filmmaker with the
sensibility of a car crash. But as the director of
“300,” he knows his way around a ramming
collision. And unlike Marvel films, DC Comic
adaptations have, for better (Christopher Nolan’s
“Dark Knight” trilogy) and worse (“Man of Steel”),
been works of distinct directors.
Snyder’s command is less sure when it comes
to, well, normal life. “Batman v Superman” would
rather spend its lengthy running time in the
throes of myth than somewhere like the offices
of the Daily Planet, where the eminently pert
Amy Adams (Lois Lane) breezes in and out.
As for the much discussed casting of Affleck,
Keaton and Bale have little to worry about.
But Affleck is a worthy heir to the part, albeit
with a chin that’s a dead giveaway in the
suit. If anything, there’s only so much room
for individual performance here; when
armored, Affleck’s already beefed-up Batmanlooks like a tank.
There’s an elemental fun in positing the winners
of superhero square offs. Is the Flash faster than
Superman? Is Aquaman or Wonder Woman the
better tipper? Is everybody just kind of weirded
out by the Silver Surfer?
Such debates are predicated on their inherent
silliness, something the self-serious “Batman v
Superman” ignores. Snyder’s task is considerable
in that he’s marrying the realistic crime world
of Batman and the more fantastical realm of
Superman, plus providing the requisite cameos
(including Jason Momoa’s Aquaman and Ezra
Miller’s Flash) to tease movies to come.
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But what’s there to fight about anyway? The most
important battle was already decided: Batman,
long our favorite, already has top billing.
“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” a Warner
Bros. release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion
Picture Association of America for “intense
sequences of violence and action throughout,
and some sensuality.” Running time: 151
minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.
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Happy birthday, Twitter.
The social media site famous for hashtags
and a 140-character “tweet” limit turned
10 years old Monday, having evolved from
what was originally billed as a “microblogging”
site into one of the Internet’s most influential
means of communication.
The world’s first tweet, which was sent by
co-founder Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006,
read “just setting up my twttr.”
When Capt. Chesley Sullenberger safely landed
a disabled US Airways plane with 150
passengers into a frigid Hudson River in January
2009, witnesses tweeted photos of passengers
being rescued from the floating plane. At the
time, it seemed unthinkable that Twitter didn’t
exist just a few years earlier.
TWITTER MARKS 10TH BIRTHDAYSEARCHING FOR FOLLOWERS, PROFITS
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Now presidents - and the Pope - have
Twitter accounts.
But after a long streak of robust growth that
turned it into one of the Internet’s hottest
companies, Twitter’s expansion has slowed
dramatically over the past year and a half.
At the end of 2015, it had about 320 million
active users, far short of social networking
leader Facebook and its 1.5 billion users.
Twitter Inc. executives have acknowledged
their struggle to convince people the service is
essential. They have tweaked Twitter’s format
in a bid to make it easier and more engaging to
use. That’s seen as key to expanding Twitter’s
user base, which would in turn allow it to sell
more advertising and to begin to make money
for the first time.
The San Francisco-based company last year
added a “Moments” feature, a tool that bundles
video, photos and links to news stories,
making it easier for people to find hot topics of
discussion without needing to figure out whom
to follow to receive updates.
It also got rid of its star icon signifying a
“favorite” tweet, in favor of a heart icon, similar
to Facebook’s “like” button. Twitter then changed
the user timeline, showing first the popular
tweets related to people users follow, then thereal-time feed, a feature users can turn off.
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Image: Gary He
Hardcore Twitter users seemed mostly dismayed
by the new changes and were borderline
apoplectic when rumors circulated that the
company was considering doing away with the
140-character limit.
The company rehired Dorsey for a second stint
as CEO last summer, and he signaled his resolve
to make Twitter profitable by laying off 336
employees, or 8 percent of its workforce.
But company lost another $90 million during
the final three months of last year, preserving its
profitless history.
That lackluster performance has hammered
Twitter’s stock, which is trading at less than $17
per share, down from nearly $50 per share a
year ago. Twitter’s November 2013 initial public
offering price was $26 and it reached $70 per
share in early 2014.
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#01 – Basketball Stars™By Miniclip.com
Category: Games
Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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The Revenant
A frontiersman is left for dead by his teamafter being mauled by a bear during a furtrading expedition. This movie follows hisstruggle for survival against the elements,rival hunters, and even some members of hisown team...
FIVE FACTS:
1. The Revenant resulted in Leonardo
DiCaprio’s sixth Oscar nomination, and hislong-awaited first ever win.
2. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu, who isfamed for being belligerent with his crews, hasalso directed Birdman (2014) and Babel (2006).
3. Partially based on real events – a mannamed Hugh Glass was attacked by a grizzlybear in August 1823 and was left for dead byfellow trappers.
4. Rumours spread that DiCaprio slept inthe gutted carcass of an actual horse whilstfilming that particular scene. This rumour wasdispelled soon afterwards by producers – theyactually used a prosthetic carcass.
5. The trailer crossed over 7 million views lessthan 36 hours after its release on July 17, 2015.
by Alejandro González IñárrituGenre: DramaReleased: 2015Price: $14.99
281 Ratings
Rotten Tomatoes
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The Hateful Eight
A bounty hunter and his fugitive captiveare set to travel to the town of Red Rocks,where the prisoner will be brought to justice. However, a blizzard results in thepair, alongside two hitchhikers they pickup along the way, becoming trapped in ahaberdashery store alongside four otherstrangers. Chaos ensues, and it becomesmore and more doubtful that the team willmake it to Red Rocks after all...
FIVE FACTS:
1. Director Quentin Tarantino provides thevoice of the narrator.
2. This movie takes place in the sameuniverse as Django Unchained (2012), but isnot a sequel.
3. Ennio Morricone composed the score
for the movie, making it the first westernmovie scored by him in 40 years. Morriconeis famed for his compositions, including thescore for The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly,and The Thing (1982), amongst many others.
4. This movie has the longest title for amovie directed by Quentin Tarantino – all ofthe titles of his previous movies only havetwo words.
5. Quentin Tarantino’s eighth studio movie.
by Quentin TarantinoGenre: Action & AdventureReleased: 2016Price: $14.99
233 Ratings
Rotten Tomatoes
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Music
‘Used To Love You’
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Genre: PopReleased: Mar 18, 201612 SongsPrice: $10.99
1341 Ratings
This Is What the Truth Feels LikeGwen Stefani
Gwen Stefani’s third studio album, and her firstin a decade, is a triumphant return to form.Featuring comeback singles “Used to Love You”and “Make Me Like You”, it’s a must for any fanof pop music, or any fan of Stefani’s older work.
FIVE FACTS:
1. ‘Hollaback Girl’, one of Stefani’s mostwell-known songs, became the first USdigital download to sell one million copiesback in 2005.
2. Stefani has won 46 awards for her musicin total, including Grammy awards for ‘BestRap/Song Collaboration’ and ‘Best PopPerformance by a Duo or Group’.
3. Gwen’s brother Eric founded No Doubt(Stefani also provides vocals for these), butleft to become an animator for The Simpsons.
4. Stefani also provides vocals for ska rockband No Doubt. Founded in 1986, the bandhas had several hits, including ‘Just a Girl’and ‘Don’t Speak’. The band has been onhiatus twice, once from 2004-2008, and thenagain from 2013-2015.
5. Her other ventures include acting, fashiondesign, and a perfume line, to name a few.
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Post Pop DepressionIggy Pop
Punk legend Iggy Pop teams up with somefamiliar faces for his seventeenth studio albumto date. It’s a must-buy for any fans of Iggy’svast back catalogue, or for fans of any of theother notable artists featured.
FIVE FACTS:
1. The other artists that contributed towards
the album’s creation are Josh Homme ofQueens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeysdrummer Matt Helders, and Dean Fertita – amember of Queens of the Stone Age and TheDead Weather.
2. Iggy’s band, The Stooges, were inductedinto the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. The band was active from 1967-1974,reuniting once again in 2003.
3. The album was recorded in secret, andwas only announced at the start of 2016, twomonths or so before its release.
4. Iggy has created several successful singlesas a solo artist, including ‘China Girl’, ‘ThePassenger’, and ‘Lust for Life’, which was usedin the introduction of infamous British dramafilm Trainspotting.
5. His legacy is impressive, with other notableacts including The Sex Pistols, R.E.M., and RageAgainst the Machine covering his work.
Genre: Rock Released: Mar 18, 20169 SongsPrice: $10.99
110 Ratings
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The album’s announcement on The Late Show
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Leading single ‘Gardenia’
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“The Divergent Series” stumbled this weekend
as the third movie in the four-picture series,
“Allegiant,” opened to only $29 million - a far cry
from the previous two films that both debuted
in the same time frame to over $50 million.
“Allegiant” took second place to Disney’s
“Zootopia,” which held on to the top spot in its
third weekend with $37.2 million, pushing its
domestic total past the $200 million mark.
Sony’s faith-based “Miracles From Heaven”
debuted in third place with a robust $14.8
million as well. The film starring Jennifer Garner
cost only $13 million to produce and has made
$18.4 million since its Wednesday opening.
BOX OFFICETOP 20: ‘ALLEGIANT’FALTERS, ‘MIRACLES’
ASCENDS
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5.“Deadpool,” 20th Century Fox, $8,011,984, 2,924 locations, $2,740 average, $340,953,367, 6 weeks.
6.“London Has Fallen,” Focus Features, $6,848,377, 3,011 locations, $2,274 average, $50,044,197, 3 weeks.
7.
“Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,” Paramount,
$2,801,718, 2,079 locations, $1,348
average, $19,272,558, 3 weeks.
8.“The Perfect Match,” Lionsgate, $1,974,056, 925 locations, $2,134 average, $7,380,235, 2 weeks.
9.“The Brothers Grimsby,” Sony, $1,420,281, 2,235 locations, $635 average, $5,932,951, 2 weeks.
10.“The Revenant,” 20th Century Fox,
$1,207,791, 935 locations, $1,292
average, $181,144,329, 13 weeks.
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17.“Star Wars: The Force Awakens,”Disney, $966,071, 568 locations, $1,701 average, $932,324,258, 14 weeks.
18.“Anomalisa,” Paramount, $758,136,573 locations, $1,323 average,
$3,442,820, 12 weeks.
19.“Eddie The Eagle,” 20th CenturyFox, $602,325, 682 locations, $883 average, $14,728,827, 4 weeks.
20.“Spotlight,” Open Road, $423,465, 443 locations, $956 average, $44,000,003, 20 weeks.
Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast
Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics
are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney,
Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned
by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are
owned by 21st Century Fox; Warner Bros. and New Line are units
of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors
including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn;
Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by
AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.
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The government has been adamant for weeks:
FBI investigators need to unlock an encrypted
iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino
attackers, and Apple Inc. was the only one that
could do it.
In a stunning reversal on Monday, federal
prosecutors asked a judge to halt a much-
anticipated hearing on their efforts to force
Apple to unlock the phone. The FBI may have
found another way, and Apple’s cooperation
may no longer be needed, according to court
papers filed late Monday, less than 24 hours
before Tuesday’s hearing.
“An outside party” came forward over the
weekend and showed the FBI a possible method
to access the data on Syed Rizwan Farook’s
encrypted phone, according to the filing.
FBI: ATTACKER’S PHONE POSSIBLY
ACCESSIBLE WITHOUT APPLE HELP
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“Testing is required to determine whether it is a
viable method that will not compromise data on
Farook’s iPhone,” the filing said. “If the method
is viable, it should eliminate the need for the
assistance from Apple.”
If it’s viable, that also means the government has
significantly undermined its arguments against
Apple, said Kristen Eichensehr, a
visiting law professor at the University of
California, Los Angeles.
“If they found another way into the phone,
that doesn’t just weaken their case. It means
they can’t satisfy the legal standard to sustain
the court’s order,” said Eichensehr, referring to
Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym’s Feb. 16 ruling
compelling Apple to create software that would
disable security features on the phone.
Pym granted the government’s request to
postpone Tuesday’s arguments in the case and
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stayed her previous order. She ordered the
government to file a status report by April 5.
The development raised more questions than
it answered. It’s unclear who is helping the FBI
with the phone and why it took so long for a
possible solution to be identified.
One thing seems clear - that the government
likely would not have disclosed it had found
another possible way to unlock the phone
unless it was almost certain the method would
work, said Robert Cattanach, a former U.S.
Department of Justice attorney who handles
cyber-security cases for the Dorsey & Whitney
law firm.
He said the disclosure alone weakens the
government’s case by introducing doubt that it
could only access the phone with Apple’s help.
“They’ve created ambiguity in a place where
they’ve previously said there is none,” he said.
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In a conference call with reporters, Apple
attorneys said it’s premature to declare victory
in the case because authorities could come
back in a few weeks and insist they still need
the company’s help. The attorneys spoke under
an Apple policy that wouldn’t allow them to be
quoted by name.
The company hopes the government will tell
Apple about whatever method it uses to access
the phone’s encrypted files. But the attorneys
said it may be up to the FBI to decide whether to
share the information.
Lawmakers, civil rights advocates and other techcompanies have criticized the FBI for not doing
more to try to crack the iPhone itself before
seeking to force Apple’s hand.
“To me, it suggests that either the FBI doesn’t
understand the technology or they weren’t
giving us the whole truth when they said there is
no other possible way” of examining the phone
without Apple’s help, said Alex Abdo, staff
attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union.
“Both of those are scary to me.”
The ACLU has filed a court brief supporting
Apple’s position.
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Prosecutors have argued that the phone used
by Farook probably contains evidence of the
Dec. 2 attack in which the county food inspector
and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, slaughtered 14 at
a holiday luncheon attended by many of his
work colleagues. The two were killed in a police
shootout hours later.
The FBI has said the couple was inspired by the
Islamic State group. Investigators still are trying
to piece together what happened and find out if
there were collaborators.
The couple destroyed other phones they
left behind, and the FBI has been unable tocircumvent the passcode needed to unlock
the iPhone, which is owned by San Bernardino
County and was given to Farook for his job.
Apple has argued that the government was
seeking “dangerous power” that exceeds the
authority of the All Writs Act of 1789 it cited, and
violates the company’s constitutional rights,
harms the Apple brand and threatens the trust
of its customers to protect their privacy. The
18th-century law has been used on other cases
to require third parties to help law enforcement
in investigations.
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It’s not clear what method the government now
wants to test. But even as the FBI has insisted
that only Apple is able to provide the help it
needs, some technical experts have argued
there are other options.
The most viable method involves making a copy
of the iPhone’s flash memory drive, said Jonathan
Zdziarski, a computer expert who specializes in
iPhone forensics. That would allow investigators
to make multiple tries at guessing the iPhone’s
passcode. A security feature in the phone is
designed to automatically erase the data if
someone makes 10 wrong guesses in a row.
But if that happens, Zdziarski said, investigators
could theoretically restore the data from the
backup copy they have created.
The data itself would remain encrypted until the
phone is unlocked, but it would remain viable
while investigators continued to guess the
passcode, he added.
“It’s a lot more involved than it sounds,” Zdziarski
cautioned, and no one has demonstrated that it
would work in this case.
Some experts have also suggested that
investigators could use lasers and acid to
deconstruct the phone’s memory chip, in order
to physically examine the encrypted data and
the encryption algorithm, in hopes of crackingthe code. But hardware experts say that method
has a high risk of destroying the memory during
the process.
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Much has been made of both the benefits and
dangers that come with strong encryption,
especially the methods used by Apple to secure
its devices. But new research shows that Apple’s
security isn’t as impenetrable as both the
company and its critics claim.
A team from Johns Hopkins University says
it found a security bug in iMessage, the
encrypted messaging platform used on Apple’s
phones and other devices. The bug would
allow hackers under certain circumstances to
decrypt some messages.
JOHNS HOPKINSRESEARCHERS FIND FLAW IN
iMESSAGE ENCRYPTION
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The team’s paper is extremely critical of
iMessage’s encryption technology, citing
“significant vulnerabilities that can be exploited
by a sophisticated attacker.” And it argues that
in the long term, the technology needs to be
replaced with a more modern mechanism.
The paper was published on Monday after
Apple’s release of a patch fully fixing the bug.
The Johns Hopkins team reported its findings to
Apple in November.
But perhaps more significantly, the discovery is
a blow to government arguments that Apple’s
encryption technology makes it impossible forlaw enforcement to access information stored
on devices connected to criminal investigations.
Apple itself maintains that iMessage’s encryption
is top-of-the-line and the same kind used by
banks and the military.
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“The main point is that encryption is hard to
get right,” said Ian Miers, a computer science
doctoral student at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore
and one of the paper’s authors. “Imagine the
number of things that could go wrong if you
have more complicated requirements like a
back door.”
Some government and law enforcement
officials argue that companies that use
encryption in their products and services
should be required to include a so-called
“back door,” which would give law
enforcement officials armed with warrants
a way to access encrypted information
as part of investigations. But efforts to pass
legislation that would do that have failed to
gain traction.
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Apple has come under fire for refusing to
create and provide the government with a
software tool that would help investigators
unlock an encrypted iPhone used by one of the
killers in the San Bernardino mass shooting.
The company and its supporters have argued
that doing so would threaten data security for
millions by creating essentially a master key
that could later be duplicated and used against
other phones.
A federal magistrate will hear arguments from
both sides on Tuesday.
Apple Inc. released a statement Monday sayingthat it appreciated the Johns Hopkins team’s
efforts in identifying the bug and bringing it
to its attention. It also noted that some of the
problems identified in the paper were fixed with
the fall release of iOS 9. Monday’s release of iOS
9.3 included additional protections.
“Security requires constant dedication and we’re
grateful to have a community of developers and
researchers who help us stay ahead,” Apple said.
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Mercedes got off to the best possible start to
the Formula One season with a one-two finish at
the Australian Grand Prix, yet the events of the
weekend have sown some uncertainty into the
team’s bid for a third straight title.
Nico Rosberg beat Lewis Hamilton at the
Albert Park street circuit - his fourth straight
victory over his world champion teammate
dating back to last season - but the win owed
more to the red flag suspension of the race
at one-third distance and an ill-advised tire
strategy by Ferrari.
As cars sat in the pits awaiting the clearing of
wreckage from a spectacular crash by McLaren’s
Fernando Alonso, tire changes were made and
race leader Sebastian Vettel went for the super-
soft rubber for his Ferrari while second-place
Rosberg and then seventh-place Hamilton chose
the hardest-available medium compound.
NEW RULES
PROMISE
TO SPICE UP
CONTEST IN F1
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That effectively decided the race, as the
Mercedes were able to continue uninterrupted
to the checkered flag while Vettel was forced
into an extra pit stop.
The intrigue over tire choices was full vindicationof the rule change to allow teams a choice
from three different compounds for their dry-
weather tires, up from two in previous years. As
a result, five of the top six cars used different tire
strategies, and half of the finishers used all three
compounds during the race. Pirelli motorsport
chief Paul Hembery justifiably called the new
regulations “a resounding success.”
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Another rule change that had a positive impact
on the race was the restriction on drivers to
use one clutch paddle at the start, putting a
premium on driver technique and bringing back
the drama to race starts. Pole sitter Hamilton was
slow off the grid and had been shuffled back to
seventh on the opening lap, while Vettel got off
the line superbly and speared right between the
two Mercedes cars.
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“It was probably a number of things
combining to create some fairly poor starts,”
Mercedes technical director Paddy Lowe said
to motorsport.com. “The objective of the
regulation change ... is to make starts more
variable, and that is what we’ve seen.”
Mercedes will closely review whether the
slow start by Hamilton, and to a lesser extent
Rosberg, was a technical issue or down to clutch
technique or slow reactions. If Ferrari has come
up with a better solution to the new rule, then
red cars at the front after one lap could become
a regular occurrence.
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The efficacy of the tire and race-start rule
changes was welcome for F1 officials after the
debacle of the new qualifying system, which has
been abandoned as hastily as it was adopted.
The format of eliminatin