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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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Image: © Christian Hartmann

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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

FASTER INTERNET

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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iOS

#01 – Basketball Stars™By Miniclip.com

Category: Games

Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

#02 – NCAA March Madness LiveBy NCAA Digital

Category: Sports


#03 – SnapchatBy Snapchat, Inc.

Category: Photo & Video


#04 – Damn DanielBy Josiah Jenkins

Category: Games


#05 – Color SwitchBy Samuel Ratumaitavuki

Category: Games


#06 – MessengerBy Facebook, Inc.

Category: Social Networking


#07 – Facebook By Facebook, Inc.



#08 – InstagramBy Instagram, Inc.

Category: Photo & Video


#10 – Unison LeagueBy Ateam Inc.

Category: Games


#09 – Clash RoyaleBy Supercell

Category: Games


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#01 – OS X El CapitanBy Apple

Category: Utilities

Compatibility: OS X 10.6.8 or later

#07 – App for InstagramBy Joacim Ståhl


Compatibility: OS X 10.7 or later, 64-bit processor

#08 – ooVoo Video Call, Text and VoiceBy ooVoo LLC



#09 – Full Deck SolitaireBy GRL Games

Category: Games


#02 – XcodeBy Apple

Category: Developer Tools


#10 – OneDriveBy Microsoft Corporation

Category: Productivity

Compatibility: OS X 10.9.0 or later, 64-bit processor

#04 – KindleBy AMZN Mobile LLC

Category: Reference

Compatibility: OS X 10.8 or later

Mac OS X

#03 – Microsoft Remote DesktopBy Microsoft Corporation

Category: Business


#05 – Slack By Slack Technologies, Inc.

Category: Business

OS X 10.9 or later, 64-bit processor

#06 – The UnarchiverBy Dag Agren

Category: Utilities


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#04 – Goat SimulatorBy Coffee Stain Studios

Category: Games / Price: $0.99


#05 – Geometry DashBy RobTop Games AB


Requires iOS 5.1.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

#06 – FacetuneBy Lightricks Ltd.

Category: Photo & Video / Price: $3.99


#07 – NBA 2K16By 2K



#08 – Bloons TD 5By Ninja Kiwi



#09 – Akinator the GenieBy Elokence

Category: Entertainment / Price: $1.99


#10 – PAW Patrol Pups Take FlightBy Viacom International Inc.

Category: Education / Price: $2.99


#01 – Minecraft: Pocket EditionBy Mojang


Requires iOS 5.1.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

#02 – Face Swap LiveBy Laan Labs

Category: Photo & Video / Price: $0.99


#03 – Heads Up!By Warner Bros.



iOS

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#05 – Final Cut ProBy Apple

Category: Video / Price: $299.99


#06 – OS X ServerBy Apple

Category: Utilities / Price: $19.99


#09 – Document WriterBy xiong feng

Category: Business / Price: $9 .99


#08 – BetterSnapToolBy Andreas Hegenberg

Category: Productivity / Price: $2.99


#10 – Affinity PhotoBy Serif Labs

Category: Photography / Price: $39.99


#04 – Disk CleanerBy Pocket Bits LLC

Category: Utilities / Price: $5 .99


#07 – Duplicate Photos Fixer ProBy Systweak Software

Category: Photography / Price: $0.99


#03 – Logic Pro XBy Apple

Category: Music / Price: $199.99


#02 – AntiVirus Sentinel ProBy Calin Popescu

Category: Utilities / Price: $9.99

ompatibility: OS X 10.7 or later, 64-bit processor

#01 – GarageBandBy Apple

Category: Music / Price: $4.99


Mac OS X

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Movies

TV Shows

&

Trailer

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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

82%

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Cast Interview

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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

75%

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Cast Interview

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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.

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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.

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