Techlife News - November 30 2014

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One part coal. One part extreme. This is Darkside Ollie - the naughtiest app-controlled robot ever created.

Rocket around at a floor-warping 14 MPH, pull off diabolical tricks, and smoke the competition. You can

find Darkside Ollie at the top of the naughty list – and sold exclusively at gosphero.com.

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WHY SPHERO OLLIE ISN’T JUST ANOTHER FESTIVE STOCKING FILLER 06

‘MAD MEN’ CREATOR TO RECEIVE HONORARY INT’L EMMY 24

YAHOO REPLACES GOOGLE AS FIREFOX’S DEFAULT SEARCH 30

NEW SOFTWARE TOOLS LAUNCHED FOR APPLE WATCH 36

GIFT GUIDE: 3 WAYS TO WATCH STREAMING VIDEO ON TV 52

ONE DIRECTION, IGGY AZALEA SHINE AT 2014 AMAS 62

TVOVERINTERNET SERVICE AEREO SEEKS CHAPTER 11 70

TAYLOR SWIFT CONQUERS ALL THAT SHE SURVEYS WITH 1989 74

LIST OF WINNERS OF THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS 92

‘MOCKINGJAY, PART 1’ OPENS WITH $123 MILLION 96

KATY PERRY TO PERFORM AT SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW 104

iTUNES REVIEW 108

REVIEW: 3 CHEAP SMARTPHONES TO CONSIDER 124

AUTOMAKERS AIM TO DRIVE AWAY CAR COMPUTER HACKERS 132

BRITISH ART FESTIVAL HEAD TO LEAD NYC ART CENTER 138

GOOGLE’S LATEST: A SPOON THAT STEADIES TREMORS 140

THANKSGIVING TRAVEL WOES? THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT 148

ARETHA FRANKLIN BLASTS AUTHOR OF UNAUTHORIZED BIO 156

NEW iPHONES PUSH APPLE’S MARKET CAP PAST $700B 160

BROADWAYBOUND MAGICIAN SHOWS WHAT’S UP HIS SLEEVE 164

A NEW DOCUMENTARY EXPLORES THE LIFE OF KURT COBAIN 168

TALKING SONGS WITH SHE & HIM 170

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CUMBERBATCH DECODES TURING IN ‘IMITATION GAME’ 180


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PLENTY OF REMOTE CONTROL FUN

TO BE HAD

We're big fans of toys - especially ones that

make the most of the very latest technology.

As Christmas looms and your younger (orperhaps not-so-young) friends and relaves

compile their wish lists, or even as you

consider what you might want to buy for

yourself, all manner of newly-launched toys

are appearing on the horizon. One of them

is the Sphero Ollie - and we'd like to reassure

you that it's more than just another remote

controlled toy.

You'd be forgiven for thinking that it was, to

be fair. On rst spying this curious toy, we

must admit that we thought it looked rather

unassuming. Of course, many astonishing toys

are like that these days, but even so, we found

it hard to imagine how much joy one could

possibly get from what appeared to be lile

more than a large, cylindrical can with rugged-

looking res on each end.

At a mere 80mm high and 110mm wide,

in addion to weighing barely 600g, the

Sphero Ollie certainly boasts modest essenal

stascs. But as with so much else in life,

much more important than the size of your

equipment is what you can do with it.

The range of things that you can do with Ollie,

it turns out, is very wide indeed.


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OLLIE IS QUITE SOMETHING TO

BEHOLD

First, let's get down to the basics. Ollie is

only the most recent creaon of the Sphero

company that was unl recently known asOrbox. Indeed, the name change arose due

the sheer success of the company's Sphero

product, a smallish ball that a user can control

via their smartphone.

The original Sphero has gained signicant

popularity since its 2011 emergence, as the

many apps that are now designed to work

with it indicate. Now, the company's range

has been expanded with the addion of

a two-wheeled, cylindrical toy made from

high-grade polycarbonate. The device is also

visually disnguished by its LED lights in the

center, including a glowing Sphero logo.

Ollie's hubcaps at each end, meanwhile,

feature textured symbols that are obviously

evocave of outer space. Around these are

probably the most instantly idenable

cosmec feature of the toy, the rubbery res

- Sphero calls them Nubby Tires - with rows

of bumps for maximum grip. These slide over

the smooth wheels known as Prime Hubs.

The nal visual element to note is the

microUSB charging port under the Ollie brandstamp. This feature does indicate a bit of bad

news for those who were hoping for Ollie to

be waterproof like the original Sphero - it isn't,

so be careful near those lakes.


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Ollie vs. Ollie - Behind The ScenesSphero Connected Toys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUg4xXRzro0


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A SIMPLE TOY TO SET UP

Right, so what happens when you open the

box? You'll get the Ollie itself, obviously - it'll

be either white or black, ours being white -

in addion to a single set of Prime Hubs andNubby Tires. Oh, and the box also contains a

microUSB charging cable and inial assembly

and use instrucons.

As you might imagine, Sphero has taken

maximum advantage of the scope for

customizaon, with one look at the current

Sphero Store revealing the availability of

Agro Hubs, Flux Hubs, Nubby Tires, Turbo

Tires and Ultra Tires - all specically designed

for Ollie. Naturally, these come in many

dierent colors.

This is a smartphone-controlled toy, so you'll

need a dedicated app to control it. The

instrucons tell you everything that you need

to know to set up Ollie, but we found it a fairly

simple process. Once you have assembled the

toy, slipping on the required Prime Hubs and

Nubby Tires, you'll need to charge it with the

microUSB cord - that'll take no longer than

about an hour.

Then, we were able to download the app

from the iOS App Store, and it only took a

tap of our iPhone to achieve communicaonbetween it and Ollie. We found the range of

up to 30 meters to be perfectly ample - not

once did we lose control of the toy.


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Ollie vs. Ollie || Sphero Connected Toys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne2IOSdXvMQ


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SEEMINGLY EASY TO GET TO

GRIPS WITH...

OK, so here's the big queson... what was it

like to control Ollie? Aer all, the promoonal

videos that Sphero has kindly put togethergive the impression that it's as easy as you

like to get going with Ollie - to have it not

only racing at high speed, but also jumping,

spinning and crashing into anything and

everything. Those videos also show the toy

hurtling with ease across all manner of indoor

and outdoor terrain.

The principle of using Ollie is certainly

simple. The mobile app presented us with

two separate control setups - one for simple

navigaon, and the other for tricks. As the

presenter on one of the aforemenoned

videos puts it, Ollie is all about "speed and

tricks". The "speed" part of the equaon is

easy enough to get to grips with, as even

if you nd Ollie a bit too swi - as we did

when tesng it out in a dining room as soon

as we set it up - there's a separate sengs

page where you can adjust the speed to

whatever suits.

We spent a decent amount of me in that

sengs secon, actually, with 'acceleraon'

another parameter that we are able to adjust,

in addion to 'handling'. With the laer, you

can move between the two extremes of 'dri'

and 'ght', depending on how you want Ollie

to behave. Oh, and you can even set up Ollie

for whatever condions you are using it in,

choosing between a 'hard' and 'so' driving

surface as well as either 'room' or 'open' for

the driving area.


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...BUT DIFFICULT TO MASTER

Eventually, though, we needed to stop ddling

with the sengs and instead give actually

controlling the thing a go. At rst, were we

very good? No, we weren't.

Using the on-screen joysck to drive Ollie at

the same me as performing gesture controls

on the Trick Pad (as appears when you rotate

your handset into landscape orientaon) to

pull o crazy stunts, sounds simple enough.

However, we found it a hard-going process

at rst to even steer Ollie easily and get it

perform basic tasks, like driving between two

nearby staonary objects.

However, at no point did we throw down our

iPhone in exasperaon at our inability to get it'right'. It's true that even once you've adjusted

to the app, the learning curve with Ollie is a

steep one. But over me, and with hours of

pracce, we were able to get it to do things

like move forward and backward, spin around

and hop.

Ollie Launch Video - Behind The Scenes

Sphero Connected Toys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qeSjUV6Asg


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A CHALLENGING CONTROL SYSTEM

Controlling Ollie becomes such an insncve

process that it's dicult to explain anything

in a review that would make that process

any easier when you come to li your ownOllie out of the box. But it's worth saying a

few words about the control system. It's very

much user-centric, rather than centric to the

orientaon of the toy. To understand what we

mean, just imagine a tradional radio control

car. It has an obvious front and back, and

when you command it to turn le or right, it'll

do precisely that, irrespecve of where youare stood in relaon to it.

Ollie, though, despite its LED lights making

clear what its own 'front' is, doesn't have

that kind of control system. When you ask

Ollie to turn le, it moves to your le, rather

than its own le. This might seem to make

things simple from a control perspecve, and

that turns out to be the case... as long as you

merely control Ollie in the space directly in

front of you. But what if you're driving Ollie

around you, or chasing it around corners?

That's where confusion can so easily reign.

Thankfully, it's not too dicult to get your idea

of 'forward' and the Ollie's idea of 'forward'

nicely aligned. If the toy gets disorientated, as

it got about every 10 minutes when we were

playing with it, you'll simply need to calibrate it

with the app, rotang it unl the glowing logo

faces you. As with most aspects of controlling

this toy, you'll need to pracce a lot, but we

were able to make decent progress on that

front during our relavely short me tesng it,

both indoors and outdoors.

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OVERALL, IT'S A TOY WORTH SAVING

UP FOR

As we've established, the Sphero Ollie

certainly isn't a cinch to use - but in many

ways, that's a good thing. It shows that this

is a serious toy for serious fans of all things

remote control - and it has loads of other

pleasing aributes.

Ollie is supremely durable, for instance. We

had it ying and thudding down mulple

ights of some rather industrial-looking steel

stairs, and were generally subjecng it to as

much torture as we could, only to nd that

it had sustained no more damage than a few

nicks and scrapes. Indeed, Ollie performed

without a icker of a problem across

almost all of the terrain we tried - with the

excepon, oddly, of grass, where it struggled

to accelerate.

For the most part, though, Ollie hurtles, ips,

spins and crashes into things with aplomb,

and we can't deny that it gave us a massive


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rush to pull o the more challenging stunts.

The future looks good, too - Sphero has talked

of expanding the accessories range into all

manner of res, hubcaps, ramps and more,

and you can be sure of more apps launching

in the run-up to Christmas as well.

Priced at $99.99 for the starter kit, we

also can't deny that Ollie looks like a great

value addion to the pantheon of remote

controlled toys. If we were you, we wouldn't

hesitate to put it on the Christmas list.

by Benjamin Kerry & Gavin Lenaghan

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“Mad Men” stars Chrisna Hendricks and John

Slaery will be presenng a special award at

the Internaonal Emmys Gala to the show’screator and execuve producer Mahew Weiner

who’s preparing the nal episodes of the 1960s

Madison Avenue ad agency saga slated to air in

spring 2015.

Weiner will be receiving the honorary

Internaonal Emmy Founders Award at Monday

night’s ceremony at the Hilton New York.

“`Mad Men’ has really come to dene television

for a whole generaon of viewers,” said Bruce L.

Paisner, president and CEO of the Internaonal

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. “It’s an

amazing global cultural phenomenon ... a force of

nature as much as just a television series.”

“Although these are stories in theory out of the

`60s, part of the success of the show is that it’s a

touchstone for how we think about ourselves and

our own relaonships even today.”

‘MAD MEN’ CREATOR TORECEIVE HONORARY

INT’L EMMY


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The presentaon to Weiner will be the

centerpiece of the awards ceremony, hosted

by Brish comedian Ma Lucas, creator of

the comedy series “Lile Britain,” a two-me

Internaonal Emmy winner.

A total of 40 nominees from 19 countries willbe compeng in 10 categories for Internaonal

Emmys, established to honor excellence in TV

programming outside the U.S.

Britain had a leading six nominaons, including

best actor and actress nods for Stephen Dillane

and Olivia Colman for their roles in popular

crime dramas.

Brazil had ve nominaons, including

nods for three Globo TV producons: “The

Mayor’s Wife” (comedy), “Precious Pearl”

(telenovela) and “Alexander and Other Heroes”

(TV movie/miniseries).

Argenna, Canada and Japan each had

three nominaons.

Dillane, who portrays Stannis Baratheon in

“Game of Thrones,” was recognized for his role

as an aging Brish police detecve in the Brish/French crime drama “The Tunnel,” which as an

entry from France was among the nominees for

best drama series.

Colman was nominated for her role in

“Broadchurch” as a detecve invesgang

the murder of an 11-year-old boy in a coastal

Dorset town.

Other Brish nominees include: the crime-thriller“Utopia” (drama series), “An Adventure in Space

and Time” (TV movie/miniseries) about the

creaon and early years of the “Dr. Who” sci-

series, “No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri

Lanka” (documentary) and “Educang Yorkshire”

(non-scripted entertainment). The Argenne

drama “Television por la Juscia,” about cases

inspired by real-life people harmed by bad

judicial rulings, had two nominaons in the acng

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The other actor nominees were Canada’s Claude

Legault for “19-2” and China’s Xiubo Wu for

“The Orphan of Zhao.” Rounding out the actress

nominees were Turkey’s Tuba Buyukustun for

“20 Dakika” (“20 Minutes”) and the Netherlands’

Bianca Krijgsman for “De Nieue Wereld” (“The

New World”).

A new category was introduced this year to

recognize non-English language U.S. prime-

me programs. The nominees include three

Telemundo Internacional producons - “Pasion

Prohibida,” ̀ ’La Patrona” and “El Senor de

los Cielos” - and Nat Geo Mundo’s “Temple

de Acero.”

Brazilian telenovela stars Gloria Pires and MiltonGoncalves will present the honorary Internaonal

Emmy Directorate Award to Roberto Irineu

Marinho, chairman and CEO of the Globo

Group of Companies, Brazil’s leading media and

entertainment conglomerate. His father, Roberto

Marinho, who received the same award in 1983,

founded TV Globo, which will be celebrang its

50th anniversary next year.

Online:

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Yahoo will supplant Google’s search engineon Firefox’s Web browser in the U.S., signaling

Yahoo’s resolve to regain some of the ground

that it has lost in the most lucrave part of the

Internet’s ad market.

The ve-year alliance announced Wednesday

will end a decade-old partnership in the U.S.

between Google Inc. and the Mozilla Foundaon,

which oversees the Firefox browser. The tensions

between Google and Mozilla had been risingsince Google’s introducon of the Chrome

browser in 2008 began to undercut Firefox.

Google’s current contract with Mozilla expires at

the end of this month, opening an opportunity

for Yahoo to pounce.

Even though Chrome is now more widely used,

Firefox sll has a loyal audience that makes more

than 100 billion worldwide search requests

annually.

Yahoo is hoping to impress Firefox users as the

Sunnyvale, California, company sets out to prove

that it’s sll adept at Internet search aer leaning

on Microso’s technology for most of the results

on Yahoo’s own website for the past four years.

Financial details of Yahoo’s Firefox contract

weren’t disclosed. In a blog post, Mozilla CEO

Chris Beard said the new deal oers “strong,

YAHOO REPLACESGOOGLE AS FIREFOX’S

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improved economic terms” while allowing

Mozilla “to innovate and advance our mission in

ways that best serve our users and the Web.”

Google accounted for 90 percent, or about

$274 million, of Mozilla’s royalty revenue in

2012. Mozilla hasn’t released its annual reportfor last year.

Besides dropping Google in the U.S., Mozilla is

also shiing Firefox to Baidu’s search engine in

China and Yandex in Russia. Firefox users sll have

the opon to pull down a tab to pick Google and

other search engines as their preferred way for

looking up informaon online.

Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer, a former Google

execuve, hailed the Firefox agreement asYahoo’s most signicant partnership since forging

the Microso deal in 2009.

“We believe deeply in search - it’s an area of

investment and opportunity for us,” Mayer wrote

in a Wednesday blog post.

Yahoo plans to unveil a “clean and modern”

search engine on Firefox next month and then roll

out the new model on its own website early nextyear, Mayer wrote.

The redesign will primarily aect how Yahoo’s

search engine’s results are displayed, and not

the way that requests are processed. The search

technology will connue to be provided by

Microso Corp. as part of a 10-year deal Yahoo

signed in 2009, according to Mel Guymon,

Yahoo’s vice president of search.

In various public remarks since becoming

Yahoo’s CEO two years ago, Mayer has

expressed disappointment with Microso’s

search technology. That has spurred

speculaon that she might renegoate or end

the Microso search partnership next year

when Yahoo has an opon to re-evaluate the

deal. Yahoo currently receives $88 of every

$100 in revenue generated from ads posted

alongside the search results on its website.


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Those payouts have helped Yahoo boost

its revenue from search adversing for 11

consecuve quarters, compared with the

previous year. Despite those gains, more searches

have been shiing to Microso’s Bing search

engine, causing Yahoo to slip further behind its

rivals. Yahoo is expected to end this year witha 5.6 percent share of U.S. search adversing

revenue, down from 6.6 percent in 2012,

according to the research rm eMarketer.

Yahoo’s stock gained 52 cents to $51.10 in

extended trading Wednesday. The shares have

been hovering around their highest levels in more

than 14 years, largely because Yahoo owns a large

stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., a rapidly

growing e-commerce site in China.

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WHAT WE CAN EXPECT FROM

WATCHKIT

We were all excited about Apple's long-

awaited wearable, the simply-tled Watch,

when it frst broke cover in September. Weweren't even given a precise release date, sll

only knowing that it will become available to

buy at some point early next year. What we

do know, though, is that the Apple Watch is

worth making a fuss about. Now, the device's

developers' toolkit - WatchKit - has been

launched.

WatchKit is all that the already well-established iOS developer community needs

in order to create apps for the upcoming

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before it even makes an appearance on store

shelves. In announcing WatchKit's launch,

Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide

Markeng, Philip Schiller, said that it was for

the development of "breakthrough new apps,

Glances and aconable nocaons designed

for the innovave Apple Watch interface and

work with new technologies such as Force

Touch, Digital Crown and Tapc Engine."

If you're a developer yourself, as long as you

have an iOS developer account, you will be

able to get to work on WatchKit apps right

now. But for the rest of us, what forms couldsuch apps take and what could they tell us

about the wider potenal of the Apple Watch

and wearables in general?

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THAT TRICKY BALANCE BETWEEN

iPHONE INTEGRATION AND

DEPENDENCE

One of the relavely few things that we did

know about Apple Watch as far back as the

autumn was the fact that a compable iPhone

would be needed in order to use it. That's not

necessarily a bad thing given the sll relave

infancy of the technology wearables market,and the fact that such integraon enables you

to make the most of your iPhone's processing

power from your wrist.

But it does mean that for now at least,

WatchKit developers aren't able to create

fully-featured apps. Currently, the Apple

Watch funcons more like a third party

keyboard, with its "apps" presently mere

extensions that are pushed to the mepiece

from an iPhone app. However, Apple has said

that the creaon of fully nave Watch apps

will be possible from some point next year.

In the meanme, we get extensions that

render on the Apple Watch in one of three

ways. They may take the form of a small app

accessible via an app icon on the wearable's

home screen, or Glances that are a quick

way of viewing informaon from the

corresponding iPhone app. Alternavely, the

extensions may take the form of aconable

nocaons displaying alerts on the Watch

from the iPhone app, with which you can

then interact.

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HOW YOUR APPLE WATCH AND

iPHONE WILL WORK TOGETHER

With a current Apple Watch "app" or

extension, the user interface is on the

Watch, but any task necessitang an Internet

connecon is eecvely done by the iPhone.

Hando can be implemented as part of Apple

Watch apps, allowing users to, for instance,

begin a task on their wearable before

connuing it in the full iPhone app.

With Apple Watch apps eecvely taking the

form of simplied versions of their 'parent'

iPhone apps, although you will be able touse the Maps app, for example, if you need

to update your locaon, the absence of GPS

on the wearable will force you to call upon

your iPhone again. But there are certain other

funconalies - such as listening to music and

health-tracking - for which an iPhone in close

proximity may not be necessary.

Indeed, Apple CEO Tim Cook conrmed back

in September that although the iPhone and

Watch had been "designed to work together

... If you go for a run, and you don't want

to carry your iPhone, music is also on your

watch. So with a Bluetooth headset, you

can run and listen to your music without

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A WEALTH OF POSSIBILITIES FOR THE

APPLE WATCH

These may be modest beginnings, but it

nonetheless boggles the mind to think of all

of the funconal possibilies that WatchKit

could bring in the years to come. We could

have apps for health, running, maps and

the sending of romanc messages to your

beloved. Perhaps the device could even

be used to send an emergency message to

your cardiologist with your tachycardia or

bradycardia informaon?

Then, there is the slightly more distantpotenal that we could speculate about, on

the basis of what we already know about

the Apple Watch. A device doesn't need four

sensors, for example, to read a pulse rate.

One wonders whether future wearables

could incorporate non-invasive sensors for

the ecient measuring of such vital health

parameters as temperature, oximetry,respiratory rate, hydraon rate, blood

pressure and the 'Holy Grail' of the new

era of health and tness monitoring: blood

glucose levels.

Diabetes, aer all, remains a hugely prevalent

health problem here in the United States.

As of 2012, 29.1 million Americans - 9.3

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percen of he populaon - had dabees,

up from 25.8 million and 8.3 percent just

two years before. 1.7 million new diabetes

diagnoses are made every year in the US,

according to 2012 gures, while it was the 7th

leading cause of death in the US as of 2010.

Known complicaons of diabetes range from

hypoglycemia, hypertension and dyslipidemia

to stroke, blindness and eye problems and

kidney disease.

Why non-invASive technoloGieS

COULD BE THE FUTURE OF THE WATCH

At present, those with diabetes are required

to regularly measure their blood glucose

levels in order to prevent the disease's acute

and chronic complicaons. However, for

many decades, there has not been a clinically

or commercially viable means of doing this

without puncturing the skin, drawing blood or

causing pain or trauma.

Every me a person with diabetes needs to

check their blood glucose levels, they are

therefore inconvenienced, needing to get

used to the pain of pricking their ngerps to

test their blood - as oen as six mes a day

or more - to say nothing of the nancial cost

of strips and lancets. In an ideal world, the

blood sugar tesng process would be quick

and painless, and many an organizaon - such

as he israel company inegry Applcaons,

whch developed he Glucotrack non-

nvasve glucose monorng devce - has

dedicated itself to nding a soluon.

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Could technology wearables like the Apple

Watch eventually deliver such a soluon?

There are certainly encouraging signs.

Wearable, watch-like devices are already

being developed that use changing paerns

of scaered light - known as the "speckle

paern" eect - for the producon of

images with grainy interference paerns,

in order to track specic biometrics and

monitor glucose.

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the GlucoWiSe non-invASive

GLUCOSE SENSOR

It seems that a commercially and clinically

viable, non-invasive glucose sensor is coming

ever-closer to reality - just ask MediWiseLtd, the organizaon developing such a

device that it claims will nally help diabetes

suerers to "take control" of their lives. The

new GlucoWise device is truly non-invasive

and pain-free, making use of unique sensor

technology that enables those with the

disease to monitor their blood glucose levels

without the need to pierce the skin.

The technology has been described as

"simple, yet highly reliable", enabling its

users to sample as oen and wherever they

like, with accuracy levels that exceed current

industry standards for the self-monitoring of

blood glucose. Intriguingly, the organizaon

has also invested in App and Smart Cloud

technology that delivers personalized advice

and alerts, meaning that diabetes suferers

can much more easily and completely

manage their condion.

GlucoWise is London, England-based

MediWise's rst product, and has already

won recognion - for example, it was Health-

tech winner of the 2013 Building Global

Innovators compeon. Although the device

is sll under development, pre-orders are

set to commence following the compleon

of clinical trials in late 2016, raising the

prospect of it joining a new generaon of

non-invasive glucose sensors in the laer

years of this decade.

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AN EXCITING FUTURE FOR

TECHNOLOGY WEARABLES

Naturally, non-invasive health monitoring

is not the only potenal applicaon of

technology wearables in the years ahead,

but nonetheless indicates why so many

people are so excited about this emerging

product category. The Apple Watch that lands

in our hands early next year may give only

the faintest glimpse of the endless dierent

ways in which we could be making wearables

central to our lives for years and decades to

come - which is certainly something worth

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Even casual viewers of online video will

appreciate the ability to watch it on a big-

screen TV.

For about $100, you can get a great streaming

TV device to do that. Or for about a third of that,

you can get a prey good one. Content selecon

varies, but all oer such basics as Nelix, Hulu

and YouTube. Aer trying out 10 streaming

devices, I have three recommendaons and an

honorable menon:

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AMAZON FIRE TV STICK

A “sck” is a cheaper, lightweight version of a

regular streaming device, oen with poorer

performance. That’s not the case with the $39

Fire TV Sck, which is why I’m recommending

it over the $99 Fire TV. The processor isn’t aspowerful, and there isn’t as much working

memory. But in my tests, video streamed well on

both devices.

The Sck lacks a remote control capable of voice

search - you type searches into the on-screen

keyboard. Voice search costs $30, or you can

download a free app for your Android device. A

version for iPhones and iPads is coming too. The

app isn’t as easy to use as a real remote, but itdoes the job.

The Fire TV devices stand out in having voice

search that works well. My lone complaint is that

you’re currently limited to content from Amazon,

Vevo, Showme, Crackle and Hulu. No surprise

that Amazon content is emphasized; its two main

rivals, Apple iTunes and Google Play are missing.

Unfortunately, the Sck is out of stock unl mid-

January, so your loved one will have to sele

for a promise. The regular Fire TV is available

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ROKU 3

This device is agnosc on content providers.

There are more than 1,000 apps to download,

many for services you have never heard of and

will never watch. Except for iTunes it has all the

leading channels.There are many Roku models. The $50 Roku

Streaming Sck is adequate for basic video, but

painfully slow when rewinding and forwarding.

The top-end, $100 Roku 3 performs much

beer. Some TVs have Roku built in, though

you’ll beer o picking the TV you like and

geng the Roku separately.

Even with the top-end model, Roku tends to

give me the most problems with video and

audio improperly syncing. In many cases, it’s

subtle - something I can live with in exchange

for more choices in video content. It does

have the best buer, at least for Nelix and

Hulu streaming. That’s important when yourInternet connecon is spoy. Video kept

playing for a few minutes aer I unplugged my

cable modem. It lasted only 15 to 30 seconds

on Amazon and Google devices and roughly a

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GOOGLE NEXUS PLAYER

Google’s $35 Chromecast sck is useless on

its own. Your only opon is casng, and I have

found the experience and video quality to be

poor. Google’s new $99 Nexus Player is the beer

choice. Its performance was comparable to theApple TV and Fire TV devices.

The Nexus has voice search like the Fire. While

the Fire limits such searches to tles, actors,

directors and genres, the Nexus oers more

exible searching - though it works only some of

the me. A voice request for “movie with Tom

Hanks and mermaid” correctly gave me “Splash.”

On the other hand, “documentary Oscar winners”

gave me conal icks such as “Gravity.” Videosearch is limited to Google content and a few

other services for now.

I hesitate to recommend the Nexus because

it has relavely few apps. There’s no HBO, no

Showme, no ABC, no ESPN. PBS Kids is an

opon, but PBS isn’t. Casng is oered for

some of these services, but the Nexus needs

more stand-alone apps to be useful. That will

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APPLE TV

Apple TV, at $99, remains a solid device and is a

great choice for those who already have iPhones

or iPads. Place one near the Apple TV for easy set-

up. Your iTunes account transfers over wirelessly.

You can’t download new apps as you can with theothers. Apple takes a “less is more” philosophy

and curates Apple TV with 45 or so outside

services, including ABC, HBO and Showme.

Apple is able to insist on consistency that way, so

keyboards and menu layouts are similar from app

to app. New services are automacally added

through soware updates. Amazon and Google

Play are missing, though you can “cast” content

to the TV indirectly. Using your iPhone or iPad,load Amazon or Google Play video and send that

to Apple TV using a feature called AirPlay. Quality

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ONE DIRECTION,IGGY AZALEA

SHINE AT 2014 AMAS

One Direcon won three honors at the American

Music Awards, including arst of the year over

powerhouse acts like Beyonce and Luke Bryan,

while breakthrough newcomer Iggy Azalea beat

out heavyweights Eminem and Drake in the

rap categories.

Katy Perry, who was absent from Sunday’s awardshow because of her world tour, matched One

Direcon for most wins with three.

The boy band won also won favorite band, duo or

group - pop/rock and favorite album - pop/rock

for “Midnight Memories” at the fan-voted show.

“This has been a real perfect day ... America

feels like a second home to us,” Liam Payne said

onstage with his band mates when they won the

night’s rst award. The group released its newalbum, “Four,” last week.

They wore all black as they sang the groove

“Night Changes” at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live.

Taylor Swi kicked o the AMAs as a mad woman

and man eater by feeding a boy a poisonous

apple, holding burning roses and giving crazy

eyes during a performance of her song about her

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She was aggressive, grabbing her male dancers by

their blazers and singing in character on bended

knee when performing her new No. 1 hit, “Blank

Space.” She even removed part of her dress to

expose a shimmery, leg-revealing gold number.

She later received the rst-ever Dick Clark Awardfor Excellence, presented by Diana Ross.

“To the fans who went out and bought over a

million copies of my last three albums, what

you did by going out and invesng in music and

albums is you’re saying you believe in the same

thing I believe in - that music is valuable and that

music should be consumed in albums and albums

should be consumed as art and appreciated,”

said Swi, who recently removed her music fromstreaming service Spofy.

Brantley Gilbert, who won favorite album -

country for “Just As I Am,” is on the same label as

Swi, Big Machine Records. He also removed him

music from Spofy, but declined to discuss the

topic when asked about it backstage.

“You know tonight for me was about the songs

and the fans and I had a blast accepng an award,

I’m not so sure I want to chase the queson

without a safe answer,” he said to reporters.

Azalea, who was the top nominee with six,

performed twice: She hit the stage rst for

“Fancy” and new single “Beg for It,” later

returning to close the show with a steamy

Jennifer Lopez for their collaboraon, “Booty.”

Azalea won favorite album - rap/hip-hop for “The

New Classic” and favorite arst - rap/hip-hop.

“It means so much to me that it is for best hip-

hop because that’s what inspired me to move to

America and pursue my dreams, and it’s what

helped me when I was a teenager to escape and

to get through my life and to beer mes,” the

24-year-old Australian rapper said, as her mentor

T.I. stood beside her. “And it means so much that

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Ariana Grande also worked double duty Sunday:

She took the stage to sing lounge-y, piano-

versions of her upbeat hits “Problem” and “Break

Free,” following that with a duet of her latest hit,

“Love Me Harder,” with the Weeknd. Grande’s

older brother jumped up in joy, MAGIC! leader

Nasir Atweh sang along and Heidi Klum boppedher head. Grande returned again to sing “Bang

Bang” with Nicki Minaj and Jessie J, who kicked

o the song in the crowd. She rubbed against

Khloe Kardashian, sang closely in front of her

boyfriend, R&B singer Luke James, and danced

next to Swi and Sam Smith. Smith, who also

performed “I’m Not the Only One” with A$AP

Rocky, won favorite male arst - pop/rock.

“Last year I wrote an album about being lonelyand tonight, I couldn’t feel further from lonely,

so thank you so much,” he told the crowd aer

thanking his fans. Mary J. Blige performed

“Therapy,” a new song she wrote with Smith, and

host Pitbull performed with R&B singer Ne-Yo.

Fergie gave a hip-hop avored performance of

her comeback single, “L.A. Love (La La),” while

Selena Gomez slowed it down for the emoonal

“Heart Wants What It Wants.” And ImagineDragons, who won favorite arst - alternave

rock for a second me - performed their new

folky single, “I Bet My Life.”

Australian boy band 5 Seconds of Summer

won new arst of the year, beang out Azalea,

Smith, Meghan Trainor and Baslle. They also

performed a cover of the Romancs’ “What I Like

About You.”

“Being from Sydney, you never think you’re going

to win an American Music Award, so it’s the

coolest thing ever to us,” band member Ashton

Irwin said backstage.

Bryan, who introduced a satellite performance

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Perry won single of the year for her No. 1 hit

“Dark Horse,” favorite female arst - pop/rock

and favorite arst - adult contemporary. Other

absent winners included Carrie Underwood, John

Legend and Beyonce, who won two awards.

The soundtrack for “Frozen,” the year’s top-sellingalbum, won top soundtrack.

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Aereo, an online startup that tried to oer a

cheaper alternave to cable TV, has led for

Chapter 11 bankruptcy protecon less than ve

months aer an unfavorable ruling by the U.S.

Supreme Court.

The company backed by media mogul Barry Diller

allowed people to watch and record broadcast

TV online for $8 a month on tablets, phones

and other gadgets. Unlike Hulu and other online

video services, Aereo oered live streaming of

broadcast channels.

The Supreme Court ruled this summer that Aereo

had been operang like a cable TV company,

meaning that unless it paid broadcasters licensing

fees, it was in violaon of copyright law.

Aereo suspended its operaons three days later.

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The company got its start in New York and had

expanded to about 10 other metropolitan areas,

including Boston, Houston and Atlanta, though it

never disclosed how many subscribers it had.

The Supreme Court decision “eecvely changed

the laws that had governed Aereo’s technology,creang regulatory and legal uncertainty,” CEO

Chet Kanojia said.

The Chapter 11 ling will allow Aereo Inc. to

maximize the value of its business while avoiding

the cost and distracon of ligaon, said Kanojia.

Aereo didn’t provide many details about what

it would do with its technology but in a March

interview with The Associated Press, Kanojia

said the company’s Internet-based recording

technology was itself valuable.

“The fact that we’ve created this cloud-based

system at a cost point, and it works, is going to

have a lot of value to a lot of people,” he said

then.

Potenal buyers of that technology could

include cable-television operators that are trying

to maintain subscriber levels by oering newways to watch TV online. Cable operators pay

broadcasters millions of dollars in licensing fees,

and would not be subject to the same legal

challenges.

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WHY PEOPLE ARE SUGGESTING IT

COULD BE THE LAST PLATINUM ALBUM

To say that 24-year old country superstar

Taylor Swi has been doing well as of late

would be something of an understatement. Infact, even within the rareed territory where

the Reading, Pennsylvania nave currently

resides, she is thriving with her most recent

album, 1989. But is her success poinng to a

more posive future for a currently besieged

music industry, or is it a mere anomaly?

Ask most informed observers these days, and

they'll say that things are in a bad way. Our

current pop music landscape is one of ever-

declining physical sales - that has been known

for a while. But much more recently, digital

sales have also dropped - by 13 percet i

the rst six moths of this year, accordig to

nielse's midyear music report.

Instead, streaming and privacy are ruling the

roost, with the former seeing a 42 percent

rise in the aforemenoned me period.

This comes on the backdrop of Swi's well-

publicized withdrawal of her catalogue

from the Spofy streaming service, amid

complaints from arsts of low rates that fail to

recognize their hard work and the importance

of creavity. Who's right? Who's wrong?

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imPreSSive SAleS fiGureS for 1989

But rst of all, let's consider the bare

achievements - and there's no doubt that

they're impressive stascs indeed, whatever

their background. 1989, named aer Swi'syear of birth, is the arst's rst outright pop

album, aer years of success in country music.

It also draws much of its inspiraon from the

works of such '80s icons as Peter Gabriel, Phil

Collins, Fine Young Cannibals, Madonna and

Annie Lennox, any one of whom would be

proud of the album's rst week sales gures.

Following 1989's release on October 27,

reports soon emerged of debut sales that

threatened to topple the record sales week

for a woman, the 1.319 million achieved

by Britney Spears' Oops! ... I Did It Again in

1999. The album was inially pped to sell

750,000 copies in its rst week, only for this

to be upgraded to 800,000 on October 23.

The projecon was then upped again, to more

than 900,000, by mid-day on the album's day

of release. You get the idea. Forecasts just

kept geng higher and higher, reaching 1.25

million on October 31.

In the end, Swi fell tantalizingly short of

Spears' record, her h studio eort selling

1.287 million copies between October 27 and

November 2. That was none too shabby given

the much more compromised industry faced

by Swi now than the one that confronted

Spears 15 years ago. 1989 topped the

Billboard 200 chart, making it only the 19th

album in Nielsen SoundScan history - in other

words, since 1991 - to hit the one million sales

mark in its debut week.

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1989 also racked up the biggest sales week

for any album since The Eminem Show, which

sold 1.322 million in its rst seven days back

in 2002. But even more tellingly, and perhaps

staggeringly, 1989 became the rst album

released n 2014 to pass a mllon sales overall,

and thereby earn planum status.

Why 1989 mAy remAin in A

PLATINUM CLASS OF ONE

As pointed out last month by Forbes writer

Hugh McIntyre, by this me last year, ve

albums had already aained planum status,

led by Jusn Timberlake's two-million selling

The 20/20 Experience. This year, though,

the connued steep fall in recorded music

sales that began a decade ago has made

million-plus sales even more elusive, thanks

to a combinaon of privacy and streaming

that have made it so much easier for today's

younger demographic to access music for free.

Although streaming is, of course, preferable

to piracy from the perspecve of songwriters

and arsts given that they do at least get paid

by the former, that did not prevent many

nodding in approval at Swi's drasc acon,

as she denounced Spofy as "an experiment

that I don't feel fairly compensates the

writers, producers, arsts, and creatorsof this music. And i just don't agree wth

perpetuang the percepon that musc has

no value and should be free."

Not only music industry observers backed

her stance. Quincy Jones, for example,

declared that "Spofy s not the enemy;

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of the service's revenue was being paid to

musicians and rightsholders, Jones added

that if Thriller - the biggest-selling album

of all me that he produced for Michael

Jackson - was to be released today, "You can

be sure I'd want it on Spofy."

Jones' contenon was that there was no

hope of "The genie going back in the bole",

and that other soluons would instead

need to be found for the music industry's

problems. But in the meanme, it looks like

1989 could remain the last planum-selling

album for at least a while, even if there arealready suggesons that te riAA could alte

ts denon of planum to account fo

steams, as Bllboad's hot 100 sngles cat

as done.

HOW SWIFT IS BUCKING THE

INDUSTRY TREND

The raw stascs may suggest that Swi

is ghng a losing bale against the

unstoppable force of Spofy, but if there's

something else that they suggest, it's that

she's doing a sterling job of resisng the

transion of an extremely uncertain industry.

The fact that a mere three weeks aer

release, 1989 t te two mllon sales mak

sows tat se's cetanly dong sometng

gt. So, what's the sure-re hit markeng

formula that Swi's peers are missing?

In short, it's all about sheer dedicaon. First of

all, there's that good old-fashioned approach,

dang back to Thriller's days, of simply

releasing one hot single and accompanying

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video aer another, as Swi's songs have

set the Digital Songs chart ablaze. Swi also

has an extremely strong and loyal fan base

that she has mobilized to the full, via her

shrewd deployment of a range of markeng

techniques. That means not only appearing

on the usual late-night talk shows, but also

deeply engaging with that fan base, even to

the point of inving a small number of her

twier followers o her house for a privae

lisening pary.

Indeed, if there's any pop star today

who extracts the maximum return fromMillennials' addicons to social media, it

is Swi. She is constantly directly engaging

with her fans on the micro-blogging service,

responding personally to fan tweets and

retweeng tweets about her, or that depict

fans buying her albums. Such methods are

more than just aggressive markeng - they're

about creang that truly personal, customizedconnecon with the 'ordinary' fan, telling

them that they maer.

It helps, too, that Swi does everything

possible to convince fans to buy physical

copies of her albums, observing of the

situaon with 1989 in an interview with NPR's

Melissa Block: "There has to be an incenve

to go to a store, buy a CD. We've done an

exclusive at Target that has three extra songs.

It has three songwring voice memos from

my cell phone. I have ve sets of thirteen

Polaroids from the album photo shoot that

are in an envelope in the CD.

"So it's very much an experience that's

dierent than downloading the music itself.

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It's almost like this kind of collector's edion,

the physical copy."

NOW, IT'S TIME TO HIT THE ROAD

How do you celebrate mul-million-selling

pop success as an arst in the year 2014,

when such success is so hard to come by?

Well, you build on it yet further by going out

on tour. Earlier this month, Swi aoucd

plas for a mammoth cocrt schdul

aroud north Amrica, europ ad Australia.

It all kicks o in Japan on May 5, 2015, with

Swi set to perform two dates at the Tokyo

Dome before heading back to the United States

for a performance at the CenturyLink Center

in Bossier City, Louisiana on May 20. The tour

will then snake its way north, deparng briey

for some European dates before returning to

the States in early July for an appearance at the

Canadian Tire Centre in Oawa.

Swi will then play various North American

stadiums before concluding the leg with a gig

at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa on

October 31, 2015. Australian fans will b l

waig ul xt Dcmbr for hr to tur

up o thir shors.

It's a hecc schedule for sure, but who else

would you back to take it on with aplomb,

than Taylor Swi? All indicaons are that she

is a successful anomaly in a music industry

that connues to ounder, but there's no

doubng her good old-fashioned talent,

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Winners of the 2014 American Music Awards,

presented Sunday at the Nokia Theatre in

Los Angeles:

Arst of the year: One Direcon

New arst of the year: 5 Seconds of Summer

Single of the year: Katy Perry feat. Juicy J,

“Dark Horse”

Pop/rock female arst: Katy Perry

Pop/rock male arst: Sam SmithPop/rock band, duo or group: One Direcon

Pop/rock album: One Direcon,

“Midnight Melodies”

Country female arst: Carrie Underwood

Country male arst: Luke Bryan

Country band, duo or group: Florida Georgia Line

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Country album: Brantley Gilbert, “Just As I Am”

Rap/hip-hop arst: Iggy Azalea

Rap/hip-hop album: Iggy Azalea,

“The New Classic”

Soul/R&B female arst: BeyoncéSoul/R&B male arst: John Legend

Soul/R&B album: Beyoncé, “Beyoncé”

Lan arst: Enrique Iglesias

Alternave rock: Imagine Dragons

Adult contemporary: Katy Perry

Contemporary inspiraonal: Casng Crowns

Electronic dance music: Calvin Harris

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“Mockingjay, Part 1” didn’t catch re like the

previous installments of “The Hunger Games,”

but it sll had the biggest opening of the year

with $123 million at the weekend box oce,

according to studio esmates Sunday.

Lionsgate’s “Mockingjay” opened well below the

$158 million debut of last year’s “Hunger Games:

Catching Fire” and the $153 million opening of

the 2012 original. But even with a $30-million-

plus slide in the franchise, “Mockingjay” far

surpassed the previous top weekend of the

year: the $100 million debut of “Transformers:

Age of Exncon.”

The result made for some unusual ironies. The

biggest opening of the year (and by a wide

margin) was seen by some as a disappointment.

Aer inial box oce receipts of “Mockingjay”

rolled in Friday suggested a weekend take below

expectaons, Lions Gate Entertainment’s stock

dipped 5 percent.

But the decision to split the nal book in Suzanne

Collins’ dystopian trilogy into two lms was clearly

lucrave for Lionsgate. “Mockingjay” did even

beer overseas, where it made $152 million over

the weekend, accounng altogether for a $275

million global opening.

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“It’s the biggest opening of the year, so it really

illustrates the strength of the franchise,” said

David Spitz, head of distribuon for Lionsgate,

nong the North American opening was the 15th

best ever.

Spitz declined to answer quesons about WallStreet’s reacon to the opening, or what the

eect may have been of spling the third book

in two.

“It speaks for itself,” Spitz said of the result.

Dividing the book pushed much of the big drama

of “Mockingjay” to the second lm, scheduled

for release in November 2015. On the same

November weekend in 2010, “Harry Poer and

the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” - which similarly splitthe series’ last book into two - opened almost

idencally with $125 million. A year later, the

second “Deathly Hallows” lm debuted bigger

than all previous “Harry Poer” lms with

$169 million.

“A lile perspecve is in order here,” said Paul

Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box

oce tracker Rentrak. He called the “Mockingjay”

results “sll an astonishing feat.”

“I’m not worried about this franchise,”

Dergarabedian said.

The release calendar made way for “Mockingjay,”

as no other new wide releases hit theaters. In

its third week of release, the Disney animated

adventure “Big Hero 6” moved into second place

with $20.1 million. Christopher Nolan’s space epic

“Interstellar” came in third with $15.1 million,also in its third week.

Last week’s top lm, the long-in-coming sequel

“Dumb and Dumber To,” slid considerably. The

Universal comedy dropped to fourth place with

$13.8 million.

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Esmated cket sales for Friday through Sunday

at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to

Rentrak. Where available, the latest internaonal

numbers are also included. Final domesc gures

will be released Monday.

1. “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1,” $123million ($152 million internaonal).

2. “Big Hero 6,” $20.1 million ($7 million

internaonal).

3. “Interstellar,” $15.1 million ($70 million

internaonal).

4. “Dumb and Dumber To,” $13.8 million ($6.5

million internaonal).

5. “Gone Girl,” $2.8 million ($2.4 million

internaonal).

6. “Beyond the Lights,” $2.6 million.

7. “St. Vincent,” $2.4 million.

8. “Fury,” $1.9 million ($12.4 million

internaonal).

9. “Birdman,” $1.9 million.

10. “The Theory of Everything,” $1.5 million

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Esmated cket sales for Friday through Sunday

at internaonal theaters (excluding the U.S. and

Canada), according to Rentrak:

1. “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1,” $152

million.

2. “Interstellar,” $70 million.

3. “Fury,” $12.4 million.

4. “Rise of the Legend,” $11.9 million.

5. “Penguins of Madagascar,” $8.7 million.

6. “Big Hero 6,” $7 million.

7. “Dumb and Dumber To,” $6.5 million.

8. “The Imitaon Game,” $3.3 million.

9. “Gone Girl,” $2.4 million.

10. “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2,” $2.3 million.

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KATY PERRY TOPERFORM AT SUPER

BOWL HALFTIME

SHOW

Will Katy Perry be a rework at the Super Bowl?

Will she show them what she’s worth? Will she

let her colors burst?

NFL announced late Sunday - aer rumors

swirled for weeks - that the pop star will headline

the Pepsi Super Bowl halime show on Feb. 1 at

the University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona. It

will air on NBC.

Perry, 30, has dominated the Billboard chartssince releasing her debut in 2008, including

nine No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Her sophomore eort, 2010’s mulplanum

“Teenage Dream,” matched the record Michael

Jackson set with “Bad” for most songs from a

single album to hit No. 1 with ve.

Perry released “Prism,” another planum eort,

last year. It includes the No. 1 smashes “Roar”

and “Dark Horse.”

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The Grammy-nominated star’s upcoming

performance is the fourth consecuve halime

show to display the NFL’s push to include younger

acts on its large stage: Bruno Mars had a show-

stopping set at this year’s Super Bowl at the

MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey;

Beyoncé electried in 2013 in New Orleans;

and there was Madonna, with Nicki Minaj and

M.I.A., and the Black Eyed Peas in 2012 and 2011,

respecvely.

Other halime performers in the last decade

have included the Rolling Stones, Prince, Tom

Pey, Bruce Springsteen and the Who.

The girl-power singer will also be performing at

the culminaon of a season where crics haveassailed the NFL for its response to domesc

violence cases involving women; its inial

handling of former Balmore Ravens star Ray

Rice’s assault on his then-ance with just a two-

game suspension caused a naonal outrage, and

led the league to toughen its penales for such

crimes. It later suspended Rice indenitely.

Perry is currently on her Prismac World Tour.

Her other hits include “I Kissed a Girl,” “CaliforniaGurls,” “Firework” and “Wide Awake.”

Online:

hp://www.nf.com/superbowl/49

hp://www.katyperry.com

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Guardians of theGalaxy

In stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan(Lee Pace), a powerful villain whose ambitionsthreaten the entire universe, the brashadventurer Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) certainly

makes himself a target. In a bid to fend offRonan, Quill enters an uneasy truce with fourcosmic misfits. Expect plenty of fun ‘70s poptunes and an irreverent departure from theusual superhero movie formula.

FIVE FACTS:

1. The film is based on the Marvel Comicssuperhero team of the same name.

2. It is the 10th installment in the MarvelCinematic Universe.

3. James Gunn directed the film, in additionto writing the screenplay with Nicole Perlman.

4. Other members of the ensemble castinclude Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Dieseland Bradley Cooper.

5. Its worldwide haul of $770,662,444 has made it the highest-grossingsuperhero film of 2014, surpassingX-Men: Days of Future Past.

Rotten Tomatoes

90%

by James GunnGenre: Action & AdventureExpected Release: Dec 09,2014Price: $19.99

1316 Ratings

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What If

This Irish-Canadian romantic comedy centers

on the story of Wallace (Daniel Radcliffe),a medical school dropout with a history ofbad relationships. It seems that everyonearound him is finding the perfect partner,but he decides to put his own love life on

hold - until he meets Chantry (Zoe Kazan), ananimator with whom he immediately strikesup a close friendship. But could it yet turn intosomething more?

FIVE FACTS:1. The film is based on T. J. Dawe andMichael Rinaldi’s play Toothpaste andCigars.

2. Other members of the cast includeMegan Park, Adam Driver, Mackenzie Davisand Rafe Spall.

3. The movie premiered at the 2013 Toronto

International Film Festival.

4. It was also nominated for Best Picture atthe 2nd Canadian Screen Awards, winning forAdapted Screenplay.

5. Elan Mastai’s script appeared in the 2008Black List survey of Hollywood’s hottestunproduced screenplays.

Rotten Tomatoes

69%

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Trailer

by Michael DowseGenre: ComedyReleased: 2014Price: $14.99

23 Ratings

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Ghosts ‘n’ Stuff (Chuckie Remix)

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Genre: Dance

Released: Nov 24, 201422 SongsPrice: $9.99

165 Ratings

5 Years of mau5deadmau5Canadian progressive-house icon deadmau5looks back on his career with the release of5 Years of mau5, which combines past hits

by the EDM producer with “exclusive andnew remixes from friends of mau5trap”, therecord label he founded in 2007. Contributingartists include Dillon Francis, Michael Woods,Chuckie and more.

FIVE FACTS:

1. Deadmau5 is the stage name of Joel

Thomas Zimmerman.

2. He was born on January 5, 1981 in

Niagara Falls, Ontario.

3. He released his debut full-length album,

Get Scraped, in 2005.

4. He has recently been involved in a legalskirmish with Disney over the signaturemouse head that he wears while

performing, on account of its purportedresemblance to Mickey Mouse.

5. Other DJs and producers that he hasworked alongside include MC Flipside,

Kaskade, Rob Swire, Bighorse andWolfgang Gartner.

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BEYONCÉ[Platinum Edition]BeyoncéAs if the pop superstar’s original 2013 self-

titled album wasn’t staggering enough, thisexpanded edition features 17 music videos,two new tracks - “7/11” and “Ring Off” - andlive performance footage from the year-long“Mrs. Carter Show World Tour” alongside the14 original songs. Completing the packageare new remixes featuring such guests as NickiMinaj, Kanye West, Pharrell Williams and Jay-Z.

FIVE FACTS:

1. BEYONCÉ was developed as asimultaneous audio-visual medium offeringan “immersive experience”.

2. To this end, a series of non-linear shortfilms was created to illustrate the songs’musical concepts.

3. The original album was releaseddigitally to the iTunes Store with no priorannouncement or promotion.

4. It became Beyoncé’s fifth consecutivenumber one charting album in the UnitedStates.

5. The album has now sold more than 5million copies worldwide.

Genre: Pop

Released: Nov 24, 201442 SongsPrice: $24.99

209 Ratings

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