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With its thumb raised skyward and a grin
on its digital face, the robotic creation of
two researchers in Canada embarked ona
hitchhiking journey across the U.S. on Friday.
The humanoid robot named hitchBOT has
already caught rides across Canada and in
Europe, relying on the kindness and curiosity
of strangers. But this is its first U.S. tour, setting
out from Massachusetts with dreams of San
Francisco ahead.
Along the way, it hopes to see some
quintessential American sites, including Times
Square, Mount Rushmore and the Grand
Canyon.
To start the journey, its creators set it
alongside a road in Marblehead with tape
wrapped around its cylindrical head that
read “San Francisco or bust.” Not long after,
a group of German tourists picked it up and
strapped it into their SUV with plans to take it
to Boston or New York.
The kid-size robot is immobile on its own, so
it gets from place to place by being schlepped
around by strangers. Travelers can pass it off to
others they meet, or leave it at a gas station or
shop. They just leave it seated on its kickstand
with its thumb raised.
Ideally, the creators hope, drivers won’t leave
the bot along busy roads and will charge the
battery when it runs low. Otherwise, there are
no rules.
“We want to see what people do with this
kind of technology when we leave it up to
them,” said Frauke Zeller, one of the creators
and an assistant professor in professional
communication at Toronto’s Ryerson University.
“It’s an art project in the wild - it invites people
to participate.”
On the outside, hitchBOT looks like it’s built for
play rather than performance. It has a bucket
for a body and bendy foam limbs capped by
yellow gardening gloves and matching rubber
boots. The whimsical attire is intentional, its
makers said, to make it approachable and to
deter potential thieves.
“It has a really low-tech look to it, something
we dubbed the ‘yard-sale aesthetic,” said
David Harris Smith, the other creator and an
assistant professor in communication studies at
McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. “The
head is actually an acrylic cake-saver.”
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A GPS in the robot can track its location, and
a camera randomly snaps photos about every
20 minutes to document its travels. But the
team behind the robot seeks permission from
people in the photos before posting them
to social media, where hitchBOT has built a
devoted fan base.
More than 30,000 people follow the robot
on Twitter, and dozens have posted their own
selfies with it. Researchers are culling data from
social media to study how people interact with
a robot that needs their help, unlike traditional
robots designed to help them.
Among the chief questions researchers are asking,
Zeller said, is whether robots can trust humans.
During past travels, the robot has attended a
comic convention and a wedding, and it had
its portrait painted in the Netherlands. It once
spent a week with a heavy metal band.
The cross-country tour of Canada took 26 days,
spanning more than 6,000 miles. As for the U.S.
trip, researchers don’t know how long it will
take or what will happen along the way.
“We want to create something that has a bit of
narrative to it, a sense of adventure,” Smith said.
“We don’t really know what’s going to happen.”
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Shareholders approved Friday a highly contested
deal that strengthens the Samsung family’s
grip on the world’s largest smartphone maker,
sparking criticism that South Korea lacks
sufficient protections for foreign investors and
small shareholders.
Samsung construction company Samsung C&T
said that 69.5 percent of shareholders who
voted supported the takeover of it by another
Samsung company, Cheil Industries.
The takeover needed two thirds of votes cast for
approval. Market watchers expected a close vote
after Elliott Associates, an American hedge fund
that is the third largest shareholder in C&T, rallied
opposition against the deal that it called unfair.
Lee Jae-yong, the son of Samsung’s ailing
chairman, is assuming a bigger leadership
role at the South Korean conglomerate but
lacks a significant stake in its flagship Samsung
Electronics. The all-stock takeover of C&T by
Cheil will give him that stake without having
to spend billions of dollars to buy it from other
shareholders.
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The outcome of the vote is likely to take a toll on
South Korea’s reputation overseas as a fair place
for investment.
The country has long faced criticism that the
founding families of its big business groups
known as chaebol exercise too much power over
companies that have become publicly traded.
Those concerns about poor governance and
weak shareholder rights have resulted in foreign
investors marking down the value of South
Korean shares.
The global funds “who are looking to seek
investment opportunities in Asia will divert their
way from Korea even faster to China where
there are more exciting growth opportunities,”
said Thomas Choi, founder of Third Square
Investments, which does not own any shares in
Cheil or Samsung C&T.
“Foreign investors would not want to take
inherent management risk by investing in Korean
companies with such poor corporate governance
that lead to shareholders’ value being exploited
by the founding family members for their own
benefit not shareholders,” he said.
The heated debate before the vote showed
shareholders were sharply divided. Those
that opposed the deal said its terms were too
favorable to shareholders at Cheil Industries, in
which the Lee family is a major shareholder.
Elliott’s attorneys tried to ease the concerns
that it was threatening South Korea’s national
interest, emphasizing that the foreign fund was
not trying to meddle with the Samsung group’s
restructuring but was speaking up for fairness.
The approval of the takeover does not
necessarily mean full-hearted support from
South Korean shareholders. Some said they
supported the deal out of a sense of patriotism
even though they believed its terms were
unfair. South Korea has a history of hostility to
foreign investors.
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“People with C&T shares are crying and those
with Cheil shares are smiling. It’s too unfair,” an
elderly shareholder told the meeting before the
vote. He said he would vote for the deal, but
expressed displeasure with Samsung C&T board
of directors.
“There are a lot of people who are just biting
the bullet,” he said.
Analysts said it would have been difficult for
South Korean asset management companies
to speak publicly against a deal that was
supported by the country’s most powerful
business group. Samsung companies, including
South Korea’s largest life insurer Samsung Life
Insurance, are clients or potential clients for
many of them.
With few predicting the result with certainty,
Samsung engaged in an all-out effort to drum
up support. In the days leading up to the vote,
Samsung C&T took out television and front-
page newspaper ads asking shareholders to
vote for the takeover.
Some of its last-ditch actions raised eyebrows.
It mobilized employees to visit the workplaces
and homes of shareholders with mango
juice and watermelon. Some shareholders
complained Samsung had shared their private
information with Samsung employees.
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Matters took an ugly turn when business
publications used anti-Semitic smears to
attack Elliott and its founder Paul Singer.
Samsung C&T on Wednesday removed
cartoons it had posted online that depicted
Singer as a ravenous big-beaked vulture.
Few bought Samsung’s argument that the
takeover would create business benefits.
The deal was instead seen as crucial for the
once-in-a-generation leadership transition
underway at Samsung, which has accelerated
since patriarch Lee Kun-hee, 73, was
hospitalized after suffering a heart attack in
May last year.
His son Lee Jae-yong does not have a major
shareholding in Samsung Electronics Co., the
crown jewel in the Samsung empire. Inheriting
his father’s shares in Samsung Electronics or
his stakes in other key Samsung firms that
have stakes in the consumer electronics giant
would incur heavy inheritance taxes that could
exceed $5 billion.
But Lee, 47, is a major shareholder in Cheil
thanks to shares he was effectively gifted
before the company went public. With Cheil’s
takeover of Samsung C&T, Lee will control its
4.1 percent stake in Samsung Electronics that
would cost him about $6 billion if he had to
buy the shares from other shareholders.
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UBER VS. DE
BLASIO IN FIGHT
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NYC STREETS
A dispute is simmering between the ride-
booking service Uber and Mayor Bill de Blaiso’s
City Hall, an increasingly pitched disagreement
playing out on smartphones, over the airwaves
and in the press over a fundamental question
Who controls access to the streets of the
nation’s largest city
By the day, more and more Uber cars have
taken to Manhattan’s streets, summoned by
smartphone apps to pick up passengers who
enjoy their convenience and consent to pay
additional surge pricing during peak hours.
The de Blasio administration is attempting to
put the brakes on the robust expansion, saying
that the flood of new cars could further ensnarl
Manhattan’s clogged streets and arguing that
the Uber system isn’t equitable for drivers and
residents. Uber, however, accuses the mayor
of being in the back pocket of the yellow taxi
industry, attempting to stifle free enterprise
and innovation while hurting the low-income
neighborhoods that make up the core of his
political support.
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A pivotal moment in the feud could come
as early as next week, as the City Council
considers legislation that would put a cap on
Uber’s growth.
We cannot afford to have unlimited,
unregulated growth of Uber, said First Deputy
Mayor Tony Shorris. We have real concerns
about congestion.
We are already seeing traffic speeds in
Manhattan falling, said Shorris. That is already
having an impact on the city’s economy, on
air quality and potentially an impact on public
safety. And at least one reason why that might
be true is the enormous growth of Uber.
The company has spread across the globe
and become wildly successful, worth an
estimated $40 billion, while dispatching
25,000 cars on New York’s streets, as opposed
to 13,000 yellow taxis. It’s also become a
political flashpoint, as Republican presidential
candidates hail it as a model of the free market
while some Democrats - including de Blasio -
have expressed reservations.
San Francisco-based Uber has howled at the
de Blasio administration’s attempts to slow its
growth. Its leaders, including chief adviser David
Plouffe, met with Shorris on Monday but, after
the meeting failed to yield a resolution, the
company sharpened its attacks.
It debuted a de Blasio mode on its app that
projects increased wait time if a cap is instituted.
And on Friday, it aired a TV commercial that
claimed the cap would hardest hit minorities in
outer-borough neighborhoods who sometimes
have trouble getting yellow taxis.
Mayor de Blasio’s plan to stop Uber will cost
10,000 jobs, hurt undeserved areas and make
wait times for Uber cars skyrocket, Plouffe said
this week. It’s not progressive and not right.
Uber claimed that City Hall is acting under
pressure from yellow cab operators who are
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worried about falling taxi medallion values - and
who are significant donors to de Blasio and some
council members.
The administration scoffed at the idea, noting
that Uber has sparked unrest and litigation
in London, Paris and California. Shorris also
noted that Uber cars are not as accessible to
disabled riders as yellow taxis and do not have
a surcharge that helps fund the region’s transit
network.
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concern from people in the outer boroughs from
this $40 billion California-based company and its
lobbyists, Shorris said.
The City Council plan, which has the
administration’s support, proposes limiting
Uber’s growth for a year while a study is
conducting the impact the service has on the
city’s traffic. Uber, which opposes all limits to its
growth, is against the measure.
A vote on the legislation in the City Council could
happen as early as next week.
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Apple’s stock slid sharply on Tuesday after the
company reported strong iPhone sales but
remained coy about the performance of its new
smartwatch.
While not releasing specific figures for the Apple
Watch, Apple reported total results for several
products, including the watch, that suggest
sales were lower than many Wall Street analysts
expected. The company also issued a revenue
forecast for the current quarter that suggested
sales could fall below analysts’ prior estimates.
Apple’s latest financial report shows the iPhone is
still the key engine of the company’s success. The
California tech giant said it sold more than 47.5
million iPhones during the three months ending in
June, or 35 percent more than a year ago.
But top executives stood by their decision not
to disclose results for the Apple Watch, saying
the information could be used by competitors.
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Many analysts and investors see the watch as an
important indicator of the company’s ability to
produce successful new products.
In one tantalizing clue, Apple reported $2.6
billion in revenue from the segment that
includes the watch and several other products,
or about $952 million more than the previous
quarter, when the watch had not yet gone
on sale. That’s significantly less than the $1.8
billion in watch sales that analysts surveyed by
FactSet were expecting.
Apple’s stock fell nearly 6 percent in late
trading, indicating investors weren't satisfied
with the report. Apple also forecast that
revenue for the quarter ending in September
will fall between $49 billion and $51 billion,
indicating total sales could fall below Wall
Street estimates of $50.8 billion.
Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri told The
Associated Press that revenue from the watch
amounted to “well over” that $952 million
increase. He said the category also includes
revenue from iPods and accessories, whose sales
fell in the quarter.
“We beat our internal expectations” for the
watch, Maestri said, adding that the number of
watches sold in the first nine weeks was greater
than the number of iPhones or iPads that the
company sold in a comparable period after those
products launched.
Apple has previously said it sold 1 million iPhones
in the first 74 days, or more than 10 weeks, after
sales began in 2007. Apple has said it sold 2
million iPads in the first 60 days, with iPad sales
hitting 3 million in 80 days after the iPad was
launched in 2010.
For the latest quarter, Apple said revenue
from all sources grew 33 percent from last
year to $49.6 billion in the April-June quarter,
with the iPhone contributing $31.4 billion in
sales. Net income climbed nearly 38 percent
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to $10.7 billion, while earnings amounted to
$1.85 per share. That beat the estimates of Wall
Street analysts surveyed by FactSet, who were
expecting Apple to report earnings of $1.81 per
share on sales of $49.25 billion.
The iPhone’s performance was especially
notable because it’s been nine months since
Apple introduced its latest iPhone 6 and 6 Plus
models. Consumer demand for new models
usually wanes as time passes, but Apple’s sales
are continuing to grow faster than they did in a
comparable period after the iPhone 5 went on
the market in 2012.
Apple got a big boost from new markets like
China, which contributed more than a quarter
of the company’s revenue, or $13.2 billion.
China sales more than doubled from a year ago.
Analysts say the company is also benefiting
from its decision to offer bigger screens with
the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, which is helping to lure
consumers away from competing phone-makers
who started selling bigger-screen devices a few
years earlier.
Even so, Apple may have trouble sustaining its
recent growth. In the coming months, it will face
more difficult comparisons against the surge
in sales that followed the iPhone 6 launch last
September. But analysts say the company should
benefit from the size of its user base: Hundreds
of millions of people own older iPhones and are
expected to buy new ones when their two-year
wireless contracts come up for renewal.
Meanwhile, analysts and investors were eager to
learn more about the Apple Watch, which went
on sale in April. While not expected to be an
important revenue source now, the watch has
symbolic importance as the first new product
category that Apple has launched since the 2011
death of founder and iconic CEO Steve Jobs.
“When you look at the next big wave of
innovation, in coming years, it’s not going to
come from smartphones,” said analyst Angelo
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Zino of S&P Capital Markets, who said phones
are already becoming “commodity” items, even
with Apple dominating the high end of that
market. “So a lot of people want to see if Apple
can roll out a new product that’s very successful
and innovative.”
While Apple executives say demand for the
watch has been strong, the absence of official
numbers has left analysts to offer estimates
ranging from rosy to lackluster. Maestri
acknowledged that Apple has released detailed
sales figures for other products, but he said
the company wanted “to be careful” with
information about the watch, to avoid tipping
competitors as Apple learns more about
consumer demand for a new product.
“We know that, for us to be successful, we need
to innovate all the time,” he added. “But when
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Besides the Apple Watch, Apple launched its
Apple Pay electronic payments service last fall
and a streaming music service this month.
The FactSet survey found Wall Street analysts
expected, on average, sales of 4 million watches
in the quarter that ended in June. Bernstein
Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi estimated in a
report last week that Apple would sell 3 million
watches, at an average price of $550, producing
about $1.65 billion in revenue.
The watch is “an important gauge of Apple’s
ability to launch a new product under the
leadership of Tim Cook,” Sacconaghi wrote.
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GOOGLE
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Google’s stock roared out of a long slumber
Friday to produce the biggest shareholder
windfall in U.S. history as investors rewarded
the Internet company for promising to curb its
spending on risky projects.
A 16 percent surge in Google’s publicly traded
stock translated into an additional $65.1 billion
in shareholder wealth, on paper at least.
That barely topped the previous record one-
day gain of $65 billion by Cisco Systems Inc.
in April 2000 after the computer networking
equipment maker had suffered a steep drop
in the previous week, according to S&P Dow
Jones Indices. More recently, iPhone maker
Apple Inc. posted a $46.4 billion one-day
gain in April 2012 after its quarterly earnings
wowed Wall Street.
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Google’s gigantic run-up came after the
Mountain View, California, company reported
quarterly earnings that topped analyst
estimates for the first time since late 2013.
The company’s inability to hit the targets
that steer investors had raised doubts about
Google that had caused its stock to lag the
rest of the market since the end of 2013.
Investors were even more impressed with
a message of newfound austerity delivered
by Google’s new chief financial officer, Ruth
Porat. In prepared remarks and in responses
to analyst questions posed in a late Thursday
conference call, Porat repeatedly stressed
that Google intends to control its costs more
diligently.
The words placated investors who had
become increasingly frustrated with Google’s
penchant for spending on projects that had
little or nothing to do with its man business
of Internet search and advertising - areas that
the company has long dominated.
The expansion into more experimental areas,
such as self-driving cars, Internet-beaming
balloons, and Internet-connected eyewear,
had been contributing to a pattern of Google’s
operating expenses increasing at a faster clip
than its revenue growth.
Although Google has still been making plenty
of money, many investors believed the
company needed to clamp down on expenses.
Google CEO Larry Page and fellow co-founder
Sergey Brin, who wield voting control over the
company, resisted the demands until having
an apparent change of heart in March when
they lured Porat away as CFO at investment
bank Morgan Stanley to take the same job at
Google.
Porat, known for astute budget management,
didn’t start working at Google until late May,
but she has already quickly justified her pay
package of roughly $70 million.
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People are feeling pretty good about Google
now, said S&P Capital 1Q analyst Scott Kessler.
People are saying, ‘Wow, look at what we are
already seeing with Ruth there. Let’s see what
happens when she has time to make a really
positive impact.’
Google’s Class A shares gained $97.84 to
close at $699.62 to leave the company with a
market value of about $469 billion, according
to S&P Dow Jones Indices. That’s still a distant
second among U.S. companies to Apple,
whose market value stands about $747 billion.
That’s still as Google’s Class C shares rose 16.1
percent to $672.93.
The biggest beneficiaries of Google’s rousing
rally were Page and Brin, whose already
vast fortunes each climbed by more than
S4 billion Friday. Google’s 57,000 employees
already also were feeling richer, too, because
they all receive stock as part of their
compensation packages.
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Few people seemed capable of forecasting it
at the time, but when, on October 23, 2001,
in a rented auditorium near its Cupertino
campus, Apple showed off an all-new MP3
player called the iPod, it was on the verge
of overseeing revolutionary change in the
music market. Still, even the biggest breakers
of ground can fade in significance as time
progresses - and, with its introduction of the
streaming service Apple Music, the iPod's
creator might just have hammered one of
the largest nails in the iPod's coffin. But is the
iPod's future really quite that clear?
RATHER QUIET BEGINNINGS FORA
REVOLUTIONARY MUSIC PLAYER
It's acommon story for a new tech product
to be unveiled amid a wave of hype among
the media, who enthuse about the product's
supposedly amazing capabilities and how
these are going to fundamentally alter the
way that we live our lives. However, the
product in question will almost never meet
the success that had been predicted for it,
leaving the same media that had initially sang
its praises to sheepishly file it in the ‘failed
tech products' drawer.
However, Apple has a history of confounding
skeptics. The very first version of the iPod,
which came with a 5 GB hard drive, ARM
processor and large high resolution display,
noticeably departed from the then familiar
style of MP3 players with its scroll wheel,
which could be used to navigate through
tracks much more speedily than was possible
with the comparatively cumbersome
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skip buttons that were standard on many
competing devices.
This scroll wheel function was crucial
because, unlike such devices, the iPod could
allow you to have, as the marketing slogan
at launch put it, "a thousand songs in your
pocket". Many of us could now easily carry
around nearly a hundred albums' worth of
songs to the shop, our friends' houses, the
bus or train, the library... basically, anywhere
where it was practical for us to listen to
an MP3 player. This was a product that
genuinely did fundamentally alter the way
that we lived our lives.
However, even the unique features did little
to win over many members of the public
and press upon the device's introduction.
Many took issue with its high price and lack of
Windows compatibility. Apple later addressed
both of these issues with later iPods, but the
player's true significance would not be widely
realized until years after its introduction.
Today, the iPod line comprises of the Touch,
Nano and Shuffle, all of which were refreshed
by Apple earlier this month. This could be
seen as a sign that Apple remains fully behind
the iPod as a current Apple device, but closer
inspection of the facts muddies the waters.
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IS A POST-iPOD WORLD ABOUT
TO EMERGE?
The freshly-revealed sixth generation
iPod Touch brings a number of significant
enhancements to a product line that
had not been updated since 2012. These
enhancements include an A8 processor and
an 8-megapixel camera, bringing it closer
in specs to the latest iPhones. This update
hardly seems typical of a company preparing
to completely abandon the iPod. However,
we did have to wait three years for it, a
long time in the world of technology, while
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One concrete indication that the iPod is falling
down the Cupertino company's priority list
is the removal of the dedicated tab labeled
‘iPod' on Apple's website, with its place now
taken by a tab focused on Apple Music. This
change could come to seem remarkably
prescient - as, even if the company has no
present plans to cease iPod production,
should Apple Music seriously blossom in
popularity, as we at AppleMagazine have
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already judged likely, the iPod could be
inadvertently pushed even further down
that priority list - until, eventually, finally... it
completely falls off it.
THE POTENTIAL INFLUENCE OF
APPLE MUSIC AND THE APPLE WATCH
The future of music, so we are often told, is in
streaming. Apple has acknowledged this with
its launch of Apple Music, despite having had
great success in the past selling music rather
than putting it out for rental. Apple Music is
also frequently cited by those who continue
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to predict the ringing of the iPod's death knell.
The streaming service, as has recently been
discovered, will not be available on the iPod
Shuffle and Nano. This is obviously due to
these devices' absence of WiFi capabilities,
but even offline listening to Apple Music
songs on the Shuffle and Nano will be barred
in an attempt to prevent piracy.
Intriguingly, Macworld contributor Michael
Simon had recently suggested that Apple
Music could assist in restoring the iPod's
popularity, claiming that "Apple Music is
tailor made for the iPods of yore". He
then unleashed a stream of exciting ideas
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for how elements of Apple Music could be
effectively tooled with the iPod. This was all
before the news that the new Shuffle and
Nano models would not be compatible with
Apple Music; however, it shouldn't be ruled
out that future versions of these iPods could
come with modifications that enable this
compatibility while continuing to account
for privacy concerns.
Whereas the jury is apparently still out on
whether Apple Music will pose a serious
threat to the iPod, another supposed threat
that can be dismissed with greater confidence
is the Apple Watch. Admittedly, the wearable
has not been on the market in enough
countries for sufficiently long for its ultimate
success to be judged yet. However, judging
from much-publicized Google search trends
starting at the time of the announcement
of the Apple Watch last September, the
wearable has often attracted less interest
than the iPod even long before the new
iPods had been unveiled.
PREPARE FOR A DIFFERENT iPOD
WORLD, NOT A POST-iPOD WORLD
Furthermore, it could be argued that the
more gradual updates to the iPod in recent
years should not be considered any big
indication that Apple is slowly winding down
iPod production. In a recent opinion piece
for 9to5Mac, Ben Lovejoy has argued that,
due to the few updates for iPod lines since
2012, the device's visual demotion on Apple's
website, and its maker's recent decision to
stop reporting iPod sales, "continuing to
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maintain the iPod as a current product" is
out of the question, as we "are already some
way down the legacy product path."
We would counter, though, that it shouldn't
strictly be assumed that Apple will abandon
the iPod simply because it lacks the profile
that it once did. Whereas the iPhone and
iPad are sufficiently sophisticated gadgets
to warrant annual releases of new versions
amid huge press attention, iPods have long
been put to more unassuming uses and,
due to their relative simplicity, now call for
meaningful updates only every few years,
rather than every year. Another major factor
that Lovejoy appears to overlook are the low
prices of iPods. Indeed, these prices help to
maintain the popularity of iPods among more
casual Apple followers.
More hardened Apple fans might be excited
about poring over the wealth of new features
in the latest iPhone or Apple Watch, but there
remain enough other people who simply
don't want or need to spend hundreds of
dollars on such advanced devices. And these
people are the least likely to be tempted
by Apple Music, the unique features and
versatility of which are best suited for
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Smartphone sales may be slowing for some tech
companies, but not for Apple.
Analysts expect another powerhouse
performance from the California tech giant when
it reports quarterly financial results Tuesday.
Apple’s signature iPhones remain popular, even
as other smartphone makers are seeing demand
slow down.
Wall Street analysts estimate Apple will report
a hefty $10.3 billion in profit after selling $49
billion worth of iPhones, iPads, Mac computers
and other products during the April-June
quarter. That’s an increase of more than 30
percent in both revenue and profit from the
same period a year earlier.
Apple has said it won’t release sales figures
for the new Apple Watch, though some
analysts believe demand has fallen since Apple
introduced the wearable gadget three months
ago. But it almost doesn’t matter: As in other
recent quarters, Apple will reap its biggest
rewards from its smartphones, especially the
new, big-screen iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models
introduced last fall. Here’s why:
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BIGGER SCREENS ARE POPULAR:
People use smartphones for social networking,
playing games, looking at pictures - far more
than they use them to make calls. And for those
activities, many users prefer a bigger screen.
Several analysts say their studies confirm
Apple CEO Tim Cook’s claim that many recent
iPhone buyers are people who switched
from Android phones. Some consumers were
drawn to Android devices in recent years
because they had bigger screens, but Apple’s
decision to increase the iPhone’s screen size
is persuading Android owners to defect, said
Ryan Reith, who tracks smartphone sales for
the research firm IDC.
Apple likely sold about 47 million iPhones
during the most recent quarter, or 34 percent
more than a year earlier, according to analysts
polled by FactSet.
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iPHONES ARE HUGELY PROFITABLE:
At an average selling price of more than
$600, before carrier subsidies, Apple’s
phones are more expensive than many
competing Android models, but they also
provide more profit.
While Apple doesn’t break out the numbers,
Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley
estimates that during the first three months
of 2015, Apple reaped 92 percent of the $16.6
billion in operating profit generated from
smartphones by companies around the world.
Samsung sold more phones than Apple
during that period, but many of them were
lower-priced models, giving Samsung only
about 15 percent of the industry’s operating
profits, according to Walkley. He estimates
other companies operated their smartphone
business at a loss or broke even.
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2015, while Samsung had 24.5 percent of the
market, according to IDC. But Samsung has said
it expects a drop in profit for the April-June
quarter, apparently because sales of its new
Galaxy S6 models fell short of expectations.
HTC has also lowered its revenue forecast for
the quarter, as it blamed weak sales in China and
lower demand for high-end Android phones.
Microsoft, meanwhile, is cutting 7,600 jobs
and writing down the value of its Nokia phone
division by $7.6 billion, essentially acknowledging
that its effort to build a business selling Windows
smartphones had failed. Microsoft also reports
earnings Tuesday.
Although each company has its own issues,
experts say smartphone sales are slowing
in many developed countries because most
people already own one. IDC is forecasting an 11
percent increase in global smartphone sales this
year, but that’s down from 28 percent in 2014.
Phone makers using Google’s Android operating
system will see even slower growth of about 8.5
percent. But IDC predicts iPhone sales will grow
by 23 percent this year.
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bump when Apple releases new models this fall.
Analysts say a majority of iPhone owners are
still using older models, such as the iPhone 4 or
5. As a result, they say, those users are likely to
buy new iPhones when their two-year wireless
contracts expire.
The picture isn’t quite as rosy for some other
Apple products. Sales of the once-vaunted iPad
tablet computer have been declining for several
quarters. And while the company says demand
for the Apple Watch is strong, analysts have
produced estimates that range from bullish to
lackluster.
Though Apple has often trumpeted sales results
for new products, Cook has said he doesn’t want
to reveal Apple Watch figures for competitive
reasons. Instead, Apple will lump revenue from
the watch into its “Other Products” category,
which includes the iPod media player, Apple TV
streaming device and Beats headphones.
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Clouds of Sils Maria
Now a global star, actress Maria Enders
(Juliette Binoche) gets to take a role in a re-
staging of a play that made her famous two
decades ago. However, she will play not her
old role of alluring young Sigrid, but instead
that of the elder Helena. Enders rehearses
accompanied by her assistant (Kristen
Stewart) before becoming unsettled by the
young starlet (Chloé Grace Moretz) lined up to
play Sigrid.
FIVE FACTS:
1. Clouds of Sils Maria is written and directed
by Olivier Assayas.
2. It was screened at the Cannes Film Festival,
the Toronto International Film Festival and the
New York Film Festival.
3. Accolades include a Louis Delluc Prize
for Best Film and a César Award for Kristen
Stewart.
4. Binoche has revealed that she took a
role in the 2014 blockbuster Godzilla
to ensure that her character in Clouds
of Sils Maria was more believable when
mentioning acting in blockbusters.
5. The French fashion house Chanel provided
clothes, jewelry and makeup to the actresses
and also contributed to the budget to enable
the movie to be shot on 35-mm film
instead of digitally.
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Lila & Eve
After her son’s murder, grieving mother
Lila (Viola Davis) meets Eve Jennifer
Lopez), whose daughter has died in tragic
circumstances, at a support group. Lila is
dissatisfied with how the police respond to
the injustice surrounding her son’s death,
so Eve tells her that she should personally
pursue the killers. Eve joins Lila in this
mission, which involves no shortage of
violence in a chase for justice.
FIVE FACTS:
1. The involvement of Lopez and Davis
in this movie was announced back in
December 2013.
2. At that early stage, the film was described
as a cross between Thelma & Louise and
Fight Club. Price: $12.99
3. Lila & Eve was released both in theaters
and through on demand on July 17, 2015. aa K Ke
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4. The first choice to play Eve was
Charlize Theron, but she turned it down,
likely because she was already contracted to
the similarly dark thriller Dark Places.
5. Lila & Eve is the first movie that Lopez
and Davis have appeared in together since
1998's Out of Sight.
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Ant-Man
(Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack)
Various Artists
If you are one of the millions who have
reacted warmly to the first major film starring
surely the world's tiniest superhero, you
can now also get no small - ha! - pleasure
from listening to the soundtrack. Alongside
an extensive score by Christophe Beck is
included some classic songs, among them
Roy Ayers’“Escape” and the Commodores “I'm
Ready”.
FIVE FACTS:
1. The then director of the Ant-Man movie,
Edgar Wright, tweeted in February 2014
that the film would be scored by Steven
Price, who had recently composed for
another big movie, Gravity.
2. However, Wright left the project in early
2014, and Price followed.
3. Christophe Beck, Price’s replacement,
has commented: “What makes this score
stand out among other Marvel movies ...
is a sneaky sense of fun since it is, after all,
not only a superhero movie, but also a heist
comedy.’
4. Beck is a brother of the Canadian musician
Chilly Gonzales, whose collaborators have
included the popular French electronic outfit
Daft Punk.
5. Roy Ayers’“Escape” was also on the
soundtrack for Quentin Tarantino's Jackie
Brown in 1997.
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Neon Future
(feat. Luke Steele) _
[Remixes]
Steve Aoki
For American electro house musician Steve
Aoki's second studio album Neon Future
| released last year, Empire of the Sun's
Australian frontman Luke Steele contributed
vocals to the track“Neon Future” It was a
match made in electronic music heaven, and
now fans of both artists can hear a raft of
remixes of the track.
FIVE FACTS:
1. Aoki set up his own record label, Dim
Mak, from his apartment at the University
of California, Santa Barbara.
2. Acts that Aoki has remixed include
the Jackson 5, Kanye West, Eminem, Girls
Generation, Lenny Kravitz, The Killers and
Robin Thicke.
3. His second studio album Neon Future | is,
in a sense, actually the first half of an album.
It was released on September 30, 2014 and
was followed by the release of Neon Future
Il on May 12, 2015.
4. The two Neon Future albums have different
themes. According to Aoki, the first album
is more party-themed, while its follow-up
is “darker” and more “emotional”.
5. Ina recently-released video for the song
“Neon Future’, Aoki appears as a cyborg
rebelling agaings his
loffreceived enough
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Neon Future Studio Sessions
CHEATING WEBSITE ASHLEY MADISON —___
HACKED, PERSONAL INFO POSTED ff
The parent company of Ashley Madison, a
matchmaking website for cheating spouses, says
it was hacked and that the personal information
of some of its users was posted online.
In addition, the person or persons behind the
attack are threatening to release all of the site’s
personal information - including its members’
sexual fantasies and financial information - if the
company doesn’t take Ashley Madison offline,
according to a prominent security blog.
Toronto-based Avid Life Media Inc. says it has
had the hackers’ posts - which included snippets
of personal information - taken down and has
hired a technology security firm. The company
and law enforcement agencies are investigating.
The breach was first reported late Sunday by
Brian Krebs of KrebsonSecurity, a website that
focuses on cybersecurity. Ashley Madison,
whose slogan is Life is short. Have an affair,
purports to have 37 million members.
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The hacking follows the May breach of the
dating website Adult FriendFinder, which
involved the theft of names, email addresses
and information about the sexual orientation or
habits of up to 4 million of that site’s members.
According to Krebs, the hacker or hackers, in
the Ashley Madison breach identified as The
Impact Team, posted large caches of data
from the Ashley Madison site, claiming to have
compromised user databases, financial records
and other information.
Besides random personal data from members,
the hackers also posted maps of the company’s
internal servers, employee network account
information, company bank account data and
salary information, Krebs says.
The hacker or hackers also posted a manifesto
alongside the data, accusing Avid Life Media of
lying to its customers about a $19 service that
would scrub all of their personal information
from its data bases, saying that the data doesn’t
actually go away, Krebs says.
The hackers say that if Avid Life does not
take its Ashley Madison and Established
Men sites offline, it will release all of the
company’s information - including customer
records, nude photos, sexual desires,
online conversations, matching credit card
transactions, real names and addresses,
along with employee documents and emails -
according to a screen capture of the hackers’
manifesto posted by Krebs.
Avid Life released a statement Monday
morning saying that it has been able to secure
its sites and close the back doors into its
systems.
We are working with law enforcement
agencies, which are investigating this criminal
act, the company’s statement reads. Any and
all parties responsible for this act of cyber-
terrorism will be held responsible.
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SpaceX suspects a 2-foot steel strut snapped
inside its rocket and led to last month’s launch
accident.
The company’s founder and chief executive,
Elon Musk, said Monday that hundreds of these
struts had flown many times before without
any problem. But two minutes into the June 28
launch, one of the struts in the second stage of
the unmanned Falcon 9 rocket likely broke loose.
The strut was holding down a high-pressure
helium bottle in the liquid oxygen tank. If the
strut snapped as engineers believe, according
to Musk, the bottle would have shot to the top
of the tank at high speed, dooming the rocket
and its Dragon supply ship for the International
Space Station.
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It was the third lost shipment for the orbiting lab
in eight months. Russia has resumed deliveries,
while SpaceX and Orbital Sciences Corp., NASA's
contracted suppliers, remain grounded.
Musk stressed at a news conference that these
are preliminary results. He also noted that the
Dragon could have saved itself, via parachutes, if
the right software had been on board.
He declined to say when the California-based
company might attempt another launch, noting
the strut issue should push out the flights by
maybe just a few months.
“But we want to make sure that we’ve turned
over every piece of data,” Musk said, and make
certain that nothing else is lurking out there.
“To some degree, | think the company as a
whole became maybe a little bit complacent
over the course of seven years and ... essentially
20 successes in a row,” he told reporters.
Preflight photos showed all of the struts to be
fine. But after the failed launch, a few struts on
the ground were found to be weak, and that’s
the basis for SpaceX’s initial assessment of the
accident, Musk told reporters.
The findings tend to jive with the over-
pressurization of the second stage detected in
the immediate aftermath of the accident. The
rocket’s first stage still was operating fine and
had yet to separate.
The struts are 2 feet long and about an inch thick
at its thickest. SpaceX does not make the struts,
a supplier does. From now on, each one will be
individually checked, Musk said, and the design
and material may be altered for added strength.
The struts are designed to handle 10,000 pounds
of force at liftoff; at the time of the accident,
they would have been seeing only 2,000 pounds
of force. A failure at such a low threshold is
“oretty crazy,” Musk said. The strut most likely
vg failed at its attachment point, he added.
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Another change: Beginning with its next
launch, each Dragon cargo carrier will be
equipped with software for deploying its
parachutes. The Dragon destroyed last month,
along with an estimated $110 million worth
of NASA equipment and supplies, would have
survived if the parachutes normally used for
descent at mission’s end could have been
activated, Musk said.
Future Dragon crew capsules, still a couple years
away from launching with astronauts, already
have a means for emergency escape.
Musk pointed out that his company had about
500 employees at the time of the last SoaceX
rocket failure seven years ago; now it has 4,000.
Most employees consequently had only seen
success - until June 28 - which means they might
not have feared failure quite as much, he said.
Musk, who also runs the Tesla electric car
company, said before every launch, he would
send out a companywide email encouraging
workers to let him know if there is any possible
reason for delaying the flight. He realizes some
thought he was being paranoid. Indeed, there
was “an extreme level of paranoia in the whole
team” during the early days of SpaceX’s rocket
building with the Falcon 1, he said.
“But | think now everyone at the company
appreciates just how difficult it is to get rockets
to orbit successfully,” he said, “and | think we'll
be stronger for it.”
Online:
SpaceX: http://www.spacex.com/
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To sleep, perchance to... ward off Alzheimer’s?
New research suggests poor sleep may
increase people’s risk of Alzheimer’s disease,
by spurring a brain-clogging gunk that in
turn further interrupts shut-eye. Disrupted
sleep may be one of the missing pieces in
explaining how a hallmark of Alzheimer’s, a
sticky protein called beta-amyloid, starts its
damage long before people have trouble with
memory, researchers reported Monday at
the Alzheimer’s Association International
Conference. “It’s very clear that sleep
disruption is an underappreciated factor,”
said Dr. Matthew Walker of the University
of California, Berkeley, who presented data
linking amyloid levels with people’s sleep
and memory performance. “It’s a new
player on the scene that increases risk of
Alzheimer’s disease.”
Sleep problems are treatable - and a key
next question is whether improving sleep
can make a difference in protecting seniors’
brains.
“Sleep is a modifiable factor. It’s a new
treatment target,” Walker said.
Enough sleep is important for good health
generally - seven to eight hours a night are
recommended for adults. When it comes to
the brain, scientists have long known that
people who don’t get enough have trouble
learning and focusing. And anyone who’s
cared for someone with dementia knows
the nightly wandering and other sleep
disturbances that patients often suffer, long
thought to be a consequence of the dying
brain cells.
The new research suggests that sleep
problems actually interact with some of the
disease processes involved in Alzheimer’s,
and that those toxic proteins in turn affect the
deep sleep that’s so important for memory
formation.
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“It may be a vicious cycle,” said Dr. Miroslaw
Mackiewicz of the National Institute on Aging,
who wasn’t part of the new work.
Walker’s team gave PET scans to 26
cognitively healthy volunteers in their 70s to
measure build-up of that gunky amyloid. They
were given words to memorize, and their
brain waves were measured as they slept
overnight.
The more amyloid people harbored ina
particular brain region, the less deep sleep
they got - and the more they forgot overnight,
Walker said. Their memories weren’t
transferred properly from the brain’s short-
term memory bank into longer-term storage.
What’s the risk over time? Two sleep studies
tracked nearly 6,000 people over five years,
and found those who had poor sleep quality
- they tossed and turned and had a hard time
falling asleep - were more likely to develop
mild cognitive impairment, early memory
problems that sometimes lead to Alzheimer’s,
said Dr. Kristine Yaffe of the University of
California, San Francisco.
Sleep apnea - brief interruptions of breathing
that repeatedly awaken people without them
realizing - caused a nearly two-fold increase
in that risk, Yaffe said. She recommended that
people at risk of Alzheimer’s be screened for
sleep disorders, especially apnea, which has
effective treatment.
“There’s a lot of evidence that we need to pay
more attention” to sleep in seniors, she said.
Animal studies give clues to the biology
behind these changes. Dr. David Holtzman
of Washington University in St. Louis
reported a series of mice experiments that
found amyloid production is highest during
waking hours and lowest during deep
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sleep. Depriving mice of sleep spurred toxic
amyloid build-up and, intriguingly, once
those deposits began, the mice stayed awake
longer on their own. Holtzman also checked
Alzheimer’s other bad actor, the protein tau
that forms tangles in the brain, and found
the same effect on deep sleep.
Another hint came a few years ago, when
University of Rochester scientists reported
that the brain uses sleep to flush out toxic
debris. They injected mice brains with amyloid
and watched it clear faster while they slept.
The work comes as researchers hunt ways
to prevent a coming wave of Alzheimer’s
as the population ages, driven by the baby
boomer generation that begins turning 70
next year. More than 5 million Americans
already have Alzheimer’s, a number expected
to more than double by 2050. Changes that
lead to Alzheimer’s can begin 20 years before
memory lapses, and scientists are studying
drugs in people at high risk in hopes of finding
preventive treatment.
But so far, lifestyle changes are the main
recommendation, and starting early seems
important. Yaffe also reported Monday
that younger adults who get little physical
activity have worse cognitive functioning by
middle age. In Sweden, Karolinska Institute
researchers tracked down seniors’ long-ago
report cards to find that school performance
at age 9 or 10 predicted who was already
building a better “cognitive reserve” to guard
against later-in-life decline. “There are lots
of risk factors we might be able to change.
Sleep is one,” said Alzheimer’s Association
chief science officer Maria Carrillo. Together,
she said, the new research emphasizes how
“sleep is critical as we age.”
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PayPal shares jumped in its first day as a
separate and publicly traded company as the
firm outlined plans to capitalize on the rise of
mobile payments and the growing digitization
of money.
The payments system company officially split
with eBay Inc. on Friday, 10 months after
they announced that they were going their
separate ways.
PayPal processed $235 billion in total payment
volume last year and logged revenue of about
$8 billion. It plans to grow market share
in mobile and online payments as well as
expanding in areas like in-store payments.
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the stock ticker “PYPL,” shares jumped $2.08, or
5.4 percent, to $40.47 on Monday.
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman and employees
rung in the opening bell on the Nasdaq, while
the company gave out food via food trucks in
Times Square and posted passersby’s photos
on Nadsaq’s seven-story digital billboard to
commemorate the listing.
In an interview with The Associated Press
on Monday, Schulman said that being an
independent company gives PayPal the ability
to work with companies that might have
hesitated before the split due to its association
with eBay.
“One of the big advantages for us is truly we
now are world’s leading neutral third-party
payments provider and that will allow us the
Opportunity to partner with a number of
companies across the world who before the
separation either directly competed with eBay
or had a perceived potential conflict with
eBay,” he said. “And now we are free to work
with any of them.”
But similar to before the separation, the
company’s focus is to grow its relationship with
merchants and consumers, he added.
“We want to be much more than a proprietary
button on merchants’ websites,” he said. “We
want to be a full-services partner to them as
they look to use mobile tech to create more
intimate relationship with their customers.”
PayPal plans to grow market share with online
and mobile payments, as well as in-store
payments, he said.
“As we see the proliferation of mobile devices
and the digitization of money explode across
the world, we have an opportunity to follow
those trends very naturally in the online space
and in the app space, and now to the in-store
experience,” he said.
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coverage on the company with an
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target, meaning he expects the stock to reach
S45 over the next year.
“We view PayPal as part of a select group
of online platform companies that are well
positioned for long-term growth and market
share expansion,” he said. “More specifically,
PayPal is setting the global standard for online
payments with trusted consumer brands and
significant scale and reach.”
Shares of eBay, based in San Jose, California,
rose 67 cents, or 2.4 percent to $28.57.
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