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YOUTH DAY USING TABLET
Pope Francis opened the registration period for
next year’s World Youth Day in Poland, using
a tablet computer to sign himself up from a
window overlooking St. Peter’s Square during
the traditional Sunday blessing.
The pontiff was joined by two young people as
he extended an invitation to the world’s Roman
Catholic youth to join him in Krakow from July
25-31, 2016.
In Krakow, an electronic clock was installed on
the Renaissance Holy Mary Basilica to count
the days remaining until the event, initiated by
Polish-born St. John Paul Il. The late pontiff’s
secretary, Card. Stanislaw Dziwisz, celebrated
a Mass to draw attention to the youth festival,
while Krakow residents danced a traditional
Polonaise dance in the vast Market Square in a
gesture of invitation.
Image: Riccardo De Luca
At the Vatican, the young man and young
woman joined Francis in prayer for the release
of the Rev. Paolo Dall’Oglio, kidnapped two
years ago in Syria as well as for the release
of Orthodox bishops being held “and all the
other people in conflict zones who have been
kidnapped.”
Francis called for renewed action by local and
international authorities to win their release
from captivity.
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NOW BIGGEST
TRADITIONAL TV
PROVIDER IN US
Even as TV watchers increasingly go online, AT&T
has become the country’s biggest traditional
TV provider with its $48.5 billion purchase of
DirecTV.
It got its regulatory approval Friday from the
Federal Communications Commission after
more than a year. The Justice Department had
already cleared the deal on Tuesday.
AT&T Inc. now has 26.4 million cable and satellite
TV subscribers.
That’s more than Comcast as well as a bigger
Charter, which is seeking government approval
to buy Time Warner Cable.
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Suppliers of TV are buying one another as video
from Internet competitors like Netflix gets
more popular and costs rise for channels.
Adding TV customers gives AT&T more power
to negotiate with big media companies over
prices for those channels.
The deal also combines a nationwide satellite
TV service, the country’s largest, with the No. 2
nationwide wireless network as time spent on
mobile devices increases. DirecTV also has 19.5
million customers in Latin America, where AT&T
wants to grow.
“We'll now be able to meet consumers’
future entertainment preferences, whether
they want traditional TV service with premier
programming, their favorite content on a
mobile device, or video streamed over the
Internet to any screen,” said AT&T CEO Randall
Stephenson in a statement.
What could change for customers? AT&T said
that it will launch new TV, Internet and mobile
phone bundles in the coming weeks.
AT&1’s purchase of DirecTV was approved even
as Comcast’s bid for Time Warner Cable, which
would have made the country’s biggest cable
company even more massive, was blocked. The
AT&T deal did not trigger the same fears from
consumer advocates because the company
wouldn’t contain an entertainment division
like Comcast’s NBCUniversal and wouldn’t gain
Internet customers, considered the future of
the industry, by buying DirecTV.
The FCC repeated Friday that it had set certain
requirements for the merger, which it had
disclosed on Tuesday when the head of the
agency announced his support for the deal.
Among these are that AT&T has to expand a
fiber network that can handle fast Internet
speeds to 12.5 million possible customers,
which it says compensates for the loss of a
video option in markets where AT&T’s U-verse
cable service had competed with DirecTV’s
satellite TV service. The agency said the fiber
network requirement will help Internet video
competitors reach customers.
AT&T said Friday that including that 12.5
million requirement, its all-fiber Internet
network will reach more than 14 million
potential subscribers. Analyst Craig Moffett
of MoffettNathanson had said before the
deal’s close was announced that AT&T would
probably build the fiber in markets where it
already operates a slower Internet network.
“In terms of increasing competition, AT&T has
been claiming that bundling with DirecTV will
help it compete better with cable. | think that
is incrementally the case in some limited set
of markets,” said John Bergmayer, a senior
staff attorney with public-interest group Public
Knowledge.
Another way the agency wants to try to
promote video competition is by forbidding
AT&T to make a potential online video service
of its own not eat up data under the cap
imposed by the company on its home Internet
customers. If AT&T did that, it could make
its own service more appealing compared
with Netflix, for example, because streaming
Netflix would count toward the data cap and
potentially could trigger additional fees if a
customer went over the cap.
AT&T also has to offer home Internet to low-
income customers without making them buy
phone or TV service too. AT&T said that it will
offer Internet to households that qualify for
food stamps for $10 a month or less. The speed
available will be 10 megabits per second or
slower, less than the 25 Mbps the FCC has set
as the benchmark for high-speed Internet.
The FCC said there will be an independent
compliance officer to monitor how AT&T abides
by these conditions.
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that have so long persisted in popular culture
that you hardly need to be a thoroughly
experienced gamer to know who they are -
think Pac-Man and Donkey Kong. However,
these characters will be especially meaningful
to many whose gaming infancy was in the
1980s, and those people are the most likely
to appreciate Pixels, the new Adam Sandler
comedy that casts giant digital recreations of
retro gaming icons as amusingly surprising
threats to humanity.
THE HEIGHT OF SILLINESS AWAITS
WITH PIXELS
As you have likely already gathered by now,
the concept of Pixels is utterly bonkers.
However, unlike the raft of superhero
movies that have been occupying theater
screens practically non-stop this summer,
Pixels clarifies early, even in its previously-
released trailers, that it is never asking to be
taken seriously. And, if the mere presence of
comedy heavyweights Adam Sandler, Josh
Gad and Kevin James in the leading cast
doesn't make this clear, the sight of James'
character shooting a cute digital Smurf and
muttering to his cohorts "don't tell anybody |
killed a Smurf" certainly should.
Sandler takes center stage as Sam Brenner,
who was a champion Pac-Man player in
the 1980s and has been called upon by his
childhood friend, the current US President
Will Cooper played by James, to help him
to defeat huge virtual recreations of games
characters including - yes - Pac-Man and
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Donkey Kong, plus Space Invaders and
Centipede, before they destroy the planet.
These vicious characters are the tools of aliens
who, having seen video-feeds of classic arcade
games that had been put into a time capsule
sent into outer space by NASA to attempt
peaceful contact with extraterrestrial life, have
misinterpreted these feeds as declaring war.
Okay, NASA, so that was a bit of a blunder...
Brenner and Cooper are joined in their
lovably daft mission by Ludlow Lamonsoff,
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a chronically socially inept avid conspiracy
theorist played by Josh Gad, and Eddie Plant,
who was once Brenner's gaming nemesis and
has been modeled in physical image and
character on the real-life Pac-Man gaming
champion Billy Mitchell. Also part of the
team battling the quirky threat is weapons
developer and military specialist Lieutenant
Colonel Violet van Patten, portrayed by the
often unjustly overlooked - and, ahem, just
lovely - Michelle Monaghan.
FROM A TWO MINUTE DISTRACTION
TO A105 MINUTE POTENTIAL
BLOCKBUSTER
The original inspiration for the movie was an
animated short film of the same name that
was written and directed by Patrick Jean and
told of classic characters from video-gaming
yesteryear invading New York City. However,
whereas that film, which was released in April
2010 and named the best short film at the
Annecy International Animated Film Festival
in 2011, lasted only two minutes, the new
movie clocks in at 105 minutes! For fans of
the short film, then, the feature-length Pixels
promises to be like enjoying a whole tub of ice
cream that they previously could only sample
a single spoonful of...
The earliest news that Columbia Pictures
and Sandler's production company Happy
Madison Productions were preparing to
make a feature-length movie based on Jean's
work came on May 12, 2010. It was revealed
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that Sandler's company had acquired the
rights to the work, which had become a
viral hit, and intended to make it in 3D - an
excellent idea, given how much computer-
generated visuals suit the 3D effect on a big
screen, and an idea that has unsurprisingly
survived to the finished film.
Though it took a few more years for a
satisfying script to be put together, there was
a big coup for Happy Madison when, in May
2013, it was reported that Chris Columbus,
most famous for having helped to launch
the blockbuster Harry Potter film franchise,
was in talks to direct Pixels. Columbus
indeed ended up in the director's chair,
and he certainly must have seemed an apt
choice, his directorial track record including
such popular family-friendly fare as the first
two Home Alone movies and the Robin
Williams vehicle Mrs. Doubtfire.
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FAMILIAR DIGITAL FACES, BUT LESS
FAMILIAR STREETS
Nonetheless, the PG-13 rating attached to
Pixels demonstrates that teenagers, not
children, are the youngest target audience
- and it's sensible to suggest that audiences
much older than this are the most likely to
be, ironically, giggling like children when they
recognize one classic game character after
another hurtling around city streets on screen.
A particularly good reason that they have to
be appreciative of this is that the filmmakers
needed permission from the companies that
own these characters before they could be
included in the film.
The film's producer, Allen Covert, revealed that
his team approached the well-known retro
games featured in Pixels "with a deep love for
their characters and a respect for the elements
that make them unique and iconic, and we've
worked with the companies to incorporate
those elements into the film". So, people who
were regularly gaming at arcade machines in
the 1980s can rest assured that, when they
go to see Pixels, they can expect genuinely
accurate and faithful depictions of these
legendary characters. It should be much like
saying "hello" again to old friends from school...
What these viewers are less likely to recognize,
however, are the supposed streets of New
York City that appear in the movie. During
principal photography, which began on June
2, 2014, downtown streets of the Canadian
city of Toronto were dressed to resemble
NYC streets. The production crew even added
"stairs" for recreating the look of an NYC
subway! Toronto was also used for shooting
scenes set in Washington, D.C.; Bay Street was,
last August, seen decorated with damaged
vehicles as filming took place.
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ACCORDING TO THE CRITICS, IT'S LIKE
AN ARCADE GAME, BUT...
So, has all of this careful effort resulted in
a pleasing reaction from the critics? The
answer to that question is... no. At the
time that we write this, the movie has a
Tomatometer rating of just 19% on the film
reviews compilation site Rotten Tomatoes.
This is hardly resounding confirmation that
Sandler's and Columbus's work here has been
worthwhile, though the poor critical reaction
is apt in at least one sense. The Critical
Consensus on Rotten Tomatoes reads that
Pixels, "like the worst arcade games from the
era that inspired it, ... has little replay value
and is hardly worth a quarter."
One overriding perception to gain from
the reviews is that Pixels is basically a very
standard Adam Sandler comedy, except with
the glossier sheen of the CGI that wowed
in the trailers. The San Francisco Examiner's
Jeffrey M. Anderson writes that, though the
movie "has a few laughs and a few nostalgic
riffs", there comes a time when, "like an old
arcade game, the whole thing feels two-
dimensional, and all surface." ScreenRant's
Ben Kendrick despondently opines: "Despite
a solid premise and talented supporting cast,
Pixels is another shallow addition to Adam
Sandler's product line."
Rentrak estimated on Sunday that Pixels
made $24 million in revenue over its first
weekend in theaters in the US and Canada,
only narrowly missing out on the box office
top spot to Ant-Man, which was thought to
have grossed $24.8 million over the same
period. So, can the movie make back the
$88 million that it cost to make? Our own
opinion is that negative word of mouth and
competition from better-received holdover
movies like Jurassic World and Minions mean
that any popularity that the Sandler comedy
gets is likely to be short-lived. In rather sharp
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COULD TWITTER
STOP THE NEXT
TERRORIST
ATTACK?
Social media giants including Twitter, Yahoo,
Facebook and Google are pushing back against
Senate legislation that would require them to
alert federal authorities of any terrorist activity,
according to industry and government officials.
In private meetings on Capitol Hill, industry
officials have told lawmakers and congressional
staff that they already ban grisly content like
beheadings and alert law enforcement if they
suspect someone might get hurt, as soon as they
are aware of a threat.
But tech officials also said they worry that the
proposed legislation is too broad and would
potentially put companies on the hook legally
if they miss a tweet, video or blog that hints of
an attack. They said the result would probably
be a deluge of tips to law enforcement, making
it tougher for the government to find more
valuable information.
Those interviewed by The Associated Press
spoke on condition of anonymity because of the
ongoing debate over the legislation.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who is backing
the legislation, says requiring social media
companies to tip off law enforcement to a
pending terrorist attack makes sense.
“The FBI and the intelligence community have
made it abundantly clear that the terrorist
threat is severe and increasing, and that those
directing, inspiring and carrying out attacks
make heavy use of social media sites,” Feinstein
told the AP in an emailed statement. “This
provision will help get potentially actionable
information to the agencies responsible
for preventing attacks, without requiring
companies to take any steps to monitor their
sites they aren’t already taking.”
The tech industry in 2013 faced a public relations
nightmare after former government analyst
Edward Snowden leaked details of a massive
government surveillance program that relied
on their cooperation. Company officials said
the law gave them no choice but to supply
consumer data and comply with gag orders
that prevented companies from talking about
it. Still, many consumers and Internet activists
were furious that U.S. businesses had enabled
the government to spy on their customers,
in some cases even charging the government
administrative fees to do it.
Since then, the tech industry has led an
aggressive public push to limit surveillance
requests and increase transparency, adopting
more sophisticated encryption techniques
despite opposition from the Justice Department.
Their primary argument has been that
consumers won't use technology they don’t
trust, and that unnecessary surveillance would
hurt the industry.
At the same time, popular social media sites
have become instrumental in helping terrorist
groups expand their influence, despite
widespread industry policies against posting or
promoting terrorist-related content.
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The Islamic State group and similar groups have
relied heavily on Twitter and Facebook to recruit
followers, while militants post beheading videos
on sites like Google’s YouTube, giving an image
the chance to go viral before being shut down.
In 2013, al-Shabab live tweeted its Westgate
shopping mall massacre, opening up new feeds
even after Twitter shut others down.
“This is not your grandfather’s al-Qaida,” FBI
Director James Comey told the Senate Judiciary
Committee this month. “This is a group of
people using social media to reach thousands
and thousands of followers, find the ones who
might be interested in committing acts of
violence, and then moving them to an (end-to-
end) encrypted messaging app.”
The same week as Comey’s testimony, the
Senate Intelligence Committee endorsed
Feinstein’s proposal that would require
companies that spot terrorist activity on their
networks to alert law enforcement.
Feinstein’s provision, part of the intelligence
authorization bill that still has to be approved
by the Senate, is almost identical to the
law requiring companies to report child
pornography. One exception is that Feinstein’s
provision doesn’t say whether or how a
company would be penalized if it fails to report
terrorist activity, whereas a tech company can
be fined for “knowingly and willfully” failing to
report an image of child pornography.
Tech officials say determining what constitutes
child pornography is easier to do because the
process is more objective. A criminal photograph
can be digitally analyzed and assigned a unique
identifier that be used to find similar images
across networks.
But oftentimes, determining terrorist activity
requires more context. The image of an Islamic
State flag, for example, could appear in a
news article or video clip as well as terrorist
propaganda.
Monika Bickert, head of policy management at
Facebook, said the social media site shares the
government's goal of keeping terrorist content
off the site.
“Our policies on this are crystal clear: We do
not permit terrorist groups to use Facebook,
and people are not allowed to promote or
support these groups on Facebook,” she said.
“We remove this terrorist content as soon as we
become aware of it.”
The House didn’t include a similar provision in
its version of the intelligence bill. A spokesman
for House Intelligence Committee Chairman
Devin Nunes, R-Calif., declined to comment
on the issue.
Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the
House intelligence panel, said there’s “no
question” the Islamic State group uses social
media to disseminate propoganda and recruit
fighters. Schiff, D-Calif., said Congress should
work with the tech industry “to determine the
most effective response.”
Image: Cliff Owen
YOUTUBE MAKES
VIRTUAL REALITY
PUSH WITH
360-DEGREE 3-D
YouTube says it’s making a further push into
virtual reality, promising to add 3-D support for
videos that play back in its 360-degree format.
Thursday’s announcement comes a day after
the debut of the first online 360-degree ad, a
commercial for Bud Light.
Right now, viewers using the mobile YouTube
app or Google’s Chrome browser can pan
around in any direction in the 360-degree
videos. They’re shot using special camera rigs
that look in many directions, and software
stitches together all the video.
Support for 3-D means wearers of headsets
like Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR or Google
Cardboard can see images in three dimensions
as they swivel around to change their view.
YouTube also said it would provide special
camera rigs that support the format at its studios
around the world, including at two locations
opening in the next year in Toronto and Mumbai.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced the
push during VidCon, an annual convention for
fans and creators of online video at the Anaheim
Convention Center.
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We've seen big name artists like Avicii and Bjork
do some breakthrough things with 3-D video,
but we want to empower all of you to chart this
new frontier, she said.
Wojcicki also announced a redesign of YouTube’s
mobile app that allows fans to be notified when
creators they follow post new videos. It also adds
editing tools for filters and music within the app.
The redesign is available for Android devices
right away, with support for Apple devices
coming soon.
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What could be the
future for Windows?
Windows PC sales
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This year marks the twentieth anniversary
of the launch of Microsoft Windows 95 -
and there probably couldn't be a more apt
opportunity for the world to look back at its
launch and legacy. Not just because Microsoft
is now readying for the release of Windows
10, but also because the influence of
Windows PCs has changed dramatically in the
intervening two decades - to the extent that
sales of iOS devices were recently reported
to have matched sales of Windows PCs.
So, is this a reflection of the long term
decline of the market for such PCs, or an
indication of how far Apple have come in
building the popularity of iOS? As you would
imagine, the picture is complex and so both
have had an influence - though, as a chart
posted by respected tech analyst Benedict
Evans to his Twitter page clearly shows,
whereas the growth of iOS's popularity in
recent years has been meteoric, sales of
Windows PCs since peaking in 2011 have
remained consistent, if slightly faltering.
However, in the competitive and fast-
changing world of technology, simply
consistent sales are not good enough. And,
though the release of a new Windows
operating system has traditionally led to a
spike in PC sales, it has been predicted that
these sales will actually fall by 2% even
following the launch of Windows 10. Put
simply, Windows can no longer inspire hype
and excitement like it did with Windows
95 all those years ago. But why? And could
there yet be a more promising future for
Windows PCs?
Image: Mike Segar
MICROSOFT: THE APPLE OF ITS DAY
Before we look to the future, however, let's
look to the past. Specifically, to when, as
Gulf News describes, "Windows 95 was
launched amid midnight store openings,
a Rolling Stones-themed ad blitz and a
Bill Gates-led roadshow". If you have
witnessed the typical scene outside an
Apple Store on the release day of a new
iPhone, you should get a sense of déja vu
when you read, in a New York Times report
dated August 24, 1995, about a young
plumber who ended up spending "last
night's witching hour in a jostling scrum
of technophiles surrounding a waist-high
pile of Windows 95 software boxes at the
CompUSA store in midtown Manhattan."
The operating system even found a
treasured place in popular culture, with
a video in which Jennifer Aniston and
Matthew Perry, the stars of the sitcom
Friends that had began broadcasting just
the year before, check out various features
of Windows 95. Gizmodo, which picks up
on this video, perhaps puts it best when
it observes that "Windows 95 was when
computers stopped being for nerds, and
became something that normal people
might own too." Perhaps it shouldn't
overly surprise, then, that PC sales went up
by 23% in the first year that Windows 95
was on the market.
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A FADING FUTURE FOR WINDOWS AS
A MOBILE PLATFORM
One of the biggest errors that Microsoft has
made since those glory days is underestimate
the growing importance of smartphones and
other mobile devices. As a result, it ultimately
brought too little, too late to those product
categories, and so the future of Windows,
for now, seems largely restricted to devices
more geared towards productivity than
consumption. Still, this is not an entirely
negative situation for Microsoft, as Windows
remains the most popular OS on PCs - and
many tasks, especially in business, remain
best suited to PCs.
Microsoft is set to bring Windows 10 Mobile
to smartphones later this year - probably just
a few weeks after the release of Windows
10 on PCs. Now, Windows 10 Mobile - the
successor to Windows Phone 8.1 - is likely
to have little influence on the smartphone
market, given how much weaker Windows'
smartphone ecosystem is than that of
iOS. However, it seems that Microsoft has
recognized this and so has avoided dedicating
too much attention and resources to tackling
the smartphone market.
Evidence of this includes the opinion of
Kantar analyst Carolina Milanesi, as expressed
to IBTimes UK, that Microsoft will, rather
than tackle this market, "now pursue users
with Windows 10 on other devices and
with services across platforms". Though
she continues to predict future Microsoft
phones, she thinks that these will "most likely
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whether intentionally or unintentionally, in
promoting the PC version of Windows 10 than
smartphones that the mobile version of the
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VITAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN iOS
DEVICES AND WINDOWS PCS
There are several crucial reasons why iOS
devices are on course to start outselling
Windows PCs - and not all of these reasons
have actually been influenced by Windows
itself. One is that smartphones tend to be
updated much more regularly than PCs,
given the especially power-hungry purposes,
like gaming and music streaming, that
they tend to be more frequently put to. As
appealing as Microsoft Office remains for
many businesses, they are unlikely to want
to update it as often as every year.
This helps to explain why Windows machines'
total install base, as Applelnsider points out,
remains 1.5 billion, much bigger than the
total install base of iOS devices. It also assists
in clarifying why recent growth of iOS device
popularity has, as also noted by Applelnsider,
been driven solely by huge growth in iPhone
sales. iPad sales have actually shrunk, and
Benedict Evans has suggested that these
sales should be considered as part of the
declining PC market rather than placed in the
‘mobile’ category alongside the iPhone.
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In December 2014, Evans had stated that
smartphones "are always with you and, with
all their apps and sensors, are much more
sophisticated than PCs ever were, seen as
internet devices." It could also be argued
that the more mobile nature of smartphones
makes them more personal than PCs, thus
leading smartphone users to feel more
attached to their devices than PC users feel to
theirs. Such close attachment could even be
felt by tablet users; despite the iPad's falling
sales, it remains responsible for a respectable
chunk of the iOS devices that Apple continue
to sell, and has arguably made laptops
and netbooks more redundant since its
introduction in 2010.
WINDOWS PCS: DOWN, BUT NOT OUT
Despite a Bloomberg Intelligence analysis of
IDC projections forecasting a 2% decline in
the PC market even in the 12-month period
following the release of Windows 10 on July
29, this might not have as much significance
for the future of Windows PCs as you expect.
Windows 10, like its predecessor Windows
8, has been built to operate well on multiple
types of devices. Unlike its predecessor,
however, it does not chase this aim to such
an extent that the needs of the millions
of people who rely on Windows for their
desktop computers are overlooked.
Microsoft has wisely scaled down its
attempts to take on Apple in the smartphone
space - a battle that it had stood no likely
chance of winning in the foreseeable future.
In short, with Windows 10, Microsoft has
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Motorola is refreshing its Android smartphones
with better cameras and other improvements as
it seeks to lure customers who want lower-cost
alternatives to leading smartphones from Apple
and Samsung.
These new models - the Moto G, Moto X Play
and Moto X Style - will appeal largely to people
who have to pay full prices for phones, rather
than discounted prices that come with two-year
service contracts.
“We're about delivering great mobile user
experiences at a price that doesn’t break the
bank,” Motorola President Rick Osterloh said in
an interview.
Motorola, which Lenovo bought from Google
last year, said the new Moto G will retail in the
U.S. for about $180 without a contract. Motorola
hasn’t announced prices for the Moto X models,
but they are expected to be a few hundred
dollars cheaper than high-end phones, which
cost $600 or more without a contract.
In touting improved cameras, Osterloh was
careful to say that they will deliver some of the
best pictures “at this price point.” Apple and
Samsung, in particular, have been advancing
phone-camera technology with better auto-focus
and low-light performance. Their high-end phones
also have other wizardry such as fingerprint
sensors for bypassing passcodes.
The 5-inch Moto G will have a 13-megapixel
camera, up from 8 megapixels in last year’s
model. Motorola says the phone will be able to
withstand dunking in up to three feet of water
for up to 30 minutes. All models will support 4G
cellular connections; in the past, 4G models of the
Moto G cost more.
The cameras on the Moto X phones will be 21
megapixels, up from 13 megapixels, but they
won't have extensive water protection. The 5.5-
inch Play model promises two days of battery life,
while the company says the 5.7-inch Style should
last more than a day. The Style will have a sharper
screen than the Play and more customization
options, including wood and leather backs for a
higher price.
Only the Style version will be available in the
U.S. Motorola says it should work with all major
carriers. Contract-free phones are often limited to
GSM networks such as AT&T and T-Mobile.
The Moto G goes on sale Tuesday, while the Moto
X models will come out in the coming weeks.
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Chipmakers Intel and Micron Technologies say
they’ve made a major breakthrough by creating
anew kind of memory chip that’s a thousand
times faster than the “flash” memory now used
in smartphones, tablets and high-end laptop
computers.
Experts say the new 3D XPoint (pronounced
“cross point”) technology has enormous potential,
but some caution that it won’t be showing up in
consumer products for some time.
So-called “flash” memory is already faster than
the spinning disk drives that are still used in
many desktop and laptop computers. The new
memory, developed jointly by Intel and Micron,
uses a three-dimensional chip design that lets
computers store and retrieve individual bits of
data far more quickly than with flash.
The companies said the new technology also
has ten times the storage capacity of another
format, known as DRAM or dynamic random
access memory, which can be faster but more
expensive than flash. In another benefit, they
said, 3D XPoint doesn’t require a constant flow
of power, while DRAM does.
Intel and Micron say the new technology can
help big organizations analyze vast quantities of
data, as well as improve the performance of PCs
and other consumer devices.
But tech analyst Martin Reynolds of the Gartner
research firm cautioned that other breakthroughs
in memory technology have stalled because of
technical and economic hurdles.
Big companies like Google or Facebook will be
eager to test the new memory in their data
centers, Reynolds predicted. But he said flash
memory should remain the dominant technology
in consumer devices “for some time.”
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Jody Kearns doesn’t like to spend time obsessing
about her Parkinson’s disease. The 56-year-old
dietitian from Syracuse, New York, had to give
up bicycling because the disorder affected her
balance. But she still works, drives and tries to
live a normal life.
Yet since she enrolled in a clinical study that
uses her iPhone to gather information about
her condition, Kearns has been diligently taking
a series of tests three times a day. She taps the
phone’s screen in a certain pattern, records a
spoken phrase and walks a short distance while
the phone’s motion sensors measure her gait.
“The thing with Parkinson’s disease is there’s
not much you can do about it,” she said of the
nervous-system disorder, which can be managed
but has no cure. “So when | heard about this, |
thought, ‘| can do this.”
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Smartphone apps are the latest tools to emerge
from the intersection of health care and Silicon
Valley, where tech companies are also working
on new ways of bringing patients and doctors
together online, applying massive computing
power to analyze DNA and even developing
ingestible “smart” pills for detecting cancer.
More than 75,000 people have enrolled in health
studies that use specialized iPhone apps, built
with software Apple Inc. developed to help turn
the popular smartphone into a research tool.
Once enrolled, iPhone owners use the apps to
submit data on a daily basis, by answering a few
survey questions or using the iPhone’s built-in
sensors to measure their symptoms.
Scientists overseeing the studies say the apps
could transform medical research by helping
them collect information more frequently and
from more people, across larger and more
diverse regions, than they’re able to reach with
traditional health studies.
Asmartphone “is a great platform for research,”
said Dr. Michael McConnell, a Stanford
University cardiologist, who’s using an app to
study heart disease. “It’s one thing that people
have with them every day.”
While the studies are in early stages, researchers
also say a smartphone’s microphone, motion
sensors and touchscreen can take precise
readings that, in some cases, may be more
reliable than a doctor’s observations. These can
be correlated with other health or fitness data
and even environmental conditions, such as
smog levels, based on the phone’s GPS locater.
Others have had similar ideas. Google Inc. says
it’s developing a health-tracking wristband
specifically designed for medical studies.
Researchers also have tried limited studies that
gather data from apps on Android phones.
But if smartphones hold great promise for
medical research, experts say there are issues
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people into walking test subjects.
The most important is safeguarding privacy and
the data that’s collected, according to ethics
experts. In addition, researchers say apps must
be designed to ask questions that produce
useful information, without overloading
participants or making them lose interest
after a few weeks. Study organizers also
acknowledge that iPhone owners tend to be
more affluent and not necessarily an accurate
mirror of the world’s population.
Apple had previously created software called
HealthKit for apps that track iPhone owners’
health statistics and exercise habits. Senior
Vice President Jeff Williams said the company
wants to help scientists by creating additional
software for more specialized apps, using
the iPhone’s capabilities and vast user base
- estimated at 70 million or more in North
America alone.
“This is advancing research and helping to
democratize medicine,” Williams said in an
interview.
Apple launched its ResearchKit program in
March with five apps to investigate Parkinson’s,
asthma, heart disease, diabetes and breast
cancer. A sixth app was released last month
to collect information for a long-term health
study of gays and lesbians by the University of
California, San Francisco. Williams said more
are being developed.
For scientists, a smartphone app is a relatively
inexpensive way to reach thousands of people
living in different settings and geographic areas.
Traditional studies may only draw a few hundred
participants, said Dr. Ray Dorsey, a University
of Rochester neurologist who’s leading the
Parkinson’s app study called mPower.
“Participating in clinical studies is often a
burden,” he explained. “You have to live near
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where the study’s being conducted. You have
to be able to take time off work and go in for
frequent assessments.”
Smartphones also offer the ability to collect
precise readings, Dorsey added. One test in the
Parkinson’s study measures the speed at which
participants tap their fingers in a particular
sequence on the iPhone’s touchscreen. Dorsey
said that’s more objective than a process still
used in clinics, where doctors watch patients tap
their fingers and assign them a numerical score.
Some apps rely on participants to provide
data. Elizabeth Ortiz, a 48-year-old New York
nurse with asthma, measures her lung power
each day by breathing into an inexpensive
plastic device. She types the results into the
Asthma Health app, which also asks if she’s
had difficulty breathing or sleeping, or taken
medication that day.
“\’m a Latina woman and there’s a high rate of
asthma in my community,” said Ortiz, who said
she already used her iPhone “constantly” for
things like banking and email. “I figured that
participating would help my family and friends,
and anyone else who suffers from asthma.”
None of the apps test experimental drugs or
surgeries. Instead, they’re designed to explore
such questions as how diseases develop or
how sufferers respond to stress, exercise
or standard treatment regimens. Stanford’s
McConnell said he also wants to study the
effect of giving participants feedback on their
progress, or reminders about exercise and
medication.
In the future, researchers might be able to
incorporate data from participants’ hospital
records, said McConnell. But first, he added,
they must build a track record of safeguarding
data they collect. “We need to get to the stage
where we’ve passed the privacy test and made
sure that people feel comfortable with this.”
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Toward that end, the enrollment process
for each app requires participants to read
an explanation of how their information will
be used, before giving formal consent. The
studies all promise to meet federal health
confidentiality rules and remove identifying
information from other data that’s collected.
Apple says it won’t have access to any data or
use it for commercial purposes.
Some studies will always require in-person
interaction or supervision by a doctor, experts
say. But by reaching more people and gathering
more data, advocates say smartphone apps
can help doctors answer more subtle questions
about a disease.
“Diseases like asthma are very complicated.
They’re not caused by a single gene or
environmental influence,” said Eric Schadt, a
genomics professor who's using an iPhone app
to study asthma at New York’s Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai. “The only hope you
have of really going further in resolving this
disease is for researchers to get to more people.”
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Saxophone player Nick Vaughan (Chris
Evans) bumps into Brooke Dalton (Alice
Eve) at Grand Central in New York City.
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CHRIS EVANS both stranded for the night, but soon find
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them to face their fears and eventually see
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Adapted from the second in the Divergent
trilogy of sci-fi adventure novels penned by
Veronica Roth, Insurgent follows the lead
character, Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley), as she
and Four (Theo James) flee from the Erudite
elite led by Jeanine Matthews (Kate Winslet).
Tris and Four are fugitives rushing to learn
what the former's family had died to protect.
FIVE FACTS:
1. This is the second movie adapted from a
Divergent novel.
2. The first movie so adapted was Divergent,
released in US theaters on March 21, 2014.
3. The critical reaction to Insurgent was
mixed; the consensus on film reviews
compilation site Rotten Tomatoes reads:
“Shailene Woodley gives it her all, but
Insurgent is still a resounding step back for a
franchise struggling to distinguish itself from
the dystopian YA crowd.”
4. Nonetheless, the movie’s worldwide box
office gross was a healthy $295.2 million,
including $130.2 million in North America,
from a $110 million budget.
5. It has been announced that the story
of the third Divergent novel, Allegiant, will
be told across two movies, scheduled for
respective release on March 16, 2016 and
March 24, 2017.
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1. This album's leading vocal contributor is
the West End musical’s star, British singer
Alexandra Burke.
2. Burke was the 2008 winner of the popular
British talent show The X-Factor, which is
basically the UK equivalent of American Idol.
3. The West End production, and therefore
also this album, include several well-known
Whitney Houston songs, including “Saving
All My Love for You’, “How Will | Know” and
“| Wanna Dance with Somebody’, that
never appeared in the film version of The
Bodyguard.
4. Deborah Cox has described landing
the starring role in the upcoming North
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The movie is undeniably wacky - but, now,
here is an opportunity to listen to its score
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Scientists and tech experts - including professor
Stephen Hawking and Apple co-founder Steve
Wozniak - warned Tuesday of a global arms
race with weapons using artificial intelligence.
In an open letter with hundreds of signatories,
the experts argued that if any major military
power pushes ahead with development of
autonomous weapons, “a global arms race
is virtually inevitable, and the endpoint of
this technological trajectory is obvious:
autonomous weapons will become the
Kalashnikovs of tomorrow.”
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Some people have argued in favor of robots on
the battlefield, saying their use could save lives.
Such weapons are still years away.
But the scientists warned that, unlike nuclear
weapons, once they are developed they will
require no costly or hard-to-obtain raw materials
- making it possible to mass-produce them.
“It will only be a matter of time until they
appear on the black market and in the hands
of terrorists, dictators wishing to better control
their populace, warlords wishing to perpetrate
ethnic cleansing, etc.,” the letter said.
The signatories included leading figures
globally in academia and business studying
artificial intelligence - the idea that computer
systems could replicate tasks normally
requiring human intelligence, such as language
translation or visual perception. They were
joined by philosophers, historians, sociologists
and geneticists.
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Those signing letter included Elon Musk, Tesla
Motors CEO; Demis Hassabis, who founded
Google DeepMind; and Noam Chomsky, an
emeritus professor at MIT.
Sean O hEigeartaigh, the executive director of
Cambridge University’s Center for the Study
of Existential Risk, said that he is hoping for a
discussion on whether autonomous weapons
should fall into the same category as chemical
weapons and blinding lasers - namely that they
be shunned.
“It’s imperative to hear the voices of the
scientists,” he said of the many who have
devoted their lives to having such systems
benefit humanity.
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Pluto is hazier than scientists expected and
appears to be covered with flowing ice.
The team responsible for the New Horizons flyby
of Pluto last week released new pictures Friday
of the previously unexplored world on the edge
of the solar system.
If you’re seeing a cardiologist, you may want to
leave the room, principal scientist Alan Stern
teased at the opening of the news conference
at NASA headquarters. There are some pretty
mind-blowing discoveries.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, now 7.5 million
miles beyond Pluto, has detected layers of haze
stretching 100 miles (160 kilometers) into the
atmosphere, much higher than anticipated. All
this haze is believed to account for the dwarf
planet’s reddish color.
If you were standing on Pluto and looking up,
you probably wouldn’t notice the haze, said
George Mason University’s Michael Summers.
In fact, New Horizons had to wait until after its
closest approach on July 14, so the sun would
silhouette Pluto and the atmosphere could be
measured by means of the scattered sunlight.
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As for the ice flows, they appear to be relatively
recent no more than a few tens of millions
of years, according to William McKinnon
of Washington University in St. Louis. That
compares with the 4.5 billion-year age of Pluto
and the rest of the solar system.
To see evidence of such recent activity, he said, is
simply a dream come true.
Temperatures on Pluto are minus 380 degrees
Fahrenheit (minus 229 degrees Celsius), and so
water ice would not move anywhere in such
extreme cold. But McKinnon said the nitrogen
and other ices believed to be on Pluto would be
geologically soft and therefore able to flow like
glaciers on Earth.
Some of that plutonian ice seems to have
emptied into impact craters, creating ponds of
frozen nitrogen. One of those semi-filled craters
is about the size of metropolitan Washington
D.C., McKinnon said.
These latest findings support the theory that an
underground ocean might exist deep beneath
Pluto’s icy crust, McKinnon said.
These ice flows - which might still be active -
are found on Pluto’s vast icy plain, now called
Sputnik Planum after Earth’s first man-made
satellite. The plain is about the size of Texas and
occupies the left side of Pluto’s bright heart-
shaped feature, named Tombaugh Regio after
the late astronomer who discovered Pluto in
1930, Clyde Tombaugh.
It’s evident now that the two lobes of the
heart are quite different; Stern speculated that
nitrogen snow could possibly be blowing from
the brighter left, or western, side to the right.
One of Pluto’s newly discovered mountain
ranges now bears the name of Sir Edmund
Hillary, who along with Sherpa guide Tenzing
Norgay conquered Mount Everest in 1953. The
New Horizons team already had named another
series of mountains after Norgay.
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The spacecraft traveled 3 billion miles over 9 12
years to get the first close-up look of Pluto. The
New Horizons team stressed that most of the
collected data are still aboard the spacecraft
and will take more than a year to obtain. Over
the next several weeks, much of the incoming
transmissions will consist of engineering or
other technical data - and only a few images.
But starting in mid-September, the spigot
opens again, promised Stern, a scientist at the
Southwest Research Institute. From then until
fall 2016, The sky will be raining presents with
data from the Pluto system. It’s going to be
quite a ride.
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newhorizons/main/index.html
Johns Hopkins University: http://pluto.jhuapl.
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coverage under President Barack Obama’s
health law are struggling with high costs and
disappointing enrollment. These challenges could
lead more of them to turn over operations to
the federal government or join forces with other
states. Hawaii’s marketplace, the latest cautionary
tale, was awarded $205 million in federal
startup grants. It has spent about $139 million
and enrolled 8,200 customers for individual
coverage in 2015. Unable to sustain itself, the
state marketplace is turning over sign-ups to the
federal HealthCare.gov for 2016.
Twelve states and the District of Columbia fully
control their markets. Experts estimate about
half face financial difficulties. Federal taxpayers
invested nearly $5 billion in startup grants to
the states, expecting that state markets would
become self-sustaining. Most of the federal
money has been spent, and states have to face
the consequences.
“The viability of state health insurance exchanges
has been a challenge across the country,
particularly in small states, due to insufficient
numbers of uninsured residents,” said a
statement from the office of Hawaii Democratic
Gov. David Ige, announcing last month that his
state’s sign-ups were being turned over to the
federal government.
Now that the Supreme Court has ruled the
Obama administration can keep subsidizing
premiums in all 50 states through HealthCare.gov,
no longer is there a downside for states turning
to Washington. If the decision had gone the
opposite way, state exchanges would have been a
leaky lifeboat for preserving a major expansion of
taxpayer-subsidized coverage under the law.
With the pressure gone, “I think you are going to
see much more of a hybrid across the nation,”
said Peter Lee, who heads California’s state-
run marketplace. Covered California fell short
of its sign-up projections this year by nearly 20
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percent, but Lee says it remains “a solid business
proposition.” States are “talking a lot about
shared services,” Lee said. “It’s how you get
economies of scale.”
States could pool resources on functions such
as labor-intensive call centers or use HealthCare.
gov’s technology for online enrollment.
They generally want to keep control over
marketing, consumer education and oversight
of insurance plans. Sustainability is the focus of
the administration’s annual meeting with state
exchange directors, scheduled for the end of
the month in the Washington area. The two-day
meeting is closed to the media.
“Each state has a different set of circumstances
that informs their approach, and we will continue
to support their efforts,” said Mayra Alvarez, the
federal liaison to state marketplaces.
The pendulum probably will swing toward a
greater federal role in the next couple of years,
said Jim Wadleigh, director of Connecticut’s
Access Health. Eventually, more states will want
to take the lead, he said, because it gives them
greater control over health care, particularly
modernizing Medicaid programs for low-income
people. In New England, there’s talk of a regional
exchange. The insurance industry would welcome
consolidation. “Our biggest concern is that you
may see many states looking to enact taxes and
fees, and that makes health care less affordable,”
said Justine Handelman, policy chief at the Blue
Cross Blue Shield Association.
Hawaii is the third state exchange going to the
federal sign-up system, following Nevada and
Oregon, which made the switch last year. Among
the problems confronting states:
-Minnesota’s MNsure faces a murky financial
future. Its budget is balanced as a result of
repeated cuts when enrollment has come in
below projections, a tactic that cannot work
forever. Despite a slew of proposals, no concrete
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changes came out of the state’s most recent
legislative session. Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton
has signaled that MNsure’s fate is on the table,
including the option of shifting operations to
HealthCare.gov.
-The U.S. attorney in Boston has subpoenaed
records dealing with the troubled rollout of the
Massachusetts Health Connector, dating to 2010.
-Colorado officials are considering big changes to
the state’s marketplace, from pooling call centers
with other states to dismantling the exchange and
relying on HealthCare.gov instead. Although the
market is on solid financial footing, it has fallen
short of best-case enrollment goals.
-A federal audit concluded that Maryland used
exchange establishment grants from Washington
to pay for $28.4 million in costs that should have
been allocated to the state’s Medicaid program.
State officials dispute that, but federal officials say
Maryland should pay the money back. Separately,
the original lead contractor for the state website
has agreed to repay $45 million to avoid legal
action over rollout problems last year.
-In Vermont, a debate has been raging about
whether to abandon the state exchange.
Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin originally
wanted a single state-run system for all
residents, along the lines of Canada. Shumlin
backed off because it would have meant
prohibitively high taxes. He wants to fix the
state exchange, still grappling with technology
problems that plagued it from launch.
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FIGHT SONG
RACHEL PLATTEN
WATCH ME (WHIP/NAE NAE)
SWLENTO
SHE’S KINDA HOT
5 SECONDS OF SUMMER
GOOD FOR YOU (FEAT. ASAP ROCKY)
SELENA GOMEZ
HONEY, I'M GOOD.
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LEAN ON (FEAT. M@ & DJ SNAKE)
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SHUT UP AND DANCE
WALK THE MOO
KICK THE DUST UP
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WOMAN
Jit Scorr
1989
TayLor SWIFT
NOTANAPOLOGY
Bea Miter
KILL THE LIGHTS
Luxe BRYAN
MONTEVALLO
Sam Hunt
BLURRYFACE
TWENTY ONE PILOTS
THE BLADE
AsHLey Monroe
COVERED: ALIVE IN ASIA (DELUXE VERSION)
Israel & New BREED
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KILL THE FLAW
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WATCH ME (WHIP/NAE NAE)
SWLENTO
BAD BLOOD (FEAT. KENDRICK LAMAR)
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DANCE LIKE WE’RE MAKING LOVE
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UPTOWN FUNK (FEAT. BRUNO MARS)
Mark Ronson
GIRL CRUSH
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CHEERLEADER (FELIX JAEHN REMIX)
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WORTHIT (FEAT. KID INK)
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Te Last Sue, SEASON 2
EPISODE 4
Humans
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Suits, SEASON 5
POPE BREAKS BAD
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Mr. Rosor, SEASON 7
CHINATOWN
Heut On Wueets, SEASON 5
NO STONE UNTURNED
Pretty Lirrte Liars, SEASON 6
NOREFILLS
Suits, SEASON 5
GAME ON, CHARLES
Pretty Livre Liars, SEASON 6
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EL James
PAPER TOWNS
JOHN GREEN
THE G/RL ON THE TRAIN
Pauta Hawkins
GOSETA WATCHMAN
Harper Lee
THRILL ME
Susan MALLERY
CIRCLING THE SUN
Pauta McLain
BADLANDS
C.J Box
CODE OF CONDUCT
Brab THOR
LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE
Jessica KNOLL
NEW ENGLAND SOUP FACTORY COOKBOOK
MAarisorié DRUKER & CLARA SILVERSTEIN
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MICROSOFT'S
FREE WINDOWS 10
GIVEAWAY: WHAT
THAT MEANS
Microsoft’s new Windows 10 operating system
debuts Wednesday, as the longtime leader in PC
software hopes that giving the upgrade away for
free will help it carve out a new role in a world
where people increasingly rely on smartphones,
tablets and information stored online.
The company is counting on tens or even
hundreds of millions of people to download
its latest release in the coming months. Many
people will also get Windows 10 as part of
new PCs. The launch will be accompanied by
a global marketing campaign for an event the
company hopes will be pivotal - both for its
own future and for a vast audience of computer
users around the world.
Windows 10 is coming to PCs and tablets first,
but it’s also designed to run phones, game
consoles and even holographic headsets. It
has new features, a streamlined Web browser
called Edge and a desktop version of Cortana,
the online assistant that is Microsoft’s answer
to Google Now and Apple’s Siri.
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Still, the company insists Windows 10 will seem
familiar to users of Windows 7, the six-year-old
operating system still running on most PCs.
Microsoft and PC makers want to erase the
memory of the last big update, 2012’s Windows
8, which alienated many with its jarring,
unwieldy design.
Microsoft skipped the name Windows 9, as if to
distance itself further from the last release. While
many analysts believe Windows 8 made sagging
PC sales even worse, it’s unclear if Windows 10
will spur the industry back to growth.
Here’s a look at the launch and why it matters:
Q: What happens this week?
A: Microsoft plans promotional events in
several cities Wednesday, tied to a global ad
campaign and a series of charitable donations.
About 5 million people who enrolled in an
earlier test program will be able to download
Windows 10 right away.
The company is also offering Windows 10 as a
free download, any time over the next year, to
anyone who has the Home or Pro versions of
Windows 7 or 8 (but not the Enterprise versions
used by big organizations). Some people might
not get it the first day; Microsoft says it will
deliver downloads in waves, to ensure things
go smoothly, but it hasn’t said how long that
will take. Details on how to upgrade are here:
http://bit.ly/1eNCyslI.
Retailers such as Best Buy, Staples and Wal-
Mart will have some desktops and laptops
with Windows 10 already installed. More
models are coming.
Q: Why is Microsoft giving Windows 10 for free?
A: The company wants to get the new software
on as many devices as possible. Microsoft
needs a large pool of users to convince
independent programmers that it’s worth their
time to build useful or entertaining apps for
Windows 10 devices. Executives also believe
that if people are exposed to the latest and
best Windows, they’re more likely to try other
Microsoft products on PCs and mobile devices.
CEO Satya Nadella says he wants to have 1
billion devices running Windows 10 in three
years. Microsoft estimates there are 1.5
billion people who currently use some kind
of Windows. Rather than charging them
to upgrade, as Microsoft used to do, it’s
embracing the free download model pioneered
by Apple and Google.
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A: Microsoft will still collect licensing fees from
PC makers that install Windows 10 on new
machines. In recent years, most consumers
have waited until they bought a new computer
to get the latest Windows. Microsoft also
makes money from selling Windows and other
software to large businesses and organizations.
In addition, Microsoft is counting on Windows
10 to spur more use of other services. Microsoft
makes money from selling advertising for its
Bing search engine, and Windows 10 comes
with many apps that steer people to Bing. The
company also collects fees from people who
use premium versions of its Office software,
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Q: Why does this matter to consumers?
A: Microsoft says Windows 10 is designed for
the way people use computers today - with a
faster Web browser and features that make it
easier to start tasks on a PC and then switch
to a hand-held device. (Apple and Google tout
similar features in their software.)
Windows 10 also lets users log in with their
face, iris or thumbprint, instead of remembering
passwords, though this works only with
computers equipped with the right hardware.
Most PC users are still working with Windows
7, thanks to Windows 8’s unpopularity. But
Microsoft plans to phase out maintenance and
security support for Windows 7 over the next
five years, and for Windows 8 by 2023, as it
did with the older Windows XP. Still, there’s no
need to panic about upgrading right away.
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Q: Why is it important to the tech industry?
A: The growth in mobile devices has caused
PC sales to decline for more than three years,
hurting manufacturers like Hewlett-Packard
and companies like Microsoft and Intel, whose
products are used with PCs.
Windows 10 won’t make people give up their
hand-held gadgets, but it’s part of Nadella’s
strategy to reposition Microsoft for a world
where people use multiple devices. PC makers
are hoping he succeeds.
Jeff Barney, who runs Toshiba’s consumer PC
business, said the new software is easier to
use than Windows 8 and will complement
hardware advances in Toshiba’s newest
machines. Although Barney isn’t expecting a big
rush to stores Wednesday, “over time, | think
we're going to see a positive trend in sales.”
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DEVELOPMENT
A $610 million research and manufacturing
hub dedicated to the science of photonics - the
use of light in technology - will be developed
in western New York, federal and state officials
said Monday, which could mean thousands of
jobs for the region.
Photonics involves the use of light in robotics,
medical imaging, national security and other
fields. Western New York already has about 100
companies focused on optics and photonics,
and supporters of the new project say it
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will bring jobs in government, industry and
academia to advance photonics research and
its commercial uses.
“This is a huge win that will shape our region’s
economy for decades to come,” Rep. Louise
Slaughter said.
The project will be funded in part by $110
million from the U.S. defense department, with
an additional $500 million in state and private
investment, Vice President Joe Biden and
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in Monday’s formal
announcement.
New York’s bid was selected from among
three finalists competing for the project
since it was announced by President
Barack Obama’s administration last fall
as part of efforts to strengthen American
manufacturing. Southern California and
central Florida also were in the running.
The integrated photonics manufacturing
institute is envisioned as a photonics
“ecosystem” that includes domestic foundry
access, automated packaging, assembly and
workforce development.
“The photonics center we are now bringing
to Rochester will harness the power of the
Defense Department and ?the prowess of
Rochester’s 24,000 employee-strong photonics
industry and focus it like a laser beam to launch
new industries, technologies, and jobs,” Sen.
Charles Schumer said in a statement.
New York’s bid involved a consortium that
includes the Rochester Institute of Technology,
University of Rochester, State University of
New York Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, University of Arizona
and University of California at Santa Barbara.
Biden announced the award with Cuomo
following a private briefing on the technology
at the State University of New York Polytechnic
Canal Ponds business park.
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