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EXPRESSIONS OF SOLIDARITY FOR
FRANCE IN RED, WHITE AND BLUE
Social media was awash Saturday in the red,
white and blue of the French flag as people
worldwide expressed their solidarity with a
nation in mourning in the aftermath of the terror
attacks in Paris.
Users of Facebook shaded their profile pictures
in the French Tricolor, and on Twitter and
Instagram, people posted vacation photos,
teardrops and a peace symbol with the Eiffel
Tower inscribed in the center as they expressed
their grief over the carnage.
People also harnessed the power of social media
in the search for their missing loved ones as
Parisians desperate to get in touch with family
and friends missing since Friday's wave of
gun and bomb attacks posted heart-breaking
messages and photos under the hashtag
#rechercheparis - Paris Search.
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Scores remain unaccounted for in the aftermath
of the coordinated attacks on a rock concert,
a soccer stadium, bars, restaurants and
other popular nightspots that killed at least
129 people.
“Waleed is missing,’ read one post. “We last
contacted him at the match, Please share &
contact me if u have any info. #rechercheParis.”
“I've been looking for my cousin since last night,’
read another. “He's 25 and 1m75. He’s called
Younes. #rechercheParis.”
The photos and messages garnered hundreds of
retweets from users eager to help in the search
for survivors.
Across the globe, people joined in to offer
sympathy and share a nation’s pain. Many
posted the poignant video of the Eiffel Tower -
the beacon of the City of Light - going to black
in memory of the dead.
Some of the world’s most recognizable buildings
and monuments - the Sydney Opera House, the
Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio, One World
Trade Center in New York, the Mexican Senate -
were shaded in the colors of the French flag.
Sports teams also expressed their solidarity. The
Washington Capitals splashed the red, white
and blue of the Tricolor across the team’s ice rink
before Friday night's game against the Calgary
Flames. “The National Anthem is playing, but
tonight our thoughts are with Paris,’a caption on
the Capitals Twitter feed read.
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The images and sentiment, shared under the
hashtags #prayforparis or #parisattacks, mirrored
the outpouring of emotion that followed the
Charlie Hebdo attacks 10 months ago.
One of the most shared was a peace symbol by
Jean Jullien, a French graphic designer living in
London, that showed a stark image of the Eiffel
Tower rising in the center of a peace sign.
Jullien said the design came to him by simple
association of Paris and peace.
“| was overwhelmed that so many people used
it he said in an e-mail to the Associated Press.
“It's a communication tool for people to share
their solidarity. It’s a message for peace.’
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The first thing you need to know about Apple’s
iPad Pro is that it’s, well, giant.
About an inch longer than a standard sheet
of paper, the Pro features a 12.9-inch diagonal
display, giving it 78 percent more surface
area than the 9.7-inch iPad Air 2. At nearly 1.6
pounds, the Pro is heavier than current models,
but not much more so than the original iPad
from 2010. There's room for four speakers,
compared with two on other iPads.
The price is supersized, too. The iPad Pro starts at
$799, compared with $499 for the standard-size
iPad Air 2 and $269 for the cheapest iPad, the
2-year-old iPad Mini 2. A physical keyboard from
Apple costs $169 extra, and the Apple Pencil
sells for $99.
Designed with professionals in mind, the Pro
is Apple's way of reaching new consumers as
sales of iPads - and tablets in general - decline.
Here are some things to know as the Pro starts
appearing in stores this week:
THE PRO ISN’T FOR EVERYONE
Many people will be fine with the standard iPad
Air, while others will prefer the portability of the
smaller iPad Mini.
The Pro is for those who need the larger screen,
including people who write, build spreadsheets
or edit graphics and video rather than primarily
reading or playing games. These are people who
might otherwise be lugging around a laptop. If
you're using a tablet just to watch Netflix, the Pro
might be overkill, though movies and TV shows
look and sound nicer.
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IT’S NOT ALAPTOP
For writing, the Pro features Microsoft Word and
Apple's Pages. But do you need a tablet for that?
The desktop version of both apps can do far
more, including keeping multiple documents
open at once. The Pro is more for those times
you want to leave the laptop behind, but might
still need to write an email or touch up a report.
The physical keyboard makes all that faster.
Where the Pro has the potential to excel is with
artistic apps. Doodling, sketching and painting
work better with fingers and a stylus than with
a keyboard and trackpad. But apps on tablets
have streamlined features designed to let you
complete specific tasks quickly. More advanced
features require a PC.
The iPad lacks a USB port, though you can buy
an adapter. And it's designed for one user. Many
other tablets and laptops support profiles, so
many people can share a device with separate
settings and even restrictions for children.
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A BIGGER SCREEN ISN’T ALWAYS BETTER
The Pro has plenty of screen space to work with
- nearly two standard-size iPads side by side.
Photos, video and magazines come to life on the
larger screen.
But in other respects the Pro doesn’t make the
most of the extra space. You can't, for instance,
display more apps on the home screen. And
when you open apps, often enough they're just
blown up to fit the larger screen.
That's not universally true, and it’s bound to
change as software developers update their
apps. The collaboration app Slack, for instance,
creates a new column with menu options on
the Pro. But for now such apps are more the
exception than the rule.
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Although they'll push up the cost, you'll want to
buy the Apple Pencil and a physical keyboard.
Many of the Pro's unique characteristics require
one or both. Otherwise, you're effectively buying
a crippled device that’s capable of so much
more with the right tools.
Apple's Smart Keyboard serves as both a cover
when stowing the iPad and a kickstand when
using it, though you can’t adjust the angle.
Typing is much easier with a real keyboard, and
having it restores many shortcuts common on
Macs, such as command-C for copy. The keys
don't feel as natural as they do ona laptop, but
that could simply take more than a few hours
of testing to get used to. One nice touch: The
keys are completely sealed, in case you spill a
drink on it.
The stylus, meanwhile, resembles a digital pencil
that, for instance, can do shading when held
at an angle. (Most draw only with the tip.) One
neat trick: Hold two fingers on the Notes app
to unveil a ruler, and use the pencil to draw a
straight line.
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HOW THE PRO STACKS
UP TO OTHER PROS
Microsoft's Surface Pro comes closer to being
a laptop replacement, particularly with a new
keyboard cover that’s studier and feels more
natural on the lap. It runs standard Windows
10 apps and displays many windows at once,
not just two. On the other hand, not all of those
apps are designed with touch controls in mind,
something that’s fundamental to tablets.
Another alternative is Apple's “new” MacBook
laptop - the minimalist model released in March,
without Air or Pro in the name. It doesn’t have a
detachable keyboard, but the overall unit is light
and thin, more like a tablet than a laptop.
Generally speaking, the Pro is designed primarily
to extend the iPad’s touch-optimized experience
to office use; as part of that compromise, it just
can't do everything a Mac can. So you can be
disappointed and consider it a laptop-wannabe
- or you can look on the bright side and think of
the Pro as a giant iPad with benefits.
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If you were going to reinvent MTV for a mobile
generation, you'd probably come up with
something like YouTube Music. It’s a video-first
music service that also plays in the background
like you'd expect a music app to do. That sets it
apart from other music apps out there, many of
which give you a choice of videos or songs, but
not interchangeably.
But while YouTube Music offers a lot of
interesting features, most of them require a
subscription to the new YouTube Red service,
which will set you back $10 a month - $13 if
you sign up through YouTube's iPhone app.
Without Red, YouTube Music will play ads
similar to what you see on YouTube proper,
and several other functions won't work at all.
YouTube is offering new users a 14-day free trial
to Red, but to continue commercial free, you'll
need to pony up.
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YouTube Music is first and foremost a music-
video app, albeit one that doesn’t forget that
most people will be using it on their phones.
For those times you'd rather just listen instead
of watching, you can hit a toggle that switches
the app to audio-only mode, which turns off
the video playback and swaps in a still image.
You can even turn off the screen and keep
listening while you do something else.
But here's the first gotcha: Audio-only mode
only works for paid subscribers. | also found
the audio-only toggle worked far better on a
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 than on an iPhone 5,
where it introduced a jarring pause.
You can similarly shrink the video to a little
strip at the bottom of the app, which keeps it
playing in a cropped format while you look for
the next video. The app will even keep playing
if you switch to other tasks, like checking email
- although again only if you've paid up for Red.
There are some curious omissions. For
instance, there's no easy way to create a
playlist to queue up a bunch of videos in
a row. The app does offer “song stations,’
which queue up videos from artists related
to the one you're on. You can toggle the
range of the resulting mix with options like
“less variety,’"more variety” or “balanced.” |
started a station starting with Passenger’s “Let
Her Go” and so far I’m pretty happy with the
“balanced” playlist it created, which included
“Counting Stars” from OneRepublic and “Burn”
by Ellie Goulding.
You can also play all of the videos you've
thumbs-upped, which turns that grouping into
a crude sort of playlist.
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competing services like Apple Music, which has
more lists and tabs than you'll know what to
do with. YouTube Music keeps the tabs to three
- home, hot (trending videos), and thumbs up
(your favorites).
Home offers recommended videos, and it’s
easy to find something playable. Your mileage
may vary with the “hot” tab; it didn’t do much
for me, although I’m usually a bit out of sync
with the mainstream.
Finally, there’s one more fun feature, which is
called “offline mixtape.’ It automatically saves
20 audio-only songs for you based on your
tastes, for when you know you're going to get
spotty reception. | wish it saved the videos
instead of just the audio, but this will keep the
tunes turning in a pinch. Alas, offline mixtapes
are disabled in the ad-supported version of
YouTube Music.
The app makes Google's $10-a-month music
subscription a lot more attractive. Paying up
not only unlocks features in YouTube Music
itself, it also gets you ad-free playback on the
main YouTube app, access to Google Play
Music, and, down the road, some original
material from YouTube stars.
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DISASTERS:
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Devices and apps:
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Headlines around the globe have been
dominated by news about the series of co-
ordinated terrorist attacks in Paris on the
evening of November 13. Having killed over
120 people, the terrorist attack has proved the
deadliest in Europe since 2004's Madrid train
bombings, which claimed 191 lives. But, while
the world continues to recover from the shock,
it is worth raising the question of what roles
consumer technology could play in preventing
or countering terror or natural disasters.
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TORNADOES AND NATIONAL INSECURITY
Even just a few cursory searches through the iOS
App Store or Google Play store reveal the ready
availability of various smartphone and tablet
apps that could be effectively used for reacting
to threats and saving lives. Social media has
long proved a particularly vital tool for tracking
crises as they emerge, as was demonstrably the
case from the earliest breaking news of the Paris
attacks - and the Facebook and Twitter mobile
apps have often attracted acclaim for their
intuitive interfaces.
Many other apps, however, have more specialist
purposes. Many are geared towards assisting
people in preparing for or reacting to such
natural disasters as earthquakes and tornadoes.
Apps in this category include QuakeFeed,
which provides maps indicating the locations
of tectonic plates and can alert users of
earthquakes measuring over 6.0 on the
Richter magnitude scale.
Another app, developed by Nigeria-based
company PISI Ltd two years ago in reaction
to insecurity in the native country and other
countries around the world, is E-Alert. Billed
as providing “Personal Security On The Go”,
it provides what the Nigerian news outlet the
Lagos-based Daily Independent has dubbed
“a free emergency security service” to help
prevent kidnappings, terror and other
dangerous infractions. The app’s functions
include an emergency panic button for freely
notifying family in an emergency and GPS
tracking of the user's location every 45 seconds
after contacts have initially received alerts.
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FROM OPTIONAL EXTRAS TO
INTEGRATED SAFETY TOOLS
Some such apps now even come bundled with
new devices or operating system updates. One
good example is Find My Friends. You might
have first noticed this app’s icon, depicting two
white silhouettes on an orange background, on
your iOS device after updating to iOS 9 earlier
in the fall - but it was actually first released by
Apple, then as an optional app, for the then
new iOS 5 in October 2011.
A user of this app can switch on Location
Services on their iOS device in order to allow
a select number of people, such as family and
friends, to determine their location - or, at least,
that of the device - using GPS technology.
Someone using an iOS device or Mac to track
a Find My Friends user can also receive alerts
informing them when that individual has
arrived at a particular place; after the Paris
attacks, for example, an alert could have been
sent to indicate that a loved one in the city has
safely arrived home.
A similar app that has a long history but only
became bundled with iOS from this fall is Find
My iPhone - the name of which is accordingly
changed for the same app on iPads, iPods and
Macs. A rather self-explanatory app, it allows
remote location-tracking of iOS devices and
Macs - and so could prove utterly vital should
you lose a device which includes urgent or
sensitive information. In 2012, Find My iPhone
was used by police in Atlanta, Georgia to locate
robbery suspects by tracing a stolen iPhone.
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CAUGHT ON CAMERA...
AND BROUGHT TO JUSTICE
What with cameras now coming as standard
on even many rudimentary smartphones, it has
become easier for many ordinary observers, or
“citizen journalists’, to visually capture crises -
in both photo and video - as they unfold. The
resulting photo and video can then be speedily
posted to social media sites, where they can be
readily seen and widely disseminated by others,
including news outlets.
This situation can increase the hurdles that
many suspect criminals need to overcome to
avert detection, and this is before we consider
apps that have been built more specially for
crime-fighting purposes. One such app is
Manything, which can convert a spare iOS
device into a home security webcam. A
second iOS device can be used for remotely
controlling the camera device and receiving
alerts should dubious motion be picked up in
the area under surveillance.
It's also testament to the effectiveness of iOS
cameras for such purposes that their use has
extended beyond consumers. Redlands Police
Department has reported adding iPhones to
officers’ duty belts; Jim Bueermann, Chief of
Police for the City of Redlands, has observed
how the officers use iPhones to “take photos
of victims or potential suspects”, while
mention has been made of how an iPad's large,
clear display helps the department’s command
staff, officers and detectives to look at photos
in more detail.
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HELPING OTHER PEOPLE TO HELP YOU
Though we have detailed many apps that you
could personally use on your iPhone to help
bring yourself out of danger, what happens if
you become struck by an injury that prevents
you from personally using your iPhone? In this
situation, someone else could come to the
rescue - and even help you to recover from your
injury through using your iPhone. Yes, even
without bypassing the Lock screen...
The Health app which debuted with the release
of iOS 8 last year has many useful functions for
looking after and boosting your health. However,
one that you may have overlooked is the ability
to create an emergency card, called Medical ID,
that anyone with your iPhone can access without
having to pass the Lock screen. Simply by swiping
before pressing ‘Emergency’ on the screen,
someone can bring up emergency contact
details and vital health information, like your
medical conditions and medications.
This feature has to be manually set up before
it can be put to use, and Applelnsider offers
a comprehensive step-by-step guide for
doing so. There are also alternative strategies
to setting up Medical ID, like adding your crucial
medical information to the device's Lock screen
wallpaper image.
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THE iPHONE: A FORMIDABLE LAW
ENFORCEMENT TOOL
We have seen many instances here of how
smartphones and tablets can help to prevent
deaths and other disasters. But, in the kind
of situation that the people of Paris are now
facing, where the broken pieces have to be
picked up, how can this technology be used
to suitably react to attacks and accidents that
have already occurred?
Cult of Mac has provided an insight, pointing out
that the iPhone has become a popular tool in
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law enforcement for taking and identifying
fingerprints of suspect criminals. The handset
has even been eyed by the FBI for spotting
suspect terrorists. The iPhone-compatible
fingerprint device known as the mobileOne and
made by Fulcrum Technologies is affordable for
even small police departments, largely because
many police officers already have iPhones, and
can capture fingerprints that meet the FBI’s
demanding standards.
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SMARTPHONES AND TABLETS: MODERN
WEAPONS AGAINST MODERN THREATS
Consumer technology has already broken
barriers between police departments and
the people they serve; the aforementioned
Jim Bueermann, Chief of Police for the City of
Redlands, has commented: “With iPad, even if I’m
in uniform it’s very common for people to come
up to me. It opens up a whole discussion about
how the police department uses technology.”
This enhanced mutual friendliness can also
make it easier for individuals to help police by
reporting suspicious people or activity possibly
related to terrorism. This is a course of action
especially urged by the FBI, which declares:
“This is a message that bears repeating, no
matter where you live in the world: Your
assistance is needed in preventing terrorist
acts.” Your smartphone or tablet could play no
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JAPAN TO GIANT
ROBOT BATTLE
They've been popularized in movies, television
and video games, but giant fighting robots still
haven't left the realm of science fiction. That will
soon change.
Megabots Inc., an Oakland, California-based
startup, has built a 15-foot mechanical
gladiator called the Mark Il and challenged a
Japanese firm to an international battle for
robot supremacy.
Tokyo-based Suidobashi Heavy Industries,
maker of the 13-foot Kuratas, accepted the
challenge, setting the stage for the first giant
robot battle of its kind next year. The exact date
and location are yet to be determined.
Win or lose, it’s all part of Megabots’ plan by
to make gladiator-style robot combat into
big-time entertainment - a mix between
Ultimate Fighting Championship and Formula
One auto racing - while developing new
industrial technologies and inspiring a new
generation of engineers.
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The Megabots founders envision a sports
league where teams from around the world
build huge humanoid robots that throw
each other down in stadiums filled with
screaming fans.
“Everyone wins as long as there is robot
carnage,’ said Megabots co-founder Matt
Oehrlein, an electrical engineer. “People want
to see these things fight. They want to see
them punch each other, they want to see them
ripped apart and they want to be entertained.”
Megabots was launched in 2014 by Oehrlein,
Gui Cavalcanti and Brinkley Warren, who grew
up playing video games like “MechWarrior” and
“BattleTech,” and wanted to fulfill their dreams
of watching massive machines fight.
“We want to bring the giant robots from
science fiction and movies and video games
to life because now we have the technology,’
said Cavalcanti, a robotics engineer. “It’s really
about: How do we put on the best show? How
do we make the coolest fight?”
Inside a cavernous Oakland workshop, the
Megabots founders built the Mark Il -a
12,000-pound behemoth with tank treads,
two-pilot cockpit and missile launcher that fires
canon ball-sized paintballs.
Then Oehrlein called out Suidobashi ina
YouTube video: “We have a giant robot. You
have a giant robot. You know what needs to
happen. We challenge you to a duel.”
Suidobashi’s founder Kogoro Kurata accepted
in his own video: “We can’t let another country
win this. Giant robots are Japanese culture.
Yeah, I'll fight. Absolutely.’
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Kurata also taunted the Megabots team:
“Come on guys, make it cooler. Just building
something huge and sticking guns on it, it’s
super American.”
The Megabots robot isn’t quite ready to
take on Kuratas, a more polished fighting
machine with a big, agile hand that mimics the
movements of the pilot’s hand.
“Our current robot, the Mark II, looks pretty
intimidating,’ Oehrlein said. “The truth is, it’s
pretty slow. It’s top-heavy. It’s rusty, and it
needs a set of armor upgrades to be able to
compete in hand-to-hand combat.’
That's why Megabots launched an online
Kickstarter campaign and raised more than
$550,000 from robot fans to turn the Mark II
into a real fighting machine - faster, tougher,
more balanced and equipped with detachable
weapons such as a giant chain saw or
punching fist.
The startup has enlisted the help of engineers
from NASA, software maker Autodesk, the TV
shows “Mythbusters” and “BattleBots.”
“We're absolutely confident that Team USA can
beat Japan. We've assembled the best of the
best of this country. We're not going to let our
country down,’ Calvalcanti said.
Robot enthusiasts like Gordon Kirkwood are
eagerly anticipating the fight.
“| think it's going to be a smash hit,’ said
Kirkwood, a robotics engineer in San Francisco.
“This has the potential to be a fantastic
spectator sport that people would really pay
good money to see.”
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commonplace as plastic cards.
Apple Pay is available in Canada starting
Tuesday and in Australia on Thursday. Those are
two countries where “tap” payments - tapping
a phone or chip-embedded card to the store’s
payment machine - are already more common
than in the U.S. In those countries, however,
Apple Pay is limited initially to American
Express cards.
In the U.S., where Apple Pay started in October
2014, the service will expand Tuesday to more
than 100 additional card issuers - mostly
smaller banks and credit unions. Apple Pay
already accepts Visa, MasterCard, American
Express and Discover cards from most major
banks. In the U.K., Tesco and TSB banks will join
Apple Pay on Tuesday.
The developments come a few months after
Google launched its own tap-and-pay service,
Android Pay, while Samsung started Samsung
Pay. Both are for Android phones, while Apple
Pay requires iPhones.
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Jennifer Bailey, Apple's vice president for Apple
Pay, said the company is starting with American
Express in Canada and Australia because it’s
both the card issuer and the payment-network
operator, so coordination is easier. With Visa and
MasterCard, individual banks issue the cards,
and each bank has its own way of verifying a
customer's identity when setting up Apple Pay,
for instance.
Meanwhile, Apple is working with makers of
various payment machines to bring tapping
capabilities to additional merchants, small and
large. When Apple Pay launched, the U.S. had
200,000 tap-capable machines. That's expected
to surpass 1.5 million this year. The growth
includes about 100,000 small to medium-sized
merchants each month, Apple said.
Apple said Tuesday that Cinnabon will add
Apple Pay to all its U.S. locations next year, while
Domino's company-owned pizza stores will get
it by year’s end. Earlier, Apple said Starbucks will
conduct a pilot this year, with a broader rollout
next year, while KFC will launch next spring.
Despite the momentum, several million more
US. retailers still have older machines that lack
the right technology.
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PAYING AT RESTAURANTS
Even if a merchant has the equipment, it’s often
located behind a counter, out of arm’s reach.
At sit-down restaurants, it's not practical for
people to have to get up to make a tap ata
counter. Most people prefer leaving a card with
a waiter, at least in the U.S. (In Canada and many
European countries, it's common for staff to
bring a portable card machine to your table.)
Addressing that will require a combination
of approaches, Bailey said. She said Chili's is
installing tablets at tables so people can order
and pay right there, starting in the spring.
The restaurant-reservation service OpenTable
already lets diners use its app to pay at some
restaurants. Other U.S. restaurants, she said, will
embrace portable card machines.
“You'll see restaurants really look to innovate,’
Bailey said, adding that restaurants can squeeze
in more customers with faster payments, and
customers are happier if they don't have to wait
for the check.
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THE U.S. IS BEHIND
Americans are used to plastic cards, and many
people aren't drawn to the increased security
that these services provide because banks
typically waive liability for fraud.
But the dynamics could change with the
growing use of plastic cards embedded with
security chips. Chip transactions take longer
than a traditional magnetic swipe, making the
convenience of tapping seem more attractive.
Because other countries have had chip
transactions longer, they are further along in
accepting tap payments, Bailey said. She expects
U.S. shoppers will come to accept tap payments,
too, now that chip cards are becoming standard.
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GOOGIE ANTSY AS CALIFORNIA SLOVV
ON SELF-DRIVING CAR RULES
Hustling to bring cars that drive themselves to
a road near you, Google finds itself somewhere
that has frustrated many before: Waiting on the
Department of Motor Vehicles.
The tech titan wants the freedom to give the
public access to self-driving prototypes it has
been testing on public roads since the summer.
Before granting that permission, California
regulators want Google to prove these cars of
the future already drive as safely as people.
The Department of Motor Vehicles was
supposed to write precedent-setting rules of
the road by last Jan. 1. Nearly a year later, it is
still struggling. After all, the agency is geared
to administering driving tests and registering
cars, not settling complicated questions the
technology raises.
If the cars’advanced sensors and computing
power can drive better than humans, do they
need a steering wheel and pedals? Would a
person even need to be inside? Google says
no on both.
Regulators don’t want to be blamed for
unnecessarily stalling the arrival of robo-
chauffeurs that can see farther, react faster and
don't text, speed or fall asleep. They've implored
Google and traditional automakers also
developing the technology to share safety data,
but companies in competition don't willingly
reveal trade secrets.
Delay is not what Google had in mind when it
pushed the 2012 legislation that made California
one of the few states officially to authorize self-
driving cars. Google’s hope was to trade the
independence to innovate without government
oversight for regulatory certainty.
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Three years later, both a company that abhors
bureaucracy and a DMV struggling to write rules
beyond its expertise are exasperated.
While self-driving cars are not close to being
widely available, Google hinted in 2014 it wanted
to get self-driving cars into public hands as
early as 2016, probably starting with employees
outside its small corps of self-driving car experts.
More recently, the project's leader, Chris Urmson,
has said he doesn't want his eldest son to need a
driver's license when he turns 16 in 3-1/2 years.
The bubble-shaped, two-seater prototype can't
go anywhere, any time. It is limited to places
Google has surveyed in far greater detail than
its online maps. It can’t handle fog or snow. Top
speed: 25 mph.
Google's 73 cars are among the 98 test vehicles
that California’s DMV has given 10 companies
permission to test publicly.
Though trained test drivers must sit behind the
wheel, Google wants to remove the wheel and
pedals for the general public. Its argument: It
would be safer to take all control away than
expect a person to snap safely to attention in
an emergency.
As a famously data-driven company, Google
proposes a composite sketch of evidence
would show its cars are safe.
Each day, Google runs more than 3 million
miles of computerized driving simulations.
Engineers devise challenging real-world
situations, then see how the cars respond.
A “functional safety analysis” assesses what
hardware or software might fail and how to
minimize those risks.
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Public road testing is the last piece. Google
reports its cars have been involved in 17
collisions over 2.2 million miles of testing,
nearly 1.3 million miles in self-driving mode.
While that accident rate appears to be higher
than for human drivers (though Google
disputes that), accident summaries Google
has published say its cars did not cause
any accident.
Google has pressed California's DMV to publish
regulations far harder than any other company.
“Our team is concerned about the delay,’
according to an invitation for a conference
call last December that Google sent California
officials, who released it under a public records
act request.
Both before and after, Google representatives
consistently checked with officials at the DMV
and California State Transportation Agency about
the status of rules. State officials have trooped
from Sacramento to Silicon Valley for test rides,
while Google's technical experts and lobbyists
have headed to the capital for briefings or talks
about regulation writing.
“The worst thing would be for California, sort of
the birth state of this technology, to accidentally
sort of shut things down,” Sarah Hunter, public
policy director at the experimental lab Google
spun off to focus on ambitious projects such as
self-driving cars and Internet-beaming balloons,
said at a public presentation in September.
Shortly before, she jokingly jabbed a co-panelist
who is the top DMV self-driving car official.
Asked when self-driving technology would be
“mainstream,” Hunter responded: “Whenever the
DMV pass their operational regulations.”
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There's frustration to go around.
At the DMV, officials have pleaded for input from
Google and traditional automakers to help set
a clear, objective safety standard. At a meeting
in May in Washington, traditional automakers
joined Google in voicing concern that regulation -
particularly in California - could stifle innovation.
There are no federal regulations on self-driving cars.
Still, California officials are “taking cues” from the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
said the state's secretary of transportation, Brian
Kelly. NHTSA‘s official position holds that any state
which authorizes self-driving cars should require a
licensed driver who can take control.
“My sense of it is we're getting a go-slow message
from the federal government,” Kelly said. He said
that made sense for safety, but as a state famous
for innovation, “we want to work through some of
those sticky issues.” He hopes the DMV will publish
draft rules for public input by year's end.
In interviews, NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind
and his boss, U.S. Transportation Secretary
Anthony Foxx, said they support the technology
for its life-saving potential but that the federal
government's message to California was “go safe”
in its regulation writing. Intriguing as that potential
may be, California should not hastily write new
regulations, despite “pressure” to do so, Rosekind
wrote DMV Director Jean Shiomoto in April.
Over the summer, Google expanded its road
testing from Silicon Valley to Texas, where state
law would not obviously prohibit cars without
pedals and a wheel. Some within California's DMV
wondered whether Google's move was motivated
by frustration with its home state.
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MAY RENEW ENCRYPTION DEBATE
The deadly attacks in Paris may soon reopen
\ the debate over whether - and how - tech
companies should let the government sidestep
the data scrambling that shields everyday
commerce and daily digital life alike.
So far, there’s no hard evidence that the Paris
extremists relied on encrypted communications
- essentially, encoded digital messages that can’t
be read without the proper digital “keys” - to
plan the shooting and bombing attacks that left
129 dead on Friday. But it wouldn't be much of a
surprise if they did.
So-called end-to-end encryption technology
is now widely used in many standard message
systems, including Apple's iMessage and
Facebook's WhatsApp. Similar technology also
shields the contents of smartphones running
the latest versions of Apple and Google
operating software. Strong encryption is used
to protect everything from corporate secrets to
the credit-card numbers of online shoppers to
intimate photos and secrets shared by lovers.
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was previously restricted to more powerful
desktop or server computers, is exactly what
worries members of the intelligence and law
enforcement communities. Some are now
using the occasion of the Paris attacks to once
again argue for restrictions on encryption,
saying it hampers their ability to track and
disrupt plots like this one.
“| now think we're going to have another
public debate about encryption, and whether
government should have the keys, and | think
the result may be different this time as a result
of what’s happened in Paris,’ former CIA deputy
director Michael Morell said Monday on CBS
This Morning.
The last such debate followed the 2013
disclosures of government surveillance by
former National Security Agency contractor
Edward Snowden. Since then, tech
companies seeking to reassure their users
and protect their profits have adopted more
sophisticated encryption techniques despite
government opposition. Documents leaked
by Snowden also revealed NSA efforts to
break encryption technologies.
In response, law-enforcement and intelligence
officials have argued that companies like
Apple and Google should build “backdoors”
into their encryption systems that would
allow investigators into otherwise locked-up
devices during investigations. The Obama
administration continues to encourage
tech companies to include such backdoors,
although it says it won't ask Congress for new
law that requires them.
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The trouble with that approach, as Apple CEO
Tim Cook said in an interview last week with
The Daily Telegraph, is that “any backdoor is a
backdoor for everyone." In short, any shortcut
for investigators could also be targeted by
cybercriminals eager to hack major corporations
-ala the devastating cyberattack on Sony late
last year - or to target individuals for identity
theft or extortion, as reportedly occurred
following the disclosure of records from the
infidelity dating site Ashley Madison.
A report on the state of digital security released
this summer by MIT’s Computer Science
and Artificial Intelligence lab argued against
opening a peephole for government agencies.
The analysis by 15 professors, security experts
and researchers likened the idea of giving
the government a digital key to encrypted
communications to leaving a house key under
the front doormat.
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“The Snowden revelation showed that
backdoors can be destructive, particularly when
they’re done in secrecy without transparency,’
says Will Ackerly, a former NSA security
researcher and the co-founder of Virtru, which
provides encryption technology
for both companies and individual people.
Steven Bellovin, a Columbia University professor
and computer security researcher, said he wasn't
surprised by the effort to bring back discussion
on encryption backdoors. But he said it’s way
too early to tie it to the Paris attacks.
“We don't know how these people were
communicating and with whom,’ he said. “If
they were communicating with homegrown
software and there’s some indications of that,
then a mandatory back door is not going to do
any good.”
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The box-office duo of James Bond and Charlie
Brown again dominated North American movie
theaters over the weekend, while Angelina Jolie
Pitt's “By the Sea” made barely a ripple.
Sony's “Spectre,’ the 24th Bond installment and
last week’s top film, took in $35.4 million in its
second weekend, according to studio estimates
Sunday. Daniel Craig's fourth Bond film has most
flexed its muscles abroad, where the majority of
its $500 million-plus two-week global haul has
come from. It got a boost, too, over the weekend
in China, where it debuted with $48 million - the
best opening for a 2-D, U.S. release in China,
Sony said.
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“The Peanuts Movie,’ from 20th Century Fox,
remained in second place with $24.2 million.
Both it and “Spectre” held strongly in their
second weeks. “The Peanuts Movie” has grossed
$82.5 million thus far.
Of the new releases, the Christmas comedy
“Love the Coopers” - a family holiday gathering
directed by Jessie Nelson and starring an
ensemble including Diane Keaton and Alan
Arkin - fared the best. It took in $8.4 million for
CBS Films.
Warner Bros: Chilean miner drama, “The 33,”
earned a middling $5.8 million. Though the 2010
disaster, which trapped 33 miners underground,
riveted the world for 69 days, moviegoers
showed little interest in a dramatized version of
the event starring Antonio Banderas and Lou
Diamond Phillips.
Universal Pictures considerably scaled back the
release of the poorly reviewed “By the Sea,’a
marital drama starring Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt.
Playing in just 10 theaters, it made only $95,440.
The third film directed by Jolie Pitt, who also
wrote the script, “By the Sea” was made for a
modest $10 million, so it won't hurt Universal
much, but proved surprisingly unappealing to
moviegoers despite starring two of Hollywood's
biggest stars.
Expanding to 60 theaters, Tom McCarthy’s
acclaimed “Spotlight,” about the Boston Globe
investigation into Catholic priest sex abuse,
pulled in $1.4 million with a per-screen average
of $23,307 for Open Road Films. Tabbed as an
Oscar favorite, the film, featuring an ensemble
including Mark Ruffalo and Michael Keaton, is
stoking interest with a gradual expansion.
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Next weekend, Lionsgate’s “The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay Part 2,’ the final chapter in the
young-adult saga, is sure to supplant Bond at
the top of the box office.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through
Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters,
according to Rentrak. Where available, the
latest international numbers for Friday through
Sunday are also included. Final domestic
figures will be released Monday.
7 “Spectre,” $35.4 million.
2. “The Peanuts Movie,” $24.2 million.
2 “Love the Coopers,” $8.4 million.
4 “The Martian,” $6.7 million.
5 “The 33,” $5.8 million.
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6. “Goosebumps,” $4.7 million.
7. “Bridge of Spies,” $4.3 million.
8. “Prem Ratan Dhan Payo,” $2.4 million.
9. “Hotel Transylvania 2,” $2.4 million.
7 O “The Last Witch Hunter,” $1.5 million.
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The United States remains ill-prepared to
combat state-backed cyber intrusions from
China and lawmakers should look at whether
U.S.-based companies be allowed to ‘hack back’
to recover or wipe stolen data, a congressional
advisory body said Tuesday.
That's the primary recommendation of this
year's report by the U.S.-China Economic and
Security Review Commission that examines the
national security implications of the relationship
between the two world powers.
The report says China's increasing use of cyber
espionage has already cost U.S. companies
tens of billions of dollars in lost sales and
expenses in repairing the damage from
hacking. It says in many cases, stolen trade
secrets have been turned over to Chinese
government-owned companies.
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The commission, typically very critical of Beijing,
is appointed by both parties in Congress but
makes no bones about the “inadequate” U.S.
response, saying China has also infiltrated a wide
swath of U.S. government computer networks.
“The United States is ill-prepared to defend
itself from cyber espionage when its adversary
is determined, centrally coordinated, and
technically sophisticated, as is the CCP and
China's government,’ the report says, referring to
the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
Cybersecurity has become an increasingly sore
point in U.S.-China relations. It remains to be
seen whether a September agreement between
President Barack Obama and China's President
Xi Jinping that neither government will support
commercial cyber theft will lead to an easing in
the tensions.
Among the most serious breaches in the past
year in which China is suspected was against
the Office of Personnel Management, revealed
in April. Hackers gained access to the personal
information of more than 22 million U.S. federal
employees, retirees, contractors and others, and
millions of sensitive and classified documents.
“The Chinese government appears to believe
that it has more to gain than to lose from its
cyber espionage and attack campaign. So far, it
has acquired valuable technology, trade secrets,
and intelligence. The costs imposed have been
minimal compared to the perceived benefit.
The campaign is likely to continue and may well
escalate,’ says the report.
China describes itself as a victim of hacking and
says that is combating cybercrimes. It denied
involvement in the OPM hack.
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The commission's report says U.S. law does
not allow retaliatory cyberattacks by private
citizens and corporations, nor does it appear
to allow‘hack backs’ to recover, erase or alter
stolen data in offending computer networks.
It says international law has not kept up
with developments in cyber warfare, and
recommends Congress assess the coverage of
U.S. law in this regard.
Congress should also study the feasibility of
having a foreign intelligence cyber court to hear
evidence from U.S. victims of cyberattacks and
decide whether the U.S. government might hack
back on a victim's behalf, the report says.
Richard Bejtlich, chief security strategist at FireEye,
a U.S. network security company, said there
wouldn't be much appetite in the private sector
for this. He said it should be the U.S. government
that conducts any counter intrusions, but publicly
available information indicates that offensive
cyber activities by the U.S. to date have been
focused on intelligence targets and centers of
state power rather than targeting groups that are
hacking the private sector.
“We need to get our hackers to go after their
hackers to put pressure on them and disrupt
their operations,’ Bejtlich said. “We need to start
with more government pressure, not put the
private sector in that role.’
The commission's report, which surveys a wide
range of economic and security developments in
China, also criticizes its censorship and restrictions
on Internet content and the impact that has on
U.S. businesses. The report accused China of a
“government effort to wall off the fastest-growing
market in the world for digital commerce.’
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MADE IN THE A.M. (DELUXE EDITION)
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SAWYER FREDERICKS - EP
SAWYER FREDERICKS
MR. MISUNDERSTOOD
Eric CHURCH
AHEAD FULL OF DREAMS
COLDPLAY
WHAT'S INSIDE: SONGS FROM WAITRESS
SARA BAREILLES
DAMN COUNTRY MUSIC (DELUXE EDITION)
Tim McGraw
1989
TayLor SWIFT
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MUSIC VIDEOS
HELLO
ADELE
HOTLINE BLING
DRAKE
WATCH ME (WHIP/NAE NAE)
SWLENTO
FOCUS
ARIANA GRANDE
WILDEST DREAMS
Taytor SWIFT
SORRY
Justin BiEBER
BETTER WHEN/’M DANCIN’
MEGHAN TRAINOR
WHEN I’M GONE
Joey+Rory
PERFECT
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WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
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THe FLASH, SEASON 2
CHAOS THEORY
Maarvet’s Acenrs oF S.H./.E.L.D., SEASON 3
FIGHT OR FLIGHT
SUPERGIRL, SEASON 7
MOMMIE DEAREST
SCREAM QUEENS, SEASON 7
THE GIFT OF THE MAG/
FARGO, SEASON 2
LIES
THe Goop Wire, SEASON 7
WHEN PIRATES PIRATE PIRATES
Limitless, SEASON 7
ROOM 33
American Horror Story: Hore, SEASON 5
PERSECUTE ENVOYS
Bunoseot, SEASON 7
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ROGUE LAWYER
JOHN GRISHAM
THE CROSSING
Micwael CONNELLY
THE PROMISE
RoerT CRAIS
CRIMSON SHORE
Douctas PRESTON & LiNCOLN CHILD
TROUBLEMAKER
LEAH REMINI & REBECCA PALEY
RECKLESS INLOVE
Betta Anore & JENNIFER SKULLY
SEE ME
NICHOLAS SPARKS
PROMISE TO KEEP
Jessica Woop
THE MARTIAN
Anpy Weir
NOVEMBER 9
CoiteeN Hoover
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GIFT GUIDE:
6 WAYS TO
GET STREAMING
VIDEO TO YOUR
BIG SCREEN
Watching video on a phone or personal
computer can sometimes feel less than
awesome - not to mention kind of lonely, given
the limited viewing angle of the small screen.
There are plenty of ways to get streaming video
onto your big living-room screen. Internet-
connected “smart” TVs and gaming consoles
such as the Xbox or PlayStation can do the
trick. But stand-alone devices tend to offer
more features and more video services to
choose from.
These six leading devices all stream Netflix and
YouTube, and most also handle Hulu, PBS and
several others. Only Apple TV has iTunes, while
only Roku has both Amazon and Google Play.
Whichever device you choose, you'll still need
subscriptions to watch most of the 12 services
we checked.
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TIVO BOLT (starts at $300, plus $15 a month for
service after the first year)
The TiVo is first and foremost a digital video
recorder, offering many features that cable-
company DVRs can’t match.
TiVo recordings have many advantages over
streaming services such as Hulu. One tap of the
remote skips over the entire commercial break
for many prime-time shows. Hulu won't let you
skip commercials at all unless you pay more.
TiVo can also play back shows 30 percent faster
using its “QuickMode.’ Use both, and an hour-
long show takes less than 35 minutes.
As a streaming device, though, TiVo is more
limited. It offers only four of the 12 leading
streaming services we checked - Netflix,
Amazon, YouTube and Vudu. Hulu is coming
soon. Apps for many specific channels,
including HBO and Showtime, are unavailable,
nor is baseball’s MLB.TV. TiVo figures you can
simply record those channels or use your cable
company’s on-demand service, but that doesn’t
help if you have only an antenna.
The Bolt offers 75 or 150 hours of recording.
A 450-hour TiVo is available for $600, but
it’s an older model, without QuickMode or
commercial-break skipping.
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GOOGLE CHROMECAST ($35)
The Chromecast is an odd hybrid - a gateway to
relay streaming video from your laptop, phone
or tablet to the TV. Choose a video source - say,
the Netflix app or website - and make a few taps
to “cast” it to the TV. The Chromecast then picks
up the video stream directly.
Chromecast doesn't work with every video app,
but has 10 of the 12 services we looked for;
iTunes and Amazon are no-shows, at least from
mobile devices. It has no remote; you control
playback through your phone or tablet. The
Chromecast is cheap, but it’s not as versatile as a
stand-alone device.
For music and podcasts, the $35 Chromecast
Audio can “cast” to speakers.
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NVIDIA SHIELD ANDROID TV ($200)
The Shield’s strength is as a video-game console.
It's fast and powerful, and it has a good selection
of converted PC games. The device also
supports Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming-game
subscription. Games run on distant servers, yet
feel as though they are directly on the Shield.
The Shield uses Google's Android TV streaming
service, which offers eight of our 12 streaming
services. There’s no Amazon, iTunes or Watch
ESPN app. With Chromecast-like casting, you
can get Vudu. You can get ESPN with a Sling TV
subscription and app.
The Shield is expensive for a streaming TV
device, but it's cheaper than a game console. It
comes with a game controller.
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AMAZON FIRE TV ($100)
The Fire TV is a great device for streaming video
- especially video from Amazon. Video available
as part of Amazon's Prime loyalty program
integrates nicely. For other services, you must
launch an app first. The Fire TV has nine of the 12
services checked; it's missing iTunes, Google Play
and Vudu.
The Fire TV is cheap for a full-fledged streaming
device. For an even cheaper option, Amazon's
$40 Fire TV Stick has fewer features but runs the
same services.
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ROKU 4 ($130)
Talk about choice. Roku has nearly 3,000 apps to
choose from. If there’s something you're looking
for, however obscure, it’s more likely
to be on Roku than any other device. Of the
dozen services we looked for, iTunes was the
only one missing.
Roku joins TiVo, the Shield and Fire TV in
supporting super-sharp video in an emerging
format known as ultra-high definition, or 4K.
Roku goes further in creating a special app to
point you to what little 4K content is out there.
Another nice touch: A button on the Roku will
make your remote beep if you lose it.
Roku also offers cheaper options with
fewer features, all the way down to its $50
Streaming Stick.
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APPLE TV (starts at $149)
The app store on the new Apple TV has a good
selection of video services and games. As with
Fire TV and Roku, many of these are casual
games, not the hardcore games common on
the Shield. Apple is the only device with iTunes,
although it currently lacks Google Play, Amazon
and Vudu from the 12 services on our list.
Although Apple TV isn’t the only gadget
here to offer voice search, it does so without
interrupting video playback. A slide-up box
appears in response to commands for specific
titles or actors, as well as general queries for
weather, sports or stocks. (Fire TV and the Shield
also offer informational voice searches, while
Roku is limited to searches for shows
and movies.)
Apple TV also offers a range of apps beyond
video and games, including Airbnb and Zillow for
housing listings and QVC and Gilt for shopping.
Apple still sells its older Apple TV model for $69.
That model won't give you voice search or any
apps beyond streaming media.
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