The FBI has abandoned its court battle with Apple for the time being, after figuring out how to hack the San Bernardino iPhone without Apple’s help. However, the fight over smartphone encryption is not over, and there’s a new proposal that seeks to regulate law enforcement’s access to encrypted devices and Internet products.
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As we move ever closer to self-driving cars reaching the mass market, car makers are hard at work developing the technologies that will keep drivers safe. One of the most fascinating of the bunch has to be Toyota’s “guardian angel” system, which can take control of a vehicle in order to protect the driver.
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If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times: you should probably disable Adobe Flash altogether. It’s nearly obsolete, it’s a resource hog and it’s often the culprit behind major security scares. But if you just can’t let Flash go, Microsoft Edge is going to at least make it easier to manage in its next update.
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It’s no secret that iPhone sales in 2016 may take a dip for the first time in history. Hardly a point of speculation, even Tim Cook conceded this point during an earnings conference call this past January. It’s also no secret that the recently launched iPhone SE, for many users, has been a long time coming. While Apple’s iPhone 6 and 6s models have sold remarkably well, the reality is that large swaths of users simply prefer a smaller form factor. Indeed, Apple noted not too long ago that it sold more than 30 million 4-inch iPhone models in 2015 alone.
All that said, the iPhone SE was seemingly well positioned to help bolster iPhone sales during traditionally lower volume sales months. And yet, for reasons that aren’t exactly clear, Apple launched the iPhone SE with embarrassingly low supply.
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Most Tesla owners love their cars but that doesn’t mean everything is perfect. In a popular Quora thread, some Tesla Model S owners recently listed the biggest gripes that they had about their cars and they include things such as complaints about the cars’ fit, finish and quality. In short, it sounds like Tesla has some work to do still if it wants to be considered a top-notch car manufacturer.
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Last week’s trailers roundup included clips for many upcoming comedies and horror pictures, but this week we’re back with a more diverse set of new films. There’s Rogue One, The BFG, a new Batman animated movie, and many others.
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You spent well over $1,000 to put your gaming rig together and now that it’s done, it’s time to pick out a monitor that’ll do that beastly machine justice. But there’s just one problem: you’re almost out of cash. Don’t worry, you don’t have to spend $700 or even $500 on a high-quality gaming monitor because we’ve got just the sale for you. For a limited time, the Philips 276E6ADSS 27-Inch Class IPS Quantum Dot Technology Monitor with 300cd/m2 brightness and 5ms response time is on sale right now for just $270 on Amazon.
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This has been a very good week for Elon Musk. In addition to seeing the Tesla Model 3 total more than 325,000 reservations, his other company SpaceX just successfully landed one of its Falcon 9 rockets on a floating barge in the middle of the ocean. This is the first time that SpaceX has successfully landed a rocket on an ocean platform, although last December it successfully landed a rocket on solid ground.
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It’s been a pretty slow Friday, which is why BuzzFeed decided to spice things up significantly by finding a very creative way to blow up a watermelon. Even better, they decided to do a live stream of the whole thing in which as many as 500,000 people watched at the same time.
What you are about to see is pointless and stupid… but you will not be able to look away.
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Cliffhanger might not be the right word to describe the final moments of Game of Thrones’ fifth season, but it definitely left us wanting more. There are countless plot threads to wrap up, characters in limbo that need accounting for and, of course, the threat of winter finally hitting Westeros in full force.
We’re still more than two weeks away from the premiere, but HBO has started releasing some details about the season’s first episode.
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