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AppleInsider said:

"Specifically, the commission's raison d'etre would be to review the repercussions of denying law enforcement access to encrypted communications, then make recommendations on how best to tackle the critical issue." 

Whats missing? Any guesses?

Specifically what is not said is that there will be any attempt to even discuss the repercussions of weakening encryption or encryption protection.  

This is a committee set up solely to talk about what is lost to state security due to encryption, while totally ignoring what is gained.

We might as well set up a committee to discuss how freedom of the press leads to civil unrest and how we need to temper the right to discuss maters of privacy and politics if such discussions might possibly jeopordize security.  Or how the inability to torture criminal suspects means we get fewer confessions and that therefore more guilty criminals are roaming our streets like wise causing a diminution in our security.

What kind of govenment would make those arguments. Sounds like a very insecure Russian Oligarchy or something.
Oh wait  ....  
Never mind.
Nothing to see here.
Go on about your business

“Hey Siri where are my keys” spins around, haptic feedback when facing in the right direction.
Touch ID on ring to unlock/lock.
Gestures or side or corner touches on ring to activate shortcuts. Anything from call 911 to turn on lights to tell friends I’ve arrived at the bar.

Most functions could be done with a watch but with a watch any interaction requires 2 hands. Ring allows one handed (actually just thumb and forefinger) operation leaving 1 1/2 hands free. Eg opening door while carrying groceries

The reports of Note 7's "bursting into flames" are greatly exaggerated. Usually there is much more smoke than flame and there are clearly parts of the phone that show no evidence of flame at all. Where there's smoke there isn't always very much fire.