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  • FBI can't unlock anything newer than Apple's iPhone 5c, Comey reveals

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    Comey says the this technique does not work on modern devices. 

    This is different than saying that the FBI cannot hack modern devices with different techniques.

    Headline fail.
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  • Who would actually use the selfie flash on a 9.7" iPad Pro?

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    Unrelated, but I wonder if Apple might consider sampling the white balance in the room from the front-facing camera, and adjust the tone of the display accordingly (similar to Night Shift).
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  • Google's search engine crawler to stop identifying as an iPhone come April

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    jdgaz said:
    duck duck go for me. works fine. maybe not as pretty at the google.
    It's just slower. Users who give Google full access and frequent use get suggestions that are borderline amazing, and searches are so fast that you often don't even have to execute the search -- the answer will be in a suggestion. There's a tradeoff of privacy vs. convenience here, and they're excelling at leveraging both.
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  • After citing $53M in personal debt, Kanye West begs fans to subscribe to Tidal

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  • Google surpasses Apple as world's most valuable company

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    studiomusic said:
    sog35 said:

    Good job Tim Cook. You've done something I thought was impossible. Make me think Google's future is brighter than Apple's.
    Google's stock future is brighter right now, not the company.

    That's a reach. Look at Google's semi-recent release of Tensor Flow. They've published one of their most valuable technologies for anyone to use. This is the basis for speech recognition, AR translation, ad selection, etc. Google has gone from a handful of deep-learning AI projects 5 years ago to 1000s now, all based on Tensor Flow. So they release this to the world to use. Why? Well, if anyone does anything significant with it, they will simply buy that company and add it to their 1000s of deep learning AI projects. FB and Amazon won't base any tech on Tensor Flow, so it's not going to enable any competition.

    This is pretty forward thinking. They're basing their future on AI, and it's amazing. Inbox for Gmail offers automated replies for me (at least the first sentence), and it's a useful response more than half the time. It's really amazing, even offering a "Haha, thanks!" if there's a joke with a useful answer in an email I receive. 

    There's a tone of future with Alphabet.

    I'd be more concerned about Apple as they now show us they can count to 7.
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