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OUR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH iOS DEVELOPER GUILHERME RAMBO

VERIZON TWEAKS PRICES, CUTS VIDEO QUALITY ON UNLIMITED PLANS

TECH COMPANIES CONTINUE EFFORTS TO BANISH EXTREMIST ACCOUNTS

36 ‘A PRIMAL EXPERIENCE’: AMERICANS DAZZLED BY SOLAR ECLIPSE

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HOLLYWOOD’S HACKING PAINS ARE BIGGER THAN MOVIE LEAKS 08 GOOGLE TO SERVE NEXT VERSION OF ANDROID AS ‘OREO’ 24 WALMART DIVES INTO VOICE-ACTIVATED SHOPPING WITH GOOGLE 28 GLAM SHOT GETS UGLY: MNUCHIN WIFE TOUTS STYLE, SLAMS CRITIC 48 WHOLE FOODS SHAREHOLDERS SAY YES TO AMAZON DEAL 78 WHY AI VISIONARY ANDREW NG TEACHES HUMANS TO TEACH COMPUTERS 82 UP FROM THE ASHES: SAMSUNG UNVEILS SUCCESSOR TO NOTE 7 PHONE 90 1926 - 2017 GOODBYE JERRY 96 BOX OFFICE TOP 20: ‘THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD’ HITS NO. 1 134 UPSTATE NY ‘STAR TREK’ TV SET TOUR GETTING BOOST FROM DONOR 144 DANIEL CRAIG, BACK AS BOND, KEEPS 007 FANS ON EDGE 146 SCIENCE SAYS: DNA TEST RESULTS MAY NOT CHANGE HEALTH HABITS 162 IT GOES TO 11: FLORIDA LAB SETS NEW MAGNET STRENGTH RECORD 170 NFL, ELECTRONIC ARTS UNVEIL MADDEN ‘18 COMPETITION 172 TURNER IS LATEST TO PLAN SPORTS STREAMING SERVICE 186 UFC GETS AGGRESSIVE WITH TECHNOLOGY TO ENHANCE ITS FIGHTS 190 CALIFORNIA POLLUTION PERMITS SELL AT HIGHEST PRICE EVER 196

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HOLLYWOOD’S HACKING PAINS ARE BIGGER THAN MOVIE LEAKS

Piracy is a long-running and even routine issue for Hollywood, whether it’s street vendors hawking bootleg DVDs on street corners or video uploaded to file-sharing sites like Pirate Bay. Now cybercriminals are also putting embarrassing chatter and other company secrets at risk. The reputational risk from leaked email is much more difficult to calculate than any financial risk from piracy. “In some ways, that risk can be higher because you have no way of knowing what’s in those emails,” said Erik Rasmussen of Kroll Cyber Security. The cataclysmal event in the back of everyone’s mind is the Sony hack in 2014. While unreleased movies were leaked, what’s remembered is the chaos unleashed amid a network shutdown and the disclosure of derisive 9

comments about such well-known actors as Angelina Jolie and Leonardo DiCaprio and racially insensitive remarks about then-President Barack Obama. Although the recent HBO leaks so far have fallen well short of the damage inflicted on Sony, there were concerns early on that hackers were setting the stage for an embarrassing sequel for Hollywood.

PIRACY STILL A PROBLEM While the attention is on leaked emails, that’s not to say Hollywood isn’t worried about piracy. On online forums where criminals “advertise their ill-gotten gains,” there is now entertainment content “popping up as basically sections of these websites,” Rasmussen said. Some people believe that video leaks can help gin up media and viewer attention for a show or movie, but leaking shows and movies does hurt Hollywood’s take, especially if it happens before the official release, Carnegie Mellon professor Michael Smith said. In a 2014 analysis, Smith and his co-authors concluded that a movie’s box-office revenue dropped 19 percent, on average, when it was leaked ahead of the theatrical release, compared with a leak after the movie hit theaters. The research was part of a Carnegie Mellon initiative funded by the Motion Picture Association of America, Hollywood’s lobbying group. One way to overcome pirates is to make programs widely and cheaply available. Netflix has many shows and movies that are easily accessible around the world for a single monthly 10

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price. In April, hackers leaked most new episodes of Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black” before their official release in early June. That doesn’t seem to have driven customers away. Netflix added more than 5 million subscribers in the April-to-June period, the largest increase ever for that quarter. Separate from HBO’s recent run-ins with hackers, upcoming “Game of Thrones” episodes have leaked several times, and it is TV’s most pirated show. The show is still a massive hit for HBO, with high viewership and critical acclaim. As for the recent hacks, episodes of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,”‘’Insecure,”‘’Ballers” and several other shows leaked. It helped that entire seasons weren’t released, forcing viewers to subscribe to view the whole show.

THE FALLOUT AT HBO HBO’s hackers demanded a multi-million dollar ransom payment, something HBO refused. Because piracy is already prevalent, the leak of several scattered TV episodes might not have been enough to force such a payment, said Alex Heid, chief research officer at risk management firm SecurityScorecard. “Pirated content ends up on Pirate Bay within 24 hours of airing. Any show on HBO, any movie, the moment it’s released, on the first day, you see it on pirated internet streams.” But hackers released an email from HBO in which the company expressed willingness to pay them $250,000 as part of a negotiation over data swiped from HBO’s servers. Whether or not HBO ever intended to follow through with the 13

offer, the email raised questions among security professionals about the importance of the data. Besides upcoming episodes, the HBO data dumps included what appeared to be contact information of Hollywood actors , a month’s worth of emails of one employee, sensitive internal documents like job offer letters and scripts for future episodes. A person familiar with the situation, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person wasn’t authorized to speak publicly, said HBO was proactive in communicating with actors ahead of their personal information being released to the public. That may be helping mitigate the impact of what leaks did occur. Companies that do get hacked should be up front with customers, employees and other affected parties as soon as possible, said Richard Levick, the head of crisis-management firm Levick. “You can’t sweep it under the rug,” he said. “You can’t be opaque about it.”

COMPARISONS WITH SONY In the Sony case, hackers crippled Sony’s network, wiped the company’s data and dumped thousands of internal emails and documents, including sensitive information such as employees’ salary information and Social Security numbers. Racially insensitive comments made by the former co-chair of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Amy Pascal, paved the way for her exit a few months later. Michael Lynton, who left as Sony Pictures’ head in January, said that press coverage of the emails hurt the studio’s standing in Hollywood and that the public airing of employees’ 15

private information and conversations “took a long time to deal with,” the trade publication Variety reported. The movie studio said in April 2015 that “investigation and remediation expenses” related to the hack cost it $41 million, or about 8 percent of the film and TV division’s profit that fiscal year. It later reached an $8 million settlement with current and former employees. Studios are learning to be cautious. “I know people in the industry that now don’t do deals over email,” Smith said. “They do deals over the phone because it’s not archived.” Lynton told Recode in 2016 that instead of email, “my fax machine is in great use at this point.” Sony declined comment on Lynton’s remarks. Rasmussen said companies are also sharing information with law enforcement in an effort to protect the whole industry - and stave off another sequel.

VERIZON TWEAKS PRICES, CUTS VIDEO QUALITY ON UNLIMITED PLANS

Verizon is raising the price of its unlimited plan while introducing a slightly cheaper, more limited version as wireless carriers battle each other for customers. All major carriers now offer unlimited plans after years of steering people toward paying extra for using more data. Verizon, like its rivals, will start charging more for higher-quality video while hoping to attract cost-conscious customers with a cheaper plan. Verizonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unlimited plan had cost $80 a month for one line for those who sign up for automatic payments with a checking account or debit card. Beginning Wednesday, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll cost $85 with highdefinition video - capped at 720p for phones. Plans with DVD-quality streaming will cost $75. For a family of four, the higher-quality version costs $200 a month; the cheaper plan is $160. Existing customers can keep their unlimited plans, but their video quality is now limited 21

to 720p on phones as well. That rules out 4K-resolution video, but many people probably won’t notice a difference and there isn’t much 4K content yet. Verizon will also slow the speeds of people on the cheaper unlimited plan when the network is congested. It will do that on the pricier plan only when a customer uses more than 22 gigabytes in a month. The cheaper unlimited plan won’t have data, texts or calls in Mexico and Canada included. Verizon’s changes are meant to preserve the quality of its network after the return of unlimited plans in February, Jefferies analyst Mike McCormack said in a research note. The popular plans have “undoubtedly placed a heavy burden on the network,” he said. Having unlimited data means customers can watch all the network-taxing high-resolution video they want. Charging customers who want high-resolution video also lets Verizon make more money off the unlimited plans. The company has had to deal with less money coming in from fees charged when customers go over data limits, as unlimited plans don’t have those fees. Verizon says the changes reflect its desire to bring unlimited plans to more people. Verizon’s cheaper unlimited plan costs more than T-Mobile’s $70 plan with DVD-level video streaming. AT&T’s economy version is $60, but it caps data speeds at a slow 3 megabits per second. Sprint has a $50 promotional plan that includes HD video streaming, but prices go up to $60 after a year. 22

GOOGLE TO SERVE NEXT VERSION OF ANDROID AS ‘OREO’

An upcoming update to Google’s Android software finally has a delectable name. The next version will be known as Oreo, extending Google’s tradition of naming each version after a sweet treat. Google anointed the software this week after spending the past few months referring to it as “Android O.” Oreo boasts several new features, including the ability to respond to notifications directly on a phone’s home screen and the ability to access apps without installing them on a device. 25

The free software is scheduled to be released this fall, most likely after making its debut on a new Pixel phone that Google is expected to begin selling in October. The nicknames for earlier Android versions have included Nougat, Marshmallow, and Lollipop. Google and Oreo’s maker, Mondelez, referred to their deal as a partnership, rather than a sponsorship, as no money was exchanged. Google has named Android after a brand before: The 2013 version was known as Kit Kat. Financial terms weren’t disclosed for that. Android is the world’s most widely used mobile operating system. Apple doesn’t use names for its iOS system for iPhones, though the software for Mac computers is named after big cats and geographic locations in California.

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WALMART DIVES INTO VOICEACTIVATED SHOPPING WITH GOOGLE

Walmart is diving into voice-activated shopping. But unlike online leader Amazon, it’s not doing it alone. The world’s largest retailer said Wednesday it’s working with Google to offer hundreds of thousands of items from laundry detergent to Legos for voice shopping through Google Assistant. The capability will be available in late September. It’s Google’s biggest retail partnership - and the most personalized shopping experience it offers - as it tries to broaden the reach of its voice-powered assistant Home speaker. And it underscores Walmart’s drive to compete in an area dominated by Amazon’s Alexa-powered Echo device. “Voice shopping is becoming a more important part of everyday shopping behavior,” said Marc Lore, CEO of Walmart’s U.S. e-commerce business. 29

The voice-activated devices are becoming more mainstream as they become more accessible. Even Apple has one coming out this year. Walmart has said Google’s investment in natural language processing and artificial intelligence will help make voice-activated shopping even more popular. And Lore said the personalization of the partnership means people can shout out generic items like milk, bread and cheese, and Google Assistant will know exactly the brands and the size that the user wants. Google introduced shopping to Home in February, letting people use voice to order essentials from more than 40 retailers like Target and Costco under its Google Express program. But that was far behind the Echo, available since late 2014. Walmart, which has more stores than any other retailer and the largest share of the U.S. grocery market, is also working hard to close the gulf online between itself and Amazon. It has overhauled its shipping strategy and is expanding store-curb pickup for groceries ordered online. But it’s also had to look beyond itself and form partnerships. Walmart announced Monday that it’s expanding its grocery delivery service with ride-hailing service Uber, and it’s been testing sameday delivery service with Deliv at Sam’s Club in Miami. Amazon generally has been building its network of services on its own, using its $99-a-year Prime membership with same-day and even one-hour shipping options to develop loyalty.

It’s also been drawing in customers with its Alexa-powered devices. Amazon doesn’t give sales figures for Echo, but Consumer Intelligence Research Partners estimated that it’s sold more than 10 million Alexa-powered Echo devices in the U.S. since late 2014. That includes the core $179 Echo as well as the less expensive and smaller Echo Dot and the portable Amazon Tap. To be more competitive with Amazon, Google Express is scrapping the $95-a-year membership starting Wednesday, allowing shoppers to get free delivery within one to three days on orders as long as the purchase is above each store’s minimum. Walmart is integrating its Easy Reorder feature - which has data on both store and online purchases - into Google Express. Shoppers who want to reorder their favorites have to link their Walmart account to Google Express. With other Google Express retailers, personalization takes time as the assistant learns shoppers’ preferences, says Brian Elliott, general manager of Google Express. So the quick personalization with Walmart should make voiceactivated shopping more attractive, he says. While one of Walmart’s biggest advantages over Amazon is its massive number of stores, Amazon’s nearly $14 billion offer for Whole Foods could shake up the landscape. Walmart says it will be tapping its 4,700 U.S. stores and its fulfillment network next year to offer more kinds of customer experiences using voice shopping. For example, shoppers can tell Google Assistant they want to pick up an order in a store. Lore said the company wants to make voice shopping as easy as possible. 32

“That’s why it makes sense for us to team up with Google. We know this means being compared side-by-side with other retailers, and we think that’s the way it should be,” Lore wrote in a corporate blog post. Independent internet analyst Sucharita Mulpuru-Kodal, who was unaware of the Google deal at the time of the interview, says Walmart is going in the right direction, though it has a long way to go. She noted that partnerships with companies like Uber enable the discounter to get the business “up and running” and it will be able to learn a lot.

TECH COMPANIES CONTINUE EFFORTS TO BANISH EXTREMIST ACCOUNTS

Tech companies’ efforts to banish extremist groups and individuals are continuing as a social network popular with extremists disappeared from Google’s Android app store. Gab had already been unavailable in Apple’s store, though it remains accessible on the web. The banishments come in the wake of the deadly clash at a white-nationalist rally last weekend in Virginia. Civil rights advocates welcomed the moves, but say more needs to be done - and more should have been done earlier. 37

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Here is a look at some of the technology services that have banned hate groups or have otherwise come out against white supremacists and their supporters:

AIRBNB Ahead of the rally, the housing booking service Airbnb barred rentals to people it believed were traveling to participate. The company said it used its existing background checks and “input from the community” to identify users who didn’t align with its standards.

SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook removed several groups and individuals from its service and Instagram for what it calls violations of terms banning hate speech. Groups included Vanguard America, Physical Removal and Genuine Donald Trump. The company uses a combination of artificial intelligence and human moderators to weed out groups, posts and people that violate its policies. Spokeswoman Ruchika Budhraja acknowledges this is a difficult task, as determining what is hate speech is more difficult than something like a beheading video or child pornography. Twitter, meanwhile, appears to have suspended the account for neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer, though the company doesn’t comment on individual accounts.

APP STORES Google has removed Gab, a social network that extremists flocked to, for “hate speech,” Gab tweeted. Gab’s logo is a green cartoon frog, reminiscent of “Pepe the Frog,” the internet meme that’s become a symbol of the “alt-right,” a fringe movement that’s known for its racist, antiSemitic and sexist views.

SERVICE PROVIDERS The Daily Stormer’s publisher said he has been effectively “banned from the internet” after mocking the victim of a deadly car attack during the protests in Charlottesville. Andrew Anglin said by email he is “figuring out the next step” after four domain registration companies refused to service his site. GoDaddy and Google said earlier that the site violated their terms of service. After briefly reappearing under a Russian domain name, the site was again offline Wednesday after the security company Cloudflare Inc. dropped him as a customer, leaving the site vulnerable to hacking attacks. Email marketing firm MailChimp said some groups had their accounts terminated after it changed its terms of service on Monday to exclude customers whose primary purpose was “inciting harm” or promoting “discriminatory, hateful, or harassing content.” Squarespace, a website service company, said it banished some sites out of concern they “could be used to facilitate or promote behavior that gives rise to violence.” Identity Evropa, a northern California hate group that helped organize participants in Charlottesville, tweeted that it had lost service from MailChimp, Squarespace and PayPal. 41

ONLINE PAYMENTS PayPal has been removing payment accounts linked to known hate groups in the months leading up to Charlottesville, according to the company and a civil rights organization it was working with. For example, the account for the Daily Stormer was banned several months ago. In a blog post, the company said it “strives to navigate the balance between freedom of expression and open dialogue - and the limiting and closing of sites that accept payments or raise funds to promote hate, violence and intolerance.” Online fundraising sites GoFundMe and Patreon also banned people and canceled fundraisers associated with right-wing hate groups. GoFundMe confirmed that it removed “multiple campaigns” for James Fields, the driver accused of driving his car into protesters and killing a woman.

SPOTIFY The music streaming service banned music it said “favors hatred or incites violence against race, religion, sexuality or the like” after it was alerted to white supremacist bands on its service by the music blog Digital Music News . The blog found bands identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as white power music streaming on Spotify.

FINDING LOVE Dating site OKCupid tweeted that it had banned white nationalist Christopher Cantwell, saying “There is no room for hate in a place where you’re looking for love.” 43

OUTSIDE THE TECH WORLD Discover said Thursday that it is “in the process” of terminating the accounts of hate groups. The racial justice group Color of Change had called on the credit card company, along with American Express, Mastercard and Visa, to stop processing funds for hate groups. Amex said most of the websites it was alerted to by activists already do not accept its credit cards. The company said it is “currently reviewing the other sites and will take the appropriate actions. We maintain the right to terminate any relationship that is harmful to our brand.” Mastercard said in a statement that it reviewed the websites “provided by civic leaders and others” and shut down the use of cards on sites it saw as inciting violence. At the same time, the company said it generally doesn’t block cards “based on our disagreement with specific views espoused or promoted.” Visa issued a similar statement, saying that while it bans illegal transactions, it does not restrict “lawful expression of views, even if we may find the organization or its positions to be offensive.”

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DONATIONS Apple is donating $2 million to two human rights groups as part of CEO Tim Cookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pledge to help lead the fight against the hate that fueled the violence in Charlottesville. Apple is giving $1 million apiece to Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. The iPhone maker also will match employee donations to those two groups and other human rights organizations on a two-forone basis. 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch told friends in a personal email that he and his wife, Kathryn, will donate $1 million to the AntiDefamation League. American Airlines said it will donate $150,000 to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville.

GLAM SHOT GETS UGLY: MNUCHIN WIFE TOUTS STYLE, SLAMS CRITIC

It was a glam shot that got ugly. The wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin dove headlong into a social media skirmish this week, blasting a critic of her Instagram post highlighting her high fashion choices. Calling the commenter “adorably out of touch,” Louise Linton suggested she and Mnuchin contributed more to the U.S. economy and paid more in taxes than did her critic. After a day of mounting criticism, the Scottish actress issued an apology Tuesday. Image: Alex Wong

But she had already assumed a starring role in the continuing story of the Trump administration’s enormous wealth. “I think spouses of political appointees are usually not fair game for critics, but with Trump, tensions are heightened,” said Republican political consultant Alex Conant. The drama began Monday when Linton posted a photo of herself getting off a government plane in Kentucky with Mnuchin. In her post, Linton mentioned several designer labels for her white ensemble, including Tom Ford and Valentino. Commenter Jenni Miller responded from Oregon: “Glad we could pay for your little getaway. #deplorable.” Linton shot back, defending herself and Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs executive and hedge fund investor. “Pretty sure the amount we sacrifice per year is a lot more than you’d be willing to sacrifice if the choice was yours,” Linton wrote. She went on to call Miller’s response “passive aggressive” and “nasty” before ending her retort with a suggestion that Miller “go chill out and watch the new game of thrones.” Miller told CNN she found Linton’s original post “incredibly offensive,” saying Linton went to a state with high poverty and “chose to brag about her outlandishly expensive clothes. It’s more than tone-deaf, it’s deplorable.” In her apology, Linton said: “I apologize for my post on social media yesterday as well as my response. It was inappropriate and highly insensitive.” 51

Norm Eisen, President Barack Obama’s chief ethics attorney, called Linton a “Marie Antoinette for our age.” In an email, he added that in the Bush or Obama administrations, a spouse of an official who replied that way and the official “would have been counseled.” The White House referred questions about Linton to the Treasury Department, which said Mnuchin and Linton are reimbursing the government for Linton’s travel and that Linton received no compensation from the fashion labels mentioned in her post. Anita McBride, who served as chief of staff for former first lady Laura Bush, said people in high-level government jobs and their spouses must be careful about their public statements. “Fairly or unfairly, you are held to a higher standard on how to respond and what kind of dialogue you should engage in,” she said. “Don’t take the bait.” In a Cabinet with plenty of wealth, Mnuchin is among the richest members. He worked for Goldman Sachs for nearly two decades and later founding a successful hedge fund. He also ran a company that invested in Hollywood movies including such blockbuster hits as Avatar. He married Linton, who has had small roles in television shows and movies, in a lavish Washington wedding in June. Trump attended the wedding and Vice President Mike Pence officiated. Before the wedding, Linton gave an interview to “Town and Country” magazine to talk about her jewelry, a lavish collection of diamonds and pearls.

Like the businessman president, Trump’s team is packed with high rollers, including Education Secretary Betsy Devos, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, as well as daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner, both senior advisers. This isn’t the first time their wealth has drawn attention. The president has chosen his lavish Florida vacation home as a place to host foreign dignitaries. During the transition, Ivanka Trump displayed a high-end bracelet on “60 Minutes.” The Washington hangout of choice for staffers and hangers-on is the opulent Trump International Hotel. Still, Trump has always promoted his image as a wealthy mogul, unlike politicians who have tried to downplay their riches. Said Conant: “It has always been part of Trump’s brand and it’s extended to his cabinet.” Mnuchin was visiting Kentucky on Monday for an appearance with Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and a tour of Fort Knox. Treasury secretaries typically travel on commercial flights for domestic trips. The department did not answer questions about why the couple was using a government plane. It’s not the first time Linton has raised eyebrows. Last year she apologized after being criticized for a self-published memoir of a year she spent in Africa as a teen, and withdrew the book. Critics deemed the book inaccurate in its depiction of life on the continent. An excerpt was published online by The Telegraph, but taken down by the British newspaper “in light of the concerns raised by readers.” 55

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When Apple accidentally leaked its HomePod firmware last month, it was good news for those who hate surprises. The firmware replicated code intended for the iPhone 8 meaning that it was to prove itself a goldmine for some key specifications and features of the upcoming device. Once it had been picked apart, that is.

HOW THE D22 GLYPH WAS UNCOVERED The information was uncovered by iOS developer Guilherme Rambo who immediately noticed when mysterious software for a device named ‘AudioAccessory1, 1’ was released on Apple’s public OTA (Over the Air) update feed. Then, after noticing App developer Steve Troughton Smith’s tweet regarding the HomePod’s firmware and how he had discovered information about how the device works, Rambo decided to download the firmware to unpack it himself. Noticing that the version of iOS that the firmware it ran on was not 11.0 but rather 11.0.2, he became aware that this was indeed a future release of iOS 11 not yet accessible to developers. “It then occurred to me that being a future iOS 11.0 release,” Rambo said at the start of our exclusive interview. “It might contain some information about new iPhones. I had been following the rumors about “Face ID,” a face recognition feature that might come to the new iPhone and replace Touch ID. So I decided to run one of the tools I built myself (which extracts method names and other symbols from firmware) against this firmware and search for “facedetect”.” While it’s true that Apple already has a lot of face detection and recognition features for the Camera and Photos apps, Rambo noticed several 59

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references to face detection in BiometricKit, a framework that currently handles Touch ID. It was at this moment that he knew that he’d discovered something brand new.

Another framework in iOS that uses TouchID is LocalAuthentication, something that handles authentication for apps and system services. Looking inside this, Rambo noticed another mysterious file name named “HIDE_MechPearl”.

With this new information and using the same technique as before, he looked for references for “pearl” rather than “facedetect,” and one, in particular, grabbed his attention – “Pearl-D22”.

Perhaps D22 was a reference to a new device model? So, by searching now for references to “D22”, several results were uncovered including a .caar file within the PassKitUIFoundation framework.

Within these files, there are vector image files in an Apple-proprietary format where they store animated vector images for elements on the UI. Thanks to previous experience in rendering this type of file, Rambo wrote an app to render .caar files and revealed a glyph that represented an iPhone with a notch at the top.

THE NEXT iPHONE IS AN ATTENTION SEEKER It’s been suggested that the next iPhone will know exactly when you’re paying attention to it and know how to react accordingly. How? Several symbols that were found in the HomePod firmware and iOS 11 Beta 6 firmware add weight to the rumor that iOS will use the advanced face detection feature used for Pearl ID to detect whether or not you’re giving your device the attention it deserves. For example, this feature could silence notifications, prevent haptic feedback and stop the screen from shutting off when you’re looking directly at your phone which makes complete sense.

CHANGES TO THE CAMERA According to the firmware, both cameras will experience an upgrade the most impressive being the presence of a front-facing infrared camera that will use a “structural light projector” to project infrared light and infrared sensor to read back the image and process what it’s seeing. It is expected that this will be able to project patterns of infrared light to detect different face features (via Pearl ID) but also to use face geometry tracking for ARKit (Apple’s augmented reality technology). Additionally, references are pointing to suggestions that the device will support up to 1080p at 240fps with both front and back facing cameras and 4K at 60fps. The reference to something called “modern HDR” has excited everyone too, particularly those who think that it references HDR video. Another exciting revelation was “SmartCam” which allegedly uses machine learning to detect the object you’re trying to 64

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photograph and tune the camera settings to achieve the best result.

GOODBYE HOME BUTTON BUT IS TOUCH ID HERE TO STAY? Ever since rumors regarding the iPhone 8 (if that is indeed what it will be dubbed) began circulating, we’ve seen many suggestions regarding what the device might look like. We now know that it won’t have a home button, not even a fake home button like the iPhone 7. This was confirmed by the references to a “home indicator” in the firmware, a software home button which can be hidden by certain apps. Two cases where Rambo confirmed this were in the Camera app and when playing a video in full screen.

Rambo has confirmed that from the firmware it was difficult to find out whether the iPhone with Pearl ID would also have Touch ID but specifications found for the iPhone10 device identifiers suggest that at least some of the models will have it. Internally, this is referred to as “mesa.” He also notes a strange difference with the D22 when it comes to activating the SOS feature. On current Apple devices, you need to press the sleep/wake button five times to activate SOS, but in the code, there is a check to see if you have a D22 device in which case the method changes to press and hold the sleep button and the volume up/down button. 67

Perhaps this references the discovery in the recent release of iOS 11 beta six, which allows users to access their Medical ID on the lock screen or simply that the fingerprint sensor has been added to the sleep/wake button? Until the keynote in September, we can only assume. Luckily for us, we were able to gain an exclusive interview with Guilherme Rambo, and he gave us some insight into his background and what he’s hoping to see with the next iPhone release.

TELL US A BIT ABOUT YOURSELF – HOW DID YOU GET INTO PROGRAMMING AND DEVELOPMENT? I started to learn to program back when I was just 12 years old. I learned Delphi and Pascal and then moved on to making websites, which I did for several years (I was a freelance web developer). When I got my first Mac back in 2009, I decided to learn how to make simple Mac apps for myself. Later, when I got myself an iPhone, I started making apps for the iPhone as well.

WERE YOU SHOCKED WHEN YOU STARTED PLAYING AROUND WITH APPLE’S HOMEPOD CODE? It took me a while to realize that the HomePod firmware contained more than I initially expected. When I first started looking at it, I was more interested in learning about how the HomePod itself works; I never expected to find so much stuff about other devices in there. So yes, I can say it shocked me to find so much information about other devices in that firmware. 68

HOW DID IT FEEL TO BE THE FIRST TO BREAK SOME OF THE BIGGEST LEAKS IN RECENT TIMES? I can’t say I don’t like the attention I’ve gotten from being one of the few people who helped reveal all of those leaks. I love listening to podcast hosts trying to pronounce my name (a hard task for English speakers, most of the time) and reading about my discoveries all around the web.

THE REACTION TO YOUR LEAKS HAS BEEN INCREDIBLE, RIGHT? Absolutely. My followers on Twitter have increased by 7x what I had before all of this started, and my tweets got millions of impressions. I never expected it would blow up as much as it did, seeing my name published in major publications I follow has been an amazing experience.

WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ON LEAKING INFORMATION FROM APPLE, AND OTHER DEVELOPERS FOR THAT MATTER? DO YOU EVER WORRY THAT YOU’RE “SPOILING THE FUN” FOR OFFICIAL RELEASES? Some people think that way; I have definitely received some messages from people who were disappointed with the “spoilers”. I don’t see it that way, I think even though we’ve seen pretty much everything Apple is going to unveil later this year, we only know the “what,” but what Apple really likes to sell is the “why,” and that we’ll only get to know on the Keynote.

BASED ON THE DETAILS YOU HAVE UNCOVERED SO FAR, WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO MOST ABOUT APPLE’S SEPTEMBER CONFERENCE? A PARTICULAR iPHONE FEATURE, PERHAPS? I am very curious to see how they’re going to handle the “notch” and the virtual home indicator on iPhone 8 from a software perspective. We’ve seen some hints but not a full picture yet. I’m also very keen on seeing how the facial recognition authentication will work and whether we’ll be able to use it for payments or just for unlocking the device. Oh, and I’m also very curious to know if this new iPhone will have Touch ID since from the software we can’t really know for sure and the supply chain rumors have been all over the place.

APPLE LEAKING ITS OWN PRODUCTS IS UNPRECEDENTED. HOW DO YOU THINK IT HAPPENED? First of all, I don’t think we can say it’s unprecedented. Apple has leaked some products before in a very similar way. Last year an image of the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar was found within macOS. What’s very special about this specific leak is that firmware that should not have been released to the public, and because of that, it didn’t remove all of the future device code that they usually remove from regular firmware builds. What we know happened is that they issued this update for Apple employees who are testing the HomePod and it should have been published to a separate update feed, but got published to the public update feed instead and then people like 72

myself and other developers noticed that and decided to download it and have a look.

AND THE FACT APPLE HAS KEPT QUIET IS PRETTY INTERESTING TOO, RIGHT? Interesting but not surprising. They usually don’t comment leaks like these, except for snarky comments during the keynote.

IF YOU COULD CHANGE ONE THING ABOUT THE iPHONE OR THE MAC, WHAT WOULD IT BE? The thing what’s bothering me the most currently is the sad state of the Mac App Store and sandboxing on macOS. I think iOS is on a really good track with iOS 11 (I’m using my iPad to write this and it feels great), but the Mac is still missing some of the nice things we have on iOS (like a really good sandboxing model and a well implemented and feature-rich AppStore).

YOU’RE A DEVELOPER AT PEIXE URBANO. DOES HAVING AN INSIGHT INTO FUTURE APPLE SOFTWARE/ HARDWARE GIVE YOU A HEAD START FOR YOUR NEXT APP RELEASES? Sometimes it does. With the iPhone 8 leaks, our UX team is already looking at how we can improve the app, so most of the navigation happens on the bottom, a trend that’s already started in software and will now be more prevalent because of the hardware.

FINALLY, IS THERE ANY EXCLUSIVE NEWS OR TIDBITS YOU CAN TELL US? There’s been a lot of talk about inductive charging on the iPhone. This week I was looking at the latest iOS 11 beta firmware, and I found a reference to wireless charging. At first, I thought it could be related to the Apple Watch, but the Apple Watch firmware doesn’t have that same reference. This reference, together with another one I found earlier (about the icon for the charging state of the iPhone 8) confirms we’re going to see some inductive charging on iPhone. I’ve also found references which suggest that the next iPhone will have a TrueTone display and support for HDR (like the current iPad Pros). With the launch event expecting to take place as soon as September, it’s still difficult to confirm exactly what Apple has in store, but fans are expecting an entirely new smartphone, complete with a bezel-less design and an OLED screen. All we know so far is that we’ll be on hand to give you updates on every aspect of the keynote and the launches it is expected to announce.

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WHOLE FOODS SHAREHOLDERS SAY YES TO AMAZON DEAL

Whole Foods shareholders voted Wednesday to bless a $13.7 billion union with Amazon that the organic grocery chain’s CEO had called “love at first sight.” That approval is one step required to close the deal, which is a bold move into physical stores for Amazon and has the possibility of making big changes to the supermarket industry and online grocery ordering. The deal also needs the go-ahead from government regulators. By buying Whole Foods, Amazon will get more than 460 stores and potentially very lucrative data about how shoppers behave offline. Rivals are scrambling to catch up with the e-commerce giant. Walmart, for example, is 79

expanding its grocery delivery service with ride-hailing service Uber and announced Wednesday that it will join forces with Google to let shoppers order goods by voice on Google devices. The deal may also breathe new life into Whole Foods, which had been under intense shareholder pressure to improve results and retain customers who have more choices about where to get natural foods. As Whole Foods grew, more supermarkets offered similar organic and natural foods, but at cheaper prices. Amazon and Whole Foods have not given many details about what might change for customers, though Whole Foods CEO John Mackey gave some general clues at a town hall with employees after the deal was announced. He said he thought Amazon would help with efforts on cost-cutting and a loyalty program. He noted Amazon is known for its innovation and said that company could turn Whole Foods from “the class dunce” to “valedictorian.” Mackey had said the deal came about after a “whirlwind courtship” and that “it was truly love at first sight.” As part of the deal, Amazon will pay Whole Foods shareholders $42 for each share they own. That was an 18 percent premium from its stock price the day before the tie-up was announced on June 16. Shares of Whole Foods Market Inc. were trading at $41.72 on Wednesday. Earlier this month, Amazon.com Inc. sold $16 billion of bonds in order to pay for Whole Foods. Seattle-based Amazon has said it expects the deal to close before the end of the year. 80

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WHY AI VISIONARY ANDREW NG TEACHES HUMANS TO TEACH COMPUTERS

Andrew Ng has led teams at Google and Baidu that have gone on to create self-learning computer programs used by hundreds of millions of people, including email spam filters and touchscreen keyboards that make typing easier by predicting what you might want to say next. As a way to get machines to learn without supervision, he has trained them to recognize cats in YouTube videos without being told what cats were. And he revolutionized this field, known as artificial intelligence, by adopting graphics chips meant for video games. To push the boundaries of artificial intelligence further, one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most renowned researchers in the field says many more humans need to get involved. So his focus now is on teaching the next generation of AI specialists to teach the machines. Nearly 2 million people around the globe have taken Ngâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s online course on machine learning. In his videos, the lanky, 6-foot-1 Briton of Hong Kong and Singaporean upbringing speaks with 83

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a difficult-to-place accent. He often tries to get students comfortable with mind-boggling concepts by acknowledging up front, in essence, that “hey, this stuff is tough.” Ng sees AI as a way to “free humanity from repetitive mental drudgery.” He has said he sees AI changing virtually every industry, and any task that takes less than a second of thought will eventually be done by machines. He once said famously that the only job that might not be changed is his hairdresser’s - to which a friend of his responded that in fact, she could get a robot to do his hair. At the end of a 90-minute interview in his sparse office in Palo Alto, California, he reveals what’s partially behind his ambition. “Life is shockingly short,” the 41-year-old computer scientist says, swiveling his laptop into view. He’s calculated in a Chrome browser window how many days we have from birth to death: a little more than 27,000. “I don’t want to waste that many days.”

BUILDING BRAINS AS A TEEN An upstart programmer by age 6, Ng learned coding early from his father, a medical doctor who tried to program a computer to diagnose patients using data. “At his urging,” Ng says, he fiddled with these concepts on his home computer. At age 16, he wrote a program to calculate trigonometric functions like sine and cosine using a “neural network” - the core computing engine of artificial intelligence modeled on the human brain. “It seemed really amazing that you could write a few lines of code and have it learn to do interesting things,” he said. 85

After graduating high school from Singapore’s Raffles Institution, Ng made the rounds of Carnegie Mellon, MIT and Berkeley before taking up residence as a professor at Stanford University. There, he taught robotic helicopters to do aerial acrobatics after being trained by an expert pilot. The work was “inspiring and exciting,” recalls Pieter Abbeel, then one of Ng’s doctoral students and now a computer scientist at Berkeley. Abbeel says he once crashed a $10,000 helicopter drone, but Ng brushed it off. “Andrew was always like, ‘If these things are too simple, everybody else could do them.’”

THE MARK OF NG Ng’s standout AI work involved finding a new way to supercharge neural networks using chips most often found in video-game machines. Until then, computer scientists had mostly relied on general-purpose processors - like the Intel chips that still run many PCs. Such chips can handle only a few computing tasks simultaneously, but make up for it with blazing speed. Neural networks, however, work much better if they can run thousands of calculations simultaneously. That turned out to be a task eminently suited for a different class of chips called graphics processing units, or GPUs. So when graphics chip maker Nvidia opened up its GPUs for general purposes beyond video games in 2007, Ng jumped on the technology. His Stanford team began publishing papers on the technique a year later, speeding up machine learning by as much as 70 times. Geoffrey Hinton, whose University of Toronto team wowed peers by using a neural network to win the prestigious ImageNet competition 86

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in 2012, credits Ng with persuading him to use the technique. That win spawned a flurry of copycats, giving birth to the rise of modern AI. “Several different people suggested using GPUs,” Hinton says by email. But the work by Ng’s team, he says, “was what convinced me.”

TEACHING HOW TO TEACH COMPUTERS Ng’s fascination with AI was paralleled by a desire to share his knowledge with students. As online education took off earlier this decade, Ng discovered a natural outlet. His “Machine Learning” course, which kicked off Stanford’s online learning program alongside two other courses in 2011, immediately signed up 100,000 people without any marketing effort. A year later, he co-founded the online-learning startup Coursera. More recently, he left his highprofile job at Baidu to launch deeplearning.ai, a startup that produces AI-training courses. Every time he’s started something big, whether it’s Coursera, the Google Brain deep learning unit, or Baidu’s AI lab, he has left once he felt the teams he has built can carry on without him. “Then you go, ‘Great. It’s thriving with or without me,’” says Ng, who continues to teach at Stanford while working in private industry. For Ng, one of his next challenges might include having a child with his roboticist wife, Carol Reiley. “I wish we knew how children (or even a pet dog) learns,” Ng says in an email follow-up. “None of us today know how to get computers to learn with the speed and flexibility of a child.”

UP FROM THE ASHES: SAMSUNG UNVEILS SUCCESSOR TO NOTE 7 PHONE

Samsung is trying to move past last year’s disastrous Galaxy Note 7 launch with a successor sporting a dual-lens camera, animated messages, expanded note-taking - and lower battery capacity. The South Korean tech giant is no longer trying to squeeze more battery power into each phone. Last year’s Note 7 had to be recalled after dozens spontaneously caught fire because of defective batteries. Samsung responded by subjecting new phones to multiple inspections and giving the battery more physical protection, taking up room normally available for the charge. Although the success of this past spring’s Galaxy S8 phone suggests that Samsung has recovered from the Note 7 debacle, which included bans on airline flights, any further mistakes could prove fatal. 91

“Here it is from the ashes, literally, a rebirth of this pretty iconic brand,” said Bob O’Donnell, a veteran consumer tech analyst at Technalysis Research.

THE PRICE TAG Unveiled Monday, the Galaxy Note 8 will go on sale Sept. 15 in the U.S., about the time Apple is expected to come out with new iPhones. Advance orders for the Note 8 begin Thursday. The phone is among the most expensive, at about $950. By contrast, the iPhone 7 starts at about $650 and the S8 at $750. Samsung’s Note phones tend to be niche products aimed at people who use their phones more than the average consumer. But O’Donnell said the Note 8 launch could boost interest in Samsung’s mainstream phones. “Having a halo product at the top of the line helps drive interest across the line,” he said. “The Note 8 will make more people aware of the S8.” Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw Research, said the phone should be popular among loyal Note users who have had to wait two years since the last model. But Dawson said the price could give consumers pause.

NEW AND NOT The Note 8 phone offers significant improvements over the last Note model still selling. But the S8 already has one of the Note 8’s signature features, an “infinity display” that maximizes screen size by reducing the frame, or bezel, surrounding the display. The Note 8’s screen will measure 6.3 inches diagonally, up 92

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from the Note 7’s 5.7 inches, without feeling much bigger. The Note 8 also matches the S8 in offering the ability to unlock phones with iris patterns, free premium earbuds from Samsung’s AKG brand and a slot for adding storage beyond the 64 gigabytes included. Unlike the S8, the Note 8 will have two camera lenses on the back - one with twice the magnification - allowing for sharper closeups. The Note 8 will match Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus in using that second lens for software tricks that blur out the background in portrait shots. Samsung offers more tweaking capabilities after the shot, though Apple may be adding improvements as well in the upcoming iPhones.

PEN FEATURES Samsung’s Note line is notable for its stylus, and the new pen restores some of the hardware improvements introduced - then taken away with the Note 7. A popular feature has been the ability to write notes on the phone’s lock screen, much like a chalkboard. Samsung is expanding how much people can write - up to 100 screens full of notes, rather than just one. Also coming is the ability to handwrite text messages, rather than just typing them. They are sent as animated GIF files, so friends without Note 8 phones can read them, too. With Apple’s Messages app, recipients must have iPhones or iPads with a recent software update for animation to work.

The pen will also enable full-sentence translations for travelers, with automatic conversions of currencies and units such as feet and meters.

POWER MATTERS Samsung is taking a conservative approach to its battery, as it did with the S8. Capacity is reduced by 6 percent, as thicker walls and other safety measures take away room once devoted to the charge. Still, Samsung says the capacity is enough for all-day use, thanks to efficiencies from better software. To boost confidence, Samsung is also seeking certification from an outside safety lab, UL. Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, said the fact the S8 outsold last year’s S7 shows that “consumers are well past the Note 7 issues. Consumers are a forgiving bunch, and as long as there aren’t strings of issues, they quickly forgive and forget.”

PROSPECTS Moorhead said Samsung’s new Android phone represents its “best opportunity to gain market share from Apple as this is the first superpremium phone they’ve had for years.” But it comes as Apple is expected to release its own super-premium phone for the iPhone’s 10th anniversary. Apple hasn’t said anything about it, though it’s likely to make an announcement in the coming weeks. Carolina Milanesi, a mobile tech analyst with Creative Strategies, said highend users tend to stick with the system they already have, whether that’s iPhones or Android.

1926 - 2017 GOODBYE JERRY

Jerry Lewis, the manic, rubber-faced showman who jumped and hollered to fame in a lucrative partnership with Dean Martin, settled down to become a self-conscious screen auteur and found an even greater following as the tireless, teary host of the annual muscular dystrophy telethons, has died. He was 91. Publicist Candi Cazau says Lewis died Sunday of natural causes in Las Vegas with his family by his side. Tributes from friends, co-stars and disciples poured in immediately. “That fool was no dummy. Jerry Lewis was an undeniable genius an unfathomable blessing, comedy’s absolute!” Jim Carrey wrote Sunday on Twitter. “I am because he was!” “The world has lost a true innovator & icon,” comedian Dane Cook wrote. 96

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Lewis’ career spanned the history of show business in the 20th century, beginning in his parents’ vaudeville act at the age of 5. He was just 20 when his pairing with Martin made them international stars. He went on to make such favorites as “The Bellboy” and “The Nutty Professor,” was featured in Martin Scorsese’s “The King of Comedy” and appeared as himself in Billy Crystal’s “Mr. Saturday Night.” “Jerry was a pioneer in comedy and film. And he was a friend. I was fortunate to have seen him a few times over the past couple of years. Even at 91, he didn’t miss a beat. Or a punchline,” Lewis’ “The King of Comedy” co-star Robert De Niro said in a statement. In the 1990s, he scored a stage comeback as the devil in the Broadway revival of “Damn Yankees.” And after a 20-year break from making movies, Lewis returned as the star of the independent drama “Max Rose,” released in 2016. In his 80s, he was still traveling the world, working on a stage version of “The Nutty Professor.” He was so active he would sometimes forget the basics, like eating, his associates would recall. In 2012, Lewis missed an awards ceremony thrown by his beloved Friars Club because his blood sugar dropped from lack of food and he had to spend the night in the hospital.

A major influence on Carrey and other slapstick performers, Lewis also was known as the ringmaster of the Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Association, joking and reminiscing and introducing guests, sharing stories about ailing kids and concluding with his personal anthem, the ballad “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” From the 1960s onward, the telethons raised some $1.5 billion, including more than $60 million in 2009. He announced in 2011 that he would step down as host, but would remain chairman of the association he joined some 60 years ago. “Though we will miss him beyond measure, we suspect that somewhere in heaven, he’s already urging the angels to give ‘just one dollar more for my kids,’” said MDA Chairman of the Board R. Rodney Howell on Sunday. His fundraising efforts won him the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2009 Oscar telecast. But the telethon was also criticized for being mawkish and exploitative of children, known as “Jerry’s Kids.” A 1960s muscular dystrophy poster boy, Mike Ervin, later made a documentary called “The Kids Are All Alright,” in which he alleged that Lewis and the Muscular Dystrophy Association had treated him and others as objects of pity rather than real people. “He and his telethon symbolize an antiquated and destructive 1950s charity mentality,” Ervin wrote in 2009. Responded Lewis: “You don’t want to be pitied because you’re a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house!”

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Lewis also sassed and snarled at critics and interviewers who displeased him. He pontificated on talk shows, lectured to college students and compiled his thoughts in the 1971 book “The Total Film-Maker.” “I am not ashamed or embarrassed at how seemingly trite or saccharine something in my films will sound,” he wrote. “I really do make films for my great-great-grandchildren and not for my fellows at the Screen Directors Guild or for the critics.” In his early movies, Lewis played looselimbed, buck-toothed, overgrown adolescents, trouble-prone and inclined to wail when beset by enemies. American critics recognized the comedian’s popular appeal but not his aspirations to higher art; the French did. Writing in Paris’ Le Monde newspaper, Jacques Siclier praised Lewis’“apish allure, his conduct of a child, his grimaces, his contortions, his maladjustment to the world, his morbid fear of women, his way of disturbing order everywhere he appeared.” The French government awarded Lewis the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1983 and Commander of Arts and Letters the following year. Lewis had teamed up with Martin after World War II, and their radio and stage antics delighted audiences, although not immediately. Their debut, in 1946 at Atlantic City’s 500 Club, was a bust. Warned by owner “Skinny” D’Amato that they might be fired, Martin and Lewis tossed the script and improvised their way into history. New York columnists Walter Winchell and Ed Sullivan came to the club and raved over the sexy singer and the berserk clown. 104

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Lewis described their fledgling act in his 1982 autobiography, “Jerry Lewis in Person”: “We juggle and drop a few dishes and try a few handstands. I conduct the three-piece band with one of my shoes, burn their music, jump offstage, run around the tables, sit down with the customers and spill things while Dean keeps singing.” Hollywood producer Hal Wallis saw them at New York’s Copacabana and signed them to a film contract. Martin and Lewis first appeared in supporting roles in “My Friend Irma” and “My Friend Irma Goes West.” Then they began a hit series of starring vehicles, including “At War With the Army,” ‘’That’s My Boy” and “Artists and Models.” But in the mid-1950s, their partnership began to wear. Lewis longed for more than laughs. Martin had tired of playing straight man and of Lewis’ attempts to add Chaplinesque pathos. He also wearied of the pace of films, television, nightclub and theater appearances, benefits and publicity junkets on which Lewis thrived. The rift became increasingly public as the two camps sparred verbally. “I knew we were in trouble the day someone gave Jerry a book about Charlie Chaplin,” Martin cracked. On July 24, 1956, Martin and Lewis closed shop, at the Copa, and remained estranged for years. Martin, who died in 1995, did make a dramatic, surprise appearance on Lewis’ telethon in 1976 (a reunion brokered by mutual pal Frank Sinatra), and director Peter Bogdonavich nearly persuaded them to appear in a film together as former colleagues who no longer speak to each other. After Martin’s death, Lewis said the two had again 107

become friendly during his former partner’s final years and he would repeatedly express his admiration for Martin above all others. The entertainment trade at first considered Martin the casualty of the split, since his talents, except as a singer, were unexplored. He fooled his detractors by cultivating a comic, drunken persona, becoming star of a long-running TV variety show and a respected actor in such films as “Some Came Running,”‘’The Young Lions” and “Rio Bravo.” Lewis also distinguished himself after the break, revealing a serious side as unexpected as Martin’s gift for comedy. He brought in comedy director Frank Tashlin for “Rock-a-bye Baby,”‘’Cinderfella,”‘’The Disorderly Orderly,”‘’The Geisha Boy” and “Who’s Minding the Store?”, in which he did a pantomime of a typist trying to keep up with Leroy Anderson’s speedy song “The Typewriter.” With “The Bellboy,” though, Lewis assumed the posts of producer, director, writer and star, like his idol Chaplin. Among his hits under his own direction was the 1963 “The Nutty Professor,” playing a dual Jekyll and Hyde role, transforming himself from a nerdy college teacher to a sexy (and conceited) lounge singer, Buddy Love, regarded as a spoof of his old partner Martin. Lewis was born Joseph Levitch in Newark, New Jersey, on March 16, 1926. His father, billed as Danny Lewis, was a singer on the borscht and burlesque circuits. His mother played piano for Danny’s act. Their only child was often left alone in hotel rooms, or lived in Brooklyn with his paternal grandparents, Russian Jewish immigrants, or his aunts in New Jersey. 108

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Baywatch When a dangerous crime wave threatens the beach, the legendary Mitch Buchannon leads his squad of lifeguards on a mission to prove that you don’t have to wear a badge to save the bay. Ditching the waves, they go undercover to take down a ruthless businesswoman whose plan threatens the future of the beach.

FIVE FACTS: 1. At first, Pamela Anderson didn’t want to appear in the movie. 2. Zac Efron gave Dwayne Johnson all of the names to call him in the movie including “Bieber” and “One Direction.”

by Seth Gordon Genre: Comedy Released: 2017 Price: $14.99

3. Paramount pushed the original release date back one week to May 26, 2017, to avoid competition with Alien: Covenant. 4. This is the second film starring both Dwayne Johnson and Alexandra Daddario. The two appeared together in San Andreas (2015).

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5. Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock) is the tenth professional wrestler to work on Baywatch, and the first wrestler turned actor who didn’t appear on the show.

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Everything, Everything Maddy (Amanda Stenberg) is an imaginative 18-year old who, due to a life-threatening illness, is unable to leave the protection of her home. When Olly (Nick Robinson) moves in next door, the two begin texting which leads to a deep bond that encourages them to risk everything to be together, even if it means losing everything at the same time.

FIVE FACTS: 1. The movie is based on the book of the same name by Nicola Yoon. 2. The scene where the astronaut is sitting on a stool in a diner that Maddy created references the famous 1942 painting ‘Nighthawks’ by Edward Hopper. 3. In the movie, Olly has brown eyes, but in the book, he is described as having ocean blue eyes with an olive complexion.

by Stella Meghie Genre: Drama Released: 2017 Price: $9.99

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4. When Olly and Maddie first exchange phone numbers, the last four digits of Olly’s number read 0117 which looks like a numerical spelling of ‘Olly’. 5. Olly’s home life was given a bigger role in the book than in the movie.

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To the Bone Steven Wilson

Genre: Rock Released: Aug 18, 2017 11 Songs Price: $9.99

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Each of Wilson’s solo albums has been an exploration of different themes and his fifth, To the Bone, is no different. Undoubtedly, it is an exploration of ‘80s pop music with an opening track that sounds like Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’ before it submerges into a funky beat. After that, fans of Wilson will be in familiar territory with tracks like ‘Nowhere Now’ and ‘The Same Asylum as Before’ that stands as a reminder to some of Porcupine Tree’s earlier work. Although not as ambiguous or abstract as its predecessors, To the Bone still has the depth that we’ve come to expect from such a revered artist.

FIVE FACTS: 1. Although he is currently a solo artist, Wilson became known as the founder, lead guitarist and singer of the band Porcupine Tree. 2. Wilson is an atheist but fascinated by the subject of organized religion. 3. For his live shows, Wilson plays barefooted. He says that this gives him an advantage operating his diverse guitar pedals. 4. In 2016, he was named one of the 15 best progressive rock guitarists through the years by Guitar World magazine and ranked 7th best ‘prog’ guitarist of 2016 in a MusicRadar readers’ poll. 5. He has been cited as an influence by artists including Steffen Kummerer of Obscura, Tor Oddmund Suhrke of Leprous and Kenneth Wilson of Abigail’s Ghost.

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Painted Ruins Grizzly Bear Coming out of the hibernation that they’ve been in since 2012’s Shields, Grizzly Bear’s new album continues to establish the ornate sound they’re known for. On tracks like ‘Glass Hillside’, strings melt into choirs, and oddball melodies remind us of sound from Soft Machine. With the subtly devastating lyrics of ‘Neighbours’ and the kraut-rock ‘Mourning Sound’, listeners can truly relate.

FIVE FACTS: 1. Grizzly Bear began as a moniker for songwriter Ed Droste’s music in the early 2000’s, and the name comes from a nickname of a former boyfriend of his.

Genre: Alternative Released: Aug 18, 2017 11 Songs Price: $9.99

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2. The band employs both traditional and electronic instruments, and their sound has been categorized as psychedelic pop, folk rock and experimental, dominated by the use of vocal harmonies. 3. The band’s music is heavily featured in the movie Blue Valentine (2010) 4. In January 2014, they closed out their international ‘Shields’ tour with a sold out performance at the Sydney Opera House. This was streamed live internationally on YouTube. 5. After their Shields tour, Daniel Rossen embarked on a solo tour performing tracks from his debut EP and his other band, Department of Eagles.

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BOX OFFICE TOP 20: ‘THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD’ HITS NO.1

“The Hitman’s Bodyguard” stole the weekend from the heist pic “Logan Lucky.” Starring Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds, “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” opened to $21.4 million, easily topping the weekend which continued the downward spiral of the summer movie season compared to last year. The horror pic “Annabelle: Creation” took second place in its second weekend in theaters with $15.6 million, while director Steven Soderbergh’s “Logan Lucky,” starring Channing Tatum, Adam Driver and Daniel Craig, hobbled into third place in its first weekend in theaters with $7.6 million. Christopher Nolan’s WWII pic “Dunkirk” placed fourth with $6.6 million, bringing its domestic total to $165.4 million after 5 weeks in theaters, while “The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature” took fifth with $5.1 million. 135

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by comScore:

“The Hitman’s Bodyguard,” Lionsgate, $21,384,504, 3,377 locations, $6,332 average, $21,384,504, 1 Week.

“Annabelle: Creation,” Warner Bros., $15,612,680, 3,542 locations, $4,408 average, $64,156,901, 2 Weeks.

“Logan Lucky,” Bleecker Street, $7,600,036, 3,031 locations, $2,507 average, $7,600,036, 1 Week.

“Dunkirk,” Warner Bros., $6,614,385, 3,271 locations, $2,022 average, $165,422,464, 5 Weeks.

“The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature,” Open Road, $5,092,344, 4,003 locations, $1,272 average, $17,675,989, 2 Weeks.

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“Emoji Movie, The,” Sony, $4,441,028, 2,791 locations, $1,591 average, $71,858,380, 4 Weeks.

“Spider-Man: Homecoming,” Sony, $4,256,367, 2,341 locations, $1,818 average, $314,057,748, 7 Weeks.

“Girls Trip,” Universal, $3,911,300, 2,010 locations, $1,946 average, $104,053,445, 5 Weeks.

“The Dark Tower,” Sony, $3,788,669, 3,143 locations, $1,205 average, $41,673,047, 3 Weeks.

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“Wind River,” The Weinstein Company, $2,975,732, 694 locations, $4,288 average, $4,089,001, 3 Weeks.

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“Kidnap,” Aviron Pictures, $2,961,475, 2,345 locations, $1,263 average, $24,527,158, 3 Weeks.

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“The Glass Castle,” Lionsgate, $2,549,459, 1,461 locations, $1,745 average, $9,705,840, 2 Weeks.

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“Atomic Blonde,” Focus Features, $2,179,190, 1,628 locations, $1,339 average, $47,158,045, 4 Weeks.

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“Despicable Me 3,” Universal, $2,073,810, 1,551 locations, $1,337 average, $251,774,330, 8 Weeks.

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“War For The Planet Of The Apes,” 20th Century Fox, $2,010,898, 1,608 locations, $1,251 average, $140,958,101, 6 Weeks.

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“Wonder Woman,” Warner Bros., $1,092,338, 803 locations, $1,360 average, $404,000,714, 12 Weeks.

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“Big Sick, The,” Lionsgate, $1,001,010, 618 locations, $1,620 average, $38,066,440, 9 Weeks.

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“Detroit,” Annapurna Pictures, $856,766, 1,428 locations, $600 average, $15,525,229, 4 Weeks.

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“Baby Driver,” Sony, $856,054, 683 locations, $1,253 average, $101,689,495, 8 Weeks.

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“Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Plan,” STX Entertainment, $397,019, 465 locations, $854 average, $39,227,747, 5 Weeks.

Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by 21st Century Fox; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.

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UPSTATE NY ‘STAR TREK’ TV SET TOUR GETTING BOOST FROM DONOR

A businessman whose recreated “Star Trek” TV set is a major tourist draw in upstate New York is getting a financial boost with a donation from the former wife of a late heir to the Mars candy fortune. The Ticonderoga Revitalization Alliance, a local development agency, says a $300,000 gift from Deborah Clarke Ryan will enable James Cawley to buy the building in the village that houses his “Star Trek, Original Series Set Tour.” Clarke Ryan and Cawley are both Ticonderoga natives. She’s the former wife of Forrest Mars Jr., who died last year. While married the couple were major supporters of Fort Ticonderoga, where the education center is named after her. Cawley’s studio sets mimic those of the 1960s TV series. A three-day “Star Trek” convention starting Friday is expected to draw hundreds of visitors to Ticonderoga. 145

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DANIEL CRAIG, BACK AS BOND, KEEPS 007 FANS ON EDGE

Daniel Craig’s 007-era will die another day. After months of gossip and denials, Craig confirmed to Stephen Colbert on the “Late Show” that he will indeed return for another James Bond movie. The yet-titled film is due out November 2019. “We’ve just been trying to figure things out,” Craig told Colbert. “I always wanted to. I needed a break.” The 49-year-old actor’s stewardship of James Bond has spanned four films - and now will go for a fifth - but it has generated enough rumors to power the kind of doomsday device Bond is usually trying to stop. Craig’s time as Bond has been distinguished. His “Skyfall” remains a high-point in both dollars and quality for the 55-year-olf franchise. His last one, 2015’s “Spectre,” grossed $880 million worldwide. Most consider him a terrific Bond who has 147

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Confirmed! Daniel Craig Will Return As James Bond

But the Craig-era, far more than its predecessors, has been characterized by a steady supply of Bond drama. Rumors and debates over who should be the next 007 have been nonstop for years, as has Craig’s frequent hints about calling it quits. In 2015, he famously said he’d rather “slash my wrists” than make another Bond movie, a comment he later explained as a kind of joke from the fatigue of just completing one. Yet even while Craig keeps donning the tux, the next-Bond handicapping has been a yearround business. Tom Hardy, Tom Hiddleston, Jack Huston and Riz Ahmed are just some of the actors who have been linked to the role - some of them for the better part of the decade. Others have lobbied for a female 007, like Charlize Theron. Idris Elba has been a favorite for at least two years, going to back to when Bond author Anthony Horowitz suggested he was “too street” for the part. The meetings of producer Barbara Broccoli are spied onas if they concern national security. In a way, they do. Bond is a nation-state of its own, with more than $7 billion in box-office revenues alone. And that’s a heavy burden for any actor to bear. Craig’s constant dance with Bond has very possibly been a smart strategy to deflect some of that pressure. He has, perhaps more than anyone since Sean Connery, eluded being completely defined by 007. Last year he did “Othello” off-Broadway with David Oyelowo. He gives a comic turn in Steven Soderbergh’s “Logan Lucky,” out Friday. 149

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It’s as though Craig has always wanted his future with James Bond a little up in the air - shaken, if you like - so as to avoid the stasis that could set in for a decades-old franchise now preparing its 25th films. Craig acknowledged on Colbert that his return had been settled months ago, meaning he was evading questions about Bond as recently as that morning when he told a Boston radio station that “no decision has been made.” And even as he confirmed he was returning, Craig suggested it will be his last one. “I think this is it,” he said. “I just want to go out on a high note.” Though many surely will, don’t bet on it. Or to put it another way: Never say never again.

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‘A PRIMAL EXPERIENCE’: AMERICANS DAZZLED BY SOLAR ECLIPSE

The stars came out in the middle of the day, zoo animals ran in agitated circles, crickets chirped, birds fell silent and a chilly darkness fell upon the land Monday as the U.S. witnessed its first full-blown, coast-to-coast solar eclipse since World War I. Millions of Americans gazed in wonder at the cosmic spectacle, with the best seats along the so-called path of totality that raced 2,600 miles (4,200 kilometers) across the continent from Oregon to South Carolina. “It was a very primal experience,” Julie Vigeland, of Portland, Oregon, said after she was moved to tears by the sight of the sun reduced to a silvery ring of light in Salem. It took 90 minutes for the shadow of the moon to travel across the country. Along that path, the moon blotted out the midday sun for about two wondrous minutes at any one place, eliciting oohs, aahs, whoops and shouts from people gathered in stadiums, parks and backyards. 153

It was, by all accounts, the most-observed and most-photographed eclipse in history, documented by satellites and high-altitude balloons and watched on Earth through telescopes, cameras and cardboard-frame protective eyeglasses. In Boise, Idaho, where the sun was more than 99 percent blocked, the street lights flicked on briefly, while in Nashville, Tennessee, people craned their necks at the sky and knocked back longneck beers at Nudie’s Honky Tonk bar. Passengers aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean watched it unfold as Bonnie Tyler sang her 1983 hit “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” Several minor-league baseball teams - one of them, the Columbia Fireflies, outfitted for the day in glow-in-the-dark jerseys - briefly suspended play. At the White House, despite all the warnings from experts about the risk of eye damage, President Donald Trump took off his eclipse glasses and looked directly at the sun. The path of totality, where the sun was 100 percent obscured by the moon, was just 60 to 70 miles (96 to 113 kilometers) wide. But the rest of North America was treated to a partial eclipse, as were Central American and the top of South America. Skies were clear along most of the route, to the relief of those who feared cloud cover would spoil the moment. “Oh, God, oh, that was amazing,” said Joe Dellinger, a Houston man who set up a telescope on the Capitol lawn in Jefferson City, Missouri. “That was better than any photo.” For the youngest observers, it seemed like magic. 154

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“It’s really, really, really, really awesome,” said 9-year-old Cami Smith as she gazed at the fully eclipsed sun in Beverly Beach, Oregon.

“That silvery ring is so hypnotic and mesmerizing, it does remind you of wizardry or like magic,” he said.

NASA reported 4.4 million people were watching its TV coverage midway through the eclipse, the biggest livestream event in the space agency’s history.

More than one parent was amazed to see teenagers actually look up from their cellphones.

“It can be religious. It makes you feel insignificant, like you’re just a speck in the whole scheme of things,” said veteran eclipse-watcher Mike O’Leary of San Diego, who set up his camera along with among hundreds of other amateur astronomers in Casper, Wyoming. John Hays drove up from Bishop, California, for the total eclipse in Salem, Oregon, and said the experience will stay with him forever.

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Patrick Schueck, a construction company president from Little Rock, Arkansas, brought his 10-year-old twin daughters Ava and Hayden to Bald Knob Cross of Peace in Alto Pass, Illinois, a more than 100-foot cross atop a mountain. Schueck said at first his girls weren’t very interested in the eclipse. One sat looking at her iPhone. “Quickly that changed,” he said. “It went from them being aloof to being in total amazement.”

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Schueck called it a chance to “do something with my daughters that they’ll remember for the rest of their lives.” Astronomers, too, were giddy with excitement. NASA solar physicist Alex Young said the last time earthlings had a connection like this to the heavens was during man’s first flight to the moon, on Apollo 8 in 1968. The first, famous Earthrise photo came from that mission and, like this eclipse, showed us “we are part of something bigger.” NASA’s acting administrator, Robert Lightfoot, watched with delight from a plane flying over the Oregon coast and joked about the spaceagency official next to him, “I’m about to fight this man for a window seat.”

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Hoping to learn more about the sun’s composition and activity, NASA and other scientists watched and analyzed it all from the ground and the sky, including aboard the International Space Station. Citizen scientists monitored animal and plant behavior as day turned into twilight. About 7,000 people streamed into the Nashville Zoo just to see the animals’ reaction and noticed how they got noisier at it got darker. The giraffes started running around crazily in circles when darkness fell, and the flamingos huddled together, though zookeepers aid it wasn’t clear whether it was the eclipse or the noisy, cheering crowd that spooked them. “I didn’t expect to get so emotionally caught up with it. I literally had chill bumps,” said zoo volunteer Stephen Foust. In Charleston, South Carolina, the eclipse’s last stop in the U.S., college junior Allie Stern, 20, said: “It was amazing. It looked like a banana peel, like a glowing banana peel which is kind of hard to describe and imagine but it was super cool.” The Earth, moon and sun line up perfectly every one to three years, briefly turning day into night for a sliver of the planet. But these sights normally are in no man’s land, like the vast Pacific or Earth’s poles. This is the first eclipse of the social media era to pass through such a heavily populated area. The last coast-to-coast total eclipse in the U.S. was in 1918, when Woodrow Wilson was president. The last total solar eclipse in the U.S. was in 1979, but only five states in the Northwest experienced total darkness. 158

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TRUMP WATCHES ECLIPSE FROM WHITE HOUSE President Donald Trump squinted and pointed skyward before donning protective glasses to take in the solar eclipse at the White House. The president was joined by wife Melania, son Barron and top aides Monday afternoon to view the spectacle from the portico overlooking the South Lawn. The White House originally said Trump would watch from the second-floor Truman balcony. Shortly after walking outside, the president looked up at the sky, squinted and pointed upward. “Don’t look,” one staffer yelled from the White House lawn. Trump then donned the protective eyewear. Asked about the view, Trump gave a thumbs up. This is the first total solar eclipse to sweep the United States from coast to coast in nearly a century, although I Washington experienced about 80 percent coverage of the sun.

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SCIENCE SAYS: DNA TEST RESULTS MAY NOT CHANGE HEALTH HABITS

If you learned your DNA made you more susceptible to getting a disease, wouldn’t you work to stay healthy? You’d quit smoking, eat better, ramp up your exercise, or do whatever else it took to improve your odds of avoiding maladies like obesity, diabetes, heart disease or cancer, right? The scientific evidence says: Don’t bet on it. DNA testing for disease risk has recently expanded in the U.S. The company 23andMe recently started selling the nation’s first approved direct-to-consumer DNA tests that evaluate the buyer’s genetic risk for certain disease or conditions. That go-ahead came in April, about three years after it was told to stop selling such kits until it got the OK from regulators. 163

The field also gained a new entrant in July, when a company called Helix launched an online marketplace for DNA tests, including some for genetic health risk. Helix decodes a consumer’s DNA and passes the results along to another company for analysis. A request for the currently available health tests must be approved by a physician’s group that reviews the customer’s medical history. DNA tests for diseases typically assess genetic predisposition to getting sick. They don’t provide absolute predictions about whether or not a disease will strike. Genetic risk is only part of a person’s overall risk, which includes influence from other things like a person’s lifestyle. While some disease are caused by a single malfunctioning gene, more common illnesses are influenced by multiple genes, and often each gene nudges a person’s risk only slightly. A 23andMe test that includes ancestry and other information goes for $199. Helix’s decoding costs $80, while the currently available health-risk analyses cost $150 and $125. Both companies use a saliva sample for the test. Last year, researchers published an analysis that combined 18 studies of people who got doctor-ordered DNA test results about disease risks. None involved direct-to-consumer tests; participants were drawn mostly from medical clinics or elsewhere. Eight of the 18 studies were done in the United States. The result? Getting the DNA information produced no significant effect on diet, physical activity, drinking alcohol, quitting smoking, sun protection or attendance at disease-screening programs. 164

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IT GOES TO 11: FLORIDA LAB SETS NEW MAGNET STRENGTH RECORD

Florida’s National High Magnetic Field Laboratory is reclaiming its status as home to the world’s strongest magnet. Lab officials said they tested a 41.4-tesla magnet. That beats the old mark for resistive magnets which was held by a 38.5 tesla magnet in China. A tesla is a measure of magnetic field strength. The push at the Florida State University facility to create a record magnet was called “Project 11.” That’s a reference to the comedy film “This is Spinal Tap” where a guitarist has an amp that goes to 11 instead of 10. Resistive magnets are a type of electromagnet used for research. Pulsed magnets can reach a higher field but can sustain that power for only a fraction of a second. Resistive magnets can run continuously. 171

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NFL, ELECTRONIC ARTS UNVEIL MADDEN ‘18 COMPETITION

NFL fans and gamers can play their way to the Super Bowl - if they’re good enough at the newest edition of “Madden NFL 18.” Electronic Arts and the NFL this week announced they’re teaming up to create an online tournament involving all 32 teams. It makes the NFL the first pro sports league in the U.S. to commit all of its teams to a competitive gaming program, and a massive esports competition. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell calls competitive gaming and esports “one of the most exciting ways to engage a larger, younger and digitally savvy NFL audience.” EA CEO Andrew Wilson says his company and the NFL are taking their partnership “to an unprecedented level.” Chris Halpin, the NFL’s chief strategy officer and senior vice president for consumer products, says esports competitors generally are difficult to reach via traditional media. 173

“It’s great that they have an affinity for football, but we’ve got to make sure we’re engaging them on the new platforms,” Halpin said. The Madden NFL Club Championship is open to any player with an online account and the game being released Tuesday on Xbox One and Playstation 4. Players will pick their favorite team, then compete online against that team’s other fans - New England Patriots fans will go up against other Patriots fans, for example - with an undetermined number of top players advancing out of that round. Each NFL team then will hold a live event for the top gamers who advanced from the online round. That event could be at the team’s stadium or another landmark in its area.

The field will be trimmed to 32 players - one from every NFL team - with those players moving on to the Madden NFL Club Championship Live Finals, a tournament at the Pro Bowl Experience. Those top finishers then advance to play at the Super Bowl Experience in Minnesota, and the winner receives a cash prize and two tickets to the Super Bowl. EA and the NFL ran a similar competition last year on a smaller scale. Halpin said the teams involved “loved it, loved the model,” but one of the criticisms he heard was that “my favorite team’s not in it. “We need all 32 (teams), and for the fans, externally, it makes more sense if every team is represented,” he said.

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TURNER IS LATEST TO PLAN SPORTS STREAMING SERVICE

Turner Sports is the latest TV company to announce a sports streaming service as traditional television companies chase millennial audiences. The service, expected next year in the U.S., has signed up European soccer with the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. Higher-profile sports on Turnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s TV channels, such as baseball and basketball, wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t move to the new service. Instead, Turner is looking for new deals with content owners and leagues. 187

Live sports get TV’s biggest ratings and have helped keep customers hooked on the $100-and-up cable bundle. But it’s getting easier to find sports online. Major sports channels come with cheaper, slimmer web versions of the bundle, like Sling and YouTube TV. Amazon, Twitter and Facebook are experimenting with televising games. A sports-focused streaming service, Fubo, has been around for a few years. And CBS and ESPN are planning to launch sports streaming sites. ESPN, CBS and Turner are all hoping to lure sports fans with the new services while protecting the existing TV business, which relies on a big cable bundle. For that reason, Turner doesn’t plan to replicate what’s being shown on its TV channels, truTV, TNT and TBS. The new service won’t get Turner’s televised coverage of Major League Baseball, the March Madness men’s college basketball tournament and National Basketball Association games, including the All-Star Game. Turner didn’t announce a price for the upcoming service. The UEFA rights have been held in the U.S. by Fox Sports and are new for Turner for the 201819 season. The rights with Turner run for three years. Turner will air about 20 percent of the games on its TV channels, primarily truTV; the rest are for streaming. Turner Sports’ owner, Time Warner Inc., is being acquired by telecom company AT&T for $85 billion.

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UFC GETS AGGRESSIVE WITH TECHNOLOGY TO ENHANCE ITS FIGHTS

The UFC is turning to a high-tech platform that could enhance the way fans watch fights. The world’s leading mixed martial arts promotion has reached a partnership with Heed. The joint venture between WME-IMG and AGT International wants to change the way fans connect with sports at home or at a live event through sensor-measured data. WME-IMG bought the UFC last year for more than $4 billion. “Our goal is to revolutionize our sport, our events and ultimately enhance the fan experience,” UFC CFO Andrew Schleimer said. 191

Heed also has struck deals with Professional Bull Riders and Euroleague basketball. The new format uses sensors that collect data on everything from fan and competitor emotion to real-time event tracking that could change how fights, bull rides or other events are scored. “This gives us a solution that is better than the human alternative to judging the difficulty of a bull ride,” PBR CEO Sean Gleason said. Gleason said PBR would roll out a side-byside system in January and use the Heed technology as a full replacement to human judging in 2019. “We’ll have bull meters or information on G-forces that were applied that are available in television, digital products and social apps,” he said. “It helps new fans understand the difficulty and nuances of bull riding.” No bull, PBR believed science can almost reinvent the sport. Heed will outfit both bull and rider with technology that measures spin, direction changes, kicks and rider control. “It’s not only an informational and educational tool for fans but will help new fans understand the difficulties and nuances of bull rides,” Gleason said. “None of us have been on a bull, so it’s hard to have a frame of reference to how difficult bull riding is and how athletic it is. This tool will help explain that in scientific data. That will be great for the sport. This is revolutionary, not evolutionary for our sport. We are incorporating technology into the core of our scoring and the competitive results.” 192

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At the premier European basketball competition, the EuroLeague, sensors will be deployed in all 16 arenas. They will collect data from fans, players and coaches. Heed will transform this information into video content and performance reports for fans on site and at home through TV broadcasting, social media and other digital distribution channels. Heed sampled its technology on an old UFC fight that kept a running tally of blocks, jabs, hooks, overhands and uppercuts on the side and bottom of the screen. “Fight Pass could be a very unique place to have some of these specific content and stories that we’re creating with Heed,” Schleimer said. Heed says its technology can track fan or fighter emotions ranging from sadness and surprise to disgust and fear. The UFC said those tools, along with the fight tracking, could help the company stay more informed on a fighter’s health. “We believe there’s a tremendous opportunity for us as UFC and for the fighters to benefit from a health and safety perspective,” Schleimer said. “Just by virtue of the types of things that we’re capturing, we’re going to be very much focused on how we can leverage that to enhance our brand, our promotion and our athletes, which we’re always looking to do, anything related to health and safety.”

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CALIFORNIA POLLUTION PERMITS SELL AT HIGHEST PRICE EVER

California raised more than $640 million this month auctioning off permits for businesses to emit greenhouse gases as part of a program aimed at fighting climate change, according to state data released Tuesday. Last week’s auction was the state’s first since lawmakers voted to extend California’s cap and trade program through 2030. It requires businesses, oil refineries and other polluters to obtain permits to be able to emit carbon, with the overall goal of drastically reducing emissions. Money raised through the auctions goes to projects such as high-speed rail, public transit and housing projects. 197

Demand for the permits rebounded in this monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s auction after more than a year of flagging interest as businesses waited to see if the program would continue. Permits for near-term emissions sold for $14.75, while future allowances went for $14.55 as companies snapped up permits before prices rise over the next 13 years. The sale price was nearly $1 higher than the price last quarter. The auction revenue pays for initiatives that reduce emissions or mitigate the impacts of climate change. Sixty percent of the money is earmarked for specific purposes, including the bullet train between Los Angeles and San Francisco, public transit and housing projects. Lawmakers are expected to decide this month on a spending plan for the remainder, including up to $840 million generated in previous auctions. Cap and trade is a central part of Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below the level in 1990 by 2030. Polluters must obtain permits, known as allowances, for each ton of carbon that they release. The number of allowances goes down each year, increasing the cost of pollution over time and, proponents hope, increasing incentives for polluters to invest in cleaner technology. The program was scheduled to expire in 2020 until lawmakers voted last month to extend it until 2030. Uncertainty about its future - along with a lawsuit challenging the legality of the auctions - was blamed for significantly reducing demand for permits for more than a year. The California Court of Appeal ruled earlier this year that the auctions are constitutional and the Supreme Court has declined to take the case. 198

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“What’s good news now is that the carbon price more accurately reflects what will be required for California to get to its 2030 goal,” said Erica Morehouse, an attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund, which supports the cap and trade law. “It didn’t reflect that as accurately before this auction.” The strong demand now reflects polluters stocking up on allowances before 2020, when the state will get more aggressive about winding down the number available, said Chris Bush, research director for Energy Innovation, a San Francisco company that provides advice and analysis on energy and environmental policy. An abundance of allowances that will be used down the road could stifle the future environmental benefits of cap and trade, he said. “That’s going to mean extra emission in the future,” Busch said.

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