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iOS 11:
INDISPENSABLE
NEW TIPS & TRICKS
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APPLE TEAMS WITH FAKE NEWS IS STILL

STEVEN SPIELBERG HERE, DESPITE EFFORTS
ON VIDEO EXPANSION BY GOOGLE, FACEBOOK
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SPACEX LAUNCHES
10 MORE IRIDIUM
COMMUNICATIONS
SATELLITES
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GADGETS GET IN GEAR: TECH PAVES SAFER PATH FOR CARS OF FUTURE 08
GOODBYE: PIONEERING AOL INSTANT MESSENGER TO BE DISCONTINUED 22
FAMILIES USE FACEBOOK TO SEARCH FOR LOVED ONES AFTER FIRES 26
FACEBOOK BEGINS ‘HUMAN REVIEW’ OF POTENTIALLY SENSITIVE ADS 42
NEW CARS INCREASINGLY CRAMMED WITH DISTRACTING TECHNOLOGY 60
IKEA ON AMAZON? FURNITURE GIANT TO USE ONLINE RETAILERS 68
‘LEGENDS’ STAR SHATTERS STEREOTYPES WITH MUSLIM SUPERHERO 70
TWICKETS LAUNCHES EUROPE-BASED RESALE TICKET PLATFORM IN US 76
IN ‘MARSHALL,’ A YOUNG THURGOOD IN CONNECTICUT 80
‘BLADE RUNNER 2049’ TOPS BOX OFFICE BUT STILL DISAPPOINTS 106
STORMTROOPERS ON SOLDIER FIELD INTRODUCE ‘LAST JEDI’ TRAILER 116
SPACEWALKING ASTRONAUTS GREASE ROBOT ARM’S NEW HAND 120
BIG TECH HAS BIG PLANS TO HELP RECONNECT PUERTO RICO 124
SCIENTISTS SAY COST OF CAPTURING CO2 DECLINING 142
60 YEARS AFTER SPUTNIK, RUSSIAN SPACE PROGRAM FACES TROUBLES 150
UBER RIDERS IN DUBAI CAN NOW SELECT ELECTRIC-POWERED TESLA 160
GOOGLE UNCOVERS ADS BY RUSSIAN OPERATIVES 164
TOP 10 APPS 86
iTUNES REVIEW 90
TOP 10 SONGS 132
TOP 10 ALBUMS 134
TOP 10 MUSIC VIDEOS 136
TOP 10 TV SHOWS 138
TOP 10 BOOKS 140
GADGETS GET IN
GEAR: TECH PAVES
SAFER PATH FOR
CARS OF FUTURE
The Apple iPhone was introduced in 2007; Apple

has sold hundreds of millions of them. The
eighth iteration was just announced.
And desktop and laptop computers are pretty

much obsolete after five years of use.
Technology moves fast. What’s hot today will be

dated soon. And today’s consumers hate to be
behind the times.
The automotive world is listening. And what

they’re hearing is that we want communication
and we want to be safe.
Although some prospective buyers will complain

about the growing “Nanny State” takeover
— including vehicle geo-tracking and the
emergence of self-driving cars — there are clear
benefits to settings that will parallel park the
car for you, warn if you’re going to back into an
object, and let you know if you’re drifting out of
your lane or approaching an obstacle too quickly.
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And though all the safety features in the world
aren’t going to create a world without car
accidents, vehicles with cutting-edge warning
systems will go a long way toward reducing
fatal car accidents, which claim the lives of
an estimated 1.2 million people every year,
according to the World Health Organization.
As lane departure and collision warning

systems become more commonplace, analysts
expect the number of smaller, low-speed
fender benders will plummet, which means
car owners will eventually see their insurance
rates going down. And since insurers like
collecting premiums and not paying claims, it’s a
rare win-win.
So, as we await the self-driving systems of

the future, here’s a look at some nifty features
we’ll have to rely on until we’re all “driving”
autonomous vehicles:
• Blind-spot warning alerts drivers if there’s

an adjacent vehicle in the danger zone.
• Forward-collision warning provides a

visual and/or audible warning to the driver if a
crash is imminent. Automatic braking will stop
the car if it’s going off.
• Lane-departure warning will let you

know if you’re crossing into another lane,
though it requires clearly marked lanes.
• Adaptive cruise control basically slots

a vehicle into traffic, keeps it a safe distance
from other vehicles and even stops and
starts automatically.
But the future of driving isn’t just focused

on keeping you in your lane and away from
other vehicles.
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Audi, BMW, GM, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota
and Volvo — all members of the Car 2 Car
Communication Consortium — are em- bracing
vehicle-to-vehicle technology that will allow
connected vehicles to share information about
driving conditions like weather, speed, sudden
braking, accidents and more.
If you already use smartphone navigating apps

like Waze or INRIX, it’s a similar concept.
The state-of-the-art technology could lead to a

concept called “platooning,” which would allow
clusters of vehicles to drive close together and at
higher speeds without slowdowns or accidents.
Toyota even has an available comprehensive

package called Toyota Safety Sense, which,
using radar and cameras, offers drivers forward
collision warning with pedestrian detection and
automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise
control, lane departure alert with steering assist
and automatic high-beam headlights.
Volvo’s new S90’s Pilot Assist and City Safety

technology offers similar features. Both will
automatically brake, steer and adjust the
vehicle’s speed based on sensors surveying
surrounding input.
Even Ford’s F150 pickup truck is getting into

the game, offering a feature that accounts for
towed objects and automated trailering, which
lets drivers navigate with a trailer with the turn
of a knob.
Kia’s UVO eServices connected car features

a parking location reminder — you can
remember where your car is parked with an
app — remote diagnostics, and 911 connect in
the event of an accident.
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Via a 12.3-inch touch screen, Audi drivers who
have the Virtual Cockpit feature — available
as of 2017 — can customize their view using
steering-wheel mounted controls. If they punch
one button, they’ll have typical instrument
clusters for RPM, speed, and basic gauges. If
they push another, the screen minimizes the
tachometer and speedometer to the corners
and pulls up the navigation system using high-
res Google Earth images. Toggle again and
drivers can see their connected smartphone.
Again and a radio pre-set menu surfaces. Lastly,
drivers can arrange for a combination of these
views in whichever configuration they want.
Remember that iPhone story we started with?

Most manufacturers now feature Apple CarPlay,
which connects an iPhone to the car’s built-in
display, enabling a driver to make calls, send
texts and listen to music. Android Auto is
similarly widely available, offering non-Apple
users compatible usability.
And though some of these features may

overwhelm less tech-saavy drivers, the brave
new world they’re creating will make the roads
safer for everyone.
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APPLE TEAMS WITH
STEVEN SPIELBERG ON
VIDEO EXPANSION
Apple is teaming up with award-winning

director Steven Spielberg for its first major push
into TV programming.
The iPhone maker is bringing back Spielberg’s

30-year-old anthology series “Amazing Stories” in
its attempt to build an online video subscription
service to challenge the digital networks
operated by Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and HBO.
“We love being at the forefront of Apple’s

investment in scripted programming, and can’t
think of a better property than Spielberg’s
beloved ‘Amazing Stories’ franchise,” NBC
Entertainment President Jennifer Salke said in
a statement Tuesday. NBC Entertainment works
with Spielberg’s Amblin Television on the series.
Apple declined to comment on the deal. The

Wall Street Journal first reported Apple had
secured the “Amazing Stories” rights.
The series aired on NBC from 1985 to 1987 and

won five Emmy awards for its mixture of science
fiction and horror episodes, although the series
was never a big hit in the ratings.
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It marked a return to TV for Spielberg, who first
made a name for himself directing the ABC
film, “Duel” in 1971 before moving on to the
movie theaters. His films include box-office
blockbusters such as “Jaws,” ”E.T.,”“Jurassic Park,”
the “Indiana Jones” franchise and critically
acclaimed pictures such as “Saving Private Ryan,”
“Lincoln” and “Schindler’s List,” for which he won
an Academy Award for best director.
Apple is planning to spend about $1 billion on

original programming during the next year in
an effort to bring in more revenue to its rapidly
growing services division. The Cupertino,
California, company already offers two video
series through its Apple Music streaming service,
“Planet of the Apps” and “Carpool Karaoke,” but
neither has created much buzz.
Even though it appears to be more serious

about TV programming, Apple still isn’t sending
anywhere near Netflix, which is pouring $6 billion
into its line-up this year as it tries to expand its
current worldwide audience of more than 100
million subscribers. And Netflix is increasing the
prices for its two most popular plans by a $1 to
$2 per month in an effort to raise more money to
spend on future programming.
Apple is expected to spend more than

$50 million on 10 episodes of “Amazing Stories.”
While the future plans for the series revival
haven’t been revealed, the original “Amazing
Stories” run attracted guest appearances from a
list of stars that included Kevin Costner, Harvey
Keitel, Charlie Sheen, Mark Hamill and John
Lithgow, while its list of episode directors and
writers included Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Clint
Eastwood, Robert Zemeckis and Brad Bird.
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GOODBYE:
PIONEERING
AOL INSTANT
MESSENGER TO
BE DISCONTINUED
AOL announced that it is discontinuing its

pioneering Instant Messenger chat platform
after 20 years of service.
An article on AOL’s website posted last Friday

says AOL Instant Messenger will be discontinued
on Dec. 15. In a blog post, a spokesman for
AOL’s parent company explained the platform’s
demise as the casualty of the evolving way
people communicate.
“AIM tapped into new digital technologies and

ignited a cultural shift, but the way in which we
communicate with each other has profoundly
changed,” wrote Michael Albers, vice president
of communications at Oath.
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The program will still function until Dec. 15 After
that date, users won’t be able to sign in and all
data will be deleted. AOL says people with an
aim.com email address will still be able to use it.
Launched in 1997, AOL Instant Messenger was

at the forefront of what was called at the time
the biggest trend in online communication
since email.
The platform, which provided instant access

to friends and contacts on a user’s “buddy list,”
was wildly popular for the first few years after
its launch. It claimed more than 100 million
registered users in 2001.
AOL was fiercely protective of its dominance

in the instant messaging market. It fended off
rivals, including Microsoft, by blocking their
messaging platforms from communicating with
AOL users. Its actions prompted a coalition of
rivals to complain to the federal government
ahead of AOL’s ill-fated merger with Time Warner
that was completed in 2001.
Its popularity as a communication tool waned

amid the rise of text messaging, Google Chat
and social networking sites.
Despite the decline in usage, the announcement

made the platform a trending topic online and
revealed an outpouring of nostalgia. Some users
posted images of the AIM’s famous “running
man” logo outfitted with wings and a halo.
Others reminisced.
In his post, Albers noted the strong affinity many

feel for the messaging platform and its place in
the evolution of communication.
“In the late 1990s, the world had never seen

anything like it,” he wrote.
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FAMILIES USE
FACEBOOK TO
SEARCH FOR
LOVED ONES
AFTER FIRES
Desperate to find her mother after hearing her

say “I’m going to die” over the phone as her
mobile home caught fire, Jessica Tunis thought
she should put her mom’s name and picture on
Facebook with a plea for help, a now common
and constant move for concerned loved ones in
disasters such as the Northern California wildfires.
But she hesitated.
“At first, I don’t know what I was thinking, but I

wanted to respect my mother’s privacy,” Tunis,
whose mother was still among the missing
amid the fires, told The Associated Press on
Tuesday night. “I didn’t want to spread her all
over the place.”
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She soon realized that was exactly what
she wanted to do. She joined the dozens of
people posting heartfelt pleas like “Looking
for my Grandpa Robert,” We are looking for
our mother Norma,” or “I can’t find my mom,”
with hopes they are just out of touch and not
among the dead. The increasingly familiar
ritual was seen with recent hurricanes
Harvey, Rita and Maria and after last week’s
Las Vegas shooting.
Nearly 200 people were reported missing,

though authorities say many are believed to
be safe just unable to communicate with
friends and family because of downed
communication lines in the fire areas.
Tunis posted a picture of her mother smiling

at a café with the caption, “Does anyone
know if Journey’s End Mobile Home Park got
evacuated before it burned down? I can’t find
my mom, Linda Tunis.”
Most, including the owner of the trailer park

and residents who talked to the AP, believe
everyone did, in fact, get out before it burned
to the ground. But Linda Tunis is still missing.
“I’ve called the coroner. I’ve called every

hospital. There are no Jane Does, which is
amazing that they know who everyone is,”
Tunis said. “I’ve called burn units, I’ve
called everywhere.”
Jessica Tunis’ post spawned well over 100

comments, most from strangers. Some gave
suggestions of places to look or call. Many
just gave good wishes and prayers, then
came back to ask for updates. Others took it
as an assignment.
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“I’ve had people going to shelters for me
because of Facebook,” Tunis said. “It does help.
For sure. Anything helps.”
It’s only drawback, she said, has been false

reports and false hope.
“One person messaged me that they saw her,”

Tunis said, “they said she was looking at her
phone. I knew that wasn’t her. You get your
hopes up for a split second.”
Tunis said the online support has given her

hope, but can’t stop thinking that her mother
might have been missed during the evacuation.
When her mom called to say her house was

on fire before dawn Monday, Tunis screamed
repeatedly for her to get out.
“She said ‘I can’t get out. There’s fire at both

doors. My house is on fire.’ She just kept saying
‘fire,’ and coughing. She said ‘I’m going to die.’
Then the phone went dead.”
Jessica Tunis was not among the lucky ones

whose loved ones turned up within hours or
minutes after their Facebook posts.
“This is my grandma,” read a post by Mica

Jennings. “We haven’t heard from her all day and
have checked the shelters ... with no luck.”
Then, a few hours later, the post was edited:

“UPDATE: FOUND.”
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FAKE NEWS
IS STILL HERE,
DESPITE EFFORTS
BY GOOGLE,
FACEBOOK
Nearly a year after Facebook and Google

launched offensives against fake news, they’re
still inadvertently promoting it — often at the
worst possible times.
Online services designed to engross users aren’t

so easily retooled to promote greater accuracy, it
turns out. Especially with online trolls, pranksters
and more malicious types scheming to evade
new controls as they’re rolled out.
FEAR AND FALSITY IN LAS VEGAS

In the immediate aftermath of the Las Vegas
shooting, Facebook’s “Crisis Response” page for
the attack featured a false article misidentifying
the gunman and claiming he was a “far left loon.”
Google promoted a similarly erroneous item
from the anonymous prankster site 4chan in its
“Top Stories” results.
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A day after the attack, a YouTube search on “Las
Vegas shooting” yielded a conspiracy-theory
video that claimed multiple shooters were
involved in the attack as the fifth result. YouTube
is owned by Google.
None of these stories were true. Police identified

the sole shooter as Stephen Paddock, a Nevada
man whose motive remains a mystery . The Oct.
1 attack on a music festival left 58 dead and
hundreds wounded.
The companies quickly purged offending links

and tweaked their algorithms to favor more
authoritative sources. But their work is clearly
incomplete — a different Las Vegas conspiracy
video was the eighth result displayed by
YouTube in a search Monday.
ENGAGEMENT FIRST
Why do these highly automated services keep
failing to separate truth from fiction? One big
factor: most online services systems tend to
emphasis posts that engage an audience —
exactly what a lot of fake news is specifically
designed to do.
Facebook and Google get caught off guard

“because their algorithms just look for signs
of popularity and recency at first,” without first
checking to ensure relevance, says David Carroll,
a professor of media design at the Parsons
School of Design in New York.
That problem is much bigger in the wake of

disaster, when facts are still unclear and demand
for information runs high.
Malicious actors have learned to take advantage

of this, says Mandy Jenkins, head of news at
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social media and news research agency Storyful.
“They know how the sites work, they know how
algorithms work, they know how the media
works,” she says.
Participants on 4chan’s “Politically Incorrect”

channel regularly chat about “how to deploy
fake news strategies” around major stories, says
Dan Leibson, vice president of search at the
digital marketing consultancy Local SEO Guide.
One such chat just hours after the Las Vegas

urged readers to “push the fact this terrorist was
a commie” on social media. “There were people
discussing how to create engagement all night,”
Leibson says.
EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

Thanks to political polarization, the very notion
of what constitutes a “credible” source of news is
now a point of contention.
Mainstream journalists routinely make

judgments about the credibility of various
publications based on their history of accuracy.
That’s a much more complicated issue for mass-
market services like Facebook and Google,
given the popularity of many inaccurate sources
among political partisans.
The pro-Trump Gateway Pundit site, for example,

published the false Las Vegas story promoted by
Facebook. But it has also been invited to White
House press briefings and counts more than
620,000 fans on its Facebook page.
Facebook said last week it is “working to fix the

issue” that led it to promote false reports about
the Las Vegas shooting, although it didn’t say
what it had in mind.
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The company has already taken a number
of steps since December; it now features
fact-checks by outside organizations, puts
warning labels on disputed stories and has de-
emphasized false stories in people’s news feeds.
GETTING ALGORITHMS RIGHT

Breaking news is also inherently challenging
for automated filter systems. Google says the
4chan post that misidentified the Las Vegas
shooter should not have appeared in its
“Top Stories” feature, and was replaced by its
algorithm after a few hours.
Outside experts say Google was flummoxed

by two different issues. First, its “Top Stories”
is designed to return results from the broader
web alongside items from news outlets.
Second, signals that help Google’s system
evaluate the credibility of a web page — for
instance, links from known authoritative
sources — aren’t available in breaking
news situations, says independent search
optimization consultant Matthew Brown.
“If you have enough citations or references to

something, algorithmically that’s going to
look very important to Google,” Brown said.
“The problem is an easy one to define but a
tough one to resolve.”
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MORE PEOPLE, FEWER ROBOTS
Federal law currently exempts Facebook, Google
and similar companies from liability for material
published by their users. But circumstances
are forcing the tech companies to accept more
responsibility for the information they spread.
Facebook said last week that it would hire an

extra 1,000 people to help vet ads after it found
a Russian agency bought ads meant to influence
last year’s election. It’s also subjecting potentially
sensitive ads , including political messages, to
“human review.”
In July, Google revamped guidelines for human

workers who help rate search results in order to
limit misleading and offensive material. Earlier
this year, Google also allowed users to flag so-
called “featured snippets” and “autocomplete”
suggestions if they found the content harmful.
The Google-sponsored Trust Project at Santa

Clara University is also working to create tags that
could serve as markers of credibility for individual
authors. These would include items such as their
location and journalism awards, information that
could be fed into future algorithms, according to
project director Sally Lehrman.
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FACEBOOK
BEGINS ‘HUMAN
REVIEW’ OF
POTENTIALLY
SENSITIVE ADS
Facebook says it will begin manually reviewing

advertisements that target certain groups
and address politics, religion, ethnicity and
social issues.
The company has informed some advertisers

about the new “human review” requirement,
warning them that it might cause delays
before their ads can appear on the social
media platform.
Facebook has had to apologize amid recent

revelations of rampant abuse of its automated
advertising process to broadcast false news
or promote divisive and hateful messages,
such as ads aimed at people who’ve expressed
anti-Semitic views. The company is also under
increasing congressional scrutiny after revealing
that ads linked to a Russian internet agency
were seen by an estimated 10 million people
before and after the 2016 election.
Axios first reported on the written notice to

advertisers. Facebook confirmed it Saturday.
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Since September 19, iOS 11 has been publicly
available - both as a free download for many
in-use iOS devices and preinstalled on the
recently-released iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus.
Furthermore, even if you haven’t yet got up and
running with iOS 11, you are probably aware
of many of its headline features - including the
new iPad multitasking functions and support for
augmented reality apps that use Apple’s ARKit
framework. However, many other neat additions
to iOS 11 are more concealed.
Typically, you probably wouldn’t even uncover

many of those fresh functions unless you spent
a lot of time looking through various screens of
the Settings app or experimenting with touch
gestures. However, we think it would be tragic
if you spent many more months with iOS 11
without even knowing about the most exciting
little tweaks that Apple has made to its phone
and tablet operating system. Here are some that
we reckon could dramatically change your iOS
experience for the better.
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GROUND CONTROL CENTER
TO MAJOR... CHANGES
If you still haven’t made the move to iOS but
plan to do so soon, how exactly will you be
doing it? If you intend to jump on board by
purchasing a new iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus to
replace an older model, then resist trading in
that model just yet. Once your new device is
with you, it will be possible to - during the setup
process - hold it near the old one to quickly
transfer the old settings. This can further ease
the already straightforward task of transitioning
from one iPhone to another.
Shortly after you start using iOS 11, you might

notice just how different the Control Center
looks. It’s now all on one page, rather than
several cards through which you would need
to swipe. The various buttons on the Control
Center may initially look confusing, like a
rather elaborate piece of pop art; however,
you can make it all easier to visually digest by
customizing what is there. Go into Settings, the
Control Center, and finally Customize Controls
to get started.
Once you do, you could quickly grow to

appreciate the new Control Center much more
than the old one, given how you can limit its
functions to those that you actually regularly
use. There are certain links, such as to the
Camera app, that you are likely to want to keep
in there. You can, however, opt to make various
other apps, such as the Calculator and Notes
apps, easy to reach from Control Center. You
could even make the Apple TV Remote app
more accessible from here.
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PICTURE THIS:
AN EVEN BETTER CAMERA APP
With every new generation of iOS, Apple
lavishes a lot of attention on the camera
functionality; it’s hardly surprising that the
iPhone has developed an amazing reputation
for its camera alone. Furthermore, you don’t
need to have one of the latest iPhones
to enjoy many of the best additions and
changes to the iOS Camera app. For example,
it now lets you capture photos and videos
in the more storage-efficient formats of -
respectively - HEIF and HEVC.
Sadly, you might find that not all pieces

of software let you use photos and videos
captured in these formats. Perhaps that
software could include your favorite image-
editing app? If you can indeed foresee
compatibility headaches with the new formats,
you can still go into Settings, Camera, and then
Formats to select the “Most Compatible” option
for image and video formats. This feature will
enable the files to be automatically saved as
JPGs and h.264 .mov files instead.
Whichever of the app’s built-in filters you

would like to add to something you have
captured, you can now flick through those
filters by using a slider view format. This
prevents you having to leave the standard
camera mode - and, on the subject of that
mode, you can use it to scan QR codes for the
first time. Here, Apple has been late to a party
which many third-party apps have already
joined; however, the functionality lets you
scan QR codes to access Wi-Fi, add contacts,
and do even more.
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LIVE PHOTOS FOR THE MOMENT
The ability to take Live Photos debuted with
the iPhone 6s series in 2015 and has been
included with every new iPhone model released
since then. If you have long overlooked Live
Photos out of a belief that they are essentially a
gimmick, iOS 11 could sway you into thinking
otherwise. You can now edit Live Photos, which
bring more animation to what would otherwise
be a static image, in fresh ways.
Those ways include Loop, which enables a Live

Photo to be repeatedly played; Bounce, which
lets a Live Photo be played either forward or
backward from especially suitable start and end
points; and Long Exposure, with which all of a
Live Photo’s frames are blended together. Those
three features are available in an “Effects” menu
that you can access by upward swiping on a Live
Photo. You can also scroll through Live Photo
frames to choose the default one or make one
the preview photo.
HAS iOS 11 HIT YOUR BATTERY LIFE?

TRY THESE TIPS
Since iOS 11’s public release, many Apple
users have taken to Twitter to complain that
the update has adversely affected the battery
life they are getting out of their devices. If
you are in the same boat, rest assured that
the problem might solve itself in a few days,
if not even sooner. Your device needs time
to entirely re-index and cache its contents in
the wake of a software update - and all of that
added work can eat up battery life. If the issue
still lingers, however, then try this...
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Head into the Battery part of Settings to see
which apps have been most draining the battery
life recently. Tapping any app’s entry in this
list will show the amount of time the software
has been active in the background. If certain
apps seem overly heavy with their background
activity, then go over to the Settings app’s
General section and then Background App
Refresh. Here, you can disable background
activity for particular apps that seem to be
wreaking particular havoc on the battery.
Some battery-draining features you might

deem fluff that you don’t genuinely need.
These include the Home screen’s parallax effect
which makes app icons appear as though
they are floating above the wallpaper. You can
deactivate this by switching off Reduce Motion
in the Accessibility section under General in the
Settings app. If your device supports “Raise to
Wake”, you can also disable that - under Display
& Brightness in Settings - and so prevent the
display inadvertently switching on.
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ENJOYED YOUR WARM-UP?
THERE’S EVEN MORE...
iOS 11 is effectively a treasure trove of new
additions, many of which we haven’t had space
to detail above. For example, you can now drag
and drop content between apps on iPad, choose
to send questions to Siri with text instead of your
voice, and compress the onscreen keyboard
towards the screen’s left or right to enable easier
one-handed typing. Fortunately, various sites,
including TechRadar, BGR and Business Insider,
have dug more deeply into what iOS 11 offers.
by Benjamin Kerry & Gavin Lenaghan
Image: James Bareham / The Verge

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NEW CARS
INCREASINGLY
CRAMMED WITH
DISTRACTING
TECHNOLOGY
The infotainment technology that automakers

are cramming into the dashboard of new
vehicles is making drivers take their eyes off the
road and hands off the wheel for dangerously
long periods of time, an AAA study says.
The study is the latest by University of Utah

professor David Strayer, who has been
examining the impact of infotainment systems
on safety for AAA’s Foundation for Traffic Safety
since 2013. Past studies also identified problems,
but Strayer said the “explosion of technology”
has made things worse.
Automakers now include more infotainment

options to allow drivers to use social media,
email and text. The technology is also becoming
more complicated to use. Cars used to have a
few buttons and knobs. Some vehicles now have
as many as 50 buttons on the steering wheel
and dashboard that are multi-functional. There
are touch screens, voice commands, writing
pads, heads-up displays on windshields and
mirrors and 3-D computer-generated images.
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“It’s adding more and more layers of complexity
and information at drivers’ fingertips without
often considering whether it’s a good idea
to put it at their fingertips,” Strayer said. That
complexity increases the overall amount of time
drivers spend trying to use the systems.
The auto industry says the new systems are

better alternatives for drivers than mobile
phones and navigation devices that were not
designed to be used while driving.
The vehicle-integrated systems “are designed

to be used in the driving environment and
require driver attention that is comparable to
tuning the radio or adjusting climate controls,
which have always been considered baseline
acceptable behaviors while driving,” said
Wade Newton, a spokesman for the Alliance of
Automobile Manufacturers.
But Jake Nelson, AAA’s director for traffic safety

advocacy and research, said drivers testing all 30
of the 2017 model year cars and light trucks took
their eyes off the road and hands off the wheel
while using infotainment systems. The test
drivers used voice commands, touch screens
and other interactive technologies to make calls,
send texts, tune the radio or program navigation
all while driving.
Clearly automakers haven’t worked hard

enough to make the systems quick and easy
to use, Nelson said. Researchers rated 23 of the
30 vehicles “very high” or “high” in terms of the
attention they demanded from drivers. Seven
were rated “moderate.” None required a low
amount of attention to use.
Programming a destination into in-vehicle GPS

navigation systems was the most distracting
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activity, taking drivers an average of 40 seconds
to complete the task. At 25 mph (40 kph), a
car can travel the length of four football fields
during the time it takes to enter a destination.
Previous research has shown that drivers who
remove their eyes from the road for just two
seconds double their risk for a crash.
Under pressure from industry, the National

Highway Traffic Safety Administration in
2012 issued voluntary safety guidelines to
automakers for dashboard technology instead
of enforceable safety standards. The guidelines
recommend that automakers lock out the
ability to program navigation systems while a
car is moving. However, the ability to program
navigation while driving was available in 12
vehicles in the study.
The guidelines also recommend automakers

prevent drivers from texting while driving, but
three-quarters of the vehicles tested permit
drivers to text while the car is moving. Texting
was the second-most distracting task performed
by test drivers.
Drivers looked away from the road less when

using voice commands, but that safety benefit
was offset by the increased amount of time
drivers spent interacting with the systems.
AAA said drivers should use infotainment

technologies “only for legitimate emergencies or
urgent, driving-related purposes.” It also urged
automakers to block the ability to program
navigation systems or send texts while driving.
Automakers should also design infotainment
systems so that they require no more attention
to use than listening to the radio or an
audiobook, it said.
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Nearly 70 percent of U.S. adults say they want
the new technologies in their vehicles, but only
24 percent feel that the technology already
works perfectly, according to an opinion survey
conducted for AAA.
“Drivers want technology that is safe and easy

to use,” said Marshall Doney, AAA’s president
and CEO, “but many of the features added to
infotainment systems today have resulted in
overly complex and sometimes frustrating user
experiences for drivers.”
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IKEA ON
AMAZON?
FURNITURE
GIANT TO USE
ONLINE RETAILERS
Ikea will start selling furniture through third-

party websites next year as it tries to find new
ways to reach customers in the digital age.
Kaisa Lyckdal, spokeswoman for the Swedish

home furnishing giant, says the aim is to start
a trial in 2018 but that “no decisions are made
regarding what platforms/markets will be in
the pilot.”
Lyckdal said Tuesday in an email to The

Associated Press that Ikea would further develop
its online sales strategy “over the coming years.”
Ikea’s main focus “remains of course with our

existing sales channels,” including its own
websites and stores.
The group says 2.3 billion people globally visited

Ikea sites in 2017. Founded in Sweden and
headquartered fiscally in Leiden, the Netherlands,
Ikea has more than 400 stores in 49 countries.
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‘LEGENDS’
STAR SHATTERS
STEREOTYPES
WITH MUSLIM
SUPERHERO
Tala Ashe is thrilled to debut her new character,

a Muslim-American superhero joining season
three of “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.” It’s a
particularly poignant moment for the Iranian-
born, Ohio-reared actress who described the
hardship of portraying stereotypical characters
in the past.
“I have been part of projects where it is not

dealt with sensitively or accurately and it’s
incredibly painful. It’s incredibly painful,” said
Ashe in an interview while promoting The CW
series during the Television Critics Association
summer meeting.
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One of Ashe’s first breaks was on a soap opera.
She took the role to pay the bills, but said she
would never agree to the part now.
“It’s still actually painful for me to talk about

because I, it was such a stereotype,” she
recalled. “I try not to berate myself for taking
it because I understand the reasons that I did.
But I would never, I would never say ‘yes’ to
something like that now. ... Going through that
experience taught me the power of saying ‘no’
and saying like, ‘Actually I’m not OK with that.’
And if that’s all there is out there for me then
it’s OK. I’ll go work in a law firm pouring coffee.
I’d rather do that then to be part of promoting
that stereotype.”
Actress Tala Ashe is thrilled to debut her new

character, a Muslim-American superhero on
“DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.” The series’ third
season premieres Oct. 10 on The CW. (Oct. 9)
Her experience playing Zari, a computer-

hacking superhero in “Legends,” which returns
Tuesday, could not be more different.
“What is great is (her ethnicity) is an aspect

of who she is, as much as she’s an activist
and she’s a strong woman and someone who
speaks truth to power,” Ashe said. “It’s really
important that we have representation in
the media and specifically we have Muslim-
American representation that isn’t just positive
in a sort of rosy, un-nuanced way, but is a real
person. And there’s so much of the other right
now and there’s so much making Muslims ‘the
other’ that I’m excited to play this character
in what I hope will be a very nuanced and
sensitive, accurate way.”
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Ashe was particularly impressed when
showrunners brought in a Muslim-American
writer to help craft her role and hopes that kind
of inclusivity will spread throughout Hollywood.
“I do think there are more stories being told. I think

more stories can be championed both in theater
and in television and certainly in movies. I think we
have a long way to go in terms of representation
in movies. But I think TV is doing kind of the best
job in terms of realizing that we need to reflect our
world and that it matters,” she said.
Ashe aims to be a positive role model for young

fans and perhaps break down a few stereotypes
along the way.
“I’m excited to see what the reaction is and if it

can make someone feel a little less alone or —
here’s the big hope — if it can change a mind,”
she said.
Online:
www.warnerbros.com/tv/dcs-legends-
tomorrow
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TWICKETS
LAUNCHES
EUROPE-BASED
RESALE TICKET
PLATFORM IN US
Twickets, a Europe-based face-value ticket

platform supported by several popular music
artists including Adele and Ed Sheeran, was
launched Wednesday in the United States.
Founder Richard Davies said fans will be able to

buy and sell spare tickets at face value or less for
concerts and live events at Twickets USA.
“We’re looking to provide an alternative to

genuine fans that want to look out for other
fans potentially and not gain a substantial
profit,” Davies said. “We’re not planning to be the
solution to scalping. Fans deserve a choice. We
don’t want them to get ripped off.”
Twickets, which was launched in the United

Kingdom in 2015, has partnered with Adele,
Sheeran, Mumford & Sons and Queen. The
company said it has also handled about 6,000
tickets for One Direction.
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Adele teamed up with Twickets for her sold-out
Wembley Stadium concerts in 2016. This year,
the company expanded its platform to Australia
as Sheeran’s resale partner.
Davies said Twickets users have saved other fans

more than $20 million in inflated prices and fees
for event tickets in the United Kingdom. He said
he hopes his platform can reshape the ticketing
landscape by allowing music artists to ensure
face-value resale.
“It’s been a mix of support from artists, event

organizers and record labels,” he said. “Outside
of any artist endorsement, this has been purely
word of mouth. We’ve never spent money on
marketing. Word of mouth plays an important
part of what we do.”
Twickets said it has secured partnerships with

Niall Horan of One Direction, Pixies and PVRIS
for their upcoming U.S. shows. It collects a
15 percent transaction fee from the buyer for
each sale. The platform has more than 500,000
registered users, Davies said.
In Europe, Twickets has listed spare tickets for

festivals, sports, comedy and theater, and arts
shows. Davies said the company will initially
focus on using the platform to resell tickets for
music shows and hopes to incorporate sporting
events in the U.S. in the future.
Online:
www.twickets.live
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IN ‘MARSHALL,’
A YOUNG
THURGOOD IN
CONNECTICUT
Thurgood Marshall, a titan of 20th-century law

and a civil rights pioneer, has until now largely
eluded Hollywood’s notice. Despite its title,
“Marshall,” too, is wary of taking on the Supreme
Court justice in full, sticking to a minor case
from Marshall’s early career as counsel for the
NAACP. That makes, for better and worse, a
sometimes slight, sometimes serious courtroom
drama, shot through with bright certainty in the
coming triumphs for Marshall and the civil rights
movement. It’s a superhero-style origin story:
Thurgood, pre-“Brown v. Board of Education,”
pre-black robe.
And there’s something bulletproof about

Marshall, as played by Chadwick Boseman, in
Reginald Hudlin’s film. Boseman has launched
himself as a leading man with an ambitious trio
of historical African-American figures: Jackie
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Robinson, James Brown and now Marshall.
His gift isn’t in connecting deeply to these
characters but in capturing an innate and
unstoppable swagger. His icons are forward-
moving forces of talent and charisma that no
bigotry could hope to contain.
In “Marshall,” the attorney is sent to Bridgeport,

Connecticut, to represent a black chauffer,
Joseph Spell (Sterling K. Brown), who has
been accused by his wealthy, white Greenwich
socialite employer (Kate Hudson) of rape and
attempted murder. Marshall, then 33, is an
out-of-state attorney who needs a local lawyer
to help try the case, turning to the reluctant
insurance lawyer Sam Friedman (Josh Gad).
The suburban New England setting differs

greatly from the Southern terrain where most
civil-rights battles were fought, and where
Marshall tried many of his early landmark
cases. But it roils with much of the same racism.
Marshall is barred from speaking in court by a
judge (James Cromwell) little impressed by the
NAACP’s mandate to ensure black defendants
get a fair trial.
But from the moment Marshall breezes into the

New Haven train station and hands his bags to
Friedman to carry, he oozes an untroubled belief
in his cause and his tactical prowess at trial. He
needs no assistance, and he gives no quarter to
prejudice, telling Friedman to object over every
racial bias. Where others stay mum, he proudly
declares from the courthouse steps:
“The Constitution was not written for us. We

know that. But no matter what it takes, we’re
going to make it work for us. From now on, we
claim it as our own.”
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He’s an undeniably empowering and
inspirational figure, and “Marshall” is a smooth
and straightforward package. That the stakes
for justice are high is never in question,
especially once Spell — and the extreme poise
of Brown — takes the stand. But “Marshall”
doesn’t go for the kind of gravity echoed, say, in
the one-man play “Thurgood,” which James Earl
Jones performed on the stage and Laurence
Fishburne on the screen. There’s a light comic
interplay between Boseman and Gad. Marshall
sorts the case out without cracking a book or
breaking a sweat.
And, well, Connecticut has never exactly had

the dramatic pull of other, more explosive
states when it comes to civil rights battles
or, well, most anything else. Currently in
development is a film adaptation of the 2013
Pulitzer Prize winner “Devil in the Grove,”
which chronicles a 1949 case of Marshall’s in
Groveland, Florida. That, perhaps, will be a
richer, more evocative tale.
But not all civil-rights battles need to carry

the weight of the world on their shoulders.
That will fall to future installments of
Marshall’s exploits — and upcoming films
for Boseman, who’ll soon star as the Marvel
hero in “Black Panther.”
“Marshall,” an Open Road release, is rated R by

the Motion Picture Association of America for
“mature thematic content, sexuality, violence
and some strong language.” Running time:
118 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.
MPAA definition of R: Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying

parent or adult guardian.
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A Ghost Story
In this ambiguous story of love, loss and the

enormity of existence, a recently deceased
ghost (Casey Affleck) returns to his home to
try to reach out to his bereft wife (Rooney
Mara) only to find that he has become
unstuck in time, only able to watch passively
the life he once knew.
FIVE FACTS:
1. All filming for this movie was hidden
from the public, and the project was not
even announced until months after filming
had wrapped.
2. Director David Lowery shot the
movie off the funds he made from
by David Lowery
Genre: Romance Pete’s Dragon (2016)
Released: 2017
Price: $14.99 3. The movie reunites David Lowery with
regular collaborators Rooney Mara and
Casey Affleck who both starred in Ain’t
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4. A24 acquired the film before it premiered
at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
5. The neighbor’s ghost is played by Lowery.
Rotten Tomatoes
91 %
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Jeremiah Tower:
The Last Magnificent
This documentary follows Jeremiah Tower,

a chef that influenced a new American
cuisine and created the cult of the “celebrity
chef.” With a career that spanned the sexual
revolution of the 70’s to the spirit of the 80’s,
this biopic covers interviews with celebrities
to show how much Tower has influenced
today’s food culture and the overall
restaurant industry, essentially changing the
process of how we eat.
FIVE FACTS:
1. In 1996, Tower won the James Beard
Foundation’s award for “Outstanding Chef of
the Year.”
2. The documentary includes some
famous faces that play homage to Tower
including Mario Batali, Martha Stewart, and
Wolfgang Puck.
3. The movie’s official tagline is “Great Chefs
Stand Out.”
4. In 2016, Tower was a key speaker at
the Ken Hom lecture series at Oxford
Brookes University.
5. The movie premiered at the Tribeca Film
Festival in 2016.
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Trailer
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Genre: Documentary
Released: 2017
Price: $9.99
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Rotten Tomatoes
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Phantom Anthem
August Burns Red
A band that has a reputation for writing

some of the most technically advanced and
lyrically sophisticated songs that metalcore
has to offer, August Burns Red release their
seventh album in 12 years. Melodic solos are
found on tracks “Coordinates” and “The Frost”
while instrumental passages lead up to chunk
staccato riffs on “King of Sorrow” and “Her of
the Half Truth.”
Genre: Metal
Released: Oct 6, 2017 FIVE FACTS:
11 Songs
Price: $9.99 1. Brent Rambler said that if he weren’t in a
band he’d more than likely be in real estate
and he has completed all courses and exams
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to do so.
2. Although all members of the band are
Christians, they don’t believe in preaching
to their audience and believe that the music
should speak for itself.
3. The band released their first DVD Home in
September 2010.
4. In 2008, they released a version of the
Christmas song “Carol of the Bells” which
appeared on the punk compilation X
Christmas and was used in several adverts
for the movie The Spirit.
5. Original vocalist Josh McManness left in
2006 due to exhaustion from constant touring.
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“Invisible Enemy”
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Take Me Apart
Kelela
Kelela’s latest LP is deeply personal one,

meaning that it does exactly what it says
on the label. Her self-assured and forthright
lyrics are placed over beats from the likes
of Jam City, Bok Bok, Kingdom and Arca,
demonstrating her ability as an underground
artist that can spin from one mode to the next,
from breakup songs like “Frontline” to pickups
like “LMK.”
Genre: R&B/Soul
FIVE FACTS: Released: Oct 6, 2017
14 Songs
1. After transferring from Montgomery Price: $14.99
College to American University, Kelela began
singing jazz standards at cafés.
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2. In 2008, she joined an indie band called
Dizzy Spells and tried to sing progressive
metal after meeting Tosin Abasi, who she
also dated.
3. Her 2013 mixtape Cut 4 Me was praised
by music critics and contemporaries such as
Solange Knowles and Bjork.
4. Her 2015 EP Hallucinogen covers the
beginning, middle and end of a relationship
in reverse order.
5. Her track “Go All Night” was included
on Saint Heron, a multi-artist compilation
album released by Solange Knowles in 2013.
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‘BLADE RUNNER
2049’ TOPS BOX
OFFICE BUT STILL
DISAPPOINTS
“Blade Runner 2049” may have been the top

choice for moviegoers this weekend, but the
long-anticipated sequel failed to generate
the soaring box office returns industry
watchers expected.
Despite positive reviews and certified star-

power in Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling, the
dystopian thriller took in $32.7 million during its
debut weekend, which hardly makes a dent in
its reported $150 million budget.
The adventure romance “The Mountain Between

Us,” debuted in second place with $10.5 million.
It stars Kate Winslet and Idris Elba as strangers
who develop a relationship after their charter
plane crash lands in the mountains.
“My Little Pony: The Movie” opened in fourth

place with $8.9 million.
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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:
1. “Blade Runner 2049,” Warner Bros.,

$32,753,122, 4,058 locations,
$8,071 average, $32,753,122, 1 Week.
2. “The Mountain Between Us,” 20th

Century Fox, $10,551,336,
3,088 locations, $3,417 average,
$10,551,336, 1 Week.
3. “It,” Warner Bros., $9,972,002,

$305,250,480, 5 Weeks.
4. “My Little Pony: The Movie,” Lionsgate,

$8,885,899, 2,528 locations,
$3,515 average, $8,885,899, 1 Week.
5. “Kingsman: The Golden Circle,” 20th

Century Fox, $8,675,412,
$80,539,837, 3 Weeks.
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6. “American Made,” Universal,
$8,446,715, 3,031 locations,
$2,787 average, $30,818,675, 2 Weeks.
7. “The Lego Ninjago Movie,” Warner Bros.,

$7,002,474, 3,611 locations,
$1,939 average, $44,076,137, 3 Weeks.
8. “Victoria And Abdul,” Focus Features,

$4,171,870, 732 locations,
$5,699 average, $5,987,264, 3 Weeks.
9. “Flatliners,” Sony, $3,975,021,

$12,504,623, 2 Weeks.
10. “Battle of The Sexes,” Fox

Searchlight, $2,562,066,
$7,839,641, 3 Weeks.
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11. “MET Opera: Norma (2017),” Fathom
Events, $1,500,000, 900 locations,
$1,667 average, $1,500,000, 1 Week.
12. “American Assassin,” Lionsgate,

$1,388,305, 1,656 locations,
$838 average, $34,449,582, 4 Weeks.
13. “Til Death Do Us Part,” Novus

Content, $762,125, 481 locations,
$1,584 average, $2,668,754, 2 Weeks.
14. “The Stray,” Quality Flix, $596,547,

640 locations, $932 average,
$596,547, 1 Week.
15. “Home Again,” Open Road,

$568,000, 1,003 locations,
$566 average, $26,353,346, 5 Weeks.
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16. “A Question of Faith,” Pure Flix,
$453,717, 608 locations,
$746 average, $1,788,973, 2 Weeks.
17. “mother!,” Paramount, $387,753,

$17,297,289, 4 Weeks.
18. “Judwaa 2,” Fox International

Productions, $312,250,
192 locations, $1,626 average,
$1,184,239, 2 Weeks.
19. “Despicable Me 3,” Universal,

$289,605, 304 locations,
$953 average, $262,637,975, 15 Weeks.
20. “Stronger,” Lionsgate/Roadside

Attractions, $277,809,
$3,770,182, 3 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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STORMTROOPERS
ON SOLDIER
FIELD INTRODUCE
‘LAST JEDI’ TRAILER
The trailer for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” debuted

in dramatic fashion during Monday Night
Football halftime. Fireworks flashed and
Stormtroopers marched onto Chicago’s Soldier
Field as the preview played onscreen.
It featured new and familiar characters from

the Star Wars universe. The clip opens with
voiceover from Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren saying,
“When I found you, I saw raw, untamed power
— and beyond that, something truly special.”
Then Rey (Daisy Ridley) is shown wielding her
light saber and questioning her destiny as Luke
Skywalker (Mark Hamill) observes, “I’ve seen this
raw strength only once before. It didn’t scare me
enough then. It does now.”
John Boyega, Oscar Isaac and Carrie Fisher also

appear in the trailer, as does Chewbacca and a
new bird-like creature known as a Porg.
“The Last Jedi” is the latest installment in the

Star Wars franchise since the Disney reboot that
began with 2015’s “The Force Awakens.” It’s set
to hit theaters Dec. 15.
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SPACEX LAUNCHES 10 MORE IRIDIUM
COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITES
Ten new satellites for Iridium Communications

Inc. have been carried into orbit by a SpaceX
Falcon 9 rocket launched from California.
The booster lifted off from coastal Vandenberg

Air Force Base before dawn Monday. Its first
stage successfully returned from space and
set down on a landing platform floating in the
Pacific Ocean as the second stage went on to
deploy the satellites in orbit.
It was the third successful launch in the McLean,

Virginia-based company’s campaign to replace
its entire globe-circling fleet with a total of 75
next-generation communications satellites.
Five more SpaceX launches are expected to
complete the process by mid-2018.
The satellites also carry payloads for global real-

time aircraft tracking and a ship-tracking service.
The old Iridium satellites are being deorbited.
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SPACEWALKING
ASTRONAUTS GREASE
ROBOT ARM’S NEW HAND
Spacewalking astronauts hustled through a lube

job and camera swaps outside the International
Space Station on Tuesday, their second trip
outside in less than a week.
Astronaut Mark Vande Hei made fast work of

greasing the big robot arm’s new hand.
Vande Hei and station commander Randy

Bresnik replaced the latching mechanism on one
end of the 58-foot robot arm last Thursday. The
mechanism malfunctioned in August.
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Image: James Blair
Tuesday’s work involved using a grease gun,

which resembles a caulking gun, to keep the
latching mechanism working smoothly. Vande
Hei got a jump ahead in some greasing chores,
but the two-part job still will spill into next
week, in a third and final spacewalk.
“Why don’t we wash, rinse, repeat. Do it

again in a week,” Bresnik said as the 6 ½-hour
spacewalk came to a close.
These latches, or hands, are located on each

end of the Canadian-built robot arm. They’re
used to grab arriving U.S. cargo ships and
also allow the robot arm to move around the
orbiting lab.
Launched in 2001 with the rest of the robot

arm, the original latches were showing their
age. NASA plans to replace the latching
mechanism on the opposite end of the arm
early next year.
Vande Hei and Bresnik also replaced

several camera assemblies at the 250-mile-
high outpost.
“What do you do for an encore?” Bresnik asked

Vande Hei, after two successful spacewalks.
“I finish six months on the space station,” Vande

Hei replied. He arrived a month ago.
Vande Hei will sit out the next spacewalk on

Oct. 18. Instead, Bresnik will be accompanied
by Joe Acaba, a teacher-turned-astronaut.
Six men live at the orbiting lab: three

Americans, two Russians and one Italian. As
the space station approached Italy early in
the spacewalk, Mission Control urged Bresnik
and Vande Hei to take some photos for their
crewmate, Paolo Nespoli.
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Image: Carlos Giusti
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BIG TECH HAS
BIG PLANS
TO HELP
RECONNECT
PUERTO RICO
Facebook and Google once aimed to connect

the world. Now they would be happy just to
reconnect part of it.
In the wake of Hurricane Maria, Facebook

CEO Mark Zuckerberg pledged to send
a “connectivity team” to help restore
communications in ravaged Puerto Rico. Google
parent company Alphabet offered to send its
Wi-Fi balloons. They were among several tech
companies proposing disaster response ideas,
most aimed at getting phone and internet
service up and running.
Some of these plans, of course, are more

aspirational than others.
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BATTERY POWER
Tesla CEO Elon Musk often takes to Twitter to
mull over ideas, but last week his musings about
sending his company’s solar-powered batteries
to help restore Puerto Rico’s power attracted the
attention of the island’s governor.
“Let’s talk,” said Gov. Ricardo Rossello in a

Friday (06) tweet .
Musk agreed. Hours later, he announced he was

delaying the unveiling of Tesla’s new semi-truck
and diverting resources, in part to “increase
battery production for Puerto Rico and other
affected areas.”
The need for help in restoring power and

communication after Hurricane Maria is great: The
Puerto Rican energy authority reported Saturday
that about 88 percent of the island is still without
power. The Federal Communications Commission
said Saturday that 82 percent of cell sites remain
out in Puerto Rico; 58 percent are out of service in
the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The FCC’s daily status report also shows

significant wireline, TV and radio outages remain
in both U.S. territories. The agency formed a task
force this week and approved an advance of $77
million to support carriers working to restore
telecommunications services.
VAGUE PROMISES
But many offers of help from big companies
remain somewhat vague. Google parent
company Alphabet has proposed launching
balloons over the island to bring Wi-Fi service to
hard-to-reach places, as it has in other parts of
the world.
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Image: The Washington Post
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The FCC announced Saturday that it’s approved
an experimental license for Project Loon to
operate in Puerto Rico. But that doesn’t mean it
will able to get them in the air anytime soon.
“We’re grateful for the support of the FCC and

the Puerto Rican authorities as we work hard to
see if it’s possible to use Loon balloons to bring
emergency connectivity to the island during this
time of need,” said Libby Leahy, a spokesman for
Alphabet’s X division.
But there are limitations, she said Saturday.
“To deliver signal to people’s devices, Loon

needs be integrated with a telco partner’s
network — the balloons can’t do it alone,” she
said, adding that the company is “making solid
progress on this next step.”
COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS
Cisco Systems has sent a tactical team and says
it is working with local government, emergency
responders and service providers to facilitate
restoration and recovery efforts. The company,
along with Microsoft and others, backs the
NetHope consortium, which specializes in
setting up post-disaster communication
networks and has field teams now operating in
Puerto Rico and several other Caribbean islands.
“Communication is critical during a disaster,”

Zuckerberg said after the hurricane hit, announcing
that employees from his company’s connectivity
team — the same group working to build high-
altitude drones that can beam internet service down
to Earth — were heading to Puerto Rico. But with
its aircraft still in the testing phase, the company
said that the engineers it’s sent to Puerto Rico are
focused on providing support to NetHope’s teams.
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Image: Ricardo Arduengo
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SMALLER ORGANIZATIONS
Much of the ground work is being spearheaded
by nonprofit organizations and small firms with
expertise in rural or emergency communications.
Lexington, Massachusetts-based Vanu Inc.,

which sets up wireless communications
networks in rural parts of the United States,
Africa and India, is sending dozens of its small,
solar-powered cellular base stations to volunteer
crews on the ground in Puerto Rico and the
Virgin Islands. Aid workers are pairing Vanu’s
devices with other technology, such as inflatable
satellite antennas.
After setting up a network on the island of

Vieques, off the main island of Puerto Rico, one
team watched from a roof as local residents
started getting text alerts from family members
who had been trying to get in touch.
“They noticed everyone in the plaza pulling their

phones out,” said CEO Vanu Bose. “You don’t
have to announce you’ve lit up coverage. People
know right away.”
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THUNDER
ImagIne Dragons
ALMOST LIKE PRAYING

(FEAT. ARTISTS FOR PUERTO RICO)
LIn-manueL mIranDa
FEEL IT STILL
PortugaL. the man
PERFECT
eD sheeran
HAVANA (FEAT. YOUNG THUG)

CamILa CabeLLo
LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO

tayLor swIft
HEAVEN
Kane brown
I WON’T BACK DOWN

tom Petty & the heartbreaKers
TOO GOOD AT GOODBYES

sam smIth
BELIEVER
ImagIne Dragons
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GREATEST HITS
PERCEPTION
nf
EVOLVE
ImagIne Dragons
KANE BROWN (DELUXE EDITION)

Kane brown
BLADE RUNNER 2049

(ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK)
hans ZImmer & benjamIn waLLfIsCh
÷ (DELUXE)
eD sheeran
ANTHOLOGY: THROUGH THE YEARS

WILDFLOWERS
tom Petty
PHANTOM ANTHEM
august burns reD
THE ANSWER
jeremy CamP
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136
LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO
tayLor swIft
WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS (LIVE)

DhanI harrIson, jeff Lynne, PrInCe, steve wInwooD & tom Petty
I WON’T BACK DOWN

tom Petty wIth the traveLIng wILburys
DESPACITO (FEAT. DADDY YANKEE)

LuIs fonsI
THE REST OF OUR LIFE

tIm mCgraw & faIth hILL
FREE FALLIN’
tom Petty
WOMEN
Def LePParD
DON’T COME AROUND HERE NO MORE

WHAT LOVERS DO (FEAT. SZA)

maroon 5
LOVE BITES
Def LePParD
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NEWS CYCLE
maDam seCretary, season 4
GO BIG OR GO HOME
grey’s anatomy, season 14
WATCH ME
sCanDaL, season 7
SEX (TIPS) IN THE CITY

shahs of sunset, season 6
A MANNY-SPLENDORED THING
thIs Is us, season 2
DETECT, DEVICE, DESTROY

the Last shIP, season 4
THE CLEVELAND SHOW

KeePIng uP wIth the KarDashIans, season 14
ENDGAME
the Last shIP, season 4
STING OF THE TAIL

DesIgnateD survIvor, season 2
FAIR GAME
homeLanD, season 6
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ORIGIN
Dan brown
FAIRYTALE
DanIeLLe steeL
DIRTY LITTLE PROMISE

KenDaLL ryan
THE CUBAN AFFAIR

neLson DemILLe
TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN

john green
DON’T LET GO
harLan Coben
GRANT
ron Chernow
JAX
CrIstIn harber
THE RULES OF MAGIC

aLICe hoffman
RESCUING BRYN
susan stoKer
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Image: Branden Camp
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SCIENTISTS
SAY COST
OF CAPTURING
CO2 DECLINING
Technology now in limited use removes

about 90 percent of carbon dioxide from the
smokestacks of coal-fired power plants, but
energy experts say cost remains the chief
obstacle to bringing the “clean coal” touted by
President Donald Trump into the mainstream.
They cite recent advances in applying the

longstanding technology, despite some earlier
setbacks, but say the U.S. power sector needs
bigger tax credits or other incentives to close the
cost gap for using them.
“What we have now is a public policy challenge,

or call it a political challenge if you will, in that
next phase which is to deploy this technology
more widely and bring the cost down, (which)
requires a whole new set of policies that go
beyond R&D to actual deployment incentives,”
said Brad Crabtree, vice president for fossil fuels
at the Great Plains Institute.
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The U.S. has successfully cut other smokestack
pollutants, including sulfur, nitrogen and
mercury. But carbon dioxide is a bigger challenge
because there is so much of it. Coal- and gas-fired
electrical generators produce about 30 percent
of CO2 from human activity. Other industries like
cement, steel and fertilizer manufacturing add
another 20 to 25 percent. Farming and vehicles
are also major contributors.
John Thompson of the nonprofit Clean Air

Task Force said there would be no way to limit
the rise in global temperatures to 2 degrees
Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-
industrial levels without taming carbon
emissions. The world has already warmed about
1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit)
since the Industrial Revolution. Scientists say
every fraction of a degree change in average
temperatures can lead to noticeable swings in
local weather patterns.
“If you don’t tackle that you really can’t constrain

warming on the planet to one-and-a-half to two
degrees on anybody’s likely scenarios,” he said.
In Congress, bills that now have 64 bipartisan

sponsors would raise carbon-capture tax credits
from $10 or $20 per metric ton depending on
use to $35 or $50. Advocates want it added to
the current tax overhaul proposal.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, a West Virginia

Republican and co-sponsor, said carbon
capture would help protect the coal industry
and expand oil production as well as reduce
emissions. As for chances of passage, she said
Thursday that it’s “too early in the process to
know whether those priorities can advance
together or separately.”
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The Natural Resources Defense Council, like
other environmental groups, first advocates
efficient energy use and switching to renewable
sources, but regards carbon capture as “a
potentially useful tool in the climate protection
toolbox,” said David Hawkins, director of
climate programs.
At federal labs in Morgantown and Pittsburgh,

researchers cite one recently successful
13-megawatt pilot project in Colorado and
say they are on target for a handful of others
by 2020 while reducing the cost of carbon
capture from $100 per metric ton to $40. “We’re
definitely close,” said Lynn Brickett, the labs’
carbon capture technology manager.
The labs are also identifying methods to inject

more liquefied carbon dioxide back into the
Earth. That’s where the carbon-based coal, oil
and natural gas originally came from before
they were burned and produced the CO2 in the
atmosphere blamed for global warming.
New energy technologies normally take 15

years to move from the laboratory to the
outside world, according to the National Energy
Technology Laboratory. Its researchers are
developing computer models to accelerate that
timeline for carbon, engineer David Miller said.
The lab, a division of the U.S. Energy

Department, acknowledges routine use would
be at least another decade away and historically
such advances have taken 20 to 30 years.
Meanwhile, more U.S. coal-fired power plants
are scheduled to close.
In June, Mississippi Power Co. suspended special

carbon-capture efforts at its 582-megawatt
Mississippi power plant that first turned coal
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Image: Jeff Swensen
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into gas, which cost more than $7 billion to With underground carbon storage, research
build, more than double the planned cost. Once began 20 years ago and builds on the practices
regarded as a possible model for “clean coal,” it of the petroleum industry, which uses carbon
now burns natural gas. dioxide to drive more oil from the ground,
said Traci Rodosta, the lab’s carbon storage
The Petra Nova project outside Houston used a
technology manager. NETL has regional
$190 million federal grant toward installing a $1
partnerships across 43 states, small-scale
billion system to capture CO2 from an existing
projects that began in 2005 and larger-scale
600-megawatt coal-fired power plant, piping it
field projects in 2008.
to a Texas oil field and pumping it underground
to boost oil production. Operating since late There are ongoing efforts in 30 countries. A
December, the system is currently “breaking Norwegian reservoir under the North Sea has
even,” NRG Energy spokesman David Knox said. injected more than 16 million metric tons of
CO2, Rodosta said. Lab scientists say there
“We’re very interested in the technology, but
have been no major incidents with leaking or
until the economics work, we’re not committed
seismic activity.
to a second one,” Knox said.
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Image: Sovfoto
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60 YEARS AFTER
SPUTNIK, RUSSIAN
SPACE PROGRAM
FACES TROUBLES
Six decades after Sputnik, a refined version of

the rocket that put the first artificial satellite
in orbit remains the mainstay of Russia’s space
program — a stunning tribute to the country’s
technological prowess, but also a sign it has
failed to build upon its achievements.
And unlike the Cold War era, when space was

a key area of the rivalry between the United
States and the Soviet Union, space research now
appears to rank low on the Kremlin’s priorities.
The Soyuz booster, currently the only vehicle

that launches crews to the International Space
Station, is a modification of the R-7 rocket that
put Sputnik in orbit on Oct. 4, 1957.
Another Soviet-designed workhorse, the

heavy-lift Proton rocket that has been used to
launch commercial satellites to high orbits, was
developed in the 1960s.
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Both rockets established a stellar reputation for
their reliability, but their record was tarnished
by a string of failed launches in recent years
that have called into question the Russian space
industry’s ability to maintain the same high
standards of manufacturing.
Glitches found in Proton and Soyuz in 2016 were

traced to manufacturing flaws at the plant in
Voronezh that builds engines for both rockets.
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, sent
more than 70 rocket engines back to production
lines to replace faulty components, a move that
resulted in a yearlong break in Proton launches.
The suspension eroded the nation’s niche in

the global market for commercial satellite
launches. Last year, Russia for the first time fell
behind both the U.S. and China in the number
of launches.
Clients have increasingly opted for new, more

efficient and affordable choices, such as the
Falcon 9 built by SpaceX, which broke ground in
reducing costs by making its rockets reusable.
Russian officials have recognized the challenge

posed by SpaceX and others, but they have
offered few specifics on how the nation hopes
to retain its place in the global market. The
only short-term answer appears to be a plan
to manufacture a less-powerful version of the
Proton booster to lower costs.
In an astonishing recognition of the depth

of Russia’s space woes, Roscosmos chief Igor
Komarov declared earlier this week that the
Voronezh factory used substandard alloys
because of a logistical failure that occurred after
a warehouse worker had become ill.
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Image: Kirill Kudryavtsev
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The Khrunichev company that assembles
the Proton also has fallen on hard times
amid criminal investigations into alleged
mismanagement and a decision to sharply
cut its assets. Much of the prized real estate
it occupies in western Moscow has been
designated for development.
Meanwhile, the development of the Angara,

a booster rocket intended to replace both the
Soyuz and the Proton, has been repeatedly
pushed back, and its future remains uncertain.
More expensive and lacking the long-
established track record of its predecessors,
the Angara probably will find it hard to
compete with SpaceX rockets and others in the
international market.
The first tests of the Angara have been

successful, but full-scale production is yet to be
organized at a plant in the Siberian city of Omsk.
And while the Soyuz is now the only vehicle for

ferrying crews to the International Space Station
following the retirement of the U.S. space shuttle
fleet, Russia stands to lose the monopoly soon
as the SpaceX’s Dragon v2 and Boeing’s Starliner
crew capsules are to fly test missions next year.
Work on a new spacecraft intended to replace

the Soyuz crew capsule designed 50 years ago
has crawled slowly. The ship, called Federation, is
tentatively set for its first manned flight in 2023,
but little is known about it.
Roscosmos also has talked about sending

several unmanned missions to the moon in the
next decade, but details are yet to be worked
out. Attempts to send unmanned probes to
Mars in 1996 and to the Martian moons Phobos
in 2011 failed due to equipment problems.
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Image: Boris Bethge
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Image: Bill Ingalls
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Russia also has struggled for years to build its
own scientific module for the International
Space Station. Originally set for 2007, the
launch of the Nauka, or Science, module has
been pushed back repeatedly. A 2013 check
revealed that its systems had become clogged
with residue and required a costly cleaning.
The launch is now tentatively set for next
year, but some reports suggest it could be
delayed further.
Amid funding shortages, Roscosmos has

decided to cut the size of its ISS crews from three
to two, a move criticized by many in Russia.
“It’s very bad when we have to cut the number

of cosmonaut seats,” cosmonaut Svetlana
Savitskaya said in parliament this year. “The
situation in our space industry is quite alarming.”
One Russian cosmonaut currently in orbit,

Sergei Ryazanskiy, on Wednesday posted
a picture of himself holding a tiny replica
of Sputnik on Twitter to mark the 60th
anniversary. Ryazanskiy’s grandfather, the chief
designer of radio guidance systems for space
vehicles during Soviet times, was involved in
Sputnik’s launch.
While other space programs faced cutbacks,

Russia spent billions to build the new Vostochny
launch pad in the Far East as a possible
alternative to the Baikonur cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan that Moscow has leased from its
former Soviet neighbor.
Many have questioned the feasibility of the

expensive new facility, given the fact that Russia
intends to continue using Baikonur for most
of its launches. Work at Vostochny has also
been dogged by scandals involving protests by
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unpaid workers and the arrests of construction
officials accused of embezzlement.
A launch pad for Soyuz finally opened in 2016,

but another one for heavier Angara rockets is
only set to be completed in late 2021.
Amid massive spending on Vostochny, whose

future remains unclear, some have criticized
Roscosmos for cutting corners on personnel.
Cosmonaut Maxim Surayev, who now serves
as a lawmaker, lamented the poor conditions
for future space crews at the Star City training
center outside Moscow.
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“It’s wrong when, instead of fulfilling their
task to prepare for space flight, they have to
find side jobs and a place to live,” Surayev said
in parliament.
Several veteran cosmonauts were forced to retire

earlier this year amid vicious infighting at Star
City. One of the retirees was Gennady Padalka,
who holds the world record for the longest time
in orbit — 879 days over five space missions.
In a letter to the media, Padalka urged authorities

to fire the director of Star City to prevent the
facility from falling into “complete ruin.”
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UBER RIDERS IN
DUBAI CAN NOW
SELECT ELECTRIC-
POWERED TESLA
Ride-hailing service Uber on Tuesday began

offering its customers in Dubai the option to ride
in one of 50 new Tesla electric-powered vehicles
— a stark contrast to the large gas-guzzling
sedans and luxury sports cars that dominate the
emirate’s six-lane highways.
The U.S.-based ride-hailing app launched the

UberONE option in partnership with Dubai Taxi
Corporation, which added 50 Tesla Model X and
Model S to its fleet last month. The vehicles,
which Uber riders can select for a slightly higher
fare, are equipped with self-driving components.
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Dubai’s transport authority is aiming to add Tesla also opened a showroom in Dubai
another 150 Tesla vehicles to its fleet in 2018 and in February. The American electric car
2019, part of a wider push to have 25 percent of manufacturer’s chief executive Elon Musk
all journeys autonomous by 2030. Already, Dubai has said the company plans on investing
has the world’s longest driverless metro network. millions of dollars across the United
Arab Emirates to support building up an
Uber’s General Manager in the United Arab
infrastructure for electric vehicles, despite
Emirates, Chris Free, said the partnership to
facing competition from the region’s
introduce electric-powered rides for customers
subsidized lower gas prices.
is line with the company’s drive to provide riders
with “new and progressive experiences.” There are currently more than two dozen Tesla
chargers in the UAE, with another 50 planned.
The forward-looking emirate of Dubai and the oil-
rich seat of the federal government, Abu Dhabi, Still, Teslas and other battery-operated
have embraced the push for electric-powered models sold in the UAE, such as Renault’s
vehicles. In Dubai alone, there are electric vehicle Twizy and Zoe, remain rare as soaring
power stations near the world’s tallest skyscraper, summer temperatures require drivers turn
the Burj Khalifa, and the Middle East’s largest mall, on air-conditioning.
the Dubai Mall.
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GOOGLE
UNCOVERS ADS
BY RUSSIAN
OPERATIVES
Russian operatives likely spent tens of

thousands of dollars on ads across Google
products, including YouTube and Google search,
according to reports.
Accounts connected with the Russian

government spent $4,700 on search and display
ads, while another $53,000 was spent on ads
with political material that were purchased
from Russian territory, from Russian internet
addresses, or with Russian currency, The
New York Times reported. The Times cited an
unnamed person familiar with the ongoing
inquiry by the search giant.
The Washington Post earlier reported that the

technology behemoth uncovered the Russian-
backed disinformation campaign as it considers
whether to testify before Congress next month,
also citing anonymous sources familiar with the
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investigation. Social media companies Facebook In a statement, Google said it has a “set of strict
and Twitter have already agreed to testify. ads policies including limits on political ad
targeting and prohibitions on targeting based
The reports said the company discovered the
on race and religion.”
Russian presence by analyzing information
shared by Twitter and Facebook, as well its own “We are taking a deeper look to investigate
research and tips from outside researchers. attempts to abuse our systems, working with
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researchers and other companies, and will U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded
provide assistance to ongoing inquiries,” the that Russian President Vladimir Putin directed
statement continued. a disinformation campaign aimed at helping
Donald Trump win the presidential election.
Facebook recently shared about 3,000 Russian-
backed ads with Congress.
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The Apple iPhone was introduced in 2007; Apple

And desktop and laptop computers are pretty

Technology moves fast. What’s hot today will be

The automotive world is listening. And what

Although some prospective buyers will complain

As lane departure and collision warning

So, as we await the self-driving systems of

• Blind-spot warning alerts drivers if there’s

• Forward-collision warning provides a

• Lane-departure warning will let you

• Adaptive cruise control basically slots

But the future of driving isn’t just focused

If you already use smartphone navigating apps

The state-of-the-art technology could lead to a

Toyota even has an available comprehensive

Volvo’s new S90’s Pilot Assist and City Safety

Even Ford’s F150 pickup truck is getting into

Kia’s UVO eServices connected car features

Remember that iPhone story we started with?

And though some of these features may

Apple is teaming up with award-winning

The iPhone maker is bringing back Spielberg’s

“We love being at the forefront of Apple’s

Apple declined to comment on the deal. The

The series aired on NBC from 1985 to 1987 and

Apple is planning to spend about $1 billion on

Even though it appears to be more serious

Apple is expected to spend more than

AOL announced that it is discontinuing its

An article on AOL’s website posted last Friday

“AIM tapped into new digital technologies and

Launched in 1997, AOL Instant Messenger was

The platform, which provided instant access

AOL was fiercely protective of its dominance

Its popularity as a communication tool waned

Despite the decline in usage, the announcement

In his post, Albers noted the strong affinity many

“In the late 1990s, the world had never seen

Desperate to find her mother after hearing her

But she hesitated.

“At first, I don’t know what I was thinking, but I

Nearly 200 people were reported missing,

Tunis posted a picture of her mother smiling

Most, including the owner of the trailer park