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NASA NAILS TEST ON
VOYAGER SPACECRAFT,
13 BILLION MILES AWAY
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DELIVERY ROBOTS WILL NEED PERMITS TO ROAM SAN FRANCISCO 08
BOX OFFICE TOP 20: ‘COCO,’ ‘JUSTICE LEAGUE’ STAY ON TOP 106
COMIC-BOOK HEROES FLOCK TO TV, BUT WHY ARE THEY SO POPULAR? 116
‘THE LAST JEDI’ AIMS TO CAPTURE THAT OLD STAR WARS FEELING 126
TOP 10 APPS 86
iTUNES REVIEW 90
TOP 10 SONGS 152
TOP 10 ALBUMS 154
TOP 10 MUSIC VIDEOS 156
TOP 10 TV SHOWS 158
TOP 10 BOOKS 160
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DELIVERY ROBOTS
WILL NEED
PERMITS TO ROAM
SAN FRANCISCO
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A maximum of nine “autonomous delivery
devices” may be allowed at any time in the city.
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CLINICAL TRIAL
PUTS APPLE
WATCH’S HEART
MONITORING
PROWESS TO
THE TEST
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“AFib” is a chaotic, out-of-sync heartbeat that can
damage the heart and allow blood clots to form
that travel to the brain, where they can lead to
strokes. Although many people do not know
they are affected, the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention says the condition contributes
to more than 130,000 deaths per year and costs
about $6 billion annually in the U.S.
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Unlike a traditional clinical trial, which requires
meeting with a doctor, participants in the Apple
Heart Study can enroll just by downloading
an app in the U.S. and having internet access
on their phone. The study is approved by an
institutional review board.
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Medtronic sells an implantable heart monitor
called the Reveal Linq that is cleared by the
FDA to monitor for irregular heart beats such as
atrial fibrillation with a high degree of accuracy.
If the company was concerned about losing
any Linq sales to Apple Watches, it didn’t say so
when asked.
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The ECG data are then displayed on the Apple
Watch and captured for later analysis by a
physician. AliveCor also makes a $99 FDA-
cleared portable ECG reader called the Kardia
Mobile, which is compatible with Android and
iOS systems and can be attached to the back of
a smartphone.
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Regulators have urged consumers to approach
medical apps with some skepticism. The
Federal Trade Commission settled a lawsuit last
December with California-based Aura Labs,
which has claimed that its $4.99 Instant Blood
Pressure app could give blood pressure readings
as accurate as an armband cuff, even though
clinical testing later found the app was much
less accurate.
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Dr. JoEllyn Moore, an electrophysiologist with The risk in technologies such as the Apple
the Minneapolis Heart Institute, said that in Watch’s heart-rate sensor test is that they may
general, patients who go to the doctor when create false positives, inducing unnecessary
their Apple Watches send alerts about possible anxiety in users and driving up overall health
atrial fibrillation would most likely be given care costs without improving anyone’s health.
a routine heart screening with an onsite ECG Physicians and the tech industry will be
machine. They may also get a small device watching closely to see whether the Apple
to take ECG readings at home when they are Watch can keep false positives down while
having an AFib episode. flagging previously unknown cases of AFib.
“It would be a similar screen for anyone who “It has the potential to be very exciting. I think
comes in complaining of an irregular heart time will tell how accurate this tool is going to
rhythm,” Moore said. be,” she said.
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CHOOSING
A STREAMING
DEVICE WITHOUT
OVERPAYING
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Here’s a holiday buying guide for the
TV-streamers in your life.
STREAMING BUILT-IN
Smart TVs, game consoles and the TiVo digital
video recorder all have streaming capabilities
built in. If all you watch is Netflix and Hulu,
you’ll be fine with those. But apps for individual
channels such as The CW and FX won’t work
with every device.
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AMAZON FIRE TV
Although Amazon has gotten better about
promoting rival services, its Fire TV device is
best seen as a companion to the company’s
$99-a-year Prime loyalty program. Video
available through Prime is prominent. The
device has Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant built-
in, giving you weather, sports scores, stock
quotes and playback controls with selected apps
— ask Alexa to forward 30 seconds, for instance.
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ROKU
Roku has one of the most complete channel
libraries — more than 5,000, many you’ve never
heard of. But there’s no iTunes.
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GOOGLE
Google’s Chromecast is cheap but trickier to use,
as you have to start video on your phone and
then switch the stream to the TV. An entry-level
streaming device from Amazon or Roku might
be a better choice now that those prices have
come down.
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image: Mark Madeo
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APPLE TV
Though an iPhone isn’t required, Apple TV will
be most useful with one. The basic device is
$149; a version with 4K and HDR costs $30 more.
You’re paying for the experience — in particular,
integration and syncing with other Apple
gadgets. For instance, you can type passwords
on an iPhone instead of navigating a keyboard
on the TV character by character.
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GOOGLE BLOCKS
YOUTUBE ON
AMAZON
DEVICES IN
ESCALATING FEUD
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The battle highlights the power that the world’s
major technology companies are gaining as they
dominate important corners of commerce and
communications. As the world’s largest online
retailer, Amazon has tremendous sway over
what people buy, while the results delivered by
Google’s ubiquitous search engine often help
determine what people do on and off the web.
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The latest standoff between Google and
Amazon was ridiculed by a trade association
of high-speed internet providers. The group,
USTelecom, has been trying to persuade
skeptics that internet providers will preserve
equal access to all digital services, even if
the Federal Communications Commission
adopts a proposal to rescind current “net
neutrality” regulations .
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Besides withholding Chromecast and the
Home speaker from its store, Amazon has also
rankled Google by declining to sell an internet-
connected thermostat made by Nest, which is
owned by Google parent Alphabet Inc. Amazon
also doesn’t allow its Prime video streaming
service on Chromecast, an omission that Google
wants to change.
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HAVE YOU BEEN
‘PWNED’ IN A DATA
BREACH? TROY
HUNT CAN TELL
AN EPIDEMIC OF PWNAGE
“Pwned” — a deliberate misspelling of
“owned” — is slang used by gamers to mean
“utterly defeated.” It’s an apt description of
what it’s like to have criminals use your Social
Security number, birthdate and other personal
details to commit fraud in your name.
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UNLIKELY MESSENGER
Hunt’s unlikely path from Queensland’s Surfers
Paradise Beach to what he describes as “fancy
government things” on Capitol Hill has been a
running joke since his invitation to testify was
announced. Virginia Republican Rep. Morgan
Griffith, introducing Hunt to lawmakers, noted
that he “put on a suit and tie for us when he
normally wears jeans and a black T-shirt.”
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ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH
Of course, this “new normal” of massive data
breaches is no joke. So much personal data
has been publicly exposed through both theft
and voluntary sharing on social media that
it’s eroded traditional methods for verifying
identity, such as usernames, passwords or
knowledge-based questions about birthdays or
family history.
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People using his site can search on their email
address to see whether and where their records
have been exposed. Roughly 1.7 million people
also subscribe to alerts that sound when their
details pop up in newly discovered breaches.
The website’s user base has grown rapidly as
bigger data breaches — some many years old —
get attention.
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CALIFORNIA
REGULATORS NIX
RULES LIMITING
CARMAKER LIABILITY
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Inside iOS 11: Messages app gains
Person-to-Person Payments
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When using Apple Pay Cash on an iPhone, the
process is simple. First, open the Messages app
and start a conversation with the person you’d
like to send money to. Then, simply tap the small
Apple Store icon, followed by the Apple Pay
icon. You will be prompted to enter the account
you want to send, and once you have verified
the transfer with Touch ID or Face ID, the money
will be on its way to your friend. It really is as
simple as that.
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You can add money to your Apple Pay Cash
Card using the cards you already have set up in
the Apple Pay wallet. Apple has a very useful
guide on how to add money when using both
an iPhone and an Apple Watch.
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revolutionized our relationship with money; and
the introduction of Apple Pay Cash is another
step up the ladder.
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Image: Bloomberg
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FEDERAL
REGULATOR GIVES
OK FOR BITCOIN
FUTURES TO TRADE
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Image: Thomas Trutschel
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The CME Group is using a process known as
“self-certification,” which is when an exchange
pledges that the new instruments will not break
any federal securities laws.
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FACEBOOK LAUNCHES
PARENT-CONTROLLED
MESSENGER APP FOR KIDS
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A KIDS-FOCUSED EXPERIENCE
While children do use messaging and social
media apps designed for teenagers and adults,
those services aren’t built for them, said Kristelle
Lavallee, a children’s psychology expert who
advised Facebook on designing the service.
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HOOKED ON FACEBOOK
Is Messenger Kids simply a way for Facebook to
rope in the young ones?
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MARKETING MATTERS
Facebook said Messenger Kids won’t show ads
or collect data for marketing, though it will
collect some data it says are necessary to run the
service. Facebook also said it won’t automatically
move users to the regular Messenger or
Facebook when they get old enough, though
the company might give them the option to
move contacts to Messenger down the line.
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JAMES PATTERSON
AND EINSTEIN
ARCHIVISTS
CREATING
NEW SERIES
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“Women are definitely underrated in science and
I wanted to address that,” he told The Associated
Press during a recent telephone interview. Little,
Brown describes Max as “inventive, irreverent,
highly imaginative,” one who “loves to solve
problems in fun, unconventional ways, much
like Einstein himself.”
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#01 – Rules of Survival
By NetEase Games
Category: Games / Free
Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
#02 – YouTube
By Google, Inc.
Category: Photo & Video / Free
Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
#03 – Snapchat
By Snap, Inc.
Category: Photo & Video / Free
Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
#04 – Messenger
By Facebook, Inc.
Category: Social Networking / Free
Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
#05 – Dune!
By Voodoo
Category: Games / Free
Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
#06 – Instagram
By Instagram, Inc.
Category: Photo & Video / Free
Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
#07 – Facebook
By Facebook, Inc.
Category: Social Networking / Free
Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
#10 – Netflix
By Netflix, Inc.
Category: Entertainment / Free
Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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#01 – GarageBand
By Apple
Category: Music / Free
Compatibility: OS X 10.10 or later
#06– OneDrive
By Microsoft Corporation
Category: Productivity / Free
Compatibility: OS X 10.9.0 or later, 64-bit processor
#08 – Kindle
By AMZN Mobile LLC
Category: Reference / Free
Compatibility: OS X 10.9 or later
#10 – Xcode
By Apple
Category: Developer Tools / Free
Compatibility: OS X 10.11.5 or later
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#01 – Heads Up!
By Warner Bros.
Category: Games / Price: $0.99
Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
#02 – Minecraft
By Mojang
Category: Games / Price: $6.99
Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
#03 – kirakira+
By Kentaro Yama
Category: Photo & Video / Price: $0.99
Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
#05 – Bloons TD 5
By Ninja Kiwi
Category: Games / Price: $2.99
Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
#08 – Facetune
By Lightricks Ltd.
Category: Photo & Video / Price: $3.99
Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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#01 – The Sims™ 2: Super Collection
By Aspyr Media, Inc.
Category: Games / Price: $39.99
Compatibility: OS X 10.9.2 or later
#02 – Magnet
By CrowdCafé
Category: Productivity / Price: $1.39
Compatibility: OS X 10.9 or later, 64-bit processor
#09 – PomTimer
By Bech LLC
Category: Productivity / Price: $1.39
Compatibility: OS X 10.9 or later, 64-bit processor
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TV Shows
Almost Friends
FIVE FACTS:
1. This is the second time Freddie Highmore
plays a character named Charlie. The first was
in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005).
by Jake Goldberger
Genre: Comedy 2. Odeya Rush appeared in an episode
Released: 2017 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in
Price: $12.99 2010 where Christopher Meloni was the
lead actor.
16 Ratings 3. The tagline for this movie is ‘Timing
is everything’.
4. Freddie Highmore’s performance in
Finding Neverland (2004) was what brought
him worldwide attention.
5. Haley Joe Osment is best known for his
role starring alongside Bruce Willis in The
Sixth Sense (1999).
Rotten Tomatoes
29 %
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DinoTrailers
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Valerian and the City
of a Thousand Planets
FIVE FACTS:
1. There are 200 different alien species in the
movie, and director Luc Besson created a by Luc Besson
600-page book that described all the details Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Released: 2017
of the species that the actors had to read Price: $19.99
before they began filming.
2. The film is based on a French science
363 Ratings
fiction comic series Valérian and Laureline by
Pierre Christin and was released on the year
of the comic’s 50th anniversary.
3. Before the Big Market mission, Laureline
tells the commanding operative “nice hat”
which is a nod to The Fifth Element (1997).
4. Luc Besson chose not to shoot the film in
3D because 3D cameras are too heavy for his
usual style of filming.
5. The first two trailers use the song
“Because” by The Beatles. This is the first time
a director could obtain the rights for using
a Beatles song in a movie advertisement.
Permission was granted by Paul McCartney.
Rotten Tomatoes
49 %
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Trailer
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Teaser
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“Highway Tune”
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Music
From the Fires
Greta Van Fleet
FIVE FACTS:
Genre: Rock
Released: Nov 10, 2017
1. The band was formed in Frankenmuth,
8 Songs Michigan in 2012 by brothers Joshua “Josh”
Price: $6.99 Kiszka, Samuel “Sam” Kiszka, Jacob “Jake”
Kiszka and Kyle Hauck.
331 Ratings 2. In October 2017, the band won Best New
Artist at the Loudwire Music Awards.
3. The band name was created when one of
its members heard a relative mention Gretna
Van Fleet, a resident of Frankenmuth.
4. In 2014, their song “Standing
On” was featured in 2014 Chevy
Equinox advertisements.
5. Their debut single, “Highway Tune”, topped
the Billboard US Mainstream Rock and Active
Rock Rock stations in September 2017.
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Highway Tune (Audio)
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Lambs & Lions
Chase Rice
FIVE FACTS:
Genre: Country
1. Chase cites his father as the inspiration Released: Nov 17, 2017
for his career, recalling his father saying “boy 10 Songs
anyone can play guitar, but no one is gonna Price: $9.99
really listen to you until you start singing.”
2. He was a contestant on Survivor: 163 Ratings
Nicaragua, where he was the runner-up to
Jud “Fabio” Birza.
3. He was a co-writer of Florida Georgia
Line’s “Cruise”, which topped Billboard Hot
Country Songs.
4. After graduating from UNC, Rice joined
the Hendrick Motorsports pit crew and also
worked on Jimmie Johnson’s Spring Cup
Series car and won two championships with
the Lowe’s team.
5. One of his hobbies is woodworking,
something he picked up while recovering
from vocal surgery.
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“Three Chords & The Truth”
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“Everybody We Know Does”
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BOX OFFICE
TOP 20: ‘COCO,’
‘JUSTICE LEAGUE’
STAY ON TOP
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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:
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6. “Murder on the Orient Express,”
20th Century Fox, $6,767,002,
3,201 locations, $2,114 average,
$84,839,515, 4 Weeks.
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11. “Roman J. Israel, Esq.,” Sony,
$1,958,702, 1,669 locations,
$1,174 average, $9,526,792, 3 Weeks.
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16. “Junior Majeur,” Entertainment One
Films, $345,710, 87 locations,
$3,974 average, $1,198,440, 2 Weeks.
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COMIC-BOOK
HEROES FLOCK
TO TV, BUT WHY
ARE THEY SO
POPULAR?
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But the majority exists within either of two
expansive brands, not dissimilar to Pepsi
and Coke.
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By then, the CGI (computer graphics imagery)
that any superhero show requires had become
more sophisticated yet sufficiently affordable for
weekly TV productions. Conversely, superhero
series were a perfect TV showcase for those
ever-more-eye-popping special effects in a way
that more realistic cop dramas or sitcoms could
never be.
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Image: Myles Aronowitz
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“The comic book industry famously has had to
fight the stigma of being for just for children and
idiots,” he says. But as gifted “kids and idiots” like
Joss Whedon and Kevin Smith came of age and
made waves by nurturing a comics ethos across
multiple media including TV, comics gained new
gravitas, respect and urgency.
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Image: Jessica Miglio
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on other television shows,” says Levinson. “And,
by and large, the good characters and heroes
endure and triumph over adversity.”
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‘THE LAST JEDI’
AIMS TO CAPTURE
THAT OLD
STAR WARS
FEELING
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territory. The prequels did their own damage,
but at least no one had to say goodbye to their
original heroes.
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He stresses that it is, first and foremost, a Star
Wars movie. To him, that means capturing
that thing that makes you want to “run out of
the theater and into your backyard” to play
with your spaceship toys — even without the
curmudgeonly wit of Harrison Ford’s Han Solo.
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“(Rian) had a different challenge which was to
expand the Star Wars universe further with more
inventive ideas, taking more risks,” Boyega says.
“He was a real fan. I feel like he ticked off his
Star Wars fanboy theories just one by one with
this film.”
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MICHIGAN
STUDENTS
DEVELOP MULTIPLE
SKILLS FROM
ROBOTICS
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“There are so many job openings right now,
especially in Michigan,” teacher Melissa Doubek
said. “There are job openings in stem-related
careers and there are possibilities for jobs here
in Alpena.”
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interested and excited about learning new
things. Doubek said some students never
know that they are interested in engineering
before joining robotics, but once they join, they
get excited.
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Mentor Kevin West said that outside of
robotics, students learn how to develop and
how to further themselves. He said that at the
competitions, the students interact with the
other teams and make friends with those on
other teams.
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NASA NAILS TEST ON
VOYAGER SPACECRAFT,
13 BILLION MILES AWAY
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Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is the only
spacecraft traveling through interstellar space,
the region beyond our solar system. Voyager
2 is close on its heels — nearly 11 billion miles
from Earth. The thruster test worked so well that
NASA expects to try it on Voyager 2. That won’t
happen anytime soon, though, because Voyager
2’s original thrusters are still working fine.
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TESLA BUILDS
WORLD’ BIGGEST
BATTERY IN
AUSTRALIAN
OUTBACK
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“South Australia is now leading the world in
dispatchable renewable energy, delivered to
homes and businesses 24/7,” Weatherill said.
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Tesla partnered with Neoen to build the
battery, which is more than three times
larger than the previous record-holder at
Mira Loma, California.
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PERFECT DUET (WITH BEYONCÉ)
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AMAZING GRACE
(THE VOICE PERFORMANCE)
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PERFECT
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HIM & I
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FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2
ChriS StaplEton
REPUTATION
taylor Swift
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Ed ShEEran
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MIC DROP (STEVE AOKI REMIX)
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TIME FOR AFTER
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APPLE, GOOGLE
AT CHINESE
INTERNET FEST
SHOWS LURE
OF MARKET
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Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed, in remarks
to the conference conveyed by an official, that
“China’s door to the world will never close, but
will only open wider.”
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Apple has a large production base in China,
which is one of its biggest markets, though
domestic smartphone makers are catching up.
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the need for “safeguards to keep everyone
protected: Privacy. Security. Decency,” according
to a transcript.
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IRELAND TO START
COLLECTING
$15 BILLION IN
TAX FROM APPLE
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unfair advantage. The Commission ordered
Ireland to collect back taxes for the years 2003-
2014, which it estimated to be as much 13
billion euros plus interest.
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RUSSIAN BITCOIN
SUSPECT FIGHTS
US EXTRADITION
IN GREECE
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Lower courts in Greece have approved both
extradition requests. The Supreme Court is
expected to issue a decision in coming days.
If it decides in favor of extradition to the U.S.,
Greece’s justice minister will have the final word
on where the suspect will be sent.
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UK LAWMAKERS
FLOUT EXPLICIT
PASSWORD-
SHARING BAN
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An email sent to Dorries’ office wasn’t
immediately answered. In a Twitter message
posted Sunday, Dorries seemed to shrug off
the concern over digital safety, suggesting
there weren’t any government documents on
her machine.
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Image: Chris McAndrew
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