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A NEW ERA FOR APPLE TV:
WHAT WE CAN EXPECT
TO SEE THIS YEAR
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SPACEX SAYS IT WILL BEYOND CAT

FLY 2 PEOPLE TO VIDEOS: YOUTUBE
MOON NEXT YEAR WILL OFFER ITS OWN
PAY-TV SERVICE
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WIKILEAKS
SPOKESMAN
QUIETLY STEPS OUT
OF THE SPOTLIGHT
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SAMSUNG DELAYS ITS NEW PHONE, AND SHOWCASES TABLETS INSTEAD 08
NEW LG PHONE INFLUENCED BY SAMSUNG’S NOTE 7 TROUBLES 24
IMPROVED TECHNOLOGY SAVES MAPLE SYRUP PRODUCERS TIME, ENERGY 30
APPEALING TO MILLENNIALS, LAS VEGAS GETS E-SPORTS ARENA 34
APPLE’S iPHONE MAY BE MATURE, BUT IT’S STILL BEARING FRUIT 40
NETFLIX CEO: CO-WORKERS WERE AFFECTED BY TRUMP TRAVEL BAN 64
CHATTING ROBOTS AND MUSIC: FUN GADGETS ON SHOW IN BARCELONA 70
UBER TAKES THE PATH LESS TRAVELED AND IT’S A ROCKY ONE 78
NO FAD: NIANTIC CEO INSISTS POKEMON GO IS STILL GOING STRONG 84
BOX OFFICE TOP 20: ‘GET OUT’ NETS $33.4 MILLION OPENING 110
J.J. ABRAMS PREDICTS OSCAR NOD FOR STAR WARS’ MARK HAMILL 120
SHARP VISION: NEW GLASSES HELP THE LEGALLY BLIND SEE 128
AT&T-TIME WARNER DEAL MAY HAVE EASIER PATH TO APPROVAL 146
NEW HELP FOR THAT BANE OF MIDDLE-AGE: BLURRY CLOSE-UP VISION 150
BUFFETT’S BITE OF APPLE EVEN BIGGER THAN THOUGHT 158
TOP 10 APPS 90
iTUNES REVIEW 94
TOP 10 SONGS 136
TOP 10 ALBUMS 138
TOP 10 MUSIC VIDEOS 140
TOP 10 TV SHOWS 142
TOP 10 BOOKS 144
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SAMSUNG DELAYS ITS NEW PHONE,
AND SHOWCASES TABLETS INSTEAD
Samsung’s product showcase Sunday is notable

for what’s missing: a new flagship phone.
Instead, Samsung is spotlighting new Android

and Windows tablets after delaying the Galaxy
S8 smartphone - an indirect casualty of the
unprecedented September recall of the fire-
prone Note 7 phone . The new tablets will carry
the Galaxy brand and come with many of the
Note 7’s features, including the S Pen stylus and
screens with rich colors.
Consumers will have to wait at least a few

weeks longer for details on Samsung’s next
major smartphone. That’s partly so that
Samsung wouldn’t have to share the stage
with its smartphone rivals at the Mobile World
Congress trade show, which begins Monday in
Barcelona, Spain. The delay also gives Samsung
more time to make sure it has done everything
right, given that any minor bug will surely draw
outsized attention.
“The microscope is going to be firmly on

Samsung,” said Geoff Blaber, an analyst with the
research firm CCS Insight.
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ABOUT THE TABLETS
Samsung said the new tablets will go through
extensive safety checks put in place after dozens
of Note 7 phone overheated and in some cases
exploded. Those incidents prompted aviation
authorities to ban them on flights; Samsung
eventually killed the product.
Samsung now wants everyone to focus on its

tablets’ most notable features:
- The new Galaxy Tab S3, running Google’s

Android system, will have a glass back and
metal frame, borrowing designs from Samsung’s
smartphones. The screen technology, called
AMOLED, offers richer colors and purer blacks
than standard LCD screens. The display will
support high-dynamic range, a feature that
promises brighter whites, darker blacks and a
wider range of colors - at least for the handful of
video titles produced with that capability.
- For those wanting a laptop replacement ,

Samsung is releasing the Galaxy Book with
Microsoft’s Windows 10 and more powerful
processors from Intel. Only the 12-inch version
will get AMOLED, though; the 10-inch Galaxy
Book will use LCD. Both models come with a
keyboard attachment, something sold as an
optional accessory for the S3. The Galaxy Book
is Samsung’s answer to Apple’s iPad Pro and
Microsoft’s Surface devices.
All models come with Samsung’s S Pen and

include standard features from the Note phones,
such as taking on-screen notes when the phone
is locked. But unlike the Note, these tablets lack
spring-loaded cavities for storing the stylus.
Prices and release dates haven’t been announced.
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Samsung also said that its Gear VR virtual-
reality headset will now come with a hand-
held controller, matching Google’s Daydream
View offering.
PHONE COMPETITION
The absence of a new Samsung phone gives
rivals a chance to shine.
LG, for instance, is pushing a G6 phone that is

slightly smaller than the Note 7 but matches
the doomed phone’s 5.7-inch screen size. LG is
also matching major rivals in offering water and
dust resistance, though in doing so, it got rid
of an ability to replace the battery with a spare
- a feature LG had long cited to set itself apart
from rivals.
LG also redesigned the insides to separate the

two main sources of heat - the main processor
and the display driver - while doubling the
separation between the battery’s positive
and negative chambers. The fact that these
under-the-hood improvements are getting
any mention at all shows the climate all phone
makers are navigating after the Note 7 fires.
Meanwhile, Motorola has a new version of

its mid-range Moto G phone, while Chinese
smartphone maker TCL is unveiling a BlackBerry
Android phone with a physical keyboard after
BlackBerry gave up on making hardware itself.
And the classic Nokia 3310 phone from the
year 2000 is coming back; although it’s not
a smartphone, the device is popular for its
durability.
It’ll be tough, though, for any company to stand

out as innovation in smartphones slows down.
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The challenges are underscored by the fact
that only Apple appears to have benefited from
Samsung’s troubles. According to research firm
IDC, worldwide iPhone shipments grew 5 percent
in the fourth quarter, compared with the previous
year. That’s about the same as what Samsung lost.
Even after the Note 7 recall, many consumers

decided to stay with Samsung, analysts say.
Switching to the iPhone means learning a new
operating system and buying new apps, while
Google couldn’t produce enough of a promising
Android contender, the Pixel, to meet demand.
SAMSUNG’S NEXT PHONE

Samsung took a $5.3 billion hit on its earnings in
recalling millions of Note 7 phones. Its reputation
also took a hit - but not necessarily permanently.
“In the process of addressing the situation, I

think Samsung buys back some of the good will
with consumers,” said Ramon Llamas, an analyst
with IDC. “What people want is an assurance
that it doesn’t happen again.”
This could mean being more conservative in the

S8 features, though it also needs some breakout
features to restore excitement in the brand.
Llamas said that could come through software
features, such as S Voice, a voice assistant
rivaling Apple’s Siri, or Samsung Flow, a way
for multiple devices to work together. The new
tablets will come with Samsung Flow so that you
can make phone calls and answer texts using
the tablet as a bridge to a phone sitting on the
table or in your pocket.
Blaber said Samsung was smart in delaying

the launch of the S8, as it needs a smooth
rollout to recover.
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Image: Jared Tennant
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SPACEX SAYS
IT WILL FLY
2 PEOPLE
TO MOON
NEXT YEAR
SpaceX said it will fly two people to the moon

next year, a feat not attempted since NASA’s
Apollo heyday close to half a century ago.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk - the company’s

founder - announced the surprising news.
Two people who know one another approached

the company about sending them on a
weeklong flight just beyond the moon,
according to Musk. He won’t identify the pair or
the price tag. They’ve already paid a “significant”
deposit, he noted.
Musk said SpaceX is on track to launch

astronauts to the International Space Station for
NASA in mid-2018. This moon mission would
follow about six months later, by the end of the
year under the current schedule, using a Dragon
crew capsule and a Falcon heavy rocket.
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Image: Jae C. Hong
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The moon mission is designed to be autonomous
- unless something goes wrong, Musk said.
“I think they are entering this with their eyes

open, knowing that there is some risk here,”
Musk told reporters in a telephone news
conference, a day after teasing via Twitter that an
announcement of some sort was forthcoming.
“They’re certainly not naive, and we’ll do

everything we can to minimize that risk, but it’s
not zero. But they’re coming into this with their
eyes open,” said Musk, adding that the pair will
receive “extensive” training before the flight.
Musk said he does not have permission to

release the passengers’ names, and he was
hesitant to even say if they were men, women
or even pilots. He would only admit, “It’s nobody
from Hollywood.”
The passengers would make a long loop around

the moon, skimming the lunar surface and then
going well beyond, perhaps 300,000 or 400,000
miles distance altogether. The mission won’t
involve a lunar landing, according to Musk.
It’s about 240,000 miles to the moon alone,

one way.
NASA will have first dibs on a similar mission

if it so chooses, Musk said. The space agency
learned of his plan at the same time as reporters,
and was busy preparing a statement following
sthe announcement.
“This should be a really exciting mission that

hopefully gets the world really excited about
sending people into deep space again,” he said.
The crew Dragon capsule has not yet flown in

space. Neither has a Falcon Heavy rocket, which
is essentially a Falcon 9 rocket with two strap-on
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boosters, according to Musk. He said there will
be ample time to test both the spacecraft and
the rocket, before the moon mission.
Musk expects to have more moon-mission

customers as time goes by.
Just late last week, NASA announced it was

studying the possibility of adding crew to the
test flight of its megarocket, at the request of the
Trump administration. Such a flight to the lunar
neighborhood wouldn’t happen before 2019 at
best - if, indeed, that option is even implemented.
Musk said anything that advances the space

exploration cause is good, no matter who goes first.
“This should be incredibly exciting,” he said.
SpaceX is also working on a so-called Red

Dragon, meant to fly to Mars around 2020 with
experiments, but no people - and actually land.
Online: SpaceX
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NEW LG PHONE INFLUENCED
BY SAMSUNG’S NOTE 7 TROUBLES
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Samsung’s fiasco with its fire-prone Note 7
phone has pushed its rival LG to take additional
precautions with its next smartphone.
Samsung recalled millions of Note 7 phones

after dozens overheated and caught on fire .
Samsung blamed numerous problems with its
batteries and announced tighter quality controls
and more rigorous testing.
LG said it’s doubling the separation between

the battery’s positive and negative chambers
to reduce the risk of a short. Samsung’s
investigators found that overly thin separators
were partly to blame for the Note 7 problems.
LG also redesigned the phone’s interior to

separate the two main sources of heat - the
main processor and the display driver - and
turned other components into heat sinks to
dissipate heat.
“We started by placing these two (sources) as

far apart as possible and then built the phone
around it,” LG spokesman Frank Lee said.
Even though the company hasn’t had the types

of failures that Samsung experienced with the
Note 7 batteries, Lee said wireless carriers are
seeking greater safety assurances for all phones
they sell.
“What’s important for them is to make sure that

they present to their subscribers a quality, stable
product,” Lee said in an interview. “This caught
the entire market off-guard.”
LG unveiled its next phone, the G6, ahead of

Monday’s opening of the Mobile World Congress
wireless show in Barcelona, Spain. Samsung
has said it’s delaying its next major phone, the
Galaxy S8, until after the show.
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LG has a tiny share of a worldwide smartphone
market dominated by Apple and Samsung.
LG didn’t gain significantly following the
Note 7 recall.
The G6 will have a 5.7-inch screen, though the

size of the phone itself is about the same as
last year’s 5.3-inch G5. LG achieves this partly
by adopting an 18:9 aspect ratio, meaning the
display’s height is twice the width. The tallest
phone displays typically max out at 16:9. When
held horizontally, the G6 offers a wider image
than regular high-definition TV, but it’s not as
wide as what most movie theaters offer.
LG is matching major rivals in offering water and

dust resistance, though in doing so, it eliminated
a replaceable battery and the ability to swap
in new modules , such as better audio. Last
year, LG cited both features as evidence that
it was setting itself apart from rivals as phone
innovation slows down. The G6 does retain a
wide-angle camera , which is still uncommon to
find in phones.
LG didn’t announce prices and release dates.
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IMPROVED
TECHNOLOGY
SAVES MAPLE
SYRUP PRODUCERS
TIME, ENERGY
Maple syrup doesn’t get that rich flavor and

color in an instant. It’s a long process from tree
to bottle.
But an improved technology could keep maple

sugarers from working late into the night boiling
sap into syrup.
The new machine removes more water from

sap, leaving it with higher sugar content. The
concentrated sap takes half the time to boil
into syrup.
“For commercial maple producers, time is

money and energy is money. It all comes down
to how efficient you can be to make syrup, and
this is just the next big step to save time,” said
Timothy Perkins, director of the University of
Vermont’s Proctor Maple Research Center.
The center produced its first batch of syrup with

a new machine last week. “It definitely processed
syrup very, very fast,” Perkins said.
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Most large maple operations already use the
traditional reverse osmosis systems that have a
membrane that separate water from sugar. The
new reverse osmosis technology removes even
more water.
Producing maple syrup is an old New

England cottage industry based on tradition,
so some maple sugarers are wondering if
faster is actually better. They worry it could
impact the quality.
“We’re questioning it,” said Eric Randall,

president of the North American Maple Syrup
Council. “We’re looking to see that we’re doing
the right thing.”
Perkins said the flavor of the syrup produced

with the new machine is so far acceptable as the
center continues to research the technology.
Parker Family Maple Farm, in West Chazee,

New York, expects a new machine to arrive
Wednesday that may double its syrup
production. “We’re anticipating making 300
gallons of syrup an hour” with the new machine,
Michael Parker said.
Dozens of producers in Vermont, New York,

Maine and Wisconsin are now using the
machines, which are made by a handful
of companies. It’s an investment of tens of
thousands of dollars depending on the size of
the maple operation and how much equipment
is needed. Industry officials say the cost is about
15 to 20 percent higher than the cost of the
current technology.
Parker said the time savings will be welcome.

“There’s only so many hours in a day and we’re
using all of them,” he said.
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APPEALING TO
MILLENNIALS,
LAS VEGAS GETS
E-SPORTS ARENA
The arena has all the features that a professional

sports venue needs: stands, warm-up areas for
teams, massive screens for spectators and a
broadcast platform for commentators. But what
distinguishes this new Las Vegas arena is its
dozens of video game consoles.
The 15,000-square-foot e-sports venue slated

to open last Friday will host competitive video
game tournaments. It’s part of a trend that
the casino industry hopes will attract the
millennial crowd, the 15- to 34-year-olds who
are becoming majority spenders in today’s
economy but aren’t necessarily interested in
traditional gambling.
“Las Vegas needs to consistently reinvent itself

to remain relevant to the up-and-coming
generation,” said Seth Schorr, CEO of Fifth Street
Gaming and a member of the board of directors
of Millennial Esports, the company behind the
arena. “We’ve always come up with ways to
maintain our position as the entertainment
capital of the world.”
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Athletes participating in a tournament at the
arena will emerge from a tunnel surrounded by
roaring crowds in the stands. They will then go
on a podium and sit at stations equipped with
game consoles, monitors and other equipment.
The venue will open its doors March 3

with a three-day, $50,000-prize-pool Halo
World Championship qualifier a nd host an
EA Sports-sanctioned Madden 17 NFL
tournament later in March.
The arena is within walking distance of

downtown hotel-casinos. It will host 200
people in stadium-style seating overlooking
the main stage, but hundreds more can be
accommodated in another hall outfitted with
screens showing the live competition. The entire
facility was built in an area that once housed
movie theaters and a nightclub.
More than 3 miles of CAT cable were needed to

wire the facility. Its dozens of ports offer internet
speeds of one-gigabit. When no tournaments
are in progress, the facility will be open to casual
gamers and others interested in using the high-
speed internet.
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Image: John Locher
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Las Vegas casinos have invested in
numerous non-gaming amenities to attract
the elusive millennials, from rooms with
bunk beds for the young travelers who don’t
want to spend a minute apart to a lounge
that features pool, foosball and air hockey.
The Downtown Grand, a short walk from the
new arena, has an e-sports lounge, where
tournament competitors, casual gamers and
fans play and socialize.
“The younger people don’t get enamored by

the glitz and the glitter of something; it’s all
about authenticity for them,” said Alex Igelman,
CEO of Millennial Esports.
Vegas is betting on e-sports as its popularity

has evolved from a niche genre of gaming to
a lucrative sport thanks to new technologies,
more reliable internet speeds and a generation
of gamers that has grown up watching
competitive matches on YouTube and other
sites. Nevada sportsbooks have already taken
wagers on matches.
The sport now draws tens of millions of

spectators to online platforms and real-world
venues, including New York City’s Madison
Square Garden, the Los Angeles’ Staples Center
and Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena,
which earlier this month saw 16 of the world’s
best CS:GO teams compete. Estimates show
323 million people watched e-sports in 2016.
The global audience is expected to grow to 385
million this year.
“E-sports no longer needs to be legitimized; it’s a

huge sport already,” said Mike Sepso, co-founder
of Major League Gaming. “There are e-sports
fans everywhere in this country.”
Image: John Locher

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APPLE’S iPHONE MAY
BE MATURE, BUT IT’S STILL
BEARING FRUIT
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The Apple of today hasn’t yet shown much
indication of emulating its co-founder Steve
Jobs and his streak of world-changing products,
but it’s still proving to be a tough act to beat.
The main reason: Before Jobs died in 2011, he

left behind the iPhone - a product with such
a devout following that it will likely spin off
billions in profit for the foreseeable future. Even
if Apple fails to come up with “the next iPhone,”
whatever that might be.
Apples shares already have climbed by nearly 20

percent during the first two months of the year,
lifting its stock to record highs.
The recent gains helped foster a mostly upbeat

gathering of shareholders Tuesday during
Apple’s annual meeting at its Cupertino,
California, headquarters.
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BEYOND
CAT VIDEOS:
YOUTUBE WILL
OFFER ITS OWN
PAY-TV SERVICE
Fed up with paying for cable the traditional way?

You may soon be able to subscribe to it over the
internet with ... YouTube.
The Google-owned site, known for cat videos

and do-it-yourself makeup tutorials, is the latest
company to offer a version of cable that looks
and feels more like Netflix. Dish, Sony and AT&T
already have internet cable alternatives , and
Hulu has one coming soon.
None of these have yet been huge hits. YouTube

is hoping its expertise in recommendations and
search makes it stand out.
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Dubbed YouTube TV, the new service will cost
$35 a month for access to about 40 channels
when it launches in the next few months, similar
to rivals. But it will be initially limited to a few
cities where it has deals with broadcasters. And
so far, Google doesn’t appear to have deals for
popular channels such as HBO, AMC and TBS.
THE ONLINE PROPOSITION

There are roughly three million fewer traditional
TV households in the U.S. then there were four
years ago, a decline of about 3 percent. Online
alternatives such as Dish’s Sling TV, AT&T’s
DirecTV Now and Sony’s PlayStation Vue had
about 1.5 million customers combined in 2016.
But companies like YouTube believe a substantial

number of people could be persuaded to pay
for TV online. Many of these potential customers
are younger people who have never had cable
and watch shows and movies primarily through
online services such as Netflix.
But these online cable alternatives have

drawbacks of their own. They may not offer
substantial savings compared with cable,
and offer incomplete channel lineups and
inconsistent video quality.
YOUTUBE’S OFFERING
YouTube’s service will cost $35 a month,
similar to the cheapest deals from AT&T’s
DirecTV Now and Sony’s PlayStation Vue, but
more expensive than Dish’s Sling TV. It comes
with unlimited storage in a cloud DVR; only
Vue also offers a DVR to all customers. It will
allow three people to watch on different
devices at the same time.
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The new service underscores how far YouTube
has evolved since its early days as a repository
for pirated shows and movies. Over the past
several years, YouTube has beefed up anti-piracy
controls and allowed television producers
and networks to share in ad revenue. Those
companies are now willing to partner with
YouTube on this new endeavor.
But YouTube still faces challenges making this

work. In addition to the no-shows in its channel
lineup, it will launch only in cities where it can
offer live feeds of the major broadcasters, which
tend to be larger metropolitan areas. (YouTube
says it will work on expanding to other markets,
although that will require cutting deals with
the owners of network affiliate stations in those
cities.) It will work on a TV only via Google’s
Chromecast streaming gadget.
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WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?
In general, internet TV services are an
incomplete substitute for cable.
Many popular programs aren’t available because

digital rights are a hodgepodge. You can’t watch
most NFL games on phones using these services
- Verizon has those exclusive rights. DirecTV
Now and Sling don’t carry CBS, and live feeds for
ABC, CBS and NBC are available only in some big
cities, as most network stations are owned by
third parties.
Although many cable subscribers say they don’t

need packages of 500 channels, they don’t
agree on which channels they actually want.
These online services offer cheaper packages
with fewer channels, but they are bound to be
missing someone’s favorites.
As with cable, the cost mounts the more
channels you add.
Cable companies also offer discounts when you

buy internet and TV services together, which can
be cheaper than getting them separately. Prices
for the online services start at $20 for Sling’s
cheapest bundle to $70 and up for the biggest
packages from Vue and DirecTV Now.
Beyond that, these online services also have had

quality issues with video freezing or not working
at all. And to watch on a TV, you need an extra
gadget like an Apple TV, a PlayStation game
console, a Roku box or, now, a Chromecast - and
not every service works with every gadget.
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Apple has begun to build upon the idea of
creating its very own original, scripted TV
shows and movies that are set to compare
with the likes of streaming services such as
Netflix. The recent announcement of Apple
TV shows such as Carpool Karaoke, Vital
Signs, and Planet of the Apps has led to
further developments in making more content
available via the music streaming service Apple
Music by the end of 2017. Unlike these shows,
however, the new content will not have any
relation to music, and instead, Apple executives
have compared potential new shows with the
likes of HBO’s Westworld and Netflix’s Stranger
Things, meaning that we could be in for
something very special.
These rumors began last year when it was

claimed that Apple met with TV producers
and Hollywood studios in talks about
developing original TV content to offer to
its subscribers exclusively. At this time, it was
also rumored that Apple would be releasing its
very own TV streaming service, but was unable
to at the time due to conflicts when it came to
gaining the rights to particular content. Over
the past few months, however, it has come to
light that Apple has been in talks with producers
to secure the rights to scripted shows and to
consider marketing plans when the time comes
to promote their original content. This move
will give Apple a huge lift regarding its ongoing
music streaming competition with Spotify, but
it may still not contend with the popularity of
services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime.
However, they explained to the Wall Street
Journal that this was not their aim:
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“Because it is looking at just a handful of carefully
selected shows, and potentially films, it doesn’t
appear Apple is preparing to spend the hundreds
of millions or even billions of dollars it would need
to spend annually to become a direct competitor
to Netflix Inc., Amazon.com Inc.’s Prime Video or
premium cable networks. Rather, it would escalate
the arms race between Apple Music and Spotify,
which both offer essentially the same catalog of
tens of millions of songs, by adding other content
that could distinguish Apple’s service.”
In 2017, Netflix is looking to hugely increase

the number of original content that they
offer to keep up with demands from users who
state they want more variety. These releases
are said to include some unscripted reality
TV shows, which Netflix believe will work well
in foreign markets. Although they continue to
remain private regarding the specific number
of viewers that use their service, Netflix has
gained momentum through original shows that
have enjoyed cult-followings, with standout
examples including Stranger Things and Orange
is the New Black. On their website, Netflix claims
to be one of the major players in internet’s
takeover of linear television and they state that
this is down to three factors; Ecosystem Growth,
Freedom and Flexibility and Rapid Innovation.
“People love TV content, but they don’t love
the linear TV experience, where channels
present programs only at particular times on
non-portable screens with complicated remote
controls,” Netflix stated, “Now internet TV –
which is on demand, personalized, and available
on any screen – is replacing linear television.”
This idea isn’t surprising, and clear via facts that
show the streaming service’s development from
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when it was first launched in 1998. Since then, it
expanded its service to international markets as
far as Japan (in 2015), released original content
(House of Cards being the first), and, in January
2017, was reported to have reached over 93
million subscribers worldwide.
Although it may be the original content that

gave Netflix an edge, it is not the only streaming
service that has achieved this. Starting in 2013,
Amazon Prime also began to distribute original
content and has seen huge success with shows
such as the comedy Transparent and motoring
show The Grand Tour. However, the service is
still only available in five countries – the U.S.,
U.K., Germany, Austria and Japan (with India
coming soon)– meaning that subscription
numbers are yet to rival Netflix. Until they
finally go global, that is. We can wonder, then,
what all of this means for the future of Apple’s
streaming service. When asked outright about
Apple’s original content plans, CEO Tim Cook
said, “regarding owning content and creating
content, we have started with focusing on
some original content, as you point out; we’ve
got a few things going there that we’ve talked
about. And I think it’s a great opportunity for
us, both from a creation point of view and an
ownership point of view. And so, it is an area
that we’re focusing on.” Additionally, Apple
Executive Eddy Cue, who is leading the
company’s discussions with Hollywood,
has stated that Apple TV will revolutionize
TV and that customers should be “able to buy
whatever they want, however they want” using
the current App store as an example of how this
can be achieved. However, in talks last summer,
Cue also made it clear that Apple was not in the
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Apple Music — Planet of the Apps — New Series,
Coming Soon
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business to create original content. He claimed
that they would instead work closely alongside
producers as it is for Planet of the Apps and as
it had done for the commission of Drake’s music
video for ‘Hotline Bling’ released exclusively for
Apple Music back in 2015. It seems more likely
that this will be the case, via the creation of a
small amount of content that will both aid Apple
Music’s ongoing rivalry with Spotify and help to
boost the revenue gained from services as the
sales of their products slow down. However, if
our assumptions here are wrong and Apple is
indeed set to go all-in on the market of original
content, it sparks a new growth for a company
that already gains enormous yearly profits
and would more than likely blow its rivals out of
the water in no time at all.
From what we know about Apple’s plans to

date, we are aware that it will be making the
original content available to subscribers of Apple
Music for no more than the $10 per month
that they already pay. This price tag gives the
service a tremendous value for money stamp,
particularly if they start to produce shows
that rival the quality of those we’ve seen on
Netflix or Amazon. We’ve also seen the release
of the Apple TV app, which some believe
stemmed from and will fit in neatly with their
streaming service concept. The app itself makes
recommendations for users much like Netflix,
but it only supports the library of content
you’ve purchased through iTunes. This app
could be the distribution point for their original
content. As Apple continues to explore its media
opportunities, the company’s exact plans remain
altogether vague; we do know, though, that it
is their aim to create content that is different
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from what we get with its competition and will
undoubtedly take advantage of its successful
music platform. In the meantime, fans of
internet TV can look forward to the release
of a number of series from both Netflix and
Amazon Prime throughout the year including
the fifth season of the continually popular
Orange is the New Black (Netflix – June 9), the
third season of Grace and Frankie (Netflix –
March 24) and the second ,and final, season of
Hand of God (Amazon Prime – March 10).
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NETFLIX CEO:
CO-WORKERS
WERE AFFECTED BY
TRUMP TRAVEL BAN
Netflix employees were personally affected by

U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempt to ban
people entering from seven Muslim countries,
the company’s CEO said Tuesday.
Reed Hastings has been a critic of the temporary

travel ban, which Trump hopes to revive in a
revised form this week, and told The Associated
Press on Tuesday that some of his co-workers
had gotten caught up in it.
“We had Iranian and Iraqi employees who were

unable to come to work,” he said on the sidelines
of the Mobile World Congress, the wireless
industry’s biggest annual gathering held in
Barcelona, Spain.
Netflix was among dozens of tech companies

that publicly opposed the travel ban out of fear
that it would stifle innovation.
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U.S. politics has become as gripping as a TV
drama but Hastings says that Netflix, the
distributor of the show “House of Cards,” is not
planning a show based on Trump.
“Maybe someday, but it’s better to make a

show about things in the past so you can have
some perspective,” he said. “We let the news
channels do the things that are current, while
hoping to provide a relief from politics to
people on both sides.”
One of Netflix’s biggest hits has been “House of

Cards,” a fictional show about the ruthlessness of
politics in Washington that it first distributed in
2013, well before Trump’s rise to power.
Hastings aims to make Netflix even more global,

including by creating more original content in
foreign languages.
Image: Paul Hanna
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“We are focused on international expansion,
mainly in Europe and Asia,” Hastings said. “It’s
just the beginning of the Internet. We are
producing all over the globe with great
success, now also in Spain, France, Germany,
the U.K., Turkey, India, and even Japan, with
anime shows.”
Netflix, which has some 93 million

subscribers across 190 countries, is riding
the success of some of its own productions,
having won its first ever Oscar this week for the
documentary “White Helmets,” about Syria’s
humanitarian aid force.
Hastings expects the market competition

to toughen, however, with traditional
broadcasters increasingly moving online
especially with the gradual improvement of
handset screens and connections.
“I think broadcast television is really going

to move to the Internet, so that current TV
networks will offer their videos online, just the
same as Netflix and YouTube.”
The improvements in wireless 4G and 5G

technology is likely to encourage the trend of
people watching movies on mobile screens.
People can break up their viewing during
commutes or lunch hours, personalizing the
time in which they consumer entertainment.
“We would like to continue to improve the

mobile plans in order for everybody to enjoy
unlimited video viewing,” said Hastings.
“I think it’s possible because we are getting
more efficient at video data, so that the
networks are not congested. That would be a
big breakthrough.”
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CHATTING ROBOTS
AND MUSIC:
FUN GADGETS
ON SHOW IN
BARCELONA
While smartphones get top billing at the

Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, it’s
the quirky, under-the-radar products that are
getting a lot of the visitors’ attention.
Here’s a glimpse of some of the gadgets and apps

displayed by start-up companies this week at the
fair, the world’s largest for wireless technology.
CUTE ROBOT
Living in Seoul, Jong-Gun Park looked around him
one day and decided his fellow South Koreans
needed some help expressing their emotions.
“We are so busy these days, always running

to and from work, taking our kids to school,
studying, that we no longer find the necessary
time to interact with each other,” said Park, CEO
of the company Circulus.
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Enter Pibo, the friendly dinner table
ice-breaker.
Pibo is a charming little robot whose goal is to

get you and your loved ones sharing your daily
life more. “Are you tired?” he asks, “I will play
music without boredom.”
Sure, he still needs to hone his English, but he’s

always eager to ask about your day or provide
updates on weather conditions.
Still a prototype, Pibo comes in a case, should

you wish to take him along on vacation. He is,
after all, a member of the family. For an expected
$490 a pop.
JUST ADD WATER

Growing your own veggies may become possible
even for urbanites with tiny studio apartments.
Israeli startup Living Box offers a modular,

unfoldable, solar-powered little greenhouse that
you can use to harvest anything from tomatoes
to tea and herbs.
“We have a slow release water system for

irrigation, with a novel liquid nutrient solution
and bacteria to avoid the use of pesticides, as
well as an app prototype updating weather
conditions and other relevant data right to your
smartphone, so you don’t have to monitor it,”
explained Nitzan Solan, CEO of the company.
The idea was to create a sustainable, affordable

and simple mobile farming system that could be
operated by anyone around the globe.
As of now, Living Box is testing in 50 sites around

Israel, the U.S. and Nigeria, and aims to try
locations in Spain and Fiji. It is expected to carry
a market price of $300.
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COOL HANG
The hang, a metal percussion instrument
shaped like a flying saucer, is beloved of
street performers the world round and often
associated with meditation practices like yoga.
Now it comes in a fully digital version.
When delicately tapped, the Oval can

reproduce the sounds of a hang as well as
other instruments, like drums, trumpets and
even violins.
Musicians Ravid Goldschmidt and Alex Posada,

the co-founders of the Spanish startup that
makes the Oval, say they sought to start a
“revolution of percussion” with this instrument.
Already on the market, the Oval is

aimed at all kinds of consumers, with about
40 percent estimated to be amateur or
professional musicians.
It goes for about $950.
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TO SEE OR NOT TO SEE
Samsung’s Relumino headset aims to do
nothing less than help the blind see.
The gadget, shaped like virtual reality glasses,

recasts images of the world in a way that someone
with vision problems can see more clearly.
The glasses are still in a developmental stage

and, although it’s still too early to venture a
market price for them, Samsung Senior Engineer
Junghoon Cho hopes to compete with other
more expensive visual aids out there.
Besides correcting blurred images, the

headset can eliminate blind spots and improve
peripheral vision.
“If we make our own project, people who are

visually impaired can walk outside using our
glasses... We want to help them have a better
social relationship with other people,” said Cho.
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SHOPPING VISION
Worried the new couch might not squeeze
through door?
Sri Lanka-based startup Liveroom is trying to

solve your angst. Its virtual reality technology
aims to give shoppers a live look at how products
in online stores would fit into your home.
This is how it works: you shoot an image of the

space in question via a liveview button and then
consult their catalog on the app for the item
you want. The item will pop up on your tablet or
smartphone set in the image of your home. You
can move and rotate the item and change its
colors, fabric and material.
“If you’re buying online, via e-commerce,

you have only images. You have to visualize
the product in your mind and maybe the
dimensions and the colors are wrong,” said
founder and CTO Sameera Nilupul. “With
this technology, you can see exactly how the
products look in your own home.”
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UBER TAKES
THE PATH LESS
TRAVELED AND IT’S
A ROCKY ONE
Uber’s CEO says he needs leadership help after

a video has emerged of him arguing heatedly
with a driver about fares.
In the latest embarrassment to beset the ride-

hailing company, CEO Travis Kalanick is seen
discussing Uber’s business model with the driver.
In the dashcam video obtained by Bloomberg

News , the driver argues that Kalanick is lowering
fares and claims he lost $97,000 because of him.
“I’m bankrupt because of you.”
Kalanick lashes back. “You know what? Some

people don’t like to take responsibility for their
own s---. They blame everything in their life
on somebody else. Good luck,” he said, then
slamming the door.
After the video went public, Kalanick issued

a statement to Uber employees. In it, he says
he must “grow up” and apologizes to the
driver, identified as Fawzi Kamel, as well as
the driver community.
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“This is the first time I’ve been willing to admit
that I need leadership help and I intend to get
it,” he said.
The outburst, reportedly from early in February,

is the latest in a string of problems for Kalanick
and his company, which has become a global
ride-hailing giant largely by challenging laws
and authorities.
Last week the company found itself in a sexual

harassment firestorm stemming from an essay
published by a woman who used to work
as an Uber engineer. She charged that her
prospects at the company evaporated after she
complained about sexual advances from her
boss. In the post about her year at Uber, Susan
Fowler said the company’s human resources
department ignored her complaints because her
boss was a high performer.
Kalanick called for an independent investigation,

and the company hired former Attorney General
Eric Holder to help.
On Tuesday, a top engineering executive, Amit

Singhal, left Uber five weeks after his hire was
announced. According to a report in the tech
blog Recode, Singhal failed to disclose that he’d
left his previous job at Google because of a
sexual harassment allegation.
Last week, Waymo, a self-driving car company that

used to be part of Google, sued Uber in federal
court, alleging betrayal and high-tech espionage.
The 28-page complaint accuses Anthony

Levandowski, a former top manager for Google’s
self-driving car project, of stealing technology
now propelling Uber’s effort to build an
autonomous vehicle fleet.
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The lawsuit alleges that the theft occurred
before Levandowski left Google to found a
startup called Otto that is building self-driving
big-rig trucks. Uber bought Otto for $680 million
last year, and Levandowski is now overseeing
Uber’s autonomous car effort.
Also this month, Kalanick resigned from

President Donald Trump’s business advisory
council after facing a weeklong rider boycott.
Twitter users encouraged riders to delete the
Uber app because it charged less than it could
at JFK Airport in New York as taxi drivers had
halted service for an hour to protest Trump’s
immigration policy. The move was perceived by
some as an effort to profit off the protests.
The San Francisco company also has tangled

with authorities in California and around the
world about driver background checks and
whether drivers are contractors ineligible for
employee benefits.
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NO FAD: NIANTIC
CEO INSISTS
POKEMON GO
IS STILL GOING
STRONG
Remember all those crazed Pokemon Go seekers

that roamed our city streets, crowded our public
parks or ventured into rural areas in search of
virtual-reality pocket monsters popping up on
their smartphones?
It seems like ages ago, but it was only last

summer that the game developed by the San
Francisco-based company Niantic turned into a
global phenomenon, sending legions of players
into a worldwide frantic hunt of popular Asian
cartoon characters.
Today? Not so much.
Those stunning scenes of urban stampedes

are basically over, and user numbers have
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reportedly plummeted, but that doesn’t mean
that Pokemon Go was just a fad, according to
Niantic CEO John Hanke.
“I think you should go check your data. Look

at the top grossing apps on Google Play and
Apple and check the charts, then form your
own opinion,” Hanke told The Associated Press
Tuesday after his keynote speech at the Mobile
World Congress in Barcelona.
“What happened last summer was really kind

of strange, where Pokemon Go spiraled out
of control to this level of cultural awareness
that nobody expected, certainly not us. What
happened after that is that it became an
extremely successful mobile game and product,
just based on the number of daily active users
and monthly active users.”
Niantic was originally founded as a start-up

within Google, where Hanke developed Google
Maps, but went independent in 2015 while
keeping the multinational technology giant as
one of its main investors.
Most people associate augmented-reality

smartphone apps with Pokemon Go, which
allows players to feel like they’re catching
monsters in the real world when they appear
on their phones. But the number of games and
competition is growing.
Hanke vowed to keep going strong, though,

announcing the addition of new Pokemon
characters, as well as a new version of the game
that preceded Pokemon Go, the popular Ingress.
One common complaint among non-Pokemon

Go enthusiasts related to security hazards the
game exposed citizens to. Reports also ranged
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from annoyed storeowners to reproaches of
littering by the sudden influx of players leaving
trash behind in parks, resulting sometimes in
new ordinances requiring gaming companies to
pay a fee to help with upkeep. Game developers,
on the other hand, warned that restrictions
could harm the growth of the bulging
technology industry.
“I haven’t heard complaints about stampedes

of people. ... In certain places, there were a few
complaints about littering, but I chalk that up
to this being a brand new consumer experience
that nobody had any knowledge about how to
prepare for in the past,” Hanke said.
The Niantic chief insisted that the new virtual-

reality world will still take some getting used to,
and that Pokemon Go will have a leading role in
the evolution of its gaming products.
“The usage is at a more normal level for one

thing, but people will now understand what
it is and won’t be surprised necessarily when
hundreds of people gather in the parks for no
other reason than looking at their phones and
playing Pokemon Go,” Hanke said.
Pokemon Go’s creator fell short of

unveiling new product offerings, but
managed to tease the game’s users with
promises of interesting developments.
“As in the past, we will be launching our

in-games live events and all new kinds of
customized apparel for trainers. We also have
three additional major releases planned
throughout the year and one of those is going
to bring stuff users have been clamoring for,”
Hanke concluded.
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by Mel Gibson
Genre: Action & Adventure
Released: 2016
Price: $14.99
382 Ratings
Movies
&TV Shows
Rotten Tomatoes
86 %
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Hacksaw Ridge
Based on the real-life story of WWII American

Army medic Desmond T. Doss (Andrew
Garfield) who served during the Battle of
Okinawa and refused to kill, becoming the
first man in history to receive a Medal of
Honor without firing a single shot.
FIVE FACTS:
1. The battle scenes took nineteen days in
Trailer
total to shoot.
2. The film had a 14-year path from idea
to production.
3. To make the battle scenes look more
realistic, director Mel Gibson purchased two
fifteen hundred dollar handheld cameras.
4. This is the first film directed by Mel Gibson
since Apocalypto in 2006.
5. Desmond T. Doss’ son was moved to tears
at the screening because of the accurate
portrayal of his father.
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First Battle Scene
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Moonlight
Following the life of a young black

man growing up in a rough Miami
neighbourhood, Moonlight provides a
moving portrayal of contemporary African
American life with issues regarding family,
relationships, identity and love.
FIVE FACTS:
1. The film is based on an unproduced play
titled ‘In Moonlight Black Boys look Blue’ by
Tarell Alvin McCraney.
2. Naomie Harris is the only actor who
appears in all three acts of the film.
3. During the 2017 Oscars ceremony, Faye
Dunaway and Warren Beatty accidentally by Barry Jenkins
announced La La Land as best picture Genre: Drama
Released: 2016
winner instead of Moonlight. Price: $14.99
4. This was the film debut of Alex R. Hibbert,

who plays Chiron in Act one.
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5. Director Barry Jenkins stated that each
of the three actors who play Chiron never
met one another as he wanted them to form
their own persona of the character for their
respective segments. This was also done for
the actors who play Kevin.
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Trailer
Rotten Tomatoes
98 %
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Back Home (2016) - Mahershala Ali Movie
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“Super Trapper”
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Music
FUTURE
Future
The eponymous fifth studio album from

rapper Future features production by
DJ Khaled, The Beat Bully and Southside
alongside others. Throughout the track
list Future plays homage to his roots,
experimenting with a mixture of 808 boom
and warped synths over lyrics that give
listeners a glimpse into what shaped him into
Atlanta’s trap king.
Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
Released: Feb 17, 2017 FIVE FACTS:
17 Songs
Price: $11.99 1. Future was born Nayvadius Wilburn
in Atlanta, Georgia but has now legally
changed his name to Nayvadius Cash.
1261 Ratings
Other aliases he goes by are Future Hendrix,
Astronaut Kid and Super Future.
2. The first artist to give Future (as Astronaut
Kid) his big break was Ludacris, who took
Future’s hook for Blueberry Yum Yum, a song
on Ludacris’ Red Light District album.
3. Future’s favourite rappers are Kanye West
and Lil Wayne.
4. Future collaborated with Gucci Mane on a
mixtape called Free Bricks.
5. His third studio album DS2 went to No.1
album on Billboard with 121,000 sales in the
first week.
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“Draco”
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Prisoner
Ryan Adams
Adams as a songwriter can be both chilling

and poignant and with the release of Prisoner,
his 16th studio album, he certainly excels.
He continues to focus on the sound that we
first encountered with his self-titled album in
2014, a mix of soft focus synth and 80’s college
rock that give depth to the lyrics; particularly
in tracks such as ‘Do You Still Love Me?’ and
‘Shiver and Shake.’
FIVE FACTS:
1. Adams is also a successful poet and
has written two poetry books titled Hello
Sunshine and Infinity Blues.
2. He is the co-founder of the band
Whiskeytown, who cite their influences as
the Rolling Stones, Gram Parsons, Peter Buck
and Uncle Tupelo.
3. He produced Willie Nelson’s album
Songbird in 2006 and his band The Cardinals
performed on all of the album’s tracks.
4. Adams has his own record company
called PAX-AM, which was the first start to
releasing demos from a previous label.
5. He was married to actress Mandy Moore
for six years before they announced their
divorce in 2016.
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Genre: Rock
Released: Dec 09, 2016
12 Songs
Price: $9.99
195 Ratings
“Do You Still Love Me?”
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“To Be Without You”
(6 Music Live Room session)
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BOX OFFICE TOP 20:
‘GET OUT’ NETS
$33.4 MILLION
OPENING
Comedian Jordan Peele’s directorial debut,

“Get Out,” did even better in its first weekend
in theaters than initially projected. The micro
budget thriller pulled in $33.4 million - about
$3 million higher than what was estimated on
Sunday by the studios.
It easily topped the box office and unseated

“The Lego Batman Movie” from first place. The
“Lego Movie” spinoff earned $19.2 million in its
third week in theaters.
Lionsgate’s “John Wick: Chapter Two” took the

third-place spot with $9.4 million, bringing its
total to $74.8 million after three weeks, while
“The Great Wall” added $9.1 million in week
two. In fifth place, “Fifty Shades Darker” grossed
$7.8 million, bumping the picture past the $100
million mark domestically.
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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. “Get Out,” Universal, $33,377,060,

2,781 locations, $12,002 average,
$33,377,060, 1 week.
2. “The Lego Batman Movie,” Warner

Bros., $19,208,097, 4,057 locations,
$4,735 average, $133,214,675, 3 weeks.
3. “John Wick: Chapter Two,” Lionsgate,

$9,358,982, 2,954 locations,
$3,168 average, $74,771,682, 3 weeks.
4. “The Great Wall,” Universal, $9,125,960,

$34,831,600, 2 weeks.
5. “Fifty Shades Darker,” Universal,

$7,792,655, 3,216 locations,
$2,423 average, $103,727,870, 3 weeks.
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6. “Fist Fight,” Warner Bros., $6,571,348,
$23,446,175, 2 weeks.
7. “Hidden Figures,” 20th Century Fox,

$5,805,737, 2,022 locations,
$2,871 average, $152,746,541, 10 weeks.
8. “La La Land,” Lionsgate, $4,689,292,

$140,949,357, 12 weeks.
9. “Split,” Universal, $4,098,990,

$130,823,885, 6 weeks.
10. “Lion,” The Weinstein Company,

$3,832,257, 1,802 locations,
$2,127 average, $42,840,594, 14 weeks.
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11. “Rock Dog,” Lionsgate, $3,704,749,
$3,704,749, 1 week.
12. “A Dog’s Purpose,” Universal,

$3,572,435, 2,089 locations,
$1,710 average, $57,581,040, 5 weeks.
13. “MET Opera: Rusalka (2017),”

Fathom Events, $1,540,000,
900 locations, $1,711 average,
$1,540,000, 1 week.
14. “Collide,” Open Road, $1,512,824,

2,045 locations, $740 average,
$1,512,824, 1 week.
15. “Cure For Wellness, A,” 20th Century

Fox, $1,401,394, 2,704 locations,
$518 average, $7,496,644, 2 weeks.
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16. “Moana,” Disney, $827,436,
$246,027,358, 14 weeks.
17. “I Am Not Your Negro,” Magnolia

Pictures, $826,126, 313 locations,
$2,639 average, $4,681,486, 4 weeks.
18. “Fences,” Paramount, $776,093,

$56,552,381, 11 weeks.
19. “Rings,” Paramount, $686,936,

719 locations, $955 average,
$27,296,410, 4 weeks.
20. “Moonlight,” A24, $591,202,

$22,111,526, 19 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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J.J. ABRAMS
PREDICTS OSCAR
NOD FOR
STAR WARS’
MARK HAMILL
This year’s Academy Awards are behind us,

but J.J. Abrams already has predicted Mark
Hamill will be in the running for an Oscar next
year for his turn as Luke Skywalker in the next
Star Wars film.
Abrams rebooted the franchise with “Star Wars:

The Force Awakens” in 2015 and is producing
the sequel, “The Last Jedi.” He tells the New York
Daily News he and others will be upset if Hamill
doesn’t win an Oscar.
Hamill briefly appeared as Skywalker in “The

Force Awakens,” but didn’t have any dialogue.
“The Last Jedi” hits theaters in December.
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WIKILEAKS
SPOKESMAN
QUIETLY STEPS OUT
OF THE SPOTLIGHT
As WikiLeaks thrust itself into the heart of

America’s electoral contest last year, the
group’s chief spokesman tiptoed out of
spotlight, stepping down from his job in a
little-noticed move that leaves Julian
Assange as the only public face of the radical
transparency organization.
So discreet was journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson’s

departure as WikiLeaks’ official representative
that even in his native Iceland some fellow
reporters didn’t know his role had changed.
Hrafnsson’s Wikipedia page still describes the
54-year-old as WikiLeaks’ spokesman, and some
news outlets still try to reach him for comment
when Assange is in the headlines.
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“I’m not the WikiLeaks spokesman anymore,”
Hrafnsson confirmed in a telephone interview
with The Associated Press from Iceland on
Tuesday. He said he was still doing work for
WikiLeaks - and had chatted with Assange only
a few days ago - but had relinquished the role of
chief media representative for personal reasons.
“Being on the road for six years gets pretty

tiring,” he added.
Hrafnsson’s move comes as Assange’s

public profile is changing. His publication of
Democratic Party emails in the heat of the
American presidential election made Assange a
hero for many on the right who had previously
reviled the ex-hacker for revealing U.S. military
and diplomatic secrets.
WikiLeaks is also changing, partially reinstating

the Wikipedia-style user-driven editing that
marked its early years and crowdsourcing some
of its online public relations work with the help
of a group called the WikiLeaks Task Force .
Hrafnsson acknowledged that his move was kept

quiet, but said that had to be seen in the context
of the ongoing U.S. investigation into WikiLeaks.
Image: Dominic Lipinski
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“In general, we try to protect our people,”
he said.
Hrafnsson first met Assange after the latter’s

2009 exposure of a major Icelandic banking
scandal turned him into an overnight hero in the
tiny north Atlantic nation.
Hrafnsson traveled to Iraq in April 2010 to

interview the children of the civilians gunned
down by laughing American helicopter pilots
- an act captured by the infamous video later
published by WikiLeaks under the title “Collateral
Murder” - and took up the role as WikiLeaks’ press
representative after Assange was arrested in late
2010 over sex crimes allegations in Sweden.
The group’s previous spokesman, Daniel

Domscheit-Berg, had earlier split with the group
amid a bitter feud with Assange.
Hrafnsson became one of Assange’s senior

lieutenants and the tall, silver-haired journalist
was often seen at Assange’s side during his
winding legal battle against extradition to
Sweden. Hrafnsson was the only person other
than Assange authorized to receive sensitive
information on WikiLeaks’ behalf and was one
of only two other board members at Assange’s
Icelandic media company, Sunshine Press
Productions, when it was registered in 2010.
People paying close attention to WikiLeaks’

site may have caught a hint about Hrafnsson’s
changing role. In August, a new contact page
described Hrafnsson as an “advocate” instead of
“official WikiLeaks representative.”
The same page says that now only

Assange can receive sensitive information
on WikiLeaks’ behalf.
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Image: Stephen Oung
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SHARP VISION:
NEW GLASSES
HELP THE LEGALLY
BLIND SEE
Jeff Regan was born with underdeveloped

optic nerves and had spent most of his life
in a blur. Then four years ago, he donned an
unwieldy headset made by a Toronto company
called eSight.
Suddenly, Regan could read a newspaper while

eating breakfast and make out the faces of his
co-workers from across the room. He’s been able
to attend plays and watch what’s happening
on stage, without having to guess why people
around him were laughing.
“These glasses have made my life so much

better,” said Regan, 48, a Canadian engineer who
lives in London, Ontario.
The headsets from eSight transmit images

from a forward-facing camera to small internal
screens - one for each eye - in a way that beams
the video into the wearer’s peripheral vision.
That turns out to be all that some people with
limited vision, even legal blindness, need to see
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things they never could before. That’s because
many visual impairments degrade central vision
while leaving peripheral vision largely intact.
Although eSight’s glasses won’t help people

with total blindness, they could still be a huge
deal for the millions of peoples whose vision
is so impaired that it can’t be corrected with
ordinary lenses.
EYE TEST
But eSight still needs to clear a few minor hurdles.
Legally Blind NFL Fan Delivers Game Ball For Colt
Among them: proving the glasses are safe and
effective for the legally blind. While eSight’s
headsets don’t require the approval of health
regulators - they fall into the same low-risk
category as dental floss - there’s not yet firm
evidence of their benefits. The company is
funding clinical trials to provide that proof.
The headsets also carry an eye-popping price

tag. The latest version of the glasses, released
in mid-February, sells for about $10,000. While
that’s $5,000 less than its predecessor, it’s still a
lot for people who often have trouble getting
high-paying jobs because they can’t see.
Insurers won’t cover the cost; they consider

the glasses an “assistive” technology similar to
hearing aids.
ESight CEO Brian Mech said the latest

improvements might help insurers overcome
their short-sighted view of his product. Mech
argues that it would be more cost-effective
for insurers to pay for the headsets, even in
part, than to cover more expensive surgical
procedures that may restore some sight to the
visually impaired.
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NEW GLASSES
The latest version of ESight’s technology, built
with investments of $32 million over the past
decade, is a gadget that vaguely resembles the
visor worn by the blind “Star Trek” character
Geordi La Forge , played by LeVar Burton.
The third-generation model lets wearers

magnify the video feed up to 24 times,
compared to just 14 times in earlier models.
There’s a hand control for adjusting brightness
and contrast. The new glasses also come with a
more powerful high-definition camera.
ESight believes that about 200 million people

worldwide with visual acuity of 20/70 to 20/1200
could be potential candidates for its glasses.
That number includes people with a variety
of disabling eye conditions such as macular
degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, ocular
albinism, Stargardt’s disease, or, like Regan, optic
nerve hypoplasia.
So far, though, the company has sold only about

1,000 headsets, despite the testimonials of
wearers who’ve become true believers.
Take, for instance, Yvonne Felix, an artist who

now works as an advocate for eSight after
seeing the previously indistinguishable faces of
her husband and two sons for the first time via
its glasses. Others, ranging from kids to senior
citizens, have worn the gadgets to golf, watch
football or just perform daily tasks such as
reading nutrition labels.
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Microsoft Cognitive Services:
Introducing the Seeing AI project
Image: Douglas Evans

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EYING THE COMPETITION
ESight isn’t the only company focused on
helping the legally blind. Other companies
working on high-tech glasses and related
tools include Aira , Orcam , ThirdEye , NuEyes
and Microsoft .
But most of them are doing something very

different. While their approaches also involve
cameras attached to glasses, they don’t magnify
live video. Instead, they take still images, analyze
them with image recognition software and then
generate an automated voice that describes
what the wearer is looking at - anything from a
child to words written on a page.
Samuel Markowitz, a University of Toronto

professor of ophthalmology, says that eSight’s
glasses are the most versatile option for the
legally blind currently available, as they can
improve vision at near and far distances, plus
everything in between.
Markowitz is one of the researchers from five

universities and the Center for Retina and
Macular Disease that recently completed a
clinical trial of eSight’s second-generation
glasses. Although the results won’t be released
until later this year, Markowitz said the trials
found little risk to the glasses. The biggest
hazard, he said, is the possibility of tripping and
falling while walking with the glasses covering
the eyes.
The device “is meant to be used while in a

stationary situation, either sitting or standing,
for looking around at the environment,”
Markowitz said.
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SHAPE OF YOU
Ed ShEEran
SOMETHING JUST LIKE THIS

ThE ChainSmokErS
THAT’S WHAT I LIKE

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CAN’T STOP THE FEELING!

JuSTin TimBErlakE
BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD

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MILLION REASONS
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STAY
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DOWN
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I DON’T WANNA LIVE FOREVER

(FIFTY SHADES DARKER)
Zayn & Taylor SwifT
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(FEAT. SKIP MARLEY)
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TROLLS (ORIGINAL MOTION
PICTURE SOUNDTRACK)
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LA LA LAND (ORIGINAL MOTION

PICTURE SOUNDTRACK)
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WAVE TWO - EP
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PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) [DELUXE EDITION]
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FIFTY SHADES DARKER

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CHAINED TO THE RHYTHM

(FEAT. SKIP MARLEY)
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CAN’T STOP THE FEELING!

(ORIGINAL SONG FROM DREAMWORKS
ANIMATION’S “TROLLS”)
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HOSTILES AND CALAMITIES
ThE walkinG dEad, SEaSon 7
2109
ThE BaChElor, SEaSon 21
DRAG BATTLE
VandErPumP rulES, SEaSon 5
4:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.

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MOUNTAINS
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SPRAINED RELATIONSHIPS
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CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN
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THE HOT ONE

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DEATH WEARS A BEAUTY MASK

AND OTHER STORIES
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BIG LITTLE LIES

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CALL BACK
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AT&T-TIME WARNER
DEAL MAY HAVE
EASIER PATH
TO APPROVAL
AT&T’s $85 billion purchase of Time Warner may

be getting an easier path to approval after the
chief telecommunications regulator says it isn’t
likely to review the deal.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman

Ajit Pai is telling The Wall Street Journal that
the agency likely won’t be involved because of
changes in the deal’s structure.
Last week, magazine publisher and TV station

owner Meredith announced plans buy Time
Warner’s lone TV station for $70 million. AT&T’s
takeover of that station would have meant an
FCC review.
Image: Nicholas Kamm
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Image: Richard Drew
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FCC spokesman Neil Grace confirmed
Pai’s comments.
The Justice Department still needs to approve

the merger. But the FCC was considered the
tougher cop. It must determine a deal is in the
public interest, a broader criteria than antitrust.
Pai has been taking more industry-friendly

stances on many issues since President Donald
Trump appointed him FCC chairman.
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Image: Andrew Harnik
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NEW HELP
FOR THAT BANE
OF MIDDLE-AGE:
BLURRY CLOSE-UP
VISION
Squinting while texting? Always losing your

reading glasses? An eye implant that takes
about 10 minutes to put in place is the newest
in a list of surgical repairs for the blurry close-up
vision that is a bane of middle age. But who’s
really a good candidate to toss their specs?
“It’s not bringing anybody back to being 20

again,” cautioned Dr. Shilpa Rose, a Washington
ophthalmologist who tests whether patients’
eyes are healthy enough to qualify. “But it
decreases the need to rush to get that pair of
reading glasses every time you want to send a
text or read an email.”
Nearly everybody will experience presbyopia at

some point, usually starting in the mid-40s. At
first you may notice yourself holding restaurant
menus at arm’s length. Eventually, even in good
light, reading becomes a blur.
How well you see has to do with how light is

directed through the natural lens to the back
of the eye. That lens stiffens with age, losing its
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ability to shift and bend light so that it becomes
more difficult to focus close-up.
The usual options are magnifying drugstore

reading glasses or, for people with other vision
problems, bifocals, multifocal contact lenses or
what’s called monovision, correcting for distance
vision in one eye and near vision in the other.
“I have glasses everywhere - the bedroom, the

office, the kitchen,” said Christianne Krupinsky,
51, of Marriottsville, Maryland, who’d never
needed them until presbyopia struck. “Getting
ready in the morning, even to put on jewelry I
can’t see the clasp. It’s so frustrating.”
And while surgery always carries some risk,

corneal inlays that are implanted into the eye’s
clear front surface are getting attention because
they’re removable if necessary.
“It’s not magic. It’s surgery. People have to

remember this is not one and done,” but requires
post-surgical exams and care, said Dr. Deepinder
K. Dhaliwal of the University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center, a corneal specialist who is
watching studies of the inlays.
Krupinsky was a little nervous while lying on

the operating table to receive the new Raindrop
near vision inlay.
“The most you’re going to feel is pressure,”

promised Washington refractive surgeon Dr. Mark
Whitten, applying numbing drops to her left eye.
A gel-like device that looks like a miniature

contact lens, the Raindrop is smaller than
the eye of a needle. It’s the first implant to
treat presbyopia by changing the cornea’s
shape, making it steeper to alter how light
passes through.

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It’s placed in only one eye; both eyes still see at a
distance. Patients can test-wear a single contact
lens to be sure they’ll like the effect before
choosing surgery.
Rose, the ophthalmologist, checked for dry eye,

underlying diseases like glaucoma, and whether
the corneas were thick and healthy enough to
implant before turning Krupinsky over to her
surgical partner.
“Just look straight up,” Whitten said as he

used a laser to slice a flap in Krupinsky’s
cornea. He centered the Raindrop inlay over
her pupil and lowered the flap to seal it
in place.
Minutes later, Krupinsky read lines on an eye

chart she previously couldn’t make out without
glasses, albeit still a little blurry. She’ll need eye
drops for several months as her cornea heals so
vision can sharpen.
Maker ReVision Optics Inc. is gradually training

eye surgeons to use the Raindrop properly, after
the Food and Drug Administration approved
it last summer based on a study of 373 people
whose only vision problem was moderate
presbyopia. Two years later, 92 percent had good
near vision, 20/40 or better without glasses, in
the implanted eye.
Potential side effects include infection, dry eye,

glare, or corneal problems such as scarring.
About 7 percent of study participants had the
implant removed, mostly because they weren’t
satisfied with their vision or experienced a
haze or clouding of the cornea. Most returned
to their pre-surgical vision, although one had
lingering haze.
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Other surgical options:
-Another FDA-approved corneal inlay, the

Kamra, is a doughnut-shaped device, also used
in one eye and removable. It works like a pinhole
camera, improving vision by focusing light
through the center of the pupil.
-A more invasive operation replaces the natural

lens in each eye with an artificial one, named
Symfony, that can focus both near and far.
Approved for cataract surgery, it also is being
offered as a presbyopia fix for the middle-aged
who don’t yet have cataracts. Unlike inlays,
artificial lenses can’t simply be removed.
Insurance doesn’t cover elective presbyopia

surgery. Rose said the inlays average about
$4,000 to $5,000, while the artificial lens in both
eyes can cost twice as much.
Patients should consult a surgeon experienced

with all the options who can determine which best
suits their eyes, advised Pittsburgh’s Dhaliwal.
Each has pros, cons and unknowns. For example,

elective lens replacement isn’t for the very
nearsighted because they’re at higher risk for a
vision-threatening complication, Dhaliwal said.
And the Raindrop hasn’t been studied in people

who years ago underwent LASIK surgery to
correct nearsightedness. That didn’t deter Mike
Gray, 52, of Haymarket, Virginia, who lost his
reading glasses so often that he bought bulk
packs. To implant the inlay, Whitten had to avoid
cutting the cornea in the same place as Gray’s
long-ago LASIK, and advises such patients to
pick a surgeon experienced in both procedures.
“Everything is very clear and getting better

every day,” Gray said about a month later.
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BUFFETT’S BITE OF
APPLE EVEN BIGGER
THAN THOUGHT
Billionaire Warren Buffett, famously leery of

technology companies, has loaded up on Apple
shares after noticing how inseparable iPhone
users are from the gadget once they get one in
their pocket.
Buffett said on CNBC that Berkshire Hathaway

now holds about 133 million shares of Apple
after buying yet more of the company’s stock
this year. That’s more than double stake that
Berkshire revealed earlier this month.
Buffett spoke to CNBC at length after

releasing his annual letter to shareholders
over the weekend.
Buffett’s aggressive buying spree caught

many off guard because he has long said it’s
too difficult to predict which tech companies
will prevail.
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In this case, perceptions matter. Buffett sees
Apple as more of a consumer products maker
than a tech company, which brought the iPhone
maker right into his comfort zone.
“Apple strikes me as having quite a sticky

product and an enormously useful product to
people who use it, not that I do,” said Buffett,
who produced the basic flip phone that he
relies on.
Buffett was struck by how many of his

grandchildren’s friends use iPhones and how
many people visiting the Berkshire-owned
Nebraska Furniture Mart, which has an
electronics wing, wanted to replace one iPhone
with another.
Apple wasn’t the only investment evolution

for Buffett, who bought more than $9 billion of
airline stocks after years of advising investors to
steer clear of the industry, citing its significant
capital requirements and poor returns.
Buffett said it’s true airlines had “a bad century”

but he now believes that consolidation in the
industry has created a healthier environment,
pointing out that planes are flying at least 80
percent capacity at major carriers.
Berkshire Hathaway holds a sizeable stake

in American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United
Continental and Southwest. On Monday, United
announced that it was ramping up flights in a
number of crucial locations.
Contentious political divisions in the U.S. were

addressed briefly. Buffett said he agrees with
President Donald Trump on some issues such
as entitlements, social security and the fact that
some businesses face too much regulation.
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Image: Kevin Lamarque
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Buffett said he will judge Trump’s presidency
four years from now based on how safe he has
kept the country, how the economy is doing and
on how many people are sharing in the wealth.
Buffett said he doesn’t think the border

adjustment tax proposal Republicans are
considering will happen because it’s too
complicated. Consumers will end up footing
the bill if retailers have to pay more taxes on
imports, he said.
While the long-time Democrat who supported

Hillary Clinton last year said he’d be unlikely to
vote for Trump, but he said mixing investments
and politics is a mistake. The U.S. economy will
grow regardless of who is president.
“This country always comes back,” Buffett said.
That was one of the themes Buffett emphasized

in his letter to shareholders of the Omaha,
Nebraska, conglomerate he leads. Berkshire
owns more than 90 companies, including
BNSF railroad, Geico insurance, utility, clothing,
furniture and jewelry firms. It also has major
investments in such companies as American
Express, IBM and Wells Fargo & Co.
Buffett said the proposed $143 billion offer

by Kraft Heinz Foods’ to acquire Unilever fell
apart last week simply because the European
company wasn’t interested. Berkshire and 3G
control Kraft Heinz.
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Buffett said Berkshire and 3G were interested
only in a mutually agreed upon tie-up, not a
hostile takeover.
The end of one deal has not chilled the pursuit

of others by the consummate dealmaker.
Berkshire had roughly $86 billion cash on hand

at the end of the year, and Buffett is prepared
for another major acquisition if he can find one
he likes.
One place where he has retreated is the volatile

retail sector.
Buffett sold off most of Berkshire’s Wal-Mart

stock over the past few months, saying
it’s a hard business and Wal-Mart faces such
intense competition from Amazon and other
online retailers.
“I think retailing is too tough for me,” Buffett said.

“I just decided I’d look for an easier game.”
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Just late last week, NASA announced it was

Musk said anything that advances the space

“This should be incredibly exciting,” he said.

SpaceX is also working on a so-called Red

Samsung recalled millions of Note 7 phones

LG said it’s doubling the separation between

LG also redesigned the phone’s interior to

“We started by placing these two (sources) as

Even though the company hasn’t had the types

“What’s important for them is to make sure that

LG unveiled its next phone, the G6, ahead of

The G6 will have a 5.7-inch screen, though the

LG is matching major rivals in offering water and

LG didn’t announce prices and release dates.

Maple syrup doesn’t get that rich flavor and

But an improved technology could keep maple

The new machine removes more water from

“For commercial maple producers, time is