Special iOS 9.3 upgrade round-up by Senior Correspondent Arnold Woodworth

iOS 9.3 is ready to install with Night Shift, password-protected Notes, and more

you should upgrade to iOS 9.3 as soon as it’s convenient, as it contains the fix for an iMessage bug that was just reported.

http://www.macworld.com/article/3046456/software/ios-93-is-ready-to-install-with-night-shift-password-protected-notes-and-more.html



Apple iOS 9.3: Should You Upgrade?

Well done Apple. iOS 9.3 is now available and the company deserves a pat on the back. Why? Yes it’s a major update, but the real credit goes to Apple for putting it through no less than seven betas and testing it for almost twice as long as the problem filled iOS 9.0 and iOS 9.1.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2016/03/21/apple-ios-9-3-should-you-upgrade/#63bf44432048



Video:
Apple Highlights: Smaller iPhone, iPad, New Features

Good summary of Apple’s latest new products intro.

http://www.marketwatch.com/video/apple-highlights-smaller-iphone-ipad-new-features/E0A1F90D-5667-4FF6-8527-2818DF8E9D9F.html



Video:
More on Apple’s late product announcement

http://www.marketwatch.com/video/iphone-se-and-ipad-pro-apple-deja-vu-moment/3F0E5978-A797-452C-837E-02A73A13940A.html



Here's everything Apple just announced

Apple’s latest product announcement – in reverse chronological order

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-event-live-blog-iphone-se-ipad-pro-2016-3



Video:
Apple's Liam, a robot that recycles iPhones

http://www.computerworld.com/video/63524/apples-liam-a-robot-that-recycles-iphones



Inside Liam, Apple's super-secret, 29-armed robot that tears down your iPhone

Liam is programmed to carefully disassemble the many pieces of returned iPhones, such as SIM card trays, screws, batteries and cameras, by removing components bit by bit so they’ll all be easier to recycle. Traditional tech recycling methods involve a shredder with magnets that makes it hard to separate parts in a pure way (you’ll often get scrap materials commingled with other pieces).

Liam separates the insides of an iPhone with robotic precision so, for example, pieces of glass and plastic won’t be mixed in with copper. Ultimately, these components can be sold to recycling vendors that focus on specific materials, such as nickel, aluminum, copper, cobalt and tungsten (a conflict mineral), and turn them into something else that can be reused, rather than dumped in a landfill. Some of these materials take decades to decompose and leak toxic materials into the ground along the way.

Liam completes an iPhone disassembly process every 11 seconds, with dozens running through the system at all times. 

About 350 units are turned around each hour, equivalent to 1.2 million iPhones each year. Apple wouldn't say when Liam started its work, but emphasized the project is still in the research and development stages.

http://mashable.com/2016/03/21/apple-liam-recycling-robot/#VADO.CJT1qqV



The FBI may be backing out of its case against Apple

"An outside party demonstrated to the FBI a possible method for unlocking Farook's iPhone," reads the motion.

The hearing may not happen at all if the FBI is able to access the iPhone without Apple's help. It sounds like the agency wants to give this method a shot before going through a long legal battle with Apple.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2773489/2016-03-21-Ex-Parte-Application-Dckt-191-0.pdf



Apple’s CareKit Is the Best Argument Yet for Strong Encryption

CareKit, which would let developers introduce health care apps capable of monitoring a wealth of information though Apple devices. The kind of data that you’d want to guard as closely as your own heartbeat.

FBI Director James Comey often complains of “dark spaces” that could help terrorists.

If anything merits the safety of a “dark space,” it’s our biological ticks and tocks, our blood pressure and our treatments and our tremors. Those things are ours, and no one else’s, whether they’re in our bodies or in our phones.

“If we are going to trust Apple with this data, I think this makes a very strong argument for keeping the data away from prying eyes,” says Jake Williams.

http://www.wired.com/2016/03/apples-carekit-best-argument-strong-encryption-yet/



Beyond surveillance: what could happen if Apple loses to the FBI

An Apple loss in the San Bernardino encryption case risks creating a world in which we can no longer trust the gadgets that track how we drive, when we’re home and whether the door is locked.

Public opinion polls commissioned by Pew and the Wall Street Journal/NBC Newsshow that Americans narrowly back the FBI over the iPhone maker. The problem for Apple and its backers is that consumers tend to put perceived near-term risks, such as mass shootings, over theoretical ones – like Big Brother. 

Public opinion polls commissioned by Pew and the Wall Street Journal/NBC Newsshow that Americans narrowly back the FBI over the iPhone maker. The problem for Apple and its backers is that consumers tend to put perceived near-term risks, such as mass shootings, over theoretical ones – like Big Brother.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/21/apple-fbi-encryption-battle



How Self-Driving Cars Will Threaten Privacy
Automated vehicles will learn everything about you—and influence your behavior in ways you might not even realize.

In this near-future filled with self-driving cars, the price of convenience is surveillance.

This level of data collection is a natural extension of a driverless car’s functionality.

cars will collect reams of information about the people they drive around—like the data Uber has amassed about its customers’s transportation habits.

The companies building self-vehicles have been cagey, so far, about how they’re thinking about using individual data.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/self-driving-cars-and-the-looming-privacy-apocalypse/474600/



Edward Snowden: Privacy can't depend on corporations standing up to the government

Relying on corporations to protect private data is bad enough in a vacuum – but Snowden pointed out that many tech giants have already proven more than willing to hand over user data to a government they rely on for licensing and a favorable regulatory climate.

He particularly singled out service providers as being complicit in overreaching government surveillance.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3046135/security/edward-snowden-privacy-cant-depend-on-corporations-standing-up-to-the-government.html



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http://www.businessinsider.com/become-a-web-developer-from-scratch-udemy-coding-online-class-deal-2016-1