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Some five years after it went down, the Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima and Reed Albergotti have shed light onhow the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) managed to unlock an iPhone belonging to the terrorist involved in the San Bernardino shootingof 2015 that saw 14 people killed. The agency’s method for cracking the code has been a secret until now. The FBI initially sought Apple’s help to gain access to the locked iPhone, in the hopes of uncovering information to aid in its investigation....

This article was written by Max Gruenig, Senior Policy Advisor atE3Gand Co-founder,POCACITOonThe Urban Mobility Daily, the content site of the Urban Mobility Company, a Paris-based company which is moving the business of mobility forward through physical and virtual events and services. Join their community of 10K+ global mobility professionals by signing up for theUrban Mobility Weekly newsletter. Read the original articlehereand follow them onLinkedinandTwitter. If we mean business with our pledge to keep global temperature increase below dangerous levels, then we have no time to lose to take action....

Tesla announced last month that it’s ditching radar sensors from its Model 3 and Model Y EVsfor a camera-based autonomous driving system, called theTesla Vision–but just for the North American market. Tesla’s move made absolutely no sense and it even cost the companythe safety recognitionby theNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).But new details from the company’s Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence, Andrej Karpathy, shed at least some light into the automaker’s choice....

A few years ago we developed a spam solution and founded a company to sell that service. We raised some money, wrapped up the development and got ready to launch. Usually the effectiveness of spam solutions are measured in a percentage. A solution might stop 80% of all spam. Or 95, or in some cases even 99,5%. Our solution was 130% effective. That meant that it stopped ALL your spam and about 30% of all your legitimate mail too....

Ten is a weird birthday. Itfeelsimportant — you’ve been alive a whole decade, after all — but it doesn’t actually mean anything. Puberty is still away in the spotty distance. Driving is nowhere close. And you can’t even buy a lottery ticket, let alone put a grand on a weirdly named animal (MOTHER’S MILK! GENGHIS FROWN!) down at the dog track. Yes, ten years might be arbitrary, but itisstill a milestone....