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A federal judge on Friday (19) ordered Hillary Clinton to answer questions in writing from a conservative legal advocacy group about her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan issued the order as part of a long-running public records lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch. The judge’s decision is only a partial victory for the group, which had sought to question the Democratic presidential nominee in person and under oath. The judge said Judicial Watch must submit its questions to Clinton by Oct. 14 and gave Clinton 30 days to respond - a timetable that could push Clinton’s answers past the November presidential election unless Judicial Watch sends its questions earlier than mid-October. Judicial Watch is among several…

Auto parts and electronics company Delphi Automotive is joining with Israeli software maker Mobileye to develop the building blocks for a fully autonomous car in about two years. The companies announced their partnership early Tuesday. It’s another in a flurry of auto industry and tech tie-ups as companies race for self-driving supremacy. Delphi and Mobileye plan to build a complete autonomous driving platform that they will sell to automakers worldwide. They promise to demonstrate the technology at January’s Consumer Electronics Show and have it ready for production in 2019. Delphi already has taken an autonomous Audi on a cross-country drive, while Mobileye makes software that processes data from cameras and other sensors. The companies didn’t give many financial details but said they would share development costs for a total combined…

As revolutionary as the iPhone has proved to be, there weren’t exactly early indications that the smartphone’s huge influence would reach the world of photography. The very first iPhone arrived in 2007 with just a 2-megapixel shooter that seemed dated even upon its debut in 2007. Things have changed dramatically since then, with the iPhone having recently become photo-sharing site Flickr’s most popular camera. And, with the iPhone 7, there should be further exciting steps forward… FROM SO-SO TO STELLAR: A JOURNEY IN iPHONE CAMERA TECH While the first generation iPhone was remarkable in many ways, its fixed-focus camera, which especially struggled in low light environments, wasn’t nearly as forward-thinking as the handset as a whole. The same camera was kept for the following year’s iPhone 3G, with Apple busy improving its phone…

Google is ready to start sending out the latest version of its Android operating system to a handful of devices. The release announced Monday means many Nexus-branded devices should receive a free upgrade to Android 7.0, nicknamed “Nougat,” during the next few weeks. The first models in line include the Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Nexus Player, Pixel C and General Mobile 4G. Other smartphones coming out this fall will be sold with Nougat already installed. The new version of Android has been in a testing phase since March as Google polished the system that will feature 72 new emojis and the ability to reply to notifications without opening an app. Rival Apple is scheduled to release the latest operating system for the iPhone next month.…

“Suicide Squad” and “Sausage Party” remained no. 1 and no. 2 at the weekend box office in North America, while a trio of newcomers failed to make much of a dent. One of them, Paramount’s $100 million remake of “Ben-Hur,” bombed outright. The film opened with just $11.2 million, according to final box-office figures Monday, despite its high price tag for MGM and Paramount. The Jonah Hill-Miles Teller Iraq War comedy “War Dogs” debuted decently with $14.7 million for Warner Bros. And the stop-motion animated “Kubo and the Two Strings,” an ancient Japan fantasy from Laika Entertainment and Focus Features, sold a modest $12.6 million in tickets. The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts…

Spacewalking astronauts installed a new front door for visitors at the International Space Station on Friday (19), the crucial first step in welcoming commercial crew capsules as soon as next year. The two Americans, Jeffrey Williams and Kate Rubins, hooked up the docking port - their major objective - in just a few hours. They were about to tackle some extra chores, but a problem cropped up with the right earpiece in Williams’ helmet and he had trouble hearing. Mission Control decided to play it safe and bring them inside about a half hour early. The spacewalk concluded at the six-hour mark. “We’re done for the day,” Mission Control advised the crew. Williams assured flight controllers that his helmet was dry. The last NASA spacewalk in January was cut short…

The Social Security Administration has rolled back extra security measures on the agency’s website after getting complaints from people who had trouble accessing their accounts. For years, workers and beneficiaries have been able to use the My Social Security website to get information about benefits, logging in with a user name and a password. On July 30, the agency began requiring people to sign into their account using a one-time code that was sent to them in a text message. This is a common security method used by banks, credit card companies and other financial institutions to fight identity theft. The agency said it implemented the extra security to comply with President Barack Obama’s executive order requiring federal agencies to improve the security of online financial transactions. “We implemented it…

The fall television season has been an annual rite since viewers were splitting their time between the trio of networks on their black-and-white TVs. Nowadays, watching TV isn’t even limited to TV screens, while dozens of channels are spewing out new series for the modern pampered audience. Although the major broadcast networks still make the most noise when it comes to promoting their new wares, savvy viewers may find the best new shows often blossom far afield of mainstream outlets, as cable channels and streaming services prove more and more conclusively they’re where the action is. For instance, Amazon Prime will host a six-part series starring as well as directed and written by Woody Allen beginning Sept. 30. Although “Crisis in Six Scenes” isn’t yet available for preview, one thing…

Ohio’s toll road, a heavily traveled connector between the East Coast and Chicago, is moving closer to allowing the testing of self-driving vehicles. Testing is likely to begin within 12 months, and possibly before the end of the year, the Ohio Turnpike’s executive director told AppleMagazine. Officials overseeing the roadway have spent more than a year looking at the possibilities, said Randy Cole, the turnpike’s director. Ohio is among several states competing to play a role in the testing and research of autonomous vehicles, which is advancing at light speed. Ride-hailing service Uber said Thursday that it will start hauling passengers in self-driving cars with human backup drivers on the streets of Pittsburgh within the next several weeks. Much of the testing, up to now, has been in California along…

Twitter has announced two new settings that will allow users to control what they see in their feeds and what notifications they receive. Twitter says in a blog post that it has modified its notification settings to include the ability to see only notifications from people they follow. It’s also introducing what it calls a “quality filter” that it says can improve the quality of tweets users see. Twitter says the feature will filter out duplicate tweets or content that appears to be automated. The announcement from San Francisco-based Twitter comes a month after “Saturday Night Live” and “Ghostbusters” star Leslie Jones publicly called on Twitter to do more to curb harassment on the platform. Twitter banned one user in response to the incident.…

The actor who voices the talking tree in “Guardians of the Galaxy” let it slip that his Marvel superhero team will sprout up in “Avengers: Infinity War.” Vin Diesel teased during a Facebook Live video last Friday that the intergalactic do-gooders will be part of the third “Avengers” movie. The “Infinity War” installment is expected to unite several Marvel characters from across 18 films. Diesel, the star of “Fast & Furious,” portrayed extraterrestrial Groot in 2014’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” alongside Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Bradley Cooper. Diesel called the planned “Avengers” mash-up “incredibly exciting.” A spokeswoman for “Avengers” studio Disney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” is scheduled to launch May 5, 2017, while “Infinity War” is set for…

Now You See Me 2 The sequel to Now You See Me sees the Four Horsemen arise for a comeback performance – one which will clear their names for good. FIVE FACTS: 1. A third installment of the Now You See Me franchise was announced over a year before this movie and is set to come out 2017/18. 2. Many actors in the movie have starred in movies based on comic books: Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine in Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), and The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Jesse Eisenberg in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Mark Ruffalo in The Avengers (2012), Iron Man 3 (2013)), and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), and Jay Chou in The Green Hornet (2011) 3. Walter Mabry (Daniel Radcliffe)…

An ambitious effort to replace obsolete New York City pay phones with Wi-Fi kiosks that offer free web surfing and phone calls has been a hit with panhandlers and the homeless, the least wired people in the city. The city doesn’t track who is using the kiosks, but anecdotal evidence suggests many users of the new LinkNYC terminals are living on the streets. On several recent weekdays, people wearing plastic garbage bags or hauling dented shopping carts were hunkered down at terminals in Manhattan. “It’s free. That’s the best part about it,” said a tall man drinking a beer out of a paper bag as he watched an R. Kelly video at a terminal on Eight Avenue in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. The man, who would give only his street name,…

Pfizer will pay about $14 billion to buy cancer drug developer Medivation in a cash deal aimed at fortifying its hold in one of the hottest and most lucrative areas of medicine. The New York drugmaker said Monday that the acquisition will stock its product portfolio with leading treatments for the most common cancers in men and women by adding Medivation’s pricey prostate cancer treatment Xtandi to a lineup that already includes the breast cancer drug Ibrance. Pfizer CEO Ian Read called the acquisition a “rare opportunity” to add an established treatment and a pipeline of drugs under development. Medivation presents an attractive target as a specialty drugmaker focused on developing medicines for cancer and serious diseases with few treatment options. Earlier this year, it rejected a $9.3 billion offer…

Take that, Pokemon. On Sunday, the Japanese prime minister turned up at the Olympics closing ceremonies to promote the 2020 Tokyo games dressed up as Mario , the eponymous hero of the popular video game series created in 1985. Who is Mario and how did he come by his global appeal? Here’s a closer look. WHY SUPER MARIO? Japanese animation and game characters from Hello Kitty to Pac Man also made appearances in the closing ceremonies. But none of them may have the global reach of Super Mario, the game franchise that was a hit when Nintendo’s video game system and Game Boy burst onto the scene in the 1980s. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s appearance as Super Mario was a crowd-pleasing reminder of how much the game helped spur on…

Building a giant telescope atop Mauna Kea will come with educational opportunities that Hawaii shouldn’t close the door to, the president of a Native Hawaiian group that supports the project said. Perpetuating Unique Educational Opportunities President Keahi Warfield told a Waikiki hotel banquet room filled with members of the Rotary Club of Honolulu Tuesday that he believes there’s a “silent majority” of the public who support the Thirty Meter Telescope. The $1.4 billion telescope has divided the Native Hawaiian community, with many opponents saying it will desecrate sacred land. The state Supreme Court invalidated the project’s permit last year and ordered a new contested case hearing. Warfield’s group, whose acronym PUEO means Hawaiian owl, is allowed to participate in the upcoming hearing. The nonprofit organization’s board consists of Native Hawaiian…

WikiLeaks’ global crusade to expose government secrets is causing collateral damage to the privacy of hundreds of innocent people, including survivors of sexual abuse, sick children and the mentally ill, The Associated Press has found. In the past year alone, the radical transparency group has published medical files belonging to scores of ordinary citizens while many hundreds more have had sensitive family, financial or identity records posted to the web. In two particularly egregious cases, WikiLeaks named teenage rape victims. In a third case, the site published the name of a Saudi citizen arrested for being gay, an extraordinary move given that homosexuality is punishable by death in the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom. “They published everything: my phone, address, name, details,” said a Saudi man who told AP he was bewildered…

Blonde Frank Ocean One of the most anticipated albums of the decade has finally arrived. Over three years in the making, and featuring collaborations with some of the biggest names in music, this album is an essential buy for any R&B fan. FIVE FACTS: 1. Features uncredited guest appearances from Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, and James Blake, amongst others. 2. Speculation about the album began as far back as February 2013. 3. The release of the album coincided with the appearance of four pop up shops across the world, each of which contained hundreds of magazines which contained a copy of the album. 4. Has written songs for everything from John Legend to Justin Bieber. 5. Is a member of Odd Future – a Los Angeles-based hip hop collective which also…

The FBI is investigating cyber intrusions targeting reporters of The New York Times and is looking into whether Russian intelligence agencies are responsible for the acts, a U.S. official said Tuesday. The cyberattacks are believed to have targeted individual reporters, but investigators don’t believe the newspaper’s entire network was compromised, according to the official, who was briefed on the investigation but was not authorized to discuss the matter by name and spoke on condition of anonymity. CNN first reported the FBI’s investigation. It was not immediately clear how many reporters may have been affected, or how many email accounts were targeted. The news comes as federal authorities continue to investigate a breach of the Democratic National Committee that outside cybersecurity experts have attributed to Russian intelligence agencies and that led…

France and Germany pushed Tuesday for Europe-wide rules requiring the makers of encrypted messaging apps such as Telegram to help governments monitor communications among suspected extremists. Privacy advocates argue that encryption is essential to online security, notably for banking transactions. But security experts say encrypted apps are increasingly used by extremists to hide their location, coordinate operations and trade weapons and sex slaves. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said French authorities have detained three people this month with “clear attack plans,” but police need better tools to eavesdrop on encrypted text conversations utilizing the kinds of powers used to wiretap phones. He and German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere insisted they’re not pushing to ban encrypted services. Instead, Cazeneuve said they want to work with companies that offer such apps or…

The developer of the world’s largest aircraft says the blimp-shaped airship “sustained damage” after it made a bumpy landing on its second test flight in eastern England. Hybrid Air Vehicles says it is trying to figure out what caused the rough landing of the 302-foot (92-meter) Airlander 10 during its flight Wednesday in Bedfordshire, north of London. In a statement on Facebook it said all “crew are safe and well and there are no injuries.” A hybrid of blimp, helicopter and airplane, the Airlander is able to stay aloft for days at a time. It is designed to use less fuel than a plane, but carry heavier loads than conventional airships. The aircraft was initially developed for the U.S. military for use in surveillance in Afghanistan.…