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A New York judge says the U.S. Justice Department cannot force Apple to provide the FBI with access to locked iPhone data in a routine Brooklyn drug case.
U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein ruled Monday. The decision follows a California magistrate judge’s order requiring Apple to create software to help the U.S. hack the iPhone of a shooter in the Dec. 2 killing of 14 people in San Bernardino, California.
On a day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 530 points and 3 percent of its value, investors were particularly unkind to tech giant Apple.
The firm managed to ride a bull market to new heights in recent years, becoming the United States’ most valuable company during that time. But now, the pendulum is swinging the other way, and the market’s dramatic sell-off on Friday took a heavy toll on the iPhone and iPad maker.
Apple’s stock price fell $6.72, or a full 6 percent, to close at $106.02. In all for the week, Apple’s losses were 8.5 percent, making it the worst performer in what is turning out to be an ugly stock market, USA Today reported.
By the closing bell at Friday’s session, $158 billion in Apple valuation simply vanished.
Triada Studio’s director, who was recently the United States, says the company has plans to launch new, more challenging computer games after the recent project that brought it an international prize. Report Tert.am“I don’t think it is worth undertaking anything less significant than that. Anyway it will be in the game industry,” Ara Adamyan said in an interview with Tert.am.
He added that the Apple Design Award, which the team won for the game Shadowmatic, brought the company an international recognition, opening more perspective for new interesting initiatives.
Asked about the Armenian IT products’ competitiveness on the world market, Adamyan said he very often finds them to be smart inventions, challenging for any user in any part of the world.
“On the international market, it doesn’t matter at all if the product is Armenian or Chinese. If it is a quality product, it is always praiseworthy. In Singapore, for instance, if someone wishes to sit back and enjoy a game, it is all the same to him or her whether that’s an Armenian or Scottish game. I think that the Armenian [IT] companies manage at times to realize challenging projects, though I would rather we heard more of that success in real life.”
Adamyan said he expects a stronger government attention to the sector to increase the advantages of IT companies, contributing to their further development.
“I would like the government to be more attentive and mitigate the legislation – especially the taxes – for IT companies. That would be part of the efforts to encourage more organizations to come into existence.”
Asked whether he finds the salaries of Armenian IT specialists satisfactory, Adamyan replied, “In developed countries, of course, the salaries are much higher, but being in Armenia, I think that those working in the IT sector earn enough to afford a high quality life. ”
A 3D puzzle game developed Armenia-based Triado Studio has won Apple Design Award, the team wrote on Facebook.
The award was handed over during Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday.
Shadowmatic is an imagination stirring puzzle where you rotate abstract objects in a spotlight to find recognizable silhouettes in projected shadows, relevant to the surrounding environment.
“Selected as an Apple Design Award winner for it’s attention to detail, high-fidelity rendering, excellent execution, and perfect representation of Multi-touch game play, Shadowmatic challenges your spatial thinking with more than 80 puzzles in gorgeous atmospheric environments rendered with highly realistic textures and shadows,” says the statement on developer.apple.com.