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As Apple’s products came to house more private information, the chief executive grew wary of prying eyes, leading to the standoff with the F.B.I.
An operating system update with enhanced encryption technology in late 2014 set the stage to put Apple increasingly at odds with prosecutors seeking to unlock iPhones.
Mr. Trump’s attack on Francis reflected a political calculation that criticizing the pope will not hurt him with conservatives — and might even improve his standing in South Carolina.
Stephen Karam’s drama moves to Broadway without losing any of its power. Much credit goes to its remarkable cast, intact from its Off Broadway run.
Even starter apartments are expensive in New York. Some parents help out by buying an apartment, then charging the child a bearable rent.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 17, 2016, covering February 19, 2016.
Rihanna
Kevin Gates
Adele
Sia
Justin Bieber
2016Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, literary critic, and philosopher (born 1932)[†]
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes.
2016Harper Lee, American author (born 1926)[†]
Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). Her second and final novel, Go Set a Watchman, was an earlier draft of Mockingbird, set at a later date, that was published in July 2015 as a sequel. A collection of her short stories and essays, The Land of Sweet Forever, is set to be published on October 21, 2025.
2016Chiaki Morosawa, Japanese anime screenwriter (born 1959)[†]
Chiaki Morosawa was a Japanese anime screenwriter and the creator of the fictional universe of "Cosmic Era", the setting for the anime Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and its related series. She was born in Urawa, Saitama, in the Kantou Region of Japan. An older sister of film director Kazuyuki Morosawa, she was the wife of animation director and scriptwriter Mitsuo Fukuda, and the mother of their children.
2016Samuel Willenberg, Polish-Israeli sculptor and painter (born 1923)[†]
Samuel Willenberg, nom de guerre Igo, was a Polish Holocaust survivor, artist, and writer. He was a Sonderkommando at the Treblinka extermination camp and participated in the unit's planned revolt in August 1943. While 300 escaped, about 79 were known to survive the war. Willenberg reached Warsaw where, before war's end, he took part in the Warsaw Uprising. At his death, Willenberg was the last survivor of the August 1943 Treblinka prisoners' revolt.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]