As a longtime fan of Apple products and the company's mastery of marketing strategy, I was initially in Apple's corner when it confirmed that it had been deliberately slowing down older iPhones. It was the only way to halt a much worse problem, namely that the devices would periodically shut down without notice. This all happened because the batteries would weaken over time.
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In memoriam
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Our everyday lives rest upon the inventions and innovations of the scientists and engineers who came before us. Whether they developed programming languages, carbon nanotubes, data classification systems, video games, or the Internet itself, these 12 men and women are among the tech luminaries we lost in 2017. Their legacies, however, live on.
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It's December, and this IT department ships new servers to all the company's field offices as part of a project to upgrade and standardize the entire infrastructure. "One field office actually has two locations," says a pilot fish in the know. "The servers for both were shipped to the main office at their request."
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