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| U.N. Security Council unanimously passes Syria chemical weapons resolution UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously late Friday to approve an ambitious plan requiring Syria to surrender its chemical weapons for destruction, the first major diplomatic milestone reached more than two years after the start of the Syrian conflict. The resolution, adopted by a vote of 15 to 0, does not spell out what penalties the government in Damascus might face if it doesn’t comply. U.S. and European diplomats conceded that some of their toughest wording aimed at compelling Syria to obey the council’s demands and holding perpetrators to account for using chemical weapons was removed from the final resolution at Russia’s insistence. Still, the measure constituted the first legally binding action on Syria from the Security Council since the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad launched a brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters in early 2011. | |
| Apple iPhone 5s I pull my iPhone out of my pocket, tap the home button, and let my thumb linger an extra second longer than I normally would have. The lock screen fades away and the iOS 7 home screen zooms into view, each icon landing neatly on the display. It’s an instinctive gesture iPhone owners have been doing for the better part of six years, and yet it still feels like magic: I just unlocked my phone with my thumb. While Apple’s iPhone 5s brings a number of improvements and new features to the table, its Touch ID, the company’s fingerprint-based identity sensor, catches your attention first. Yes, fingerprint sensors are nothing new — I had one on a Toshiba Satellite X205 purchased back in 2007 — but the implementation on the 5s feels like the technology is finally taking a step into the future. And it’s not the only thing in the phone that feels that way. Like its predecessor, the iPhone 5s is one of the best handsets you can buy. But more importantly, it’s laying the groundwork for the smartphones of tomorrow. But first, the present. The iPhone 5s looks almost exactly like the now discontinued iPhone 5. It has the same 4-inch Retina display and brushed aluminum backside, and the same chamfered bezel that gives the otherwise rounded rectangular device a gem-like appearance. Unless the gold version is in your hand, the metal-ringed home button and an elongated dual LED flash on the rear are really the only subtle physical differentiators from its predecessor. | |
| iPhone, iPad users report iOS 7-related nausea ou may be sick of trying to figure out how to navigate your phone after Apple's iOS 7 update, but some of its new bells and whistles are actually making some people ill. Disgruntled iPhone and iPad users have taken to the company's forums to gripe about the software's features. RELATED: IPHONE 5S RELEASE: HACKERS TRY TO CRACK SMARTPHONE'S NEW SECURITY SYSTEM "The zoom animations everywhere on the new iOS 7 are literally making me nauseous and giving me a headache," one user wrote. "It's exactly how I used to get car sick if I tried to read in the car." Others chimed in, saying that looking at the apps when they zoom in and out is making them dizzy, hurting their eyes, and causing headaches and motion sickness. RELATED: THE NEW IPHONES ARE COMING "I had severe vertigo the minute I started using my iPad with iOS 7," another user wrote on the support forum. "Lost the rest of the day to it... And not happy at all." The fake 3D parallax effect, which causes the background and icons to shift with the movement of the device, was another criticized addition. Users also complained about the juxtaposition of the thin black text against the bright white background. |
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