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For a minute, Sharp was saved.

The 100-year-old maker of LCD screens was once a consumer electronics powerhouse but has stumbled in the face of fierce price competition and ill-advised investments in advanced production plants. Earlier this month, Sharp reported a net loss of $208 million for for its fiscal Q3, bringing the nine month loss to nearly a billion as the company continues to lose market share to Samsung, LG, and other Asian competitors.

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The NYPD have weighed in on the current privacy debate between the FBI and apple, requesting that every iPhone currently subject to a court-ordered search be unlocked. The police department have made it clear that once the San Bernardino perpetrator’s phone is broken into by the FBI, they want to make the hacking of mobile phones a routine occurrence within law enforcement. That would essentially mean that every iPhone entered into evidence in court could be forced open by authorities, via a piece of software that Apple would be forced to create.

Submitted by Jake Anderson via TheAntiMedia.org,

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