HOME SWEET HOMEPOD: A DIFFERENT KIND OF SMART SPEAKER 58 R2-D2, LIGHTSABER: DOCTORS REPROGRAM FORCE IS STRONG PATIENTS’ OWN CELLS IN THIS STAR WARS INTO CANCER ASSASSINS AUCTION 40 REVIEW: INTERSTELLAR VIRUS MAKES TROUBLE IN NEW SCI-FI NOVEL 12 134 TIM COOK: TECH WITHOUT VALUES IS WORTHLESS 08 FREEWHEELING UBER SHEDS OFFICIALS, FACES MORE MAJOR CHANGES 20 VERIZON TAKES OVER YAHOO TO COMPLETE $4.5 BILLION DEAL 28 ‘FINTECH’ STARTUP SOFI MOVING INTO TRADITIONAL BANKING 34 LYFT JOINING FORCES WITH JAGUAR LAND ROVER IN TECH VENTURE 54 RESEARCHERS: WE’VE DISCOVERED POWER GRID-WRECKING SOFTWARE 76 WARREN BUFFETT AUCTIONS OFF LUNCH TO RAISE MONEY FOR CHARITY 82 SIRIUS XM BUYS STAKE IN MUSIC STREAMING SITE PANDORA 86 ‘CARS 3’ STEERS A WELCOME IF IMPERFECT GENDER SHIFT 90 BOX OFFICE TOP 20: ‘WONDER WOMAN’ STAYS STRONG 118 GRAMMYS SWITCHING TO ONLINE VOTING CHANGES TOP ALBUM RULE 128 NASA PICKS 12 NEW ASTRONAUTS FROM CRUSH OF APPLICANTS 138 EINSTEIN LETTERS ON GOD, MCCARTHY, ISRAEL GO UP FOR AUCTION 146 DRONES CARRYING DEFIBRILLATORS COULD AID HEART EMERGENCIES 164 SOFTBANK BUYS ROBOTICS LEADER BOSTON DYNAMICS FROM ALPHABET 170 COMPETITION FOR OFFSHORE WIND RAMPS UP IN MASSACHUSETTS 176 TOP 10 APPS 98 iTUNES REVIEW 102 TOP 10 SONGS 154 TOP 10 ALBUMS 156 TOP 10 MUSIC VIDEOS 158 TOP 10 TV SHOWS 160 TOP 10 BOOKS 162 8 TIM COOK: TECH WITHOUT VALUES IS WORTHLESS Science is worthless if it isn’t motivated by basic human values and the desire to help people, Apple CEO Tim Cook told graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday, urging them to use their powers for good. In a commencement address, Cook - who as Apple’s chief executive since 2011 has overseen the rollout of the iPhone 7 and the Apple Watch - said the company is constantly looking for ways to combine tech with a sense of humanity and compassion. 9 “Whatever you do in your life, and whatever we do at Apple, we must infuse it with the humanity that we are born with,” said Cook, who previously served as chief operating oicer and headed the Macintosh division. “That responsibility is immense. But so is the opportunity,” he said. Cook said Apple wants to make products that help people. As examples, he cited iPhone technology that can help a blind athlete run a marathon and an iPad that connects an autistic child to the world around them. “When you keep people at the center of what you do, it can impact,” he said. Cook said he isn’t worried about artiicial intelligence giving computers the ability to think like humans. “I’m more concerned about people thinking like computers without values or compassion or concern for the consequences,” he said. “That is what we need you to help us guard against. Because if science is a search in the darkness, then the humanities are a candle that shows us where we have been and the danger that lies ahead.” Cook also urged graduates to resist becoming cynical. “The internet enabled so much and empowered so many, but it can also be a place where basic rules of decency are suspended and pettiness and negativity thrive,” he said. “Don’t let that noise knock you of course. Don’t get caught up in the trivial aspects of life. Don’t listen to trolls, and don’t become one. Measure impact in humanity; not in the likes, but the lives you touch and the people you serve.” 10