Word: unlock
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...photographer's loupe that I use to look to make sure every pixel is right," says Scott Forstall, Apple's vice-president of Platform Experience (whatever that is). "We will argue over literally a single pixel." As a result, when you swipe your finger across the screen to unlock the iPhone, you're not just accessing a system of nested menus, you're entering a tiny universe, where data exist as bouncy, gemlike, animated objects that behave according to consistent rules of virtual physics. Because there's no intermediary input device-like a mouse or a keyboard-there...
...Still, the only information that will be stored on the card's radio transmitter chip, according to DHS, will be a serial number. And that number would then unlock a personal file inside a secure government database to be displayed to an immigration agent...
...unable to unlock any potential secrets, the Italians have turned to the FBI for their code-busting expertise. A U.S. official confirmed an Italian newspaper story Thursday which reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit will be studying Provenzano's copy of the Bible. In the past, the FBI unit, located at the Bureau's laboratory in Quantico, Va., has uncovered illicit codes of prison gangs and deciphered messages from threatening letters. Now, they will try to determine if there are "any hidden messages" in the holy book, said a U.S. official...
...more ride" before dinner, hotels are turning waiting parents into a new stream of revenue for the lobby cafés serving Starbucks coffee and nearby Aveda spas. At the busiest Great Wolf Lodge, in Scotrun, Penn., in the Pocono Mountains, guests sport wristbands with embedded radio-frequency chips that unlock their rooms and buy beer at the snack bar. Lappas called the $700 bill for the family's two-day stay "well worth...
...long-lost Princess Moanna. He tells her she will reach her destiny - will "stroll through the seven circular gardens of your palace" - if she can accomplish three difficult tasks. One is to get a key that the toad has swallowed. The second: use that key to unlock a door in the lair of the Pale Man, a child-devourer who has eyeballs in his hands. And the third...