Face Detection:

The Face API provides high preciseness face location sightion that may detect up to sixty four human faces in a picture. Face detection may be done by uploading a complete JPEG file or by specifying a computer address of Associate in Nursing existing JPEG image on the online.
The detected faces area unit came with rectangles (left, top, dimension and height) indicating the placement of faces within the image in pixels.

It can be considered as a case of Object-class-Detection.
Face detection includes gender age etc can be done through state of Art algorithms, genetic algorithms, and the eigen-face Techniques.  These algorithms process face images and apply the operation of age prediction, gender, recognition, verification, similar face searching, grouping and face identification.

Face Recognition:

In general, face recognition provides the functionalities of mechanically distinguishing or validating an individual from a variety of detected faces. Through this application face is identified or verified from a digital image and video. It can be done thorough the mechanism of comparison. Compare the selected facial feature from the images or facial database.

Traditional recognition system identify faces through landmarks or specified features which may lead to fatal recognition but now a days three dimentional techniques are used. These techniques use 3D sensors which can detect images from different angels and are very accurate and precise.

 The Face API provides four recognition functionalities:

      Face verification

      similar face looking out

      Automatic face grouping

      Person identification.

It is widely used in security systems, celebrity recognition and image tagging applications.

Face Verification:

It is also called face authentication. Face API verification will perform AN authentication against 2 detected faces. It concerns with the validation of image. Metric, mlp, gmm and compute_perf are major programs used in verification of faces.
Similar face Searching: 

Similar Face Searching: 

Face API will look for faces supported similarity. By providing one target detected face, and a collection of unknown faces to go looking with, our service will come atiny low set of faces that look most like the target face.

Face Grouping:
Face API will mechanically cluster detected faces supported similarity. This API takes one set of unknown faces, then convert it into many teams. Every cluster could be a disjointed correct set of the initial unknown face set, it'llcontain similar faces which will be thought-about mutually person. This API focus on many points and detect more than one faces.

Face Identification:

Face API identification will determine folks from a detected face. The folks info (defined as someone group) got to be outlined ahead for correct identification.
The following figure is AN example of someone cluster named "MyFriends". every cluster might have up to one thousand folks outlined. Meanwhile, everyone will register one or a lot of faces.

After someone cluster has been created and trained, identification will then be performed against the cluster and a replacement take a look at face. If the face is known as someone outlined within the cluster, the person are going to be came.

Major Role:

It is frequently used in bio metrics, video surveillance, human computer interface and database management system.

It is also used in digital cameras to detect the face.

Weakness:

It does not work well in when the light is poor, sunglasses or when the some object covers the subject face.

Even some facial expression can make it less effective like big smile, long hairs and darker toner skins etc.

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Website developers, ecommerce experts and SEO pros discuss some simple ways to dust off, declutter and freshen up your Web or ecommerce site.

Ah spring, a time of renewal. A time to take stock and get rid of the things that you no longer need or use and replace them with things that you now do. This applies not just to your home but to your business. And if you own or manage a Web or ecommerce site, doing a bit of spring cleaning is critical – for search-engine optimization (SEO) and to attract new customers. So here are 13 tips for getting rid of the clutter and freshening up your Web pages.

1. Do a content audit of your site and figure out which pages are performing well and which ones are not. “A content audit is a great website spring cleaning project,” says Gretchen Roberts, CEO & chief inbound strategist, Smoky Labs, a B2B inbound marketing firm. “Most websites are a goldmine of old, forgotten content that can be consolidated, updated, repurposed or even deleted to create a better user experience and actually boost your SEO rankings and on-site conversions.”

If you have the time, “download a database of your entire website and get to work labeling each page as Keep, Discard, Update, Repurpose or Consolidate,” she says. “If time is an issue, go straight to your Web analytics program and find the top 10 pieces of content,” as well the 10 worst.

“If a page is getting close to zero views per month, that's a clear sign you've got a problem,” says Marc Prosser, cofounder & managing partner, Fit Small Business, which provides product and service reviews for small business owners. “Maybe the page is dated. Maybe people just can't find it. Maybe it needs a serious revision. In any case, you can spot your problem pages and determine how you want to fix them.”

One way to do that is by taking a look at successful pages (ones that are getting clicks and have low bounce/exit rates), he says, and trying to duplicate what works.

2. Do an image inventory – and clean up, optimize and refresh your images.“Images can date your website faster than words, so new images can make your site feel fresh and new,” says Chad Jaggers, product manager, LightCMS, a website builder and content management system provider. “Your sales could also benefit from new product shots showing the product in action.”

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However, before you start adding new images, take the time to inventory the ones you have.

“Most people tend to neglect cleaning [i.e., deleting or replacing] product imagery that is no longer in use,” says David Attard, founder, DART Creations, a provider of Web design tutorials and tips. “Large ecommerce or web sites tend to accumulate thousands of images that have been superseded. [Smaller businesses have this problem, too.] Besides hogging disk space, it makes it longer and more frustrating to find and add the images you actually need to use.”

To fix this problem, “implement a naming convention for images,[putting images in] folders by year or by product line,” he says. “This will make it easier both for image everyday use and for cleaning up.” Then go through your folders and figure out “what stuff can go and what needs to stay.”

While you are at it, take the time to optimize images. “The most effective way, by far, to speed up the loading time of your website is to compress your images,” says Robert Brandl, founder, WebsiteToolTester.com. “TinyPNG is a free tool that does a lossless compression for Web images. For WordPress there is even a plugin that will do the compression automatically.”

3. Fix your broken links. “They hurt your Google rankings, but even worse, visitors and potential customers that click on a broken link will usually bounce,” says Brandl. “There are several tools, e.g., brokenlinkcheck.com (Web-based, free) and Integrity(Mac), that let you find broken links.”

“Broken links are terrible from a usability point of view (and can have bad SEO implications), but on a large ecommerce store they inevitability happen,” says David Heacock, CEO, FilterBuy.com. “We periodically use the Screaming Frog SEO Spider Tool to crawl our site and show us any pages with a ‘404 not found error.’ Once we get this list, we can easily redirect that page to the correct resource. Run this on your site, and I guarantee you that you will be surprised what you find.”

4. Delete old style sheets. “Review your code and remove unused CSS and JS [JavaScript],” says Emily Lord, front end developer, BrainJocks. “You can be as detailed as you want with this task, but going into the weeds will significantly help your performance (for improved speed) and organization (ensuring other team members can pitch in without being lost). You can also run your CSS file through a linter, likehttp://csslint.net, to catch errors or issues.”

5. Review your SEO strategy and freshen up product descriptions.“Product descriptions and related content that have not been refreshed in a long time can lower search traffic and directly impacts the bottom line,” says Vishwanath Jayashankar, assistant vice president of content solutions, Ugam, a retail analytics provider. Replace canned, manufacturer-generated product descriptions with your own descriptions. And review keywords.

“Quite often, keyword terms that shoppers use to search for [an item] can change over time,” he says. And “not updating [your] content with the latest search keywords can result in losing out on demand.” However, “an easy way to find out which search terms shoppers are using is by using Google Trends.”

6. Check to see if you can improve your site navigation. “Have you surveyed your customers to find out how easy or difficult it is to find products? Or have you picked a few customers and asked them for feedback on your drop-down categories?” asks Robert Gilbreath, vice president of marketing, ShipStation.com, a provider of ecommerce shipping and fulfillment software. “Even talking to a handful of customers will generally yield some ideas for positive site navigation changes.”

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The U.S. Supreme Court has given Samsung a last chance to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars to Apple for allegedly infringing its iPhone design patents.

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear part of Samsung's appeal of an award of US$399 million in damages for infringement of three design patents, which cover the face and rounded bezel design of the Apple iPhone and the grid of icons on the phone's home screen.

Samsung, with support from Google, Facebook and other tech companies, had asked the Supreme Court to take a new look at design patents, even though the rules have remained largely unchanged for more than a century.

Samsung asked the court to address two questions, but justices agreed only to address the second:

1. Where a design patent includes unprotected non-ornamental features, should a district court be required to limit that patent to its protected ornamental scope?
2. Where a design patent is applied to only a component of a product, should an award of infringer's profits be limited to those profits attributable to the component?

This is the second recent setback for Apple in patent litigation against Samsung. Late last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit threw out a $119.6 million award against Samsung related to three iPhone-related patents, including the slide-to-unlock feature. Two of the three Apple patents, including slide-to-unlock, are invalid and a third wasn't infringed by Samsung, the appeals court ruled.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the design patent case during its next term, which begins in October. Court session usually continue until late June or early July.

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It isn't only customer-facing mobile apps that are changing how work gets done at enterprises. These days, the need for mobile apps for employees and clients is also growing, and CIOs are finding they need to step up to the plate and take the lead on mobile app development. Take Craig Richardville, CIO of Carolinas HealthCare System, for example. He oversees multiple teams, each focused on a different clientele (patients, healthcare providers, employees, etc.) and each co-chaired by a business unit leader.

In this issue of CIO Decisions, find out why this setup of IT working closely with the business on mobile app development will soon become more commonplace. Plus, we lay out how a pet insurer invested in technology to connect online and offline data for marketing campaigns; delve into how one longtime CIO found a new meaning for "customer-centric"; examine why CIOs need passion in today's digital age; and more.

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There's been a lot of hype around 3D printing technology lately, with commentators using labels like "the next Industrial Revolution." Does the technology stand up to the buzz? Harvey Koeppel, SearchCIO columnist and former CIO, says yes -- and even believes that this current hype vastly underestimates the technology's potential impact. As cases in point, Koeppel lays out several industries that are currently being transformed by 3D printing technology, including aerospace, commercial manufacturing, and medicine and life sciences.

In this SearchCIO handbook, Koeppel shares 12 tips for how CIOs can seize opportunities that arise daily from 3D printing technology. In our second piece, CTO Niel Nickolaisen makes the case for how to use 3D printing and other emerging tech to assess a company's capacity to experiment and scale. In our last piece, Senior News Writer Nicole Laskowski lays out how CIOs can take advantage of 3D printing to rebrand IT as an innovation partner.

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Since its foundation back in 2000, online groceries deliverer Ocado has distinguished itself from competitors by having no high street presence – relying exclusively on its network of warehouses and picking centres to meet customers’ needs.

The firm has always seen itself as an IT business with a retailer attached – according to technology director Paul Clarke, who previously oversaw a project to build a Google-based business intelligence dashboard to meet specific internal needs.

But as more people shop online, Ocado has turned to its warehousing systems as ripe for a makeover. Currently, it relies on boxes travelling around its warehouses – often over great distances – with humans filling them as they go. However, it is rapidly running out of time and space to address all its orders in the timely manner consumers expect.

“Efficiency is the aim,” explained David Sharp, head of technology 10x, Ocado's internal development programme: “We have to create more capacity because, essentially, Ocado today has to ration how customers use it.”

In the never-ending quest for efficiency, Ocado now plans to do away with its traditional human-centric picking systems in favour of automated robots moving around a compact, stacked vertical structure, which it calls a hive.

The hive comprises a honeycomb structure, with robots moving boxes around and dropping them to the bottom of the warehouse for people to fill.

“Doing this lets you have a dense and efficient warehouse,” explained Sharp. “We are building the first in Andover, in the final stages of testing. At full capacity, it can handle 65,000 orders a week – which is equivalent to £350m sales a year.”

Ocado also has plans to build a larger version at Erith, in Kent. When complete, that will be able to handle 200,000 orders a week, bringing in £1.2bn per annum at full capacity – which comes close to doubling its current sales.

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A former child chess prodigy and computer game designer from London has sold his company to Google for around £300m in one of the Internet giant’s largest European acquisitions.

Demis Hassabis, a computer scientist, is understood to have struck the deal with Google for his secretive start-up business Deep Mind Technologies, which specialises in artificial intelligence (AI) for computers.

Hassabis, 37, has built the company by bringing together neuroscientists and computer engineers in an effort to use technology and medical research to help machines to mimic the brain’s ability to improve performance. He previously led a study at University College London in 2009 that scanned human brains and found “just by looking at neural activity we were able to say what someone was thinking”.

Google founder Larry Page, who has expressed interest in making search commands easier by having an implant in the brain, is understood to have led the move to buy Deep Mind. Google is exploring smart technology that will enable it to go into space travel and create self-driving cars.

The website The Information claimed that Google had beaten Facebook to the acquisition and had sealed the deal after agreeing to set up an ethics board to ensure that the AI technology was not abused.

Hassabis is known within the computer gaming industry for having “a brain larger than a planet”. He began playing chess when he was four years old, reached Master Standard by the age of 13 and represented England.

He did his first work in the games industry only two years later when he entered a competition to design a clone for Space Invaders. Going into the industry seemed like “the perfect marriage between games and programing”, he has said.

By the age of 16 – having already completed his A-levels – Hassabis began working at games company Bullfrog and co-wrote the successful game Theme Park – which was based on an amusement park and released in 1994 - in his year off before going to the University of Cambridge. His student friends struggled to believe he was the author of such a successful product until they saw his name on the packaging.

After graduating with a triple first in computer science from Queen’s College, Hassabis quickly returned to the games industry and became a lead AI programmer at Lionhead Studios, the Surrey-based company founded by British computer games pioneer Peter Molyneux. Very soon afterwards the young graduate went off to set up his own business, Elixir Studios, where he was executive designer of a game called Republic: The Revolution, which attempted to recreate a “living, breathing city” and was nominated for a BAFTA.

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A long-running battle between rival charities promoting the legacy of Britain’s wartime code breakers has degenerated into a bitter dispute which has seen an elderly tour guide sacked and calls for a boycott of Bletchley Park.

The row centres on a controversial decision by the Second World War code-breaking complex to stop its tour guides from visiting the neighbouring National Museum of Computing (NMOC).

The museum houses a rebuilt Colossus machine – the world’s first electronic computer, designed and built together with the Tunny machine to crack encrypted messages between Hitler and his generals.

Major changes as part of an £8m modernisation programme to broaden the appeal and increase visitors to Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, have seen its guided tours cut from 90 minutes to 60 – with NMOC no longer on the itinerary. 

Bletchley Park Trust insists “most” guides have “embraced” the changes, which were announced around a year ago, with “regrettably, one exception".

That exception was long-standing volunteer Tony Carroll, who resisted the move and continued to take people to the NMOC. He was sacked last week as a result.

The emotional reaction of the veteran tour guide – captured on television by a local BBC crew – has prompted the creation of a "Boycott Bletchley Park" group on Facebook.

“They haven’t got a clue – they are ruining this place,” he said on camera. “We are all very upset about not being able to tell the story we want to.”

Tim Reynolds, chair of the computing museum, said last night: “It beggars belief to see the Bletchley Park Trust pursue a policy of fragmentation.” He added: “The Bletchley Park conservation area has many buildings of enormous potential – some of which have been realised over the past ten years by organisations other than the Bletchley Park Trust. All stakeholders need to be appropriately represented.”

But a spokesperson for Bletchley Park Trust said: “The National Museum of Computing remains available to any visitor to Bletchley Park who wishes to visit it,” and it is “signposted” by guides at the end of the tour. As for Mr Carroll, he “continues to be a valued volunteer” and is now helping in the education department, they added.

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The website of game developer Rovio has been hacked, with a picture of the company’s best-selling Angry Birds game replaced with one entitled Spying Birds and featuring the logo of the National Security Agency (NSA).

"The defacement was caught in minutes and corrected immediately," said Saara Bergstrom, a spokeswoman for the company. "The end-user data was in no risk at any point."

The attack comes days after documents leaked by Edward Snowden suggested that the American spy agency and its British counterpart, GCHQ, used the game and other “leaky apps” to collect information on smartphone users.

The Finnish company said that they do not “share data, collaborate or collude with any government spy agencies such as NSA or GCHQ anywhere in the world,” and suggested that “the alleged surveillance may be conducted through third party advertising networks.”

Rovio CEO Mikael Hed suggested that “the most important conversation to be had is how to ensure user privacy is protected while preventing the negative impact on the whole advertising industry and the countless mobile apps that rely on ad networks.”

"In order to protect our end users, we will, like all other companies using third-party advertising networks, have to re-evaluate working with these networks if they are being used for spying purposes," he said.

The latest leaks provided by Snowden referenced a GCHQ report from 2012 that had referred specifically to siphoning data from Android smartphones with Angry Birds installed. Information about the user could include age, sex, location and details about how they used their phone.

Another slide from the British spy agency titled “Golden Nugget” set out a “perfect scenario” where the target was caught “uploading photo to a social media site taken with a mobile device.” This would allow GCHQ to take a “possible image”, email as well as “a host of other social working data”.

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Facebook has announced a new mobile app named Paper that could see the social network control a significant portion of the digital news market.

The app will launch on 3 February for the iPhone in the US and promises a “distraction-free layout” by pulling in new stories from various media publications - both the established and the “emerging”.

Working with human editors, Paper will curate various sections (including sport, food, science and photography) whilst also allowing users to customize their own feed. Traditional updates and pictures from users’ friends will also be available in the app, but they will be kept separate from the news stories.

In terms of visual style and navigation, Paper appears very similar to news-curating app Flipboard. Users’ navigate through Paper with a series of swipes; going from left to right to flip through stories, and pulling up or down to expand or shrink content.

Users can also tilt their phone to pan through panorama photos whilst small, context-rich ‘cards’ are used to compress stories. This latter concept is becoming increasingly common online, with both Twitter and Google Now using these small packages of information to break up the ‘firehose’ of information online.

Paper is the first major step in Facebook’s ambitions to create “new and engaging types of mobile experience” in 2014,and some commentators believe that the app might even supplant Facebook’s current offering.

Paper doesn’t offer quite as many features as the standalone version of Facebook, but plenty of other apps have won over users by offering them a single service as simply as possible. Complex navigation doesn’t always transfer well from PCs to mobile, and Paper looks to offer a stripped down approach to Facebook that could appeal to many.

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Samsung has posted its first fall in quarterly profits for more than two years, fuelling fears that the booming smartphone market may be reaching saturation.

The world’s biggest smartphone and TV maker reported a net profit of 7.30trn (£4bn) won, down from 8.24trn (£4.6bn) won a year earlier.

The company’s was weighed down by falling margins at its IT & Mobile division, where operating profit fell 18 per cent. Mobile sales, the company’s main earnings driver, fell 9 per cent in the quarter.

The South Korean electronics giant warned that it expects sales in key divisions to continue to fall in the first quarter of 2014 with TVs entering an “off-season” and competition intensifying in in the smartphone and tablet markets.

Samsung is under pressure to present a strategy for continued growth. While the firm has a dominant position in the Western smartphone market, the company faces intense competition in the crucial Chinese market from lower-cost homegrown rivals such as Xiaomi.  

Despite the decline in profits in the last quarter Samsung posted record annual earnings, with profits jumping 28 per cent to 30.5 trn won (£17bn).

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Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programmer, Dr Stuart Armstrong from the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford said that there was a risk that computers could take over human jobs “at a faster rate than new jobs could be generated.”

“We have some studies looking at to which jobs are the most vulnerable and there are quite a lot of them in logistics, administration, insurance underwriting,” said Dr Armstrong. “Ultimately, huge swathe of jobs are potentially vulnerable to improved artificial intelligence.”

Dr Murray Shanahan, a professor of cognitive robotics at Imperial College London, agreed that improvements in artificial intelligence were creating “short term issues that we all need to be talking about.”

"It's very difficult to predict," said Dr Shanahan. "That is, of course, a concern. But in the past when we have developed new kinds of technologies then often they have created jobs at the same time as taking them over. But it certainly is something we ought to be discussing."

Both academics did however praise Google for creating an ethics board to look at the “how to deploy artificial intelligence safely and reduce the risks” after its £400 million purchase of London-based start-up DeepMind.

DeepMind has been operating largely unnoticed by the wider UK technology scene, although its advances in artificial intelligence have obviously been of interest to the experts - founded in just 2012, DeepMind is Google's largest European acquisition to date.

Dr Shanahan hailed DeepMind as “a company with some outstanding people working for it,” noting that the company has mainly been working in the areas of machine learning and deep learning, which he described as “all about finding patterns in very large quantities of data.”

Google’s purchase of the company has led to speculation as to how they might implement the technology. Although there had been some talk of using DeepMind’s algorithms to give ‘brains’ toGoogle recent robotic purchases, insiders have said that the acquisition was about improving search functionality, not AI.

Regardless of how DeepMind’s expertise will be used, Google’s purchase of the company underscores increasing fears over the impact of technology on employment.

Academics note that although professions have always been threatened by the forces of ‘progress' (a nebulous concept that can cover anything from speedier computers to more efficient steam engines), current trends suggest jobs are being destroyed faster than they are being created.

A recent paper by Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne of Oxford University suggests that nearly half (47 per cent) of all American jobs are under threat and could be automated in “a decade of two”.

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NEW DELHI: Smart and digital lifestyle innovations provider BenQ has once again rated as the top player in the Indian projector market.

It had over 22% market share for 2015, said a report by market research and consulting firm Futuresource Consulting. In 2014, BenQ's market share was 19%.
BenQ sold more than 50,000 projectors in 2015. The earlier record to sell 44,000 projectors was also from BenQ in 2014.

"BenQ has retained its No.1 position in the projectors category along with growing the market share to over 22%," Rajeev Singh, managing director of the company, said in the statement.

"We have achieved distinctively in education segment conquering two-third of the market in private segment which means in 2015, out of every three private classroom in India, two are equipped with BenQ projectors, he added.

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HANNESBURG: South African telecoms giant MTN said Wednesday it had paid $250 million to the Nigerian government in a dispute over a $3.9-billion fine imposed last year for failing to disconnect unregistered users.

The company also said it had agreed to withdraw its legal challenge over the huge fine in a case that was adjourned in Lagos High Court to enable the two parties to try to negotiate a settlement.

"Pursuant to the ongoing engagement with the Nigerian Authorities, MTN Nigeria has today made a... good faith payment of 50 billion naira ($250 million)," Johannesburg-based MTN said in a statement.

The money was paid "on the basis that this will be applied towards a settlement, where one is eventually, hopefully arrived at," the statement added.

"In an effort to achieve an amicable settlement, MTN has agreed to withdraw the matter from the Federal High Court in Lagos."

Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, is the MTN group's largest market, where it had more than 62.8 million subscribers by the second quarter of 2015.

MTN was slapped with the penalty in October 2015 after it missed a deadline to disconnect 5.1 million unregistered sim cards.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the country's telecoms regulator, at the time cited security concerns over the inability to trace users in a country plagued by frequent kidnappings and an extremist Islamist insurgency, Boko Haram.

It imposed a $5.2-billion fine that was later reduced to $3.9 billion (3.6 billion euros) following an appeal by MTN.

The company issued a profit warning last week and said the Nigerian dispute was a factor in falling earnings.

The fine also led to the resignation of chief executive Sifiso Dabengwa and some Nigerian executives.

Nigeria's four major phone companies have routinely been fined in the past for regulatory infractions but none has received as big a punishment as MTN.

The initial fine of $5.2 billion was more than MTN's total sales in Nigeria in 2014 and the equivalent of about 37% of the group's total revenue, according to Bloomberg News.

Analysts fear Nigeria's decision to fine MTN will deter investors at a time when the country is reeling from plunging oil prices.

MTN will announce its full-year financial results on March 3

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WSHINGTON: America's top spy said in an interview today that he supports the FBI's high-profile battle to force Apple to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers.

In a conversation with National Public Radio, Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan said the public would never accept criminals or terrorists having exclusive access to a physical storage box, and asked why an encrypted phone should be treated any differently.

"What would people say if a bank had a safe-deposit box, or a storage company had a storage bin, that individuals could use and access and store things, but the government was not going to be able to have any access to those environments?" Brennan asked.

"The FBI clearly has a legitimate basis to try to understand what is on a phone that is part of a very active investigation."

Apple is at the heart of a closely watched legal battle after a US judge ordered the tech giant to find a way to unlock the encrypted iPhone in question, which belonged to Syed Farook, a US citizen.

Along with his Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik, Farook gunned down 14 people in the Californian city of San Bernardino in December.

Investigators want help hacking the device, and have demanded Apple's technical assistance in at least 10 other cases.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said he is "sympathetic" with Apple's quandary and other tech firms have offered guarded support.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has straddled the issue, saying in a BBC interview that there should be a debate over whether governments "should be able to access information at all or should they be blind."


However, he disputed a report by the Financial Times that he "backed" the FBI in the Apple case.

The newspaper later changed its headline to reflect Gates's subsequent comments.

Brennan was also asked more broadly about the general threat of terrorism.

He said that even though Al-Qaida has been "neutered" in many regions, the global terror risk has grown considerably with the rise of the Islamic State group, whose targets seem to know few boundaries.

"It's seen as more of a threat (than Al-Qaeda,) not just to individuals, but also to economic and commercial and other types of interests globally," Brennan said.

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