This week: "home buttonless" iPhone 7s; the new Apple TV remote is unnervingly easy to break; the UK wants your Apple devices to be less secure; and we pitch our favorite new Apple TV apps!
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This week’s links
Can you fall in love with a computer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LbXL_0N68U
Lumina City ($5)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lumino-city/id958604518?mt=8
Operator (free!)
https://operator.com
Plex for Apple TV (free!)
Leander likes The Returned show on Netflix
http://www.netflix.com/title/80037657
Don’t drop your new Apple TV remote!
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/3rkmjy/dont_drop_your_new_apple_tv_remote/
4-inch iPhone 6s is coming soon, says top Apple analyst
http://www.cultofmac.com/395748/4-inch-iphone-6s-is-coming-soon-says-top-apple-analyst/
Companies such as Apple, Google and others will no longer be able to offer encryption so advanced that even they cannot decipher it when asked to under the Investigatory Powers Bill
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11970391/Internet-firms-to-be-banned-from-offering-out-of-reach-communications-under-new-laws.html?