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these are the top stories of the week Apple's taking on the US government Microsoft makes the surface better and everything else you need to know Apple CEO Tim Cook published an open letter on apple com opposing a US government order which would make apple build a back door to the iphone he says the FBI wants apple to make a new version of the iphone operating system circumventing several important security features and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation of the San Bernardino attack Cook says no version of iOS exists with a back door and the tool in the wrong hands could allow any iphone to be unlocked according to CBS News cook is willing to challenge the government all the way up to the Supreme Court google CEO cinder perch i tweeted support for cooks position saying that if Apple must follow this order it could be a troubling precedent microsoft surface pro 4 and surface book had a big problem they had issues with sleep and power management some surface books would continue running when they were supposed to sleep that led to battery drain well that should be over now microsoft just issued a firmware fix it should let your surface book or surface pro 4 sleep better Twitter got some new features first up Twitter introduced gift search in tweets and direct messages that features rolling out on iOS Android and on the web in the next few weeks the gift search is powered by giphy and rip see twitter also introduced the ability to shoot and share videos in dms that is also rolling out in iOS and Android right now you know what's next SS is right there rapid fire time Apple's introduced an updated version of iOS 9 point to point one that fits his iPhones bricked by the infamous error 53 error 53 was triggered when an iPhone recognized an unofficial repair of the iphone home button you can get the fix via itunes apples also replacing flawed USBC charge cables that were included with macbooks sold until jun 2015 info unaffected cables is at apple com google announced that picasa is set to shut down in May Picasa Web Albums will continue to exist in some way Google photos will take Picasso's place and Peter Mayhew the actor who plays chewbacca is releasing pictures of the original Star Wars script on his Twitter account he says it's leading up to a big announcement you can follow him at the wiki roars let he flew under the radar this time it's Astro teller he's the head of X what used to be known as Google X that's the place where Google makes crazy projects like self-driving cars Google glass and Internet by balloon Taylor gave the world and insight as to what projects X wound up abandoning last year X cave up on vertical farming because it didn't produce staple crops like rice or grains X also ditched a lighter-than-air variable buoyancy cargo ship because the prototype would be in the neighborhood of 200 million dollars Google's nuts but maybe not that nuts now you're all caught up in tech to get your daily dose of tech news check out cnet com / update for a weekly dose head up soon netcom / radar Amaya's actor signing off