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these are the top stories of the week the FBI learned how to hack into an iPhone Microsoft wants bots to replace apps and everything else you need to know the great privacy battle between the FBI and Apple has been called off for now and a court filing the US Department of Justice said the FBI was able to break into the encrypted iphone 5c of the San Bernardino terrorists and no longer needed to go to court to force Apple to build a back door but there are still many questions about what happened and if this could be done to other iphones all the government will reveal is that it got help from an outside party meanwhile Microsoft showed off its progress with artificial intelligence Cortana can help you book a hotel room or order a pizza just as long as companies are building BOTS to handle such requests for Cortana to carry out at the annual BUILD conference microsoft says chatting with a bot inside of skype or with Cortana is the future rather than opening an app for every task we also saw how AI can quickly interpret what's happening in a photo which could be used in applications to help blind people know what's happening in front of them or read people's expressions and speaking of the future the world went crazy for Tesla's next electric car and thousands of people waited in line to pre-order it even before knowing what it looked like or what it could do in the first 24 hours more than 180,000 people reserved the model 3 sedan which will not be in production until late next year what made everyone excited was the promise of a reasonable price tag it's 35 thousand dollars it can do 215 miles on one charge and musk said he wants to get double the amount of supercharger stations on the roads by next year it takes a half hour to get an 80% charge but there's so much news packed in this week it's time to go rapid fire the oculus rift virtual reality headset is now arriving to those that pre-ordered early the cool hand motion controllers though won't come out until later this year snapchat adds new chat features and you can put more text on a snap nintendo releases me tomo its first mobile app for iOS and Android it's like social media blended into a game and an Amazon expanded its offerings and dash buttons you can fill your home with more than a hundred branded buttons to instantly order just about anything because the world needs a button for instant Doritos now you're all caught up in tech to get your daily dose of tech news check out cnet com / update and for a weekly dose hit up cnet com / radar I'm Bridget Carey signing off