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Bill Stasior was responsible for overseeing Siri at Apple for the past seven years HIGHLIGHTS Apple is yet to release an official statement Bill Stasior is reportedly still working with Apple He was hired by Apple in 2012 to oversee both, search and Siri as VP The Vice President (VP) of the Siri team at Apple -- Bill Stasior -- has reportedly stepped down from his designation after seven years of service. The former Amazon executive was hired by Apple in 2012 to oversee both, search and Siri as VP. "Though Stasior remains in the company, he is no longer heading the voice assistant group, said five people with knowledge of the change," The Information reported on Friday. The change appears to be part of an effort by Apple's Senior Vice President (SVP) of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) strategy -- John Giannandrea -- to strengthen his stronghold on Apple's voice assistant team, the report said. Giannandrea's aim

The Girl in the Spider's Web Tech Evening News, December 2, 2018 Times Of India's Rating : 3.5/5 Avg. Users' Rating : 2.7/5 Rate Movie CAST: Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason, LaKeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, Stephen Merchant DIRECTION: Fede Álvarez GENRE: Action, Thriller DURATION: 1 hours 55 minutes The Girl in the Spider's Web Movie Review Critic's Rating:  3.0/5 The Girl In The Spider’s Web, based on a novel by David Lagercrantz written after Stieg Larsson’s death, is both a soft-reboot and a sequel to David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which came out in 2011. Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig, who played Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist respectively in the original have been replaced by Claire Foy and Sverrir Gudnason. The film begins with a flashback to Lisbeth's childhood. She and her sister (the grown up version is played by Sylvia Hoeks) are shown playing chess as children. Their father is shown as

Ralph Breaks the Internet Tech Evening News, December 2, 2018 Times Of India's Rating : 4.0/5 Avg. Users' Rating : 2.8/5 Rate Movie CAST: John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Gal Gadot, Jane Lynch, Jack McBrayer, Alan Tudyk, Alfred Molina, Ed O'Neill, Taraji P. Henson DIRECTION: Rich Moore, Phil Johnston GENRE: Animation, Comedy DURATION: 1 hours 52 minutes Ralph Breaks the Internet Movie Review Critic's Rating:  3.5/5 Arcade game characters Wreck-It Ralph and Vanellope von Schweetz live a happy, contented life, which falls apart when the controller of Vanellope’s game Sugar Rush breaks down. Arcade owner Mr. Litwak can’t afford the rare spare part -- available on eBay -- and shuts down the machine. There is an immediate crisis as the many characters in the game suddenly become homeless and foster homes have to be found for them. The arcade has now got Wi-Fi, and Ralph and Vanellope enter the internet in order to go to the eBay and

Creed II Tech Evening News, December 2, 2018 Times Of India's Rating : 3.5/5 Avg. Users' Rating : 4.3/5 Rate Movie CAST: Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Dolph Lundgren, Florian Munteanu, Wood Harris, and Phylicia Rashad DIRECTION: Steven Caple Jr GENRE: Action, Sports, Drama DURATION: 2 hours 10 minutes Creed II Movie Review Critic's Rating:  3.0/5 With Creed, writer-director Ryan Coogler seemingly resurrected the Rocky franchise. By taking the focus away from Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) and putting Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan), the son of his greatest nemesis and friend Apollo Creed in the forefront, Coogler kind of reinvented the wheel. So the great white hope called Rocky Balboa was mentoring a black boxer, while fighting cancer. It's no wonder Sylvester Stallone got an Oscar nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category for his role. Creed II takes the story forward. Rocky fans know

Mortal Engines Tech Evening News, January 2, 2019 Times Of India's Rating : 3.0/5 Avg. Users' Rating : 3.7/5 Rate Movie CAST: Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving, Jihae, Ronan Raftery, Leila George, Patrick Malahide, Stephen Lang DIRECTION: Christian Rivers GENRE: Fantasy, Action DURATION: 2 hours 9 minutes Mortal Engines Movie Review Critic's Rating:  3.0/5 The film, based on the first installment of Philip Reeve’s fantasy quartet, is set in a dystopian world several centuries in the future. A “Sixty Minute War” had turned turned the planet into a wasteland. Giant “predator cities” roam around, like huge dinosaurs, gulping down smaller towns and villages, extracting what’s good and assigning the captured citizens to low-level menial jobs, a term referred to as “Municipal Darwinism” in the film. Tom Natsworthy (Robert Sheehan) works at the Museum of London, specializing in the technology of “the ancients”. Thaddeus Valentine

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Devesh Sharma, January 2, 2019 Times Of India's Rating : 4.5/5 Avg. Users' Rating : 3.8/5 Rate Movie CAST: Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry DIRECTION: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman GENRE: Animation, Superhero DURATION: 1 hours 57 minutes Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Movie Review Critic's Rating:  4.0/5 Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), the son of a hospital worker (Luna Lauren Velez) and a police officer (Brian Tyree Henry), is a middle schooler living in Brooklyn. Thanks to his high IQ, his parents place him in an elite school, which he hates. One night, while exploring the subway with his uncle as Aaron (Mahershala Ali), he gets bitten by a radioactive spider and transforms into Spider-Man. Then we witness the usual initiation rites of a superhero. He has to learn how to use the powers, get to know his limits and also go through th

Aquaman Tech Evening News, January 2, 2019 Times Of India's Rating : 3.5/5 Avg. Users' Rating : 4.5/5 Rate Movie CAST: Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Nicole Kidman, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Temuera Morrison, Ludi Lin, Michael Beach, Randall Park, Graham McTavish DIRECTION: James Wan GENRE: Superhero, Fantasy DURATION: 2 hours 23 minutes Aquaman Movie Review Critic's Rating:  3.0/5 Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa), is the child of lighthouse keeper Thomas (Temuera Morrison) and Atlanna (Nicole Kidman), the queen of Atlantis. She was once washed ashore and Thomas took care of her and the duo ended up falling in love. She later goes back into the ocean to safeguard her son and the man she loves and is said to have been sacrificed as a result of her treachery of living with a surface dweller. Arthur is given combat training by Atlanna’s trusted aide Vulko (William Dafoe) as a teenager. He grows up to bec

Bumblebee Tech Evening News, January 2, 2019 Times Of India's Rating : 3.5/5 Avg. Users' Rating : 3.7/5 Rate Movie CAST: Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Ortiz, Jason Drucker, Pamela Adlon DIRECTION: Travis Knight GENRE: Action, fantasy DURATION: 1 hours 54 minutes Bumblebee Movie Review Critic's Rating:  3.5/5                                                                                                  Michael Bay is just the producer here and not the director as well and what a difference has that made. Instead of non-stop action featuring giant robots beating others of their kind and laying waste entire towns in the process, we get a tender story about friendship between a young girl and a space alien. The action is there alright but subdued. Bumblebee is more of a coming of age film than an actioner. Think The Iron Giant (1999) a much underrated film that deserves a rewatch, think Chappie (2015), or bett

Mary Poppins Returns Tech Evening News, January 4, 2019 Times Of India's Rating : 3.5/5 Avg. Users' Rating : 4.5/5 Rate Movie CAST: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Dick Van Dyke, Angela Lansbury, Colin Firth, Meryl Streep DIRECTION: Rob Marshall GENRE: Musical, Fantasy DURATION: 2 hours 10 minutes Mary Poppins Returns Movie Review Critic's Rating:  4.0/5 The Mary Poppins sequel takes place twenty years after the events of the original. 1930s London was undergoing depression, what with many families going bankrupt and losing their homes. One such family is the Banks family. Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw) and his sister Jane (Emily Mortimer), the children whom Mary Poppins mentored twenty years ago, are now adults. Michael has three children -- Annabel (Pixie Davies), John (Nathanael Saleh), and Georgie (Joel Dawson) of his own. His wife has passed away and he hasn’t come to terms with her d