In other words, you could have Siri-like control of virtually any device, with all of the required hardware and software residing on an iPhone or MacBook, linked with other devices over WiFi or Bluetooth.

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Gun-control statutes, like any others, have to survive both the House and the Senate, then win presidential approval.

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Thereafter the abuser makes more demands "so the victim often feels like they haven't got any control... and it ends up in this spiral of continuous abuse", she added.

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If a pregnancy did result, which was quite often the case, since very few Zulu men or women practiced any form of birth control (like most African men, Zulus seemed to abhor the use of condoms), he would move blithely on, without a backward glance.

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But many are also too small to cope with tasks like disease control or watershed management, or to sustain any oversight in the form of local media or pressure groups.

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You can also access the app from any Samsung connected device and either watch content or control your SmartTV like a touchscreen remote.

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But critics say dangdut performers like Julia Perez - or JuPe as she is known in Indonesia - do not demonstrate any of that control.

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