"There is no reason for the application to be caching locations of private photos completely unencrypted, " wrote Aaron Souppouris for The Verge.

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Merck's stated reason for withdrawing the application is that it wants a chronic-pain indication.

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For that reason the patent application looks as though it could be storing up trouble.

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The reason: "We have determined your application contains minimal functionality, and will not be appropriate for the app store, " Apple wrote to Comm.

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And there's no erasing the controversy surrounding Zellweger's application for annulment four months later, in which she cited "fraud" as the reason for their breakup.

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