Apple Prepares New Security Feature; New Link Will Slash Journey Time To O'Hare Airport.
HOWELL: For the first time ever scientists have watched a giant black hole rip apart what could be called an unlucky star. Take a look at how it happened as scientists on earth saw it as they watched via infrared telescopes and radio waves. This is how an artist rendered the event. It took a decade to play out. Nearly 150 million light years from earth, the black hole, 20 million times more massive than the sun. Stretched the star into a disk of dusty material. Wow. The star was gobbled up by the black hole. The other half was spit out. Those images would have thrilled, Stephen Hawking, the late physicist spent his entire career imagining what they must be like. Now his voice will travel to one. At speed of light I should say. On Friday, a powerful antenna in Spain will beam a recording of Hawking's voice into space, the destination, the nearest black hole. It will be -- it will only take, 3,500 years to get there. The gesture is part of a burial ceremony. At Westminster abbey where Hawking's ashes will be deterred between Charles Darwin and Sir Isaac Newton. Hawking's died in March at age 76 years old. Apple is about to close an iPhone security loophole. So that its users have better privacy protection, but doing so will stop law enforcement from being able to hack into lock phones to get information that it needs for criminal investigations. Our Samuel burke explains.</s>SAMUEL BURKE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The way this is going to work, is Apple is disabling, data transferred through this port, one hour after you last lock your phone this will prevent hacking tools law enforcement buy from third parties, from accessing, iPhones and iPad, though just to note this won't stop you from being able to charge your phone. Now Apple is trying to emphasize this will help users defend against hackers and identity thieves. And Apple says quote, we have the greatest respect for law enforcement and we don't design our security improvements to frustrate their efforts to do their jobs. But this change absolutely will frustrate law enforcement agencies that use these hacking tools to get into Apple devices and could reignite tensions between Apple and governments around the world that want technology companies like Apple to include, back doors. Official ways to get around encryption and other security measures. The most famous case was when the U.S. wanted to get into an iPhone belonging to one of the attackers in the San Bernardino shooting in 2015. The FBI and Apple ended up in court, when the FBI demanded Apple special software so it could unlock that iPhone. Apple didn't end up building that software though, because the FBI purchase the tool from a third party that let it hack in to the device. And this practice has spread, rapidly. With law enforcement agencies around the world. Buying devices that can pull information off a locked iPhone. Tools that may not work anymore after Apple's new update its devices.</s>HOWELL: All right, a Chicago company has picked a, a Chicago, I should say has picked the company owned by Tesla founder Elon Musk to build a futuristic transport system. The privately funded Chicago express loop will link downtown Chicago and O'Hare airport. This video from the Boring Company shows what it is supposed to look like. Electric cars will whisk passengers through tunnels at speeds of 240 kilometers an hour. It should get passengers to and from the airport in just 12 minutes. You know that drive -- it is a long drive. That is quite an improvement. It is four times faster than other routes. In the meantime, the Boring Company released this video from one of its tunnel under Los Angeles. It shows that Tesla model X riding in rails inside it as part of the test project. Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic on his historic voyage. He jotted down his impressions of discoveries. A copy of these letter wand up at the Vatican. But it was stolen, and then replaced with a forgery. Now the original copy is back with its rightful owner. Delia Gallagher has this story from Rome for us.</s>DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT: A 500-year-old copy of a letter written by Christopher Columbus in 1493 to the king and queen of Spain. Stolen from the Vatican library has finally been returned. The letter was found in the United States. And U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, Callista Gingrich, brought it back to its rightful owners following a seven-year investigation. In 2011, a researcher here, at the Vatican library thought that the letter might be a fake. He tipped off the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Who told the Vatican and that open up an investigation which led to a man in Atlanta who had bought the manuscript in 2004 from an art dealer in New York and paid $875,000. And his widow once contacted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security agreed to return the letter to the Vatican. Jamie McCall from the Department of Homeland Security was part of the investigative team.</s>JAMIE MCCALL, INVESTIGATIVE TEAM, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: We identified for her that there had been a forgery in the Vatican library. And that she was possibly in possession of the original. And we had experts look at the two documents together. And once we determined that, you know, she was in fact, in possession of it. Again we negotiated the return of the document.</s>GALLAGHER: Letter translated into Latin, describes Columbus, impressions of the Caribbean Island he had seen for the first time. The investigation is ongoing. And the Department of Homeland Security can't comment on who might have done this. The guilty party is a mystery. But the intricate stitching around the letter has given Timothy Janz of the Vatican library a clue.</s>TIMOTHY JANZ, VATICAN LIBRARY: Probably begun by a (inaudible). You know, sometimes we do (inaudible) -- like that. I doubt very much that it was a researcher who was reading could possibly do this.</s>GALLAGHER: Janz said, there was hardly any security at the library until about 10 ten years ago.</s>JANZ: Fairly confident that something like this couldn't happen today.</s>GALLAGHER: Whoever was responsible for the theft didn't have the last word. A piece of history has been restored to the world. Delia Gallagher, CNN, Rome.</s>HOWELL: Delia, thank you for that report. And thank you for being with us for CNN Newsroom. I'm George Howell at the CNN Center in Atlanta. The news continues with my colleague Max Foster, live in London.