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Ian Parker's exhaustive 17,000-word profile of Jony Ive in The New Yorker is must-read material.

If you haven't already read the profile — unprecedented in its access to Ive and the Apple design studio — do it now. It's the best look we've had at the design processes within Apple, as well as at the man at the center of it all.

There is a lot in the profile to unpack. As John Gruber put it, "this is a resource we'll refer to for decades to come."

Here are just a few highlights from this truly extraordinary piece ...

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LOS ANGELES — Google is a great search engine. You should try it.

But being the company's executive chairman doesn't mean you can just waltz into the KEN conference without a ticket, which Eric Schmidt discovers in this deleted scene from Dumb and Dumber To.

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The clip is one of many extras on the DVD-Blu Ray, which comes out Tuesday. We knew Schmidt shot the cameo in 2013, but it was cut from the movie — and this is your first look. (We Googled it.)

The sequel to the Farrelly brothers' Dumb and Dumber nearly cleared $170 million at the worldwide box office on a $40 million budget, so it may not be so dumb after all. Now Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is in the bonus for each one of these scanned at a retailer. ...

Meccano is known for its model toys that are put together using bolts and metal slabs. But model cranes aren't going to cut it in 2015, so the company is focusing on two new Meccanoids — "personal robot friends" you build using the latest Meccano pieces.

The bigger Meccanoid, the G15 KS, is 4 feet tall and has two motors — and more importantly, it can mimic your movements and voice

Users can connect their smartphone to the robot; it mimics your movements in real time and connects using Bluetooth. Meccano uses LIM — a programming language for "Learned Intelligent Movement."