After going straight for the jugular of Google and Facebook through its aggressive privacy-focused marketing campaigns this year, Apple has ironically been forced to apologize to Siri users after the company was found grading – the practice of employing staff to listen in on voice recordings. Grading aims to improve speech recognition, but public outcry forced Apple, Google and Microsoft to fire staff, although Apple said it will continue to use grading for Siri users who opt in. Top Hollywood studios have joined hands with the UHD Alliance to release a new viewing format called Filmmaker Mode, hoping to give consumers a glimpse into the vision of filmmakers and provide more cinematic experiences on UHD TVs. Filmmaker Mode will disable…