Whether you need another option or not, Flytecam is a 1080p POV video camera that’s looking to compete. It has specs that land it between GoPro’s lowest and middle tier offerings, but it’s supposed to be cheaper and doesn’t require waterproof or shock resistant cases.
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If you’re looking for a new smartphone, this is apparently the weekend to go shopping. Following Radio Shack’s promise to chip in a $100 Google Play credit with purchase an HTC One and Walmart’s deep iPhone discounts, AT&T has quietly tacked on a 50% discount for phones under $199. This puts devices like the HTC One, Samsung’s Galaxy S4 (and the S4 Active), the Note II, both of BlackBerry’s latest handsets and iPhone 5 at an enticing $100. Naturally, Ma Bell has attached the usual hooks: the deal necessitates a new 2-year agreement or contract renewal, and in-store purchases require a trade-in device to activate the discount. Not a bad deal if you’re hankering for new hardware — just make sure you don’t walk away with buyer’s remorse.
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Via: TUAW
Source: AT&T
Little needs to be said about this photo. Here’s the Leader of the Free World taking his jacket off in front of a crowd prior to a speech in Berlin:
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By Peter Griffiths
LONDON, June 23 (Reuters) – WikiLeaks’ decision to help U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden escape Washington’s extradition attempts in Hong Kong has cemented the anti-secrecy group’s reputation as a thorn in the side of the American and British governments.
In comments likely to infuriate Washington, WikiLeaks said it was escorting Snowden to Ecuador and had offered the support of its legal director Baltasar Garzon, a former Spanish judge known around the world for ordering the arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Ecuador, which is already sheltering WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange at its London embassy, confirmed Snowden has sought political asylum although Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino did not say whether the request had been accepted.
“The WikiLeaks legal team and I are interested in preserving Mr Snowden’s rights and protecting him as a person,” Garzon said in a statement. “What is being done to Mr Snowden and to Mr Julian Assange – for making or facilitating disclosures in the public interest – is an assault against the people.”
Frustrating U.S. attempts to extradite Snowden and put him on trial for the unauthorised release of secret surveillance files, WikiLeaks also sent one of its legal team to join him on a flight from Hong Kong to Moscow.
WikiLeaks said British legal researcher Sarah Harrison, one of Assange’s closest advisers, had “courageously assisted Mr Snowden with his lawful departure from Hong Kong and … in his passage to safety”.
The campaign group gave no details about how it had helped to arrange the escape of one of the United States’ most wanted men.
Advice came from Garzon, a high profile human rights campaigner who investigated corruption cases in Spain and opened an inquiry into alleged crimes under the right-wing dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, who died in 1975.
Since being kicked off the bench in Spain last year – when the Supreme Court found him guilty of illegal wiretapping in a political corruption case – he has spent most of his time outside Spain, advising on international law.
Garzon, who helped broker Assange’s asylum in Ecuador’s London embassy, was the dealmaker with Ecuador in the Snowden case, a source close to the WikiLeaks legal team told Reuters.
Another prominent legal figure who has represented Assange, the London-based barrister Geoffrey Robertson, was not directly involved in the Snowden case, the source added.
SECRET FILES
Before helping the former spy agency contractor – who leaked National Security Agency documents to a British newspaper – WikiLeaks was best known for publishing secret files, rather than giving direct support to those who leak them.
Assange has been in Ecuador’s embassy in London since last June, seeking to avoid extradition to Sweden. It wants to question him about allegations of sexual assault and rape, which he denies.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague held talks with his Ecuadorean counterpart Patino last week in a failed attempt to find a breakthrough in a case that is becoming increasingly embarrassing for the London government.
Assange says he does not want to answer the allegations in person because he believes Sweden would hand him over to the U.S. authorities, who would try him for his role in the release of 700,000 secret U.S. files in one of the biggest leaks in American history.
In an interview with Reuters this month, Assange said he was encouraged by Snowden’s actions. “In the United States, the ideals that I have fought for for so long are now catching on, being embodied in the extraordinary courage of individuals such as Edward Snowden,” he said. (Additional reporting by Fiona Ortiz in Madrid and Mark Hosenball in Washington; Editing by David Stamp)
BOSTON — The champion of the men’s 2013 Boston Marathon returned his winner’s medal to Mayor Thomas Menino on Sunday to honor the city and those killed and injured in the bombings near the finish line of one of the world’s top running events.
“Sport holds the power to unify and connect people all over the world,” Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia told the crowd through a translator. “Sport should never be used as a battleground.”
TRENTON — There was a time in the not-too-distant past when getting a state budget through the New Jersey Legislature and signed by the governor had all the drama of Wagner’s Ring cycle operas.
And seemed to take as long.
Certainty was banished from the stage. Small crowds of lawmakers and staff rushed from the floors of the Senate and Assembly to the governor’s office and then to their own hideaways, to map proposals and counterproposals.
JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela’s health has deteriorated and he is now in critical condition, the South African government said Sunday.
The office of President Jacob Zuma said in a statement that he had visited the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader at a hospital Sunday evening and was informed by the medical team that Mandela’s condition had become critical in the past 24 hours.
Emma Watson’s star shines bright these days, with both “The Bling Ring” and “This Is the End” out in theaters. The gorgeous 23-year-old has been taking red carpets by storm worldwide, and though she recently claimed she “never wanted to grow up too fast,” it’s hard nowadays to remember her for anything but her sexy new image.
That is, until you see these adorable throwback images from her Hermione days. In this scene from “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” Watson looks as darling as you once remembered her.
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By Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) – Washington may again be the site of massive civil-rights rallies, this time pressuring the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives to approve a pathway to U.S. citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants, a key Democrat said on Sunday.
With the Senate set to approve its White House-backed bill this week, Senator Charles Schumer, an author of a bipartisan bill that would allow about 11 million immigrants to eventually become U.S. citizens, said he expects House Speaker John Boehner will soon have “no choice,” but to let pass a Democratic-backed immigration bill.
However, if Boehner tries to bottle up a bill that includes eventual citizenship, Schumer said, “I could envision in the late summer or early fall … a million people on the mall in Washington,” demanding action.
“This has the potential of becoming the next major civil rights movement,” Schumer told CNN’s “State of the Union,” conjuring up memories of rallies in the 1960s that resulted in landmark anti-discrimination and voting rights legislation for African Americans. Schumer is the third ranking Democrat in the Senate.
Boehner’s Republican Party has said it needs to support comprehensive immigration reform to make the party more attractive to Hispanics, the fastest growing U.S. voting bloc.
Yet Boehner, facing pressure from many of the House’s most conservative members, said last week that he would not bring any immigration bill up for a vote unless most Republicans back it.
A Senate test vote is set for Monday, with passage of the bill expected on Thursday.
Strong bipartisan Senate support was assured last week when a $40 billion deal was reached to double to about 40,000 the number of federal agents on the U.S.-Mexican border, and obtain a crush of additional high-tech surveillance equipment, including planes, drones and radar.
Up to 70 or more of the 100 senators are expected to vote for the bill, including all 52 Democrats, both independents and perhaps 16 or so of the 46 Republicans, according to aides for both parties.
BORDER CONTROL
With passage virtually assured, the Senate immigration battle is now essentially over with the focus shifting to the House where it remains unclear what will happen.
Many Republicans oppose the proposed pathway to citizenship, denouncing it as “amnesty” for law breakers that will attract even more illegal immigrants.
Backers reject such talk, noting that the 13-year pathway would require undocumented immigrants to pay back taxes, learn English, hold a job and pass criminal background checks.
They also argue that the pathway would draw undocumented immigrants from the shadows, where many are now abused, and help make them a productive part of the American way of life.
Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, one of the most conservative members of Congress and a potential 2016 White House contender, said, “It will pass the Senate. … But it’s dead on arrival in the House.”
Speaking on CNN, Paul said many agree with him that there should be evidence that bolstered border security has reduced illegal crossings before anyone can begin a pathway to citizenship.
Under the Senate bill, there is no such requirement.
Republican Senator Mike Lee, like Paul, a favorite of the conservative Tea Party movement, said his chief problem with the Senate bill is the sequencing of events.
“The pathway to citizenship begins basically on day one. But it will take many, many years, if not decades to fully implement all these border security measures,” Lee told Fox News Sunday.
The deal to implement additional border security was reached after the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the initial bill would reduce illegal immigration by just 25 percent.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a member of the “Gang of Eight” that wrote the bipartisan bill, hailed the added security.
“We practically militarized the border,” Graham told Fox TV.
(Reporting by Thomas Ferraro; editing by Jackie Frank)
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AUSTIN, Texas — More than 600 women’s rights protesters have crowded into the Texas Capitol as lawmakers prepare to vote on some of the toughest abortion restrictions in the country.
The Republican-controlled Legislature is scheduled to vote Sunday on the new laws as time was running out in a special session.
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