In what was possibly the first example of a political feminist meme, Wendy Davis and her team managed to turn what might have been a fairly unnoticed special legislative session into a full-blown feminist social media extravaganza.
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Kent Senter is a man racing against time.
The 59-year-old resident of Burlington, N.C., has terminal multiple myeloma, a cancer that attacks bone marrow. Despite that, this weekend, he’ll be focused on the number one item at the top of his bucket list: to organize, sponsor and host an international UFO conference.
It’s no easy task. Adding to the daily challenges of his illness, Senter has quickly pulled together an intriguing symposium over the past few months in a competitive climate where, between now and the end of the year, another dozen UFO-related conferences are scheduled around the U.S.
The United States may lead the world in some measures of national wealth, but it is fiercely regressive when it comes to protecting the workers whose blood and sweat subsidize American lifestyles. Since the tragic factory collapse at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, which killed more than 1,100 people, many Western apparel brands have been shamed into addressing labor conditions in Bangladesh’s booming garment sector. Yet two U.S. giants, the Gap and Wal-Mart, remain deaf to the public outcry.
On Saturday, activists will stage protests in cities around the world, from Osaka to Cincinnati, to demand that Gap and Wal-Mart sign onto a major agreement to improve safety and labor conditions in Bangladeshi factories. The actions mark a new phase in an ongoing struggle to raise consumer awareness. The protests also coincide with U.S. campaigns against the exploitation of Wal-Mart workers at the stores and warehouses that control a huge swath of the country’s low-wage labor force. Union groups, including the United Auto Workers and the SEIU’s Workers United, have thrown their weight behind the campaign as well.
Since the Rana tragedy (just one of many recent factory disasters in the region), Bangladesh’s garment sector has come under scathing international scrutiny: Thousands of the country’s production facilities are rife with safety violations and labor abuse, and multinational brands are directly responsible for keeping these factories in business. And there is no regulatory framework to hold companies accountable in this game of global capital arbitrage.
A-Data has introduced a new line of USB 3.0 portable hard drives, the DashDrive HV620. Coming in both 500GB and 1TB sizes, these portable hard drives feature an eye-pleasing glossy housing, a bright blue LED that lights up when data is being read from or written to the disk and a USB 3.0 connection interface. [A-Data]
Century Japan is set launch the white model of its Plus One LCD-8000V 8.0-inch mobile LCD monitor. This 8.0-inch LED-backlight monitor supports a native resolution of 800 x 600 pixels and provides 250 cd/m2 brightness. In terms of connectivity ports, it comes with D-Sub and USB for power input. The Plus One LCD-8000V / W will go on sale from mid-July for 15,800 Yen (about $162). [Product Page]
“One simple hello could change everything.”
That’s just one of the dozens of messages Ayden Byle has to offer his neighbors. But he doesn’t tell them face to face. And he doesn’t call them up either.
He writes words of wisdom on a chalkboard, and places it in the front window of his Toronto home.
Tsukumo Japan has unleashed another desktop PC ‘RA7J-A51/4KS’ for the mass market. Powered by a 3.40GHz Intel Core i7-4770 processor, the system is packed with an Intel H87 Express Chipset, an AMD FirePro W5000 2GB graphics card, an 8GB DDR3 RAM, a 1TB hard drive, a DVD Super Multi Drive, a 700W 80PLUS BRONZE power supply and runs on Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (SP1) OS. The RA7J-A51/4KS is available now for 598,000 Yen (about $6,118) and comes with Sharp’s 32-inch 3820 x 2160 4K2K LCD monitor (PN-K321). [Product Page]
Galaxy has released their GeForce GTX 760 2GB GC graphics card. Powered by NVIDIA’s Kepler GPU, the card packs 1152 CUDA Cores, a 256-bit memory interface, a core clock of 1058MHz (1110MHz Boost Clock) and a 2GB of GDDR5 memory set @ 6008MHz, and features DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. The Galaxy GeForce GTX 760 2GB GC retails for 32,980 Yen (about $337). [Product Page]
Check out this newly launched 3-Port Cigarette Lighter USB Charger from Evergreen, the DN-84819. Shaped like a cactus, this unique USB charger is equipped with three USB output ports and provides a total output current of 4.2A. The DN-84819 retails for just 1,999 Yen (about $20). [Product Page]
Rumors of Apple switching its chip manufacturing from Samsung to TSMC have persisted for a long, long time. However, they may be more substantial this time around: the Wall Street Journal claims that Apple quietly signed a deal with TSMC earlier this month. The agreement reportedly has TSMC taking over some of Apple’s chip production in 2014. Technical setbacks kept the agreement from happening any sooner, according to the sources. Neither company is commenting on the accuracy of the story, although few would doubt Apple’s incentives to reduce its dependency on Samsung-made silicon — it’s not keen on funding a primary competitor.
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Mobile, Apple, Samsung
Source: Wall Street Journal
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