If you’ve been dealing with multitouch issues on your Nexus 7 tablet after installing the previous update, another software update promises to provide a fix. The JSS15Q update is now available for the tablet, offering an all-around fix to the troublesome multitouch problem, according to Paul Wilcox, the Google community manager. Wilcox confirmed on the […]
Former co-stars on “The Office,” Ellie Kemper and Angela Kinsey found themselves on opposite teams on “Hollywood Game Night.” And just like that, a fun rivalry was born. Things got especially heated after Kemper bumped Kinsey out of one game.
“Oh, I know exactly who I’m eliminating,” Kemper said. “Sorry.”
“You know what?” Kinsey asked her. “Four seasons. I’ll be over here with the nine seasons.” That was a burn for which Kemper had no response.
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MUMBAI, Aug 23 (Reuters) – A photo journalist was gang-raped in the Indian city of Mumbai, police said on Friday, evoking comparisons with a similar incident in Delhi in December that led to nationwide protests and a revision of the country’s rape laws.
The attack on Thursday evening triggered protests and an outcry on social media, with many users shocked that it took place in Mumbai, widely considered to be India’s safest city for women.
“An FIR has been registered nobody has been arrested so far,” a head constable at the police station dealing with the case told Reuters. An FIR is a preliminary police report. Several people were detained for questioning, another policeman said. Some media reports said one man had been arrested.
In rowdy scenes in the upper house of parliament, the opposition accused the government of not doing enough to protect women, despite tougher sex crime laws brought in this year.
The victim, who is in her early twenties, was admitted on Thursday night to a hospital in south Mumbai, where she is in a stable condition, a hospital official told Reuters by e-mail.
The attack took place in an abandoned textile mill in Lower Parel, a gritty former industrial district that is now one of the city’s fastest-growing neighborhoods of luxury apartments, malls and bars, media reports said. The woman was working on an assignment with a male colleague.
“In the evening, the girl and her colleague were clicking pictures. Two men approached her asking her if she had permission to shoot. Another man then joined in and the photographer was gang-raped,” Mumbai Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh told an Indian television station. Other reports said more men were involved in the attack.
“We’ve brought in 10 people for questioning. A case of gang rape has been filed,” Singh said.
Several dozen mainly male supporters of the right-wing Shiv Sena political party gathered with flags and banners outside the police station where the case was filed. A further protest was called later in the afternoon.
Women’s safety in India has been in the spotlight this year following the brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in December, which led thousands of Indians to take to the streets in protest. The woman died of her injuries two weeks later in a Singapore hospital.
The trials of the four men and one juvenile accused of the December attack are expected to conclude within the next three weeks. The verdict on the juvenile suspect is set for Aug 31. Closing arguments in the trial of the four adult suspects started on Thursday.
Following public outcry over the Delhi attack, India introduced tougher rape laws in March, which include the death penalty for repeat offenders and for those whose victims were left in a “vegetative state”.
In contrast to Delhi, Mumbai has long been considered a safer place for women to travel alone, even at night.
“(Mumbai) has this sense of security … but these things make us feel that maybe we are not really that safe,” said A. L. Sharada, director of Population First, an NGO that works on women’s rights issues.
“Women should be able to move freely and take up work. Why should we be worrying about something bad happening to us all the time?” Sharada added. (Reporting by Mumbai Bureau and Shyamantha Asokan and Aditya Kalra in NEW DELHI; Writing by Shyamantha Asokan; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel)
Here’s one for the logophiles and the voracious readers: searching for words on Google now returns more than their definitions. So, next time you look up a fancy term, the definition box will also contain its synonyms, sample sentences and a drop-down menu that can translate the word into another language. The new results even give you a glimpse of a word’s origins and show a graph of how commonly it’s used over time. While a relatively minor update, it’s boosted by the addition of a new voice function: when you tap on the Search microphone and ask questions such as “What is the definition of / What are the synonyms of [a word],” a voice will read the first result out loud. All these features are now active on both desktops and Google’s mobile Search apps in the US, ready to lend a hand during weekend Scrabble parties.
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Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have created what they say is the most accurate clock anywhere in the world, able to keep its ticking rate to a variation of less than two parts per every quintillion. This number, not only too infinitesimal for the average mind to comprehend, is also 10 […]
So we might have found Biff Tannen. A guy in Wisconsin was texting and driving a Ford Mustang convertible when BAM… he crashed into a tractor pulling a trailer "full of liquid manure". Yikes, that might actually be worse than Biff’s fate in Back to the Future.
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Once again, inevitability became reality on “Big Brother” when it came eviction time. The house has been riding the Amanda wave for weeks now, and Amanda’s target fell squarely on Helen’s back this week. As such, it was time for Helen to go. But, that didn’t necessarily mean the end of her game.
In a rather cruel tease for viewers, the four jury members were given a chance to compete in the HOH competition. One of them would earn their way back into the show, and could win HOH as well. But who won and who’s back? Well, this is an endurance competition, so only those following the live feeds know.
Still, Helen’s excited face when she learned she would get a second chance was certainly a priceless moment. Julie Chen asked her what she might have done differently if she could do it all again.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III has been fined $10,000 by the NFL for wearing unauthorized apparel, a T-shirt with “Operation Patience” on it.
Griffin, recovering from a knee injury and yet to play in the preseason, wore the shirt on the field before Washington’s exhibition game Monday night against Pittsburgh. NFL spokesman Randall Liu confirmed the fine on Thursday.
All gear worn on game days must be approved by the league.
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According to sources who spoke to Bloomberg, Amazon is looking to expand beyond its mere Whispernet offerings and has engaged in testing of its own wireless network. The network will reportedly be used by its customers to connect devices to the hivemind, and was conducted on the wireless spectrum of satellite company Globalstar. Neither Globalstar […]
Rachel Maddow tackled voter suppression in North Carolina Thursday night, focusing on one town’s “dangerous, million-step process, newly instituted for you to exercise a right that used to be really easy.”
Earlier this month, Gov. Pat McCrory signed what many have dubbed “the nation’s worst voter suppression law.” The new bill requires photo ID at polls, cuts down on early voting and eliminates other measures that were meant to empower voters.
In a segment focused on the town of Boone in Watauga County, Maddow highlighted the challenges now facing students who want to vote.
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