Philadelphia says no to 3D printed guns

The Liberator made quite a name for itself a few months back when it became the first functioning all-3D printed gun, and while its maker designed it with mass distribution in mind, we now know one place where it’s unwelcome: Philadelphia. The city of Brotherly Love lived up to its name yesterday, when the city council voted unanimously to ban folks from being able to print plastic pistols with which to shoot each other. That’s right, it is now illegal to manufacture guns via 3D printer in Philadelphia. As of this writing, Philly’s the first city to put such a ban in place, and it’s not in response to a a rash of plastic pistols flooding the streets, either — Philadelphia Magazine reports that it’s just a preventative measure. Nice to see a city government trying to stop a problem before it starts, but we’re betting it won’t be long before someone in Philly takes to the courts to challenge the ban.

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Obama Speaks About Iran Nuclear Deal

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says a nuclear deal with Iran is an “important first step” toward addressing the world’s concerns over the Islamic republic’s disputed nuclear program.

Obama says the deal includes “substantial limitations” on Iran and cuts off the Islamic republic’s most likely path to a bomb.

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One Direction’s ‘Talk Dirty To Me’ And ‘Workout’ Videos From Weird And Wonderful 1D Day Livestream (WATCH)

In honor of the release of Midnight Memories on Monday, One Direction threw an online party for fans on Saturday, November 23 — otherwise known as “1D Day.” Harry, Louis, Liam, Niall and Zayn hosted a seven-hour livestream event on YouTube and Google+, which was broadcast in 61 countries.

According to Directioners on Twitter, there were two major highlights to the day-long event. Watch each moment, below, to understand why. (Hint: Harry Styles’ butterfly tattoo has a starring role in both videos.)

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President Obama To Deliver Statement On Iran Nuclear Deal

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will make a statement Saturday night on the Iran nuclear agreement from the White House.

Obama will speak shortly after the U.S. and its negotiating partners reached an agreement with Iran. The deal was finalized during talks in Geneva that stretched well past midnight.

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Synchronicity Makes File/Folder Backups Simple

This article was written on August 24, 2010 by CyberNet.

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We’ve covered all kinds of backup utilities on the site, but the one covered in this article is hands-down one of my favorites. Synchronicity is free, open source, and available in a portable format. After you fire it up the first time you’ll probably be shocked that something laid out this nicely only uses 215KB on your hard drive… I know I was.

Setting up your first profile consists of filling out the information in the screenshot above, and after that you can go on to schedule the task if it’s something you want to run on a regular basis. Here are all the different things Synchronicity is capable of:

  • Fully customizable synchronization and backup, including:
    • Limited synchronization: synchronize some folders only, or synchronize folders contents without synchronizing subfolders.
    • Full regexp support for files inclusion/exclusion
    • 3 synchronization methods:
      • Mirror
      • One-way incremental
      • Two-ways incremental
    • File hashing
  • Full scheduling support (daily, weekly, monthly, at a particular time, etc.)
  • Support for multiple profiles
  • Fully portable: settings are stored in a single config file
  • By-volume-label paths: Create Synchronicity can backup directly to “My Usb”\Documents for example, by automagically locating the “My Usb” drive.
  • Advanced features:
    • File hashing, various comparison options
    • Time offsets, to compensate for wrong DST settings
    • Loose timing: allow file time to differ by a few seconds
    • Multiple file systems support (all the ones supported by Windows)
    • Native support for UCN (network) and relative paths
    • Proxy support for updates check.
    • For command line addicts: support for command-line arguments, allowing you to queue profiles, run silently, with optional preview display.

If you haven’t tried out Synchronicity then I highly recommend that you do. It’s not as full-featured as something like SyncBack (e.g. this doesn’t include FTP support), but it includes a lot of the features most people will need… plus some.

Synchronicity Homepage (Freeware/Portable; Windows only)

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Waze partners up with Universal Pictures to let celebrity voices give you driving directions

GPS turn-by-turn directions are staid and boring, whether they are relayed by a male or female voice. Waze wants to give us what we really want, which is, quite naturally, driving directions delivered with the gravitas only Hollywood actors can bring. To that end, the social navigation company has partnered up with Universal Pictures to deliver some cross-promotional synergy that’ll have actors in forthcoming films acting as your virtual co-pilot. The first such star of the silver screen is comedian Kevin Hart (promoting the aptly titled film Ride Along), and you can get a taste of what Waze will be like with Hart telling you where to go in the video after the break.

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Iran Nuclear Deal Reached At Geneva Talks

From the AP:

Iran struck a historic nuclear deal Sunday with the United States and five other world powers, in the most significant development between Washington and Tehran in more than three decades of estrangement between the two nations.
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Arizona Stuns Oregon 42-16: No. 5 Ducks Blown Out By Wildcats (VIDEO)

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The goal posts lying flat on the field, Arizona’s fans lingered on the field, congregating around the locker room entrance nearly 30 minutes after rushing out of the stands.

This was a big one for Arizona.

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