The XBOX One is beating the PS4 — at least on Facebook, if not in sales numbers. A map published by the Movoto Blog takes a look at the popularity of current-gen consoles in every state in the United States based on the number of Facebook likes
If you have been keeping an eye on iPhone 6 rumors you will know very well that Apple is expected to release two models this year, one with a 4.7-inch display and one with a gigantic 5.5-inch display. This would be the first time that the iPhone enters phablet category and analysts expect that this increase in display size might spark a rise in upgrades from potential customers who have been holding out. We haven’t actually seen these new iPhones in the flesh but a purported LCD component of the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 has leaked online.
The photo comes from Sonny Dickson, a source who accurately leaked the iPhone 5c and Retina iPad mini shells last year. Dickson claims that this LCD component is for the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 and places a ruler to confirm the diagonal measurement of the component, which is approximately 14cm or 5.51181-inches.
Granted that this doesn’t give us a peek at how the display would actually look but then again there’s never a dull moment in the rumor mill as far as new Apple products are concerned.
The iPhone 6 is expected to be thinner than its predecessor and may also come with subtle design changes. Apple is believed to offer it in the same color options that are being offered with the iPhone 5s right now. Some analysts claim that the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 might even be priced higher than its predecessors but research has found that most of the customers are willing to absorb that increase.
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As Netflix works on its global expansion ambitions the video-on-demand giant may soon form an alliance with a German telecom giant, which happens to own a controlling stake in T-Mobile U.S. According to a German magazine, Deutsche Telekom and Netflix are in advanced talks over a possible marketing alliance. While no deal has been reached as yet the magazine claims these talks are in advanced stages, Netflix is reportedly having similar talks with other telecom groups in Germany.
The Hollywood Reporter hears from sources close to DT that the company is indeed negotiating with Netflix, but sources refused to divulge any more details about the negotiations. When reached for a comment by the scribe both companies declined to say anything.
Sources claims that Deutsche Telekom is open to cooperating with Netflix in this space even though the service is a direct competitor for DT’s own video-on-demand service called Entertain. A marketing alliance with Germany’s leading ISP, cable and mobile provider will open the door for millions of potential Netflix subscribers in a completely new market.
Even if there’s no deal as yet the possibility of one is seen as a positive indicator for Netflix as it tries to break into the larger European market. The service also has plans of expanding into France but its unclear right now if its going to go for a similar marketing alliance there as well.
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday threw his support to U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel in the Democratic primary for New York’s 13th Congressional District, an endorsement that came with less than 48 hours to go before the polls open.
Rangel, 84, is running for his 23rd term in the House of Representatives in a highly contested race. His opponents include state Sen. Adriano Espaillat, who would be the first Dominican-born member of Congress if he wins Tuesday’s primary and the general election in November, as well as Harlem minister Rev. Michael Walrond Jr.
In endorsing Rangel, Cuomo said his “experience, seniority, and steadfast commitment to improving the lives of New Yorkers continue to make him a critical voice in standing up to the Tea Party extremism that is threatening to take over Washington.”
Rangel has also gained endorsements from Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand as well as former President Bill Clinton.
Espaillat has been endorsed by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and City Comptroller Scott Stringer. Campaign Manager Jesse Compoamor pointed to those endorsements and others in responding to the Cuomo announcement, saying, “Adriano Espaillat was 1,000 votes away from unseating Congressman Rangel in 2012 as an insurgent with no political support. Two years later, the call for change is even louder.”
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who once managed a Rangel campaign, has stayed out making any endorsements in the race, and chided Rangel for referencing Espaillat’s ethnic background and saying that he was running because the district had become increasingly Hispanic.
A NY1/Siena College poll released Thursday put Rangel up 13 points over Espaillat. The margin of error was 3.7 percentage points.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch op-ed editor Tony Messenger spoke out Sunday about George Will’s incendiary piece on sexual assault and the newspaper’s subsequent decision to drop Will’s column.
In a piece earlier this month, Will, a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, wrote that being a rape victim is now a “coveted status” on college campuses. The piece outraged readers and politicians, and prompted the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to announce earlier this week that it will no longer run Will’s syndicated column.
Messenger spoke to CNN’s Brian Stelter during Sunday’s “Reliable Sources,” and explained how the newspaper — which said it had been considering dropping the column “for several months” — arrived at the decision.
“We had a lot of readers very angry and very hurt,” Messenger said. “It caused us to go back and take a look at it, and it reinforced our previous decision that he had lost a little bit of speed off his fastball, and it caused us to make the decision a little bit more quickly than we would have otherwise.”
He also defended the decision to critics who argued that the Post-Dispatch was wrong to silence Will’s viewpoint on the issue. Messenger said that the column was “very offensive to many of our readers” and that it is “well within our rights to decide what sort of debate, what level of civility, what level of treatment of women who are sexual assault victims we’re going to allow on our page.”
“A lot of the responses that were negative to our decision accused us of doing so for political correctness,” Messenger added. “That’s not the case. We believe that the column trivializes sexual assault victims.”
Messenger also told Romenesko that the vast majority of readers he has heard from support the newspaper’s decision, while a “handful” said they oppose it.
What if the most gorgeous room in your home wasn’t really a room after all? Well, with these jaw-dropping staircases that’s exactly the case. From their ultra-modern designs to their bold pops of color, these passageways from our friends at Porch.com prove that a blank canvas doesn’t always have four walls and a doorway.
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When I was in architecture school, the design projects to which we were assigned typically related to creating spaces or products that were to benefit people. In our intensive workshops, we designed imaginary public open spaces, furniture made out of recycled material, and housing for the poor built from local material.
Just walk into any Design Within Reach store to experience modern, people-friendly residential products created by top designers. For those of us who were budding designers, having our designs in such a store would have been the epitome of success.
Imagine, however, if the school had a class on how to design public space that would drive homeless people away? Although, such classes might seem to be bizarre, such design is actually occurring in public spaces.
In London, metal spikes have been designed into the ground in front of an apartment building so people (i.e., homeless people) cannot sleep there. They’re called “homeless spikes“. In Montreal, similar spikes were installed outside of a bookstore.
Public spaces have benches that have armrests at every seat. Although they may appear to be designed for the benefit of the public’s comfort, in reality they are designed so that people (i.e., homeless people) cannot lie down and sleep on them.
In Japan, these public benches are designed so that the benches are actually uncomfortable. Yes, uncomfortable. No one will want to sit or sleep on them for a long period of time.
I could only imagine an architectural class created specifically to shoo way people who are homeless. You may have heard of smart houses, where lights, air conditioning, stereos, and even coffee machines are controlled by smart phones.
So, how about a “smart public space” where homeless people are driven away by new technology? Metal spikes are integrated into concrete sidewalks and plazas, so if people lie down on them the spikes automatically pop out. Public furniture is designed to topple people off if someone lies down on it for longer than 15 minutes.
Sensors are installed so that if someone lies down within the space, blinding lights wake people up and alarms go off. And sprinklers are designed to water both landscaping as well as sidewalks when people are sitting or sleeping too long.
Sounds like a perfect curriculum for budding designers of public space. Maybe such ideas could be part of the technology for smart houses as well?
Of course, it might be easier to simply design enough affordable housing so that every person does not have to sleep in public spaces, but in their own private homes.
Now that would be the best smart house technology of the day.
Incoming House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Sunday he will not support reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank’s charter when it expires later this year.
The Ex-Im Bank was established in 1934 to provide financial assistance to foreign buyers of U.S. goods in order to encourage exports. McCarthy backed extending the agency’s life in 2012, the last time the charter was reauthorized. The bank has since sparked a heated debate within the Republican Party, with conservative critics deriding the agency as an example of corporate welfare.
McCarthy, who was selected by his colleagues last week to replace outgoing Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), explained his position on the trade agency during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”
“One of the biggest problems with government is they go and take hard-earned money so others do things the private sector can do,” McCarthy said when asked by the agency by Fox’s Chris Wallace. “That’s what the Ex-Im Bank does. The last authorization with the Ex-Im Bank directed the president and the Treasury secretary to wind down the Ex-Im Bank, negotiate with the other countries to wind them down so we have a level playing field.”
McCarthy continued, “I think Ex-Im Bank is something government does not have to be involved in, the private sector can do it.”
With Cantor’s primary loss precipitating a shake-up at the top of the House GOP conference, business groups are concerned that the Ex-Im Bank will die under the new leadership team. As The Hill notes, incoming Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) is also critical of the agency.
McCarthy has previously signaled that he will defer to House Financial Services Committee chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), who has led the charge against renewing the bank’s charter, describing it as “the face of cronyism.”
San Diego Padres reliever Alex Torres became the first pitcher in Major League Baseball history to play while wearing a protective cap on the mound, which was approved for pitchers before the season. In the eighth inning against the Dodgers on Saturday, Torres wore the hat while he walked two batters, struck out two others and gave up one run.
“It could save our lives, if someone hits a ball to your head. I get it for free, so I’m just gonna use it to see how it feels,” Torres said after the game, via MLB.com.
The dangers for a pitcher on the mound are no secret. Major League Baseball approved the new protective cap back in January 2014, almost 17 months after then-Oakland A’s pitcher Brandon McCarthy suffered a skull fracture and brain contusion from being struck in the head by a line drive. Since then, Tampa Bay’s Alex Cobb and Cincinnati’s Aroldis Chapman have also suffered injuries from being hit in the head by batted balls.
The cap has protective padding along the front and the sides which makes it much bigger than a normal hat. The manufacturer of the cap, 4Licensing Corporation subsidiary isoBlox, told ESPN’s Outside The Lines when it was approved that it’s about a half-inch thicker in the front and a full inch thicker on the sides than normal caps.
While one of the Padres announcers said he thinks the hat is too big, Torres, who had never been insisted that it didn’t feel very different from a normal baseball cap.
“The difference between how this hat and the regular hat feels isn’t much. I tried it before using it in the game, playing catch,” Torres said. “It doesn’t feel really bad. It doesn’t feel like how it looks on my head.”
It’s nice to think that when people head to a restaurant for dinner, they do so with the best of intentions. But sometimes, without even realizing it, they do dumb things that really annoy the wait staff. In the interest of keeping yourself on your server’s good side, we’ve rounded up 10 of the most common customer slip-ups in restaurants.
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There’s a big difference between being rude in a restaurant and being dumb. Last month, for example, a student walked into Sukiyabashi Jiro, one of the world’s best sushi restaurants, and proceeded to ask for some sushi to go — only she asked for it cooked (this was after trying the raw sushi and deciding she didn’t like it). The fact that her party arrived 40 minutes late? Rude. But the fact that she asked for her sushi to be cooked? Dumb.
The good thing about doing a dumb thing, however, is that it doesn’t automatically mean that you’re dumb. We can learn from our mistakes, and even the aforementioned student later returned to the restaurant to apologize. Nobody’s perfect.
A lot of dumb things we do at restaurants aren’t obvious. For example, a lot of folks don’t know that most restaurants stick to a strict seating system to make sure that all the servers have an equal amount of customers at one time. So while seating yourself might seem like the obvious thing to do if there’s an open table that you want, you really should just let the hostess do her job.
So consider reading this roundup of dumb things people do in restaurants to be an educational experience. If you’re guilty of any of these, your ignorance can be forgiven. Just don’t keep doing them after you know you shouldn’t, because you know what that is? Dumb.
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