It’s been barely two months since Gigabyte launched its 15.6-inch P35X gaming laptop, and yet here it is again announcing a successor. The Gigabyte P37X, however, might not be too big of a jump to deter you from grabbing the smaller notebook. It is, naturally, bigger than the P35X, but, aside from some few highlights, the two share a lot … Continue reading
For those of you who still remember, Sony’s VAIO use to be the company’s arm in producing laptops and computers. Since 2014, VAIO has been handed over to Japanese Industrial Partners (JIP), in a move that justified Sony’s intention to leave the PC market and focus on their own mobile phones and TVs. In a much anticipated and yet surprising news, however, have surfaced rumoring that the company is once again set in making headlines with their intention to debut a new flagship smartphone into the mobile market. The release date is allegedly set for March 12.
Sony which yet holds about 5% of VAIO’s shares and has its own Xperia line had most probably guided the company to its new rumored smartphone. According to the rumor, the VAIO phone will be powered by a 64-bit Snapdragon 410 MSM8916 chipset, along with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of onboard storage. It will sport a 5-inch 720p display and a fairly decent camera setup, consisting of a 13MP main and 5MP front-facing shooter and comes with Android 5.0 out of the box.
From the curve where the rumor is heading and with the offered proof as well as a glimpse of its hardware, it might well be more than a rumor. However we have till March 12 to speculate.
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Much of our world now is the science fiction of the past. Lately, to add to the proprietor of technology, Amazon has been experimenting with a new shipping methods; by installing 3D printers into their delivery trucks. Soon, customer would just have to wait a moment passes, as the Amazon’s truck parked onto homes’ curb would print the items that they have ordered online.
This could rapidly change the outlook of purchasing online goods. The e-commerce company has since filed several patent applications for the system which could print goods on demand in “Mobile manufacturing hubs”.
The patent filing states that the system would help speed up the delivery process and reduce the warehouse space the company needs. “Time delays between receiving an order and shipping the item to the customer may reduce customer satisfaction and affect revenues generated,” Amazon says in the documents. The Wall Street Journal fantasized a scenario where the mobile manufacturing hubs could be used to supply customers with car’s parts before a road trip on the same day itself.
No patent award has yet been issues to the company. Mobile manufacturing hubs are just the latest in a series of plans the company partake in making the delivery time more efficient. In early 2014, Amazon was awarded a patent for “anticipatory delivery,” a system based on previous searches, that would let the e-retailer send products to shipping hubs it believes will sell well. In 2013, the company has uses new hardware; drones for delivery, way before FAA announcement of the new rules on commercial drone flights.
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A thief made off with an entire house in Klamath Falls, Oregon, this week in a heist that would make Ocean’s Eleven blush.
On Tuesday, the homeowner called the Klamath County Sheriff’s Office to report that the home was missing, KOBI reports. Moving this log cabin couldn’t have been easy, either. It was on a foundation and definitely wasn’t a mobile home.
“[The owner] went to visit his part-time home and between the first time he saw it and a couple of months later, it was gone. I mean can you imagine?” Klamath County Sheriff Frank Skrah told The Washington Post.
Police spent two days searching and finally found the cabin on Thursday, at least a mile away from its foundation. Skrah said there was a legal dispute in which three people were claiming ownership of the home, and one of them had sold it to a fourth person.
“We think that somebody busted out the foundation, jacked it up, put a lowboy [trailer] underneath it and lowered it down on the lowboy and took it,” Skrah said.
The 1,200-square-foot cabin wasn’t occupied at the time it was swiped.
Deputies reportedly have a list of suspects, but they wouldn’t release any more details about the homeowner or the investigation. No charges have been filed.
The Islamic State has run a slick media campaign to lure young recruits to its ranks — and the strategy has attracted women as well as men.
On Feb. 17, three teenager girls boarded a plane to Turkey from London and were subsequently smuggled into Syria with hopes of joining the militant group, according to BBC.
Before their departure, Shamima Begum, 15, Amira Abase, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, may have been in contact with Islamic State recruiter Aqsa Mahmood, a 20-year-old Scotland native who goes by the name Umm Layth (which translates to “Mother of the Lion“).
The three follow in the footsteps of dozens of other women from Europe and the U.S. who have traveled to Syria in recent months to join the Islamic State — a phenomenon that women’s rights activist Sara Khan is out to stop.
Khan composed an appeal to Islamic State hopefuls, titled “A letter to young Muslim girls if you are considering leaving the UK to join ISIS,” and published it on Inspire, an NGO she co-founded which works to counter extremism and gender inequality.
“Dear Sister,” Khan writes, “You won’t know me but like you I too am British and Muslim. Some of your friends may have gone out to join ISIS and you are also considering going out too.”
Khan recounts the Islamic States’ enticing — but empty — promises of providing women with homes, husbands and connection to God, all of which amount to lies “in the wickedest of ways.”
Just because your liars are cloaked in religious clothing, speak in a religious language, and claim to be speaking in God’s name does not change the simple fact that you are being lied to through a gross manipulation of the teachings of our faith. You are being lied to first and foremost about your religious duty as a Muslim but also about the reality of life under ISIS. And the thought of you destroying your life, for a pack of lies is what motivates me to write this letter. Because you deserve to know the truth and to live a fulfilled and happy life.
The group’s religious authenticity has been debated by Islamic scholars, political pundits, Muslim commentators and reporters alike. In November a group of more than 120 Muslim scholars from around the world signed an open letter to the “fighters and followers” of the Islamic State, roundly denouncing them as un-Islamic.
The so-called caliphate, or Islamic empire, the Islamic State claims to be forming runs “in direct contrast to the teachings of the Qur’an,” Khan argues, by promoting the killing of innocents, sex slavery and rape, among other atrocities. What is more, she writes, there is a long history of interfaith cooperation in the region that the militant group fails to recognize.
Those who corrupt the earth by destroying lives, property, and nature are designated as mufsidun (corruptors and evil-doers) who, in effect, wage war against God by dismantling the very fabric of existence, yet this is what ISIS have committed themselves to.
Islam does not seek to impose itself over other religions. The Qur’an states that God has made people different and diverse as a test so that we may come to “know one another, not despite each other”. Human diversity is […] part of the divine plan, and the test is for human beings to co-exist and interact despite our differences.
Most importantly, the journey into the ranks of the Islamic State is a life sentence for most, Khan writes.
“Young women realizing the error of their ways, have tried to escape but many have failed,” Khan relays. “The ability to fulfill any dreams you may have once had will be over as you discover how your identity, agency and freedoms are all denied and suppressed.”
For these reasons, she says, Muslim women should support one another in rejecting the “poisonous ideology.”
Read Khan’s full letter on Inspire.
Imagine you were President, or Speaker of the House, and one day you woke up and discovered that you had an extra $5.8 billion dollars to spend. What would you do with the cash? A new aircraft carrier (or half of one, anyway)? Perhaps a couple of bridges to somewhere or a new highway? A quaint premise, indeed, but not as far-fetched as you might think, considering the amount of money American taxpayers have been losing to taxpayer identity theft.
The Treasury Department was drained of an estimated $5.8 billion in tax refunds by identity thieves filing fraudulent returns during the 2013 tax-filing season. True story, according to the Government Accountability Office, which delivered the bad news earlier this month. The IRS was able to prevent the loss of another $24.2 billion during the same time period.
Earlier this month, the software giant Intuit temporarily suspended electronic filing of all state tax returns following a marked uptick in what appeared to be fraudulent filings. And with major data breaches like Anthem’s recent debacle compromising Americans’ Social Security numbers, identity thieves are getting their hands on all of the pieces of our personally identifying information they need to commit tax identity theft.
The $5.8 billion in refunds issued in 2013 were paid to identity thieves who filed fraudulent returns using stolen names, Social Security numbers and fake W-2 forms. With tax identity theft skyrocketing in recent years, it doesn’t appear anyone knows how to stop the problem. To put this into perspective, we are currently losing the equivalent of Chad’s annual GDP. We’re talking about a whole lot of money here.
I asked members of Congress where that money could have made a difference. Here’s how they replied. (A quick note: Several Republican members of Congress were asked to comment and declined.)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
“$5.8 billion could have increased the National Institutes of Health budget for the year by more than 15%. Right now, NIH can fund only one in six research proposals, and many young researchers are getting discouraged and leaving the field. Think how many young researchers could have had their careers launched with that $5.8 billion–and think about the breakthroughs on Alzheimer’s or autism or diabetes that they might have made.”
Sen. Gary C. Peters, D-Mich.
“Cracking down on identity theft and false tax returns would not only save American families from financial hardship and frustration, it would free up funds to reinvest in our nation’s future. I would divide the $5.8 billion in savings between the Head Start Program and basic science research at the National Science Foundation. The Head Start Program is one of the most successful federal programs we have. Providing critical education, health, nutrition and social services to low-income families helps ensure that all American children have a chance to succeed in school, regardless of their ZIP code. The National Science Foundation funds all fields of fundamental science, research and engineering — the seeds that will grow our future economy. Investing in scientific research is critical to increasing America’s competitiveness, driving innovation and creating new jobs.”
Doubtless, there are countless projects that might be jumpstarted or enhanced with $5.8 billion.
If we didn’t turn the $5.8 billion into new programs or to bolster existing ones, there’s a more direct way to deploy it. That money could be invested in initiatives that would educate and protect consumers and businesses against the perils of data breaches and identity theft. What could you do with that kind of money? I’m going out on a limb here, but I think it might be possible to keep more money in the Treasury and limit its refund to rightful taxpayers by investing in even more sophisticated filtering systems as well as more people on the job to make tax filing, taxpayer vetting and the tax fraud remediation processes more efficient and effective.
Hopefully, the observations by our lawmakers will draw attention to the continuing disaster of identity theft and the desperate need for the government to step up its efforts to stem the outgoing tide of Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars. So, what would you do with the $5.8 billion?
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