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When we talk about a computer mouse, most of the time it would be one of those peripherals that we are so used to using with one hand in order to manipulate a cursor that we see on screen, so much so that anything else other than this particular design is overlooked. However, surely there is always a new way to do things, right? Enter the $149.99 Mycestro Wearable Mouse, which is a unique computer peripheral which is definitely worth having around the house – or office, for that matter.

The Mycestro Wearable Mouse happens to be a 3D mouse that one will wear around the finger, and it will sport three buttons to keep it company alongside scroll capability, now how about that? This means you no longer need to take your hand away from the keyboard ever again, which would certainly help you save plenty of time in the long run, especially when you are working on a particularly long document or spreadsheet. Using the Mycestro Wearable Mouse is easy – it might take a wee bit of practice at first, but being lightweight and ergonomic, you can control your cursor using natural gestures while holding your arm in any comfortable position. Right now, the Mycestro is only available for right hand use, so southpaws will have to sit this one out for the moment.
[ Mycestro Wearable Mouse renders a new way to use a mouse copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

 The Alcatel OneTouch Watch, which got its debut at CES this year, is officially going on sale today with pre-orders starting at $149.99 directly from the company’s U.S. website. The smartwatch is unique among those from larger OEMs in that it works with both iOS and Android smartphones, packing in support for health monitoring features, phone notifications and music controls on both kinds… Read More

A Utah judge has ordered a teacher accused of sex with students to stand separate trials for each case.

Brianne Altice, 35, is charged with sexually abusing three male students at Davis High School in Kaysville. She was first arrested in October 2013, after authorities learned she allegedly had sex with a 15-year-old student.

Charges against Altice piled up over the following months as additional victims came forward. She now faces more than a dozen felony charges stemming from her alleged conduct with the boys.

At a hearing March 26, one of the teacher’s alleged victims, now 18, testified that he’d had sex with Altice after she bailed out of jail on sex abuse and rape charges in October 2013. Following that development, Altice’s defense asked a judge to split the cases into separate trials — one for each victim. She pleaded not guilty in two of the cases, maintaining she did not abuse her position of power as a teacher.

Prosecutors wanted to bundle the cases into one trial, but the defense successfully argued that trying the cases together would be prejudicial to Altice, according to Fox 13 Salt Lake City. The judge sided with the defense on Monday, saying that there was enough evidence in the case to warrant splitting the trials.

There’s a mountain of evidence against the teacher, who was fired from her job teaching English in the wake of the allegations. Prosecutors said Altice communicated with her victims through text messages, and sent at least one of them photos of her breasts.

Testifying in January, one of the victims, who was 17 at the time, said he knew Altice was having sex with other boys, but that he considered her a girlfriend. He described having oral sex and intercourse with the teacher between November 2013 and September 2014.

On the stand, the teen stole glances at Altice, and said “she didn’t deserve” to be on trial. He said he felt bad when he found out she was arrested.

In September 2014 testimony, a different victim called Altice a “teacher with benefits.”

Other students at the high school were shocked by the allegations against the popular English teacher.

“She always wanted to be liked,” Davis High School student Kylee Carroll said in 2013. “I just didn’t think that she would ever do something like this.”

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If you thought Martha Stewart’s jokes were shocking, wait until you see what ended up on the cutting room floor.

“The Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber” was full of some incredible disses courtesy of roast master Kevin Hart, veteran roasters Jeff Ross and Natasha Leggero and newcomers, like Shaquille O’Neal and “SNL” cast member Pete Davidson. But don’t forget, there’s also a team of writers who pen some of the best burns at every roast.

Every year, comedian and longtime roast writer Jesse Joyce, who worked with the late, great Greg Giraldo, tweets out the jokes that didn’t make the cut, either because they weren’t used by the comics or they were edited out by Comedy Central.

Scroll down for 26 of the rejected insults and head over to Joyce’s Twitter feed to see them all:

Warning, some mostly NSFW language

Realistically, probably not. Yet more than 100,000 people are calling for the removal of Puerto Rico’s governor anyway, and one interpretation of the U.S. Constitution could mean they have the law on their side.

A White House petition demanding the federal government depose of Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla has accumulated 104,000 signatures since its Feb. 18 inception. The primary complaint about García-Padilla, who took office in 2013, is his promotion of the passage of value-added taxes on products between the time that a good arrives in the island and the time that it is sold to consumers. Compounding García-Padilla’s unpopularity is his decision earlier this month not to defend Puerto Rico’s same-sex marriage ban in court, a move harshly opposed by much of the deeply religious, Catholic island.

The Puerto Rico petition recently reached the threshold number of signatures necessary to trigger a response from the White House. The administration has not formally replied yet, though there is likely a slim-to-none chance that President Barack Obama would actually go forward with García-Padilla’s removal. On the surface, the petition may seem unserious, along the lines of the viral petition requesting the U.S. government construct a “Death Star.”

Still, it’s possible the government could carry this request out if it wanted to, according to an interpretation of Article IV, Section 3 of the Constitution. The relevant portion reads: “The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States.”

The word territory is key here. Clearly the government cannot remove a duly elected state governor, but Puerto Rico could be a different story, at least in theory. In fact, there is some precedent. Between the U.S. annexation of the island in 1898 and the 1947 congressional passage of the Elective Governors Act, the president appointed and removed local governors in Puerto Rico. And the president has removed the governor on a whim on at least one occasion, when Franklin D. Roosevelt removed Blanton Winship in 1939 over concerns about widespread crime and corruption.

“Unless Congress revokes the 1947 and 1952 laws [Puerto Rico’s Constitution], the president (acting on behalf of Congress) does not have the power to remove the governor,” said Charles R. Venator, a political science professor at the University of Connecticut’s Institute of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies. “However, because Congress has not changed the territorial status of Puerto Rico since 1900, it is possible to make a theoretical argument that Congress has a plenary power to intervene in local Puerto Rican affairs and remove the governor.”

This also brings up the thorny question of whether the island is officially a territory at all. The land was never formally incorporated following its annexation. A 2008 Puerto Rico court decision ruled that it had “evolved” into an incorporated territory over the past century, despite any affirmative language from the federal government specifically declaring it. However, the ruling has yet to be upheld or confirmed by Congress or the Supreme Court.

The petition’s creator — a Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, resident listed under the pseudonym G.G. — wrote on the petition’s description that “His [García-Padilla’s] administration is a threat to the economy and the people of Puerto Rico — even to democracy. Puerto Rico doesn’t need an electoral process, it [needs] an impeachment process. The time is ripe for an investigation and action, over what has been done with the people’s money over the last two years.”