Man at Arms: Reforged just showed off their latest movie weapon badassery and this time they recreated the retractable wrist blades from Predator. The design is especially sick because they made the entire gauntlet that Predators wear on their wrist and it can quickly shoot out with one motion.
Last year, the most exciting thing at Google I/O was a chunk of cardboard —cardboard which could transform any smartphone into an uber-cheap virtual reality headset. But Google isn’t stopping there. This year, the company will “announce some things around Cardboard that aren’t made of cardboard,” says Google’s Clay Bavor. Intriguing.
The L’Oreal Group hasn’t tested its products on animals worldwide since 2013, instead relying on a predictive model that utilizes a “Reconstructed Human Epidermis” — basically bits of skin grown in a lab — to ensure that its products are safe. Now …
Chrome extensions are useful and can range from being novel to being full of functionality, like adding photographs to blank pages, or remembering your passwords like the LastPass extension, or prevent ads from showing up by using AdBlock, or even help make web browsing for the color-blind easier.
However as useful as the Chrome browser is for Google users, there are many complaints about it and one of them is that the browser is a bit of a memory drain, which is especially true for users who love to open tons of tabs and leave them open. If you have done this you might realize that your browsing experience becomes less than ideal.
The good news is that there is now an extension that will help manage your open tabs. Dubbed The Great Suspender, basically what this extension does is that it helps puts tabs to sleep where they’re essentially suspended anywhere between 20 seconds or up to 3 days, depending on what you plans to do with them.
This allows users to keep their tabs open in their browser without having to worry about what a drain it will be on their computer’s memory. Users can also whitelist certain websites so that these websites will remain open and functional no matter what. It’s an interesting extension but not the first of its kind, but if you’d like to check it out head on over to the Chrome Web Store for the download.
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With being the man that runs one of the world’s largest and more successful tech companies, it is not surprising that universities like the George Washington University have asked Apple’s CEO Tim Cook to give a graduation commencement speech. As expected Cook dived into a variety of different topics during his speech, one of them being about fighting for equality.
However it also seems that Cook found some time to throw some jabs at Android users which was probably made in jest and to highlight the ongoing competition between iOS and Android users. According to Cook, he said, “Before I begin today they asked me to make a standard announcement about silencing your phones. Those of you with an iPhone, just place it in silent mode. If you don’t have an iPhone, please pass it to the center aisle. Apple has a world-class recycling program.”
This isn’t the first time that Cook has tossed some barbs at Android, but then again both sides haven’t really held back against one another. A couple of years ago Google’s Eric Schmidt even released a guide on how to convert from iOS to Android. Users of either platform have also engaged in pretty intense debate over the years, although recently it seems that one debate led to a roommate stabbing the other. In the meantime if you’d like to hear Cook’s commencement speech, check out the video above.
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The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus is Apple’s current flagship smartphone, while the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge are Samsung’s, and given that both companies compete rather fiercely with each other, it does not come as a surprise that more often than not that both phones are compared against one another in terms of speed, graphics, display quality, camera quality, and etc.
That being said, YouTuber Adrian Isén has released a video in which he pit all four phones mentioned above against each other in a speed test. Now this isn’t a processor speed test, but rather an internet speed test conducted using WiFi, not carrier internet. Given that all four phones are the latest and greatest from each company, one might expect it would be a close race.
However it is not. As it turns out Apple’s iPhone 6 performed the slowest and clocked download speeds of 101.67Mbps (although the second test it managed to be faster than the iPhone 6 Plus). Its larger sibling the iPhone 6 Plus beat it out marginally at 102.67Mbps. Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge clearly dominated both iPhones, with the Galaxy S6 clocking 154.11Mbps in download speeds while the Galaxy S6 Edge saw speeds of 185.67Mbps.
We should note that these are theoretical speed tests as there are other factors that could affect your browsing speed, but for those who are looking for the best of the best, it looks like the Galaxy S6 Edge is the clear winner here.
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s executive order banning the federal government from transferring certain types of military-style equipment to police forces would remain in place if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency in 2016.
Clinton is “supportive of the recommendations and of the need for reform,” a spokesperson for the Democratic candidate said Monday after Obama announced in Camden, New Jersey, that the transfer of certain military gear to police would be sharply curtailed.
Clinton last month slammed police militarization in a major speech on criminal justice issues. “We can start by making sure that federal funds for state and local law enforcement are used to bolster best practices, rather than to buy weapons of war that have no place on our streets,” she said in the speech, which followed the death of Baltimore’s Freddie Gray at the hands of police. “President Obama’s task force on policing gives us a good place to start. Its recommendations offer a roadmap for reform, from training to technology, guided by more and better data.”
Obama’s announcement flowed from the task force recommendations that Clinton cited. Under the president’s plan, bayonets, camouflaged uniforms, grenade launchers, certain types of armored vehicles, firearms of .50-caliber or larger and weaponized vehicles would no longer be transferred to law enforcement agencies. Other military equipment would be on a controlled list that would require law enforcement organizations to demonstrate need.
Clinton, in her speech, called for every police department to have body cameras for officers, and highlighted the need for community policing. “We should listen to law enforcement leaders who are calling for a renewed focus on working with communities to prevent crime, rather than measuring success just by the number of arrests or convictions,” she said. “As your senator from New York, I supported a greater emphasis on community policing, along with putting more officers on the street to get to know those communities.”
Obama on Monday said militarized gear “can sometimes give people the feeling like there’s an occupying force as opposed to a force that’s part of the community.”
The Justice Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services is preparing after-action report looking at mistakes by the St. Louis County Police Department in handling protests in Ferguson, Missouri, related to the police killing of teenager Michael Brown in August. Photos of the police department’s heavily armed officers and military-style gear made world news.
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Former NFL star Warren Sapp has pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors after he was arrested in a Phoenix hotel in February on charges of soliciting a prostitute and assault.
Sapp entered a plea agreement on Monday, his lawyer told ABC 15 Arizona. TMZ reports that the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle must complete a “Prostitution Solicitation Diversion Program” and anger management classes in order to avoid jail time. Sapp has already completed the diversion program.
Sapp was slapped with the solicitation and assault charges in February after police say he shoved the women to the ground because of a fight over money.
According to a police report cited in February by the Arizona Republic, Sapp met the 23- and 34-year-old women at the bar of the downtown Renaissance Hotel in February before inviting them to his room. There, he paid them each $300 to perform oral sex on him.
“I put $600 on the table and everybody got naked,” Sapp is heard saying in a video of his interrogation.
The 23-year-old woman complied and Sapp filmed the encounter on his cell phone, while the other woman hid in the bathroom and didn’t come out until she heard Sapp with the other woman arguing, according to the Republic.
The outlet said that one of the women told the police Sapp grabbed her by the arm and threw her out of the room while she was collecting her belongings, knocking both women down into the hallway.
Following reports of the arrest, Sapp was promptly dropped by the National Football League Network, where he had been an analyst since 2008. Sapp was in Phoenix to cover the Super Bowl for the network.
Arizona statute requires a mandatory minimum of 15 days in jail for solicitation convictions, but Sapp caught at least one break, according to Phoenix criminal defense attorney Blake Mayes.
“[Sapp] lucked out because he was in the city of Phoenix, which means he was in [the jurisdiction of] Phoenix Municipal Court,” Blake told The Huffington Post. “Phoneix is unique in that it’s the only justice court that offers diversion [programming] for first-time and occasionally second-time offenses for both johns and prostitutes.”
“He didn’t get a better deal than someone who wasn’t Warren Sapp would have got in that situation,” Blake said.
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HUDSON, N.H. — Hours after delivering a hawkish foreign policy speech, in which he lambasted critics of post-Sept. 11 domestic surveillance tactics, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) ramped up his rhetoric further against those whom he derided as “civil liberties extremists.”
During a Monday town hall meeting at a Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in this southern New Hampshire town, Christie raised the 9/11 attacks in an extended riff about where he comes down in the ongoing debate between personal liberty and public security.
“All these people are talking about liberty,” he said. “How did that attack steal our liberty? We acted differently. We conducted our lives differently. We were reticent. We were scared.”
Christie said that this collective reaction to 9/11 qualified as “stealing of our liberty, too.”
Then he upped the ante with a dramatic flourish.
“And there are going to be some who are going to come before you and are going to say, ‘Oh, no, no, no. This is not what the Founders intended,’” he said. “The Founders made sure that the first obligation of the American government was to protect the lives of the American people, and we can do this in a way that’s smart and cost-effective and protects civil liberties. But you know, you can’t enjoy your civil liberties if you’re in a coffin.”
Christie’s vivid imagery harkened back to some of the life-or-death themes that ran through former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s 2008 presidential bid at a time when 9/11 was fresher in the public memory.
The brash New Jersey governor’s allusion to a coffin was particularly pointed in a state where voters are proud of their famous state motto, “Live Free Or Die.”
The likely 2016 presidential hopeful’s comments laid down the gauntlet for Republican rivals like Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), who has vigorously criticized the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities and other government policies that Paul argues infringe upon personal liberties.
Christie wasn’t having any of that, and he was quick to cite the 9/11 attacks to bolster his case.
“The thing that’s demoralizing to me is I think there are so many sectors of our country who haven’t forgotten 9/11 — everyone will always remember 9/11 — but have forgotten what 9/11 felt like,” Christie said. “I can remember a week afterwards, they canceled our kids’ soccer games for a week. The next week, we had soccer. I can remember standing on this big open field in our suburban town in New Jersey, and an airplane flew overhead, and we all jerked up and looked up. We never used to do that. And we don’t do it now. We did it then. That’s what I’m talking about. What did it feel like for us? That’s what terror does to you.”
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In the first five months of the year, Iranian authorities may have executed nearly 250 people for drug offenses, according to multiple human rights organizations. That’s almost two people a day. And despite the alarming frequency with which alleged drug offenders are being put to death in the country, the United Nations is readying a multimillion-dollar package to continue helping Iranian authorities with their anti-drug efforts — a move that critics say stands in violation of the U.N.’s own human rights policy.
Of the estimated 347 executions Iran has carried out since the beginning of the year, between 220 and 241 have been of people accused of drug-related violations. Many of those people were low-level and nonviolent drug offenders, the human rights groups say. Drug-related executions appear to be on the rise, with at least 41 — but possibly as many as 50 — taking place in April alone, according to data provided to The WorldPost from the groups Amnesty International and Reprieve, as well as the most current public data from Iran Human Rights.
If Iran continues to execute people convicted of drug-related offenses at this rate, the country will by the end of the year have put nearly twice as many people to death for such charges as human rights groups say it did in 2014.
Much of the data on this issue consists of unofficial estimates, because Iranian authorities generally announce far fewer executions than actually take place, the rights groups claim. Iran has only officially acknowledged about 100 executions so far this year, and in 2014, while rights groups counted as many as 753 people put to death in Iran, the state only officially acknowledged 291 executions.
Iran has a long history with the death penalty, especially for drug crimes, and for years it has been a leading executioner in the Middle East and the world. China is believed to be the only country that executes more people than Iran, with most rights groups estimating more than 1,000 total executions in 2014 — but China keeps its death penalty program shrouded in secrecy, so exact numbers are, again, difficult to come by.
Iran’s draconian Anti-Narcotics Law levies the death penalty against offenders who have been convicted multiple times of planting opium poppies, coca plants or cannabis seeds with the intent to produce drugs. Execution is also imposed after multiple convictions of smuggling more than 5 kg of opium or marijuana into the country, or for buying, possessing, carrying or hiding more than 5 kg of those drugs. Other acts that carry the death penalty include smuggling, dealing, producing, distributing or exporting more than 30 grams of heroin, morphine, cocaine or their derivatives.
In close proximity to Afghanistan and its booming opium supply, Iran has become a key transit route for narcotraffickers moving the crop into Europe and the United States. Iran also has one of the highest drug addiction rates in the world, with opium, meth and heroin among the most popular drugs of choice.
And while Iranian authorities claim that many of the people put to death are involved in organized crime or armed smuggling, human rights groups contend that the country’s judicial system — which is marred by corruption and a lack of transparency — frequently targets members of the most marginalized and vulnerable groups in the nation. According to various rights groups, the system is particularly unforgiving toward poor people and ethnic minorities, particularly Afghans, who arrive from countries where employment opportunities are limited and who are sometimes coerced into confessions.
“It is pretty murky exactly what involvement in the drug business a lot of these defendants have,” Elise Auerbach, an Iran specialist for Amnesty International, told The WorldPost.
Faraz Sanei, a researcher with the Middle East and North Africa Division of Human Rights Watch, said these alleged violations of due process, combined with a “very low threshold for drug possession, which may qualify a defendant as a ‘trafficker,’” has raised serious alarm among rights activists. Some activists, he said, suspect that Iranian authorities may be using drug prosecutions in part “to target and execute political dissidents or others who speak out against the government.”
One case that’s fanned the flames of those suspicions involves Zahra Bahrami, an Iranian-Dutch woman who was arrested in 2009 for her participation in a protest over that year’s presidential election, which protesters claimed was rigged.
After Bahrami’s initial arrest and charges over protesting, she was later charged with possession of large amounts of cocaine and opium — an offense that is punishable by death in Iran. Human rights groups claimed the drug charges against Bahrami were fabricated, but she was nevertheless executed in 2011, with the state maintaining that she’d been part of an international drug smuggling gang.
In addition to putting adults to death, Iran remains one of the few countries that executes juvenile offenders and executes adults for crimes committed while they were juveniles.
Hamid Ahmadi, 24, is one such adult. According to Amnesty International, Ahmadi is at imminent risk of execution, although his case is currently under judicial review and concerns a crime he was allegedly involved in when he was only 16 years old.
No human rights groups could confirm to The WorldPost that any juvenile offenders have been executed in Iran this year, but according to an Amnesty International report, Iran executed at least 14 people in 2014 for offenses they allegedly committed as juveniles.
As Iran continues to execute citiziens for drug-related charges, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has offered support to the country to fight drug trafficking. UNODC and Iran are in the final stages of developing a multiyear, multimillion-dollar program aimed at combating the country’s illicit drug trade, The Guardian reported in March. It’s a move that Reprieve says is in conflict with the U.N.’s stance on the death penalty, because those funds, Reprieve says, are likely to lead to more arrests — and some of those arrests will likely lead to hangings.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said the U.N. opposes the use of capital punishment for drug crimes. The U.N.’s own human rights guidance is clear on the issue as well: “If, following requests for guarantees and high-level political intervention, executions for drug related offences continue, UNODC may have no choice but to employ a temporary freeze or withdrawal of support.”
Still, the U.N. carries on with its anti-drug program in Iran, though it’s one of more than 30 countries around the world that put people to death for drug offenses, according to the Lawyers Collective, a human rights group based in India.
“If the UNODC followed its own human rights policy it would have ended funding for Iranian drug raids years ago,” said Dan Dolan, who works with Reprieve’s death penalty team, in an email to The WorldPost. “Instead it is lining up a generous five year funding deal for Iran’s brutal drug police, despite a near doubling in the rate at which Iran is hanging drug offenders. This represents a shameful disregard for human rights on the part of the UNODC, which publicly claims to oppose the death penalty while funding aggressive raids which send drug mules to death row.”
In February, Yury Fedotov, executive director of UNODC, championed what he described as the anti-drug efforts Iran has made over the decades. He added that UNODC and Iran were partnering in the fight against drugs in the region.
“The UNODC and Iran will finalize a five-year anti-drug plan in the next two months,” Fedotov said, according to Fars News Agency.
Fedotov also said that UNODC would try to supply Iran with various equipment needed to fight against narcotraffickers — equipment that the country hasn’t been able to secure for itself due to Western sanctions.
David Dadge, a spokesman for Fedotov, declined to confirm the details of the U.N.’s 2015 anti-drug program with Iran. He did, however, refer The WorldPost to the organization’s public documents about the multifaceted anti-narcotic program that the U.N. pursued in Iran between 2011 and 2014.
Dadge declined to confirm the dollar figure of the more recent Iran plan or say whether it’s been finalized. The U.N.’s current anti-trafficking program in Iran is due to end in early June, and most human rights groups and other observers expect the new program to be in place by then. Between 2011 and 2014, the U.N. spent roughly $5.5 million to secure Iran’s borders and fight drug trafficking in the country. That money came from multiple European partner nations. Dadge declined to name the European nations funding the 2015 program.
“If [international donors] are to avoid direct complicity in grave human rights abuses, donors should make their support to UNODC programs strictly conditional on recipient states abolishing the death penalty for drug offenses,” Dolan said.
Earlier this month, two U.N. human rights experts sharply condemned Iran’s rising execution tally. They called on the Iranian government to cease executions immediately and fall in line with the U.N.’s 2007 urging that member nations suspend the death penalty.
“When the Iranian government refuses to even acknowledge the full extent of executions which have occurred, it shows a callous disregard for both human dignity and international human rights law,” said Ahmed Shaheed, a U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, in a statement.
Iran has flatly rejected the allegations of an increase in executions, with Marzieh Afkham, the spokeswoman for Iran’s foreign ministry, calling the U.N. criticism a “downright lie” and claiming that Iran only uses capital punishment for the “most serious crimes, including narcotics trafficking.”
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