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COUGAR is offering you their newest gaming mouse, the Revenger. Designed for right-handed palm grip players, this ergonomically-designed mouse is equipped with 6 programmable buttons, a PixArt PMW3360 optical sensor of up to 12000 DPI resolution and a gold-plated USB connector (cable length: 1.8m).

What’s more, the Revenger also comes with a LED DPI indicator – DPI indicator lights in three stages according to the sensitivity you apply, a LED illumination function of 16.8 million color options, Omron microswitches – rated for 5 million clicks and an on-board memory.

Backed by a 2-year limited warranty, the COUGAR Revenger will hit the market from September 2nd for 4,280 Yen (about $43). [Product Page]

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Yet another young, white male athlete has received little-to-no jail time for committing sexual assault.

On April 2, 18-year-old high school student David Becker sexually assaulted two unconscious girls. MassLive.com reported that the East Longmeadow, Mass. native was charged with two counts of rape, and one count of indecent assault and battery on a person older than 14, for reportedly penetrating two female classmates with his fingers while they were unconscious on a bed after a house party. 

On Monday, Becker was sentenced to two years probation with no jail time, despite Hampden County’s Assistant District Attorney Eileen Sears recommendation that Becker serve two years in prison.  

According to MassLive.com, on the night Becker assaulted the two women, they had all been at a house party. Becker and the two women volunteered to stay after to help clean up:

After they finished [cleaning], one of the victims said, both girls went into an upstairs bedroom ― one requiring assistance walking up the stairs ― and Becker later came in to talk, before they all fell asleep in the same bed. Each reported waking up to Becker sexually assaulting them.

In a text message to one of the victims the next day, Becker apologized for the assault, court records show. The victim responded with a text telling Becker “don’t even worry about it,” but later told police that she said this because “she did not know what else to say,” Ingalls’ police report states.

After the sentencing, Becker’s defense attorney, Thomas Rooke, summed up his client’s sexual assault of two unconscious young girls as “one mistake at one moment on one night which was clouded with alcohol.” 

A local news clip shows Becker and Rooke in court. 

Rooke told the court that a two-year jail sentence would have “destroyed” Becker’s life, apparently forgetting that Becker’s actions may have destroyed the lives of his victims. He continued, characterizing the assault as a run-of-the-mill teenage error: 

We all made mistakes when we were 17, 18, 19 years old, and we shouldn’t be branded for life with a felony offense and branded a sex offender. Putting this kid in jail for two years would have destroyed this kid’s life… He can now look forward to a productive life without being burdened with the stigma of having to register as a sex offender. The goal of this sentence was not to impede this individual from graduating high school and to go onto the next step of his life, which is a college experience.

Throughout the trial, Rooke was reportedly quick to point out that the 18-year-old was a three-sport athlete in high school who “clocked the second-most hours of community service in his class.” 

James Leydon, a spokesperso for Hampden County District Attorney’s office, told MassLive.com that one of the two survivors read a victim impact statement in court. According to Leydon, the survivor said that she did not believe it was necessary for Becker’s sentence to include jail time. 

Putting this kid in jail for two years would have destroyed this kid’s life.
Thomas Rooke, Becker’s attorney

The terms of the Becker’s probation require him to refrain from drinking or doing drugs, and he must submit to an evaluation for sex offender treatment. During this time the 18-year-old must stay away from the two 18-year-old women he sexually assaulted. If Becker complies to these rules throughout his two-year probation period, he won’t have to register as a sex offender and his record will be remain clean.

From Brock Turner and David Becker to Owen Labrie and the Vanderbilt gang rape case, all too often sexual assault cases are framed around how the crime will affect the perpetrators’ lives, rather than the victims’ lives.

As a Longmeadow resident said to MassLive.com about the Becker case: “How are the girls? That’s the question we’re missing here; are they OK?”

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 Google is set to launch Daydream VR sometime “in the coming weeks,” according to Bloomberg, after laying the groundwork for its launch with the official debut of Android 7.0 this week. The new report says Google is investing big in original content to accompany the launch of its VR platform, which will be built-in to upcoming Android smartphone handsets that meet the recommended… Read More

Drones have more or less entered mainstream consciousness for quite some time already, and it does not look as though there is any stopping the drone fever from taking over on a large scale. In fact, there has been drones that arrived in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and the latest model to join the fray would be the Wingsland S6 mini drone. The Wingsland S6 mini drone is touted to be a game changer in the industry, as the most notable aspect of it would be the quartet of foldable motor arms in addition to its extremely thin body design.

The Wingsland S6 mini drone will have a size that is roughly the same as an iPhone 6 Plus in the compact form. In other words, it is a snap to stash away, not to mention tote around. If you would like to capture everything around you, the Wingsland S6 mini drone will do so with a 13MP low distortion camera, which would also provide the S6 with the title of being the world’s thinnest 4K drone. Not only that, it tips the scales at a mere 230 grams — and this is including the battery, with the entire shebang measuring all of just 26.8mm thick, or should we say thin? Surely this would give the Dobby Pocket Drone a run — or a flight for its money.

The Wingsland S6 mini drone will arrive in half a dozen color choices, and it also has one special collaboration design with fashion brand-MLGB. With the S6, one will be able to attach different kinds of functional accessories via the extended port that is located on the upper shell of the S6. The Wingsland S6 will feature a trio of compatible modules for users to choose from: a toy gun, a searchlight and an emoji display screen; while there will be an all-around obstacle avoidance module available down the road. Expect the Wingsland S6 to retail for $350 a pop when it is available shortly down the road.

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Google isn’t the only company that’s providing gigabit internet services in select cities of the United States. Conventional ISPs have some skin in the game as well. They appear to be matching Google Fiber in the cities where it’s available, but a new report shows that Comcast’s gigabit internet service is almost twice as expensive in cities where Google Fiber isn’t available.

Google Fiber is already live in Atlanta and will soon go live in Nashville. Comcast offers a $70 per month package in both of these markets to those who sign a three-year contract, the price is double for those who don’t sign a long-term contract. For this price, customers get 1Gbps download and 32Mbps upload speeds without any limits, this is similar to what Google offers.

However, in cities where Google Fiber doesn’t exist, Comcast is charging twice as much. Take Chicago for example, Google Fiber isn’t there yet, and Comcast doesn’t offer the $70 per month option there. The cheapest option there costs $140 regardless of whether a long-term contract is signed or not.

Comcast did say to Ars Technica that it does offer the $70 plan to residents of Chicago but it’s just not being actively promoted. Reports suggest that it’s actively being hidden from customers and that it’s a chore to try and find the $70 gigabit option. This option was even missing from the press release Comcast sent out announcing the launch of its gigabit service in Chicago.

You might not feel that confident in Comcast now if you live in Chicago and opted for the $140 per month option simply because you didn’t know you could get the $70 option as well.

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