LG’s press conference at MWC in Barcelona is today. The conference starts at 12 PM CET (11 AM GMT, 6 AM EST). Rumor has it that LG is about to announce a new flagship phone, the LG G6. This time, it won’t be a modular phone. It’s going to be a regular phone, but with a giant display that nearly fills the entire body of the phone. You can check it out live via LG’s… Read More
5G could get here sooner than expected, with an unexpected push from a number of carriers and modem makers to get the super-fast next-gen networks up and running in 2019. The news, announced at Mobile World Congress 2017 this week, would see 5G going live – in large-scale trials and early deployments, at least – a year ahead of the … Continue reading
Coming to you live from Barcelona, we’re delivering coverage of the LG MWC 2017 press event. Keep it locked here for all the news as it’s announced at 12:00PM CET (6:00AM ET). We’re expecting to finally meet the much-teased G6 in an official capacity…
Here’s an idea: Since Donald Trump has announced he’s ditching the annual White House Correspondents Dinner in April, maybe a substitute could take his place. Who better than Alec Baldwin, whose impersonations of Trump on “Saturday Night Live” are growing ever-more eerily close to the real thing?
Actor Zach Braff came up with the brainstorm. After Trump tweeted that he wouldn’t be attending the dinner, Braff quickly tweeted to Baldwin that it was time to “suit up.” Other Baldwin fans chimed in.
No word yet from Baldwin. Someone who would be extremely unpleased about the substitution would be Trump, who absolutely loathes Baldwin’s impersonations of him and just doesn’t think they’re … well … funny.
Trump has become the first president in over three decades to duck out of the event which features a comedian roast of the chief executive.
It’s not a huge surprise Trump is dodging the event, given his repeated attacks on the media that reached a kind of defcon-5 calling the press the “enemy of the people.” After his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, several media outlets, including the Huffington Post, were barred from a press briefing.
The president’s attacks had the media rethinking the whole dinner affair. The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Bloomberg had canceled their famous event parties, and CNN was considering skipping the sit-down. Comedian Samantha Bee announced early this year that she was planning an alternative event on the same night with the tentative title: “Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.”
The event by the White House Correspondents Association, which hosts D.C. journalists, celebrities and Beltway newsmakers, first began in 1921. The last president to skip out was Ronald Reagan in 1981 because he was still rattled by an assassination attempt — but he managed to phone in his comments.
Trump has attended the dinner before — and was ribbed from the podium by former president Obama in 2011 for peddling the “birther” tall-tale that Obama had not been born in America.
Who knows? If Baldwin decides to pick up the gauntlet perhaps there would also be an open invitation for “SNL” pal Beck Bennett to stand in for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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U.S. champion surfer Kelly Slater has called on the French government to cull the population of sharks crowding the seas off Reunion island in the wake of the death of a boogie-boarder.
Alexandre Naussac, 26, was killed last Tuesday in the 20th shark attack since 2011 off the French island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar. Eight of the attacks have been fatal.
The area is known for world-class surfing waves but also as one of the globe’s deadliest spots for shark attacks. All of the island beaches but two are off limits to swimmers and surfers. The remaining two are protected by shark nets.
Signs warning of shark attacks at the beach where Naussac entered the water had all been vandalized so he may have had no idea what dangers he faced.
Naussac bled to death when an attacking shark severed his femoral artery, Agence France Presse reported. Naussac had once worked as a shark spotter for local surfers.
In one of the most tragic deaths on the island, 13-year-old surfing champ and Reunion native Elio Canestri was killed in a shark attack in 2015.
Now surfers are demanding that something be done about the attacks.
“Honestly, I won’t be popular for saying this but there needs to be a serious cull on Reunion and it should happen everyday,” Slaters wrote on an Instagram tribute to Naussac. “There is a clear imbalance happening in the ocean there. If the whole world had these rates of attack nobody would use the ocean and literally millions of people would be dying like this. The French government needs to figure this out ASAP. 20 attacks since 2011!?”
Reunion has banned hunting sharks for food since 1999 because of concerns that their flesh is contaminated with a toxin.
Slater, who has a reputation as a conservationist, later told Surfline.com that Reunion attacks are “unprecedented.”
“There’s no natural reason that many people should be getting attacked in such a small area,” he said. “Sharks are a healthy part of any ocean and when not interfered with, the ocean creates a good balance. People should feel safe in most situations to swim and surf but Reunion obviously has an out of control situation that we don’t totally understand.”
But U.S. surfer Mike Coots, who lost a leg in a shark attack, disagrees.
“I think culling a species is fundamentally wrong,” he told Surfline. “Science has shown that it doesn’t work. It actually can make the situation worse. I think we need to focus more on coexistence between humans and sharks.”
It’s not clear why so many attacks are occurring at Renuion. Some ecologists believe ocean warming may be creating new congregations of fish near certain shorelines which draws sharks closer to swimmers and surfers. Others believe as more and more people enter the water as the population increases they create feeding grounds for sharks.
There has been a significant increase in shark attacks in southern California since 2004, and attacks worldwide are generally on the rise.
Some Australian beaches have begun using drones for shark spotting. Earlier this month Ballina released a drone video view of its beach, including a close encounter with a great white shark.
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When you’re driving, it’s all too easy to rage at fellow motorists who are either in a hurry or taking their sweet time. After all, you don’t know the context. Are they in a real predicament, or just careless? If TUe researchers have their way, th…
A pickup truck with a suspected drunken driver at the wheel slammed into a crowd watching a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans on Saturday night, sending at least 28 people to hospitals, according to The Advocate.
At least five people were critically hurt in the crash, which happened when the pickup, headed against the direction of the Krewe of Endymion parade, hit two other vehicles, plowed into the crowd and smashed into a garbage truck at 6:42 p.m.
New Orleans Police Superintendent Michael Harrison called the crash a “horrific scene,” The Advocate reported. The driver was “highly intoxicated,” Harrison told WDSU 6 News. He was quickly taken into custody. Authorities said the crash didn’t appear intentional, according to CBS News.
A police officer and child were among those hurt. The victims were as young as 3, with the oldest in their 40s. EMS Director Jeffrey Elder told The Advocate that none of the victims appeared to have life-threatening injuries.
Greg McNeely told the Times-Picayune he was watching the parade when he saw a pickup truck speed through an intersection. Several people were pinned between the truck and a garbage bin, or beneath the truck, the newspaper reported.
“I saw him coming and I was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s going to be a catastrophe,’” Dana Welch told the Advocate. “He sped up and he just went flying, hit those cars.”
The crash occurred less than five hours after a man was shot at the Krewe of Tucks parade in New Orleans, according to the Times-Picayune.
“Obviously you don’t want to have a day like this,” New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu told the newspaper. “We train year round to respond to events that can’t be stopped because of bad decisions.”
Landrieu later tweeted that he was “grateful that no one suffered any life threatening injuries.”
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Furious California police officials have threatened to end cooperation with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after they accused federal agents of using a gang investigation as cover to ferret out undocumented immigrants.
“I want to underscore that we would never have participated or cooperated in this operation if we had known that it included immigration enforcement,” said Kevin Vogel, police chief of Santa Cruz, which is one of a number of California sanctuary cities for immigrants.
“As a result of this betrayal of trust, we will be taking a long and hard look about whether we will cooperate with this federal agency in the future. We can’t cooperate with a law enforcement agency we cannot trust,” he said at a news conference earlier this week.
The now-controversial joint raids were launched Feb. 13 against local gang MS-13, which includes members from El Salvador. Police had been investigating the gang for years. Vogel hailed the arrests in raids in Santa Cruz, Daly City and Watsonville of ten individuals suspected of extortion, drug trafficking and murder.
“I want to very clear: The only reason members of the Santa Cruz police participated in this operation was to arrest violent gang members,” said Vogel, who added that officials were “assured” that the operation did not have an added “immigration component to it.”
But police discovered shortly afterward that DHS officials, “unbeknownst to us had acted outside of the scope of this operation and had detained and removed a number of individuals from various locations based upon their immigration status,” who “may or may not have been related” in any way to the criminal investigation, Vogel said. Several people were secretly removed from sites without police on the scene and sent to other counties for processing at DHS sites, said Vogel, ABC-7 TV reported.
“The detention and the removal of these individuals based solely upon their immigration status flies in the face of the City Council resolution declaring Santa Cruz a place of trust and safety for all local immigrants,” Vogel said at the press conference. “The community has an absolute right to be angry about this.”
A DHS spokesman denied the police had been duped. “Allegations that the agency secretly planned an immigration enforcement action in hopes there would be new political leadership that would allow for an alleged ‘secret’ operation to take place are completely false, reckless and disturbing,” spokesman James Schwab said in a statement.
He said that 11 people had been detained over immigration issues alone, but that 10 had already been released. Vogel, however, said last week that the police department had yet to receive any specifics or documentation about the number or identity of people detained. Based on police officials’ own information sources, Santa Cruz officials believe at least 10 people were detained over immigration status alone, and six were released — but with GPS tracking devices assuring they could be located for upcoming court cases, according to Assistant Santa Cruz Police Chief Flippo.
Santa Cruz isn’t the only city this week antagonized by the DHS and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Los Angeles officials have written a letter to ICE demanding that immigration agents stop calling themselves “police.” The practice undermines the police department’s years of work building trust in the city’s large immigrant community, said the letter, signed by Mayor Gil Garcetti, the city attorney and City Council president.
In response to the letter, an ICE spokeswoman said that immigration agents can, “as a standard practice … initially identify themselves as ‘police’” though they also wear badges saying “ICE,” the Los Angeles Times reported.
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Most of the effort in improving virtual reality focuses on the visuals. But what about audio — isn’t it jarring to hear sound that clearly doesn’t mirror the world you’re in? Valve thinks it can fix that. It just released a Steam Audio kit that l…
Meek Mill disappointed a lot of fans on Friday night after the Philadelphia rapper posted a series of videos to his Instagram stories showing a homeless man asking for some change.
The video never actually shows Meek Mill, who reportedly has an estimated net worth of $3 million, handing the man money.
However, it does show the 29-year-old rapper telling the man to do push ups for $20.
“We ain’t going to give out no free money,” Meek Mill can be heard saying in the video, which was still on the rapper’s Instagram account early Saturday evening.
In disbelief, the man tells Meek Mill and his friends, “you’re not going to give me $20,” to which the rapper responds, “yes I am.”
The next video shows the man on the floor doing 20 push-ups as Meek Mill counts.
Instagram stories are only available for 24 hours, but celebrity gossip site The Shade Room uploaded the rapper’s full video to their own Instagram account.
Meek Mill flaunts his wealth on Instagram, sharing photos of his jewelry, his watches and his cars. All that makes his request for the homeless man seem all the more degrading.
Not only does he appear to be making fun of the man, he seems to exploit him by sharing with his more than 11 million followers a video of the man following his orders for money.
Fans of the rapper were understandably let down.
Meek Mill, there are more humane ways to be charitable. Do better next time.
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