The Royal Mint released 300 million new one pound coins into circulation on Tuesday. The money’s packed with cutting edge anti-counterfeiting measures, including one that British authorities won’t even talk about. Is it a coincidence that this happened the day before British Prime Minister Teresa May triggered the…
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A LEGO fanatic calling himself Nick Brick has taken Tracer’s pulse pistols right off the screen of Overwatch and made them into LEGO brick sculptures. The builds are very cool and look very much like the pistols Tracer uses in the game.
Each of the pistols has 1063 LEGO bricks in the build for a total of 2126 bricks for both pistols. The pistols both have a working reload mechanism which makes the side discs expand outward.
The nifty glowing design is thanks to some BrickStuff LEDs. Be sure to check out Nick Brick’s Flickr page for a bunch of other cool LEGO builds.
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HTC may have welcomed the new year with a couple of new handsets but there have been endless rumors over the past few months about the company coming out with a flagship smartphone later in the year. Details about this unannounced smartphone continue to trickle in. It now appears to have been spotted on the AnTuTu benchmarking website touting Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 835 processor.
The results from the benchmarking website reveal that this handset is running on a Snapdragon 835 processor that’s coupled with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. That’s similar to what most new flagships are going to offer this year.
It’s also revealed that this handset may feature a 16 megapixel rear and 12 megapixel camera aside from its Quad HD resolution display. HTC is believed to call this new smartphone the HTC U. It will run Android 7.1.1 Nougat if and when it arrives.
Bear in mind that nothing about this handset has been confirmed at this point in time by HTC. The company hasn’t even confirmed the existence of such a device so one must be careful about what to believe at this stage considering that there’s no official word from HTC about this device.
Hopefully, will provide more details about this device in the coming weeks.
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It’s been a long time coming, but we finally have a release date for the Windows 10 Creators Update. Microsoft has been talking up this update for months now, unleashing the first significant details about the Creators Update way back in October. Now, after six solid months of hearing all about it, it’s almost time for it to launch. The … Continue reading
Lamar Odom might not officially be connected to the Kardashian family tree any longer, but he apparently picked up a few things from time spent in Calabasas. Lesson one? How to score a splashy cover story and rehabilitate your image.
The former Los Angeles Lakers star covers the latest issue of Us Weekly in his first official interview since he was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel back in October 2015. Odom suffered “12 strokes and two heart attacks” after he was discovered and regained consciousness after a four-day coma.
A year after the incident, Odom checked himself back into rehab at San Diego’s Casa Palmera facility and completed his treatment this past January. Now, he’s ready to break his silence about the night he collapsed, his marriage to Khloe Karadashian and where he went off track.
“I was home by myself. Bored. I wanted to get out and have a good time,” Odom recalled of the fateful night. “Looking back, I might have had a drink to get the mood started, but was I drunk or on drugs? Not at all. I remember lying in bed. Two women were in bed and then I fell asleep. That’s all. When I woke up four days later, I was trying to pull the tubes out of my mouth.”
At the time, Odom’s representatives denied that the basketball star was on drugs, except for a taking Viagra-like herbal supplement. However, drugs— cocaine, more specifically — did play a role in the destruction of his marriage to Kardashian and career as a professional athlete.
“I was hiding it for a while, but then I got frustrated and was like, f**k it,” Odom said of his drug use. “Around two years before we split up [in 2011], I was in the man cave [Khloe] had made for me and she caught me. She was disappointed. So was I. The sad thing about it is, I don’t know if I was disappointed because I was actually doing the drug or because she caught me. She knew I was doing cocaine the whole time after that. It was my drug of choice. I’m not going to say she accepted it because that would be the wrong word. Tolerated would be a better word.”
After Kardashian filed for divorce in 2013, Odom moved out of their Calabasas mansion and into an apartment where he “turned the drug use up to another level” with his friend Jamie Sangouthai, who died due to drug-related causes in 2015.
Despite the deception and infidelity, Karadashian stood by Odom through his darkest times and was the first face he saw when he awoke from the coma. That is, until he seemingly fell off the wagon again, prompting the reality star to officially sign their divorce papers with Odom and make it official.
“If there is one thing I regret when I was married, it was having multiple affairs with different women,” Odom said. “That wasn’t the stand-up thing to do. I wish I could have kept my d**k in my pants.”
Now Odom is clean and sober and at work on an autobiography and docuseries.
“Living sober, meaning no drugs, is a great feeling. Being in the moment is important — how you react, respond, create,” he said. “If I would have done coke last night, you would have gotten some dickhead here trying to get out of here fast. But you’re getting Lamar now.”
To read the full interview with Odom, head to Us Weekly.
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The pattern has become dismally routine: A man, typically acting alone, commits an act of public violence stunning in its indifference to human life. In the days following the attack, reports emerge that before he carried out his murderous rampage, he practiced his brutality against his own family.
The recent terrorist attack near Britain’s Parliament appears to be yet another example of this phenomenon. Last week, Khalid Masood drove a car through a crowd of pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in London, killing three and injuring 50, before stabbing a police officer. He was shot to death.
A relative of Masood’s former wife, Farzana Isaq, spoke last week to the U.K.’s Daily Mirror, claiming that Masood was violent and controlling toward Isaq, and that the abuse was so severe, she was forced to flee the marriage after three months. To date, the Mirror is the only outlet to provide any details on this alleged aspect of Masood’s life.
The claims suggest that Masood belonged to a terrifying club of men who directed their violence against their partners and families before perpetrating shocking acts of public carnage.
Here are some examples.
In January, Esteban Santiago allegedly opened fire on travelers at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida, killing five people. He was accused of assaulting and attempting to strangle his girlfriend.
Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who allegedly beat his wife, rammed his truck into a crowd in Nice, France, in July 2016. A month earlier, Omar Mateen opened fire in a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, committing the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. He also allegedly beat his ex-wife, and his widow, who now faces charges, claims he abused her too.
This list is nowhere near complete.
Domestic violence occurs far too frequently in the general population for it to serve as a useful predictor of terrorism or mass violence on its own, said J. Reid Meloy, a forensic psychologist who has studied lone-actor terrorists. But paired with other factors, he said, it could be valuable and deserves additional research.
It’s not uncommon for people who commit acts of mass violence to have a history of hurting others, including their own families, he said.
Meloy pointed to one of his recent studies that analyzed the behavior of 111 lone-actor terrorists from the United States and Europe. Around 30 percent of those perpetrators had a history of violent criminal behavior.
That was true of Masood, who had a series of criminal convictions for assault and weapons possession dating from 1983 to 2003.
“Generally speaking, past violence does predict future violence,” Meloy said. But what was most revealing, he said, was how terrorists struggled to maintain stable relationships. Eighty-four percent of the individuals in the study had historically failed to form lasting sexually intimate relationships.
“We know that having stable bonds with other people does mitigate risk of criminal violence,” he said. “When there is instability or an absence of a close connection to another person, that is a risk factor for engaging in criminal behavior.”
Paul Gill, a professor of security and crime science at University College London, said that when lone-actor terrorists become radicalized or decide to commit an act of violence, they are usually experiencing multiple stressors in their lives ― a breakdown in family relationships, loss of a job or social problems, for example.
In the case of Tamerlan Tsarnaev ― who planted bombs at the Boston Marathon in 2013, killing three people and injuring more than 260 others ― life was not going as planned. In the years leading up to the bombing, he was arrested on charges of domestic assault and battery for slapping a girlfriend. He dropped out of community college and gave up on his dream to be a boxer before turning toward religious extremism.
Instead of looking internally for an explanation about why their lives have gone off the rails, Gill said, most people will blame their situations on other people, or on society as a whole.
“In many cases, they’re just guys with an intermittent violent history, but they are aggrieved against different people along the way,” he said. “For some, it’s their wives. For other people it might be against their schoolteacher, or against the British state, or the U.S. government.”
People who commit violence against their family members ― people they are supposed to love and care for ― may become desensitized as a result, Gill said, which might make it easier for them to plan and carry out mass murder.
“They are further down the line than the average individual in terms of the psychological hurdles that people may need to overcome to inflict violence on others,” he said.
Still, he noted that there’s rarely a simple, silver-bullet explanation.
“Typically, someone is aggrieved about something, and they decide to lash out as a direct response,” he said. “You see a mixture of ideological drivers and interpersonal drivers, coupled with a lack of protective factors that culminated and crystallized at a certain point in a person’s life.”
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This aggression will not stand, man.
During his “Closer Look” segment on Tuesday night, Seth Meyers recapped the topsy-turvy, ridiculous circumstances surrounding Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes and the investigation into Donald Trump’s alleged Russian ties.
Nunes was a one-man show last week, holding a press conference to claim that there was evidence that Trump officials were surveilled by the government. He even took the information to the president before going to his own committee.
Meyers said Trump took Nunes’ information as proof that the Obama administration had wiretapped him, despite those reports being shut down.
Among other things, Trump told Time, “A lot of information has just been learned, and a lot of information may be learned over the next coming period of time,” and, “Well, he just got this information. This was new information. That was just got,” which led Meyers to make a shocking discovery …
Donald Trump is The Dude from “The Big Lebowski.”
Meyers explained, “The Dude and Trump have a lot in common. They both have bathrobes, both obsessed with their rugs, and they both love White Russians.”
Also, don’t forget they both have a Steve Buscemi connection. Buscemi, of course, played Donny in “The Big Lebowski,” and while attending a Women’s March earlier this year, he posed alongside a “Lebowski”-inspired message to Trump.
There you have it, dudes.
So should we start calling President Trump The Dude now? You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing?
”Late Night with Seth Meyers” airs weeknights at 12:35 p.m. ET on NBC.
Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tom Hanks, Tracy Morgan, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Moore, Padma Lakshmi and a whole host of other stars are teaming up for Stand for Rights: A Benefit for the ACLU. Donate now and join us at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, March 31, on Facebook Live. #standforrights2017
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When it comes to whether Alicia Keys wears makeup or not, we think the incomparable Salt-N-Pepa said it best:
“It’s none of your business,” Adam Levine!
Levine stopped by Howard Stern’s Sirius XM radio show on March 15 in part to talk about “The Voice” and his famous co-hosts. Stern being Stern, he asked what Levine makes of Keys “making a big deal about not wearing makeup” ― and the story Levine shared above is as flawless as Keys’ minimally made-up face.
Levine told Stern he spotted Keys putting on a little bit of makeup backstage one day, and promptly made a comment about thinking she didn’t wear any. Keys’ response? “I do what the fuck I want.”
YES. YES, all of the yes, Alicia Keys.
Keys has played a significant role in the makeup-free movement since 2016, going without on red carpets and on album covers. She also wore makeup for an Allure cover shoot in January, saying “No one should be ashamed by the way you choose to express yourself.”
She, just like any other person, can do whatever she wants when it comes to wearing makeup or otherwise, without having to give an explanation to Adam Levine, Howard Stern or anybody else. So there.
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