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Here comes a new dash cam from Garmin, the Dash Cam 55. This ultra-compact dash cam is equipped with a 3.7MP image sensor, a 106-degree field of view, a 2.0-inch LCD display, a built-in microphone w/ voice control function, a microSD card slot (8GB card included) and built-in WiFi connectivity for remote access from an iOS or Android device via the free VIRB app.

Other notable highlights include built-in GPS & G-Sensor, Travelapse Photo Capture, Forward Collision/Lane Departure Warning and built-in backup battery w/ up to 30 minutes of battery life.

Finally, the Dash Cam 55 has the ability to capture 2560 x 1440 video @ 60fps. The Garmin Dash Cam 55 is currently available for pre-order for $199.99. [Product Page]

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ONKYO is offering you their latest Android 5.1 tablet, the TA2C-74Z8A. Measuring 10.5mm thick and weighing 640 grams, this mid-range tablet has a 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 HD AHVA LED-backlight display, a 1.44GHZ Intel Atom x5-Z8350 processor, an Intel HD Graphics, a 2GB DDR3 RAM and a 32GB eMMC.

Apart from that, the tablet also packs a 2MP front-facing camera, a 5MP rear-facing camera, a microSD card slot, 1x USB 3.0 port, 1x USB 2.0 port, 1x micro-USB charging port, 1x micro-HDMI output port and built-in stereo speakers.

Powered by a 7000mAh lithium-ion polymer battery, the TA2C-74Z8A provides WiFi 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.1 for connectivity, and runs on Android 5.1 OS. The ONKYO TA2C-74Z8A is available now for 29,000 Yen (about $268). [Product Page]

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WASHINGTON ― Immigrant rights advocates were dismayed on Tuesday by reports that the first undocumented immigrant with active Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals protections was deported under President Donald Trump.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) had the opposite reaction.

“First non-valedictorian DREAMer deported. Border Patrol, this one’s for you,” King tweeted, with a photo of a beer.

King is an immigration hawk who staunchly opposes the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, and any other protections for so-called Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. He infamously said in 2014 that for every Dreamer who is a valedictorian, “there’s another 100 out there that weigh 130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.”

So it’s no surprise he had little sympathy for Juan Manuel Montes, a 23-year-old who came to the U.S. at the age of 9 and was detained and deported by the Border Patrol, first reported by USA Today on Tuesday.

Montes says a Border Patrol agent stopped him in Calexico, California, on Feb. 17 and did not allow him to retrieve his DACA documents or his ID, which he had left in a friend’s car. Lawyers for the Dreamer said in a complaint that Border Patrol agents pressured him to sign documents approving his removal that he did not understand, and they didn’t provide him copies, allow him to see a lawyer or put him before a judge.

DACA does not guarantee safety from removal, and some Dreamers have been deported after losing their protections. About 1,500 people have lost DACA status due to criminal convictions or gang affiliation, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

But Montes is the first documented case of a Dreamer with active DACA status being deported. He had past criminal convictions for driving without a license and shoplifting, but his record did not exclude him from the program and his paperwork was not set to expire until 2018, according to USA Today.

Customs and Border Protection did not respond to a request for comment on his detention or removal.

Trump maintained the DACA program even though he promised to end it ― which King believes he should follow through on. But he also said he would give Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agents more leeway to do what they thought was right, vastly expanding the scope of who should be considered a priority for deportation.

Still, the president and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly have said DACA recipients would not be the target.

Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), accused the president of breaking his word. 

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), a longtime advocate for Dreamer protections, said in a statement that he was “disturbed” by reports about Montes’ removal and had demanded an explanation from ICE.

“Just last month Secretary Kelly promised me that no one with DACA would lose this protection unless they violated the terms of DACA,” Durbin said. “I intend to hold him to this commitment.”

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Holy fucking shit. Mark Zuckerberg himself, the creator of Facebook and the fifth richest man in the world, just descended down to Earth to walk among us plebeians at the Facebook Developer Conference in San Jose. I was one of the mere mortals lucky enough to witness the power and strength of His Holiness as he gilded…

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If you’re hoping to see more apps that offers up the ability to convert speed to text, that could be indeed be happening because Google has announced that starting from today, the Cloud Speed API will be open to third-party developers, which for those unfamiliar is the same tech behind Google products such as Google Assistant.

According to Google’s announcement, “Cloud Speech API is built on the core technology that powers speech recognition for other Google products (e.g., Google Search, Google Now, Google Assistant), but has been adapted to better fit the needs of Google Cloud customers. Cloud Speech API is one of several pre-trained machine-learning models available for common tasks like video analysis, image analysis, text analysis and dynamic translation.”

As Google points out, the Cloud Speech API was actually launched last year where it existed as an open beta, but clearly over the year Google has made some improvements and changes to it based on feedback from developers. This has resulted in improved transcription accuracy for long-form audio, faster processing of about 3x faster than the previous version, and it also now supports more file formats such as WAV, Opus, and Speex.

For end-users this probably won’t affect you too much, but like we said with developers now be able to access the API (for a fee), you can expect that some apps will want to take advantage of it.

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