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”Survivor” host Jeff Probst was as shocked as viewers when contestant Jeff Varner outed fellow contestant Zeke Smith as transgender in Wednesday’s episode. And not in a good way.

During a tribal meeting, Varner accused Smith of deceiving the others, asking, “Why haven’t you told anyone that you’re transgender?” Other castaways quickly and passionately came to Smith’s defense, before voting Varner off the island.

“I cannot imagine anyone thinking what was done to Zeke was OK on any level, under any circumstances,” Probst told Entertainment Weekly before the shocking moment aired on national TV.

The host, who said he knew Smith was transgender shortly after casting him, voiced his complete disapproval for Varner’s actions, which prompted a statement from GLAAD, the LGBTQ advocacy group. As Probst told EW:

In 34 seasons of ‘Survivor,’ I have rarely, if ever, personally commented on what is said or done in the game. But this is a unique situation that falls outside the normal boundaries. I cannot imagine anyone thinking what was done to Zeke was OK on any level, under any circumstances, and certainly not simply because there was a million dollars on the line. I think the response from the tribe, as it so often does, mirrors what the vast majority of society will feel. You just don’t do that to someone.

Given plenty of time between filming “Survivor” and the episode’s debut, Smith has attempted to make sense of the outing. Writing in a lengthy heartfelt essay for The Hollywood Reporter that he is “not wild” about the reveal, and Varner’s reasons for it, Smith concludes that it ultimately had “nothing to do with me and everything to do with him.”

“In reality, by being Zeke the dude, I am being my most honest self — as is every other transgender person going about their daily lives,” Smith wrote.

Probst, who has hosted the show since it’s 2000 debut, believes Varner regrets his comment ― which was unprecedented in the show’s history.

“It was one of the most raw and painful studies of human behavior that has ever happened on ‘Survivor,’” the host told EW.

Probst went on to praise Smith’s composure after Varner’s comment. Making the best out of the situation, Smith said on the Wedesday night episode, “Maybe there’s someone who’s a ‘Survivor’ fan, and me being out on the show helps someone else, and so maybe this will lead to a greater good.”

But the host said he also worried about Varner, who had just made “one of the worst decisions of his life.”

Varner met with the show’s full-time psychologist, Probst said, in the aftermath of the incident.

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If you own Apple’s 2016 MacBook Pro, there seems to be quite a number of complaints regarding an issue that you might want to keep an eye and ear out for. According to these complaints, it seems that MacBook Pro owners are reporting a “popping” sound emanating from their laptops.

It is unclear as to why these sounds are occurring, and what might be setting it off as there does not appear to be any rhythm to these sounds and that they happen at random intervals. However it is noticed that they do occur when intensive tasks are happening, which has led to speculation that the sound might be coming from the hinges where the heat from the laptop is causing the glue or some plastic component to start to lose some of its integrity.

This seems to be more prevalent in the 15-inch MacBook Pro which has a heavier display. One customer writes, “I think the problem is actually from the hinges, as there is some natural flexing in the aluminum back of the display. I think the heat has affected the glue or some plastic mount in the display assembly.”

Another customer has since backed those claims up by saying, “I am able to constantly reproduce the sound by pressing right at the bottom of the screen assembly in the middle.” Now we can’t say for sure what the issue might be, but perhaps you’ll want to keep an eye out for it in the future.

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When you’re driving and you get a notification, there’s a good chance that you’re probably really curious as to what it might be about. Could it be an important email that you’ve been waiting on all day? Or could it be a message from your family about something urgent? Or could it just be a friend saying hi?

We suppose you’ll only know when you check your phone, which if you’re driving is really something you shouldn’t do. Samsung Netherlands understands that which is why the company has launched an app (via SamMobile) called “In-Traffic Reply”. As the name suggests, this is an app that will reply your messages for you while you are driving.

It seems that the app is smart enough to know when you’re in the car and when the feature is enabled, it will automatically send the other person a message when they send you a text or call and let them know you’re driving and cannot reply at this time. Users can further customize the message if they want something a bit more personal.

The app appears to be in beta testing at the moment and we’re not sure if there are plans to bring it to other markets, but we’ll be keeping our eyes peeled for its release for if and when it does.

Samsung launches In-Traffic Reply App To Prevent Distracted Driving , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

One of the ironies of life is that while Android and Linux share a common core, there are more ways and tools to make Android apps run on Windows than they are to run them on Linux. That situation might soon change for the better now that Anbox has been made public. A year and a half in the making, … Continue reading

A senator is taking a page from a teenager’s viral campaign playbook in his ongoing battle to get President Donald Trump to release his tax returns.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) was seemingly inspired by Nevada 16-year-old Carter Wilkerson’s mission to gain 18 million retweets in exchange for a year of free chicken nuggets from Wendy’s. He employed a similar tactic to tackle Trump Wednesday:

By early Thursday, Wyden’s lighthearted request for Trump to share his tax returns if his post gained 18 million retweets had been shared more than 11,000 times.

It’s a long way off the 2.7 million retweets of Wilkerson’s post, which is tipped to soon become the most retweeted ever:

Trump had yet to reply to Wyden’s challenge. Even if Wyden’s post did somehow achieve 18 million retweets, it’s unlikely that the president would even pay it any attention.

It has succeeded, however, in bringing the issue of Trump’s tax returns to the fore once again ― as people across the country prepare to echo the call for his disclosure during a protest titled “The Tax March” this Saturday.

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