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In case you didn’t realize this, Apple’s iPhones have different amounts of RAM. The iPhone 7 has 2GB of RAM while the iPhone 7 Plus comes with 3GB. However if the latest predictions are accurate, that could change this year according to a research note written by Cowen and Company analyst Timothy Arcuri and obtained by MacRumors.

According to Arcuri, he has predicted that with the 2017 iPhones, Apple is expected to introduce 3GB of RAM across all three models, meaning that the iPhone 7s, 7s Plus, and the iPhone 8/Edition will pack 3GB of RAM as opposed to the current configuration which we mentioned above.

What this means for users is that the increased RAM would allow for more data to be stored in memory, which should help reduce reloading times for apps that are already opened, or prevent browser tabs in Safari from refreshing whenever you switch. In addition to the upgraded RAM, Arcuri also claims that the 2017 iPhones will continue to use Lightning connectors, but will feature USB-C Power Delivery that will support faster charging.

In the past faster charging for the iPhone meant using a charger like the iPad’s charger, but presumably this will be faster. Whether or not it will be on par with the other quick charging solutions we’ve seen arrive on Android phones remains to be seen, so until then do take it with a grain of salt.

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Nintendo held its latest ‘Nintendo Direct’ today, and during it the company detailed more than a dozen games that will be arriving for the Switch in coming days, weeks, and months. This includes some hotly anticipated games, such as Minecraft and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, as well as some beloved classics via the NEOGEO Arcade Archives and Namco Museum. In … Continue reading

Unfortunately, San Bernardino is back in the news for yet another horrific tragedy, 17 months later. An 8-year-old student is dead, along with his teacher, Karen Smith, and ultimately, her estranged husband, Cedric Anderson. It’s baffling to me that when a husband comes into his wife’s workplace to kill her and then himself, the media hesitates to characterize it as domestic violence. Is it because it didn’t happen at home, behind closed doors, like it should?

To those of us who work to end violence against women every day, we recognized a tragic, but all too familiar story. We weren’t surprised to learn that that Anderson seemed nice at first to his stepson but slowly grew “paranoid and possessive.” Or that Anderson had a history of domestic violence, arrests on gun-related charges, and a fascination with guns. We understand why Smith recently left Anderson and was planning to divorce him. And we knew that Anderson could easily find and gain access to Smith at the place she spent the majority of her daily time: her workplace.

According to a U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics study, between 1997-2009, 321 women and 38 men were victims of on-the-job homicide by a spouse, former spouse, or dating partner. Nearly 33 percent of women killed in U.S. workplaces between 2003-2008 were killed by a current or former intimate partner.

Most of us spend more time at work than on any other waking activity. With one in three women and one in four men experiencing some type of intimate partner violence in their lifetime, the workplace presents a critical opportunity to provide awareness, education, support, and resources to stop the violence. April is Workplace Violence Prevention Month. And while the emergency response protocol in place at North Park Elementary has been credited with the orderly evacuation of the school, and most likely prevented any further loss of life yesterday, the San Bernardino School District still plans to review its safety and security protocols and procedures in response to this incident.

Maria Garcia, spokeswoman for school district, expressed regret and wished that Smith would have confided in someone at the school. She accurately stated that “unless we know, we can’t help or do anything.” Unfortunately, this is a refrain that my colleagues at Futures Without Violence and I are all too familiar hearing. My team leads an initiative called Workplaces Respond to Domestic and Sexual Violence: A National Resource Center. Funded primarily by a Department of Justice grant through the Office on Violence Against Women, we provide assistance to employers in creating workplace policies, protocols, and training to promote a prevention-focused approach to violence impacting the workplace, whether that violence primarily occurs at home or on the job.

St. Joseph’s Medical Center is one workplace that sought our assistance after two domestic violence-related tragedies impacted their hospital and workers. Co-workers of the two hospital employees who were killed in domestic violence-related incidents in a span of months wondered if they missed signs that their coworkers were experiencing abuse, and what they could have done to intervene. Futures Without Violence and the Human Resources Department of St. Joseph’s, along with community partners House of Ruth Maryland, TurnAround, Inc., and St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center, developed and conducted a comprehensive training for hospital employees on how to recognize and intervene when a co-worker is experiencing domestic violence, and created educational materials and resources – located in bathrooms and other appropriate locations – so that employees experiencing violence can receive referrals to advocates and programs that can provide assistance.

We applaud the efforts of the San Bernardino School District to revisit its safety procedures and policies in the wake of this tragedy at North Park Elementary, but we urge them to look beyond the four corners of the school building. If Karen Smith knew her workplace was a safe place for her to express her concerns for her safety and well-being, perhaps Cedric Anderson would have been prevented from coming on school property. Maybe Smith would have seen a poster in the teacher’s lounge and received information about local advocates who could have assisted her with safety planning. And perhaps an 8-year-old boy would be headed to school today. This tragedy unfortunately demonstrates the true cost of the mistaken belief that interpersonal violence is only personal.

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WASHINGTON ― On President Donald Trump’s 83rd day in office, CNN correspondent Jim Acosta called for an easing of tensions between two warring factions.

“I think at some point we’re going to need a détente between this administration and the news media, or else it’s just going to get worse and worse and worse,” he said.

Acosta appeared on stage Wednesday at the Newseum as part of a marathon session of speeches, panels and interviews tackling the fraught relationship between the president and the press.

There’s always been an inevitable, and healthy, tension between the White House and the media, with disputes over access and differing views as to what information is truly in the public interest. Some of Trump’s top aides appearing at the event cited grievances with the press that would have had Obama administration officials nodding in agreement. 

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway described the press’ coverage as “incomplete.” The media ignores stories the administration would like to have highlighted, she said, and focused on others, such as an “attenuated, unproven relationship from the campaign with a certain country” ― or, Russia. White House press secretary Sean Spicer questioned the press corps’ “priorities” when it comes to “what gets covered, what doesn’t get covered, and sort of the obsession with some of the process.”

Trump’s White House isn’t the first to complain about so-called process stories, which may reveal closed-door wrangling over policies and “palace intrigue” ― the bickering and backstabbing ― inside the West Wing. Jennifer Palmieri, a top communications official for both former President Barack Obama and recent Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, said Wednesday that her old bosses also griped about reporters “dumbing down politics to just process.”

But the Trump team came to town promising the press that “business as usual is over,” and the relationship between the two forces has been unusually hostile. 

“The tone was set the day after the inauguration when Sean Spicer came out and decided to berate the media about the crowd size at the inaugural,” New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush said during a panel of White House correspondents.

“My problem with that is he came in, shouted at everybody, and refused to take questions,” Thrush said. “To me that was a fundamental violation of the purpose of that room, which is not about questions. It’s about answers.”

Spicer set the tone in the briefing room, but it was Trump who first lied about his inauguration crowd size ― thus forcing the press secretary to try spinning the unspinnable on Day One. It was the next day when Conway infamously cited “alternative facts” as an attempt to defend Spicer’s bogus claims to the press corps.

Conway later came under fire for inventing a terrorist attack, and Spicer’s briefing room tirades have been spoofed on “Saturday Night Live.” He also spent the first couple of minutes during an interview on Wednesday apologizing again for claiming a day earlier that Adolf Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons. “I screwed up,” he said.

Spicer’s Holocaust screw-up lasted barely a day, but Trump’s missteps can drag on for weeks because of his unwillingness to apologize and move on. The president’s baseless claim that Obama wiretapped his phones in Trump Tower led to weeks of Spicer wasting the press’ time defending it and amplifying another baseless claim in the process (for which he also reportedly apologized).

What became even more apparent as journalists conversed with top officials of the past and present is that the biggest obstacle to returning the White House-press relationship to a normal level of combativeness is the president himself. The White House’s war with the press has been fueled by defending the president’s repeated falsehoods and attacking journalists in response to unflattering stories. 

“We need people to trust us,” Acosta said. “And I think we have been acting in a way that garners that trust. But the president doesn’t like bad stories about him and this is how he responds. We’ve got to figure out a way around it.”

The president doesn’t like bad stories about him and this is how he responds. We’ve got to figure out a way around it.
CNN’s Jim Acosta

Trump has continued to use his Twitter account to vilify the press, as he did during the campaign ― but now he also wields the bully pulpit of the presidency. He has responded to scrutiny with cries of “fake news,” adopted the language of tyrants in calling news organizations the “enemies of the people,” and claimed journalists fabricate their sources.

Newseum CEO Jeffrey Herbst said as Wednesday’s event began that he hoped it’d be possible to find “some solutions and common ground.” And veteran media writer Michael Wolff, who interviewed Conway, likened their exchange to “a little family therapy.”

But such conversations are unlikely to lead to any lasting peace when Trump can upend relations with a single baseless charge or a tweet about changing libel laws. These are the sorts of things that reporters are going to understandably view as an assault on free speech. 

Trump recently decided to skip the upcoming White House Correspondents Dinner. His staff followed in solidarity, marking the first time no member of the White House attended the event in its nearly century-long history.

Although the White House is still invited, Spicer signaled that the two sides are unlikely to meet up on April 29 in a cramped Washington ballroom. “I don’t think we should fake it,” Spicer said, suggesting it wouldn’t be right to pretend like everyone gets along.

“If things get better,” he said, “maybe we’ll attend next year.”

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We know that Deadpool 2 has yet to begin filming as they have been searching for someone to play the role of Cable. Many names have been tossed around and at one point, it was even rumored at Brad Pitt had expressed an interest in the role. However it looks like Cable has been found which means that filming could begin soon.

In a report from The Hollywood Reporter, it seems that Josh Brolin has been cast as Cable. Now you might be a bit confused because Brolin has also been cast as Thanos where so far he has appeared for a couple of times in earlier Marvel movies, and is also set to be the main bad guy in Avengers: Infinity War which is due for a release in 2018.

However for those familiar with the licensing/rights nightmare that is Marvel and other movie studios like Sony and Fox, you know that despite all of these movies being about Marvel characters, they are not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which means that it makes sense that Brolin can be cast as Cable and Thanos at the same time.

It is also why if you might recall, Chris Evans was previously cast as Johnny Storm before landing the role of Captain America. There’s still no word on when Deadpool 2 will be released, but it is expected for 2018.

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