E3 might be officially open to the public this year, but what if you don’t want to book a flight to Los Angeles just to get a taste of what it’s like to be there? Sony, at least, has you covered: it’s bringing back its PlayStation E3 Experience for t…
In the gaming world, there are various games that despite there being newer and more exciting will always remain a classic. Sega’s Crazy Taxi is one of them, and for those who wouldn’t mind revisiting the good old days, you’ll be pleased to learn that Sega has since made the game free to play on mobile.
In case you didn’t know, Crazy Taxi was actually released on mobile a while ago, but it was a paid title meaning you’d have to shell out money first before playing the game. However now that it is free to play, it means that you’ll be able to download it and start playing right off the bat without paying anything.
However as is the case with all free to play titles, there is a catch and that is in-game ads. Gamers will have to put up with various ads and promos that will pop up every now and then. However if you had previously paid for the game, you can remove the ads for free by going to the restore purchases option.
For those who are sick of ads and did not previously pay for the game, then you have the option of paying $2 to get rid of it. The app is available on both iOS and Android devices, so head on over to the iTunes App Store or Google Play for the download.
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Garmin is a company some of you guys might associate with navigational devices, or in more recent times, wearable devices like fitness trackers and smartwatches. However last year the company decided to dabble in photography by launching the Garmin Virb 30, a rugged action camera that seemed to directly compete with GoPro.
However it seems that the company isn’t content with just competing with regular cameras as they have since launched a new camera in the form of the Garmin Virb 360. This is a digital camera that as the name implies, allows users to capture content in 360-degree mode which would be ideal for VR platforms.
On top of that, the Virb 360 is a rugged camera which means that you can use it in outdoors environment and not have to worry about it getting wet or damage as it appears that it should be able to withstand a drop or two, or a dunk underwater. It is capable of taking 15MP still images and video in 5.7K resolution at 30fps.
However it is rather pricey at $800 which is above the competition, but we guess if there are features about the camera you think are lacking from other 360-degree cameras, then maybe the price can be justified. The Garmin Virb 360 is available this coming June so do keep an eye out for it.
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CBS released a trailer earlier this month for its upcoming “Star Trek: Discovery,” the first television series in the franchise since “Star Trek: Enterprise” ended in 2005.
The trailer excited many fans, but it also led to a familiar anger, as many people decried the casting of Michelle Yeoh, an Asian woman, as the ship’s captain and Sonequa Martin-Green, a black woman, as the ship’s first officer.
The trailer for “Star Trek: Discovery”
“Enough with your racial and gender quotas Hollywood,” one commenter wrote. Many others wrote similar comments, much of it even more vile.
On Sunday, George Takei, who played the iconic character Hikaru Sulu in the original “Star Trek” series and multiple movies, joined MSNBC’s “AM Joy” to discuss the views of people who believe the Star Trek franchise is being tainted in an attempt to diversify the cast.
On the show, he quickly and swiftly dismantled the criticisms, exposing the critics as ignorant of the intentions of creator Gene Roddenberry.
“Today in this society we have alien life forms that we call trolls,” he said. “And these trolls carry on without knowing what they’re talking about and knowing even less about the history of what they’re talking about.”
“Now these so-called trolls haven’t seen a single episode of the new series, because it hasn’t been aired,” he continued. “And they don’t know the history of Star Trek [either] … [Star Trek creator] Gene Roddenberry created this with the idea of finding strength in our diversity ― and also the delight of life in diversity.”
He then added: “We had a guiding acronym ― IDIC ― which stood for infinite diversity in infinite combinations. We boldly went where we hadn’t gone before because we were curious about what’s out there. And when you go out into space you are going to have even greater diversity.”
During the interview, Takei also compared the ignorance of these “trolls” to the recent actions of President Donald Trump, whom he described as “ignorant” when it comes to issues of Japanese internment, which affected Takei’s family during WWII.
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In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Monday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Russian President Vladimir Putin is “the premier and most important” national security threat to the United States, “more so” than the Islamic State, also known as ISIS.
“I think ISIS can do terrible things, and I worry a lot about what is happening with the Muslim faith, and I worry about a whole lot of things about it,” McCain said. “But it’s the Russians who are trying, who tried to destroy the very fundamental of democracy, and that is to change the outcome of an American election.”
The comments come as McCain met with Australian leaders for security talks Monday and one week after the Manchester, England, terror attack, for which the Islamic State claimed responsibility.
McCain pointed to Russian attempts to influence elections in France and the United States, along with “pressure” Russia is applying to the Baltic States.
“They just tried to affect the outcome of the French election. So I view Vladimir Putin, who has dismembered Ukraine, a sovereign nation, who is putting pressure on the Baltics — I view the Russians as the far greatest challenge that we have,” he said.
The Arizona Republican also weighed in on a Washington Post report from last week that President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner wanted to set up back-channel communications with Russia.
“I don’t like it. I just don’t,” McCain said. “I don’t think it’s standard procedure prior to the inauguration of a president of the United States by someone who is not in an appointed position.”
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly defended the arrangement on Sunday in an interview with ABC.
“It’s not a bad thing to have multiple communication lines to any government,” Kelly said.
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WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, is marking golf properties and related products in the U.S with a coat of arms that belongs to a different family, after being barred by British authorities from doing so in the United Kingdom, according to a New York Times report on Sunday.
The Trump emblem is a nearly exact copy of the crest Britain granted to American diplomat Joseph Edward Davies in 1939. There’s just one tweak: where the original featured “integritas,” the Latin word for integrity, the president’s version substitutes, inevitably, the name “Trump.”
The billionaire developer appears to have begun using the coat of arms after he bought the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Baech, Florida, in 1985. The property was being run by a foundation set up by Davies’ third wife, cereal-company heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post.
Davies’ grandson, former Sen. Joseph D. Tydings (D-Md.), told the Times Trump never asked for his permission to adopt the crest. The corrupted version of the emblem is now used on a range of Trump products ― even body wash.
British law is very specific about the use of these kinds of emblems. Trump first ran into that problem in 2007, when he started using the crest on promotional materials for a planned golf course in Scotland. Scottish media began to report on the snafu and suggested Trump had personally designed the coat of arms without consulting heraldic authorities.
But British trademark regulators knew there was a different kind of problem: like some of those the president has sought to place in powerful positions, Trump had plagiarized. The Times secured Trump’s failed application for a trademark using a freedom of information request. The newspaper confirmed with an expert herald at the College of Arms in London that the problem with the application was that the coat of arms was already in use.
Without similar regulation in the U.S., Trump has trademarked the coat of arms, and critics have little recourse. Tydings told the Times his cousins gave up on the idea of a lawsuit. “I just told the other members of my family that you can’t win on this,” he said. “You’ll borrow for two generations to sue him … I know Trump very well.”
He believes his grandfather “would be rolling over in his grave to think [Trump] was using his crest.”
Trump has appointed his sons to run the Trump Organization for the duration of his presidency, but he continues to profit from the company’s properties ― crest and all. The president frequently talks about the virtues of his developments and hosts government business at them, boosting their profile and the perception that patronizing them is a way to win Oval Office approval.
“I think our brand is the hottest it has ever been,” Eric Trump told the Times earlier this year.
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A Republican lawmaker in Texas responded to protests over an anti-immigrant law restricting sanctuary city policies by calling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on the participants.
State Rep. Matt Rinaldi (R) said in a statement that he called ICE because several of the protesters, who filled the Texas House gallery and briefly drowned out proceedings with loud chanting, held signs saying, “I am illegal and here to stay.”
“We called law enforcement trying to incentivize them to leave the House,” Rinaldi told the Texas Tribune. “They were disrupting. They were breaking the law.”
Reports of the call to ICE surfaced because Rinaldi, who did not return a request for comment from HuffPost, approached members of the House’s Mexican American Legislative Caucus on Monday to repeatedly tell them he made the call, several members said at a press conference.
“Fuck them, I called ICE,” Rinaldi allegedly said, according to Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. (D).
“For us, this looks like the fabric of Texas, and this looks like Texans exercising their First Amendment right against a law that they perceive to be hateful and unjust,” Rep. Rafael Anchía (D), chairman of the caucus, said about the diverse group of protesters. “That is a cornerstone of our democracy.”
“To others, I guess it appeared like a group of undocumented persons in the gallery somehow doing something unlawful who need to be deported. Those were some of the words used by Representative Rinaldi,” Anchía continued.
Rinaldi’s comments to the Democratic lawmakers caused a tense moment on the House floor Monday. Rinaldi said in his statement that one lawmaker assaulted him and another, Rep. Poncho Nevárez (D), threatened him with violence.
Rinaldi said he “made it clear” to Nevárez that he would shoot him in self-defense if Nevárez acted on the threat. Rep. Philip Cortez (D) attested that Rinaldi spoke in the direction of Nevárez and said, “I’ll put a bullet in your head.”
The moment came on the last day of Texas’ legislative session after some of the caucus members spoke in solidarity with the few hundred protesters who filled the House gallery to voice their displeasure with the law.
Authorities broke up the protest Monday and eventually cleared the gallery. Outside, protesters continued to sing and chant.
Activists have continued to fight against Senate Bill 4, which targets so-called sanctuary cities that enact policies to protect immigrants, even after it was signed by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) this month. It is set to go into effect in September. Cities that don’t cooperate with ICE requests to detain an undocumented immigrant will face fines, and local officials who violate the law could be sent to jail.
The law, which follows President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and threats to withhold funding from sanctuary cities, was opposed by a number of law enforcement agencies and has been criticized for undermining trust in police and putting Hispanics at risk for racial profiling.
“I think you finally [heard] some honesty from some members of the legislature, who really do believe that Latinos should be deported from the United States, be they citizens or noncitizens alike,” Anchía said Monday.
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The Cinder grill really wants you to enjoy the perfect steak, and it doesn’t want you to have a headache making it. As a greedy geek with a counter crammed full of kitchen gadgets and a taste for meat, that certainly appealed, as did Cinder’s promise of sous-vide style cooking without the hassle of preheating water baths and bagging up … Continue reading
Late on Sunday, videos and photos of flashing red lights seemingly going off inside the White House started making their way around Twitter.
A local Fox station, which had its camera feed pointed at the White House, said the flashes could be seen around 8:30 p.m. EDT from windows on the executive mansion’s second-floor. “The lights seemed to be strobing inside the building,” the news station wrote on its Facebook page. “We’re working to find out what those were.”
No explanation was immediately available from the White House, so naturally Twitter users started offering up some thoughts:
Fox 35 anchor Tom Johnson tweeted that the lights eventually turned off, and it could have been a reflection of sirens or from something happening on the street.
Apparently, Johnson’s speculation was correct. The New York Post reported Monday that the Secret Service said a medical incident occurred outside the White House grounds, and the lights were a reflection from the emergency vehicles responding to the matter.
“The red lights had nothing to do with the White House,” the newspaper quoted a Secret Service spokesperson as saying.
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