If your office in the future dodges a spearphishing attempt in the future, you might be thanking a Girl Scout. The organization partnered with Palo Alto Networks to release 18 new cybersecurity badges for members to earn over the next two years, with…
Forget about the usual digital camera when it comes to the next family gathering or celebration. You might want to settle for something more fun, or perhaps more interesting in the form of the Tamaggo 360LiveCam. With the Tamaggo 360LiveCam, you can share life’s awesome moments with those whom you hold close and dear through immersive 360° photos as well as videos, and all of it will be in real time with a single click!
Pre-orders for the Tamaggo 360LiveCam are already available on Kickstarter for a special offer price of $299 a pop. This is the perfect example of how the early bird will be able to get the worm, where the recommended retail price stands at $449 apiece. Not only will you be able to enjoy a 33% discount, you will also have the distinction of being the first batch of Tamaggo 360LiveCam users to share your precious moments with family and friends on the spot. A single click is all that it takes for live sharing or on-demand video through direct weblinks or social networks, regardless of where you are.
It is also pretty much dummy-proof, since there is no need for any kind of framing, rotating, stitching or stabilizing. Click to share, and you are good to go! It certainly allows family members and friends to experience what you are seeing in real-time, although technology has not advanced far enough to transport smells and sensation through the computer. Sporting a sleek and iconic design that is integrated within a self-standing ring, you do not have to hold it in your hand. All that you need to do is to place the Tamaggo 360LiveCam down, allow it to capture the entire scene, and let other people join you from afar.
You can tell the amount of work put in by the Swiss craftsmanship, as there is a high level of functionality and design involved. After all, the Tamaggo 360LiveCam’s sleek egg shape will fit ergonomically in the hand and boasts of an intuitive touchscreen. This is definitely not your regular action camera!
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The next big thing in the world of smartphones are dual rear camera arrangements, one where a high-resolution camera is joined by a second typically low-resolution camera. The combination of the two enable the camera to pull off some interesting effects, one of which is bokeh effects applied to the shallow depth-of-field — that is, to the blurred background of … Continue reading
We’ve all popped bubble wrap and felt that deep sense of relief and satisfaction that comes with it. But have you ever wondered why we find it so compelling? Wonder no more. This video from Psych I.R.L. dives in deep to show us exactly why puncturing small pockets of air with our thumbs is better than heroin (or something, we guess, don’t do heroin).
Next time you’re standing on bubble wrap and waddling along like a duck smiling with glee as it goes pop, you’ll know why. Do with that what you will.
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A Minnesota jury found police officer Jeronimo Yanez not guilty of second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Philando Castile on Friday.
The July 2016 killing, which was streamed on Facebook Live by Castile’s girlfriend Diamond Reynolds, is just one of a serial string of fatal cop shootings that allowed officers to walk away scot-free and many times, with their jobs intact.
For Twitter users that could muster a reaction to the news, many echoed sentiments that have been growing on our hearts since the acquittal of George Zimmerman in 2013: exhaustion, anger and most of all, hurt.
We’ve rounded up 18 of the most profound reactions below:
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It’s happening again.
I have to write about Philando Castile, the 32-year-old black man who was shot and killed by a Minnesota police officer last July. I have to compose myself, sit at this laptop and write something profound about another black life taken by a police officer, another officer found not guilty for killing a black person.
And, you know, I have nothing much to say.
On Friday, St. Anthony police Officer Jeronimo Yanez was found not guilty in Castile’s death. In audio recording from just before the encounter, Yanez can be heard saying: “I’m going to stop a car. I’m going to check IDs. I have reason to pull it over. The two occupants just look like people that were involved in a robbery.”
“The driver looks more like one of our suspects, just ’cause of the wide-set nose,” Yanez continues. He later confirmed that he believed Castile matched the description of a suspect, something cops often say about black men.
Yanez pulled the car over. Things escalated. Yanez shot seven times into the vehicle. He thought Castile was reaching for his weapon, a gun that Castile was licensed to carry and that he had informed the officer about moments before. Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, says he was reaching for his wallet. She began filming on her phone. The resulting video, with Castile bleeding to death on camera as Reynolds calmly complies with the officer’s screamed instructions, is impossible to forget.
The officer was placed on leave. The officer was charged. And now, nearly a year later, the officer is acquitted and goes home to his family, unlike his victim.
It’s almost textbook.
At least 991 people were shot and killed by police in 2015, and no officers were convicted. Video footage showed the questionable deaths of Terence Crutcher, Tamir Rice and Freddie Gray, to name a few. But that also didn’t lead to any convictions.
Justice Department investigations into police departments nationwide ― most notably in Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland and Ferguson, Missouri ― have found widespread systemic issues and evidence of officers routinely violating the rights of citizens.
Like a number of black people, I am traumatized by this ― to the point where I expect there to be no justice, no ramifications, no fucks given when a black person is killed by a police officer. Every time this happens, my stomach twists into knots. I want to scream, but I can’t.
When I think about how Castile, an elementary school cafeteria worker, was pulled over 46 times before the traffic stop that took his life, I get angry. Actually, I get pissed the hell off. I am tired. I am sick. And it hurts to think that Castile could have been my father, my boyfriend, my brother, my cousin or my nephew, who just started driving this year.
But I also feel selfish for turning inward and thinking about all the black men close to me when I see Castile’s mother, Valerie, on national television: gripped with righteous anger, but fighting back the pain long enough to get her point across.
“The system continues to fail black people,” she said Friday after the verdict. “My son loved this city, and this city killed my son. And the murderer gets away! Are you kidding me right now?”
“We’re not evolving as a civilization,” she added. “We’re devolving. We’re going back down to 1969.”
It sure seems like it.
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WASHINGTON ― The Trump administration formalized an immigration policy shift on Thursday evening that was notable for what it didn’t do as much as what it did. The Department of Homeland Security rescinded DAPA, a never-implemented program that would have allowed some undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents to stay in the country.
But more significantly, it left in place the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a policy that President Donald Trump promised to eliminate, and one that has shielded hundreds of thousands from deportation.
By Friday, the Trump administration was insisting that the president hadn’t gone back on his promise to end DACA. And even defenders of the program remain cautious about its future prospects. Still, nearly 150 days into his time in the White House, Trump hasn’t rescinded DACA ― not on Day One of his presidency, as he pledged during the campaign; not when he radically reshaped immigration policy early in his administration; and not on Thursday.
That Trump has been unwilling or unable to move on this front is both a product of an intense, at times underappreciated, lobbying effort by immigration advocates and a testament to the difficulties of removing a benefit once it is in place.
“Their stories and their contributions are the most significant thing protecting DACA,” Cecilia Muñoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council under President Barack Obama, said. “On some level, it is widely understood that these young people are Americans in every way except on paper. … That’s actually the most important thing, and that was a major contributor to DACA in the first place. The power of that is clearly enduring.”
The groundwork for DACA was laid more than a decade before 2012, when Obama created the program. Young immigrants began to “come out” as undocumented, telling their friends, classmates and lawmakers their stories of moving to the U.S. as children, often not knowing they were here without authorization.
In 2001, their stories inspired legislation called the Dream Act, which would give them a path to becoming citizens. They fought for passage of the bill for years, with more and more of them deciding to tell the world they were undocumented, holding protests in their college caps and gowns, or talking to the media about their dreams of joining the military.
This came close to working. The Dream Act passed the House in 2010. But it failed in the Senate.
Under intense pressure from Dreamers and immigrant-rights activists to do something in the wake of that failure, Obama created DACA in 2012, arguing he had the power to grant temporary permission to some who would not be a priority for deportation so he could focus on deporting criminals and threats. Nearly 790,000 young undocumented immigrants have received DACA permits since the program began, allowing them to work legally, get driver’s licenses and live without immediate fear of deportation.
Republicans were furious when Obama announced DACA, and threatened to dismantle and defund it. Their efforts were repeatedly blocked by Democrats and rejected by Obama. But by 2016, Trump had capitalized on the brewing anger within conservative circles, bashing DACA and promising to end it on his way to securing the GOP presidential nomination.
After he was elected, immigrant-rights activists immediately began to rally their allies to protect their gains. DACA, said Philip Wolgin, who works on immigration policy at the Center for American Progress, was “the most visible thing on the chopping block.”
A group of college and university presidents called for Trump to maintain DACA. The American Medical Association also voiced support for Dreamers, some of whom had enrolled in medical school after its creation. United We Dream, a youth-led immigrant-rights group, asked lawmakers to press Trump’s eventual nominees to head DHS and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on plans for DACA. Senators also crafted a bipartisan bill to maintain protections if Trump did get rid of DACA.
It was about reminding people that Dreamers are part of America.
“790,000 people is no small number,” Wolgin said. “These are real people. … You have employers talking about this, you have educators, other folks talking about how these are people in communities. These are people who have built their lives and we can’t end this.”
United We Dream also hoped to get the attention of Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and now a senior White House adviser. They didn’t think they could appeal to the president on a personal level. But they knew Ivanka Trump was interested in women’s rights, so they tried to get her attention through various connections, such as advocacy groups, and by placing op-eds and rallying in New York, said Greisa Martinez, United We Dream advocacy director.
They wanted to get to the president through politics.
“For us, the goal was really clearly to make it a political liability,” Martinez said.
Obama got in on the lobbying, too. When he spoke to Trump during the transition, he made an effort to explain who Dreamers were and why they should be protected, Muñoz said. He said at a press conference soon after the election that Trump and his administration should “think long and hard before they are endangering the status of what for all practical purposes are American kids.” In his final press conference as president, he promised to speak out should Trump end DACA and try to deport Dreamers.
Whether in response to Obama, or the advocacy pressures, or simply because he rethought his campaign position, Trump began to take a softer tone when talking about Dreamers once elected. He began speaking about them in ways that supporters do: as people brought here by their parents who simply want to work and attend school. In December 2016, Trump pledged to “work something out” for them without formally rescinding his campaign pledge to end DACA.
When he assumed office, he left the program untouched on “Day One” and side-stepped it when issuing an executive order in January that ramped up deportation efforts. According to lawmakers, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly seemed to take credit for the continuation of DACA, saying he was the “best friend” the program had. But it wasn’t just Kelly or Trump changing their tunes. Most Republicans in Congress who had voted previously to end DACA under Obama stopped making an issue of it.
The Trump administration still won’t say that DACA is no longer among their targets, even after Thursday’s memo. A DHS spokeswoman said the future of DACA remains under review. And White House spokesman Michael Short insisted in an email to HuffPost that “nothing has changed.” The “only thing that happened was we rescinded DAPA,” Short said. “That’s it, plain and simple.”
And so, Dreamers with DACA still don’t feel entirely safe. On Friday, advocates continued to point out that the administration could still get rid of DACA, or could strip current recipients of their status, detain or deport them one by one, as has already happened in some cases. DACA’s continuation after Thursday’s action was a relief, but it wasn’t a victory.
“The only certainty in Trump’s America is uncertainty ― and no memoranda changes that,” Lorella Praeli, a former Dreamer and director of immigration policy at the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement. “They’re trying to distract us with their back-and-forth on DACA as their mass deportation machine proceeds full-speed ahead.”
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YouTube’s growing library of VR content is a definite asset in Google’s struggle to dominate the virtual reality sphere. The video platform isn’t just improving the consumer experience either, as it did when it added shared virtual viewing rooms and…
The number of smart speakers looks set to grow exponentially, with Qualcomm cooking up a turnkey platform to speed up manufacturers getting the next Google Home or Amazon Echo to store shelves. Dubbed the Qualcomm Smart Audio Platform, it’s a combination of a low-power Snapdragon processor, AllPlay music streaming, and wireless connectivity, all on one chipset. To that, Qualcomm bakes … Continue reading
If you’re tempted by Microsoft’s beguilingly Alcantara-clad Surface Laptop, be warned: if you ever take it apart, don’t expect it to go back together again. That’s the cautionary tale shared by teardown specialists iFixit, which took various tools to the recently-released ultraportable. As you may have guessed, given the way the laptop industry is trending, the news isn’t good for … Continue reading
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