Viveland, HTC’s VR arcade, opened in Taipei eight months ago, with the Taiwanese company calling it the “world’s first premium VR arcade.” It has three jobs: make money, sell people on VR and serve as a testbed for future arcades that HTC plans to bu…
The new 2017 Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 is the first legitimate challenger to the Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro’s all-terrain dominance since the latter hit the scene as a 2015 model. While in the past the Nissan Frontier PRO-4X and the Colorado Z71 each upped the ante of what was possible in a mid-size pickup once the pavement disappeared, they were truly … Continue reading
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump proclaimed the month of June to be both Great Outdoors Month and National Ocean Month, an annual practice that often encourages Americans to relish in the country’s natural beauty. Former President George W. Bush first proclaimed both in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and the tradition has been carried on.
In 2008, Bush said Americans had a “solemn responsibility to care for our seas and show concern for the plant and animal life that inhabit them.” Ahead of his own such proclamations last year, former President Barack Obama said the U.S. would “redouble our efforts to preserve the health and resilience of our vast oceans.”
However, Trump appears to have taken a different tack than his predecessors:
“National Ocean Month celebrates the mighty oceans and their extraordinary resources. This month, we recognize the importance of harnessing the seas for our national security and prosperity …
Today, our offshore areas remain underutilized and often unexplored. We have yet to fully leverage new technologies and unleash the forces of economic innovation to more fully develop and explore our ocean economy.”
The president includes one scant line about the need for “protecting the marine environment for present and future generations,” but his statements mostly echo those found in the administration’s America First Energy Plan. They also appear to further the White House’s openly antagonistic response to Obama’s vast environmental legacy, including rollbacks of climate change legislation, the opening up offshore drilling and the approval of the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines.
The president’s proclamation for Great Outdoors Month, while notably tamer (he encourages Americans to “experience the beauty and adventure of our nation’s lakes, mountains and forests”), also lies in direct contradiction to his promises to open up federal lands to energy exploration and reverse national monument designations made in the waning days of Obama’s presidency.
All of those moves come as the president repeatedly celebrates and honors the environment, including his well-publicized donation of his first quarter salary to the National Park Service. In reality, the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency have been very bad for the planet and his proposed budget for 2018 includes a $1.5 billion cut to the Interior Department, which oversees the National Park Service.
Environmentalists have already begun suing the White House en masse over such decisions and more than 100,000 people marched in Washington, D.C., in April to urge the president to act on climate change.
On Thursday, however, the president is expected to announce his decision regarding the landmark Paris climate accord, an agreement between all but two countries that’s meant to avoid the worst effects of climate change. Reports emerged this week that he would withdraw the U.S. from the deal, despite widespread opposition to such plans, including from members of his own cabinet.
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Actress Chloe Grace Moretz, who lent her voice to the animated “Snow White” parody, “Red Shoes and the 7 Dwarfs,” had plenty to say Wednesday about the movie’s controversial marketing.
Cries of body-shaming erupted after an ad for the movie appeared at the Cannes Film Festival, featuring a thin Snow White next to a heavier version of herself. “What if Snow White was no longer beautiful and the 7 Dwarfs not so short?” the tagline read.
Moretz, who voices the fairy tale princess, apologized in a series of tweets Wednesday, saying she did not approve the ad and was fuming over it.
The South Korean producers of the movie, animation studio Locus, scrapped the campaign.
“Our film, a family comedy, carries a message designed to challenge social prejudices related to standards of physical beauty in society by emphasizing the importance of inner beauty,” producer Sujin Hwang said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly. “We appreciate and are grateful for the constructive criticism of those who brought this to our attention. We sincerely regret any embarrassment or dissatisfaction this mistaken advertising has caused.”
The studio described the plot of “Red Shows and the Seven Dwarfs” thusly: “After seven handsome princes are magically transformed into seven ugly dwarfs, they set out on a quest to break the curse by getting a kiss from the most beautiful princess in all the land.”
No release date has been set.
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President Donald Trump is reportedly poised to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, and Neil deGrasse Tyson is clearly not happy.
In just one blistering tweet Wednesday, the astrophysicist threw major shade on the Trump administration’s controversial climate change policies — and suggested why it was considering withdrawing from the landmark deal in the first place.
“If I and my advisors had never learned what Science is or how & why it works, then I’d consider pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord too,” he wrote.
The post has since gone viral, with many of his followers appearing to agree with his sentiment:
Trump plans to announce his decision on the Paris Accord via a press conference from the White House Rose Garden at 3 p.m. ET on Thursday.
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Adobe has launched a new way to turn your physical documents into PDFs with editable text, and it’s completely free. The company has released a new mobile app simply called “Scan” for both iOS and Android, and to create a digital copy of a document,…
The old song tells us that leg bone is connected to the hip bone how are we to know if the articulated cam can connect to the brushless motor? There are, sadly, no songs designed to tell us how to build robots. Luckily CMU’s Ruta Desai has us covered. His project, “Computational Abstractions for Interactive Design of Robotic Devices,” is essentially a robotics toolkit. You see… Read More
Security firm BullGuard has launched a consumer-focused Internet of Things product in the U.S., following its acquisition of Israeli startup Dojo-Labs last year. Read More
Dozens if not hundreds of smartphones sacrificed on the altar of entertainment and “science”, scratch, bent, and dropped from all heights. But how about gaming consoles? Sure, we’ve seen an NVIDIA SHIELD dropped from a cargo plane, but that marketing stunt was designed so that the SHIELD would land safely. How about a stunt that isn’t as safe? That’s exactly … Continue reading
While SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic are scrambling to corner the still non-existent low orbit commercial transportation market, a new player has just rolled out its race horse out of the hangar for the public to gawk at. And like those other companies, Stratolaunch also has a Silicon Valley luminary behind it, the oft forgotten Microsoft co-found Paul G. … Continue reading
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