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If you needed to pick a bag to have your back in a street fight, you should probably choose Chrome’s Bravo 2.0. I tested a version of this pack from the company’s higher-end BLCKCHRM line. The BLCKCHRM version of the Bravo 2.0 replaces the normal pack’s 1050 denier nylon exterior with a slightly rubbery, Navy-grade material […]
Back in the “good old days” movie theaters ran serials. Every week you’d pay some pocket change and see what happened to Buck Rogers, Superman, or Tex Granger that week. Each episode would, of course, end in a cliffhanger. [Keith Hayes] has started his own serial about restoring a DEC 340 monitor found in a scrap yard in Australia. The 340 — not a VT340 — looks like it could appear in one of those serials, with its huge cabinets and round radar-like display. [Keith] describes the restoration as “his big project of the year” and we are anxious to …read more
By now youve seen the photos and videos and probably heard the audio tape. The media coming out of the U.S./Mexico border over the past week has been truly heart-wrenching and horrifying, including, most shockingly, images of young children being housed in what amounts to human cages. Many prominent politicians across the world (and in […]
It’s World Cup season, so that means that even articles about machine learning have to have a football angle. Today’s concession to the beautiful game is a system that takes 2D videos of matches and recreates them in 3D so you can watch them on your coffee table (assuming you have some kind of augmented reality setup, which you almost certainly don’t). It’s not as good as being there, but it might be better than watching it on TV.
Venture-backed companies must walk the line between fast growth and efficient growth. Even as VCs value high-quality revenue, companies are still held to a minimum growth rate. To achieve sustainable growth, maximizing customer lifetime value is an important component and one that is often underestimated.
Systematically separating kids and parents is a new Trump policy, said NBC News reporter Jacob Soboroff today about this first-person account. But detaining families isnt. You’re going to want to read this thread.
Thread: How did we get here?
In 2015, I shook President Obamas hand, thanked him for DACA, and asked him to reverse course & close the for-profit baby jails (also known as family detention centers) he opened in Dilley & Karnes City, Texas. What he said shook me to my core 1/ pic.twitter.com/K5vi6S2RPj— R. Andrew Free (@ImmCivilRights) June 19, 2018
2/ Specifically, I told him, Its wrong. And its going to be a stain on your legacy. He stopped moving on to the next person in the rope line and looked back at me. Id gotten his attention. He turned back, looked at me and Are you an immigration lawyer? Yes
— R. Andrew Free (@ImmCivilRights) June 19, 2018
3/ Just days before, President Obamas senior immigration policy advisor @cecmunoz had received a chilly welcome during her keynote address to the @AILANational annual conference attendees in National Harbor. She was greeted with silent protest & signs saying #EndFamilyDetention
— R. Andrew Free (@ImmCivilRights) June 19, 2018
4/ I later learned that her meeting with senior AILA attorneys had been testy to say the least. See, Obama had previously timed great news, like #DACA to coincide with the AILA annual conferences. We all watched ecstatic in Nashville in 2012 as he announced it on giant screens.
— R. Andrew Free (@ImmCivilRights) June 19, 2018
5/ So the Presidents immediate association of End Family Detention with immigration lawyers wasnt random. Hed been told and believed we were basically the only ones whod care, and even then, it would be a minority of us that wouldnt extract from him a political cost.
— R. Andrew Free (@ImmCivilRights) June 19, 2018
6/ So when I said Yes, the President looked back and engaged: Ill tell you what we cant have. Its these parents sending their kids here on a dangerous journey and putting their lives at risk.
— R. Andrew Free (@ImmCivilRights) June 19, 2018
7/ And he walked on down the rope line. Not, I know. Im working on it. not, Thanks for your support. Just, Yes. This is the right move given what I perceive the facts to be. I was dumbfounded. Lets unpack the logic of what he said because its that logic which led us here
— R. Andrew Free (@ImmCivilRights) June 19, 2018
8/ First, the President tacitly admittedly that he was using detention of mothers and children as a deterrent. Days later, a federal court would find that policy likely violates the due process clause. https://t.co/FxCyUqnWSW. And rightly so, as @ACLU powerfully demonstrated.
— R. Andrew Free (@ImmCivilRights) June 19, 2018
9/ Detention as Deterrence of future migration works only if its unpleasant, and only if you can ensure that people dont get out. You dont just detain to deter. You detain to deport. You have to do it by sending a Gandalf message down the pipeline to the Northern Triangle.
— R. Andrew Free (@ImmCivilRights) June 19, 2018
10/ Whats wrong with that? First, it doesnt work. It assumes a parent would rationally chose to watch her daughter raped or murdered in Guatemala, El Salvador, or Honduras instead of helping her flee to seek the domestic and international legal protections of US law. Would you?
— R. Andrew Free (@ImmCivilRights) June 19, 2018
11/ People in the Northern Triangle were (and are) fleeing for their lives. Theyre looking to what weve held out as a shining city on a hill and following the beacon to safety. To convince them not to flee, you must convince them a worse fate awaits at the end of the journey.
— R. Andrew Free (@ImmCivilRights) June 19, 2018
12/ Todays DHS Kidnapping policy is the logical extension of yesterdays family detention decisions. Its the same mouthful of detention-as-deterrence mouthwash, just swished to the other side. Nothing, NOTHING in our law requires us to abuse and traumatize families and children
— R. Andrew Free (@ImmCivilRights) June 19, 2018
13/ The reason otherwise friendly partisans on the left went to the mat with the Obama Admin is because we saw the utter inhumanity that happens inside these internment camps. Women arent allowed to let their children farther than 3 feet away from them. Imagine your toddler.
— R. Andrew Free (@ImmCivilRights) June 19, 2018
14/ I remember holding back tears when I saw cutouts from Eric Carles The Very Hungry Caterpillar on the walls in the kids area of the legal trailer and thinking about how this would mean those kids will always associate the same book I was reading my child with this jail.
— R. Andrew Free (@ImmCivilRights) June 19, 2018
15/ I remember hearing the constant, violent coughing and sickness of small children, and the worry of their mothers who sto
We’ll go way out on a limb here and say you’ve probably got a ridiculous amount of flattened cardboard boxes. We’re buying more stuff online than ever before, and all those boxes really start to add up. At the least we hope they’re making it to the recycling bin, but what about reusing them? Surely there’s something you could do with all those empty shipping boxes…
Here’s a wild idea…why not use them to ship things? But not exactly as they are, unless you’re in the business of shipping big stuff, the probably won’t do you much good as-is. Instead, …read more
At one point in the new film Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Velociraptor trainer Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) fires multiple rifle shots into the Indoraptor, a new dinosaur hybrid constructed from DNA taken from Tyrannosaurus rex samples, Velociraptors, and god knows what else. The dinosaur cowers for a couple seconds, then charges at its prey, seemingly undamaged. Like the Indominus rex in the first Jurassic World, the franchises latest human-made dino seems to be immune to gunfire.
Obviously, theres a fair bit of scientific fudging going on in the Jurassic Park series, given that the entire series premise is based on an incorrect idea of how long DNA can be preserved. But that image of dinosaurs shrugging off gunfire for dramatic…
TP-Link is launching its second mesh router today, the Deco M9 Plus, and it comes with two notable upgrades over the original around speed and smart home functionality.
The first is the more common feature: this is a tri-band router, instead of a dual band one, which means it should allow for even faster speeds. Like most tri-band routers, the M9 Plus sets up a dedicated network for communication between router units, allowing for faster operation for the networks connected to your phone and computer.
TP-Links first mesh router, the Deco M5, was only a dual-band model, which is what youll usually find on routers, and tends to be a bit cheaper. But at this point, most mesh systems offer both dual- and tri-band options, so there isnt…
Oppo showed off its new Find X smartphone with a pop-up notch earlier today, and now the company has announced a partnership with Lamborghini to create a special version of the device. The smartphone maker says the Lamborghini version of the Oppo Find X will cost 1,699 euros ($1,966), and its the start of a partnership with the Italian luxury car brand.
The special edition smartphone will have Super VOOC charging, which helps it fast charge its 3,400mAh battery from 0 to 100 percent within 35 minutes, according to Oppo. There hasnt been word on whether the specs will be different from the regular Find X, but we do know that the Lamborghini edition has a carbon fiber texture on the rear with the car brands logo.
Huawei has its…
You’re either a Chrome bag person or you’re not. And if you’re not a Chrome bag person, it might be time to give the newly Portland-based bag maker another look. I’ve been a fan of Chrome Industries bags for a long time, but over the years I’ve only owned two: the discontinued Mini Buran, a […]
From the earliest moments of boot camp, budding soldiers learn about entrepreneurship. They learn how to operate in unknown terrain, how to listen to signals, and perhaps most importantly, how to make things happen with extremely limited time and resources. Yet, when soldiers return home following a deployment, the transition to civilian life can be […]
After several years of tumult, Star Trek: Discovery and the greater Star Trek TV empire may finally be getting some stability: CBS Television Studios has signed Discoverys recently promoted showrunner Alex Kurtzman to a five-year deal that will put him in charge of all TV Trek projects for the foreseeable future, via The Hollywood Reporter. (Wed make a five-year mission joke, but Verge readers deserve better.)
In addition to Discovery, CBS reportedly has multiple Star Trek shows already in development for Kutzman to oversee. Per Variety, these include a Starfleet Academy show from Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz (who previously created Dynasty, Gossip Girl, and Marvels Runaways), a limited series based on the Wrath of Khan…
The Google Home and Home Mini are now available for purchase in Spain, Austria, and Ireland. The Google Home will cost 149 ($172.54), while the Home Mini will cost 59 ($68.32).
While a leak last month suggested a Spain launch for the Home and Home Mini was coming soon, there had been no indication of the Google products coming to Austria and Ireland. Still, the Google Assistant on Google Home is only available in English, French, German, Japanese, Italian, and Spanish, and the company makes no mention of adopting Austrian German, Slovenian, Gaelic, or Irish. That means people in Austria or Ireland purchasing a Google Home or Home Mini will have to get by with the languages that are available.
Yesterday Google started rolling out the ability to text from the web with Android Messages. The feature gives users a lot more flexibility in choosing how and where they can carry on conversations. As long as your Android smartphone is powered on, you can text from a desktop computer or even other mobile devices including iOS products like an iPad if you just open up Safari. Aside from text, you can also send emoji, stickers, and images over the web.
Using Android Messages on the web requires using Android Messages as your main texting app on your phone. I like it just fine, and Google is clearly planning big things for the future, but if you prefer, say, Samsungs default messages app or something else, the two dont work together….
Roll Sebastian Bergne’s $3.33 pencil dice across the table to get a randomish value from 1-6. Useful for writing choose-your-own-adventures! (via Geekologie)
The cloud was supposed to kill open source. Instead, savvy cloud operators appear to be using open source as an on-ramp to proprietary services, giving them reason to increase investments in complementary open source projects. Google is the obvious example, spinning out TensorFlow and Kubernetes as a way to raise a generation of developers anxious to perfect machine learning and container-driven workloads on the Google Cloud Platform.
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We just wrapped up the Robotics Module Challenge portion of the Hackaday Prize, and if there’s one thing robots need to do, it’s move. This usually means some sort of motor, but you’ll probably want a gear system on there as well. Gotta have that torque, you know.
For his Hackaday Prize entry, [Johannes] is building a 3D printed Strain Wave Gear. A strain wave gear has a flexible middle piece that touches an outer gear rack when pushed by an oval central rotor. The difference in the number of teeth on the flexible collar and the outer rack determine …read more
Back in March we covered the launch of Seraphim Capitals new Space Camp Accelerator. This is the UKs first dedicated accelerator programme for startups in the spacetech industry. Ther’s now selected the six companies in this first cohort. They come from from the US, Denmark and the UK. The programme is underway and is 9 […]
Following its relaunch earlier this year as a podcast creation platform, Anchor today is bringing its suite of mobile podcasting tools to the iPad. Like its iPhone counterpart, the iPad version of Anchor lets you record, edit, then distribute your podcast anywhere, including iTunes and Google Play Music. The new app is also customized for […]