Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Anti-Semitism monitor needed within UN agencies and other top stories.

  • Anti-Semitism monitor needed within UN agencies

    Anti-Semitism monitor needed within UN agencies
    Anti-Semitism monitor needed within UN agencies   Speaking at UN High Level Forum on Anti-Semitism, at United Nations headquarters in New York, Mark Weitzman, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Chief Representative to the UN (NY) exhorted the world body “to immediately appoint a special representative on anti-Semitism with the authority to investigate and act on appearances of anti-Semitism in all circles of the UN.”Weitzman also urged the United Nations “to immediately adopt the ‘Working Definitio..
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  • Dunlop extends Supercars tyre deal

    Dunlop extends Supercars tyre deal
    Dunlop extends Supercars tyre deal Dunlop has extended its Supercars deal Dunlop will introduce a new tyre into the Supercars Championship next season as part of a fresh agreement with the championship. The tyre supplier has today announced a two-year extension to its control supply deal, taking it through until the end of the 2019 season. It will also debut a new construction tyre from next year that promises to shake-up the championship. Although the existing compounds will remain, the new..
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  • Pokémon Go Plus: This Wearable Was Supposed to Be for Kids, but It's Not Kids Who Are Buying It

    Pokémon Go Plus: This Wearable Was Supposed to Be for Kids, but It's Not Kids Who Are Buying It
    From the 1950s well into the 1980s, the slogan for Trix breakfast cereal was “Trix are for kids.” Ads showed a silly rabbit going through all sorts of machinations to get his hands on the colorful cereal. That, in a nutshell, is the story of Pokémon Plus, the Pokémon Go accessory released today. It was supposed to be for kids, Niantic founder and chief technology officer Phil Keslin told me this week. He says Nintendo pitched it as a low-cost, low-entry augmented reality device for children. Sa..
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  • RE: Abarth 124 rally car: Time For Tea

    RE: Abarth 124 rally car: Time For Tea
    World rallying is experiencing something of a resurgence. For the 2017 season there will be more aggressive and faster WRC cars, plus the popularity of the R-GT class seems to be increasing. Now we have our first look at the second rear-wheel drive R3 ...
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  • Gmail Finally Supports Responsive Design

    Gmail Finally Supports Responsive Design
    Google’s Gmail email applications will begin supporting responsive email design by the end of the month, the technology giant announced on Wednesday.  Designed emails will now render correctly on any device that email subscribers access their Gmail on, meaning that mobile users will now have the same experience that desktop users do.  “Text, links, and even buttons will enlarge to make reading and tapping easier on a smaller screen,” writes Pierce Vollucci, product manager at Gmail, on the compa..
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  • Chrome and Firefox may soon block pirate sites

    Chrome and Firefox may soon block pirate sites
    Piracy, long the bane of copyright agencies and content distributors - it may be soon that search engines, browsers, and DNS providers simply will not be able to find and access known pirate sites. Early reports from Torrent Freak state that, at least in the U.K. Google’s Chrome, Mozilla’s Firefox, and Comodo Secure DNS are actively blocking torrent sites like Pirate Bay instead bringing up stern warnings about the site containing harmful programs. Google and Mozilla claim that such sites m..
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  • What The iPhone 7 Gained By Losing The Headphone Jack

    What The iPhone 7 Gained By Losing The Headphone Jack
    What The iPhone 7 Gained By Losing The Headphone Jack The cool people at iFixit have torn apart the new iPhone 7 Plus. As expected, there are a lot of new changes, like the new camera system, waterproofing and, of course, the death of the headphone jack. Image: iFixit Getting rid of the headphone jack actually meant that Apple had more room for other stuff in the chassis. And in that space is a larger Taptic Engine. There was a Taptic Engine on the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, but the new one is la..
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  • Pornhub and YouPorn banned in Russia

    Pornhub and YouPorn banned in Russia
    Russia’s media watchdog has extended its crackdown on internet pornography, banning two of the biggest porn sites in the world.As of Tuesday, Pornhub and YouPorn now redirect Russian visitors to a page that says they’ve been blocked ‘by decision of public authorities.’In response to the outcry that has since ensued, the agency behind the move has reiterated advice issued on Twitter last year following the ban of 11 popular porn sites – telling disgruntled users to ‘meet someone in real life.’ As..
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  • ReCore: The Kotaku Review

    ReCore: The Kotaku Review
    Irredeemably bad video games are a simple, tidy affair. Their badness is straightforward. The game stinks. It was a waste of time to play. Probably shouldn’t have even finished it. It is different and perhaps more frustrating to play a promising game that starts well, carries many great ideas and then stumbles. The new Xbox One and PC action-adventure ReCore is one of those second types.ReCore starts beautifully, putting its player in control of Joule Adams, the lone woman on an intriguing, d..
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