Steven Crowder racist and homophobic said YouTube remarks did not violate its policies

Earlier this month, conservative commentator Steven Crowder racist and homophobic said YouTube remarks did not violate its policies. Activists expressed concerns that came after regarding Google’s participation in Pride in light of YouTube’s response to homophobic and racist content on its platform. Earlier today, Google’s about 100 employees urged SF Pride to ban the company from participating in this weekend’s Pride parade and drop the company as a sponsor. SF Pride says Google will be allowed to march in the parade despite Google employees petitioning San Francisco Pride to exclude the company from participating this weekend in the Pride parade. YouTube and Google can and must do more to elevate and protect the voices of LGBTQ+ creators on their platforms, “We appreciate the engagement of community members with their concerns about Google who reached out to San Francisco Pride,” SF Pride said in a statement. and we have found that Google has been willing to listen to this criticism and is working to develop appropriate policies. They have much work to do and they have acknowledged promoting respectful discussion and exchange of ideas.” YouTube, allows abuse and hate and discrimination against LGBTQ+ persons, then Pride must not provide the company with a platform that paints it in a rainbow veneer of support for those very persons. “The employees wrote on Medium that we feel we have no choice but to urge you to reject Google’s failure to act in support of our community by revoking their sponsorship of Pride and excluding Pride parade in the from Google official representation,”. “If another official platform, On the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, in a Pride celebration whose very slogan is “Generations of Resistance”, we ask you to join us in resisting LGBTQ+ oppression on the internet, and the subjugation of our right to equality in favor of calculated business concerns. So now must this Pride be one and the first Pride was a protest.” Google has been a long-term supporter for years and that the company has historically been a good ally to the LGBTQ+ community SF Pride goes on to say. Google, obviously, agrees. We are excited to continue the tradition this weekend Google has marched in the San Francisco Pride Parade for more than a decade and Pride’s partnership and leadership we are grateful for SF. Furthermore, employees say they fear retaliation from Google for speaking out and protesting during the parade but employees feel otherwise. The company that it will look at the policies, despite claims from the employees says they’re never given a true commitment to improving.

Xiaomi’s Mi CC brand will develop ‘trendy’ smartphones for young people

Mi CC devices will look like or where they will be sold, but Xiaomi is already trumpeting its differentiation.“ Xiaomi one of the youngest product teams is created Mi CC, to creating a trendy design for young consumers among which half are dedicated and are majors,” it wrote in an announcement. Unveiled on Friday, the phone-maker said it stands for “camera+camera” in reference to its dual-camera feature, “Mi CC” is the newest brand from Xiaomi. but that apparently also segues into “a variety of meanings including creative, cool, colorful and chic.” To date, the company has built its brand on developing phones that are as good — well, nearly as good — as top smartphone rivals but at a fraction of the cost. Essentially, what Xiaomi is doing here is breaking out a dedicated set of phones for those who care more about aesthetics than performance. The result of that is that a lot of marketing focus is on the technical details, even th Xiaomi has been lauded for CC adjusts that balance to target a different kind of audience and some attractive designs. Chinese smartphone rival Xiaomi is in expansion mode with the launch of a new brand that’s aimed at winning friends (and sales) among the young and fashionable but Huawei may be on the ropes as it battles sanctions from the U.S. government. CC is one to watch out for, Xiaomi’s CC teaser image doesn’t give much away, apart from the logo Since Xiaomi has a history of bringing innovation into affordable devices. After new demographics and build on the work of Meitu, Xiaomi bought the business last November to go which in 2013 had sold just over 3.5 million after getting into the smartphone business. Meitu retains a similarly positive outlook on the fashionable audience and it has a lot to gain financially from the success of CC, too. Those numbers weren’t enough to justify the continuation of Meitu’s phone business but, evidently, Xiaomi saw promise in that segment. Hence, Xiaomi has come to the rescue with its know-how two-thirds of that income was from phone sales but Meitu’s smartphone revenue dropped by 51 percent year-on-year. Meitu Terms of the acquisition deal will take 10 percent of all profits, with a minimum guaranteed fee of $10 million per year, which reported revenue of $406 million in 2018. Notably, Big sales could be significant for Meitu. Xiaomi’s acquisition of the smartphone business belonging to Meitu, a selfie app maker. end goal of that marketing bumf is a target customer that Xiaomi describes as “the global young generation.” its ‘performance’-focused division, its gaming brand Shark, which looks much like Razer’s phones .Xiaomi has had success with brands, some of which include Redmi — its big-selling budget division — Poco.

Fubo TV adds 13 more networks to its live Streaming Service Deal With Viacom Inks

“FuboTV’s entertainment offering demonstrates the power and popularity of our global brands and programming as a cornerstone, FuboTV is quickly evolving as a major force in the streaming television space, and the addition of Viacom’s media networks” Viacom’s EVP, Tom Gorke and head of distribution and business development, said in a statement. Google’s Hulu’s live TV, YouTube TV bundle and Sony’s PlayStation Vue (which dropped the conglomerate’s lineup more than two years ago) but Viacom remains absent and for Viacom, there’s some urgency in getting on OTT platforms as TV satellit and traditional cable distributors have seen their subscriber losses accelerate. Viacom Digital Studios division now owns VidCon and digital network and studio Awesomeness and its Viacom is expanding its digital footprint on other fronts. Last month it spent $340 million to buy PlutoTV, a free TV-like streaming service. The New York-based company said it had just shy of 250,000 paid subscribers at the end of September 2018, $150 million raised from investors including AMC Networks, 21st Century Fox and Sky (now owned by Comcast). FuboTV is relatively small in grand scheme of things now. In 2015 Launched a sports-centric OTT TV service. In 2018, the five biggest U.S. pay-TV operators collectively lost 3.2 million subs, a 4.2% decline, Viacom is now on four “virtual pay-TV” platforms: Dish Network’s Sling TV, AT&T’s DirecTV Now, Philo and FuboTV. Those include BET Her, BET Jams, BET Soul, Logo, MTV2, MTV Classic, MTV Live, mtvU, Nick Music, Nicktoons and TeenNick. Addition to this, an expanded suite of Viacom channels will be available in the Fubo Extra premier package ($50 monthly). This deal also will bring MTV Tr3s and Viacom’s Telefe networks to FuboTV’s Spanish-language Fubo Latino package (an additional $8 per month). New additions will include TLC, Investigation Discovery, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network and MotorTrend — all of which will be available on fuboTV’s $54.99 per month base package.Singularly focused Fubo remains on offering sports fans a compelling pay-TV alternative with a robust content offering able to serve the viewing needs of the entire household. Discovery and fuboTV that began almost two years ago with the former Scripps Networks,” said fuboTV CFO Joel Armijo, in a statement about the new agreement.Several more Extra get will fubo Discovery stations as a result of the new agreement, including Discovery Family, Destination America, Science Channel, American Heroes Channel, and Discovery Life. Fubo extra will now include over 30 channels in total. Scripps channels soon to-come Discovery networks, fuboTV has also forged deals with Viacom, CBS Sports Network, Cheddar, CBSN, The CW, Pop, and others in the past couple of years., the service has been steadily expanding its lineup to include more non-sports content over the past couple of years While fuboTV’s core focus is still on live streaming sports content.

Use of tough material could unlock for next generation - Laser technique

Researchers, in 2004 discovered a super thin material which is best known conductor of heat and electricity and is at least a 100 times stronger than steel. Graphene, could bring faster electronics than is possible today with silicon. This switching creates strings of 0s and 1s that a computer uses for processing information like what silicon does in the form of billions of transistors on a computer chip. But to truly be useful, graphene would need to carry an electric current that switches on and off Band gap would need to be at least the previous record of 0.5 electronvolts to function as a semiconductor such as silicon, Purdue researchers created and widened the band gap in graphene to a record 2.1 electronvolts.. But graphene doesn't naturally have a band gap.Electrons need to jump across this gap in order to become conduction electrons, which makes them capable of carrying electric current This structure is a so-called "band gap" . In collaboration with the University of Michigan and the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, The Purdue University researchers, show how a laser technique could permanently stress graphene. Gary Cheng, professor of industrial engineering at Purdue, whose lab has investigated various ways to make graphene more useful for commercial applications.“An effort has achieved for the first time that without affecting graphene itself how high band gaps, such as through chemical doping. We have purely strained the material," Giving scientists and manufacturers the option to just use certain properties of graphene depending on what they want the material to do.Cheng and his collaborators not only kept the band gap open in graphene, also made it to where the gap width could be tuned from zero to 2.1 electronvolts. Researchers in the past opened the band gap by simply stretching graphene, but stretching alone doesn't widen the band gap very much. Cheng said You need to permanently change the shape of graphene to keep the band gap open. Along with scientists at Harvard University, the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies and the University of California, San Diego researchers made the band gap structure permanent in graphene using a technique called laser shock imprinting, which developed in 2014 by Cheng . Researchers for this study used a laser to create shockwave impulses that penetrated an underlying sheet of graphene. Their work appears in an issue of Advanced Materials. Surpassing 0.5 electronvolts unlocks even more potential for graphene in next-generation electronic devices, the researchers say. Depending on whether their electrons are pushed across the band gap or not the presence of a band gap allows semiconductor materials to switch between insulating or conducting an electric current,. The technique grants more flexibility in taking advantage of the material's optical, magnetic and thermal properties, While still far from putting graphene into semiconducting devices, Cheng said. Dual-color picosecond laser rapidly tunable Our patented tuning mechanism requires no mechanical delay and allows comfortable fiber-delivery of synchronized dual-color pulses. All-fiber optical parametric oscillator in an wavelength conversion, pumped by a stable fiber laser provides an unmatched combination of tuning speed and tuning range. It require to minimize requirements on maintenance and environmental conditions by polarization-maintaining fiber technology. Patented prototype Preliminary technical specifications tuning range 750-970 nm 1020 - 1055 nm tuning speed <5 ms <1 ms average power 200 mW 500 mW covered wavenumber 865-3550 cm-1 pulse duration 7 ps spectral bandwidth <12 cm -1 repetition rate 40,5 MHz The Role of GreenLight High-Performance System Laser and Next Generation in Laser Treatments . The Characteristic and physics of the laser light, such as power densities and wavelength, influence efficiency of treatment and safety profiles of various laser techniques and systems. Over the past decade Lasers have evolved, with technical refinements that have resulted in a procedure that can achieve transurethral-like results in a safe and efficacious manner. Currently commercially available 80-W potassium-titanyl-phosphate laser used for photoselective vaporization of the prostate gland in men with lower urinary tract symptoms and benign prostatic hyperplasia has been shown to be effective and safe the rapeutic alternative for a wide spectrum of prostate sizes and configurations. Refinements based on clinical experience as well as progress in available technologies have produced an advanced system with improvements in beam quality and an increase in power to provide an increase in vaporization efficiency and flexibility in technique. The refinements require adjustments to current technique and the advanced technological developments enhance the utility of this laser for application in benign prostatic hyperplasia and urology.

An 800x microscope to your phone - Add iMicro

In 17th century Antony van Leeuwenhoek invented his microscope ,since then it has been great progress in microscope technology. Microscopes with excellent performance usually are bulky,heavy and expensive, even for portable ones. This is something you should check out If you’ve always wanted to have a make-shift lab of sorts in your house. iMicro to your smartphone’s lens and enjoy looking at the micrometer world at 100x magnification .iMicro is a small layer of lenses, smaller than an average fingertip. Like most third-party zoom lenses for smartphones, you can hook. After putting so much effort in developing it, Mass production is very important.It is proud to bring you this fingertip microscope, which is a real breakthrough in portable microscopy Coupled with the digital zoom on a smartphone, you can increase this multiple times and feed your curiosity by intimately examining virtually anything on the fly. it has comparable optical performance to a professional desktop microscope and enables you to carry it with you as easily as you carry your phone.