Daily Mail

You may soon be able to get your hands on a pair of affordable augmented reality glasses.

Hand-tracking company Leap Motion has unveiled ‘Project North Star’, a prototype headset that superimposes computer-generated images onto the world around you.

The futuristic AR headset places two high quality, albeit somewhat gigantic, screens in front of the user’s eyes, enabling them to see virtual graphics in real life.  Continue reading “Leap Motion unveils $100 augmented reality headset equipped with gesture- tracking technology that turns your hands into ‘virtual wearables’”

Fox News

Florida deputies confiscated an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle from an Army veteran on Thursday, and the seizure was the first of its kind under the state’s new gun control law enacted following the Parkland school shooting.

Jerron Smith, 31, of Deerfield Beach, is the first person to be arrested for running afoul of the new law since it went on the books March 9, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said Monday.   Continue reading “New Florida gun law leads to first seizure: AR-15 from Army vet charged with attempted murder”

The Daily Caller – by Amber Randall

A New York police department “arrested” winter Friday for sticking around for so long.

The Depew Police Department sent out a Facebook post notifying winter that it had been placed under arrest, reports the Associated Press.   Continue reading “Police Department Vows To Arrest Winter For Staying Around”

The Daily Sheeple

Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood worked an area of California with a higher-than-average number of police killings. Youngblood has said that that’s because “financially” it’s better to kill a suspect than it is to wound them and pay for their medical care for life.

Officers have said before that the county force, labeled “America’s deadliest police,” was “in desperate need of positive changes.”   Continue reading “Sheriff: It’s ‘Better Financially’ To Kill Suspects Than It Is To Wound Them”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In a day full of bizarre twist and turns, and not long after the FBI raided the office and home of Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen, moments ago the UK’s Telegraph reported that the British headquarters of the Murdoch entertainment empire 21st Century Fox have been raided by investigators from the European Commission.

As Bloomberg adds, Fox Networks Group was said to be cooperating fully with the commission inspection.  Continue reading “EU Raids London HQ Of Murdoch’s Fox; Documents, Computer Records Seized”

Yahoo News

Budapest (AFP) – Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Tuesday that his resounding election win, challenged by the opposition, hows that voters want to stop US billionaire philanthropist George Soros interfering in the country.

However the largest opposition party has demanded that the National Elections Office investigate alleged irregularities in the conduct of Sunday’s poll.   Continue reading “Hungarian people want to ‘stop Soros’, Orban says”

ArsTechnica – by Timothy B. Lee

Tyler Barriss stands accused of making a fake emergency call, a crime known as “swatting,” that led to the death of a Kansas man. He has been held in a Sedgewick County Jail since January. He is not supposed to have Internet access there, but on Friday the Wichita Eagle noticed Barriss tweeting.

“How am I on the Internet if I’m in jail?” Barriss wrote. “Oh, because I’m an eGod, that’s how.”  Continue reading ““Your ass is about to get swatted,” swatting suspect tweets from jail”

Fox News

A man who was released from a Mississippi mental hospital, where he was sent briefly for acting erratically and after cops found several weapons in his vehicle, is now behind bars — because he asked for the guns back.

Steven Drew Montana argued that doctors had cleared him of any mental issues, so Pascagoula police, backed by a court order, handed over his seized firearms, an AK-47 and Glock pistol.   Continue reading “Man whose firearms were returned by police after mental hospital stay now facing gun possession charges”

Deadline – by Andreas Wiseman

Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush is “virtually housebound” and believes his career has been “irreparably damaged” following the publication of an allegation against him, his lawyers claimed in an Australian court today.

The Shine and The King’s Speech star is suing Sydney’s Daily Telegraph and journalist Jonathan Moran for defamation over articles that said he was suspected of inappropriate behavior toward a fellow performer during a Sydney Theatre Company production of King Lear in 2015.   Continue reading “Oscar winner sues, says #MeToo destroyed his career”

Truth in Media – by Jay Syrmopoulos

Washington, D.C. – West Virginia Congressman Alex Mooney recently proposed legislation “to define the dollar as a fixed weight of gold.” Mooney harshly criticized U.S. monetary policy, citing the 96 percent loss since “the end of the gold standard in 1913,” which in real life terms means that means a dollar in 1913 would now be only be worth .04 cents.

“The United States dollar has lost 30 percent of its purchasing power since 2000, and 96 percent of its purchasing power since the end of the gold standard in 1913. Under the Federal Reserve’s two percent inflation objective, the dollar loses half of its purchasing power every generation, or 35 years,” the bill stated.   Continue reading “Congressman Proposes Bill to Return to Pre-1913 Gold-Backed US Dollar”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Gloucester Township, PA — Body camera footage of a Gloucester Township police officer was recently released which captured the disturbing assault of a small 13-year-old girl by a massive cop. The attack was so deeply troubling that the officer has actually been suspended and subsequently charged—after his own cops turned on him.

The incident began on March 8 and was captured on another officer’s body camera. It shows Gloucester Township police officer John Flinn repeatedly punching and attempting to choke a small 13-year-old girl as he places her in handcuffs. Continue reading “Video of Cop Beating 13-Year-Old Girl So Horrific, His Own Cops Turned Him In”