Watching GoPro footage makes it clear that there is basically nothing cooler than first-person action sport shots. And for those who are spending the day at the skate park, one Kickstarter project is hoping to that genre of filming to the next level.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/f0-Chg3BM-I/
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It's a phrase we've all likely heard some time, possibly even direct at ourselves: "You have to know when to stop." The advice applied to ice cream, beer, risqu? jokes, and physical exertion can also apply to mobile technology. With these connected devices rarely out of arm's reach, it's sometimes difficult to know when to stop.
There are situations where any reasonable person would admit that using a smartphone would be inappropriate, but there's a huge gray area of personal judgement when it comes to the rest of life. How do we make the call between answering the digital siren call of our smartphones and giving our undivided attention what's happening in the real world right in front of us?
That digital siren call has somebody on the other end, though, a real person flesh and blood just like you. Do they have the right to your undivided attention as well? Do they even have the right to be beckoning for your attention in the first place?
Mobile technology and the internet have advanced so rapidly that we're literally making up the answers as we go along. What are the right answers?
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American culture unapologetically romanticizes the lives of the first pioneers. Through rose-colored glasses, we see Manifest Destiny as fate, leading our heroic ancestors across a perfectly manicured landscape. In reality, the frontier was a terrifying, dangerous wilderness. And you were only as good as the tools you carried.
Pioneers were responsible for clearing their own land, building their homes, defending themselves, sewing their own clothes, and hunting for their own food. And the devices and tools they brought with them?severely limited by weight and size?were vital lifelines to succeeding in all of those pursuits. So what were they?
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Photo: Frontier Culture Museum
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Our opening image: The "New home" in the far west by W.U. Morgan & Co. Lith, Cleveland, O. This trade card advertising a New Home sewing machine, show a happy family outside of their house, c1881. Source: Solomon D. Butcher/Library Of Congress
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The UK media is weirdly ablaze this morning over a story about a store attendant who flipped out when a customer refused to stop talking on her phone while at the checkout. But is that rude, or is it now socially acceptable?
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Russian president Vladimir Putin has said NSA leaker Edward Snowden should stop leaking American secrets if he intends to stay in the country. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
By Jim Maceda and F. Brinley Bruton, NBC News
MOSCOW - NSA leaker Edward Snowden withdrew a request for political asylum in Russia after President Vladimir Putin said he should stop "harming our American partners," a government spokesman said on Tuesday.
Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman, told Reuters that Snowden was in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and had not crossed through passport control onto Russian territory.
Snowden left the U.S. for Hong Kong before he allegedly leaked details of U.S. surveillance programs and was charged with espionage. He traveled to Moscow eight days ago.?
On Monday, Putin said Snowden could stay in Russia on one condition.
"He must stop his work aimed at harming our American partners, as strange as that sounds coming from my lips," he told reporters in Moscow. "He must choose a country of destination and go there. Unfortunately, I don't know when this will happen."
Putin said Russia was not working with Snowden but also did not plan to give him ?to the United States.
On Tuesday, Russia also said that Snowden had applied for asylum in 15 countries, not 21 as had been claimed by anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks a day earlier. There was no immediate explanation for this discrepancy. ?
The U.S. does not have an extradition treaty with Russia, but President Barack Obama has noted that Snowden traveled to Moscow without legal papers and referred to "high-level" discussions between the two countries about the case.
While speaking in Tanzania Monday, President Barack Obama addresses a report that the U.S. spied on European Union allies.
"We are hopeful that the Russian government makes decisions based on the normal procedures regarding international travel and the normal interactions that law enforcement have," Obama said.
It was thought that Snowden would eventually head for Ecuador, but the president of the South American country said this week that no asylum request was sent and suggested Russia would make the call on when Snowden could leave and where he would go.
Also on Tuesday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Snowden had not applied for asylum in that country, although he added the world community should support the former CIA contractor?s work exposing ?the imperialist elite of the United States.?
"They spy on friend and ?foe," he told reporters after a gas exporters' conference in Russia. "They have created a semi-Orwellian system."
In a statement released late Monday through WikiLeaks, Snowden said the White House was pressuring other countries to deny him asylum.
"The Obama administration has now adopted the strategy of using citizenship as a weapon," his statement said. "This kind of deception from a world leader is not justice, and neither is the extralegal penalty of exile. These are the old, bad tools of political aggression. Their purpose is to frighten, not me, but those who would come after me."
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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This story was originally published on Tue Jul 2, 2013 4:43 AM EDT
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