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Swiss technology company Logitech has announced its acquisition of Loupedeck, a Helsinki-based firm known for its custom consoles and software designed to streamline and enhance the creative process for streamers, creators, and gamers. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The integration of Loupedeck’s expertise into Logitech’s portfolio is set to enrich the company’s ability to deliver a premium experience and content creation applications for all types of creators, including gamers, livestreamers, and other creative professionals. Ujesh Desai, General Manager of Logitech G, expressed the shared passion of both Loupedeck and Logitech in empowering streamers, creators, and gamers. Their joint focus is to eliminate barriers, enabling content creators to produce, edit, and stream without limitations. Desai further emphasized that the acquisition accelerates Logitech’s software ambitions, particularly in making keyboards, mice, and other devices smarter and contextually aware. This advancement aims to create a seamless and enhanced experience for audiences across Logitech’s products. Loupedeck will continue to support its existing customers and partners and will operate as usual in the foreseeable future. The acquisition represents an opportunity for Loupedeck to elevate their offerings to a higher level and significantly expand their audience, consequently making a more substantial impact on

There was good news this week as Reade Brower, owner of the Portland Press Herald and other newspapers around Maine, announced that he is selling the PPH and several of his other newspapers to the nonprofit, National Trust for Local News. With newspapers around the country closing their doors for several years now, it is good to know that Maine’s cities and small communities will continue to get their news. “This is the most independent route I think I could have taken that maintains both the independence of the press and continuity for staff and readers,” said Brower in a PPH interview. “I believe they want to continue to run this as a sustainable business, which I like, and I don’t believe they will try and drain resources, which I like.” The Bangor Daily News reported that Brower will maintain ownership of six newspapers: The Ellsworth American, The Mount Desert Islander in Bar Harbor, The Courier-Gazette in Rockland, The Republican Journal in Belfast, The Camden Herald and The Free Press in Camden, while selling his five dailies and 17 weekly newspapers. The Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper and Lincoln County News are not owned by Brower, but we are looking forward to

Downtime The Curse of the Dress Years after its viral moment, it’s still destroying everything it touches. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by NOAA and Caitlin McNeill/Tumblr. In 2015 the online world briefly tilted off its axis as we all gazed into a beguiling photo of a blue-and-black dress. The photograph, which became virally known as “the Dress,” was taken by Cecilia Bleasdale, mother of Grace Johnston. Bleasdale intended to wear the dress to her daughter’s wedding, and after capturing the image with her iPhone and showing it to her friends, she was surprised to find that, to some people, it appeared to look white and gold. You probably know the story from here: The Dress was posted to Tumblr and was subsequently aggregated on BuzzFeed, and we all engaged in a round of bloodthirsty psychic warfare. “It’s blue and black!” “It’s white and gold!” The debate was unresolvable. (Well, it was sort of resolvable, but it took a couple of years.) It carried on for months. It’s hard to overstate just how inescapable the Dress was at its height. Kim Kardashian tweeted about it. So did Taylor Swift. The BuzzFeed article that spawned the trend was visited 37 million times

By Rebecca Gaunt Kennesaw City Council member Robert Sinclair, better known as Trey Sinclair, is facing misdemeanor charges for DUI, hit and run, and following too closely after a June 28 wreck involving two other vehicles. Sinclair, 34, was first elected to Post 5 in 2021. His term runs through 2025. He is the founder and owner of Dry County Brewing in Kennesaw. According to the Cobb County Police Department report, one of the two other drivers reported that she was sitting in traffic on Cobb Parkway near the intersection with EMC Parkway when a white Ford F-150 pickup truck hit her from behind and pushed her into the car in front. The drivers informed the officer that a white male left the scene, but they were able to write down and take a picture of the tag. The report stated the car was registered to Sinclair at the business address of Dry County Brewing.  As the police officer was leaving the brewery, a truck matching the description arrived. The officer wrote that he observed Sinclair “stumble out of the driver side door” and “hold on to the top of the bed of his truck for support as he appeared

Detail of Cobb County Police Department STEP Unit vehicle (photo by Larry Felton Johnson) Posted By: Larry Felton Johnson July 17, 2023 According to a public information release from Sgt. Wayne Delk of the Cobb County Police Department, an arrest has been made in yesterday’s fatal hit-and-run accident that happened at Cumberland Mall. Investigators describe the incident as follows: “25-year-old Paige Jenkins was severely injured when she was struck by a vehicle in the parking lot in the early evening. She was immediately transported to Kennestone after Cobb County Police and medical personnel arrived on the scene. Unfortunately she died from her injuries at the hospital. “Cobb County Police Department’s Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) unit and Crimes Against Persons unit both responded to the scene and began investigating.“ [The Cobb County Courier has a policy of withholding or redacting the name of suspects unless and until the person is convicted in a court of law or enters a plea of guilty. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty, and the internet has no effective way of removing reports of arrest if the person is exonerated. We do make exceptions in high-profile cases or charges against public officials where exoneration is likely

Live Feed The network is jettisoning a previously announced lineup as labor strikes shut down many productions. Kevin Costner in Paramount Network's 'Yellowstone' Paramount Network Logo text CBS is tearing up its fall schedule. The network has set a new lineup for fall that acknowledges the actors and writers strikes and relies on a mix of unscripted shows, acquired scripted series — including Yellowstone and the British version of Ghosts — and news programming. CBS had previously announced a business-as-usual fall slate ahead of May’s upfronts, despite the fact that writers had already gone on strike against studios and streamers in seeking a new contract. All that remains of that earlier schedule are expanded, 90-minute episodes of Survivor and The Amazing Race on Wednesday nights and long-running newsmagazines 48 Hours and 60 Minutes in their usual weekend spots. In addition to Paramount Network’s Yellowstone and the U.K. Ghosts, CBS will import SEAL Team — which was formerly a CBS show — and docuseries FBI True from Paramount+ and has added three original unscripted shows: Buddy Games, Lotería Loca and Raid the Cage. Primetime editions of The Price Is Right and Let’s Make a Deal will also help fill out the slate, and

Sean Longmore created a wonderful Barbenheimer mashup poster in honor of the simultaneous release of Barbie and Oppenheimer, which both open on July 21st, 2023. Related Posts

Barry Krebs provided us with the following information photos about the brush clearing and litter cleanup at the Chattahoochee RiverLands Mableton trailhead: The Trust For Public Land along with the Mableton Improvement Coalition hosted the Saturday morning clearing of invasive brush, vines and thorny bushes as well as expand the width of the paths of the Chattahoochee RiverLands Trails.  In addition to the MIC volunteers, Commissioner Sheffield, State Representative Cummings, South Cobb Lions Club and the Greater South Cobb Kiwanis Club pitched in to make progress on this project. We also removed about a dozen bags of litter from the area.  This spot will be the location of the highly anticipated Welcome to South Cobb Festival on 9/2/23 that will feature live music, local civic organizations, delicious food and many other fun activities.  Check out https://www.facebook.com/welcometosouthcobb/ to learn more. What is the Chattahoochee RiverLands project? The Chattahoochee RiverLands is a planned 100-mile-long network of parks and trails running from Buford Dam on the north to the Chattahoochee Bend State Park in Coweta County on the southern end. The project vision page on the Chattahoochee RiverLands website describes the project as follows: “The Chattahoochee RiverLands will reunite the River with the Metro Atlanta Region, and link suburban, urban, and rural

LYNNWOOD, Wash., July 15, 2023—The family of Tirhas Berhand Tesfatsion, a 47-year-old woman was found dead at the Lynnwood Jail on July 13, 2021, filed suit against the City of Lynnwood and five staff members on Wednesday, July 12, in United States District Court in Seattle alleging that jail staff negligence contributed to her suicide. Tirhas Berhand Tesfatsion The death of Tesfatsion, leading to an outside investigation and protest by a defund the police movement. This was the first in-custody death at Lynnwood Jail since its opening in 1994. On July 28, 2021, the state Attorney General’s Office said that it does not have the authority to investigate Tesfatsion’s death and that it was up to the Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office to pursue the case. The Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office, in July of that year, declined to pursue criminal charges. According to Lynnwood Police Department Policy #C602, inmate safety checks are required at least once every 60 minutes. The policy allows for camera monitoring to supplement safety checks but not replace the need for direct visual observation. Tesfatsion was arrested on July 12 for a DUI misdemeanor and had prior drug or alcohol arrests. According to the Kirkland Police investigation report

There is never a shortage of criminals preying on the hope, grief and tragedy of vulnerable people. Cobb County reports that a new scam is making the rounds. Scammers in Cobb are targeting pet owners who post on social media about their lost pets. These scammers pretend to be Cobb County Animal Services supervisors and claim to have found the missing pets, stating that the pets are injured. The criminal then demands payment for treatment of the injuries before releasing the pet. Animal Services in Cobb will never ask for payment over the phone to release a found pet. While a small fee may be required when the owner retrieves the pet from the shelter, county officers will not ask for payment upfront. The scammers have been manipulating caller ID to make it seem like the call is from Cobb Animal Services and even use the name of the shelter manager. As a result, legitimate calls from the shelter may now arouse suspicion from pet owners. Animal Services Director Steve Hammond expressed sympathy for the victims and acknowledged the negative impact that this scam has on trust in legitimate calls from the shelter. “It makes it difficult for us, but