3D Touch on Facebook Messenger took ten months to implement

It took less than a month for Facebook to integrate Apple’s new interaction medium, 3D Touch, into its iOS app. It has taken Menlo Park ten months to do the same for its Messenger app.
You can now give a hard tap to contact icons for a quick peek at their digits, screennames and addresses. You can also preview conversations, enlarged photos and moving videos, stickers, links and locations.
It took Facebook some 34 whole-point revisions to its app in order to make 3D Touch happen. Just as a matter of curiosity.

Women are faking orgasms to get out of coercive sex

A concerning new study conducted by two Canadian universities has unearthed the fact that women are increasingly faking orgasms as a means to stop sex they don't want to endure.

While it's always been a commonly known thing that women might fake an orgasm to make a partner feel better, this is a worrying new angle on it. Because although researchers clarified that none of the women who were assessed in the study ever used the words "rape" or "coercion" to describe the sex they so desperately wanted to get out of, the actual sex they recounted could well be characterised as one or both of those things.

Because ultimately what these women were describing was a need to end the sex they didn't want to be having, and it's a reflection on how uncomfortable the women felt with the partners in question that they couldn't simply ask them to stop. They had to resort to faking a climax for it to come to a more seemingly natural end.

This woman was jailed for having noisy sex

There's nothing more annoying than hearing your neighbours 'at it' while you're having a quiet night in, but this woman's punishment for having noisy sex is surely enough to put the fear of god into anyone who's been known to get a little, ahem, carried away.

25 year-old Amanda Warfel from Pennsylvania in the US has been ordered to spend 45 to 90 days in prison after she pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. Police during the case said she had sex so loud that it shook a dresser and bed in her neighbour's home. 

Amanda shared a row home wall with her neighbours, who complained of loud music, threats and sex noises coming from the other side. 

She is currently being held in prison on another, and police are said to be looking into claims of racist comments too. 

The Saylor family, whose teenage daughters' bedrooms are connected to Amada's, said: 

"It's been pretty terrible…she makes life a living hell. It's got to stop.

"There's constantly inappropriate things that go on in [Warfels] bedroom."

During the hearing, Warfel said she wished that her neighbours had been in court because she "Wanted to apologise."

Rescuers hike deep into New Hampshire woods to save 17-year-old dog with cancer who got spooked by fireworks

Two rescuers went combing through the New Hampshire forest to save an old, sick dog who ran off after getting scared by fireworks.

Rocky, a 17-year-old shepherd mix, bolted out of his owners' home this Fourth Of July weekend. The sounds of the display had left him terrified.

A logger spotted him wandering alone in the woods near Conway and alerted the Conway Area Humane Society, a shelter and rescue organization. 

Two members drove to the forest and hiked the trails hoping to locate Rocky - and hoping the dog hadn't been abandoned, WMUR reported.

 

Rocky (pictured), a 17-year-old shepherd mix, bolted out of his owners' home this Fourth Of July weekend after getting scared by fireworks

A logger spotted Rocky wandering alone in the forest new Conway, New Hampshire and alerted the Conway Area Humane Society, eventually leading to his rescue (pictured)

The shelter's operations manager Debra Cameron and volunteer Kevin Ahearn letf Friday to meet up with logger Jake Higgins, who had spotted Rocky in the first place. 

'Thankfully, Jake knew the trail he had seen him taking and brought us right to it,' Cameron told The Dodo.

'We just happened to get there in time to see a flash of the dog's tail before he headed down a slope.'

A video of the rescue, shared by the shelter on Facebook, shows the team locating Rocky, putting him on a leash and picking him up to bring him back to safety.

The 17-year-old dog, who has cancer, sat down when they whistled to get his attention and let them approach easily. He couldn't walk well and appeared confused, Cameron said.

'He was as sweet as a pup can be,' she told The Dodo.

Rocky made it back to the shelter and the team shared footage of the rescue on Facebook on Friday morning.

Not even an hour later, a woman commented to say she knew Rocky's owners and had alerted them. Rocky's family went to get him within minutes.

They were reunited with Rocky on Friday and made a $100 donation to the shelter.

'Our worst fear was that someone had purposely driven an old sick dog out to the middle of the woods to die, but the best case scenario prevailed,' Cameron told WMUR.

'This was a loved dog who had become frightened by fireworks and lost.'

She recommended people tell their neighbors before they light fireworks so that can make sure their pets are safe ahead of time. 

The dog (pictured during his rescue) had trouble walking and seemed confused. But he sat down when the rescuers whistled at him and let them approach

Sea lion plays with young boys through a pane of glass at Maryland aquarium

Sea lions have been delighting the public with their clever tricks for decades  - and this clever animal is no exception. 

The pinniped entertained two children as it responded to their movements by spinning and twisting in the water behind the glass at a Maryland aquarium.

Each time the boys, AnYuan, 9, and AnDi, 7, launch a stick into the air the sea lion flips its body around in a circle without fail.

The pinniped entertained two children as it responded to their movements by spinning and twisting in the water behind the glass at a Maryland aquarium

Each time the boys, AnYuan, 9, and AnDi, 7, launch a stick into the air the sea lion flips its body around in a circle without fail

When they change tactic and throw the item to each other it zooms to the side, as though tracking the stick.

Other time it charges upwards when they hurl the stick, occasionally disappearing from view. 

Amazed onlookers film the incredible moment as the trio bond despite the transparent barrier between them. 

The boys' father explained that seeing his sons 'training' the sea lion was a phenomenal moment.

Sea lions are intelligent animals that can be taught to perform many of their natural behaviours on cue.

They are also highly sociable and groups often rest closely packed together on land or float together on the ocean's surface in 'rafts.'

When they they change tactic and throw the item to each other it zooms to the side, tracking the stick

Amazed onlookers film the incredible moment as the trio bond despite the transparent barrier between them

Other time it charges upwards when they hurl the stick, occasionally disappearing from view

The boys' father explained that seeing his sons 'training' the sea lion was a phenomenal moment

Dallas police chief: 4 officers killed, 7 injured at protest

At least two snipers opened fire on police officers during protests in Dallas on Thursday night, killing four officers and injuring seven others, police said.
Dallas Police Chief David Brown told reporters the snipers fired "ambush style" upon the officers. He said police had a suspect cornered and were negotiating with him. Brown said 11 officers were shot, three of them fatally. Police later tweeted that a fourth officer had died.
The gunfire broke out around 8:45 p.m. Thursday while hundreds of people were gathered to protest fatal police shootings this week in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and suburban St. Paul, Minnesota.

A Dallas Area Rapid Transit police officer receives comfort at the Baylor University Hospital emergency room entrance Thursday, July 7, 2016, in Dallas. Police say one rapid-transit officer has been killed and three injured when gunfire erupted during a protest in downtown Dallas over recent fatal shootings by police in Louisiana and Minnesota. (Ting Shen/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

The protesters had gathered after a Minnesota officer on Wednesday fatally shot Philando Castile while he was in a car with a woman and a child in a St. Paul suburb. The aftermath of the shooting was purportedly livestreamed in a widely shared Facebook video.
A day earlier, Alton Sterling was shot in Louisiana after being pinned to the pavement by two white officers. That, too, was captured on a cellphone video.
Video footage from the scene showed that protesters were marching along a street in downtown, about half a mile from City Hall, when the shots erupted and the crowd scattered, seeking cover.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott released a statement saying he has directed the Texas Department of Public Safety director to offer "whatever assistance the City of Dallas needs at this time."
"In times like this we must remember — and emphasize — the importance of uniting as Americans," Abbott said.
The search for the gunman stretched throughout downtown, an area of hotels, restaurants, businesses and some residential apartments. The scene was chaotic, with helicopters hovering overhead and officers with automatic rifles on the street corners.
"Everyone just started running," Devante Odom, 21, told The Dallas Morning News. "We lost touch with two of our friends just trying to get out of there."
Carlos Harris, who lives downtown told the newspaper that the shooters "were strategic. It was tap tap pause. Tap tap pause."
The gunshots in Dallas came amid protests nationwide over the recent police shootings.
In midtown Manhattan, protesters first gathered in Union Square Park where they chanted "The people united, never be divided!" and "What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now!"
A group of protesters then left the park and began marching up Fifth Avenue blocking traffic during the height of rush hour as police scrambled to keep up. Another group headed through Herald Square and Times Square where several arrests were reported.
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Associated Press writer Ezra Kaplan in New York contributed to this report.

Bystanders run for cover after shots fired at a Black Live Matter rally in downtown Dallas on Thursday, July 7, 2016. Dallas protestors rallied in the aftermath of the killing of Alton Sterling by police officers in Baton Rouge, La. and Philando Castile, who was killed by police less than 48 hours later in Minnesota. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)

Dallas Police shield bystanders during a Black Live Matter rally in downtown Dallas on Thursday, July 7, 2016. Multiple media outlets report that shots were fired Thursday night during a Dallas protest over two recent fatal police shootings of black men. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

Protesters raise their arms as they pass a restaurant while marching in the Manhattan borough of New York Thursday, July 7, 2016, in the wake of the shooting deaths of Philando Castile Wednesday night in Falcon Heights, Minn. after a traffic stop by St. Anthony police, and the death of Alton Sterling, who was shot by Baton Rouge police in Baton Rouge, La., while being detained earlier this week. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Protesters march along 5th Ave. in the Manhattan borough of New York Thursday, July 7, 2016, in the wake of the shooting deaths of Philando Castile Wednesday night in Falcon Heights, Minn. after a traffic stop by St. Anthony police, and the death of Alton Sterling, who was shot by Baton Rouge police in Baton Rouge, La., while being detained earlier this week. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Protesters march along 5th Ave. in the Manhattan borough of New York Thursday, July 7, 2016, in the wake of the shooting deaths of Philando Castile Wednesday night in Falcon Heights, Minn. after a traffic stop by St. Anthony police, and the death of Alton Sterling, who was shot by Baton Rouge police in Baton Rouge, La., while being detained earlier this week. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Dallas Police respond after shots were fired at a Black Lives Matter rally in downtown Dallas on Thursday, July 7, 2016. Dallas protestors rallied in the aftermath of the killing of Alton Sterling by police officers in Baton Rouge, La. and Philando Castile, who was killed by police less than 48 hours later in Minnesota. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)

Caiden Bryant, 5, middle, holds his mother Markita Bryant's hand during a march from the White House to the Capitol concerning police brutality, Thursday, July 7, 2016, in Washington. (AP Photo/Paul Holston)

Dallas Police respond after shots were fired at a Black Lives Matter rally in downtown Dallas on Thursday, July 7, 2016. Dallas protestors rallied in the aftermath of the killing of Alton Sterling by police officers in Baton Rouge, La. and Philando Castile, who was killed by police less than 48 hours later in Minnesota. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)