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Councilman demands law to prevent cops from having sex on duty

BROOKLYN —A New York City Councilman is calling for a law that will make it illegal for cops to have sex while on duty.

This comes after the NYPD confirmed that 2 police officers accused of raping an 18-year-old woman while on duty have been suspended without pay.

In conversations with colleagues, the officers have insisted that the sex was consensual, sources told The Post.

"There is no such thing as consensual sex when someone is in police custody that is rape," Councilman Mark Treyger said.

Councilman Treyger is drafting legislation that would make it a crime for a police officer to have sex with a suspect taken into custody.

"The law right now says corrections officers cannot have sex with inmates, parole officers cannot have sex with parolees, there is nothing a glaring omission for police officers and people in their custody.".

Treyger says he was outraged when an attorney for the cops stated the sex was consensual. »

Egypt gay entrapment via app a sign of authorities' desperation

Authored by theage.com.au

Cairo: Egyptian authorities are luring gay men to hotel rooms using dating app Grindr and then arresting them, as an obsession with "penetration" and a violent crackdown on sexual minorities continues.

"It's related to the fact that men are using apps more than women and an obsession of who is being penetrated," Ms Abdel-Hameed said.

Link Eight Egyptian men were convicted for "inciting debauchery" in 2014 following their appearance in a video of an alleged same-sex wedding party. »

iPhone X screen repair will cost $279

Authored by theverge.com

That’s more than twice the price of an iPhone 6 screen replacement ($129) and about 65 percent higher than a new iPhone 8 screen ($169).

If that sounds high, you should be careful not to damage an iPhone X in any other way: all other out-of-warranty repairs will cost $549.

So an iPhone X can still get a $29 screen repair if it’s under warranty, and it can still get a $99 repair for anything else under AppleCare+, too. »

Apple fires iPhone X engineer after daughter’s hands-on video goes viral

Authored by theverge.com

Apple has reportedly dismissed an engineer after his daughter’s iPhone X hands-on video went viral on YouTube.

The video itself may have seemed like an innocent hands-on, but it did include footage of an iPhone X with special employee-only QR codes.

A notes app was also shown on the iPhone X in the video, which appeared to include codenames of unreleased Apple products. »

NASA Twins Study spots thousands of genes toggling on and off in Scott Kelly

Authored by pbs.org

The brothers participated in NASA’s Twins Study, which compared Mark’s grounded lifestyle to how long-term spaceflight influenced Scott’s bodily functions.

The team documented thousands of genes switch on and off as soon as Scott entered space, and the state continued for a short time after his return.

“Both DNA and RNA were found to express genes in order to compensate for a lifestyle in space.”. »