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…To be clear, there’s no evidence of VR being used to press people for information the way sound, rectal feeding, and other horrors were ​applied by the CIA in its secret prisons. But where the imagination goes, reality has often followed. And when it comes to torture, a simulation can be just as impactful as the real thing. “In mental health, perceptions are reality,” says Dr. Asher Aladjem of Bellevue’s Program for Survivors of Torture, “so if you think you are being tortured, you are being tortured.”…

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How the Superbowl is covered in #Brazil, "Gisele Bundchen's husband wins Superbowl for 4th time" pic.twitter.com/15CDDnHQYD

— Shasta Darlington (@ShastaCNN) February 2, 2015

It's hard to blame Brazil, really. Why should Brazilians care about the Super Bowl, or Tom Brady, or that he broke a record, or that he has four rings? Okay, this is getting a little harder to defend.

In any event, congratulations to Tom Brady for winning the Super Bowl. Also, for being Gisele Bundchen's husband.

Last night wit my cuzn @moneylynch. Great season ✨ African

A photo posted by snoopdogg (@snoopdogg) on Feb 2, 2015 at 10:38am PST

Oh, to be a fly on the wall. Marshawn and Snoop probably had so much to talk about. I bet there isn't a single person who's better to be around after a tough loss than Snoop. Dude's so chill you'd feel better by osmosis.

Yes, this happened.

There are a million things that happened after the Super Bowl. If you predicted "Robert Kraft dancing with Rick Ross," then you're a liar or we want next week's lottery numbers. Yes the two are already BFFs, but TMZ obtained this video, and it's amazing.

Wait a second ... we've seen moves like this before!

There will be no public Gronking until Wednesday.

With a new Lombardi Trophy in hand, the New England Patriots are looking forward to parading around Boston. Unfortunately, that celebration will have to wait a little bit longer. According to the Mayor's office, the parade has been pushed back until Wednesday due to the weather.

The parade had originally been scheduled to begin Tuesday at 11 a.m. ET at Prudential Tower in Boston. However, with the temperature expected to stay below 20 degrees with a wind chill near 0, concerns for the public's safety convinced the city to wait a day for the celebration.

The Mayor's office released a statement:

"Due to today's bad weather and the worsening forecast for tonight, the New England Patriots and the City of Boston have made the mutual decision to postpone the victory parade until Wednesday, February 4 at 11 a.m. We thank everyone for their flexibility and patience during the planning of this parade and we look forward to celebrating with Patriots fans during better weather on Wednesday."

For now, here is the time and date info for the parade:

Date/time: Wednesday, Feb. 4, 11 a.m. ET

Location: Prudential Tower, 800 Boylston St., Boston, Mass.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS

There are a ton of reports of people spotting a Papa John's commercial congratulating the team on winning back-to-back Super Bowl titles on TV. A few people captured it:

It makes sense that a company would make ads for both potential outcomes so they could run immediately after the game, but your backup commercial is supposed to remain locked away with a DO NOT PUBLISH next to it until eternity. It would seem Papa John's sent out the wrong ad -- or perhaps they just stopped watching the game when the Seahawks had it on the one-yard-line and figured it would turn out.

For what it's worth, mot of the reports seem to be from the Esquire Network, so perhaps they just made a mistake sending the ad to one network.

Just saw a @PapaJohns commercial congratulating the Seahawks on the Super Bowl win.... #woops

— Alexandra Gross (@NurseLovesWine) February 2, 2015

Just saw a Papa Johns commercial that congratulated the Seahawks on winning back to back Super Bowl championships. Wow.

— Brad Carroll (@bradgameday) February 2, 2015

Someone hit the wrong button somewhere and ran a Papa Johns commercial congratulating the Seattle Seahawks on btb SB wins! #bigooops

— Christa Coleman (@50andfabulous12) February 2, 2015

Just saw a @PapaJohns commercial that congratulated the @Seahawks on being "back to back champions." Wait, what? #awkward #gopats

— Katie Holleran (@KHolleranBC) February 2, 2015

@PapaJohns just played a commercial congratulating the @Seahawks on a #SuperBowI win #oops! pic.twitter.com/Ay545qk1PU

— Emily M Yetzer (@EmilyYetzer) February 2, 2015

@EmilyYetzer @PapaJohns @Seahawks I just saw that too!

— Julie E (@JulieKEsmer) February 2, 2015

Did anyone see the @PapaJohns ad congratulating the @Seahawks for winning back to back Super Bowls? C'mon man.

— David Morris (@DavidMorris9656) February 2, 2015

So Papa Johns just got go against the grain & not realize the Seahawks didn't win the Superbowl wit their commercial

— Petty Aiko (@Shorty2222) February 2, 2015

Just watched a @PapaJohns commercial and it was about the Seahawks winning the superbowl again. Thought I was crazy but it came on twice. tf

— Guntype (@Guntype) February 3, 2015

Papa Johns, you just ran a congratulation commercial for the Seahawks... They lost @PapaJohns

— Ward Weber (@Lester_Averman) February 2, 2015

Dear @PapaJohns, Playing a commercial congratulating the @Seahawks for the back-to-back Super Bowl win won't change the outcome. #howIwish

— Chrissy Gurekovich (@gurekovichc) February 3, 2015

Awkward: @PapaJohns commercials running on @ESQTV congratulating the Seahawks on winning the Super Bowl...

— Chris McNamara (@cwilmc) February 3, 2015

Way to go @PapaJohns on your #SuperBowl Seattle Seahawks championship ad airing the day after they lose.

— Shane Legare (@slegare55) February 3, 2015

The Cavaliers are now 20-1 after a big win in Chapel Hill.

Virginia's undefeated season ended on Saturday against Duke, but the schedule didn't give the Cavaliers much time to grieve. Tony Bennett's team had a date with North Carolina on Monday night before hosting No. 10 Louisville on Saturday. Was this Virginia team really as good as its 19-0 start would indicate, or was a loaded ACC still wide open?

Behind a balanced scoring attack, Virginia got back on track with a 75-64 victory in Chapel Hill. Four Cavaliers scorers finished in double-figures, led by 16 points and seven assists from wing Justin Anderson.

Virginia blew open the game with a 13-2 run midway through the second half. UNC was scoring at a decent rate against a powerful Virginia defense, but the Tar Heels couldn't get stops on the other end. Virginia shot 51.8 percent from the field and 41.7 precent from three. There was nothing North Carolina could do about it:

North Carolina falls to 17-6 with the loss, while Virginia moves to 20-1. Marcus Paige led the Heels with 15 points and four assists in the loss.

Here's three things we learned in Virginia's win:

1. Virginia needs an aggressive London Perrantes

Virginia's sum has always been greater than its individual parts, but it's still strange to see a team this good start a point guard who struggled so much offensively. Perrantes entered the game shooting only 31.9 percent from the field while averaging 5.2 points per game. Against North Carolina, he came out looking to score and it helped alleviate the burden on his teammates.

Perrantes finished with 15 points, six assists and two steals on 6-of-10 shooting. It was only the second time he finished in double figures this season.

2. Spacing issues are still hurting North Carolina

Virginia's pack line defense seemed like a terrible matchup for North Carolina from the start. Bennett's defense emphasizes clogging the lane, and the Tar Heels simply don't have the shooters to beat it from the outside. It's been a theme all season for UNC and it show its head again vs. the Cavaliers.

Carolina finished 4-of-9 from deep, but too many of the attempts came late when the game was already decided. For most of the night, UNC was hesitant to fire from the outside. Credit North Carolina for knowing its weakness, but a lack of shooting is no way to beat a defense this good. That's especially the case when Virginia's offense shoots so well from the floor.

3. Virginia is the class of the ACC and a legitimate contender

Virginia could be 21-0 right now if not for some hot shooting from Duke's backcourt in crunch time on Saturday. Until further notice, Virginia and Gonzaga are the two most impressive regular season teams this side of Kentucky.

A game against Louisville on Saturday will be interesting because of the Cardinals' athleticism, but Rick Pitino's team doesn't shoot particularly well from the outside, either. Virginia remains the most balanced team in the country. In likelihood, the Hoos will have a No. 1 next to their name in the NCAA Tournament for the second season in a row.

Even by Anthony Davis' standards, this is pretty amazing. Where did he come from? Atlanta has no idea.

Playing a superb game on both ends of the floor, the New Orleans Pelicans ended Atlanta's 19-game winning streak.

NEW ORLEANS -- It's a common trope of game stories to focus on a moment or a key sequence that turns the tide, establishes momentum and ties everything up into a neat little package. The problem is that basketball rarely works like that, especially when it involves a team like the Atlanta Hawks.

The Hawks don't really do moments. They do runs, or more accurately, stretches where everyone plays as if connected on an invisible string. Their genius has been in extending those stretches from a quick blast of excitement into sustained march to yet another victory. Their play the last few months has turned the cold winter doldrums of the NBA season into a kind of performance art.

They had won 19 in a row with their last loss coming all the way back in 2014 and even that doesn't do it justice. Going all the way back to Nov. 26, they had won 33 of 35, which would have felt impossible if we all hadn't watched it unfold with metronomic consistency.

To beat the Hawks, the Pelicans had to not only disrupt Atlanta's rhythm, they had to create moments for themselves out of the chaos. "When we don't do things at our pace we don't make as many shots," Atlanta forward Paul Millsap said. "When they make everything ..."

What you get is a 115-100 New Orleans victory that only felt close because of who the Hawks have become and who the Pels are trying to be. Except for a handful of stretches where the Hawks looked like themselves, the Pelicans dominated the game. They turned the pace and space symmetry within which the Hawks thrive inside out, creating a jumbled series of plays that built into its own fully-formed portrait.

Late in the first half after Atlanta had trimmed the lead to a manageable six points, Anthony Davis stepped out and drained a 20-footer and the blocked a Jeff Teague three at the other end. Davis, who is the king of chaos, had a half-dozen plays like this all on his own.

In the third quarter after Eric Gordon picked up his fourth foul, Tyreke Evans banked in a three from the top of the arc. Later he picked Teague, initiated a break and found a streaking Dante Cunningham for a transition jam. Omer Asik grabbed a loose ball and slammed home a dunk that was the proverbial exclamation point.

"I am really pleased with how we're playing and how we're growing," New Orleans coach Monty Williams said. "On the floor, in our practices and in our shootarounds. We set a bar. We said that over a month ago. When we play a certain way we give ourselves a chance to win. That involves great effort, everybody on the same page on defense and we share the ball on offense we can compete with anybody in the NBA. We're excited about the ceiling of our team and we just have to keep pushing."

This was the Pelicans at their best, and they have been very good lately, winners of six of their last seven including an impressive win over the Clippers last Friday without Davis and Jrue Holiday in the lineup. This was the Hawks at their not so best.

"Give them credit," Millsap said. "They played good basketball today and we didn't."

Technically, it meant forcing the Hawks off the three-point line. Williams tilted his defense toward slowing down Kyle Korver and employed Dante Cunningham and Quincy Pondexter, a pair of no-frills vets brought in by general manager Dell Demps over the last few weeks, to limit Korver's touches. Korver had only seven shot attempts and the Hawks shot 32 percent from behind the arc.

"We just felt like he's a key to their team," Williams said. "When he makes a threes it's like a dunk for his team. It gives them so much energy."

It meant limiting second-chance opportunities, which inevitably lead to high percentage shots after the defense is forced to scramble and adjust to all of Atlanta's shooters. The Pels controlled the boards, grabbing 80 percent of the available defensive rebounds and holding a +20 margin overall on the glass.

On offense, it involved a balanced effort that had six players score in double figures thanks to 30 assists. Evans, who has quietly become an efficient playmaker while Holiday recovers from an injury, had 12 assists. It was his fourth game in his last five with that many.

"He's starting to understand that he can be a facilitator and still score," Williams said. "He can dominate games without scoring 30. He can score 10 points and have double figure assists."

This was an important game for the Pelicans, who are stubbornly hanging around the race for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference. They've benefited from a long homestand that concludes with an even bigger game against Oklahoma City on Wednesday. After a quick stop in OKC Friday, they return home for three more games heading into the All-Star break.

This is their chance to make a move and after beating the Hawks, they sit only a game behind Phoenix for the eighth spot, tied in the loss column. This is also their chance to establish a connection with their city, which has been building slowly but steadily the last few seasons. The arena wasn't sold out, but it was loud and the young Pels feed off it.

"Our fans the last few games at home have given a different energy here and it gets our guys excited," Williams said. "Our guys have been on the road and they've been to Portland, Golden State, San Antonio where it's 18,000 and those fans are giving them great energy. Our fans are starting to see how we can play when we pack it out."

As big as it was for the Pels, it almost felt inevitable for the Hawks. They had been scrapping together wins lately, escaping against Portland and Philly before finally dropping this one. That happens in the NBA, it just hasn't happened to them recently. But you don't win 19 in a row and 33 of 35 without having a balanced perspective. The Hawks seemed fine shaking this one off.

"We've got to play a certain way to win games," Millsap said. "We're not going to let one game deter us. It's a washed game for us. Let it go. Regroup tomorrow and see what happens."

Rob Gronkowski talked about the Super Bowl-ending brawl with Jimmy Kimmel. Hilarity ensued.

Jimmy: "You threw a couple of punches."

Gronk: "I don't think I did."

Jimmy: "Yeah you did."

"Roger that wasn't me. Don't fine me. I gotta buy a new party bus."

"I got pushed and I was like, 'Screw it, last game of the year, I'm throwing some haymakers.'"

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The Seahawks have been criticized for throwing at the goal line, but Carroll says there was never another plan.

The Seattle Seahawks trailed the New England Patriots 28-24 with 26 seconds remaining from the 1-yard line in Super Bowl XLIX. Seattle chose to throw a slant pass instead of handing off to star running back Marshawn Lynch, resulting in Malcolm Butler's interception. On Monday, head coach Pete Carroll batted down reports that he called the pass after offensive coordinator called a run, per Terry Blount of ESPN.

"There was not a thought about running it, and then I changed the play," Carroll said Monday. "That did not happen."

The Seahawks have been universally criticized for not giving Lynch a chance at the goal line. Lynch ran for 102 yards and a touchdown on 24 carries against New England, but motioned out of the backfield on the final play. Still, Carroll insists Seattle's staff had a concrete plan.

"I was so confident we were going to get it done," Carroll said. "Making the call we made was just part of the sequence. We were very confident in the sequence. We had a very clear thought about what was going on.

Carroll and Bevell ran the ball from the 5-yard line on first down, gaining four yards. From there, the duo wanted to spread the Patriots out and throw inside on a legal pick play. Should the throw have resulted in an incompletion, third and fourth down would have been reserved for a running play and then a decision based off the time remaining.

"One of those downs we were likely to throw the ball and maybe two of those downs," Carroll said, "depending on how we had to save the clock to get in all of our plays. It wasn't just run the ball. That wasn't what the thought was."

Carroll believed the Seahawks had an advantage against New England on second down. Despite having an unheralded group of receivers, Bevell liked the three-wide set while the Patriots were in goal-line defense, anticipating a run between the tackles by Lynch:

"We thought about our personnel who were coming in the game after the first play [a 4-yard run to the 1 by Lynch on first down] when we came up short, with three wide receivers in the game [on second down]. We had thought about throwing the ball there. That was part of the reason we sent that group in. When [the Patriots] sent their goal-line guys in, I know we have the advantage on the matchups in the passing game."

Bevell stated that the Seahawks wanted to use the entire clock before scoring. However, the notion of throwing the ball flies in the face of that idea. If Seattle throws a touchdown, New England gets the ball back with time remaining. If the throw is incomplete, the clock stops.

If Seattle wanted to run the clock down before scoring, it could have ran into the line and called the final timeout with a handful of seconds remaining. Instead, the Seahawks threw the ball and ended up with a highly regrettable memory.

"We were conscious of how much time was on the clock, and we wanted to use it all," Bevell said. "It didn't turn out the way I hoped it would."

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Let’s get the good stuff out of the way above the fold. Raspberry Pi 2 is now on sale for $35 (the same price as the existing Model B+), featuring:

• A 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU (~6x performance)
• 1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM (2x memory)
• Complete compatibility with Raspberry Pi 1

Because it has an ARMv7 processor, it can run the full range of ARM GNU/Linux distributions, including Snappy Ubuntu Core, as well as Microsoft Windows 10.

Raspberry Pi 2

BCM2836 and Raspberry Pi 2

Since we launched the original Raspberry Pi Model B, back in 2012, we’ve done an enormous amount of software work to get the best out of our Broadcom BCM2835 application processor and its 700MHz ARM11 CPU. We’ve spent a lot of money on optimising a wide variety of open-source libraries and applications, including WebKit, LibreOffice, Scratch, Pixman, XBMC/Kodi, libav and PyPy. At the same time, the Raspbian project, run by Peter Green and Mike Thompson, has provided us with an ARMv6-compatible rebuild of Debian with hardware floating point support, and Gordon, Dom and Jonathan have spent thousands of hours working on the firmware and board support to make Raspberry Pi the most stable single board computer in the world. It’s worth going back and trying out an old SD card image from 2012 to get an idea of how far we’ve come.

Nonetheless, there comes a point when there’s no substitute for more memory and CPU performance. Our challenge was to figure out how to get this without throwing away our investment in the platform or spoiling all those projects and tutorials which rely on the precise details of the Raspberry Pi hardware. Fortunately for us, Broadcom were willing to step up with a new SoC, BCM2836. This retains all the features of BCM2835, but replaces the single 700MHz ARM11 with a 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 complex: everything else remains the same, so there is no painful transition or reduction in stability.

First silicon arrived last year, as we can see in this professionally shot video from bringup night:

Once we were confident that BCM2836 was performing as expected, James designed a series of prototypes, before we settled on the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B that launches today. This has an identical form-factor to the existing Raspberry Pi 1 Model B+, but manages to pack in both the new BCM2836 and a full 1GB of SDRAM from our friends at Micron. All of the connectors are in the same place and have the same functionality, and the board can still be run from a 5V micro-USB power adapter.

Raspberry Pi 2 is available to buy today from our partners element14 and RS Components. Remember you’ll need an updated NOOBS or Raspbian image including an ARMv7 kernel and modules from our downloads page. At launch, we are using the same ARMv6 Raspbian userland on both Raspberry Pi 1 and 2; over the next few months we will investigate whether we can obtain higher performance from regular ARMv7 Debian, or whether we can selectively replace a small number of libraries to get the best of both worlds. Now that we’re using an ARMv7 core, we can also run Ubuntu: a Snappy Ubuntu Core image is available now and a package for NOOBS will be available in the next couple of weeks.

Windows 10

For the last six months we’ve been working closely with Microsoft to bring the forthcoming Windows 10 to Raspberry Pi 2. Microsoft will have much more to share over the coming months. The Raspberry Pi 2-compatible version of Windows 10 will be available free of charge to makers.

Visit WindowsOnDevices.com today to join the Windows Developer Program for IoT and receive updates as they become available.

FAQs

We’ll keep updating this list over the next couple of days, but here are a few to get you started.

Are you discontinuing the Raspberry Pi 1 Model B and B+?

No. We have a lot of industrial customers who will want to stick with Raspberry Pi 1 for the time being. We’ll keep building Raspberry Pi 1 Model B and Model B+ as long as there’s demand for it. Both these boards will continue to sell for $35.

What about Model A+?
Model A+ continues to be the $20 entry-level Raspberry Pi for the time being. Although the new board is called Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, we have no plans to introduce a Raspberry Pi 2 Model A before the end of 2015.

What about the Compute Module?
We expect to introduce a BCM2836-based Compute Module in the medium term, but for now we’re focused on getting Raspberry Pi 2 Model B out of the door.

Are you still using VideoCore?
Yes. VideoCore IV 3d is the only publicly documented 3d graphics core for ARM-based SoCs, and we want to make Raspberry Pi more open over time, not less.

Where does the “6x performance” figure come from?
The speedup varies between applications. We’ve seen single-threaded CPU benchmarks that speed up by as little as 1.5x, while Sunspider is around 4x faster, and NEON-enabled multicore video codecs can be over 20x faster. 6x is a typical figure for a multi-threaded CPU benchmark like SysBench.
Is this a full version of Windows 10?
Please refer to WindowsOnDevices.com.

Credits

A project like this requires a vast amount of focused work from a large team over an extended period. A partial list of those who made major direct contributions to the BCM2836 chip program and Raspberry Pi 2 follows: James Adams, Leo Azevedo, Jonathan Bell, Alex Bradbury, Dom Cobley, Steve Cook, Dave Collins, Phil Elwell, Gordon Hollingworth, Andrew Holme, Tammy Julyan, John Kelly, Walter Kho, Yung-Ching Lee, Gert van Loo, Ian Macaulay, Paul Manser, Simon Martin, Luca Di Mauro, Akshaye Sama, Andrew Scheller, Serge Schneider, Mark Scoones, Shawn Shadburn, Paul Sherry, Mike Stimson, Stuart Thompson, Roger Thornton, Madhu Thottupura, James Turner, Nidhi Varshneya, Andrew West. If you’re not on this list and think you should be, please let me know, and accept my apologies.

If you’re in front of a computer at 9am GMT and for a while after, you can watch us announcing the Raspberry Pi 2 live, and submit questions for us.

Co-founded by photographer Sinru Ku and writer Wen Liu, the "Hey Queer Photo Project" features beautifully styled images of queer Asians in urban environments with an eye toward masculine-of-center presentation.

In a recent interview for the queer fashion site Qwear, Liu talked about what it's like to be a masculine queer Asian: "I don't know if that's about the stereotype of queer Asians or queer butch women, but we're mostly invisible," Wen said. "Even when you think you are butch-presenting, you won't be taken seriously as someone who's masculine. Being Asian is already seen as effeminate."

Photo courtesy of Wen Liu (pictured) and Sinru Ku

While masculine clothing for female-assigned people is a blossomingmarket, the companies and outlets that feature them don't always represent the diversity of the community. Finding menswear for smaller frames can be particularly difficult, which Wen told Qwear was part of how the project began. Too small for most menswear, Wen has to be really creative about finding the right clothes.

The creators are clear that the project isn't just about fashion though. From the mission statement on their Tumblr site: "While 'Hey Queer' starts with fashion, it is not the sole purpose of the project. What we hope to do is to build a queer community where queer Asians who are not traditionally [masculine-presenting] or androgynous can feel comfortable with expressing their styles and individuality."

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