Leaked Intel Kaby Lake, Apollo Lake details suggest confusing names for next-gen low-power chips

Leaked Intel Kaby Lake, Apollo Lake details suggest confusing names for next-gen low-power chips

Intel doesn’t have a great track record of giving its processors names that are easy to understand. Theoretically you should be able to look at the name and have a rough idea of the price and performance you should expect from a processor, but in recent years the waters have been kind of muddy: some Celeron chips are slower than Atom processors, for example.

Now it looks like things are about to get even more confusing.

Continue reading Leaked Intel Kaby Lake, Apollo Lake details suggest confusing names for next-gen low-power chips at Liliputing.

Leaked Intel Kaby Lake, Apollo Lake details suggest confusing names for next-gen low-power chips

Intel doesn’t have a great track record of giving its processors names that are easy to understand. Theoretically you should be able to look at the name and have a rough idea of the price and performance you should expect from a processor, but in recent years the waters have been kind of muddy: some Celeron chips are slower than Atom processors, for example.

Now it looks like things are about to get even more confusing.

Continue reading Leaked Intel Kaby Lake, Apollo Lake details suggest confusing names for next-gen low-power chips at Liliputing.

Urheberrecht: Uefa lässt deutsche Elfmeter löschen

Eine Videocollage aller deutschen Elfemeter die zum Meme wurde, ist jetzt von der UEFA bei Youtube gelöscht worden. An der Löschung solcher Remixe wird wohl auch die kommende Urheberrechtsreform nur wenig ändern. (Urheberrecht, Streaming)

Eine Videocollage aller deutschen Elfemeter die zum Meme wurde, ist jetzt von der UEFA bei Youtube gelöscht worden. An der Löschung solcher Remixe wird wohl auch die kommende Urheberrechtsreform nur wenig ändern. (Urheberrecht, Streaming)

Tabletop Simulator VR may be the ultimate RPG and board-gaming sandbox

Meet friends online in virtual, giant-scale D&D—or just throw pieces and flip tables.

Ars Technica tests Tabletop Simulator VR. Edited by Jennifer Hahn (video link)

You may have spent your youth dreaming of a future with flying cars, two-way video wristwatches, and robotic overlords, but my earliest high-tech dreams went in a different direction. Since I first hatched from my nerd egg, I have hoped for a fully functional, long-distance version of Dungeons & Dragons—one in which friends from all over the world can gather in a single, virtual hub, be bossed around by a game-running "dungeon master," and dork out with dice rolls and detailed mini-figurines.

That game's handlers, Wizards of the Coast, have resisted the modern era for far too long, leaving open-source developers to fill the gap with a mix of webcams and simple character-sheet interfaces. But now we're in the virtual reality era, which seems ripe for something a little cooler. Enter the delightfully weird sandbox experience that is Tabletop Simulator VR.

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Media Broadcast: Preis für DVB-T2 HD steht fest

Der Preis und der Termin für Freenet TV stehen fest. Media Broadcast erklärt, dass es ab dem 1. Juli 2017 die Privatsender in HD-Qualität nur noch für zahlende DVB-T2-Nutzer gibt. (DVB-T, Freenet)

Der Preis und der Termin für Freenet TV stehen fest. Media Broadcast erklärt, dass es ab dem 1. Juli 2017 die Privatsender in HD-Qualität nur noch für zahlende DVB-T2-Nutzer gibt. (DVB-T, Freenet)

Blizzard ups the ante against Overwatch cheats by filing lawsuit

Hostilities reopen between Blizzard and longtime rivals Bossland.

Blizzard has always taken an uncompromising attitude towards cheats in its games; it has already issued lifetime bans to thousands of players caught using hacks within weeks of the release of its new shooter Overwatch—even if they make new accounts or buy new copies of the game—and now it's going after the company that makes those cheats possible.

Blizzard has filed a lawsuit in California against Bossland GMBH, the German company behind Watchover Tyrant, a programme which allows all sorts of unpleasant and unsporting cheating shenanigans. Those include a radar that shows where enemies are, and aiming assistance. Bossland has made cheat programmes for most of Blizzard's other games, and the American firm is accusing its longtime rival of copyright infringement, unfair competition, and violation of the DMCA's anti-circumvention provision.

Blizzard's suit reads:

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Review: $699 is a lot to ask for the fairly basic Sony Xperia X Performance

Even with impressive specs, there’s something lacking in the X Performance.

Sony is switching gears when it comes to smartphones and that shift is embodied in the new X line of handsets. There's the Xperia XA Ultra, a "selfie" smartphone with a 16-megapixel front-facing camera, the middle-of-the-road Xperia X equipped with a Snapdragon 650 processor, and then there's the Xperia X Performance. This device is the "flagship" of sorts for the new line, sporting a 5-inch FHD display, a Snapdragon 820 processor, and 3GB of RAM.

New letter aside, some of these X phones pick up right where the Z series left off, which means that in some ways they feel just a step behind the rest of the competition. The X Performance's biggest problem isn't that it's a bad phone but that it's a $700 phone that often feels inferior to $400 phones.

Look and feel

All of Sony's new Xperia X smartphones look quite similar, and the Xperia X Performance looks nearly identical to the standard Xperia X. Thanks to a better processor and a larger battery, the X Performance is just about a millimeter thicker and a few grams heavier than the Xperia X. While the lower-powered handset resembles a more rigid iPhone 6s, the X Performance emphasizes its blockiness with the additional thickness and weight.

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KDE: Plasma 5.7 bringt “große Fortschritte für Wayland”

Die Wayland-Unterstützung des aktuellen KDE Plasma 5.7 bietet eine Task-Verwaltung sowie viele weitere Funktionen. Außerdem sind die Terminhinweise in dem Kalender-Applet endlich wieder verfügbar und das Team hat weitere Kleinigkeiten umgesetzt. (KDE, Linux)

Die Wayland-Unterstützung des aktuellen KDE Plasma 5.7 bietet eine Task-Verwaltung sowie viele weitere Funktionen. Außerdem sind die Terminhinweise in dem Kalender-Applet endlich wieder verfügbar und das Team hat weitere Kleinigkeiten umgesetzt. (KDE, Linux)

Endless Space: Sega kauft französisches Entwicklerstudio Amplitude

Sega wird zur Großmacht in Sachen PC-Strategie: Nach den Entwicklern von Total War und Homeworld kauft der japanische Konzern nun auch das französische Studio Amplitude, das hinter den Weltraum-Titeln Endless Space und Endless Legend steckt. (Sega, Games)

Sega wird zur Großmacht in Sachen PC-Strategie: Nach den Entwicklern von Total War und Homeworld kauft der japanische Konzern nun auch das französische Studio Amplitude, das hinter den Weltraum-Titeln Endless Space und Endless Legend steckt. (Sega, Games)

Elektromobilität: Siemens hebt elektrisch ab

Es ist noch kein Motor für einen Regionalflieger – aber ein wichtiger Schritt auf dem Weg dorthin: Siemens hat einen Elektromotor für Flugzeuge entwickelt und getestet. Er ist leichter und stärker als die bisher gebauten Motoren. (Flugzeug, Technologie)

Es ist noch kein Motor für einen Regionalflieger - aber ein wichtiger Schritt auf dem Weg dorthin: Siemens hat einen Elektromotor für Flugzeuge entwickelt und getestet. Er ist leichter und stärker als die bisher gebauten Motoren. (Flugzeug, Technologie)

The 1970s “gay-cure” experiments written out of scientific history

Bob Heath’s septal region love sparked iffy experiments for schizophrenia, homosexuality.

Robert Heath claimed to have cured homosexuality by implanting electrodes into the pleasure centre of the brain. Robert Colvile reports on one of the forgotten stories of neuroscience for Mosaic.

For the first hour, they just talked. He was nervous; he’d never done this before. She was understanding, reassuring: let’s just lie down on the bed together, she said, and see what happens. Soon, events took their course: they were enjoying themselves so much they could almost forget about the wires leading out of his skull.

The year was 1970, and the man was a 24-year-old psychiatric patient. The woman, 21, was a prostitute from the French Quarter of New Orleans, hired by special permission of the attorney general of Louisiana. And they had just become part of one of the strangest experiments in scientific history: an attempt to use pleasure conditioning to turn a gay man straight.

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