Huawei unveils new batteries that charge in minutes

Huawei unveils new batteries that charge in minutes

There’s a limit to how big a battery you can stuff in a smartphone, so companies have been focusing on two ways to let you spend less time charging your phone: making their devices more efficient and making the charging process faster. Huawei has announced a major breakthrough on the latter front: the company says […]

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Huawei unveils new batteries that charge in minutes

There’s a limit to how big a battery you can stuff in a smartphone, so companies have been focusing on two ways to let you spend less time charging your phone: making their devices more efficient and making the charging process faster. Huawei has announced a major breakthrough on the latter front: the company says […]

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Lilbits 312: Steam Machines would be faster as Windows Machines

Lilbits 312: Steam Machines would be faster as Windows Machines

Steam Machines are gaming computers that ship with Valve’s Linux-based Steam OS software. It’s designed to run on a big-screen display and put your gaming experience front and center. The idea is to make gaming PCs a bit more like game consoles… and for the most part Steam Machines seem to do that. But now […]

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Lilbits 312: Steam Machines would be faster as Windows Machines

Steam Machines are gaming computers that ship with Valve’s Linux-based Steam OS software. It’s designed to run on a big-screen display and put your gaming experience front and center. The idea is to make gaming PCs a bit more like game consoles… and for the most part Steam Machines seem to do that. But now […]

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An HTC fitness band hits the FCC

An HTC fitness band hits the FCC

Phone maker HTC has been flirting with the wearable space for a while, but the company has yet to release a smartwatch or activity tracker. Earlier this year the company did unveil a fitness band that it was developing with Under Armor, but that product was later canceled before it ever hit the streets. Now […]

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An HTC fitness band hits the FCC

Phone maker HTC has been flirting with the wearable space for a while, but the company has yet to release a smartwatch or activity tracker. Earlier this year the company did unveil a fitness band that it was developing with Under Armor, but that product was later canceled before it ever hit the streets. Now […]

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Popular Torrent Sites Block YTS.ag and YIFY Impostors

The original YTS site and YIFY release group have shut down following legal pressure and won’t be returning. This has left room for others to fill the gap, with YTS.ag leading the way. The site, which is linked to the EZTV hijack earlier this year, has asked several popular torrent sites if they can be the new YTS/YIFY.

Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

ytsagLate last month one of the biggest piracy icons ended its operation.

Faced with a multi-million dollar lawsuit from Hollywood the operator of YTS and the YIFY release group decided to throw in the towel.

However, that doesn’t mean that these famous have disappeared for good. Several unrelated sites are trying to take over YIFY’s dedicated followers, with YTS.ag being the most successful thus far.

The site, which is connected to the people who hijacked EZTV earlier this year, want the public to believe that they are the real YTS. They misleadingly use the name of a member of the real YTS team, for example, and suggest that YTS simply decided to move to a new domain.

This strategy appears to have worked since hundreds of thousands of visitors have viewed the site already. And after the ‘fake’ YTS decided to encode their own rips, many believe that it’s business as usual.

Hoping to push the traffic numbers up even further, YTS.ag also contacted several of the most popular torrent sites, asking if they can release their torrents there as well.

In their email the operators make it clear that they have nothing to do with the original YTS/YIFY team. However, they say they would like to pick up where the original group left off.

“Do we have acknowledgement from previous YIFY team to do this? The answer is that we could not reach them,” the email reads.

“We do our best to continue their work, thus so far we have uploaded our own encodes/releases with very similar quality/size of previous YTS team and even improving a bit the audio part of the encodes. We have our own seedboxes and upload very fast the releases.”

The YTS.ag team offers the torrent sites a “partnership” and hopes it will be able to add their releases to these sites, using the popular YTS brand.

“You have a very strong community and your users are searching daily for new YTS releases. Even though they can find them at yts.ag we would like to partnership with you and add our new releases to your website,” they write.

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TF spoke with several torrent site operators who say they will not allow YTS.ag to publish on their websites with a YTS or YIFY inspired tag, stating that it would be inappropriate.

RARBG isn’t allowing any YTS.ag rips on their site and ExtraTorrent is banning YTS and YIFY impostors as well.

“They are cheap groups who want to benefit and make a quick name by jumping on something that was already there,” the ET team tells us, adding that the same thing happened when aXXo disappeared several years ago.

“They will fade away, even though many downloaders will fall prey to the scam,” they add.

KickassTorrents is another site taking a similar stance. The KAT team says it will only accept releases if YTS.ag uses an unrelated name.

“Here at KAT we don’t think it’s a good idea for a release group to use the name of the other group confusing our users. So no platform will be provided at least until they choose another name,” the team informs us.

KAT moderator Mr. Black understands that other groups want to trade on the popular YIFY/YTS name but adds that in addition to the possible confusion, KAT would never allow it out of respect for the original group.

“This is something that is always going to happen but we also understand that the quality of these groups will never be the same. To allow this would be insulting to the original release group who we trusted in the past and gained so much respect with us,” he says.

“Over the past weeks we thanked YIFY for his input to our site over the years. His reply was that the appreciation from ourselves made them pleased and he thanked us for having trust in them.”

That being said, KAT can’t ban regular users from uploading the releases.

None of the torrent sites we spoke with will allow YTS.ag to take over from the old group but the releases are presently appearing on some automated search engines including isoHunt.

While the operators and moderators at the major torrent sites are quite loyal, many users don’t seem to care. They are happy as long as they can get their weekly dose of pirated movies.

At the time of writing thousands of people are sharing the YTS.ag releases as if nothing ever happened.

Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

Android Wear 1.4 adds support for speakers, new wrist gestures

Android Wear 1.4 adds support for speakers, new wrist gestures

The latest version of Google’s smartwatch operating system is the first to support cellular connectivity. Google already told us that much. But it turns out there’s a lot more to Android 1.4. It’s also the first version of Android Wear to be based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow , it adds support for new wrist gestures, and […]

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Android Wear 1.4 adds support for speakers, new wrist gestures

The latest version of Google’s smartwatch operating system is the first to support cellular connectivity. Google already told us that much. But it turns out there’s a lot more to Android 1.4. It’s also the first version of Android Wear to be based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow , it adds support for new wrist gestures, and […]

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Deals of the Day (11-13-2015)

Deals of the Day (11-13-2015)

The Asus Zenfone 2 comes in a number of shapes, sizes and prices these days… but the $300 model I reviewed earlier this year strikes a pretty strong balance between price and performance. Want an even better deal? Today Newegg is offering a $20 rebate when you buy the Zenfone 2 with an Intel Atom Moorefield […]

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Deals of the Day (11-13-2015)

The Asus Zenfone 2 comes in a number of shapes, sizes and prices these days… but the $300 model I reviewed earlier this year strikes a pretty strong balance between price and performance. Want an even better deal? Today Newegg is offering a $20 rebate when you buy the Zenfone 2 with an Intel Atom Moorefield […]

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Abgas-Skandal: EU-Kommission wusste über Software-Manipulation Bescheid

Der Tipp kam aus Europa: Die EU-Kommission wusste einem Medienbericht zufolge von den Manipulationen an der Motorsoftware bei Dieselfahrzeugen, unternahm aber nichts. Daraufhin sollen EU-Mitarbeiter die Information an eine US-Umweltorganisation lancier…

Der Tipp kam aus Europa: Die EU-Kommission wusste einem Medienbericht zufolge von den Manipulationen an der Motorsoftware bei Dieselfahrzeugen, unternahm aber nichts. Daraufhin sollen EU-Mitarbeiter die Information an eine US-Umweltorganisation lanciert haben. (Auto, Politik/Recht)

Chuwi eBook is a $170 dual OS tablet with pressure-sensitive pen input

Chuwi eBook is a $170 dual OS tablet with pressure-sensitive pen input

Chinese tablet maker Chuwi has released a new 10 inch tablet with an Intel Atom Z3736F Bay Trail processor. It runs Windows 10 and Android software and features 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. But tablets with those features are a dime a dozen in China. Here’s what makes the Chuwi eBook stand out: […]

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Chuwi eBook is a $170 dual OS tablet with pressure-sensitive pen input

Chinese tablet maker Chuwi has released a new 10 inch tablet with an Intel Atom Z3736F Bay Trail processor. It runs Windows 10 and Android software and features 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. But tablets with those features are a dime a dozen in China. Here’s what makes the Chuwi eBook stand out: […]

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Familienmitglieder: Gericht weist Filesharing-Abmahnungen der Pornoindustrie ab

Weil auch ihre Söhne Zugriff auf ihren Internetzugang hatten, ist ein Rechteinhaber aus der Pornoindustrie mit Filesharing-Abmahnungen gegen deren Mutter gescheitert. Dessen Forderungen über 3.000 Euro wurden abgewiesen. (Tauschbörse, P2P)

Weil auch ihre Söhne Zugriff auf ihren Internetzugang hatten, ist ein Rechteinhaber aus der Pornoindustrie mit Filesharing-Abmahnungen gegen deren Mutter gescheitert. Dessen Forderungen über 3.000 Euro wurden abgewiesen. (Tauschbörse, P2P)