Month: November 2015

Es gibt Neuigkeiten zu Project Aura, dem Nachfolgeprojekt von Googles Datenbrille Glass: Das Entwicklerteam soll an zwei Head-mounted Wearables arbeiten, eines mit und eines ohne Bildschirm. Dieses soll sich besonders für Sportler eignen. (Project Aura, Google)

Schnelle Iris-Grafikeinheit in einem 15- statt 28-Watt-Chip: Intels neue Next Units Of Computing mit Skylake-Prozessoren sind sparsamer und dürften leiser sein als das letzte NUC-Modell mit der flotten GPU. (Intel NUC, USB 3.0)

Mit einer Kombination aus einem Scheinwerfer und einer Laserprojektion auf die Straße sollen Radfahrer dem restlichen Verkehr künftig besser auffallen. Das Blaze Laserlight ist nun auch in Deutschland erhältlich. Es "malt" ein Fahrradsymbol etwa 6 Meter vor dem Fahrrad auf den Asphalt. (Kickstarter, Technologie)

Die Erweiterung The White March für das Rollenspiel Pillars of Eternity wird fortgesetzt: Im Januar 2016 sollen Spieler mit einer zusätzlichen Begleiterin weitere Quests absolvieren können. Wer es eilig hat, soll einen neuen Storymodus nutzen können. (Pillars of Eternity, Rollenspiel)

Last summer the MPAA sued several popular movie streaming websites which all operated under the MovieTube flag.

In their complaint the movie studios listed MovieTube.cc, TuneVideo.net, Watch33.tv, MovieTube.cz, Anime1.tv, MovieTube.pm, FunTube.co, MovieTube.la, KissDrama.net and several related sites.

The websites in question were typical streaming services, where users could watch videos and in some cases download source files to their computers. Since they used the same hosting facilities and design elements the studios believed that they were operated by the same people.

Several months have passed since the action was filed and the operators of the MovieTube sites have yet to appear in court. They were quick to pull the accused sites offline after the compliant was filed, but never responded to any of the claims.

Due to this inaction, the MPAA now requests a default judgment. In an affidavit submitted to a New York federal court before the weekend they point out that MovieTube made a healthy profit from its operations.

“Defendants’ aggressive promotion and search-engine optimization of the MovieTube Websites permitted them to profit off their blatantly infringing activities,” the MPAA’s attorney writes (pdf).

According to the MPAA the MovieTube sites attracted over 81 million estimated visits per month, including more than 60 million visits from the United States.

“Defendants’ advertising-based revenue model would have yielded them significant profits given their high traffic, little to no overhead, and the fact that, unlike legitimate digital content services, they paid not a single dollar to license the content on their websites.”

In a proposed default judgment (pdf) the MPAA requests a permanent injunction that would prohibit the accused from offering or linking to any copyright infringing material. In addition, the movie studios want the domain names to be transferred to them.

In addition, the MPAA requests statutory damages for willful copyright infringement in the amount of $75,000 per title, for a total of $10.5 million.

The proposed injunction no longer requires search engines, ISPs and hosting companies to stop linking or offering services to MovieTube. This request was dropped earlier after Google, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Yahoo branded it as a broad censorship attempt.

Without any opposition from the defendants the MPAA is destined to win this case. However, whether they will ever see any damages is highly doubtful. For now the true operators of the MovieTube sites remain unknown.

That said, the Hollywood group has already scored a victory by shutting down the MovieTube ring when the lawsuit was filed.

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

Der Mobilfunkausrüster Ericsson misst weltweit den Datenverkehr in Kommunikationsnetzen der bedeutendsten Regionen der Welt. Demnach werden 20 neue mobile Internetzugänge pro Sekunde in Betrieb genommen, am schnellsten ist das Wachstum in Afrika. (5G, Studie)

Wärmesichtgeräte können Temperaturunterschiede visualisieren, was für viele Anwendungen sinnvoll ist. In der Nacht könnten Autofahrer damit zum Beispiel Wildwechsel erkennen. Doch die Technik ist teuer. Kohlenstoff in Form von Graphen soll das ändern. (Graphen, Foto)

Kurz vor dem Start des siebten Kinofilms können Spieler mit Luke Skywalker, Han Solo und Imperator Palpatine ins Gefecht ziehen. Star Wars Battlefront bietet Onlinegefechte in schicker Grafik und mit mächtig stimmiger Sternenkrieger-Atmosphäre. (Star Wars, Spieletest)

Was ein Gigant: Noch nicht einmal hundert Chips von Intels neuer Beschleunigerkarte Xeon Phi, Codename Knights Landing, passen auf einen Wafer. Jeder Chip enthält 76 angepasster x86-Kerne. (Xeon Phi, Prozessor)

Google is rolling out an update for its search apps that should allow you to get answers to more complicated questions. Google says its apps now understand questions with complicated combinations, such as “What was the US population when Return fo the Jedi was released.” That question, if you break it down, requires Google to know that […]

Google search learns to answer more complex questions is a post from: Liliputing