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Vor allem dank der Masse an PS4-Konsolen erwarten Forscher einen klaren Sieg beim Verkauf von Playstation VR vor Oculus Rift und HTC Vive. Den mit Abstand größten Marktanteil aller VR-Geräte halten bis auf weiteres aber zwei ganz andere Systeme. (Playstation VR, Games)
Das Lumia 950 XL nutzt als eines der ersten Smartphones einen Iris-Scanner, der auch in der Dunkelheit funktioniert. Die Fotos der Pureview-Kamera bei Schummerlicht gehören zu den besten, die wir bisher gesehen haben. Aktuell nervt Windows 10 Mobile aber noch mit diversen Aussetzern und Problemen. (Lumia, Smartphone)
Leica hat für seine teure, spiegellose Systemkamera SL ein Firmware-Update veröffentlicht, das die Fotoqualität im niedrigen ISO-Bereich verbessern soll. Für Videofilmer wurde die L-Log-Funktion verbessert, die das nachträgliche Color Grading erlaubt. Sie funktioniert nun bei internen Aufnahmen. (Leica, Digitalkamera)
Mit einem Firmware-Update der Hue-Basisstation hat sich Philips Ärger zugezogen: Neue Leuchtmittel von Drittanbietern wie Osram können nicht mehr mit dem auf Zigbee basierenden System Philips Hue gekoppelt werden. (Philips Hue, Siri)
Das Samsung Galaxy S7 soll wie das iPhone 6s ein druckempfindliches Display erhalten, das mehrere Druckstärken unterscheiden soll. Außerdem sollen eine USB-Typ-C-Schnittstelle und ein Retina-Scanner eingebaut werden. Bei Apple heißt die Funktion 3D-Touch. (Samsung, Smartphone)
A hacker has made claims that the PS4 has been jailbroken.Someone referring to himself, or herself, as CTurt on Twitter made the claim this week, after earlier in the month claiming to have successfully tested a kernel exploit for t…
A hacker has made claims that the PS4 has been jailbroken.
Someone referring to himself, or herself, as CTurt on Twitter made the claim this week, after earlier in the month claiming to have successfully tested a kernel exploit for the PS4. He thanked "everyone involved" at that time, suggesting that the hack was part of a larger community effort to jailbreak Sony's top selling console.
The exploit currently works only on version 1.76 or older versions of the PS4 firmware (the latest version is 3.11), which makes it unlikely that the use of this particular jailbreaking method will be widespread. But the exploit could be used to find further exploits in newer versions of the firmware.
Hackers and developers routinely challenge themselves by attempting to jailbreak devices such as the PS4. Jailbroken devices can be used to run homebrew software (those made by enthusiasts without having gone through the official Sony verification and release procedures). Another use for jailbreaking would be to run pirated games, although CTurt makes it clear his intentions behind the jailbreaking attempt has nothing to do with piracy.
"People who keep asking for piracy: go away, please," tweeted CTurt.
CTurt has previously released an open-source PS4 SDK, and so his claims, while lacking a working proof, cannot be discounted entirely either.
Regardless, Sony will be sure to keep an eye on the work of CTurt, and if his or her work proceeds further and threatens the security ecosystem, the company will most likely take technical and possibly even legal actions to ensure the jailbreaking doesn't become widespread.
“Uber does not share and does not care,” said one councilwoman who voted yes.
Seattle City Councilmember Mike O'Brien speaking at an October event in support of his bill to allow Uber and Lyft drivers to unionize.
In a first-of-its-kind law, the Seattle City Council voted 8-0 to allow drivers for ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft to bargain collectively.
"The intent of this legislation is to create an environment where innovation can continue to happen, but not at the expense of the workers," said Councilmember Mike O'Brien, who spearheaded the proposal. "I firmly believe that this legislation is a great step in that direction."
"Uber does not share and does not care," said Councilmember Kshama Sawant. Uber drivers who take out loans to buy cars have become "trapped by debt," she added. "Uber drivers can be 'deactivated,' which is a fancy word for being fired," without cause.
Nintendo rejected this early demo, leaving id to make the Commander Keen games.
PC gamers of a certain age probably fondly remember the Commander Keen game series, some of the first smoothly scrolling platform games made for MS-DOS. What many classic gamers might not know is that before working on Commander Keen, John Carmack, John Romero, and the rest of the team at id Software (then known as Ideas from the Deep) pitched Nintendo on the idea of porting Super Mario Bros. 3 to the personal computer. The group went so far as to code up a proof-of-concept demo for the game running on the PC.
As David Kushner memorably lays out in his book Masters of Doom, the IFD team managed to come up with one of the first smooth side-scrolling algorithms designed for the PC way back in September of 1990. Unlike platformers on dedicated game consoles (which had hardware more suited to smooth scrolling), PC side-scrollers at the time usually had clunky, screen-clearing transitions when a character got to the edge of the screen. Carmack's algorithm, though, allowed for much smoother background movement by only redrawing the elements of the screen that actually changed frame to frame.
After proving the concept with an SMB3-like one-level demo called Dangerous Dave in "Copyright Infringement," the team set down to make a respectable PC conversion of Super Mario Bros. 3. They sent it to Nintendo in the hopes of gaining a lucrative licensing contract, but Nintendo declined the offer (Romero says they weren't interested in making games for non-Nintendo hardware anymore). At that point, the tech was funneled into the Commander Keen games. Id Software later went on to focus on leaps in 3D gaming with Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and its progeny, and the rest is history.