Month: May 2016

Auch im zweiten Halbjahr 2016 erwartet Apple trotz des Starts eines neuen Smartphones ein schwächeres Geschäft. Ursache sei das Fehlen von bahnbrechenden neuen Funktionen im kommenden iPhone 7. (Apple, Prozessor)

There are a growing number of Windows tablets with support for digital pens that let you write or draw on the screen or hover the pen over the display to move an on-screen cursor or perform other actions. And Microsoft is building a whole new “Ink Workspace” experience which will roll out to users with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update this summer.

But figuring out which pen works with which tablet can be a bit of a pain, because you generally can’t use a Wacom pen on a tablet with N-Trig technology, or vice versa.

Continue reading Microsoft Pen Program could standardize pen design for Windows 10 devices at Liliputing.

NVIDIA launched an 8 inch Android tablet designed for gaming in 2014. Then the company re-launched the tablet with a new name, but similar specs (and a lower price tag) in late 2015.

Now it looks like a new NVIDIA Shield tablet is on the way. Maybe this time NVIDIA will put a new chip in the tablet.

An unannounced NVIDIA tablet showed up at the FCC website this week.

While the FCC documents are light on specs, here’s what we do know:

• It supports 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz 802.11ac WiFi.

Continue reading Next-gen NVIDIA Shield tablet leaked by the FCC? at Liliputing.

Welcome to the new Ars Technica! We know site redesigns are a lot like coming home from work and finding your living room rearranged, so we're very eager to hear from you about problems you encounter, what you think about new features, and anything else we might do to help your browsing/reading experience.

But first, here's some insight on our thought process behind the new design. Ars Technica has grown tremendously over the past five years. We are now reaching 17 million people monthly from all across the planet, and we are proud to say that we have done so not by focusing on quantity of content but quality. We prefer to grow our editorial staff without just creating "more" stuff. Many (most?) publications in the tech scene publish two to three times as much content as we do per day. This doesn't mean we won't try new things, though; in the past year, we've expanded space and health coverage, but we've done so by getting expert reporters like Eric Berger and Beth Mole to bring you the most important news—as opposed to wall-to-wall, wafer-thin coverage. We've opened Ars UK to much success, and have exciting plans for expanded coverage of Europe.

With today's redesign, we are embracing the fact that we do not want to be—and have never been—a place for quick hits and throwaway hot takes. Instead, we like to free up our writing staff to focus on the issues that matter most, at a depth and level that we find meaningful. Concomitant with that is our desire to present information in the most readable and attractive fashion, which we generally mean to be uncluttered, crisp, and well-designed.

In past redesigns, one design motivation really constrained us: information density. We'd measure our success, in part, by how many stories readers could see "above the fold"—ancient industry-speak for the first 600 or so vertical pixels. We have abandoned this goal for a few reasons. First, we want to more clearly and prominently display all of our work, not just some of it. Second, everyone is doing a lot of scrolling these days. While scrolling may have been an annoyance 15 years ago, it's now common on everything from phones to tablets to laptops. Lastly, monitor sizes and resolutions have exploded in recent years, and screen real estate is no longer particularly prized (outside of mobile, of course).

Ars Technica remains an outlier in the publishing world for many reasons, one of which is the simple fact that we have a tremendously strong front page readership. Most publications can't say they get most of their traffic from front page readers—that is, people who arrive at a homepage and then move around the site. Instead, most sites find themselves increasingly (and sometimes completely) reliant on social media and links from other sites in order to grow their traffic. We, on the other hand, have an audience that averages three visits a day to the front page. That meant it was time to look at the front page as a showcase for our work and to take a step back from the clutter-inducing strategies of the past.

Again, we're excited to hear what you think. It would be a great help if you could direct feedback to the right place so we can address the inevitable issues that pop up as quickly as possible. First, if something is clearly broken, please let us know about such bugs here. Second, if you see a missing feature or if there is a feature you think would be easy to build into this new design, feature request comments should go here. Finally, your general thoughts and feedback are welcome in the discussion below. Please note that we will not be monitoring this thread for bug reports and suggestions, however, so please consider where you leave your feedback.

This being our 18th year of existence, we've done quite a few redesigns (see 2004, 2010, or even our recent 2012 relaunch). We know that there will be bumps in the road in the days to come. We appreciate your help in resolving any issues, and we really hope you grow to love the new Ars Technica. We can't wait to also unveil some new site features—such as secure browsing—once we've ironed everything out in the coming weeks.

Nach Amazon Now startet nun auch bald Amazon Fresh in Berlin. Die Belieferung mit frischen Lebensmitteln ist für weitere Städte geplant. (Amazon, Kindle)

Unendliche Weiten gibt es bald auch auf Playstation 4 und Xbox One: Das bislang für Windows-PC erhältliche Free-to-Play-Spiel Star Trek Online wird für die beiden Konsolen umsetzt. (Star Trek Online, MMORPG)

Amazon recently launched an Audio Adapter for the Kindle Paperwhite that allows you to plug in a pair of headphones and use Amazon’s VoiceView feature. Not only does VoiceView read eBooks aloud to you using Amazon’s text-to-speech engine, but it also provides audible navigation cues, helping visually-impaired users to interact with their Kindles.

The Audio Adapter for Kindle sells for $20, and Amazon says it officially only supports the Kindle Paperwhite (7th) gen eReader.

Continue reading DIY audio adapter for Amazon Kindle text-to-speech at Liliputing.

Vorteil für SpaceX: Boeing hat Probleme mit der Raumfähre CST-100. Sie soll erst ein Jahr später als geplant mit Astronauten an Bord starten. CST-100 soll Raumfahrer zur ISS transportieren. (Boeing, Technologie)

Partys auf der Luxusyacht, Geld wie Heu: So will zumindest das PC-Spiel Youtubers Life das Leben von Youtubern und Let's Playern darstellen. Spielerisch orientiert es sich offenbar am Vorbild der Sims. (Games, Steam)

Der BGH stellt sich im Streit um illegale Uploads auf die Seite des Anschlussinhabers. Davon könnten auch Vermieter von Ferienwohnungen profitieren. (Netzpolitik, WLAN)