Schalke 04 verstärkt sein Engagement in Sachen E-Sport: Kurz nach der Verpflichtung eines League-of-Legends-Teams hat der Verein eine weißblaue Fifa-Mannschaft vorgestellt. Für dessen Aufbau ist ein erfahrener Profi verantwortlich. (Fifa, Games) Month: June 2016
Patentverletzungen: Qualcomm verklagt Meizu
Der chinesische Hersteller Meizu hat bei seinen Smartphones Technologien von Qualcomm verwendet – ohne diese zu lizenzieren. Eine außergerichtliche Einigung scheiterte offenbar, jetzt hat der Chiphersteller Klage vor einem chinesischen Gericht eingereicht. (Qualcomm, Smartphone)
Der chinesische Hersteller Meizu hat bei seinen Smartphones Technologien von Qualcomm verwendet - ohne diese zu lizenzieren. Eine außergerichtliche Einigung scheiterte offenbar, jetzt hat der Chiphersteller Klage vor einem chinesischen Gericht eingereicht. (Qualcomm, Smartphone) Deep Learning: Algorithmus sagt menschliche Verhaltensweisen voraus
Umarmung oder high-five? Kuss oder Handschlag? Ein Algorithmus soll anhand eines Bildes erkennen, was darauf abgebildete Menschen als Nächstes machen. Er lernte das durch Fernsehgucken. (Deep Learning, KI)
Umarmung oder high-five? Kuss oder Handschlag? Ein Algorithmus soll anhand eines Bildes erkennen, was darauf abgebildete Menschen als Nächstes machen. Er lernte das durch Fernsehgucken. (Deep Learning, KI) HP launches Chromebook 11 G5 with Android app support (eventally)
HP is updating its line of Chromebooks with a new model featuring a starting price of $189, support for up to 12.5 hours of battery life and an optional touchscreen display.
The new HP Chromebook 11 G5 is the first Chromebook from the company to be available with a touchscreen, which HP says will come in handy when Android apps for Chrome OS become more widely available later this year.
As expected, the HP Chromebook 11 G5 features an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display and an Intel Celeron N3060 Braswell processor.
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HP is updating its line of Chromebooks with a new model featuring a starting price of $189, support for up to 12.5 hours of battery life and an optional touchscreen display.
The new HP Chromebook 11 G5 is the first Chromebook from the company to be available with a touchscreen, which HP says will come in handy when Android apps for Chrome OS become more widely available later this year.
As expected, the HP Chromebook 11 G5 features an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display and an Intel Celeron N3060 Braswell processor.
Continue reading HP launches Chromebook 11 G5 with Android app support (eventally) at Liliputing.
Game of Thrones Piracy Peaks After Season Finale
The season finale of Game of Thrones is the highlight of the year for many TV fans. At the same time, it also generates a lot of traffic on various torrent trackers. Like previous years, Game of Thrones piracy peaked after the season ending, but not enough to set a new all-time record.
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Traditionally, the Game of Thrones season finale is among the most viewed episodes of the season, also on pirate sites.
With the Internet abuzz over the latest plot twists and turns, many people turned to torrent sites to grab a pirated copy of the show.
The first episodes appeared online shortly after the official broadcast ended and at the time of writing more than 350,000 people are actively sharing a copy. This is the highest number we’ve seen this year.
Data gathered by TorrentFreak estimates that after just eight hours, well over a million people have already downloaded the final episode of this season via BitTorrent. Millions more are expected to follow during the days to come.
The most popular release is currently an HD version of little over a gigabyte. This is different from previous years, when SD copies were consistently the most downloaded of all.
While the demand is significant, there is no all time “swarm record” to report. Also, the overall download numbers appear to be roughly on par with previous years, perhaps a bit lower.
Although it’s too early to jump to conclusions, there are a few explanations why Game of Thrones piracy might no longer be growing, via torrents at least.
For one, the number of legal alternatives have been growing steadily in recent years. Also, the same is true for “unauthorized” streaming sites where people can view pirated copies of Game of Thrones episodes instantly.
Another factor may be that HBO significantly cranked up its enforcement efforts this year. As a result, it is quite hard, or impossible, to find recent Game of Thrones episodes on some popular torrent sites.
The “disappearing” torrents also lead to scattered swarms, making it harder to break the previous record. Time will tell how this apparent trend develops during the years to come.
That said, it is worth keeping in mind that interest in the show still dwarfs the competition. This means that there is little doubt that it will be crowned the most downloaded TV show for the fifth year in a row.
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Bungie: Destiny-Karriere auf PS3 und Xbox 360 endet im August 2016
Im August 2016 schränkt Entwickler Bungie die Unterstützung von Destiny auf Playstation 3 und Xbox 360 ein. Große Erweiterungen sowie viele Events wird es nur noch für die neueren Konsolenversionen geben. (Destiny, Playstation 4)
Im August 2016 schränkt Entwickler Bungie die Unterstützung von Destiny auf Playstation 3 und Xbox 360 ein. Große Erweiterungen sowie viele Events wird es nur noch für die neueren Konsolenversionen geben. (Destiny, Playstation 4) That time when Littlefinger and Lyanna Stark promoted a comet landing
European Space Agency released a short film in 2014 to hype the Philae landing.
A still image from the movie Ambition. (credit: European Space Agency)
Littlefinger, the conniving and vulpine Game of Thrones character who loves all the Stark women, got together with one of them two years ago to promote the European Space Agency's comet-chasing mission, Rosetta.
Aidan Gillen and Aisling Franciosi, who play Littlefinger and Lyanna Stark respectively, starred in the short film to hype the mission, which caught up to Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko in 2014 and later sent the small Philae spacecraft to make a soft landing in November of that year. The movie, titled Ambition, is all the more chilling after Sunday's episode of Game of Thrones, in which Franciosi (Lyanna Stark) plays a key role in finally revealing the true parentage of Jon Snow.
In the short film, Franciosi seems to be some kind of a Jedi padawan in a far future Earth. As part of one lesson, Gillen recalls the Rosetta mission that had occurred in the distant past, explaining that it was about more a comet rendezvous. "We also wanted to show what was possible," Gillen's character explained.
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Vive-Headset: HTC muss sich auf Virtual Reality verlassen
Beim jährlichen Treffen der Anteilseigner von HTC entschuldigte sich CEO Cher Wang für die schlechten finanziellen Ergebnisse – und machte gleichzeitig Werbung für das VR-Headset Vive. Virtual Reality wird für HTC zunehmend überlebenswichtig. (HTC, Smartphone)
Beim jährlichen Treffen der Anteilseigner von HTC entschuldigte sich CEO Cher Wang für die schlechten finanziellen Ergebnisse - und machte gleichzeitig Werbung für das VR-Headset Vive. Virtual Reality wird für HTC zunehmend überlebenswichtig. (HTC, Smartphone) Mobilfunk: Datenvolumen steigt während EM-Spiel um 25 Prozent
Während des gestrigen EM-Spiels musste das Mobilfunknetz von Vodafone erheblich mehr leisten als sonst. Fans teilten ihr Zuschauererlebnis mit vielen Bildern. (Google’s own non-Nexus Android phone could launch this year—report
Unconfirmed report suggests search giant is already in discussions with operators.
(credit: Ron Amadeo)
Google is preparing to release a branded phone by the end of 2016 in an effort to compete more directly with Apple's iPhone, according to a report in The Telegraph this morning. It follows a similar report from The Information (subscription required) in February that stated Google wanted to take "greater control" over the design and building of Nexus phones.
"Sources familiar with the discussions" told The Telegraph that the search giant is in discussions with operators and manufacturers that would see it leap into hardware design above and beyond its current partnerships with the likes of LG and Huawei, which make its Nexus phones. Such a move wouldn't be entirely unprecedented: the Pixel C Android tablet was developed entirely internally by Google.
Android is the operating system that powers roughly four in every five smartphones around the world, but so far Google has stuck to developing free software platforms, leaving handset design and manufacture to the likes of Samsung. The slight exception to the rule has been the company's Nexus range, which serves as both an example to manufacturers of how to build an Android device, and offer consumers an entirely stock version of the operating system. The Telegraph's report doesn't mention what will become of the initiative and phones like the well-received Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P.
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