Der erste Vorbeiflug ist gelungen: Die Raumsonde Juno hat zum ersten Mal Jupiter umrundet. Es war zugleich der naheste: So dicht wird die Sonde während ihrer Primärmission an den Planeten nicht mehr herankommen. (Juno, Nasa) Month: August 2016
Kim Dotcom’s Extradition Appeal Gets Underway
Last year a District Court judge in New Zealand found that there was an “overwhelming” case for Kim Dotcom, Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk, to be extradited to the United States to face trial for their alleged roles in the Mega Conspiracy. Today the trio were in the High Court to mount their appeal.
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In 2012, Megaupload was shut down in a massive international operation. At the time the file-storage site had been one of the most-visited on the planet with around 100 million users.
U.S. authorities subsequently claimed that Megaupload illegally generated more than US$175 million and cost copyright owners more than $0.5bn in lost business.
The former operators of Megaupload – Kim Dotcom, Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk – insist that their business was a completely legal cloud storage platform so any infringement carried out by their users was not their responsibility. They are all fighting their cases from New Zealand where they are residents.
Last December, after almost ten weeks of hearings, District Court Judge Nevin Dawson found there was an “overwhelming” case for Kim Dotcom, Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk, to be extradited to the United States. There they face decades in jail on various charges including copyright infringement, money laundering, and racketeering.
Today, around a dozen lawyers were present in New Zealand’s High Court as Dotcom and his former colleagues mounted a formal appeal of last year’s extradition decision. The trio say that Judge Nevin Dawson didn’t give them a fair hearing.
The appeal is expected to last six to eight weeks but it began without Dotcom in attendance. He arrived after the hearing began and sat at the back with girlfriend Elizabeth Donelly. NZ’s Radio Live reported that the Megaupload founder appeared “relaxed”.
While Dotcom was not presenting argument today his lawyer Ron Mansfield told the court that due to the unprecedented issues involved and the international interest in the case, the hearing should be live streamed.
Mansfield said that a complex case of this nature is unlikely to receive balanced reporting so a live stream could ensure that all information is made available for public scrutiny. That could be done via YouTube, he said, with a 10-minute delay to ensure any sensitive material could be withheld.
A decision on that request wasn’t made right away, however. Judge Murray Gilbert said that the streaming request had been submitted late so he wanted to give representatives from the media time to consider the request and make their submissions. As previously reported, the United States government is objecting to the application.
Public interest in the case is undoubtedly high. Dotcom has become somewhat of a celebrity locally in New Zealand and he has a huge profile online as a serial entrepreneur, privacy activist, and video gamer. Unsurprisingly the public gallery in the High Court was full, with one man reportedly standing outside waving a banner claiming that Dotcom’s persecution is part of a CIA conspiracy.
With Dotcom not expected to speak until later next week, the hearing began with representation from Grant Illingworth QC, the lawyer representing Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk.
Illingworth said that the hearing had been unfair since the United States had denied the defendants the opportunity to hire specialist US-based technology experts who could help to support their defense.
He said that the case against the former Megaupload operators “had gone off the rails” and their extradition should be halted since the District Court had shown “extraordinary disinterest” in their arguments at the earlier hearing.
“It’s like ships passing in the night with no radar — the judge simply did not engage with the arguments in a meaningful way,” Illingworth said.
Pointing to alleged breaches of conduct by U.S. authorities, Illingworth
said that a situation of urgency had been manufactured in order to achieve procedural shortcuts.
There had been a “covering up” of unlawful activities preceding the arrests in 2012 and “downstream attempts to cover that up including a police officer giving incorrect information to this court, [and] unlawfully sending clones of hard drives overseas.”
Arguments for Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk are expected to take around eight days but the whole process is forecast to be a drawn-out affair. In the District Court the extradition hearing was supposed to take four weeks but actually took ten.
This time around the actions of the District Court will be picked over in fine detail, concentrating closely on numerous matters of law.
The United States Department of Justice isn’t expected to begin its arguments for another three weeks or so.
The hearing continues tomorrow but it’s unlikely that any final decision will arrive even this year. Dotcom and his rivals in the US both seem prepared to take this battle all the way to the Supreme Court in New Zealand if necessary. That could take years.
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Epic Loot: Ubisoft schließt vier größere Free-to-Play-Spiele
Einen Ableger von Might & Magic, das mit großem Aufwand produzierte The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot und zwei weitere Free-to-Play-Titel will Ubisoft in den kommenden Wochen schließen. Entschädigungen für Restguthaben oder virtuelle Gegenstände gibt es nicht. (Smart Home: Philips-Hue-Bewegungsmelder und neue Leuchten angekündigt
Philips bringt zur Ifa 2016 einen Bewegungsmelder für das Hue-System. Er erlaubt personalisierbare Einstellungen für schwächeres Licht in der Nacht und kann beliebige Lichtstimmungen in unterschiedlichen Räumen aktivieren. Außerdem werden 26 neue Leuchten vorgestellt. (Philips Hue, Hausautomation)
Philips bringt zur Ifa 2016 einen Bewegungsmelder für das Hue-System. Er erlaubt personalisierbare Einstellungen für schwächeres Licht in der Nacht und kann beliebige Lichtstimmungen in unterschiedlichen Räumen aktivieren. Außerdem werden 26 neue Leuchten vorgestellt. (Philips Hue, Hausautomation) Multirotor G4: DLRG setzt auf Drohne zur Personensuche im Wasser
Die Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft ( DLRG) setzt bei ihren Rettungsmissionen nun auch auf eine Drohne. Der Hexacopter soll helfen, bei bestimmten Einsatzlagen einen besseren Überblick mit weniger Einsatzkräften zu gewinnen. (Drohne, Technologie)
Die Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft ( DLRG) setzt bei ihren Rettungsmissionen nun auch auf eine Drohne. Der Hexacopter soll helfen, bei bestimmten Einsatzlagen einen besseren Überblick mit weniger Einsatzkräften zu gewinnen. (Drohne, Technologie) Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 08/29/16
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. ‘Now You See Me 2′ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Blood Father’. ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ completes the top three.
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This week we have two newcomers in our chart.
Now You See Me 2 is the most downloaded movie for the second week in a row.
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise.
RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart.
| Ranking | (last week) | Movie | IMDb Rating / Trailer |
|---|---|---|---|
| torrentfreak.com | |||
| 1 | (1) | Now You See Me 2 | 6.8 / trailer |
| 2 | (…) | Blood Father | 7.1 / trailer |
| 3 | (2) | Independence Day: Resurgence (Subbed HDRip) | 5.6 / trailer |
| 4 | (…) | The Conjuring 2 | 7.8 / trailer |
| 5 | (3) | The Legend of Tarzan (Subbed HDRip) | 6.6 / trailer |
| 6 | (4) | Neighbors 2 | 6.0 / trailer |
| 7 | (9) | Jason Bourne (HDTC) | 7.4 / trailer |
| 8 | (6) | The Jungle Book | 7.8 / trailer |
| 9 | (8) | Warcraft | 7.7 / trailer |
| 10 | (5) | Imperium | 6.7 / trailer |
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Android 7.0: Erste Nougat-Portierung für Nexus 4 verfügbar
Für das beliebte Google-Smartphone Nexus 4 gibt es eine erste Portierung von Android 7.0 alias Nougat. Von Google selbst hatten Besitzer des Smartphones nicht einmal mehr Android 6.0 alias Marshmallow erhalten. (Android 7.0, Google)
Für das beliebte Google-Smartphone Nexus 4 gibt es eine erste Portierung von Android 7.0 alias Nougat. Von Google selbst hatten Besitzer des Smartphones nicht einmal mehr Android 6.0 alias Marshmallow erhalten. (Android 7.0, Google) Philips’ Hue motion sensor lets you walk to turn on your lights
No more fumbling to the bathroom in the dark at midnight.
Enlarge (credit: Philips)
Philips knows that building a smart home lighting ecosystem doesn't mean just bombarding the market with different types of Wi-Fi connected light bulbs. On the heels of the introduction of Hue wall switches last year, Philips has just debuted the new Hue motion sensor for its lighting system. The tiny square sensor is meant to be placed anywhere in the home where you'd want lights to automatically come on whenever someone walks past.
The device is self-explanatory but it really comes to life when paired with the Hue app. The motion sensor can be placed anywhere to control up to two rooms of lights. It has a motion detection range of about 5 meters, or 16.5 feet, so whenever anyone walks near it, lights turn on. While you could set the motion sensor just to control, say, your bathroom lights so you don't have to fumble for a switch in the middle of the night, you can also set the switch to turn on both the bathroom and hallway lights so your entire nighttime trip to the can is illuminated. While the sensor has limited field-of-motion detection, it can control the lights in any part of your home, so walking through your front door could trigger your upstairs bedroom lights to turn on.
Since the motion sensor controls full rooms of lights, it can also be set to turn on a specific scene if you have the Hue multicolor smart bulbs. In the app, you can set these scenes using multiple different lights emitting different colors to get the best ambience for certain events, such as getting ready for bed or waking up in the morning. With the motion sensor, those scenes can be triggered whenever you walk near it, so you don't have to go into the app to bring them up.
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Assistiertes Fahren: Tesla-Autopilot-Update soll Unfälle verhindern
Der laxe Umgang mit den assistierten Fahrfunktionen der Tesla-Elektroautos hat zu einigen Unfällen geführt. Tesla will mit einem Softwareupdate seinem Autopiloten Sanktionen ermöglichen, wenn der Fahrer sich nicht an die Regeln hält. (Tesla Motors, GreenIT)
Der laxe Umgang mit den assistierten Fahrfunktionen der Tesla-Elektroautos hat zu einigen Unfällen geführt. Tesla will mit einem Softwareupdate seinem Autopiloten Sanktionen ermöglichen, wenn der Fahrer sich nicht an die Regeln hält. (Tesla Motors, GreenIT) 
Vier wesentliche Komponenten der AR-Brille Hololens hat Microsoft selbst entwickelt: den Akku, das Display, die Tiefenkamera und die Holographic Processing Unit. Die Gründe sind einleuchtend. (
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