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Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains, we have a number of new deals leading up to Black Friday. Dell has a bunch of good ones, including nearly $200 off a 24-inch Dell UltraSharp IPS monitor, a Latitude 14 7000 business laptop with a Core i5 processor for $799, and a Samsung 55-inch 4K smart TV plus a $150 gift card for just $599. There are also a number of other deals from Amazon on Kindles, tablets, monitors, and more.
Chinese device maker Voyo’s latest laptop is a convertible with an 11.6 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel touchscreen display and a 360 degree hinge that allows you to fold the screen back and use the computer as a tablet.
It’s called the Voyo VBook A 1, and the laptop also features an Intel Celeron N3450 “Apollo Lake” processor, 4GB of RAM, and a reasonably affordable price tag.
The VBook A1 is available for pre-order from Geekbuying for $300.
Chinese device maker Voyo’s latest laptop is a convertible with an 11.6 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel touchscreen display and a 360 degree hinge that allows you to fold the screen back and use the computer as a tablet.
It’s called the Voyo VBook A 1, and the laptop also features an Intel Celeron N3450 “Apollo Lake” processor, 4GB of RAM, and a reasonably affordable price tag.
The VBook A1 is available for pre-order from Geekbuying for $300.
Noch vor wenigen Monaten wollte das Entwicklerstudio Daedalic Entertainment (Silence) eine “gigantische Releasewelle losbrechen”. Jetzt stehen die Zeichen auf Sturm: Die Firma muss sparen und entlässt Mitarbeiter. (Daedalic, Steam)
Noch vor wenigen Monaten wollte das Entwicklerstudio Daedalic Entertainment (Silence) eine "gigantische Releasewelle losbrechen". Jetzt stehen die Zeichen auf Sturm: Die Firma muss sparen und entlässt Mitarbeiter. (Daedalic, Steam)
FCC has allowed data cap exemptions to spread without issuing clear guidelines.
(credit: Aurich Lawson)
AT&T is disputing the Federal Communications Commission's allegation that it may be violating net neutrality rules by exempting DirecTV from wireless Internet data caps.
AT&T purchased DirecTV in July 2015 and in September of this year started exempting DirecTV's online streaming from the data caps. When other companies want to bypass data caps imposed on AT&T customers, they have to pay AT&T directly for an exemption.
The FCC has mostly allowed such zero-rating schemes to proceed, but this month the commission's wireless telecommunications bureau told AT&T that it may be violating net neutrality rules and asked the carrier to respond to the concerns. AT&T argued yesterday in a letter to the FCC and an attached legal analysis that the data cap exemption benefits consumers and is not a violation.
Nominations revoked for games that were previous targets of Nintendo’s legal ire.
Pokémon Uranium is one of the Nintendo-themed fan games that is no longer being considered for The Game Awards.
A pair of fan-made games based on popular Nintendo properties have apparently had their nominations for the upcoming Game Awards show revoked. Both Pokémon Uranium and Another Metroid 2 Remake (AM2R) were initially listed as nominees in the award show's "Best Fan Creation" category. Those titles have now been removed from the nominees list on The Game Awards website, leaving only Brutal Doom 64 and Enderal: The Shards of Orde to contest the category (here's the original nominee listing, courtesy of Polygon).
Nintendo told Ars we could "get in touch with the folks at The Game Awards" for comment, and representatives from the awards haven't responded to a request for comment. But Nintendo has taken action against these fan creations in the past. Both AM2R and Pokémon Uraniumwere forced offline by legal threats from Nintendo earlier this year, as were with hundreds of simplistic fan games on Web portal Game Jolt. Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime also sits on the advisory board for The Game Awards.
If you live in the UK, you've had access to Amazon Tickets since 2015. The service is similar to Ticketmaster in that you can purchase tickets to UK-based shows including "The Lion King" and "Wicked" and concerts of artists like Blink-182 and Drake. Now Amazon appears to be looking into expanding the program: the company has a number of job listings for Amazon Tickets positions based in Seattle, Washington on its employment website.
"Following our debut in London’s West End with every ticket to every show, we are rapidly expanding our selection across the UK," one of the job listings states. "As with any growing Amazon business, we are always looking for opportunities to expand into more categories and geographies."
Another Tickets job posting states that Amazon isn't just looking to offer a wide variety of tickets to shows and concerts but also to "disrupt the entire live entertainment experience, including what happens before, during and after the show." Most of the job postings harp on the idea that ticket-buying can be a frustrating experience when the prices are too high or if you miss your favorite artist because you didn't know they were performing in your town. While there are no details on how Amazon wants to fix those problems, it's clear that the company wants to set itself apart from the Ticketmasters—and possibly the StubHubs and SeatGeeks—of the world by creating a better ticket-buying experience.
Detectives from the UK’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit say they have arrested a man attempting to sell the movie Brotherhood on the dark web. The 35-year-old is suspected of offering the movie , which is the follow-up to the successful Kidulthood and Adulthood, in advance of its retail release.
The Police Intellectual Proprty Crime Unit is well known in the UK for its action against torrent and streaming sites and other larger players in the piracy scene. Today, however, they bring news of a more focused action.
In a statement this afternoon, PIPCU announced the arrest of a man from Maidenhead who allegedly offered a movie for sale on the dark web.
The 35-year-old is said to have offered Brotherhood, the Lionsgate-distributed crime-drama sequel to Kidulthood and Adulthood. It’s still showing in cinemas in the UK following its late August release.
According to police, the copy was spotted by UK anti-piracy outfit Entura International, which focuses on cyberlocker, streaming, and BitTorrent piracy. Entura passed its information to the police who arrested the man last Thursday on suspicion of copyright offenses.
At this stage, several questions remain unanswered, not least why the UK’s most elite anti-piracy unit sprang into action for a single movie. The movie isn’t available for retail release until December 26th, so that may have played a part, but PIPCU are usually involved in much bigger operations.
What’s also unclear is the type of copy being made available. TorrentFreak asked Entura if the copy had CAM, DVDSCR or retail origins, but at the time of publication we had received no response. However, according to police, counterfeit goods were seized from the suspect’s address during the raid, which might indicate a bigger operation.
“Protecting the creative industries is of paramount importance to the UK and the Government estimates that it contributes £84.1 billion to the economy,” said Detective Inspector Michael Dodge of PIPCU.
“Intellectual property crime is not a victimless crime as not only do hundreds of thousands of jobs rely on it but the money made funds organized crime groups that can also be involved in people and drug trafficking.”
Jason Maza, who plays Daley in the movie, also welcomed the arrest, thanking Entura and the police for protecting his film from piracy.
“The importance of protecting film from theft is something I have always felt strongly about as without it the industry has no future.
“I’m so happy that the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) and Entura were able to act so quickly to stop this thief in their tracks and hope that this arrest acts as a warning to those out there considering such behavior in the future.”
PIPCU say the 35-year-old has been released on police bail until January 2017.
The Tor Project recently announced the release of its prototype for a Tor-enabled smartphone—an Android phone beefed up with privacy and security in mind, and intended as equal parts opsec kung fu and a gauntlet to Google.
"The prototype is meant to show a possible direction for Tor on mobile," Perry wrote in a blog post. "We are trying to demonstrate that it is possible to build a phone that respects user choice and freedom, vastly reduces vulnerability surface, and sets a direction for the ecosystem with respect to how to meet the needs of high-security users."
Earlier this month HTC announced an unusual new smartphone called the HTC Bolt. It’s unusual because the $600 smartphone has a mix of 2016-era high-end specs and a processor from 2015, and because the phone will be available exclusively for Sprint in the United States.
While it’s not entirely clear how much demand there is for a high-end phone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 chip in late 2016, HTC has just revealed that people outside the US will be able to buy the phone under a different name: the HTC 10 Evo.
Earlier this month HTC announced an unusual new smartphone called the HTC Bolt. It’s unusual because the $600 smartphone has a mix of 2016-era high-end specs and a processor from 2015, and because the phone will be available exclusively for Sprint in the United States.
While it’s not entirely clear how much demand there is for a high-end phone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 chip in late 2016, HTC has just revealed that people outside the US will be able to buy the phone under a different name: the HTC 10 Evo.
The Elder Scrolls 6 hat derzeit nicht den Status eines “großen, aktiven Projekts” – aber immerhin hat Chefentwickler Todd Howard sich überhaupt zu der Rollenspielserie geäußert. Er kündigt für Fallout 4 und Skyrim außerdem Unterstützung für die Xbox Scorpio an. (The Elder Scrolls, Nintendo)
The Elder Scrolls 6 hat derzeit nicht den Status eines "großen, aktiven Projekts" - aber immerhin hat Chefentwickler Todd Howard sich überhaupt zu der Rollenspielserie geäußert. Er kündigt für Fallout 4 und Skyrim außerdem Unterstützung für die Xbox Scorpio an. (The Elder Scrolls, Nintendo)
Noch vor wenigen Monaten wollte das Entwicklerstudio Daedalic Entertainment (Silence) eine "gigantische Releasewelle losbrechen". Jetzt stehen die Zeichen auf Sturm: Die Firma muss sparen und entlässt Mitarbeiter. (
The Elder Scrolls 6 hat derzeit nicht den Status eines "großen, aktiven Projekts" - aber immerhin hat Chefentwickler Todd Howard sich überhaupt zu der Rollenspielserie geäußert. Er kündigt für Fallout 4 und Skyrim außerdem Unterstützung für die Xbox Scorpio an. (
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