Bisher gibt es Desktop-CPUs mit sechs Kernen einzig als teure Server-Ableger ohne integrierte GPU. Ab 2018 soll sich das ändern, denn Intel plant Coffee Lake auch für Mittelklasse-Systeme. (Prozessor, Intel) Month: November 2016
First power drawn from tidal turbines off the coast of Scotland
Tidal power is expensive to install, but has benefits other renewables don’t.
Enlarge / "Atlantis’ AR1500 turbine (left) and AHH’s HS1000 turbine (right)." (credit: Atlantis Resources)
Earlier this week Atlantis Resources announced that it had placed a tidal stream turbine off the northern coastline of Scotland and generated power for the first time from the 1.5 MW installation. The company plans to install three more turbines next year and use that experience to build out the site to approximately 400MW capacity. (For comparison, a typical coal power plant in the US has 547MW capacity on average.)
Atlantis partnered with engineering firms to build and install four foundations on the seabed in October. The company spent much of the previous year laying undersea cables to connect the completed turbines to the onshore control center.
The firm that designed the turbines, Andritz Hydro Hammerfest (AHH), spent several days establishing communications with this first turbine and making sure all safety and management systems were operational after the installation. Now, Atlantis reports:
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Rightscorp Only Has Enough Cash to Last Until December
Rightscorp’s dream of turning piracy into profit continues to be a nightmare. In its latest quarterly filing the anti-piracy outfit reports revenue down 35% over the same period last year, alongside a loss of $385,433. Year to date, the company has lost almost $1.4m and only has enough money to last until December.
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It’s probably fair to say that outside its extremely limited customer base, Rightscorp is not a popular company.
For years the anti-piracy outfit has been bombarding ISPs all over the United States with copyright infringement notices. Rightscorp expects these to be forwarded to the ISPs’ customers so that an attached ‘pay-up-or-else’ warning results in a cash payment.
Sadly for Rightscorp, this is a business model that simply isn’t paying off. The company has just published its latest quarterly report, and it makes for grim reading.
During the three months ended September 30, Rightscorp generated just $139,834. That’s down from $215,196 during the same period in 2015, a drop of 35%. Losing a third of revenue year-on-year is clearly a huge problem, but once again the company insists this is due to circumstances beyond its control.
Just as the company reported for the three months ending March 2016, Rightscorp’s woes are down to three elements.
The first, it says, are “changes in the filesharing software intended to defeat detection of copyrights being illegally distributed.” The statement is almost certainly deliberately vague, but it seems likely that this is a reference to more users turning to VPNs and similar technology to avoid detection.
The second is down to ISPs, who are refusing to forward Rightscorp’s settlement demands to their subscribers. This is particularly interesting. Rightscorp customer BMG won a case against Cox Communications which at its core centered on Cox not terminating users that Rightscorp claimed were repeat infringers. It appears that not even a $25m verdict in BMG’s favor has the power to push Rightscorp’s settlement demands in front of more subscribers.
The final element is Rightscorp’s claims that “the shutting down of some filesharing network infrastructure” is affecting their ability to get subscribers to settle. Again, the statement is deliberately vague, but with millions of torrent users operating without VPNs in the United States, finding pirates should still be like shooting fish in a barrel.
With these three elements at play, Rightscorp is under-serving its clients. For the three months ended September 30, 2015, the company returned $107,598 to copyright holders. In the same period this year, that had dropped 35% to just $69,143.
What Rightscorp desperately needs is a larger pool of copyrighted titles to monitor, but the company isn’t doing enough to get itself noticed. For the three months ended September 30, 2015, the company spent a measly $5,396 on advertising and marketing. During the same period in 2016 it invested just £337.
The company has tightened its belt in other areas too, including in general and administrative expenses, salaries and other professional fees. However, unlike the apparent neglect of sales and marketing, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Total wage and related expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2016 were $294,262. Legal fees were ‘just’ $68,161, down from $318,211 in the same period last year. In total the company spent $386,865 on expenses, down from $729,724 in the same period last year.
But with revenues drastically down, the expense-cutting measures still aren’t enough. As a result, for the three months that ended September 30, 2016, Rightscorp recorded a net loss of $385,433, a modest improvement over the $424,168 loss it managed in the same period last year.
So, from January to September 30, 2016, this is how things are looking for the anti-piracy group versus the same period in 2015.
Revenues: $354,160, down 53% from $756,916
Payments to copyright holders: $174,878, down 53% from $378,458
Operating expenses: $1,939,982 versus $2,027,545
Bottom line: Net loss of $1,380,698 versus net loss of $3,120,197 in same period 2015
To date, Rightscorp has never turned a profit and the way things are looking it doesn’t seem likely to anytime soon. However, time is running out. The company has less than $7,000 in the bank and needs a cash injection real soon to have any hope of continuing as a going concern.
“Management believes that our existing cash on hand and ongoing revenues will be sufficient to fund our operations through December 2016. Management believes that the Company will need at least another $500,000 to $1,000,000 in 2017 to fund operations based on our current operating plans,” Rightscorp’s filing concludes.
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SanDisk Cruzer Glide 64GB Flash Drive Price Dropped
One of the latest USB flash drive released by SanDisk (in April 2012) has got a huge price drop. It was first listed at $139.99, but you can get it now for $44 (limited time offer). It’s a great deal for those who are looking for a large USB flash drive storage because this SanDisk […]
One of the latest USB flash drive released by SanDisk (in April 2012) has got a huge price drop. It was first listed at $139.99, but you can get it now for $44 (limited time offer). It’s a great deal for those who are looking for a large USB flash drive storage because this SanDisk […]
Banana Pi M2 Ultra: Bastelrechner bietet native SATA-Unterstützung
Sinovoip erweitert seine Banana-Pi-M2-Familie. Das Ultra-Modell hat einen echten SATA-Anschluss und soll bis zu 64 GByte Flashspeicher bieten. Auch die sonstige Ausrüstung wirkt attraktiv. Das übliche Betriebssystem-Drama wird allerdings noch schlimmer. (Town files lawsuit after largest earthquake in Oklahoma history
Residents sue wastewater injection well companies after damaging 5.8 quake.
Enlarge / A home in Prague, Oklahoma, after a magnitude 5.7 earthquake in 2011. (credit: Brian Sherrod, USGS)
The largest earthquakes in the recent spree caused by the injection of wastewater in deep disposal wells in Oklahoma have been far smaller than the disasters in, for example, Chile. But buildings have sustained damage nonetheless. That damage has to be repaired, and repairs cost money. Insurance companies have been tapped to pay out while state regulators have been pressured to prevent future earthquakes. A few residents have gone another route—suing the companies operating the injection wells.
On Friday, resident of Pawnee, Oklahoma, filed a class action lawsuit against 27 energy companies, the Associated Press reported. Pawnee experienced the largest Oklahoma earthquake so far—a magnitude 5.8 quake in September. The attorney filing the lawsuit claims that hundreds of homes suffered some degree of damage, and the properties have lost value as a result of all this seismic activity.
This is actually not the first lawsuit filed in Oklahoma. One suit filed by a resident of Prague, Oklahoma, was dismissed by a District Court before being restored by the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Another suit involving Prague residents is in process as well. And the Sierra Club has filed a federal lawsuit aiming to halt wastewater injection in the state.
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More Intel Coffee Lake chip details leaked ahead of 2018 launch
Intel is still rolling out 7th-gen Core chips based on its 14nm “Kaby Lake” architecture, and will continue to do so into 2017. But the company is also expected to roll out next-gen processors based on two different chip families in late 2017 and early 2018: Cannon Lake and Coffee Lake.
The former is expected to be the first set of Intel chips manufactured on a 10nm process, but the first Cannon Lake chips are expected to be low-power 5.2 watt and 15 watt chips for laptops, tablets, and other devices where energy efficiency is a key priority.
Continue reading More Intel Coffee Lake chip details leaked ahead of 2018 launch at Liliputing.
Intel is still rolling out 7th-gen Core chips based on its 14nm “Kaby Lake” architecture, and will continue to do so into 2017. But the company is also expected to roll out next-gen processors based on two different chip families in late 2017 and early 2018: Cannon Lake and Coffee Lake.
The former is expected to be the first set of Intel chips manufactured on a 10nm process, but the first Cannon Lake chips are expected to be low-power 5.2 watt and 15 watt chips for laptops, tablets, and other devices where energy efficiency is a key priority.
Continue reading More Intel Coffee Lake chip details leaked ahead of 2018 launch at Liliputing.
Chromecast Ultra delivers 4K and HDR content, but is that enough?
Review: Speed, consistency will have to be better to compete with smart 4K TVs.
Enlarge (credit: Sam Machkovech)
For three years, Google's Chromecast platform has stood out in the streaming-box category for one simple reason: your phone is your remote. Smartphones and tablets can do a lot of the heavy lifting in the TV-watching experience (browsing content, picking through apps, typing keywords). Chromecast takes advantage of that: no remote, no separate set-top box app ecosystem, lower cost.
Last year's second-gen Chromecast offered decent upgrades over the original, but not much else. The device changed designs, shrank in size, and drove 1080p video to your TV screen a little faster and more efficiently. That device still exists for the same low price of $35. Is there a reason we need a third-gen Chromecast?
On paper, there might be. Streaming boxes with support for the rising 4K and HDR standards are still few and far between, and this month's $69 Chromecast Ultra advertises support for both while still being $30 cheaper than the cheapest 4K HDR Roku box. The Ultra is also the first Chromecast model to support wired Ethernet.
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Mazda and Porsche race cars unveiled at the LA Auto Show
A mid-engined 911 and the first IMSA-specific DPI break cover.
Jonathan Gitlin
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Unusually, Mazda and Porsche chose this year's LA Auto Show to reveal to the world their latest racing cars. In fact, a host of racing machinery was on display at the LA Convention Center, joining the regular mix of new production cars and cool concepts. Normally, race cars get unveiled at pre-season tests or at the beginning of the year, so for both companies to choose LA as their venue is a vote of confidence for the health—and importance—of their factory racing efforts.
Mazda RT24-P
Let's take a look at the Mazda RT24-P first. It's built to contest the IMSA's WeatherTech Sportscar Championship's Daytona Prototype International class, an offshoot of the LMP2 category that runs at Le Mans and in the World Endurance Championship. But LMP2 is a pro-am class. Although teams can choose a chassis from four different constructors, they all have to run the same kind of engine and electronics. IMSA's DPI category, on the other hand, is for OEM-supported teams, and it has given car companies like Mazda a little more freedom to use their own engines, ECUs, and body work.
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SeaFall review: Hotly anticipated board game is a work of flawed genius
Massive hype, strong backlash—this Pandemic Legacy follow-up has made big waves.
Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games. Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com.
You might have heard about SeaFall. It’s comfortably one of the most hyped board game releases of the past couple of years, the first so-called “legacy” game to be designed from the ground up as such, rather than one reconstituted on the bones of an older game.
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