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Samsung Galaxy S8 likely coming in April, Galaxy Note 8 this fall

Mobile World Congress is coming up in a little over a month, and companies including Sony, LG, Nokia, and Motorola have scheduled events where they’re expected to reveal their flagship phones for 2017.

One company that won’t be announcing a new flagship? Samsung.

Following a press conference where the company revealed results of an investigation into the cause of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone fires, Samsung mobile president Koh Dong-jin revealed that the company would not introduce the Samsung Galaxy S8 at MWC.

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One company that won’t be announcing a new flagship? Samsung.

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Oracle: Java entzieht MD5 und SHA-1 das Vertrauen

Oracles Java soll ab April keinen Code mehr ausführen, der mit dem unsicheren MD5-Algorithmus signiert worden ist. Dieses Update musste Oracle auf Druck der Kunden sogar verschieben. Zudem soll sich Java von SHA-1-Zertifikaten verabschieden. (Java, Oracle)

Every new Chromebook from here on out will support Android apps

Google began rolling out support for Android apps to select Chromebooks in 2016. The list of supported models started pretty small, but it’s been growing month by month, and Google says that many models which don’t yet support Android apps will in the future.

Not sure if the Chromebook you already own or one you plan to buy is supported? Google has a handy list.

And as Android Police noticed, that list has been updated with an important new note: every Chromebook released in 2017 or later will support Android apps.

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Not sure if the Chromebook you already own or one you plan to buy is supported? Google has a handy list.

And as Android Police noticed, that list has been updated with an important new note: every Chromebook released in 2017 or later will support Android apps.

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Internetzensur: China macht VPN genehmigungspflichtig

Wer in China einen VPN-Dienst betreiben will, muss künftig nett um Erlaubnis fragen – bei der Regierung. Für ausländische Unternehmen wird die Zensur immer mehr zum Problem. (VPN, Internetsperren)

Wer in China einen VPN-Dienst betreiben will, muss künftig nett um Erlaubnis fragen - bei der Regierung. Für ausländische Unternehmen wird die Zensur immer mehr zum Problem. (VPN, Internetsperren)

All Chromebooks debuting in 2017 and beyond will run Android apps

The Play Store is on its way to even more Chromebooks.

Less than a year ago, Google announced that the Play Store and Android apps would be supported on Chromebooks. Now the company has made this feature a guarantee on all new devices: according to the list of Android-compatible Chromebooks, all new Chromebooks that come out in 2017 and later will support Android apps.

We knew Android apps would become a staple on Chromebooks, but at least Google has given consumers a timeline for it. A few new Chromebooks were announced at CES earlier this month, including two new Acer Chromebooks and Samsung's Chromebook Plus and Pro devices. Those will ship with the Play Store and all the Android apps that you can normally access on an Android smartphone.

The Chromium Projects page has also updated the list of older Chromebooks that support Android apps, adding the Asus Chromebook Flip, Acer Chromebook R11/C738T, and the Google Chromebook Pixel 2. It's safe to say the original Chromebook Pixel that debuted in 2013 is a little too old and will likely never receive the Android app update. Google already revealed that Android apps will only run on newer systems, and it was an intentional decision to leave out older systems. Since the original Pixel has faster hardware than most other Chromebooks, it's the outlier in this case as age is the biggest factor of omission.

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Hawkeye: ZTE will bei mediokrem Community-Smartphone nachbessern

Das von den Nutzern mitgestaltete Smartphone Hawkeye soll verbessert werden: ZTE hat erkannt, dass viele Nutzer von den Ausstattungsmerkmalen enttäuscht sind – und eine Umfrage gestartet, was verbessert werden soll. Der Preis muss aufgrund der Kickstarter-Regeln bei 200 US-Dollar bleiben. (ZTE, Smartphone)

Das von den Nutzern mitgestaltete Smartphone Hawkeye soll verbessert werden: ZTE hat erkannt, dass viele Nutzer von den Ausstattungsmerkmalen enttäuscht sind - und eine Umfrage gestartet, was verbessert werden soll. Der Preis muss aufgrund der Kickstarter-Regeln bei 200 US-Dollar bleiben. (ZTE, Smartphone)

French Police Shut Down Pirate Streaming Site, Arrest Operator

French police have shut down the popular pirate streaming site Films-regarder.co and arrested its operator. According to the local movie industry group ALPA, which referred the case to the authorities, the site may have caused more than 30 million euros in damages.

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streamingkey Working in tandem with copyright holders, French authorities are cracking down hard on various pirate sites.

They have managed to shut down several prominent players in recent months, including the private music tracker What.cd and France’s largest pirate site, Zone-Telechargement.com.

Last week, police targeted another significant player, the popular streaming portal Films-regarder.co. Founded in 2013, the site accumulated an estimated one million unique visitors per month, mostly French.

The site was a thorn in the side of the local Association Against Audiovisual Piracy (ALPA) who reported the site to law enforcement. This prompted the desired effect, as the website’s administrator was arrested by the police last week and at the same time, the site went dark.

According to ALPA, the man admitted being the sole operator of the site through which he generated a significant amount of revenue over the past one-and-a-half years.

“The administrator of Films-regarder.co acknowledged that he had acted alone in the administration of the site and admitted having received about 200,000 euros during the last 18 months. Money from foreign advertising agencies was cashed on foreign accounts,” ALPA informs TorrentFreak.

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ALPA is pleased with the shutdown and arrest. According to the movie industry group, Films-regarder.co caused its members substantial financial harm.

“The damage to the beneficiaries could amount to more than 30 million euros,” the group says.

The operator went before the Public Prosecutor last Friday, who decided to open a full investigation. Meanwhile, the defendant remains under judicial supervision facing a potential jail sentence of three years as well as 300,000 euros in fines.

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Asus takes on Raspberry Pi with 4K-capable Tinker Board

32-bit A17 CPU bolstered by fast Mali-T764 GPU, 2GB of RAM, and gigabit Ethernet.

Tech giant Asus is taking on the Raspberry Pi with its own DIY-friendly single-board computer that's said to offer 4K video playback and 24-bit audio support in exchange for a hefty £55 price tag.

Dubbed the "Asus 90MB0QY1-M0EAY0 Tinker Board," or (thankfully) the "Tinker Board" for short, the 8.5cm by 5.3cm computer features a quad-core Arm Cortex A17 CPU running at 1.8GHz, ARM Mali-T764 GPU, and 2GB of DDR3 memory. The most recent revision of the Raspberry Pi, the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, sports a 64-bit Cortex A53 quad-core processor. The A17 in the Tinker Board only supports 32-bit instructions.

However, the Mali-T764 GPU inside the Tinker Board is more powerful than the Broadcom VideoCore IV inside the Pi 3. There's hardware support for H.265 4K decoding instead of just 1080p, and Asus claims it pulls in almost double the benchmark score in Geekbench, which should equate to better 3D performance. Other niceties include gigabit Ethernet, support for SDIO 3.0, and swappable antennas for the built-in 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi module.

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Samsung Galaxy S8 won’t launch at MWC 2017

Follow-up to the much-maligned Note 7 now pegged for an April reveal.

The Galaxy S8 will not launch at Mobile World Congress, Samsung has confirmed. With a couple of exceptions, the company has typically used the trade show—which runs from February 27 to March 2—to launch its flagship Android smartphones. The current Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge made their debut at the show in 2016.

Samsung has not indicated when and where it will announce the Galaxy S8 instead, but shaky rumors from earlier this month tipped the phone for an April 15 launch in New York. The Galaxy S4 was unveiled at an event in New York back in 2013.

In other news, Samsung confirmed that faulty batteries from two suppliers were to blame for flaws in the Galaxy Note 7 that wiped $5.3 billion off its operating profit. The company is introducing a deeper "8-point battery safety check" for future devices, which may have contributed to the revised launch period for the Galaxy S8.

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Valve: Steam erhält Funktion, um Spiele zu verschieben

Valve hat per Update die lange gewünschte Option in Steam eingebaut, Spiele per Mausklick von einer Partition auf eine andere zu verschieben. Bisher ging das nur über Umwege. (Steam, Playstation 4)