March 2017 – Page 64 – news.buyenne.com

With a 10-day supply of opioids, 1 in 5 become long-term users

The longer you use opioids, the greater the risks—and the risks rise fast.

The longer a person uses opioids, the greater the risk of forming a deadly addiction. But just how long does it take to switch from being a short-term user—say, while you’re dealing with pain after a surgery—to a long-term, potentially problematic user? A few weeks? A month?

According to a new study, that transition could take just a matter of days.

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Report: LeEco downsizing plans for the US, selling Silicon Valley property

Chinese company LeEco unveiled its first smartphone, smart TVs, and other products for the US market in October. At the time, the company laid out plans to launch a comprehensive ecosystem for its products, including cloud storage, streaming video, and other services that could be used across platforms. Basically, LeEco wanted to emulate the success […]

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Europäischer Binnenmarkt: Merkel will einheitliche EU-Regelung bei Dateneigentum

Die Bundeskanzlerin hat in einer Videobotschaft einen europäischen Binnenmarkt für digitale Daten gefordert. Dazu müsse es einheitliche Regelungen zum Eigentum an den Daten geben. Als Beispiel nennt Angela Merkel den Automobilsektor. (Angela Merkel, Urheberrecht)

BLU launches a $180 phone with FHD display, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage

Budget smartphones have come a long way in the past few years. Smartphone maker BLU’s latest is the BLU Life One X2 Mini. It sports a 5 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel display, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 chip. Sure, that octa-core processor mobile platform isn’t exactly going to win […]

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Gallery: The costumes and sights of PAX East 2017

From Toejam and Earl to $300 NES games, take a visual tour of the Boston show floor.

Amid the surprisingly cold weather and lingering ice surrounding Boston's PAX East last weekend, one could see how the tenor of the show has changed over the years. At PAX East 2012, games from independent developers were relegated to a single Indie Megabooth, dwarfed by the big-name competition surrounding it. While that booth returned for 2017, the rest of the PAX show floor now seems like an outgrowth of the same idea. Dozens of indie developers outright purchased their own small tables to show off single games, while larger indie publishers like Tiny Build and Devolver Digital continue to host massive booths that rival their big-budget competitors.

Those major publishers were still at PAX East, of course, but they seemed to have less impact this year. Bethesda showed off the first playable demo of Quake Champions ahead of its upcoming beta test, and the game felt like an extension of their recent, successful Doom remake. Nintendo drew long lines for gamers eager to try out the Switch, even though many attendees already had the system in tow to make the other long lines at the show more bearable. All in all, though, the big boys seem to be ceding space at the show to tiny upstarts eager to reach their potential audience directly.

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Earbuds mit Sensor: Apple beantragt Patent auf biometrische Kopfhörer

Apple interessiert sich dafür, wie sich Körperfunktionen messende Sensoren gut in Kopfhörer einbauen lassen. Drei jüngst veröffentlichte Patentanträge zeigen, wie sich der Hersteller das vorstellt. Vergleichbare Geräte mit ähnlichen Funktionen sind bereits im Handel erhältlich. (Apple, Audio/Video)

Lyft agrees to pay $27 million to settle driver classification lawsuit

However, even with the deal, they remain independent contractors.

About 200,000 former and current Lyft drivers in California and their lawyers are to divvy up a combined $27 million under the settlement of a class action. The lawsuit involved the drivers' classification as hired contractors and not employees. Attorneys are to get about $3.6 million of the pot.

However, even under the deal that was approved Thursday by a San Francisco federal judge, drivers will continue to work as independent contractors. That means they must pay for their own gas and other expenses. They are still not covered under minimum-wage laws and are not entitled to unemployment insurance and other benefits.

Both Uber, which is involved in a similar class action lawsuit, and Lyft classify drivers as contractors because the companies' profits would be hit hard if they reclassified their drivers as employees.

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Sprachassistent: Google Home spielt unaufgefordert Werbung ab

Googles Lautsprecher mit Sprachassistent Home hat unaufgefordert vom neuen Disney-Film Die Schöne und das Biest erzählt und auf dessen Filmstart hingewiesen. Werbung soll das Google zufolge nicht sein, sondern “eine von unseren Partnern geteilte Geschichte” – also Werbung. (Google Home, Google)

Googles Lautsprecher mit Sprachassistent Home hat unaufgefordert vom neuen Disney-Film Die Schöne und das Biest erzählt und auf dessen Filmstart hingewiesen. Werbung soll das Google zufolge nicht sein, sondern "eine von unseren Partnern geteilte Geschichte" - also Werbung. (Google Home, Google)

Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde Doesn’t Plan to Pay Hollywood ‘Back’… Ever

Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde has served his prison sentence, but that doesn’t mean that the TPB-case is completely over. With many millions of euros in damages, there is still a massive debt to repay. However, Peter isn’t particularly worried, as he doesn’t plan to pay the movie studios and record labels a penny.

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Former Pirate Bay spokesperson Peter Sunde paid the ultimate price for his involvement with the notorious pirate site, sacrificing his freedom.

Since his release from prison over two years ago he has been busy with several old and new projects, ranging from Flattr to his art projects, and even a TV-show in Finland.

However, even though he hasn’t been involved with TPB for nearly a decade, his past association still haunts him. Just last year a District Court in Finland ordered him to pay €350,000 ($375,000) for music shared illegally by the site’s users.

Speaking on TorrentFreak’s Steal This Show podcast this week, Peter says that he wasn’t even aware that the case was ongoing until he heard the verdict.

Peter explains that the court wants him to prove that he’s no longer operating The Pirate Bay. An impossible task, according to the former TPB spokesman, who used the court’s own logic in a snarky reply.

“I sent the message to the court saying: you have to prove that you’re not trying to poison me. I didn’t get a reply, so I guess they are trying to poison me. I’m using their own logic now,” he says.

Where most people would be devastated when told to pay hundreds of thousands of euros, Peter is no longer impressed. The Finnish case is still under appeal, but even if the damages amount stands, it’s not that big of a deal.

As the result of various court cases, the former TPB spokesman already owes millions to Hollywood. In Sweden alone, the damages are already well in the range of €15 million and increase every year with a fourteen percent interest rate, he says.

With these numbers the damages will be more than half a billion before he retires. In fact, it already is pretty much impossible for Peter to pay even the interest alone. It’s likely he’ll be in debt for the rest of his life. But even if he could pay, he wouldn’t.

“Out of principle I would never pay them anything,” Peter says, as he doesn’t feel that he took anything from the Hollywood studios or record labels to begin with.

“People ask me so many times: how are you going to pay the money back, and I’m like, what do you mean back? You have to have the money first in order to give it back. There was never any money handed over to me. I didn’t take any money.”

During the Pirate Bay trial, Peter and his co-defendants presented evidence showing that piracy doesn’t cause rightsholders any significant harm, if any at all. However, The Pirate Bay defendants had to pay nonetheless, as the rightsholders argued that a proper license would have cost them too.

While debts can be a real burden, Peter is relaxed. Many of his friends are struggling to pay their mortgages or student loans, but he has stopped worrying.

“When you get to ten million euros, it is not like those two hundred and fifty euros per month are actually going to get you into that debt-free zone when you’re sixty. So you don’t care about it, you stop caring about it,” he says.

The massive debt, in a way, provided him a sense of freedom. No matter what financial trouble he runs into, it will still be impossible to pay. And since Peter opted not to pay at all, there’s less of a burden.

“So the only thing that actually happens is that you pay less. You just change the way of life. You’re actually protected. I can owe quite a lot of money. It means that I will never have to pay anything because I won’t be in a position where that’s gonna happen.

“Maybe I should start a torrent site in Sweden,” Peter jokes.

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More details on the full episode with Peter Sunde is available at the Steal This Show website.

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Buch – Apple intern: “Die behandeln uns wie Sklaven”

Vom Apple-Fan zum Apple-Hasser: Diese Metamorphose hat eine ehemalige Mitarbeiterin des Konzerns durchgemacht. Sie schildert in einem Buch sehr detailliert ihre Erfahrungen in der Europazentrale. Von Ingo Pakalski (Apple)