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Nearly two decades after it first launched, StarCraft is still a great game… so great, in fact, that Blizzard Entertainment has announced it’s going to release a new remastered version so that you can play it again with better-looking graphics designed for modern computers. But while you’re waiting for the updated edition, you can download […]
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Nearly two decades after it first launched, StarCraft is still a great game… so great, in fact, that Blizzard Entertainment has announced it’s going to release a new remastered version so that you can play it again with better-looking graphics designed for modern computers. But while you’re waiting for the updated edition, you can download […]
Deals of the Day (4-19-2017) is a post from: Liliputing
No deal is imminent as Verizon CEO claims no one has the fiber to match Verizon.
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Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam said yesterday that he'd be willing to have merger talks with just about any company, including Comcast.
“If [Comcast CEO] Brian [Roberts] came knocking on the door, I’d have a discussion with him about it,” McAdam said in an interview with Bloomberg. “But I’d also tell you there isn’t much that I wouldn’t have a discussion around if somebody came and said, ‘here’s a compelling reason why we ought to put the businesses together.'"
Comcast declined comment when contacted by Ars today.
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Kabellose Kopfhörer sind praktisch, im Falle von Bose aber ein Risiko für die Privatsphäre der Nutzer. Der Kopfhörerhersteller würde Informationen über übertragene Songs illegal speichern – so argumentieren jedenfalls mehrere Kläger in den USA. Sie haben das Unternehmen verklagt. (Datenschutz, Musik)
Kabellose Kopfhörer sind praktisch, im Falle von Bose aber ein Risiko für die Privatsphäre der Nutzer. Der Kopfhörerhersteller würde Informationen über übertragene Songs illegal speichern - so argumentieren jedenfalls mehrere Kläger in den USA. Sie haben das Unternehmen verklagt. (Datenschutz, Musik) Der Mitfahrdienst Uber steht in jüngster Zeit stark in der Kritik. Ein möglicher Grund für den Axel-Springer-Verlag, sein Investment nicht an die große Glocke zu hängen. (Uber, Wirtschaft)
Der Mitfahrdienst Uber steht in jüngster Zeit stark in der Kritik. Ein möglicher Grund für den Axel-Springer-Verlag, sein Investment nicht an die große Glocke zu hängen. (Uber, Wirtschaft) As long as you can log in to your phone, you can log in to your Microsoft Account.
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Microsoft Authenticator is a pleasant enough two-factor authentication app. You can use it to generate numeric authentication codes for accounts on Google, Facebook, Twitter, and indeed, any other service that uses a standard one-time password. The login process is straightforward: first you sign in to each site with your username and regular, fixed password, then you use the code generated by the app.
But for Microsoft accounts, Redmond is offering something new: getting rid of that first password and using just the phone to authenticate. With phone-based authentication enabled, after entering your Microsoft Account e-mail address, you'll receive an alert on your phone. From that alert, you can either approve or reject the authentication attempt—no password necessary.
This same approve-or-reject choice on the phone has been offered previously to Microsoft Accounts, but in the past, it still required the use of the fixed password.
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Interessierte wissen es schon länger, nun stellt Facebook es auch auf seiner Entwicklermesse F8 vor: Die Javascript-Bibliothek React wird intern komplett umgebaut. Das Rendering soll künftig inkrementell durchgeführt werden, was Apps beschleunigt. (Javascript, Soziales Netz)
Interessierte wissen es schon länger, nun stellt Facebook es auch auf seiner Entwicklermesse F8 vor: Die Javascript-Bibliothek React wird intern komplett umgebaut. Das Rendering soll künftig inkrementell durchgeführt werden, was Apps beschleunigt. (Javascript, Soziales Netz) Has serious issues, but hand tracking, doodling, media sharing work great in VR “Spaces.”
After receiving a robust reveal at 2016's Oculus Connect conference, the first bonafide Facebook VR experience launched for free as part of a surprise announcement on Tuesday morning. Ars Technica's staff didn't get advance notice about the first Facebook Spaces beta going live, so we had to hit the ground running to check it out.
The below video includes the first-ever Ars "meeting" in a VR chat space, but considering all of the silliness and infantile humor included, we'd be hard-pressed to technically call this a "work" function. We came away from our demos surprised and impressed by the features that this beta includes—but if the app wants to be serious about either business or fun, it has obvious work to do.
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Eve Tech launched a crowdfunding campaign in late 2016 for a 12.3 inch 2-in-1 tablet with a Microsoft Surface Pro-like display and a starting price of $699. At the time the company promised the Eve V tablet would begin shipping in February. That didn’t happen, but now Eve says components are on-hand, mass production is about to begin, and […]
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Eve Tech launched a crowdfunding campaign in late 2016 for a 12.3 inch 2-in-1 tablet with a Microsoft Surface Pro-like display and a starting price of $699. At the time the company promised the Eve V tablet would begin shipping in February. That didn’t happen, but now Eve says components are on-hand, mass production is about to begin, and […]
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Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde has a new privacy-oriented startup. Today he launches the domain registration service Njalla, which offers site owners full anonymity, shielding them from the prying eyes of outsiders. “Think of us as your friendly drunk (but responsibly so) straw person that takes the blame for your expressions.”
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In recent years, copyright holders have taken aim at the domain name industry, calling on players to take a more active approach against piracy.
One of the often heard complaints is that website owners use Whois masking services to ensure their privacy.
There are several companies dedicated to offering privacy to domain registrants and today, rightsholders will see a well-known adversary entering the market.
Former Pirate Bay spokesperson and co-founder Peter Sunde has just announced his latest venture. Keeping up his fight for privacy on the Internet, he’s launching a new company called Njalla, that helps site operators to shield their identities from prying eyes.
The name Njalla refers to the traditional hut that Sámi people use to keep predators at bay. It’s built on a tall stump of a tree or pole and is used to store food or other goods.
On the Internet, Njalla helps to keep people’s domain names private. While anonymizer services aren’t anything new, Sunde’s company takes a different approach compared to most of the competition.
With Njalla, customers don’t buy the domain names themselves, they let the company do it for them. This adds an extra layer of protection but also requires some trust.
A separate agreement grants the customer full usage rights to the domain. This also means that people are free to transfer it elsewhere if they want to.
“Think of us as your friendly drunk (but responsibly so) straw person that takes the blame for your expressions,” Njalla notes.
TorrentFreak spoke to Peter Sunde who says that the service is needed to ensure that people can register domain names without having to worry about being exposed.
“Njalla is needed because we’re going the wrong way in society regarding people’s right to be anonymous. With social media pressuring us to be less anonymous and services being centralized, we need alternatives,” Sunde says.
The current domain privacy services aren’t really providing anonymity, Sunde believes, that’s why he decided to fill this gap.
“All key parts of the Internet need to have options for anonymity, and the domain name area is something which was never really protected. At best you can buy a domain name using ‘privacy by proxy’ services, which are aimed more at limiting spam than actually protecting your privacy.”
As co-founder of The Pirate Bay, Njalla might also get some pirate sites as customers. Since Njalla owns the domain names, this could lead to some pressure from rightsholders, but Sunde isn’t really worried about this.
“The domain name itself is not really what they’re after. They’re after the content that the domain name points to. So we’re never helping with anything that might infringe on anything anyhow, so it’s a non-question for us,” Sunde says.
For those who are interested, Njalla just opened its website for business. The company is registered with the fitting name 1337 LLC and is based in Nevis, a small island in the Caribbean Sea.
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Nachdem BMW seine Kooperation mit Baidu beendet hat, sind nun Bosch und Daimler an der Reihe. Der chaotische Verkehr in China stellt autonome Autos aber vor besondere Herausforderungen. (Autonomes Fahren, Technologie)
Nachdem BMW seine Kooperation mit Baidu beendet hat, sind nun Bosch und Daimler an der Reihe. Der chaotische Verkehr in China stellt autonome Autos aber vor besondere Herausforderungen. (Autonomes Fahren, Technologie) 
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