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Beefy suspension and brakes, 38mpg, and stab-proof seats. What’s not to like?
Video shot and edited by Jennifer Hahn. (video link)
Pity the life of the average police car. Driven in shifts, it might easily hit 20,000 miles (32,000km) in a year. And if that's not enough, a car driven two shifts a day might spend up to ten hours a day idling. That's tough on the car, but it's even tougher on the planet thanks to all those pollutants, and it's even tough on the taxpayer's wallet. After all, gas isn't free.
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Docker, Raspberry Pi, an e-ink display: All the hallmarks of an awesome DIY project.
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While my son and I were playing with LEGO, after building a 1987 GMC Vandura and an off-road Segway I suddenly had the urge to build one of the first computers I remember using:
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On the front lines of the antivirus industry’s “testing wars.”
Enlarge / Is it "fresh malware"? Or is it something else repackaged? (credit: from an image by Sarah Shuda)
Last November, a systems engineer at a large company was evaluating security software products when he discovered something suspicious.
One of the vendors had provided a set of malware samples to test—48 files in an archive stored in the vendor's Box cloud storage account. The vendor providing those samples was Cylance, the information security company behind Protect, a "next generation" endpoint protection system built on machine learning. In testing, Protect identified all 48 of the samples as malicious, while competing products flagged most but not all of them. Curious, the engineer took a closer look at the files in question—and found that seven weren't malware at all.
That led the engineer to believe Cylance was using the test to close the sale by providing files that other products wouldn't detect—that is, bogus malware only Protect would catch.
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Windows 10 Version 1507 wird nicht mehr lange unterstützt. Wer die Version nicht als Long Term Servicing Branch (LTSB) einsetzt, muss bald aktualisieren. Sicherheitsupdates wird es nur noch für die LTSB-Version geben. Nachfolger gibt es genug, wenngleich nicht immer das Creators Update 1703 aktuell ist. (Windows 10, Microsoft)
Windows 10 Version 1507 wird nicht mehr lange unterstützt. Wer die Version nicht als Long Term Servicing Branch (LTSB) einsetzt, muss bald aktualisieren. Sicherheitsupdates wird es nur noch für die LTSB-Version geben. Nachfolger gibt es genug, wenngleich nicht immer das Creators Update 1703 aktuell ist. (Windows 10, Microsoft) Mit einer Kombination aus Joystick und Smartphone-App will eine französische Firma Frauen helfen, ihre Beckenbodenmuskulatur zu trainieren. Gesteuert wird dabei nicht mit den Händen. Die Kickstarter-Kampagne wurde innerhalb von zwölf Stunden zum Erfolg. (Kickstarter, Smartphone)
Mit einer Kombination aus Joystick und Smartphone-App will eine französische Firma Frauen helfen, ihre Beckenbodenmuskulatur zu trainieren. Gesteuert wird dabei nicht mit den Händen. Die Kickstarter-Kampagne wurde innerhalb von zwölf Stunden zum Erfolg. (Kickstarter, Smartphone) When it comes to Internet file-sharing, most mainstream politicians rarely have anything good to say, but for Senator Lyudmila Bokova of the Russian parliament, things are clearly quite different. “I like to use torrents,” she says, “because they provide the ability to download information quickly and cheaply.”
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From Canada through the United States, to the UK, Europe, and beyond, few politicians want to be seen supporting copyright infringement.
With the notable exception of the Pirate Party, for most politicians, piracy is something to fight against, not promote. Over in Russia, however, they like to do things a little bit differently.
On the one hand, the country is cracking down really hard on pirate sites, blocking them left and right while planning new legislation that will hold social networks liable for the piracy of their users. On the other, we have Senator Lyudmila Bokova who didn’t get the memo.
Speaking at the “Internet and Law” event organized by Russian news outlet Kommersant, the Federation Council member steered away from criticism to endorse piracy as a convenient and cost-effective method of obtaining content.
“I like to use torrents because they provide the ability to download information quickly and cheaply,” Bokova said.
“To go to the cinema today – just look at the price of tickets: 1000 rubles ($17.78). For a family of three people go to the movies it’s 3,000 rubles ($53.34) from the budget. It’s expensive. A torrent is cheap.”
But the Senator, who served as deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building, didn’t stop there.
Speaking with RNS, Bokova condemned Russia’s plans to block pirate sites without a trial. She criticized amendments that will force search engines such as Google and local giant Yandex to remove links to sites from search results.
“I think if we follow the path of pre-trial blocking [of pirate content and search engine links] it will create more problems in our society. I believe that in this case a court order, in my opinion, is the most correct approach,” she said.
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The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. ‘Logan’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Kong: Skull Island’. ‘Split’ completes the top three.
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This week we have three newcomers in our chart.
Logan, which was released as a HDrip with hardcoded Korean subtitles this week, is the most downloaded movie.
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise.
RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart.
| Movie Rank | Rank last week | Movie name | IMDb Rating / Trailer |
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| Most downloaded movies via torrents | |||
| 1 | (4) | Logan (Subbed HDRip) | 8.6 / trailer |
| 2 | (1) | Kong: Skull Island (Subbed HDRip) | 7.0 / trailer |
| 3 | (2) | Split | 7.0 / trailer |
| 4 | (…) | La La Land | 8.4 / trailer |
| 5 | (3) | Rogue One | 8.0 / trailer |
| 6 | (…) | The Fate of the Furious | 7.4 / trailer |
| 7 | (7) | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | 7.6 / trailer |
| 8 | (10) | Ghost in The Shell | 6.9 / trailer |
| 9 | (…) | The Great Wall | 7.6 / trailer |
| 10 | (8) | Boyka: Undisputed | 8.3 / trailer |
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Amazon motzt den Fire TV Stick auf. Der Fire TV Stick 2 bietet eine deutlich höhere Geschwindigkeit als der Vorgänger. Außerdem glänzt er mit einer sehr umfassenden Sprachbedienung via Alexa. Die wenigsten werden noch einen normalen Fire TV benötigen. Ein Test von Ingo Pakalski (Fire TV Stick, Amazon)
Amazon motzt den Fire TV Stick auf. Der Fire TV Stick 2 bietet eine deutlich höhere Geschwindigkeit als der Vorgänger. Außerdem glänzt er mit einer sehr umfassenden Sprachbedienung via Alexa. Die wenigsten werden noch einen normalen Fire TV benötigen. Ein Test von Ingo Pakalski (Fire TV Stick, Amazon) Whether it’s VR or 4K, the latest version of PowerDVD promises to have something for you – but it all comes at a cost!While the price of the fully featured Ultra version of PowerDVD, now in version 17, has stayed the same (at $99.95), the hardware cost…
Whether it's VR or 4K, the latest version of PowerDVD promises to have something for you - but it all comes at a cost!
While the price of the fully featured Ultra version of PowerDVD, now in version 17, has stayed the same (at $99.95), the hardware cost needed to get the best out of it is significant, to say the least.
To play back the latest 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs, you'll need at least the latest generation (Kaby Lake) Intel Core i processor that has added support for Intel Software Guard Extensions (for, you guessed it, copy protection), and a motherboard to match.
You'll also need a GPU that supports HDCP 2.2, which integrated Kaby Lake CPUs with Intel HD Graphics 630 or Intel Iris Graphics 640, may offer (and this is probably the cheapest option - the other option means you'll need something like the Nvidia GTX 970, which will set you back a couple of hundred bucks).
And of course, you'll need an Ultra HD Blu-ray reader drive, which is going for about USD$270 on eBay at the moment.
That's all not including the 4K monitor with HDCP 2.2 that you'll need, and if you want HDR, you'll have to get that supported too on both your GPU and monitor.
PowerDVD 17 also features support for the latest VR devices from Oculus Rift and HTC, allowing you to watch your favourite flicks in a virtual environment, or watch 3D-360 immersive videos.
The requirements for VR are lighter (only slightly), and you'll still need a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290 or equivalent according to PowerDVD's specs page.
But if you've got all of this already, maybe because you won the lottery recently, then you're in for a truly next-gen viewing experience. So what are you waiting for? Buy PowerDVD 17 today, using this link so this author can make a bit of cash and build his own Ultra HD Blu-ray/VR capable PC!
Dell hat in den USA mit dem Verkauf seines ersten OLED-Displays begonnen. Eigentlich wurde das Modell eingestellt, da der Hersteller nicht zufrieden war. Doch offenbar konnte Dell die Probleme des 30-Zoll-Displays mit 4K-Auflösung beheben (
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