April 2017 – Page 8 – news.buyenne.com

Samsung: Neue Galaxy-S8-Modelle erhältlich

Samsungs neues Galaxy S8 und Galaxy S8+ sind im Handel erhältlich. Für 800 beziehungsweise 900 Euro bekommen Käufer ein Smartphone im Oberklassebereich mit langgezogenem Display. Der neue Sprachassistent Bixby ist in Deutschland jedoch noch nicht komplett verfügbar. (Galaxy S8, Smartphone)

Cobot: Der Roboter wird zum Kollegen

Gemeinsam statt durch Zäune getrennt: Der Roboter der Zukunft arbeitet nicht mehr in abgetrennten Arealen, sondern mit dem Menschen zusammen. Oberstes Gebot dabei ist, dass diese Cobots den Menschen nicht verletzen. Ein Bericht von Werner Pluta (Roboter, Technologie)

Oddities start to emerge from deeper analyses of LHC data

Strange quarks showing up often, muons not as frequently as expected.

The Large Hadron Collider has generated a staggering amount of data in its years of operation; it's enough data that we'll be analyzing it for years after the collider shuts down. In the meantime, priority has gone to searches for big-ticket items like the Higgs boson (tick) and dark matter particles (MIA). But with time, some other analyses have managed to get done, and they're beginning to turn up unexpected results.

Quark-gluon plasma

In the current Universe, quarks are held together by gluons to form particles like protons and neutrons. In the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang, however, the Universe was too hot and dense for this to work. Instead, there was a thick soup of quarks and gluons that freely intermingled rather than settling down to form particles.

This quark-gluon plasma was first detected in Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, and the LHC was designed to study it at higher energies. To do that, time is allocated each year for collisions involving lead atoms, which contain lots of protons and neutrons and thus provide the quark-gluon plasma with lots of starting material. But a new paper in Nature Physics indicates that it might not be absolutely necessary to smash heavy atoms together to create the quark-gluon plasma; the protons used in normal collisions will do.

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Mimimi: Entwicklerverband kritisiert Deutschen Computerspielpreis

Das Entwicklerstudio Mimimi Productions verweigert eine Preisannahme – und verzichtet damit auch auf 40.000 Euro. Nun wird klar, dass Ursache für den Eklat wohl Unstimmigkeiten bei der Wahl der Jury sind. (Deutscher Computerspielpreis, Games)

Das Entwicklerstudio Mimimi Productions verweigert eine Preisannahme - und verzichtet damit auch auf 40.000 Euro. Nun wird klar, dass Ursache für den Eklat wohl Unstimmigkeiten bei der Wahl der Jury sind. (Deutscher Computerspielpreis, Games)

Sprachassistent: Google stellt SDK für Assistant vor

Entwickler können künftig eigene Geräte mit eingebautem Google-Assistant entwickeln: Google hat ein entsprechendes SDK vorgestellt. Damit kann nicht nur auf dessen Wissen zugegriffen werden, sondern auch auf Sprachantworten. (Google Assistant, Google)

Anker Powercore+ 26800 PD: Akkupack liefert Strom per Power Delivery über USB Typ C

Anker hat seine Powerbank um die Fähigkeit erweitert, Geräte auch mit der USB-Option Power Delivery per USB Type C aufzuladen. Das Versorgen von Notebooks ist damit kein Problem mehr. Zusätzlich gibt es für Altgeräte USB Typ A. (USB PD, USB Typ C)

Electronic Arts: “Alle unsere Studios haben VR-Programmiermöglichkeiten”

VR für alle Entwickler, die Bedeutung des E-Sports und firmeninterne Battlefield-1-Gefechte: Golem.de hat am Rande der Quo Vadis 17 mit Jens Kosche gesprochen, dem Geschäftsführer von Electronic Arts Deutschland. Ein Interview von Peter Steinlechner (Electronic Arts, Interview)

Bluetooth-Kopfhörer: Bose will Opt-out aus Datenspeicherung anbieten

Bose-Nutzer sollen ihre Musikvorlieben künftig nicht mehr mit dem Hersteller teilen müssen – die Connect-App soll eine entsprechende Opt-out-Regelung bekommen. Die bislang gesammelten Daten will Bose nicht verkauft haben. Von Hauke Gierow (Datenschutz, Musik)

Bose-Nutzer sollen ihre Musikvorlieben künftig nicht mehr mit dem Hersteller teilen müssen - die Connect-App soll eine entsprechende Opt-out-Regelung bekommen. Die bislang gesammelten Daten will Bose nicht verkauft haben. Von Hauke Gierow (Datenschutz, Musik)

Swefilmer Piracy Trial Ends, Operators Face Years in Jail

The trial of the operators of defunct streaming site Swefilmer ended this week with the prosecutor likening the operation to organized crime and seeking lengthy custodial sentences for the men involved. On top, they face potential damages of more than $1m.

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Founded more than five years ago, Swefilmer grew to become Sweden’s most popular movie and TV show streaming site. It was once said to have accounted for 25% of all web TV viewing in Sweden.

In 2015, a 22-year-old Swefilmer operator revealed he’d been raided and in 2016 a Turkish national was arrested in Germany on a secret European arrest warrant. The now 26-year-old was accused of receiving donations from users and setting up Swefilmer’s deals with advertisers.

The pair appeared at the Varberg District Court in January, accused of making more than $1.5m from their activities between November 2013 and June 2015.

After a few weeks’ suspension, the case got back underway this month, when details of the investigation into the site were revealed to the Court.

This week the trial concluded with prosecutor Anna Ginner describing the Swefilmer streaming operation as being like “organized crime”, while demanding a 4.5-year prison sentence for the 26-year-old alongside damages of more than $1.5m.

“I say this bears the traits of organized crime. A crime that has drawn in a lot of big money,” said Ginner via video link.

“The aim was to provide all visitors of the website Swefilmer an opportunity to see movies for free. The website even placed advertising to encourage more visitors,” she said.

“The effect of the business has been that thousands of users have done just that, instead of paying for the Swedish film companies. This has damaged the film studios.”

According to local media, the 26-year-old’s lawyer dismissed the prosecution’s claims as “fantasy”, noting that it’s not clear that his client committed any crimes at all.

That assertion wasn’t shared by lawyer Henrik Pontén of RightsAlliance.

“We must not forget that it is only a small part of the money that we have been able to find. There is a large amount of money that has been lost somewhere in the world,” Pontén said.

The prosecution considers the 26-year-old to be the main player behind the site, with the 22-year-old playing a much smaller role. He stands accused of receiving around $4,000 of the proceeds but according to his lawyer Claes Kennedy, no crime was committed, since at the time it had not been established by the EU court that linking to pirated content was illegal.

Nevertheless, the prosecution wants the site’s former administrator to receive a year in jail but may settle for a suspended sentence plus community service, a point on which his lawyer agrees.

For his part, Henrik Pontén hopes the punishments are closer to the top of the scale as a deterrent to others.

“Foreign criminals are attracted to Sweden for the opportunity to earn serious money and receive low penalty rates,” he told Hallands Nyheter.

The district court’s decision is due mid-May.

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Handheld: New Nintendo 2DS XL vorgestellt

Ohne Leak oder sonstiges Tamtam vorab hat Nintendo ein neues Handheld angekündigt: Der New Nintendo 2DS XL bietet einen relativ großen Bildschirm, verzichtet aber auf den 3D-Tiefeneffekt. (Nintendo, Games)