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The Moto Z2 Play is now available from Verizon, and the 2nd-gen mid-range smartphone with support for modular accessories should be available from Motorola.com soon as well. First unveiled earlier this month, the Moto Z2 Play is thinner and more powerful than its predecessor. But it also has a smaller battery. Verizon is selling the […]
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The Moto Z2 Play is now available from Verizon, and the 2nd-gen mid-range smartphone with support for modular accessories should be available from Motorola.com soon as well. First unveiled earlier this month, the Moto Z2 Play is thinner and more powerful than its predecessor. But it also has a smaller battery. Verizon is selling the […]
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SLS needs more money, Sen. Shelby says, while deriding commercial efforts.
Enlarge / Sen. Richard Shelby, (R-Ala.) speaks during a Senate Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing in 2016. (credit: NASA)
As part of the annual US budget process, the NASA administrator meets with the appropriations subcommittees in the Senate and House to discuss the president's budget request. Under the new president, NASA doesn't yet have an administrator, so acting administrator Robert Lightfoot is making the rounds. On Thursday morning he met with the Senate's Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies.
Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) chairs this committee, which writes the budget for NASA and therefore wields extraordinary power over the nation's civil space activities. During Thursday's hearing, Shelby renewed his longstanding concerns about the space agency's commercial crew program—the NASA-funded efforts by Boeing and SpaceX to develop capsules and rockets to carry US astronauts to the International Space Station.
The agency had hoped for an operational capability by the end of 2017, but now that is likely to slip into early or mid-2019. Shelby asked about rising costs and delays. "What assurance can you give this committee that there will be no more cost increases or delays?" Shelby said, querying Lightfoot. "Can you do that?"
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Shortly after Sci-Hub was ordered to pay $15 million in piracy damages to Elsevier, the American Chemical Society filed a lawsuit of its own against the “Pirate Bay for Science.” The scientific society would also like to see a cut of the loot. In addition, it asks the court for a broad injunction which would require ISPs to block the site.
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Founded more than 140 years ago, the American Chemical Society (ACS) is a leading source of academic publications in the field of chemistry.
The non-profit organization has around 157,000 members and researchers publish tens of thousands of articles a year in its peer-reviewed journals.
ACS derives a significant portion of its revenue from its publishing work, which is in large part behind a paywall. As such, it is not happy with websites that offer their copyrighted articles for free, such as Sci-Hub.
The deviant ‘pirate site’ believes that all scientific articles should be open to the public, as that’s in the best interest of science. While some academics are sympathetic to the goal, publishers share a different view.
Just last week Sci-Hub lost its copyright infringement case against Elsevier, and now ACS is following suit with a separate case. In a complaint filed in a Virginia District Court, the scientific society demands damages for Sci-Hub’s copyright and trademark infringements.
According to the filing, Sci-Hub has “stolen Plaintiff’s copyright-protected scientific articles and reproduced and distributed them on the Internet without permission.”
ACS points out that Sci-Hub is operating two websites that are nearly identical to the organization’s official site, located at pubs.acs.org.sci-hub.cc and acs.org.secure.sci-hub.cc. These are confusing to the public, they claim, and also an infringement of its copyrights and trademarks.
“The Pirated/Spoofed Site appears to almost completely replicate the content of Plaintiff’s website. For example, the Pirated/Spoofed Site replicates webpages on ACS’s history, purpose, news, scholarship opportunities, and budget,” the complaint (pdf) reads.
“Each of these pages on the Pirated/Spoofed Site contains ACS’s Copyrighted Works and the ACS Marks, creating the impression that the Pirated/Spoofed Site is associated with ACS.”
By offering its articles for free and mimicking the ACS website, Sci-Hub is in direct competition with the scientific society. As a result, ACS claims to lose revenue.
“Defendants are attempting to divert users and revenues away from ACS by replicating and distributing ACS’s Copyrighted Works without authorization,” the complaint reads.
With the lawsuit, ACS hopes to recoup the money it claims to have lost. It’s likely that the total damages amount will run in the millions. However, if the defendants stay out of reach, this might be hard to collect.
Perhaps this is why the current lawsuit has included a request for a broader injunction against Sci-Hub. Not only does it ask for domain name seizures, but the scientific society also wants search engines, web hosting companies and general Internet providers to block access to the site.
“That those in privity with Defendants and those with notice of the injunction, including any Internet search engines, web hosting and Internet service providers, domain name registrars, and domain name registries cease facilitating access to any or all domain names and websites through which Defendants engage in unlawful access to, use, reproduction, and distribution of the ACS Marks or ACS’s Copyrighted Works,” it reads.
If granted, it would mean that Internet providers such as Comcast would have to block users from accessing Sci-Hub. That’s a big deal since pirate site blockades are not common in the United States.
It might very well be that ACS is not expecting any compensation for the alleged copyright and trademark infringements, but that the broad injunction is their main goal. If that is the case, this case could turn out to be more crucial than it looks at first sight.
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Authors say it’s just an observational study in one place, but it warrants more research.
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In the years after health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act unfurled in Multnomah County, Oregon, cardiac arrests among those newly covered fell 17 percent, researchers report this week in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
The pilot study, led by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University and the Heart Institute of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, is just an observational study—it can’t determine causation—and it only looked at the one county. But, the authors argue, the data begs for follow-up.
“Despite general agreement that expanded insurance coverage leads to positive health effects, the mechanism of this benefit and effect on health outcomes remains poorly understood,” they note. In past small studies, findings have been murky on whether health insurance significantly alters major health events—such as cardiac arrests.
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Amazon has scheduled another Prime Day event, where the company will offer “hundreds of thousands of deals exclusively for Prime members.” This year’s sale is scheduled for July 11th, although some deals will go live starting at 9:00 PM Eastern on Monday, July 10th… and some promotions are actually already available. Sure, this annual made-up […]
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Amazon has scheduled another Prime Day event, where the company will offer “hundreds of thousands of deals exclusively for Prime members.” This year’s sale is scheduled for July 11th, although some deals will go live starting at 9:00 PM Eastern on Monday, July 10th… and some promotions are actually already available. Sure, this annual made-up […]
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Google Photos gets automatic sharing powered by facial recognition.
If you remember back at Google I/O, new sharing features were announced for Google Photos. Most of the features revolved around making sharing easier or more likely to happen, with features like "Shared Libraries" and "Suggested Sharing." Google announced on its blog that those features are finally ready and are shipping now in Google Photos 3.0.
"Shared Libraries" lets you pick a Google Photos contact and automatically share your library with them, including new pictures. This can be either your entire library or just photos of specific people, powered by Google's facial recognition. This feature sounds just a little bit scary, but the idea is to give parents an easy way to share pictures of their children. You can restrict this by date, giving people access to pictures taken after a certain date. The person you share with can pick and choose what photos they want in their library, too. Again, the recipient of a shared library can select options to save only specific people or all photos. To set this up, you should see a "Shared libraries" option in the side navigation panel.
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Ein Hardware-Bug ist auch nur so etwas wie ein Software-Bug, hat sich das Team gedacht, das den sogenannten Albtraum-Bug in Skylake-CPUs gefunden hat. Am Ende blieben wenige Zeilen Assembler und das Warten auf den Bugfix von Intel. (Skylake, Server)
Trump nominates Brendan Carr, general counsel and former aide to Chairman Pai.
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The Federal Communications Commission's empty slots are about to be filled. President Donald Trump will nominate Republican Brendan Carr to the FCC's fifth and final commissioner position, the White House announced last night.
Carr served as FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai's Wireless, Public Safety, and International Legal Advisor for three years. After Trump elevated Pai to the chairmanship in January, Pai appointed Carr to become the FCC's general counsel.
"Brendan has a distinguished record of public service, having worked at the agency for over five years, including most recently as the FCC’s General Counsel," Pai said after the White House announcement. "In particular, Brendan’s expertise on wireless policy and public safety will be a tremendous asset to the Commission."
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Microsoft übernimmt Cloudyn aus Israel, um sein Cloud-Angebot rund um Azure weiter zu verbessern. Es geht um Tools für die Kontrolle der Cloud-Kosten. (
Einfach ein Würfel, der Neugierde und den Spieltrieb anspricht: So könnte ein Werbeformat in Virtual-Reality-Umgebungen aussehen. Mitarbeiter eines Ideenlabors von Google haben es der Öffentlichkeit vorgestellt. (
Ein Hardware-Bug ist auch nur so etwas wie ein Software-Bug, hat sich das Team gedacht, das den sogenannten Albtraum-Bug in Skylake-CPUs gefunden hat. Am Ende blieben wenige Zeilen Assembler und das Warten auf den Bugfix von Intel. (
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