
Month: June 2017
With iPhone, Apple showed AT&T and Verizon who’s boss
Apple refused to let wireless carriers ruin the customer experience.

Enlarge / A poster announces the arrival of Apple's iPhone at the AT&T store in Orem, Utah, Monday, June 18, 2007. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg)
Ten years ago today—on June 29, 2007—many waited (in line or online) for the first iPhone's formal release. Apple's now-signature product has made a lasting mark not only on our communications, but on many unexpected walks of life. This week as the iPhone turns 10, we're examining its impact and revisiting the device that changed it all.
The first iPhone changed the technology industry in a lot of ways, mostly because it was a great device that lots of people wanted to use. But looking back at the device's first decade, one of the most beneficial changes the iPhone brought about for consumers didn't have much to do with the phone itself.
One of Apple's biggest decisions before releasing the iPhone was to retain control of software updates. Apple gave AT&T exclusive rights to carry the iPhone in the US beginning in 2007 with the phone's release. But Apple, not AT&T, would be in charge of updating the software.
Linux: Systemd bekommt Werkzeuge zum Bauen und Verteilen von Images
In seinem Blog hat Systemd-Entwickler Lennart Poettering zwei neue Systemd-Werkzeuge vorgestellt: Mkosi und Casync. Während Entwickler mit Mkosi OS-Images generieren, hilft Casync beim Verteilen derselben. (Systemd, Dateisystem)

Huawei MateBook X, E, and D coming soon for $700 and up
After unveiling a new line of MateBook laptops and tablets at the Computex trade show in Taipei, Huawi has announced that the MateBook D, MateBook E, and MateBook X are all coming to America. They’ll go up for pre-order at Amazon and Newegg between June 30th and July 7th. The MateBook X is a premium […]
Huawei MateBook X, E, and D coming soon for $700 and up is a post from: Liliputing
After unveiling a new line of MateBook laptops and tablets at the Computex trade show in Taipei, Huawi has announced that the MateBook D, MateBook E, and MateBook X are all coming to America. They’ll go up for pre-order at Amazon and Newegg between June 30th and July 7th. The MateBook X is a premium […]
Huawei MateBook X, E, and D coming soon for $700 and up is a post from: Liliputing
Information overload study we covered has been retracted
Low attention and a flood of data are serious problems for social networks.

Enlarge / Sorry, I’m not home right now. (credit: flickr user: Rosmarie Voegtli)
January 10, 2019: In 2017, we covered a study that suggested information overload may be responsible for the viral spread of faulty information. The study was based on a mix of modeling of artificial "agents" that forwarded information to their peers, and real-world data obtained from Twitter. In attempting to follow up on their own work, the researchers who produced it discovered two problems: a software bug in their analysis pipeline, and a graph that was produced using invalid data. Combined, these suggest the model they favored—that high- and low-quality information were equally likely to spread—wasn't valid. While this doesn't alter the empirical data they obtained, it does influence their analysis of it, so they have chosen to retract the paper. The retraction highlights one of the frequently overlooked aspects of scientific reproducibility. Problems with published work are frequently identified not by repeating the exact same experiments, but by attempts to build or expand upon them. The original story follows. Credit to Retraction Watch for identifying the retraction.
Original story follows
Once upon a time, it wasn’t crazy to think that social media would allow great ideas and high-quality information to float to the top while the dross would be drowned in the noise. After all, when you share something, you presumably do so because you think it’s good. Everybody else probably thinks what they’re sharing is good, too, even if their idea of “good” is different. But it’s obvious that poor-quality information ends up being extremely popular. Why?
That popularity might be a product of people’s natural limitations: in the face of a flood of information and finite attention, poor quality discrimination ends up being a virtual certainty. That’s what a simulation of social media suggests, at least.
Sheryl Sandberg: Facebook-Beschäftigte bekommen im Trauerfall Sonderurlaub
Facebook-Topmanagerin Sheryl Sandberg hat nach dem Tod ihres Ehemannes durchgesetzt, dass ihre Mitarbeiter Sonderurlaub bekommen können. Auch persönliche Probleme gehörten ins Unternehmen. (Facebook, Soziales Netz)

Intel: SSD 545s nutzt 64-Layer-Chips
Die neue Intel-SSD 545s ist die erste mit 3D-Flash-Speicher, der 64 Zellschichten verwendet. Die Chips fassen 256 GBit und sind sehr kompakt, was sie günstig macht. Die Geschwindigkeit stimmt offenbar auch – testen konnten wir das aber bisher nicht. (Solid State Drive, Intel)

10 Jahre iPhone: Apple hat definiert, wie ein Smartphone sein muss
Ein paar technische Neuerungen, die intelligente Kombination bekannter Technik und eine Handvoll innovativer Einfälle für die Bedienung: Apple brauchte vor zehn Jahren gar nicht viel, um mit einem teuren und exklusiven Gerät eine Umwälzung des Smartphone-Markts anzustoßen. Eine Analyse von Ingo Pakalski und Andreas Sebayang (iPhone, Smartphone)

Petya: Die Ransomware ist ein Zerstörungstrojaner
Installation 01: Fans dürfen Halo-Multiplayer-Projekt realisieren
Die besten Elemente aus den Multiplayermodi von Halo 2 und 3 plus eigene Ideen und Inhalte soll das Fanprojekt Installation 01 bieten. Jetzt hat das Entwicklerteam von Microsoft eine Art Freigabe erhalten – unter ein paar Bedingungen. (Halo, Games)