July 2017 – Page 6 – news.buyenne.com

Honolulu: Strafe für Handynutzung auf der Straße

Wer als Fußgänger auf mobile Geräte schaut, sollte sich ab Ende des Jahres nicht auf den Straßen von Honolulu bewegen. Der Gesetzgeber der hawaiianischen Großstadt hat beschlossen, uneinsichtige Fußgänger zu bestrafen. (Verkehr, Smartphone)

Bundeswirtschaftsministerin: Zypries gegen festes Datum für Verbrennerverbot

In der Diskussion über die Zukunft der Autoindustrie hat sich Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Brigitte Zypries (SPD) zu Wort gemeldet: Sie ist gegen ein festes Datum für ein Verbot von Verbrennungsmotoren in Deutschland. In anderen Ländern wird derweil darüber diskutiert. (Auto, Technologie)

Grafikkarte: Radeon RX Vega 64 kostet 500 US-Dollar

AMD hat mehrere Versionen der Radeon RX Vega angekündigt. Obendrein gibt es attraktive Bundles mit Ryzen, Board, Freesync-Display und Spielen. Die Geschwindigkeit sowie Leistungsaufnahme der Radeon RX Vega 64 sind allerdings etwas ernüchternd. Ein Bericht von Marc Sauter (AMD Vega, Grafikhardware)

Workstation: AMD bringt Radeon Pro WX 9100

Die Radeon Pro WX 9100 basiert auf der Vega-Architektur und ist beispielsweise für Render-Projekte gedacht. Passend dazu wird der Pro Render nun Open Source. Hinzu kommt die Radeon Pro SSG mit 2 Terabyte Onboard-Speicher für hochauflösende Videos. (AMD Vega, Grafikhardware)

CPU: Achtkerniger Threadripper erscheint Ende August

Mit dem Ryzen Threadripper 1900X plant AMD eine weitere CPU mit 60 PCIe-Gen3-Lanes und Quadchannel-DDR4-Interface. Der Chip bildet mit acht Kernen den Einstieg für die X399-Plattform und kostet weniger als Intels Skylake-X-Octacore. (AMD Zen, Prozessor)

id Software: Wolfenstein 2 unterstützt FP16 und Vulkan

Das Vorzeigespiel für AMDs neue Radeon RX Vega: In Wolfenstein 2 nutzt id Software die D3D12- und die Vulkan-Grafikschnittstelle, dank Async Compute plus FP16-Berechnungen sowie Shader-Intrinsics soll die Bildrate besonders hoch liegen. (Wolfenstein, AMD)

Time-lapse Visualizes Game of Thrones Piracy Around The Globe

Game of Thrones is heavily pirated throughout the world, that’s not a secret. But what does this torrent-piracy rush hour look like when visualized on a world map? Thanks to the alpha60 project we get an answer, as well as various other insights into this unofficial viewership.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

Game of Thrones has been the most pirated TV-show online for years, and this isn’t expected to change anytime soon.

While most of today’s piracy takes place through streaming services, BitTorrent traffic remains significant as well. The show’s episodes are generally downloaded millions of times each, by people from all over the world.

In recent years there have been several attempts to quantify this piracy bonanza. While MILLIONS of downloads make for a good headline, there are some other trends worth looking at as well.

TorrentFreak spoke to Abigail De Kosnik, an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Together with computer scientist and artist Benjamin De Kosnik, she runs the BitTorrent-oriented research project “alpha60.”

The goal of alpha60 is to quantify and map BitTorrent activity around various media titles, to make this “shadow economy” visible to media scholars and the general public. Over the past two weeks, they’ve taken a close look at Game of Thrones downloads.

Their tracking software collected swarm data from 72 torrents that were released shortly after the first episode premiered. Before being anonymized, the collected IP-addresses were first translated to geographical locations, to reveal various traffic patterns.

The results, summarized in a white paper, reveal that during the first five days, alpha60 registered an estimated 1.77 million downloads. Of particular interest is the five-day time-lapse of the worldwide swarm activity.

Five-day Game of Thrones piracy timelapse

The time-lapse shows that download patterns vary depending on the time of the day. There is a lot of activity in Asia, but cities such as Athens, Toronto, and Sao Paulo also pop up regularly.

When looking at the absolute numbers, Seoul comes out on top as the Game of Thrones download capital of the world, followed by Athens, São Paulo, Guangzhou, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Perhaps more interesting is the view of the number of downloads relative to the population, or the “over-pirating” cities, as alpha60 calls them. Here, Dallas comes out on top, before Brisbane, Chicago, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Seattle, and Perth.

Of course, VPNs may skew the results somewhat, but overall the data should give a pretty accurate impression of the download traffic around the globe.

Below are the complete top tens of most active cities, both in absolute numbers and relative to the population. Further insights and additional information is available in the full whitepaper, which can be accessed here.

Note: The download totals reported by alpha60 are significantly lower than the MUSO figures that came out last week. Alpha60 stresses, however, that their methods and data are accurate. MUSO, for its part, has made some dubious claims in the past.

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Most downloads (absolute)

1 Seoul, Rep. of Korea
2 Athens, Greece
3 São Paulo, Brazil
4 Guangzhou, China
5 Mumbai, India
6 Bangalore, India
7 Shanghai, China
8 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
9 Delhi, India
10 Beijing, China

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Most downloads (relative)

1 Dallas, USA
2 Brisbane, Australia
3 Chicago, USA
4 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
5 Seattle, USA
6 Perth, Australia
7 Phoenix, USA
8 Toronto, Canada
9 Athens, Greece
10 Guangzhou, China

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

Reddit users re-enable Alien: Isolation’s VR mode with unofficial patch

It’s a Rift-only alpha and lacks comfort features, but it works very, very well.

Although 2014’s Alien: Isolation was a well-written, beautifully stylish exercise in terror, it failed to sell in large enough quantity for publisher Sega to justify a sequel—something for which we are all lessened, because the game is an exquisitely crafted love letter to the Alien universe. It’s also—as can be attested by numerous Youtube reaction videos—pants-wettingly terrifying.

The game was released just before the consumer versions of the Rift and Vive VR headsets became available, but it had a hidden Rift DK2-compatible gameplay mode that could be enabled by editing a configuration file. The VR mode mostly worked—the camera clips through the player’s body a lot, and folks prone to VR sickness would likely get nauseated within minutes due to the lack of any kind of VR accommodation in the game’s design, but even in its limited unsupported form the VR mode was stunning—and provided an even more terrifying experience than playing on a regular screen.

Unfortunately, the extended screen method by which Isolation’s VR mode functioned made it incompatible with the release versions of the Rift or Vive. The game’s sales figures were too low for Sega to justify bringing the coding team back together to update the feature for consumer headsets, and it would have passed into history as little more than an experimental footnote.

Except, of course, for the fan community—thanks to them, you can once again play Alien: Isolation in VR. Mostly.

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Reddit users re-enable Alien: Isolation’s VR mode with unofficial patch

It’s a Rift-only alpha and lacks comfort features, but it works very, very well.

Except, of course, for the fan community—thanks to them, you can once again play Alien: Isolation in VR. Mostly.

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You can buy this 18-carat gold mini PC… for $1 million

Swiss company Prime Computer offers a line of small, fanless desktop computers that are basically modified versions of Intel’s NUC mini PCs. Priced at 1,099 Swiss Franks ($1135) and up, they’re not exactly cheap. But now the company is offering something really special (and expensive): a computer covered in 18-carat gold. It’s a limited-edition model […]

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