August 2017 – Page 41 – news.buyenne.com

DreamHost: US-Regierung will nun doch keine Daten von Trump-Gegnern

Verdächtig, nur weil man eine Website besucht hat, auf der Proteste gegen Trumps Amtseinführung geplant wurden? Nein, nein, doch nicht, versichert das US-Justizministerium und macht einen Rückzieher. (Datenschutz, Internet)

Project Brainwave: Microsoft beschleunigt KI-Technik mit Cloud-FPGAs

Statt auf fest verdrahtete ASICs, wie Googles TPU, setzt Microsoft für sein Azure-Cloud-Geschäft auf flexiblere FPGAs. Mit diesen sollen künftig Machine-Learning-Modelle beschleunigt werden, um “Echtzeit-KI” bereitzustellen. (Maschinelles Lernen, Microsoft)

Statt auf fest verdrahtete ASICs, wie Googles TPU, setzt Microsoft für sein Azure-Cloud-Geschäft auf flexiblere FPGAs. Mit diesen sollen künftig Machine-Learning-Modelle beschleunigt werden, um "Echtzeit-KI" bereitzustellen. (Maschinelles Lernen, Microsoft)

Google Express ends membership fees for free shipping from dozens of stores (including Walmart)

Google Express is a service that offers free delivery on thousands of items from dozens of stores including Target, Costco, Walgreens, Petsmart, Kohl’s, Toys R Us, and the Google Store. Now Google has announced that Walmart is joining Google Express… and that membership fees are going away. Up until now you had to pay $10 […]

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Satellites that can image Earth at night, and through clouds, near launch

“We’re building something slightly less capable, that’s smaller, cheaper.”

The biggest thing in aerospace these days is the trend toward small things, from small satellites to small satellite launch vehicles like those under development by Rocket Lab, Virgin Galactic, and Vector Space Systems. Now a new microsatellite company, ICEYE, says it is moving forward with development and deployment of its synthetic-aperture radar technology.

On Wednesday morning, the Finland-based company will announce that it has raised $13 million in a new round of funding, including investments from space capital firms such as True Ventures, Lifeline Ventures, Space Angels, and Draper Associates. Since its founding in 2015, the company has raised $18.7 million.

In an interview with Ars, the company's chief executive and cofounder, Rafal Modrzewski, said ICEYE plans to launch its technology within the next 12 months. It intends to begin the launch of a full constellation by 2019. "For the first two years we were mainly a technology company, and we were working with customers to find their needs," he said. "Now we have matured the idea."

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Elon Musk posts first photo of SpaceX’s new spacesuit

“Was incredibly hard to balance aesthetics and function.”

Early Wednesday morning, SpaceX founder Elon Musk posted a photo of the spacesuit that will be used by astronauts flying aboard the company's Dragon spacecraft, perhaps as early as next year. It is white, and looks futuristic.

In his Instagram post, Musk added that this suit was not a mock-up but rather a fully functional unit. "Already tested to double vacuum pressure," he wrote. "Was incredibly hard to balance aesthetics and function. Easy to do either separately." (Double vacuum pressure simply means the suit was probably inflated to twice the pressure of sea level and then put into a vacuum chamber).

Musk gave no other technical information about the suit. Most strikingly, it is white, in contrast to the very blue spacesuits unveiled by Boeing in January.

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Uber drivers have made more than $50M in the first month of tipping

Company tries to keep drivers happy while it awaits a new CEO.

Uber is making additional changes to its driver-side app by allowing drivers to set more destinations and offering "long trip notifications" to tell a driver when a rider is requesting a ride that's 45 minutes or longer.

The company will also stop penalizing drivers who turn down trips. Previously, when a driver turned down potential trips, it could affect promotions and account standing.

The changes are part of a process the company is calling "180 Days of Change," which it says will transform the driver experience for the 2 million people who drive for Uber each week. It began about two months ago with the notable addition of tipping to the app. Uber US and Canada manager Rachel Holt told several press outlets that the company's drivers have earned $50 million in tips since that feature was added. In-app tipping became available nationwide in mid-July.

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Microsoft: Im Windows Store gibt es viele illegale Streaming-Apps

Dunkirk,Fast and Furious 8 oder Game of Thrones: Im Windows Store können viele Filme mit Streaming-Apps konsumiert werden. Das Problem: Es handelt sich teilweise um illegale Kopien. Microsoft scheint eher träge darauf zu reagieren. (Microsoft, Film)

Alpha-One: Lamborghini-Smartphone für über 2.000 Euro vorgestellt

Wer ein passendes Smartphone für seinen Lamborghini Countach, Gallardo oder Centenario sucht, wird endlich fündig: Mit dem Alpha-One gibt es jetzt ein Lamborghini-Smartphone. Das Design ist wie bei den meisten Luxus-Smartphones eher Geschmackssache. (Lamborghini, Smartphone)

Wireless-AC 9560: Intel packt WLAN in den Prozessor

Künftige Chips von Intel, genauer Coffee Lake für Desktops sowie Notebooks und Gemini Lake für IoT, integrierten Bluetooth und den Mac-Part von WLAN. Das neue Wireless-AC 9560 ist nur noch ein kleines Zusatzmodul, was PCIe-Lanes und Energie spart. (Prozessor, WLAN)

Pirate Bay Founders Ordered to Pay Music Labels $477,000

Two founders of The Pirate Bay have been ordered by a court in Finland to pay record labels more than $477,000 in compensation. Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm were found liable for ongoing copyright breaches on the site. Neither appeared to mount a defense so both were found guilty in their absence.

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In November 2011, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), with support from Finnish anti-piracy group Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Center (CIAPC), filed a lawsuit in the Helsinki District Court against The Pirate Bay.

IFPI, which represents the world’s major labels, demanded that the site’s operators stop facilitating the unauthorized distribution of music and pay compensation to IFPI and CIAPC-affiliated rightsholders for the damages caused through their website.

Progress in the case has been somewhat glacial but this morning, almost six years after the complaint was first filed, a decision was handed down.

Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm, two founder members of the site, were ordered by the District Court to cease-and-desist the illegal operations of The Pirate Bay. They were also ordered to jointly and severally pay compensation to IFPI record labels to the tune of 405,000 euros ($477,000).

The Court was reportedly unable to contact Neij (aka TiAMO) or Svartholm (aka Anakata) in connection with the case. With no response received from the defendants by the deadline, the Court heard the case in their absence, handing a default judgment to the plaintiffs.

Last year a similar verdict was handed down by the Helsinki District Court to Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde.

Sony Music Entertainment Finland, Universal Music, Warner Music, and EMI Finland sued Sunde claiming that the music of 60 of their artists has been shared illegally through The Pirate Bay.

Sunde was also found liable in his absence and ordered to pay the major labels around 350,000 euros ($412,000) in damages and 55,000 euros ($65,000) in costs. He later announced plans to sue the labels for defamation.

“I’m a public person in Finland and they’re calling me a criminal when they KNOW I’m not involved in what they’re suing me for,” Sunde told TorrentFreak at the time. “It’s defamation.”

Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, and Peter Sunde all owe large sums of money to copyright holders following decisions relating to The Pirate Bay dating back at least eight years. In all cases, the plaintiffs have recovered nothing so the latest judgment only seems likely to add to the growing list of unpaid bills.

Meanwhile, The Pirate Bay sails on, seemingly oblivious to the news.

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