September 2017 – Page 21 – news.buyenne.com

Hades Canyon: Intel bringt NUC mit dedizierter GPU

Erstmals in der Geschichte der NUC genannten Mini-PCs plant Intel ein Modell mit besonders schneller Grafikeinheit: Hades Canyon ist für Virtual Reality gedacht. Es nutzt die Thunderbolt-3-Schnittstelle, gleiches gilt für die Bean Canyon mit 28-Watt-Chips. (Intel NUC, Intel)

USA: Volkswagen will Elektro-Lkw bauen

Volkswagen will mit dem US-Hersteller Navistar nun auch einen elektrisch angetriebenen Lkw für kürzere Distanzen entwickeln. Bis das Fahrzeug auf die Straße kommt, wird es aber noch dauern. (VW, Technologie)

Neuromorphic Computing: Intels Loihi-Chip ist Gehirn nachempfunden

Neuromorphic Computing statt Deep Learning: Loihi heißt Intels neuer Testchip, der künstliche Neuronen und Synapsen für künstliche Intelligenz nutzt und selbstlernend sein soll. (KI, Intel)

Microsoft: Office 2019 kommt 2018

Microsoft will seine neue Office-Suite für Windows Ende 2018 auf den Markt bringen. Sie trägt die Bezeichnung Office 2019 und soll offenbar weiter verkauft und nicht nur als Abo im Rahmen von Office 365 angeboten werden. Zuvor hat es Berichte gegeben, Microsoft wolle komplett auf ein Abomodell umsteigen. (Microsoft, Instant Messenger)

That smart jacket from Levi’s and Google? You can only wash it 10 times

So there’s a school of thought that you never really have to wash denim jeans, and I suppose the same probably goes for denim jackets. But when Google and Levi’s announced that the first smart jacket with Google’s Project Jacquard technology built in would go on sale this week, one of the key selling points […]

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Hacker turns old MacBook into a Samsung DeX Lapdock

Samsung’s latest high-end smartphones have a feature called DeX that lets you connect the phone to a docking station, hook up a keyboard, mouse, and display and use the phone as if it were a desktop PC. But what if you’d rather use it like a laptop? You could try to find an old Motorola […]

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Twitter testing shift from 140 to 280 characters

Twitter thinks 140 characters might be too constraining for English writers.

The 140-character limit is Twitter's defining feature and also its most controversial. Critics say that it makes the service confining and unfriendly to new users. Defenders say that enforced brevity is what makes the service so useful.

Twitter is considering doubling the limit. In a Tuesday blog post, Twitter announced that a limited number of users will be given the ability to use up to 280 characters in a tweet.

It might seem like expanding the limit will only cause people to pack more information in to each tweet. But Twitter argues that's not actually the case. They point to the experience of Japanese, where a richer character set means that you can say more with fewer characters. Japanese users are subject to the same 140-character limit English users are, but they find the limit much less constraining:

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Mobiles Betriebssystem: Apple veröffentlicht überraschend iOS 11.0.1

Apple hat nur kurz nach der Vorstellung von iOS 11 ein Update hinterhergeschoben. Was iOS 11.0.1 macht, verriet Apple bisher nicht. Es handle sich um ein Wartungsupdate, heißt es beim Hersteller. Einige Nutzer berichten seit iOS 11 von kurzen Akkulaufzeiten und Tonproblemen beim Telefonieren. (iOS 11, Apple)

Nomu S10 Pro has an IP69 waterproof rating (for no good reason)

There are a growing number of smartphones with IP68 ratings for dust and water resistance. . But smartphone maker Nomu wants to do one better. The company claims its Nomu S10 Pro will be the first phone with an IP69 rating. Not that it probably matters all that much to most users. For the most […]

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One Tinder user’s data request turned into 800 pages of probing info

Yet another reminder that when a service is free, you are the product.

In March of this year, German reporter Judith Duportail acted upon her rights, thanks to the European Union's data protection directive, to request a copy of all personal data captured by the Tinder dating service over a span of nearly four years. The result may not surprise anybody familiar with how much data free online services gather about their users, but it may be the most vivid PID disclosure yet from the popular dating app.

Duportail's frank article at the Guardian makes no bones about her dating history over the past few years. That detail is provided in part to describe just how much sensitive information appeared in the massive, 800-page report that Tinder sent her. Much of the data was sourced primarily from Tinder itself, including complete message histories and geolocation data for every interaction on the app, while other data was sourced from linked accounts at Facebook and Instagram. Duportail does not go into granular detail about which parts of her Facebook and Instagram profiles were included, but she says Tinder tracked all of her Facebook "likes" and stored her Instagram photos even after she had de-linked that photo-sharing account from her Tinder profile.

Data researcher and PersonalData.io co-founder Paul-Olivier Dehaye took to his Twitter account to confirm that the process of retrieving Duportail's data from Tinder was exhaustive. "It took real involvement of one data protection activist (me) and a human rights lawyer for them to answer," Dehaye wrote. "Two [data protection directive] complaints, dozens of e-mails, months of waiting. Far from easy!"

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