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The MateBook D might be the least remarkable computer Huawei launched in mid-2017. It’s not a 2-in-1 tablet or a an ultraportable laptop like its siblings. But the 4.2 pound, 15.6 inch Huawei MateBook D does offer decent specs for a decent price …
The MateBook D might be the least remarkable computer Huawei launched in mid-2017. It’s not a 2-in-1 tablet or a an ultraportable laptop like its siblings. But the 4.2 pound, 15.6 inch Huawei MateBook D does offer decent specs for a decent price of around $700 (or less, these days). Now Huawei is giving the […]
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Make the most out of Alexa by using these features and skills each day.
If you've just introduced one of Amazon's Echo devices into your home and feel a little lost, you're not alone. The promises made by Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa are vast, and it's difficult to know where to start when you want Alexa to do something more than set a cooking timer or tell you tomorrow's weather forecast.
Aside from Alexa's basic features programmed by Amazon, there are thousands of Alexa skills to choose from; skills are features made by third-party developers that help Alexa do more than just the Amazon-sanctioned basics, and many of them integrate with other services, apps, and products. Each skill has to be enabled in the Alexa mobile app (or from your account on Amazon.com) before Alexa can use it.
Enabling a skill is almost like installing an app on a mobile device—simply enable a skill you want and Alexa will be able to use that skill until you disable it. There are more than 25,000 Alexa skills now, and while Amazon has improved the interface through which you can search for and discover skills, it's still not the easiest to work with. Here, we've outlined Alexa's main features and the best third-party Alexa Skills that you can enable now to use with Amazon's virtual assistant.
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Some are obvious masterpieces, and some are better than they have any right to be.
Enlarge / Super Sons is actually about Super Pets. And that’s a good thing. (credit: DC Comics)
Comic book news this year was dominated by which major characters from DC and Marvel died, which turned evil, and which did one and then the other. Big events are a lot of fun and give us a chance to see iconic characters in new ways, but it’s also worth taking a look at the smaller-but-still-awesome stuff going on in comics. Here are some of the one-shots, the less widely promoted series, and the just-plain-weird comics that you might have missed during the last year.
Redlands, Florida, is a small town with no shortage of darkness. Whether more of that darkness comes from the coven of witches trying to take control of the community or the conduct of the ordinary citizenry is for you to decide. This horror comic starts out with a siege on the town’s police station that leaves the reader unsure of who is more frightening but with little sympathy for either side. And things get scarier from there. The writing, by Jordie Bellaire, doesn’t give us any easy answers. The art, by Vanessa Del Rey, is reminiscent, with its muddy murk and startling colors, of 30 Days of Night. It gives us the impression that every scene is lit incompletely by flashlight and that anything could jump out of the darkness. You can pick up the floppies—issue five comes out on December 20—or make a note to get the first trade in March.
Punisher: The Platoon is Garth Ennis’ return to the character he made famous. He did this in part by using the Marvel Max imprint to separate the Punisher from most of the rest of the DCU and add the kind of explicit content that anyone living in the Punisher’s world would come across. He also did it by giving Frank Castle a history that included more than just his family getting shot.
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Der ehemalige Leiter eines Pentagon-Programms für die Suche nach Raumschiffen vom fremden Stern hat sich in den Medien geäußert. Luis Elizondo hält es für “zweifellos bewiesen”, dass außerirdische Flugobjekte die Erde besuchen. (Aliens, Raumfahrt)
Im neuen iMac Pro verwendet Apple keine Standardprozessoren von Intel, sondern speziell für das AiO-System überarbeitete Versionen der Xeon W mit Skylake-Technik mit weniger Takt. Hintergrund dürfte die Kühlung der CPUs sein. (iMac, Apple)
Hacker, Spionage und Diebstahl von Geschäftsgeheimnissen: Um die deutsch-chinesische Freundschaft ist es gerade nicht so gut bestellt. Berlin sucht den Cyber-Dialog, Peking mauert. Was ist da los? (Spionage, Internet)
Der Unternehmer und Investor Elon Musk hat die Raumfahrt in eine Geschichte von Erfolgen, Versprechen, Milliardären und Scharlatanen verwandelt. Die Falcon 9 seiner Firma SpaceX setzt private wie staatliche Konkurrenten immer mehr unter Druck. Von Fran…
Der Unternehmer und Investor Elon Musk hat die Raumfahrt in eine Geschichte von Erfolgen, Versprechen, Milliardären und Scharlatanen verwandelt. Die Falcon 9 seiner Firma SpaceX setzt private wie staatliche Konkurrenten immer mehr unter Druck. Von Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer (Raumfahrt, Paul Allen) Die Berg- und Talfahrt der Währung Bitcoin setzt sich über die Feiertage fort, zuletzt mit Tendenz nach oben. Für Verunsicherung unter Anlegern sorgt unter anderem die Absicht der israelischen Finanzmarktaufsicht, das Geschäft mit Kryptowährungen einzu…
UEFA, the governing body of football in Europe, has obtained a High Court injunction in the UK to prevent unauthorized access to matches for which it holds the rights. Six major ISPs including BT, Virgin, Sky and TalkTalk will begin blocking live pirate-broadcasted matches from February 13, 2018, and will continue until at least May 26, 2018.
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Earlier this year the English Premier League (EPL) obtained a unique High Court injunction which required ISPs including Sky, BT, and Virgin to block ‘pirate’ football streams in real-time.
When that temporary injunction ran out, the EPL went back to court for a new one, valid for the season that began in August. After what appeared to be a slow start, the effort began to produce significant results, blocking thousands of Internet subscribers from accessing illicit streams via websites, Kodi add-ons, and premium IPTV services.
Encouraged by its successes, the EPL has now been joined by an even bigger soccer organization. The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) is the governing body of soccer in Europe and it too will jump onto the site and server-blocking bandwagon, almost certainly utilizing the same system being deployed by the Premier League.
UEFA first had to obtain permission from the High Court. That came in the form of an application for injunction filed by the organization against ISPs BT, EE, Plusnet, Sky, TalkTalk, and Virgin Media. It demanded that they “take measures to block, or at least impede, access by their customers to streaming servers which deliver infringing live streams of UEFA Competition matches to UK consumers.”
In other countries, ISPs have defended such cases but in the UK, the position is very different. All providers except TalkTalk actually supported the application, with BT, Sky, and Virgin filing evidence in its favor.
The application seemed somewhat academic. All parties previously agreed to its terms and it was supported by the Premier League and the Formula One World Championship, whose content is also streamed illegally by some of the same servers.
The High Court found that the application was broadly similar to that previously filed by the Premier League so the legal basis for granting the injunction remained the same.
Citing two big rulings from the EU Court this year (one involving The Pirate Bay, the other cloud-recording service VCAST), Mr Justice Arnold said that evidence filed by the Premier League showed that a similar order had proven “very effective”.
The Judge also noted that no evidence of over-blocking as a result of the previous injunctions had been presented and that this injunction would contain “an additional safeguard” in that respect. Details of this measure and almost every other technical aspect of the injunction remain confidential, as is the case with the Premier League’s efforts.
Justice Arnold’s order will take effect on 13 February 2018 and last until 26 May 2018. People reliant on pirate streams for their football/soccer fix will continue to experience issues, with many having no other choice than to resort to VPNs to access blocked streams.
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Happy 25th birthday, SML2! Thanks to DMCA worries, fans should probably grab this ASAP.
The Christmas holiday season is traditionally a great time to kick back and catch up on forgotten video games, and usually, we recommend doing so with majorly discounted video game sales. That's still the case (and every platform, from Steam to Nintendo eShop to Xbox Live to PlayStation Network to GoG, seems to have a sale going on right now), but this year's coolest holiday offer cannot be purchased: an out-of-nowhere ROM hack for one of Nintendo's best original Game Boy games.
Today, a classic-game hacker who goes by the handle Toruzz released a "ROM patch" for Nintendo's 1992 game Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins. This 25th-anniversary release adds a "DX" suffix to the game's name, and that's because it's been designed specifically to run on original Game Boy Color hardware. As a result, the ROM hack adds support for the Game Boy Color's expanded color palette—which could run up to 56 colors on the screen simultaneously, as broken down by various sprite-specific palettes—along with support for the GBC's faster CPU.
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Der ehemalige Leiter eines Pentagon-Programms für die Suche nach Raumschiffen vom fremden Stern hat sich in den Medien geäußert. Luis Elizondo hält es für "zweifellos bewiesen", dass außerirdische Flugobjekte die Erde besuchen. (
Im neuen iMac Pro verwendet Apple keine Standardprozessoren von Intel, sondern speziell für das AiO-System überarbeitete Versionen der Xeon W mit Skylake-Technik mit weniger Takt. Hintergrund dürfte die Kühlung der CPUs sein. (
Hacker, Spionage und Diebstahl von Geschäftsgeheimnissen: Um die deutsch-chinesische Freundschaft ist es gerade nicht so gut bestellt. Berlin sucht den Cyber-Dialog, Peking mauert. Was ist da los? (
Die Berg- und Talfahrt der Währung Bitcoin setzt sich über die Feiertage fort, zuletzt mit Tendenz nach oben. Für Verunsicherung unter Anlegern sorgt unter anderem die Absicht der israelischen Finanzmarktaufsicht, das Geschäft mit Kryptowährungen einzuschränken. (
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