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Chiphersteller: Broadcom soll 120 Milliarden US-Dollar für Qualcomm bieten

Broadcom soll heute sein Angebot für Qualcomm auf 120 Milliarden US-Dollar plus 25 Milliarden US-Dollar für Schulden erhöhen. Das berichten führende US-Medien. (Broadcom, Qualcomm)

Astrophysik: Auf Schatzsuche im Archiv

Viele Aufnahmen des Weltalls sind noch nicht richtig ausgewertet worden. Computer könnten helfen, die darin verborgenen Erkenntnisse zu finden. Man muss ihnen nur an Beispielen begreiflich machen, wonach sie suchen müssen. Ein Bericht von Alexander Mäd…

Brennstoffzelle: Hyundai fährt mit Wasserstoffauto 190 km autonom

Hyundai hat ein Wasserstoffauto mit autonomen Fahrfunktionen ausgestattet und ist in Südkorea mit 100 bis 110 km/h rein rechnergesteuert 190 km weit gefahren. (Brennstoffzellenauto, Elektroauto)

Kooperation mit Bosch: Daimler will 2018 autonome Taxis anbieten

Daimler und Bosch wollen termingerecht noch in diesem Jahr Taxis testen, die teilweise autonom durch den Verkehr steuern können. (Autonomes Fahren, Technologie)

Han Solo film finally has a trailer, complete with Millennium Falcon and a Wookiee [Updated]

Dated for Memorial Day 2018; now with longer, dialogue-filled version.

Update, 2/5: A longer, and wholly remixed, version of Sunday's Solo trailer went live on Monday morning. In addition to significantly more Millennium Falcon footage, this updated trailer includes actual dialogue, particularly a monologue from new Solo actor Alden Ehrenreich explaining his rag-tag origins and his desire to become a pilot. The trailer makes evident that Ehrenreich will not attempt a one-to-one replica of actor Harrison Ford's style and delivery but also includes obvious flashes of Ford-like snark and swagger. We've slapped the new trailer into the bottom of this report.

As predicted by many a hopeful Star Wars fan, this year's Super Bowl LII included the world's first look at the upcoming 2018 film Solo: A Star Wars Story.

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Digitalisierung: Große Koalition will Glasfaser und E-Sport fördern

Glasfaser für das schnelle Internet, E-Sport für Olympia und eine App für das Melden von Funklöchern: Die für Digitales zuständigen Unterhändler haben die Pläne der großen Koalition vorgestellt. (Netzpolitik, Internet)

The funniest, most accessible book on rocket science is being reissued

Often hilarious, always informative, this history of rocket science is a must-read.

It's rare that a book about as high-minded and serious a topic as rocket science manages to be both highly informative and laugh-out-loud funny. But if there's a better way to describe John Clark's Ignition!, I've yet to discover it. A cult classic among chemists, many of the rest of us discovered the book via one of Derek Lowe's tales of hilariously scary chemicals.

It's where I learned words like hypergolic, which describes how eager one chemical is to spontaneously ignite, and realized that some of these mid-century scientists must have had as much right stuff as any test pilot. But there was hitch—Ignition! was out of print, so reading it involved an interlibrary loan (or a dodgy PDF, which of course I can't condone).

But now, Rutgers University Press has decided to dust it off and reissue it. From May it will finally be possible to put a physical copy on one's bookshelf. And honestly, if you've got any interest in chemistry—particularly the branch of it involving violent, energetic, and occasionally explosive reactions—it's a book you need to read.

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Russia Blocks 500 ‘Pirate’ Sites in Four Months, Without a Single Court Order

Last October, Russia passed legislation which allowed rightsholders to have ‘pirate’ clone and mirror sites blocked by ISPs without the need for court intervention. According to Russia’s Deputy Minister of Communications the months since have been extremely busy. A total of 500 sites have been blocked, which is more than the last two years of court-ordered blockades combined.

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Once the legal process for blocking pirate sites has been accepted in a region, it usually follows that dozens if not hundreds of other sites are given the same treatment. Rightsholders simply point to earlier decisions and apply for new blockades under established law.

Very quickly, however, it became clear that when a domain is blocked it’s relatively easy to produce a clone or ‘mirror’ of a site to achieve the same purpose, thus circumventing a court order. This mirror site whac-a-mole was addressed in Russia last year with new legislation.

Starting October 1, 2017, Russian authorities allowed rightsholders to add mirror sites to the country’s national blocklist without having to return to court. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the relative convenience and cost-efficiency, they have been doing that en masse.

According to Alexei Volin, Russia’s Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Media, hundreds of mirrors of pirate sites have been blocked since the introduction of the legislation in October, affecting an audience of millions of people.

“For the past few months, we have been able to block mirrors of pirate sites. As of today, we can already note that about 500 sites are blocked as mirrors,” said Volin at the CSTB 2018 television and telecommunications expo in Moscow.

While rightsholders were expected to quickly take advantage of the change in the law, the speed at which they have done so is unprecedented. According to Volin, more pirate platforms have been blocked in the four months since October 1, 2017, than in the previous two years’ worth of judicial decisions.

“Colleagues from the industry recently found a general audience of blocked sites, it’s about 200 million people,” Volin said, while describing the results as “encouraging.”

The process is indeed quite straightforward. Following a request from a rightsholder, the Ministry of Communications decides whether the site being reported is actually a copy of a previously blocked pirate site. If it is, the owner of the site and telecoms regulator Rozcomnadzor are informed about the situation, while local ISPs are ordered to begin blocking the site.

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Quest to dominate self-driving cars is at the heart of Waymo v. Uber trial

Judge: case is about trade secrets, “not whether or not Uber is an evil corporation.”

This story has everything: a cutthroat startup using cloak-and-dagger tactics going up against a corporate giant, a now-dismissed star engineer accused of stealing thousands of crucial files, cutting-edge Silicon Valley technology, and a whipsmart, no-nonsense, tech-savvy judge.

This year's hottest tech-related trial is Waymo v. Uber. At 7:30am PT Monday, what began as a trade secrets lawsuit back in February 2017 is set to open in federal court in San Francisco, just blocks from Uber headquarters.

On one side is Waymo, the self-driving car division of Alphabet, Google's parent company. Its lawyers accused Uber of effectively stealing its secret sauce when the ridesharing company hired away a top engineer who had taken 14,000 internal files without authorization before leaving Google.

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Deals of the Day (2-04-2018)

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