Crytek: Hunt Showdown kämpft sich in die Steam-Charts

Trotz Kritik aus der Community, vor allem wegen der Server: Crytek hat sein Actionspiel Hunt Showdown erfolgreich im Early Access gestartet. Der Titel erinnert an eine Mischung aus Pubg und Evolve. (Crytek, Server)

Trotz Kritik aus der Community, vor allem wegen der Server: Crytek hat sein Actionspiel Hunt Showdown erfolgreich im Early Access gestartet. Der Titel erinnert an eine Mischung aus Pubg und Evolve. (Crytek, Server)

Apple to suspend iTunes Store support for “obsolete” first-gen Apple TV

Security changes will also affect Windows XP and Vista machines running iTunes.

Enlarge / The first-generation Apple TV (credit: David Kidd)

A support document from Apple drives another nail in the coffin for the original Apple TV, first introduced in 2007. On May 25, 2018, first-generation Apple TV devices will no longer be able to connect to the iTunes Store due to new security changes to be implemented by Apple. In addition to first-gen Apple TVs, any PCs running Windows XP or Windows Vista will also lose access to the most recent version of iTunes.

According to the document, the "obsolete" original Apple TV won't be updated in the future to support access to the iTunes Store. After May 25, users will only be able to access iTunes on second-generation Apple TVs and newer streaming devices.

The same security changes affecting the first-gen Apple TV will also affect Windows XP and Vista machines. Users on such devices can still run previous versions of iTunes, so they should still be able to play their music library without problems.

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Apple to suspend iTunes Store support for “obsolete” first-gen Apple TV

Security changes will also affect Windows XP and Vista machines running iTunes.

Enlarge / The first-generation Apple TV (credit: David Kidd)

A support document from Apple drives another nail in the coffin for the original Apple TV, first introduced in 2007. On May 25, 2018, first-generation Apple TV devices will no longer be able to connect to the iTunes Store due to new security changes to be implemented by Apple. In addition to first-gen Apple TVs, any PCs running Windows XP or Windows Vista will also lose access to the most recent version of iTunes.

According to the document, the "obsolete" original Apple TV won't be updated in the future to support access to the iTunes Store. After May 25, users will only be able to access iTunes on second-generation Apple TVs and newer streaming devices.

The same security changes affecting the first-gen Apple TV will also affect Windows XP and Vista machines. Users on such devices can still run previous versions of iTunes, so they should still be able to play their music library without problems.

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Wiko View 2 Pro: Smartphone mit 19:9-Display und Dual-Kamera kostet 300 Euro

Wiko macht das Smartphone noch schmaler. Nach 18:9 kommt 19:9 und Wiko verspricht noch mehr Platz auf dem Display, ohne das Smartphone größer zu machen. Gleich zwei Modelle bringt der Anbieter in diesem Formfaktor auf den Markt, das Pro-Modell hat dabe…

Wiko macht das Smartphone noch schmaler. Nach 18:9 kommt 19:9 und Wiko verspricht noch mehr Platz auf dem Display, ohne das Smartphone größer zu machen. Gleich zwei Modelle bringt der Anbieter in diesem Formfaktor auf den Markt, das Pro-Modell hat dabei eine Dual-Kamera. (MWC 2018, Smartphone)

Vivo Apex concept phone is nearly all screen, has a pop-up camera and in-display fingerprint sensor

Phone and laptop makers have been shrinking screen bezels over the past few years, but that raises the question of what to do with the things that used to hang out in the bezels, like cameras, home buttons, and fingerprint sensors. While most phone mak…

Phone and laptop makers have been shrinking screen bezels over the past few years, but that raises the question of what to do with the things that used to hang out in the bezels, like cameras, home buttons, and fingerprint sensors. While most phone makers have been moving the fingerprint sensors to the back of […]

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Neue Sailfish-Geräte angeschaut: Jolla bringt Sailfish OS auf Feature Phones

Jolla hat nicht nur Sailfish OS 3 angekündigt, sondern weitet auch die Verfügbarkeit seines Betriebssystems aus: Mit dem Xperia XA2 und dem Gemini PDA können weitere Geräte Sailfish OS verwenden. Interessant dürfte zudem die Handy-Version von Sailfish …

Jolla hat nicht nur Sailfish OS 3 angekündigt, sondern weitet auch die Verfügbarkeit seines Betriebssystems aus: Mit dem Xperia XA2 und dem Gemini PDA können weitere Geräte Sailfish OS verwenden. Interessant dürfte zudem die Handy-Version von Sailfish OS sein, die Android-Apps wiedergeben kann. Ein Hands on von Tobias Költzsch (MWC 2018, Smartphone)

The race to space heats up—on college campuses

One proposed rocket will have the capacity to lift 5kg to an altitude of 110km.

The Eureka-1 rocket is just 40cm in diameter. (credit: Space Enterprise)

No rocket ever launched by a team of college students has reached outer space. Last year, a group at the University of Southern California set what they believe to be the altitude record for such an endeavor, when its Fathom II booster ascended to a height of 44km above the Earth's surface. This mark easily eclipsed prior records set by other ambitious college rocket organizations, including the Delft University of Technology and the University of Stuttgart.

While impressive, 44km is still not all that close to outer space. Outer space is generally accepted to begin at the Kármán line, a 100km high arbitrary boundary between Earth's atmosphere and space. And ultimately, this altitude is where college students want to go.

Now, the Space Enterprise group at the University of California-Berkeley says it plans to launch a rocket beyond the Kármán line by July 2019 to mark the 50th anniversary of human landings on the Moon. So far the group has raised $30,000 through crowdfunding sources and intends to spend about $150,000 developing the Eureka-1 booster.

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Microsoft brings its quantum dev kit to macOS, Linux; new kind of qubit this year

The quantum simulator is 4-5 times faster, too.

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Microsoft released the first version of its quantum development kit and a new quantum computing programming language Q# last December. Today, the company has released an update that adds support for quantum development on macOS and Linux. Both the Q# language, and the company's quantum simulator, will run on these platforms in addition to Windows.

The new release of the simulator is much faster than the first release, with the company saying that it runs four to five times faster, especially on simulations with 20 or more qubits.

The quantum libraries and samples are now available under an open source license—the source to these was previously merely shared—enabling others to modify and extend them. Interoperability with existing libraries is also being improved: Microsoft is working on integrating Python support. On Windows, today's release includes a preview of the Python integration, which allows Q# programs to call Python code and vice versa.

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