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The new Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 is a notebook with a 15.6 inch display, a 360-degree hinge for using the computer in tablet mode, and support for pen or finger input. But what really makes the Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 unusual is that it’s one of the first compute…
The new Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 is a notebook with a 15.6 inch display, a 360-degree hinge for using the computer in tablet mode, and support for pen or finger input. But what really makes the Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 unusual is that it’s one of the first computers to ship with an Intel Kaby […]
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Space exploration sim will also get its fourth major update this summer
Hello Games' massive procedural space exploration sim No Man's Sky will come to the Xbox One later this year, following its summer 2016 launch on the PC and PS4, the company announced this morning.
The 505 Games-published port, which will include 4K and HDR graphics support on the Xbox One X, will follow what Hello Games founder Sean Murray calls "by far our biggest update so far" to the game, called No Man's Sky NEXT. Hello Games isn't detailing what specifically will be included in the upcoming free update, due to launch this summer, save for the few screenshots shown above.
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Company will attempt to launch two used boosters.
The booster to be used at early as Monday for CRS-14 flew last August during the CRS-12 mission. (credit: SpaceX)
SpaceX has launched five rockets so far during the first quarter of 2018, but now the company will amp up that pace by going to go for two launches in four days. If successful with these flights, the cadence would put the company two months ahead of 2017's record pace, when SpaceX launched a total of 18 rockets. Last year, SpaceX didn't launch its seventh rocket until June 3.
The company's first attempt comes Friday, when SpaceX is scheduled to lift a batch of satellites for the Iridium NEXT mobile communications fleet. This is the fifth set of 10 satellites in a series of 75 total satellites SpaceX will launch for Iridium. This flight will occur from the company's launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California. Then, on Monday, SpaceX plans to launch its 14th cargo supply mission to the International Space Station, from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
After engineers with Iridium solved an issue with the payload of communications satellites, SpaceX set a launch date of March 30, with an instantaneous launch window of 10:13am ET. The 10 communications satellites and their dispenser, combined, weigh just under five metric tons and are bound for low-Earth orbit. A backup launch window is available on Saturday.
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Cruise says its car never came within 10 feet of a pedestrian.
A car from GM's self-driving car unit, Cruise, received a traffic ticket last week from a San Francisco police officer who said that a Cruise car drove uncomfortably close to a pedestrian. Cruise disputes the officer's accusation, saying that the vehicle stayed more than 10 feet away from the pedestrian.
The incident was first reported Tuesday by Jackie Ward, a reporter for the local CBS station in San Francisco. She was tipped off by a viewer, Kevin O’Connor, who snapped this picture of the incident as it happened just a day after a fatal Uber self-driving car crash in Tempe, Arizona.
"According to data collected by Cruise, the pedestrian was 10.8 feet away from the car," Ward says. The car was in self-driving mode and "it began to continue down Harrison at 14th St. Shortly after the car accelerated, the officer pulled it over."
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Uber official asked governor’s office for intro to “someone discreet in Phoenix PD.”
Enlarge / Gov. Doug Ducey, third left, signs an agreement on August 25, 2015 with University of Arizona President Ann Weaver, second right, and Brian McClendon, the vice president for Uber, which will allow them to test and do research on driverless technology in the Tucson area. (credit: Uber)
Exactly what does the word "secret" mean?
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey and local business supporters are not happy with The Guardian newspaper, which reported on Wednesday that he and Uber "kept [Uber's] self-driving program secret, emails reveal."
As Matthew Benson, an Arizona lobbyist and Ducey ally, wrote:
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Everything here—character development, CGI, geek-cred references—disappoints.
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The film adaptation of Ready Player One bares its broken, disappointing nerd heart better than any negative review possibly could.
The telling moment takes place nearly halfway through the teen-adventure romp, when unlikely, awkward hero Wade Watts begins winning a major contest within the futuristic film's virtual-reality universe (mirroring the same plot as its namesake book). An evil corporate overlord named Nolan Sorrento swoops in with designs on recruiting Wade, and to do this, he lays out tantalizing geek-iverse offers (like a Millennium Falcon to use in the film's "Oasis" VR world) and trades blows in a nerd-trivia exchange about '80s films. All the while, a lackey feeds nerdy factoids into Sorrento's ear so that he sounds legit.
Wade calls BS on this rattling of nerd credentials and reminds Sorrento that a real fan of the Oasis wouldn't try to win its control-swaying contest with trivia alone. Sorrento's response, upon being called out, is to lash out with senseless violence.
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Aus einem Schreiben der Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer geht hervor, dass bei einem Sicherheitsaudit des BeA-Systems noch mehr Sicherheitslücken gefunden wurden. Die Sicherheitsüberprüfung soll Mitte Mai abgeschlossen sein und dann auch veröffentlicht werden…
Aus einem Schreiben der Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer geht hervor, dass bei einem Sicherheitsaudit des BeA-Systems noch mehr Sicherheitslücken gefunden wurden. Die Sicherheitsüberprüfung soll Mitte Mai abgeschlossen sein und dann auch veröffentlicht werden. (BeA, Verschlüsselung) In its newly released “Industrial Strategy” plan the UK government remains committed to protecting copyright holders. In addition to funding copyright education efforts, it will help to broker voluntary anti-piracy agreements between online services and copyright holders. If these efforts have produced no results by the end of the year, laws may be strengthened.
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In recent years the UK Government has been very proactive when it comes to intellectual property enforcement, supporting a broad range of anti-piracy initiatives.
The authorities have also pushed for cooperation between copyright holders and online intermediaries. Last year, this resulted in a ‘landmark’ agreement between the creative industries and search engines, to tackle online piracy.
In a new Industrial Strategy White Paper released this week the Government highlights this deal as a great success. However, it was only the start. More is needed to properly address the piracy problem.
“Online piracy continues to be a serious inhibitor to growth in the creative industries. Technologies like stream ripping and illicit streaming devices enable illegitimate access to content without rewarding its creators.
“Many rights holders are also concerned about how their works are exploited online, especially where they are used without generating substantial returns for content creators,” the Government adds.
The report outlines a broad strategy on how the Government and the creative industries can work together. This includes financial support but also concrete interventions regarding online intermediaries.
As with the search engines before, the Government plans to host a series of roundtables with copyright holders, social media companies, user upload platforms, digital advertising outfits, and online marketplaces. The goal of these meetings is to broker voluntary anti-piracy agreements.
The roundtables will be used to identify any significant piracy problems and develop ‘voluntary’ codes of practice to address these, including upload filters.
“These measures could include proactive steps to detect and remove illegal content, improving the effectiveness of notice and takedown arrangements, reducing incentives for illegal sites to engage in infringement online and reducing the burdens on rights holders in relation to protecting their content,” the Government writes.
While the envisioned codes of conduct are voluntary, the Government notes that if these roundtables fail to produce the desired outcome, new legislation may be put in place.
“[If this] fails to result in the agreement of an effective code by 31 December 2018, government will consider further legislative action to strengthen the UK copyright framework to ensure that the identified problems are addressed.”
This type of warning is not new. The UK Government used similar language when it tried to convince search engines to reach a voluntary anti-piracy agreement with copyright holders. This eventually paid off.
In addition to brokering voluntary codes, the UK Government says it will also continue to address the so-called “value gap” in both the UK and Europe.
At the same time, the Government also renewed its support for the ‘Get it Right’ campaign. It will make an additional £2 million available which, among other things, will be used to educate consumers on the dangers of copyright infringement and warn pirating subscribers.
The UK Government hopes that these and other incentives will eventually help the creative industry to flourish, so it created new jobs and benefit the UK economy as a whole.
“Together we can build on the UK’s position as a global leader and strengthen its advantage as a creative nation by increasing the number of opportunities and jobs in the creative industries across the country, improving their productivity, and enabling us to greatly expand our trading ambitions abroad.”
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A copy of the white paper “Industrial Strategy: building a Britain fit for the future” is available here.
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Getac hat sein klassisches Convertible mit Drehgelenk mit einem neuen Prozessor ausgestattet. Wie gehabt darf das System grob benutzt werden, da es entsprechend gehärtet wurde, bleibt dabei aber trotzdem vergleichsweise leicht. Leider macht Getac zum P…
Getac hat sein klassisches Convertible mit Drehgelenk mit einem neuen Prozessor ausgestattet. Wie gehabt darf das System grob benutzt werden, da es entsprechend gehärtet wurde, bleibt dabei aber trotzdem vergleichsweise leicht. Leider macht Getac zum Prozessor keine genauen Angaben. (Getac, Notebook) Amiga was now an independent company again, but trouble was brewing.
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The year 2000, which once seemed so impossibly futuristic, had finally arrived. Bill McEwen, president of the new Amiga Inc., celebrated with a press release telling the world why he had bought the subsidiary from Gateway Computers.
“Gateway purchased Amiga because of Patents; we purchased Amiga because of the People.” It was a bold statement, the first of many that would come from the fledgling company. Amiga Inc. now owned the name, trademark, logos, all existing inventory (there were still a few Escom-era A1200s and A4000s left), the Amiga OS, and a permanent license to all Amiga-related patents. They had also inherited Jim Collas’ dream of a revolutionary new Amiga device, but none of the talent and resources that Gateway had been able to bring to bear.
To chase this dream, Amiga Inc. would have to look elsewhere. McEwen thought he had found the answer in an obscure British technology startup. This was the Tao Group, started by Francis Charig, a UK businessman, and Chris Hinsley, a talented Atari and Amiga games programmer who wrote in assembler.
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