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Gamescom oder Battle for Azeroth? Blizzard will Mitte August 2018 die siebte Erweiterung für World of Warcraft veröffentlichen. Neben neuen Inhalten gibt es auch technische Änderungen am Client. (WoW, MMORPG)
Consumer laptops have gotten thinner and lighter in recent years, but so have high-performance notebooks. It’s not hard to find a gaming laptop that weighs less than 5 pounds these days. And the same is true of mobile workstation PCs. Sure, that’s a fa…
Consumer laptops have gotten thinner and lighter in recent years, but so have high-performance notebooks. It’s not hard to find a gaming laptop that weighs less than 5 pounds these days. And the same is true of mobile workstation PCs. Sure, that’s a far cry from consumer notebooks, which sometimes weigh less than 2 pounds. […]
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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the developer of the mobile games “Rules of Survival” and “Knives Out.” The company argues that the games copied specific elements as well as the overall look and feel from PUBG, in order to confuse the public, and wants them taken out.
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When PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) was first released little over a year ago, it became an instant hit.
Within a month a million copies of the first public beta version were sold and this has since grown to over 28 million copies on the PC alone.
This success earned the company hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, but according to PUBG, this could have been much more if others hadn’t copied their work.
This week PUBG filed a lawsuit against NetEase, the company behind the mobile games “Rules of Survival” and “Knives Out“, accusing it of copyright infringement, unfair competition and trade dress infringement.
In a complaint filed in a federal court in California, PUBG alleges that the two mobile apps were released before PUBG’s own mobile application to gain market share. In doing so, the company copied several crucial elements without permission, PUBG adds.
The 155-page complaint lists a long summary of elements that PUBG believes are infringing on its copyrighted works. This includes buildings, landscapes, vehicles, weapons, clothing, the pre-play area, and the shrinking gameplay area.
“On information and belief, Defendants copied PUBG’s expressive depictions of the pre-play area where other depictions could have been used for the purpose of evoking the same gameplay experience depicted in BATTLEGROUNDS,” one example reads.
The games also feature PUBG’s iconic “Winner Winner Chicken Dinner” salute, which is displayed to the winner of the game. In addition, both games use references to this phrase in their advertising efforts.
These and other similarities are used to confuse the public into believing that the NetEase games are developed by PUBG, the company notes, repeating the same arguments for Rules of Survival (ROS) and Knives Out (KO).
“Defendants intended to create consumer confusion as to the source of ROS and intended to cause consumers to believe, incorrectly, that ROS had been developed by PUBG.”
The company highlights this point by noting that both games are regularly referred to as “PUBG” mobile in the marketplace, suggesting that there indeed is confusion.
In January, PUBG reached out to Apple asking the company to take action against the allegedly infringing applications listed in its iOS store but NetEase denied the allegations.
As a result, the company saw no other option than to file this lawsuit. In addition to monetary damages, PUBG wants both mobile games to be taken offline permanently, to shield the company from further harm.
“PUBG has suffered irreparable harm as a result of Defendants’ infringing activities and will continue to suffer irreparable harm in the future unless Defendants are enjoined from their infringing conduct,” the suit reads.
Specifically, PUBG asks the court to order NetEase “to remove each and every version of the games Rules of Survival, Knives Out, and similarly infringing games, from distribution and to cease developing and supporting those games.”
While it appears obvious that Rules of Survival and Knives Out are inspired by PUBG, it’s up to the court to determine whether the copyright infringement and unfair competition claims hold.
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A copy of PUBG’s 155-page complaint, obtained by TorrentFreak, is available here (pdf). NetEase has yet to respond to the allegations.
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Google Voice is a service that includes so many features it’s hard to know where to begin: You can give out a single phone number and when someone dials it, Google Voice will send the call to all your phones, or adjust which phones ring based on time o…
Google Voice is a service that includes so many features it’s hard to know where to begin: You can give out a single phone number and when someone dials it, Google Voice will send the call to all your phones, or adjust which phones ring based on time of day or other settings. When callers […]
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She has also spent more time in space than any other American.
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Peggy Whitson was the first astronaut I got to meet and talk with at length, ten years ago at a party at Moody Gardens celebrating NASA’s 50th anniversary. She was cool and canny, radiating competence and cutting a different figure than her male astronaut counterparts, rocking a gown and heels as she worked the crowds. I liked her immediately.
If I’d known I was meeting a legend, I would have paid even closer attention. Whitson is one of the most accomplished astronauts in the corps, holding a large number of NASA records including the most spacewalks by a NASA astronaut (ten, tied with Michael López-Alegría) and more time in space than any other American, surpassing even Scott Kelly.
And as it turns out, Whitson is about as skilled an astronaut as they come. I’ve had the opportunity to talk with a lot of space flight insiders over the past few years, and when conversations turn to the modern-day astronaut corps and the ISS, Whitson’s name invariably comes up—and never negatively. She’s often described as not just a model astronaut, but as a space superhero—a stunningly talented professional in orbit who powers through tasks and assignments with zero mistakes, devouring work and clearing schedules with effortless ease. She is almost universally regarded as the solution to any problem on the ISS—if something’s not working, inside or outside of the station, you can probably throw Whitson at it and it’ll be back on the nominal in no time.
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Mit Dustin Kirkland verlässt ein wichtiger Langzeit-Mitarbeiter und der bisherige Produktmanager den Linux-Distributor Canonical. Der Open-Source-Entwickler mit Jahrzehnten an Erfahrung wechselt in das Cloud-Team von Google. (Canonical, Ubuntu)
Nach dem letzten Problem rund um die Klartextspeicherung von Passwörtern zu verschlüsselten APFS-Datenträgern stellt sich nach weiteren Untersuchungen heraus, dass die Passwörter mit 10.13.4 weiter lesbar sind. Die Passwörter verbleiben auch nach dem P…
Keine Mikrotransaktionen, eine weitgehend offene Welt und etwas bessere Grafik auf der Playstation 4 Pro: Neben dem Erscheinungstermin hat Insomniac Games noch ein paar weitere Details zum Actionspiel Marvel’s Spider-Man bekanntgegeben. (Marvel, Sony)
Für seine Malware-Analyse-Engine nutzt Microsoft offenbar einen internen Fork des Werkzeugs Unrar. Beim Beheben von möglichen Sicherheitslücken hat das Team aber selbst eine eingebaut. Google hat diese Lücke gefunden und Microsoft stellt ein Update ber…
Für seine Malware-Analyse-Engine nutzt Microsoft offenbar einen internen Fork des Werkzeugs Unrar. Beim Beheben von möglichen Sicherheitslücken hat das Team aber selbst eine eingebaut. Google hat diese Lücke gefunden und Microsoft stellt ein Update bereit. (Project Zero, Microsoft) Pull finger, fluid pressure drops, bubbles form and, crack, partially collapse.
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Picture this: a dark alley where the suave evil dude has cornered a helpless plot point. Looming behind the evil dude is someone as broad as he is tall. The generic muscle has a shaven head, missing teeth, and an in-grown T-shirt. The plot point cowers as the muscle moves in. But, before flogging the soon-to-be-dead plot point, the muscle leers and the sound of cracking knuckles echoes off the walls.
Movie clichés not withstanding, popping joints are still something of a mystery. After some experiments and a great deal of thought (and argument, probably involving knuckle cracking), scientists concluded that the popping noise was due to the collapse of cavitation bubbles in the fluid that lubricates joints. That explanation went unchallenged for some 40 years, until more sophisticated experiments showed that, after the popping noise, there were still bubbles in the joint fluid. How could the collapse of bubbles be the source of sound if the bubbles were still there? Now, a pair of scientists have has developed a mathematical model of knuckle cracking that shows how both can be true.
Joint popping usually occurs when bones of the joint are suddenly separated by an unusual amount of fluid. As the two bone surfaces move apart, the fluid between the joints suffers a sudden pressure loss. When the pressure drops low enough, the fluid turns to a gas, creating a bubble. This is cavitation.
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Gamescom oder Battle for Azeroth? Blizzard will Mitte August 2018 die siebte Erweiterung für World of Warcraft veröffentlichen. Neben neuen Inhalten gibt es auch technische Änderungen am Client. (
Mit Dustin Kirkland verlässt ein wichtiger Langzeit-Mitarbeiter und der bisherige Produktmanager den Linux-Distributor Canonical. Der Open-Source-Entwickler mit Jahrzehnten an Erfahrung wechselt in das Cloud-Team von Google. (
Nach dem letzten Problem rund um die Klartextspeicherung von Passwörtern zu verschlüsselten APFS-Datenträgern stellt sich nach weiteren Untersuchungen heraus, dass die Passwörter mit 10.13.4 weiter lesbar sind. Die Passwörter verbleiben auch nach dem Patch in den Logs. (
Keine Mikrotransaktionen, eine weitgehend offene Welt und etwas bessere Grafik auf der Playstation 4 Pro: Neben dem Erscheinungstermin hat Insomniac Games noch ein paar weitere Details zum Actionspiel Marvel's Spider-Man bekanntgegeben. (
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