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Dreams PS4 world-premiere hands-on: Finally, a good 3D take on LittleBigPlanet

We mold, animate, design, and score some beautiful adventures using only a gamepad.

SANTA MONICA, California—Ten years ago, the LittleBigPlanet game series did the seemingly unthinkable for console players: it opened up the "mod and make your own games" experience that had previously been the domain of PC gaming. Its cute simplicity enabled a new audience to create (and share, via an online browser) their own 2D platform and adventure games, complete with higher-level concepts like if-then clauses, proximity triggers, and per-object logic.

In 2015, LBP's creators at Media Molecule announced something even more ambitious: Dreams, a game that would do the same thing for the 3D-gaming world. Use controllers like a paintbrush, toggle through coding-command menus, and create your own 3D worlds, the Media Molecule devs promised.

But thanks to a number of unclear media-event teases, we've gathered more questions than answers. Would Dreams really require those old, barely used PlayStation Move wands, as originally hinted during its 2015 announcement? How exactly would we build our own worlds and experiments? And would this PS4 product ever look like an actual video game?

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Acer adds Alexa voice assistant to its laptop lineup

Most modern computers ship with some sort of voice assistant software. Windows PCs have Cortana. Macs have Siri. Rumor has it that Google Assistant will eventually roll out to more Chromebooks as well. But what if you already have an Amazon Echo or ano…

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Intel’s Mobileye wants to dominate driverless cars—but there’s a problem

Why we’re skeptical of Mobileye’s plan for validating self-driving car safety.

Mobileye, the Israeli self-driving technology company Intel acquired last year, announced on Thursday that it would begin testing up to 100 cars on the roads of Jerusalem. But in a demonstration with Israeli television journalists, the company's demonstration car blew through a red light.

Mobileye is a global leader in selling driver-assistance technology to automakers. With this week's announcement, Mobileye hoped to signal that it wasn't going to be left behind as the world shifts to fully self-driving vehicles. But the red-light blunder suggests that the company's technology may be significantly behind industry leaders like Waymo.

While most companies working on full self-driving technology have made heavy use of lidar sensors, Mobileye is testing cars that rely exclusively on cameras for navigation. Mobileye isn't necessarily planning to ship self-driving technology that works that way. Instead, testing a camera-only system is part of the company's unorthodox approach for verifying the safety of its technology stack. That strategy was first outlined in an October white paper, and Mobileye CTO Amnon Shashua elaborated on that strategy in a Thursday blog post.

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Oneplus 6 im Test: Neues Design, gleich starkes Preisleistungsverhältnis

Das neue Oneplus 6 hat einen schnellen Prozessor, eine Dualkamera und ein großes Display – mit einer Einbuchtung am oberen Rand. Der Preis liegt wieder unter dem der meisten Konkurrenzgeräte. Das macht das Smartphone trotz fehlender Innovationen zu ein…

Das neue Oneplus 6 hat einen schnellen Prozessor, eine Dualkamera und ein großes Display - mit einer Einbuchtung am oberen Rand. Der Preis liegt wieder unter dem der meisten Konkurrenzgeräte. Das macht das Smartphone trotz fehlender Innovationen zu einem der aktuell interessantesten am Markt. Ein Test von Tobias Költzsch (Oneplus 6, Smartphone)

Google Duplex: Weitere Details über Googles Anrufassistenten

Es gibt weitere Details zu Google Duplex. Sobald Duplex einen Anruf durchführt, soll sich der Google Assistant als solcher identifizieren. Zudem wird der Anrufer darüber informiert, dass das Telefonat mitgeschnitten wird. (Google Assistant, Google)

Verhaltenskodex: Google verabschiedet sich von “Don’t be evil”

Google hat kürzlich das Motto “Don’t be evil” aus seinem Verhaltenskodex entfernt. Es war nicht nur intern im Unternehmen umstritten. Immer wieder führte der Leitspruch “Sei nicht böse” zu hitzigen Debatten. (Google, Internet)

Google hat kürzlich das Motto "Don't be evil" aus seinem Verhaltenskodex entfernt. Es war nicht nur intern im Unternehmen umstritten. Immer wieder führte der Leitspruch "Sei nicht böse" zu hitzigen Debatten. (Google, Internet)

Künstliche Intelligenz: Microsoft kauft Semantic Machines

Microsoft kauft sich Kompetenz im Bereich der künstlichen Intelligenz dazu. Damit sollen Microsofts digitaler Assistent Cortana und der soziale Chatbot Xiaoice in die Lage versetzt werden, natürliche Unterhaltungen mit anderen Menschen zu führen. (KI, …

Singapore ISPs Block 53 Pirate Sites Following MPAA Legal Action

Several major ISPs have blocked dozens of pirate torrent and streaming platforms following orders from the Singapore High Court. The action, which covers platforms including The Pirate Bay plus KickassTorrents and Solarmovie variants, follows a successful application from the MPAA, which accuses the platforms of flagrant copyright infringement.

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Under increasing pressure from copyright holders, in 2014 Singapore passed amendments to copyright law that allow ISPs to block ‘pirate’ sites.

“The prevalence of online piracy in Singapore turns customers away from legitimate content and adversely affects Singapore’s creative sector,” said then Senior Minister of State for Law Indranee Rajah.

“It can also undermine our reputation as a society that respects the protection of intellectual property.”

After the amendments took effect in December 2014, there was a considerable pause before any websites were targeted. However, in September 2016, at the request of the MPA(A), Solarmovie.ph became the first website ordered to be blocked under Singapore’s amended Copyright Act. The High Court subsequently ordering several major ISPs to disable access to the site.

A new wave of blocks announced this morning are the country’s most significant so far, with dozens of ‘pirate’ sites targeted following a successful application by the MPAA earlier this year.

In total, 53 sites across 154 domains – including those operated by The Pirate Bay plus KickassTorrents and Solarmovie variants – have been rendered inaccessible by ISPs including Singtel, StarHub, M1, MyRepublic and ViewQwest.

“In Singapore, these sites are responsible for a major portion of copyright infringement of films and television shows,” an MPAA spokesman told The Straits Times (paywall).

“This action by rights owners is necessary to protect the creative industry, enabling creators to create and keep their jobs, protect their works, and ensure the continued provision of high-quality content to audiences.”

Before granting a blocking injunction, the High Court must satisfy itself that the proposed online locations meet the threshold of being “flagrantly infringing”. This means that a site like YouTube, which carries a lot of infringing content but is not dedicated to infringement, would not ordinarily get caught up in the dragnet.

Sites considered for blocking must have a primary purpose to infringe, a threshold that is tipped in copyright holders’ favor when the sites’ operators display a lack of respect for copyright law and have already had their domains blocked in other jurisdictions.

The Court also weighs a number of additional factors including whether blocking would place an unacceptable burden on the shoulders of ISPs, whether the blocking demand is technically possible, and whether it will be effective.

In common with other regions such as the UK and Australia, for example, sites targeted for blocking must be informed of the applications made against them, to ensure they’re given a chance to defend themselves in court. No fully-fledged ‘pirate’ site has ever defended a blocking application in Singapore or indeed any jurisdiction in the world.

Finally, should any measures be taken by ‘pirate’ sites to evade an ISP blockade, copyright holders can apply to the Singapore High Court to amend the blocking order. This is similar to the Australian model where each application must be heard on its merits, rather than the UK model where a more streamlined approach is taken.

According to a recent report by Motion Picture Association Canada, at least 42 countries are now obligated to block infringing sites. In Europe alone, 1,800 sites and 5,300 domains have been rendered inaccessible, with Portugal, Italy, the UK, and Denmark leading the way.

In Canada, where copyright holders are lobbying hard for a site-blocking regime of their own, there’s pressure to avoid the “uncertain, slow and expensive” route of going through the courts.

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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 05/21/18

The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. ‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Avengers: Infinity War’. ‘Deadpool 2’ completes the top three.

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This week we have two newcomers in our chart.

Pacific Rim: Uprising is the most downloaded movie.

The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise.

RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart.

This week’s most downloaded movies are:

Movie Rank	Rank last week	Movie name	IMDb Rating / Trailer
Most downloaded movies via torrents
1	(…)	Pacific Rim: Uprising	5.8 / trailer
2	(2)	Avengers: Infinity War (HDCam)	9.1 / trailer
3	(…)	Deadpool 2 (HDTS)	8.3 / trailer
4	(1)	Black Panther	7.9 / trailer
5	(7)	Red Sparrow	6.7 / trailer
6	(3)	Game Night	7.3 / trailer
7	(4)	Ready Player One	7.8 / trailer
8	(6)	12 Strong	6.8 / trailer
9	(8)	Den of Thieves	7.0 / trailer
10	(9)	Thor: Ragnarok	7.9 / trailer

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OnePlus 6 Review—A series of downgrades is saved by the low price

Metal made the previous phone stand out, but now it’s just another smartphone.

Ron Amadeo

OnePlus might not be a perfect Android device maker, with fairly regular controversies involving its security mistakes, bad advertising decisions, and lack of a concrete support policy. But OnePlus is really good at making high-end hardware at a low price, though, and for some people that's enough to forgive the company's other flaws.

For 2018, the company is introducing the OnePlus 6. While OnePlus' flagship pricing is once again jumping up $29 to $529, the OnePlus 6 is still one of the cheapest Snapdragon 845-powered devices you can buy. With a switch to a glass back and a notched display design, OnePlus' flagship seems more generic than ever. But for that price, it's still hard to beat.

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