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A growing number of Chromebooks have touchscreen displays. Some have convertible tablet-style designs. And at least one isn’t really a notebook at all: it’s just a tablet that doesn’t even come with an optional keyboard. While you can…
A growing number of Chromebooks have touchscreen displays. Some have convertible tablet-style designs. And at least one isn’t really a notebook at all: it’s just a tablet that doesn’t even come with an optional keyboard. While you can interact with any of these devices with your fingertips, sometimes stylus input is a better option for […]
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Technical problems, rise of SpaceX are contributing factors.
Enlarge / A Russian Proton rocket launches in 2016. (credit: NASA/ESA)
The Russian-manufactured Proton rocket has been flying into space since before humans landed on the Moon. First launched in 1965, the rocket was initially conceived of as a booster to fly two-person crews around the Moon, as the Soviet Union sought to beat NASA into deep space. Indeed, some of its earliest missions launched creatures, including two turtles, to the Moon and back.
But now, Russian officials confirm, the Proton rocket will finally reach its end. In an interview with a Russian publication, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin said production of the Proton booster will cease as production shifts to the new Angara booster. (A translation of this article was provided to Ars by Robinson Mitchell, a former US Air Force Airborne Cryptologic Language Analyst). No new Proton contracts are likely to be signed.
Presently, Proton rockets are built at the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center in Moscow, then they're transported to a launch site in Baikonur in Kazakhstan. The Angara rocket, which has made just two test flights back in 2014, will be produced in a new factory in Omsk, a city in Siberia.
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China wants to be a technology superpower, but US officials want to prevent it.
Enlarge / Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping in Beijing in November.
The Trump administration is looking to widen its trade war with China by restricting Chinese access to US technology, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal and Reuters.
"The Treasury Department is crafting rules that would block firms with at least 25 percent Chinese ownership from buying companies involved in what the White House calls 'industrially significant technology,'" the Wall Street Journal says. A separate proposal would institute beefed-up export controls preventing Chinese companies from buying these technologies from US firms.
The policies could be announced as soon as this week, the Journal says.
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Acquisitions will help AT&T combine customer data with a bigger ad platform.
Enlarge / The AT&T logo is displayed at a retail store in Washington, DC, on Monday, March 21, 2011. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg)
AT&T is buying an advertising company that delivers personalized ads based on Internet users' Web browsing habits.
AT&T today announced "a definitive agreement to acquire AppNexus," saying that "AT&T is investing to accelerate the growth of its advertising platform and strengthen its leadership in advanced TV advertising."
AT&T's just-completed purchase of Time Warner Inc. will help it gather more information about people's video watching habits, both online and on cable and satellite TV services. AT&T could combine this data with AppNexus in order to deliver more personalized ads based on its customers' TV watching and Web browsing histories.
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Intel’s new Hades Canyon NUC mini computer is basically a gaming PC that’s small enough to throw in a backpack and carry with you. While prices normally start at $799, that doesn’t include memory, storage, or an operating system. Toda…
Intel’s new Hades Canyon NUC mini computer is basically a gaming PC that’s small enough to throw in a backpack and carry with you. While prices normally start at $799, that doesn’t include memory, storage, or an operating system. Today Newegg is running a few deals that could help ease the strain on your wallet. […]
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Leaked Microsoft presentation urges developers to monitor competitive balance.
Enlarge / Lap-based keyboard-and-mouse solutions like the Razer Turret may soon be fully compatible with the Xbox One (credit: Razer)
It has been just over two years now since Microsoft's Phil Spencer promised that mouse-and-keyboard support for the Xbox One was "not years away, it’s more like months away." Though that's a promise Microsoft has echoed a few times in the years since, thus far Minecraft is the only game on the platform with official support for the PC player's controller of choice.
Over the weekend, though, Windows Central got its hands on a purported internal Microsoft presentation from earlier in the year detailing plans for the impending rollout of robust mouse-and-keyboard support for the Xbox One.
The developer-focused presentation, which also integrates lessons from Razer's living room-focused lapboard peripheral, suggested an April API rollout to developers ahead of a planned fall announcement of support for players. It's unclear, though, if those plans have changed since the presentation was given (Microsoft did not respond to a request for comment).
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Google recently received a takedown notice, sent on behalf of FIFA, asking the search engine to remove several allegedly infringing sites. FIFA hoped to limit the availability of pirated World Cup streams but Google decided not to take any action. In part, perhaps, because not all reported sites were offering pirated content.
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With hundreds of millions of viewers from all over the world, the FIFA World Cup in Russia is one of the most anticipated sporting events of the year.
During these weeks, fans are most concerned with the performance of their favorite teams. For FIFA and all other stakeholders, however, the World Cup is also a battle against piracy.
While most people watch the matches through licensed broadcasters, there is a large group of people who resort to unauthorized sources. These so-called “pirate” streams are available via hundreds of sites or apps, generating millions of views during popular sporting events.
Other fans are using VPNs and proxies to bypass geo-blockades to tune into legal broadcasts. By changing their virtual location to one where the World Cup is freely accessible, they can watch without paying.
These types of ‘piracy’ are a thorn in the side of rightsholders, who are doing their best to take appropriate countermeasures. Sony Entertainment Network, for example, sent out preemptive takedown notices to streaming sites a few weeks ago.
More recently we spotted a takedown notice which NetResult sent to Google, on behalf of FIFA, targeting various allegedly infringing sites.
The list includes several known offenders, such as zorrostream.net and thefirstrow.eu, and asks Google to remove these sites from search results. In addition, it also targets several URLs which ‘advise’ users how they can access World Cup streams through a VPN, which some use to bypass geo-blockades.
For example, the takedown notice lists URLs from ExpressVPN and BestVPN, which explain how users can access FIFA World Cup matches from various locations.
“The listed URLs are all either linking directly to embedded live streams of unauthorized live football content (2018 FIFA World Cup), or advising users how to access unauthorized live streams not available in their territory,” the notice reads.
Interestingly, Google decided not to remove any of the reported URLs. The search engine has given no explanation, but it’s possible that the notice in question is seen as too general. In many cases, it points to the homepages of sites, without identifying a specific copyright infringement.
Whether it’s illegal to advise users how they can use a VPN to access World Cup streams is also up for debate.
Finally, it appears that not all of the URLs identified in FIFA’s takedown notice are actually infringing. The list also includes a page from the Canadian sports service Sportsnet.ca, which is owned by Rogers Media.
FIFA’s notice also targets the American sports streaming service FuboTV, which is partly funded by investors such as AMC Networks, 21st Century Fox, and Sky.
Considering the latter, it might be wise that Google didn’t blindly honor the request.
TorrentFreak reached out to NetResult’s parent company MarkMonitor for more information on FIFA’s takedown efforts, but the company informed us that it couldn’t comment on individual brands or companies.
FIFA and other rightsholders, meanwhile, continue to fight World Cup piracy globally and on several fronts. In addition to VPN tips and traditional streaming sites, they’re also up against alleged pirate TV services such as BeoutQ, and Fly TV from Ghana.
Game on.
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ACEPC has added two new compact computers to its lineup. The ACEPC GK1 is a mini desktop with an Intel Celeron J4105 quad-core Gemini Lake processor, 4GB of RAM, and 32GB of eMMC storage plus room for an additional hard drive or SSD. Gearbest is sellin…
ACEPC has added two new compact computers to its lineup. The ACEPC GK1 is a mini desktop with an Intel Celeron J4105 quad-core Gemini Lake processor, 4GB of RAM, and 32GB of eMMC storage plus room for an additional hard drive or SSD. Gearbest is selling the ACEPC GK1 for $199 and the fanless ACEPC […]
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Gemeinsam mit Razer möchte Microsoft auf der Xbox One noch vor Ende 2018 Unterstützung für Maus und Tastatur anbieten, berichten US-Medien. Entwickler haben möglicherweise bereits Dev Kits erhalten. (Xbox One, Microsoft)
Comparing plant-provided data with satellite-provided data showed some discrepancies.
Enlarge / HUAINAN, CHINA - JUNE 16: A smokestack from a coal fired power plant is seen next to an abandoned former paper factory near the site of a large floating solar farm project under construction by the Sungrow Power Supply Company on a lake caused by a collapsed and flooded coal mine on June 16, 2017 in Huainan, Anhui province, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) (credit: Getty Images)
In 2007, China required some coal power plants to install Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) to track pollutants given off by those stations. In 2014, the Chinese government implemented tighter emissions standards for coal plants. Have those two regulations worked to reduce pollution?
The answer is yes, but with a few caveats.
In a paper published last week, researchers compared troves of CEMS readings to emissions readings from a NASA-owned satellite. They found that while Chinese regulations definitely lowered sulfur dioxide (SO2) levels, there's some evidence that CEMS data shows an overly rosy picture of how large the drop was. Coal plants in key regions were given tighter standards than those elsewhere, and those plants facing tighter standards appeared to miss their targets more often than not.
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Gemeinsam mit Razer möchte Microsoft auf der Xbox One noch vor Ende 2018 Unterstützung für Maus und Tastatur anbieten, berichten US-Medien. Entwickler haben möglicherweise bereits Dev Kits erhalten. (
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