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Der Mars-Rover Opportunity ist nicht die erste Mission, die unter Staubstürmen leidet. Aber zumindest sind sie inzwischen viel besser verstanden als in der Frühzeit der Marsforschung. Von Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer (Mars, Nasa)
Datally is an Android app designed to help users cut back on data usage by compressing some data before its set to your phone and offering tools for understanding how you’re using data… or block data-hungry apps. Google says users have save…
Datally is an Android app designed to help users cut back on data usage by compressing some data before its set to your phone and offering tools for understanding how you’re using data… or block data-hungry apps. Google says users have saved about 21 percent of their mobile data, on average, by using the app. […]
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Datally is an Android app designed to help users cut back on data usage by compressing some data before its set to your phone and offering tools for understanding how you’re using data… or block data-hungry apps. Google says users have save…
Datally is an Android app designed to help users cut back on data usage by compressing some data before its set to your phone and offering tools for understanding how you’re using data… or block data-hungry apps. Google says users have saved about 21 percent of their mobile data, on average, by using the app. […]
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Smartphones mit flexiblem Display könnten sich bei häufigem Auf- und Zuklappen an den Faltstellen verformen. Noch bevor überhaupt ein erstes derartiges Gerät auf den Markt gekommen ist, hat Motorola ein interessantes Patent zum Schutz dieser Stelle zug…
Smartphones mit flexiblem Display könnten sich bei häufigem Auf- und Zuklappen an den Faltstellen verformen. Noch bevor überhaupt ein erstes derartiges Gerät auf den Markt gekommen ist, hat Motorola ein interessantes Patent zum Schutz dieser Stelle zugesprochen bekommen. (Motorola, Smartphone) It looks like LG may be planning to launch its first Android One smartphone. The folks at xda-developers uncovered evidence that a previously unannounced version of the LG Q7 mid-range smartphone featuring Android One software is in the works, and that…
It looks like LG may be planning to launch its first Android One smartphone. The folks at xda-developers uncovered evidence that a previously unannounced version of the LG Q7 mid-range smartphone featuring Android One software is in the works, and that it could be available exclusively from T-Mobile in the United States. As an Android […]
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It looks like LG may be planning to launch its first Android One smartphone. The folks at xda-developers uncovered evidence that a previously unannounced version of the LG Q7 mid-range smartphone featuring Android One software is in the works, and that…
It looks like LG may be planning to launch its first Android One smartphone. The folks at xda-developers uncovered evidence that a previously unannounced version of the LG Q7 mid-range smartphone featuring Android One software is in the works, and that it could be available exclusively from T-Mobile in the United States. As an Android […]
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“Unfettered access to space is a vital US interest.”
Enlarge / Artist's impression depicting a wide variety of existing and future satellites for communication, surveying Earth resources, and mapping them, circa 1978. (credit: Space Frontiers/Getty Images)
Space is getting ever more crowded. The US Strategic Command’s Space Surveillance Network tracks more than 19,000 objects in orbit around the Earth, and there are estimated to be hundreds of thousands of more objects 1cm or larger in space near the planet. Because they are traveling at tens of thousands of km per hour relative to Earth, even small objects pose a significant danger.
The National Space Council thinks we could do a better job of tracking and mitigating this debris. On Monday morning, the executive secretary of the space council, Scott Pace, outlined some of the space traffic management changes in a call with a handful of space reporters. “This is a new national policy to address the challenges of a congested space environment,” he said. “Unfettered access to space is a vital US interest.”
President Trump is expected to sign this Space Policy Directive-3 later on Monday. The policy directs the US Department of Defense to modernize its approach to tracking space debris and to increasingly rely on commercial debris-detection services to enhance the country’s “space situational awareness.” The Department of Commerce will provide a basic level of space situational awareness for public and private use, based upon the DOD catalog.
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Nach dem Ausrollen von WebVR beginnt das Chrome-Team mit Tests für Augmented Reality in seinem Mobilbrowser für Android. Zum Testen für Nutzer und als Anleitung für Entwickler gibt es auch eine kleine Demo-Anwendung. (Chrome, Google)
Kids today will be grandparents when most climate projections end—does the past have more hints?
Enlarge / Map of Antarctica today showing rates of retreat (2010-2016) of the “grounding line” where glaciers lose contact with bedrock underwater, along with ocean temperatures. The lone red arrow in East Antarctica is the Totten Glacier, which alone holds ice equivalent to ~3m (10ft) of sea level rise. (credit: Hannes Konrad et al, University of Leeds UK.)
"What's past is prologue"- Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
The year 2100 stands like a line of checkered flags at the climate change finish line, as if all our goals expire then. But like the warning etched on a car mirror: it’s closer than it appears. Kids born today will be grandparents when most climate projections end.
And yet, the climate won’t stop changing in 2100. Even if we succeed in limiting warming this century to 2ºC, we’ll have CO2 at around 500 parts per million. That’s a level not seen on this planet since the Middle Miocene, 16 million years ago, when our ancestors were apes. Temperatures then were about 5 to 8ºC warmer not 2º, and sea levels were some 40 meters (130 feet) or more higher, not the 1.5 feet (half a meter) anticipated at the end of this century by the 2013 IPCC report.
Why is there a yawning gap between end-century projections and what happened in Earth’s past? Are past climates telling us we’re missing something?
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Several popular YouTube accounts, including those belonging to ‘MIT OpenCourseWare’ and the ‘Blender Foundation,’ have had all their videos blocked. People who try to access the videos are informed that they are not available in their country, suggesting that YouTube’s piracy filters have been triggered. It’s unclear, however, who or what is to blame.
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To protect copyright holders, YouTube uses an advanced piracy recognition system that flags and disables videos which are used without permission.
This system, known as Content ID, works well most of the time, but it is far from perfect.
It’s not well equipped to determine whether content deployment is protected under ‘fair use’, and in some cases it even views white noise or birds chirping as piracy.
Over the past several days, an even more worrying trend has appeared. Several popular YouTube accounts including those belonging to ‘MIT OpenCourseWare‘ and the ‘Blender Foundation,’ have suddenly had all their videos blocked.
People who try to watch one of the freely available MIT courses on YouTube get the following message, which typically appears if an uploader doesn’t have the rights to show content locally.
“This video contains content from MIT. It is not available in your country.”
The message appears in all locations that we were able to check, suggesting that it may very well apply worldwide. In any case, on social media there’s no shortage of people mentioning that they can no longer access the courses.
The issue hasn’t gone unnoticed by MIT’s OpenCourseWare team which is investigating the matter, without pointing fingers.
“You may have noticed that we are having some trouble with our videos! Please stand by. The elves are working around the clock to fix the issue,” they write, referring people to non-video content in the meantime.
Interestingly, the MIT case doesn’t appear to be an isolated incident. Another organization that was hit by the same mysterious blocking efforts is the Blender Foundation.
The nonprofit organization, which is leading the development of the open source 3D content-creation application Blender, has also had its videos blocked.
Ton Roosendaal, Chairman of the Blender Foundation, noticed the issue on Saturday and contacted YouTube. “This is most probably an error from their side,” Roosendaal said.
At the time of writing, the issue still hasn’t been resolved.
Both organizations have verified YouTube accounts and many subscribers, which makes them high profile targets. However, two days have passed and it’s still unclear what’s going on.
The blocking message is part of YouTube’s piracy filter system, but why it was triggered is unknown. As the original publishers, both certainly have the right to publish the videos in question.
Looking even further, we were able to spot dozens of accounts which show similar “blocking” messages. They include verified ones, such as India’s Press Information Bureau, soccer club Sparta Praha, and England Rugby.
TorrentFreak reached out to YouTube to ask why the videos of these accounts have been blocked but at the time of publication, we had yet to hear back. Something appears to be awfully wrong though.
The timing of the incident is interesting, to say the least. This week there’s an important vote scheduled in the European Parliament, which will determine the course of EU copyright law.
One of the most contested changes is the so-called “upload filter,” which is detailed in Article 13 of the copyright reform proposal. According to opponents, such YouTube-like piracy filters are a threat to free speech.
These apparent “mistakes” show that there is a point to that.
Ironically, even French politicians, who were expected to vote in favor of the upload filters, may now reconsider their stance after YouTube temporarily disabled their account following three copyright strikes.
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Der Mars-Rover Opportunity ist nicht die erste Mission, die unter Staubstürmen leidet. Aber zumindest sind sie inzwischen viel besser verstanden als in der Frühzeit der Marsforschung. Von Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer (
Nach dem Ausrollen von WebVR beginnt das Chrome-Team mit Tests für Augmented Reality in seinem Mobilbrowser für Android. Zum Testen für Nutzer und als Anleitung für Entwickler gibt es auch eine kleine Demo-Anwendung. (
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