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Microsoft knows you probably don’t have a Windows phone… so the company has been busy releasing apps for Android and iOS in recent years. A few months ago the company also unveiled a new app that would bring new features to Windows for folk…
Microsoft knows you probably don’t have a Windows phone… so the company has been busy releasing apps for Android and iOS in recent years. A few months ago the company also unveiled a new app that would bring new features to Windows for folks that have an iPhone or Android device… and now the company […]
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Martin Tripp says he reported waste but was punished for it, among other claims.
Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks on stage during the Westworld Featured Session during SXSW at Austin Convention Center on March 10, 2018 in Austin, Texas. (credit: Photo by FilmMagic/FilmMagic for HBO)
Martin Tripp, an ex-Tesla technician whom the company has accused of hacking and sabotage, has now countersued his former employer and claimed that Tesla defamed him.
Since Tesla fired Tripp and sued him over a month ago for alleged trade secrets theft, he has since hired a New York attorney to help him file a formal whistleblower complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
CEO Elon Musk has suggested that there could be tens of "bad apples" who have also committed "sabotage" against the company in an apparent effort to thwart Tesla's ambitious promised ramp-up to produce 5,000 Model 3s per week. In recent months the company mounted an unusual tent-like apparatus known as a Sprung structure that houses a new assembly line as part of its factory in Fremont, California.
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Self-driving cars could strengthen public transit—or replace it.
Enlarge / One of the earliest families in Waymo's public trial in Phoenix poses with a Waymo minivan. (credit: Waymo)
Waymo is about to launch a pilot program to explore how self-driving cars can be used in combination with public transit, the Google self-driving car unit announced on Tuesday. Starting in August, employees of Valley Metro, the agency that operates the Phoenix area's bus and light rail systems, will be able to get Waymo rides to their nearest bus or light rail stop.
Eventually, Waymo hopes to open this service up to the general public, providing first- and last-mile service for customers who want to use transit but aren't quite close enough to walk to the nearest stop.
An important question about the rise of self-driving cars is whether the technology will complement conventional public transit or replace it. Back in May, we talked to Thomas Bamonte, an official at the Central Texas Council of Governments. The council has been involved in self-driving transit projects in Texas, including the startup Drive.ai's first shuttle service in the Dallas suburb of Frisco.
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Auch wenn der iPhone-Absatz in einem enger werdenden Smatphonemarkt nur noch wenig wächst: Apple kann beim Umsatz einen neuen Rekord vorweisen. (Apple, iPhone)
32 accounts shut down on Tuesday thanks to connection to 2016 IRA meddling.
Facebook took the unusual step of announcing an ongoing, incomplete investigation into "inauthentic" behavior on Tuesday, complete with implications that Russia's Internet Research Agency (IRA) may have been involved. This week's disclosure comes in part due to Facebook having to reveal its hand a bit prematurely: "32 Pages and accounts" were affiliated with a protest event scheduled for next week in Washington, DC, and Facebook has begun informing its potential attendees.
The 3,000+ users who expressed interest in the "No Unite The Right 2" event between August 10-12 in Washington, DC, will receive the following Facebook message today: "A Page created by fake accounts started the event 'No Unite The Right 2 - DC.' The other event hosts have been notified."
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The new truck uses the same powertrain but now has 50-percent more range.
In 2017, we took a look at Project Portal, Toyota's plan to test a heavy-duty, zero-emissions truck at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles in California. The idea was to power an 80,000lb (36,288kg) Class-8 tractor-trailer with hydrogen fuel cells and then put it to work hauling shipping containers at one of the nation's busiest ports. Now, Toyota has taken the lessons it has learned from 10,000 miles of hard work as a drayage truck and built a second-generation vehicle with even more range.
The first truck, known as Alpha, used a pair of development powertrains from the Mirai sedan running in series. These gave it 670hp (500kW), 1,325ft-lbs (1,796Nm), and a range of 200 miles (321km). Even though Toyota has not increased the capacity of the 12kWh lithium-ion batteries on the new Beta truck, it has managed to boost that range by 50 percent to more than 300 miles (482km) between refueling. Beta retains the same power and torque output as its predecessor.
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The Huawei Mediapad M5 10 Pro is an Android tablet with a Kirin 960 octa-core processor, a 2560 x 1600 pixel display, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage. I had a chance to play with one for a few days recently, and it’s a pretty nice tablet. But wit…
The Huawei Mediapad M5 10 Pro is an Android tablet with a Kirin 960 octa-core processor, a 2560 x 1600 pixel display, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage. I had a chance to play with one for a few days recently, and it’s a pretty nice tablet. But with a list price of $450, […]
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Plus deals on Xbox Live Gold, Google’s Pixelbook, Kindle Unlimited, and more.
Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our friends at TechBargains, we have another round of deals to share. Today's list is headlined by a rare deal on Apple's popular AirPods, which are down to $145 at Amazon. That's not the lowest price we've ever seen on the little wireless earbuds, but discounts on these things aren't exactly common, so it's a solid price nonetheless.
You probably know the deal with AirPods by now. They're far from perfect: they neither feel nor sound much better than the plastic earbuds that come for free with every iPhone, they don't block outside noise well, and they only last about 4-5 hours on their own before needing to go in their charging case. But they're more than the sum of their parts. They pair easily with an iPhone, they're lightweight, and that case extends battery life by another 20+ hours. The convenience of simply popping them in and having music start playing is hard to explain until you use them.
Now, there's a big caveat here: Apple is likely to introduce new AirPods in the coming weeks. Images of an apparent charging case were discovered just this week, and past reports have suggested a pricier noise-cancelling model may also arrive down the road. But the release of new models always means discounts on the old one—if you'd rather save $14 and don't care about missing the water resistance, wireless charging, and hands-free Siri expected to arrive in a new model this fall, here you go.
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Online piracy is a complicated phenomenon that’s constantly evolving. While it’s hard to draw strong conclusions across the board, new research published by the University of Amsterdam reveals interesting trends, including effects on legal consumption. The study is a follow-up to an earlier report which made the news last year because the EU Commission held it back.
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Over the past decade there have been dozens of detailed reports researching the prevalence and effects of piracy.
With a wide array of results, it’s hard to draw uniform conclusions but as the research adds up, stable patterns start to emerge.
The Global Online Piracy Study, published by the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law (IViR) today, is an important contribution to this field.
The research is the result of extensive consumer surveys among 35,000 respondents, including over 7,000 minors, in 13 countries. Combined with similar data collected in 2014, it shows how online piracy habits are changing.
One of the main conclusions is that the number of online pirates is decreasing in most of Europe. This decline is visible in France, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and Sweden. Of all surveyed countries, only Germany saw a slight increase in the number of pirates.
In the surveyed countries across Europe, the piracy rate among Internet users is the highest in Spain, but this is topped by Brazil, Thailand, and Indonesia in the full sample.
TorrentFreak spoke to Dr. Joost Poort, one of the authors of the report, who notes that pirates and legal users are largely the same people. In fact, roughly 95% of all pirates also consume content legally, and they typically spend twice as much as their non-pirating counterparts.
This doesn’t mean that pirates are rich, of course. In fact, the research shows that a higher per capita income is linked to a lower number of pirates per legal users. In other words, ‘poorer’ countries have relatively more pirates.
When people are asked about the reason why they pirate, the cost factor is also frequently mentioned. Pirating is free which is convenient for those who have little to spend. But does that mean that it also leads to a decrease in sales? Is piracy hurting revenues?
According to the research, there’s an overall negative effect of piracy on media sales. However, this doesn’t apply to minors. The latter makes sense, as that group has relatively little to spend anyway.
“This study confirms earlier studies in finding statistical evidence that illegal consumption of music, books, and games displaces legal consumption,” the report reads.
“However, the displacement coefficients are surrounded with substantial uncertainty. Separating these results between minors and adults suggests that displacement occurs for adults and not for minors.”
What’s also worth highlighting is that piracy doesn’t affect all media and entertainment types the same. It even benefits some revenue streams.
For example, the data suggest that every ten music albums pirated leads to three extra concert or festival visits. However, at the same time, it leads to a significant drop in physical album sales and digital downloads, while music streaming remains unaffected.
For video content, including movies, online piracy doesn’t appear to affect sales of physical copies or digital downloads. Here, however, cinema visits and online streams are severely impacted.
“For live concerts and music festivals, a positive sampling effect is found. For audio-visual content, no such sampling seems to occur for the cinema, which suffers from statistically significant displacement, as do digital streams.”
To give an illustration, the data suggest that ten downloaded movies would in general lead to four missed cinema visits.
While the research provides evidence for the negative effects of piracy, the authors don’t see any evidence that stricter copyright laws or enforcement against individuals are a good solution.
Instead, legal content providers should focus on making their work readily available for a good price.
“In terms of policy, obviously hunting down the industry’s largest customers is not the best of ideas. Rather, push for better availability, affordability, and findability of legal content. Affordability of large platforms in lower-income countries is certainly an issue,” Poort tells us.
“If you must do something in terms of enforcement, website blocking seems to be a much better strategy than going after consumers. There is some solid looking evidence for effectiveness in the UK.”
Finally, it is worth noting that this is a follow-up to a controversial EU-funded study. That report made headlines last year because the European Commission held it back. The latest version is funded by Google which had no such restrictions.
“This builds on the EU study that caught some traction because the commission was very reluctant to publish it. This time, Google financed it and respected our academic interests and independence so much better than the Commission did…,” Poort says.
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A copy of Global Online Piracy Study is available here (pdf).
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The GPD Pocket 2 is a tiny laptop that’s small enough to slide into a pocket. It’s a pretty capable little machine, but its diminutive stature doesn’t leave a lot of room for a full-sized keyboard. So GPD made some interesting design …
The GPD Pocket 2 is a tiny laptop that’s small enough to slide into a pocket. It’s a pretty capable little machine, but its diminutive stature doesn’t leave a lot of room for a full-sized keyboard. So GPD made some interesting design choices. There are some keys in places you wouldn’t expect to find them. […]
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