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From CBS’s All Success to extreme cord cutters, read the news roundup for the week ending August 5, 2018
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From CBS's All Success to extreme cord cutters, read the news roundup for the week ending August 5, 2018
Beim weltweit größten Auftragsfertiger, der TSMC, hat Schadsoftware mehrere Tools befallen und damit einige Halbleiterwerke temporär gestört – der Umsatz büßt ein paar Prozent ein. Der Hersteller fertigt derzeit in Taiwan die A12-Chips für Apples nächs…
Nachdem Patrick Stewart zuletzt 2002 die Rolle des Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek spielte, wird er für eine Serie von CBS All Access wieder seinen Platz als Captain der Enterprise einnehmen – “Energie!” (Star Trek)
Nachdem Patrick Stewart zuletzt 2002 die Rolle des Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek spielte, wird er für eine Serie von CBS All Access wieder seinen Platz als Captain der Enterprise einnehmen - "Energie!" (Star Trek) Vier Zen-Kerne und 1.536 Shader mit Vega-Technik: Der Chip der Subor-Konsole von Zhongshan rechnet schneller als Sonys Topmodell. Das von AMD entworfene SoC wird auch für Spiele-PCs in Internetcafés genutzt. (AMD Zen, AMD)
CBS Corp. has announced that its streaming platforms, CBS All Access and Showtime OTT will reach a combined total of 8 million subscribers a year earlier than previously anticipated.The services, priced at $5.99 and $10.99 respectively, was previously …
CBS Corp. has announced that its streaming platforms, CBS All Access and Showtime OTT will reach a combined total of 8 million subscribers a year earlier than previously anticipated.
The services, priced at $5.99 and $10.99 respectively, was previously expected to break through the 8 million subscriber barrier by 2020, but instead, it is now expected to do that a year early.
CBS is now projecting 16 million domestic subscribers by 2022.
The success of CBS All Access has largely been attributed to its association with the hit show 'Star Trek: Discovery', which exclusively streams on the platform and was responsible for a surge in subscribers when the show first aired in 2017.
And the streaming platform is expected to bring in more subscribers now that another Star Trek series has been announced. The new series will see Star Trek icon Patrick Stewart reprise his role as Jean-Luc Picard from 'Star Trek: The Next Generation', and will continue the story 20 years after the last movie featuring the "Next Generation" cast in the series.
Despite having their own streaming platform, Amazon has launched Amazon Channels that helps consumers subscribe and view competing streaming platforms all via Amazon's app and devices. And this, CBS CEO Les Moonves says, has been a great help in securing new subscribers for CBS's streaming platforms.
"They've been at the top of the list. We get more [subs] from them than any of our partners," said Moonves. "We like what they do."
Moonves also confirmed the strategy for these platforms is to concentrate on original programming, noting that these shows are helping to drive subscriber growth.
[via Media Play News, The Hollywood Reporter]
News comes at official Trek convention in Vegas; will be CBS All Access exclusive.
Enlarge / Sir Patrick Stewart appeared at Saturday's Las Vegas Star Trek Convention to announce his return to the role of Jean-Luc Picard. (credit: CBS)
At this weekend's Las Vegas Star Trek Convention, Sir Patrick Stewart took the show's keynote stage with a surprise announcement: Jean-Luc Picard is back.
Stewart confirmed that he will return to his iconic role in an as-yet-unnamed series which, according to Deadline, will be a CBS All Access exclusive. The series' details are currently quite unconfirmed, with Stewart admitting to the LVST crowd that "we have no scripts yet" and he is "talking storylines" with the series' handlers. But Sir Patrick and the rest of the Star Trek team are adamant in saying that this series will not be a Next Generation reboot, and the LVST events did not include additional TNG actors confirming their involvement.
"He may not be a captain anymore," Stewart said on Saturday. "He may be someone who has been changed by his experiences... It will be something very different, but it will come to you with the same passion." An additional statement at Stewart's Twitter profile pointed out his initial expectation that the role had "run its course" following the filming of 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis.
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Despite two lost legal battles in the US, domain name seizures, and millions of dollars in damage claims, Sci-Hub continues to offer unauthorized access to academic papers. The site’s founder says that she would rather operate legally, but copyright gets in the way. Sci-Hub is not the problem she argues, it’s a solution, something many academics appear to agree with.
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Sci-Hub has often been referred to as “The Pirate Bay of Science,” but that description really sells the site short.
While both sites are helping the public to access copyrighted content without permission, Sci-Hub has also become a crucial tool that arguably helps the progress of science.
The site allows researchers to bypass expensive paywalls so they can read articles written by their fellow colleagues. The information in these ‘pirated’ articles is then used to provide the foundation for future research.
What the site does is illegal, according to the law, but Sci-Hub is praised by thousands of researchers and academics around the world. In particular, those who don’t have direct access to the expensive journals but aspire to excel in their academic field.
While publishers such as Elsevier convinced the courts that Sci-Hub is a force of evil, many scientists see it as an extremely useful tool. They don’t want research locked up behind paywalls, they want it to be read, to inspire.
Under the current system these researchers are often put in a position where they have to give up their copyrights, so large publishers such as Elsevier can exploit them. The researchers don’t see a penny of this money. What they see is their hard work ending up behind a paywall, out of public view.
It’s this system that prompted Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan to start Sci-Hub. She believes that it’s wrong to use copyright as a tool to shield important research from the public and hopes to tear down the paywalls.
“When Sci-Hub became known, I thought that it will provide a good case against copyright law. When the law prevents science to develop, that law must be repealed,” Elbakyan wrote in a recent blog post.
However, this was easier said than done. With hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, the publishers fought back.
“Instead, Sci-Hub was quickly banished as an ‘illegal’ solution and projects like Unpaywall emerged and started promoting themselves as a ‘legal’ alternatives to Sci-Hub.”
Unpaywall is a useful search tool that helps researchers to find articles that are already freely accessible. However, this is not a Sci-Hub alternative, according to Elbakyan, as it does nothing to free the locked up research
Real change can only come when copyright law changes, she argues.
On closer inspection that may not be as far-fetched as it sounds. According to the US Constitution, copyright is meant to aid the progress of arts and science. Some would argue that Sci-Hub does exactly that. However, the US courts disagree.
Elbakyan is not giving up though. She wants the law to change and encourages anyone to support this goal, by supporting their local Pirate party, for example.
“Sci-Hub always intended to be legal, and advocated for the copyright law to be repealed or changed, so that it will not prohibit the development of science,” she notes.
While Sci-Hub’s call might not sway lawmakers right away, the platform continues to make an impact. Every month, the site helps researchers to access millions of articles, which are used as the building blocks for new researchers.
These researchers publicly share the latest working Sci-Hub domain names among each other and gladly pass on Sci-Hub links to those in need.
In fact, Sci-Hub has become such a commonly used tool for some scientists that they include Sci-Hub URLs in the references sections of their published papers. Ironically, there are even links to Sci-Hub in papers published by Elsevier, showing how dangerously useful it is.
To circle back to the Pirate Bay comparison, that would be the same as Netflix linking to copyright infringing torrents of other films in their movie descriptions…
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Metamaterial provides a clearer view of hidden tissues.
Enlarge / An endoscope lens. Metamaterials may allow us to replace the traditional optics of this element with an aberration-free, flat lens. (credit: Carnegie-Mellon)
What is the first indication of skin cancer? An odd-looking mole on the skin. How about cervical cancer? We search for cells that look abnormal. The eyeball, whether aided by microscopes or not, has a critical role to play in medicine, since it feeds information to a brain that is very good at picking out subtle differences.
This is why endoscopes are so useful: they allow doctors to see what would otherwise be hidden. But even then, most endoscopes only show the surface features of organs, while a good diagnosis requires looking at cells that are hidden beneath the surface. This is exactly the problem that a large group of scientists, doctors, and engineers has addressed. The researchers have developed an endoscope that is much better at revealing hidden features.
In some ways, we should be surprised that we cannot see beneath the surface of our skin. If you’ve ever looked at cells under a microscope, it is really hard to make anything out. You see a couple of thin, barely visible membranes and a few mostly transparent lumps. A cell is mostly water, and most of the light simply passes through it.
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A quick PSA if you were interested on Prime Day but don’t have Prime.
Greetings, Arsians! The Dealmaster is back with a quick PSA for anyone who was interested in a new Amazon Echo or Kindle on Prime Day but didn't want to sign up for Prime itself: several Amazon devices are currently down to the same prices they had during Amazon's sales event—just at retailers other than Amazon.
The likes of Best Buy, Target, Staples and a few other stores are offering the discounts, which encompass the usual slate of Echo speakers, Fire TV media streamers, Fire tablets, and Kindle e-readers, among others. How long the deals will last is not clear for every retailer, but Best Buy says its sale, which began Friday, will only continue through August 4.
It’s worth noting that some of these devices are getting a bit long in the tooth—which helps explain why Amazon is willing to sell them for cheap—and, per usual, many of them work best if you’re already loyal to Amazon services. Plus, since there’s no Prime to use here—you’ll have to pay a little bit extra in shipping fees if you take the plunge.
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There was a time when MX Player was one of the best apps for watching videos downloaded to an Android phone or tablet. But these days there are plenty of other options, including the excellent VLC media player from Videolan, which happens to be a free …
There was a time when MX Player was one of the best apps for watching videos downloaded to an Android phone or tablet. But these days there are plenty of other options, including the excellent VLC media player from Videolan, which happens to be a free and open source application with versions available for most […]
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Beim weltweit größten Auftragsfertiger, der TSMC, hat Schadsoftware mehrere Tools befallen und damit einige Halbleiterwerke temporär gestört - der Umsatz büßt ein paar Prozent ein. Der Hersteller fertigt derzeit in Taiwan die A12-Chips für Apples nächste iPhone-Generation. (
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