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Lenovo is updating its Yoga Book line of dual-display laptops with a new model sporting premium specs. The new Yoga Book C930 features a 10.8 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel LCD IPS touchscreen display plus a 10.8 inch 1920 x 1080 pixel touchscreen E Ink displ…
Lenovo is updating its Yoga Book line of dual-display laptops with a new model sporting premium specs. The new Yoga Book C930 features a 10.8 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel LCD IPS touchscreen display plus a 10.8 inch 1920 x 1080 pixel touchscreen E Ink display where you’d find a keyboard on most laptops. You […]
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As expected, Lenovo is updating its Yoga laptop lineup with a new model called the Yoga C930. And as expected, the new models has specs that are very close to those of last year’s Yoga 920. But the new model has a brand new design which includes,…
As expected, Lenovo is updating its Yoga laptop lineup with a new model called the Yoga C930. And as expected, the new models has specs that are very close to those of last year’s Yoga 920. But the new model has a brand new design which includes, among other things, a rotating sound bar built […]
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Huawei is the latest company to unveil a smartphone with virtual no top bezel, no notch, and… no camera visible until you actually need to use it. Instead, the camera is embedded into a panel that slides out only when you want to take a photo, an…
Huawei is the latest company to unveil a smartphone with virtual no top bezel, no notch, and… no camera visible until you actually need to use it. Instead, the camera is embedded into a panel that slides out only when you want to take a photo, and which hides behind the screen when it’s not […]
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Sprint is the only big carrier offering decent roaming prices, trade groups say.
Enlarge / A T-Mobile logo on the window of a retail store in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg)
T-Mobile USA's proposed acquisition of Sprint would harm competitors and consumers, particularly in rural America, lobby groups for small carriers say.
The Rural Wireless Association (RWA), NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association, and other groups filed petitions urging the Federal Communications Commission to block the T-Mobile/Sprint merger this week.
"Removing Sprint from the equation through further industry consolidation will result in less competition which will drive prices higher for consumers, and would be decidedly contrary to the public interest," the RWA said. The FCC is required to evaluate whether mergers benefit the public.
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Huge Chinese survey shows test scores dip where air is dirtiest.
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It’s pretty obvious that air pollution makes people sick and shortens lives. Microscopic particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides emitted by things like coal plants worsen respiratory conditions as well as heart diseases. But do the pollutants that can cloud the sky cloud your mind, too?
A study led by Beijing Normal University’s Xin Zhang and Yale’s Xi Chen took advantage of a powerful dataset to expand our knowledge on this question. Many previous studies have focused on students, comparing school testing results with regional air quality, for example. The new study used the results of a massive Chinese survey of more than 50,000 people who took standardized tests in 2010 and then again in 2014. Such “longitudinal” studies that follow individuals over time are excellent because you can compare a person to their own previous results. That's better than using two groups of people whose differences you hope will average out.
The tests included a set of increasingly difficult math questions and verbal/language tasks. Subjects continued answering questions until they missed three in a row and were assigned a score based on how far they got.
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Die Shopping-App Wish hat irrsinnig günstige Preise und angeblich 300 Millionen Nutzer. Dennoch lohnt sich der Kauf oft nicht, wie Beschwerden bei den Verbraucherzentralen zeigen. (Verbraucherschutz, Onlineshop)
Die Shopping-App Wish hat irrsinnig günstige Preise und angeblich 300 Millionen Nutzer. Dennoch lohnt sich der Kauf oft nicht, wie Beschwerden bei den Verbraucherzentralen zeigen. (Verbraucherschutz, Onlineshop) The video portal of Russian search giant Yandex will be blocked today on the orders of the Moscow City Court after the company refused to remove links to pirated content. Yandex says the order is unlawful and will launch an appeal but the local telecoms watchdog is already warning of potential over-blocking that could affect all of Yandex’s services.
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A dramatic situation is developing around billion dollar Internet company Yandex and several major Russian broadcasters.
Gazprom-Media and others claim that Yandex isn’t doing enough to keep ‘pirate’ content out of its search results. After reaching a brick wall with the search company, the broadcasters filed a copyright infringement complaint with the Moscow City Court, the entity responsible for handling ISP blocking requests.
Late last week, the Court handed down a decision compelling Yandex to remove links to pirated TV shows belonging to Gazprom-Media outlets including TNT, TV-3, 2×2, and Super. The Court gave Yandex until the end of today to remove the content or find itself blocked throughout Russia. It’s now clear that Yandex will not comply.
According to a statement from the company, Yandex believes that the law is being misinterpreted. While under current legislation pirate content must be removed from sites hosting it, the removal of links to such content on search engines falls outside its scope.
“In accordance with the Federal Law On Information, Information Technologies, and Information Protection, the mechanics are as follows: pirated content should be blocked by site owners and on the so-called mirrors of these sites,” Yandex says.
“We consider the claims against us to be unreasonable and not in accordance with the law and we will appeal the decision of the Moscow City Court.”
A Yandex spokesperson told Interfax that the company works in “full compliance” with the law and is open to finding a cooperative solution.
“We will work with market participants to find a solution within the existing legal framework,” Yandex said.
In the midst of this serious situation, Yandex insists that it stands for an “honest Internet” in which legal content is made available and rightsholders earn their rightful share from it. Now, however, the action by the TV companies and the Court has undermined that.
“In response to the TV channels’ complaint, the Moscow City Court has passed rulings that are fundamentally contrary to its own previous practice on this issue. Worse still, they do not solve the problem of unauthorized content, since resources with such content will be available in other search systems, social networks and so on,” Yandex says.
But despite Yandex filing an appeal against the Court’s decision, there appears to be no escape from it being wiped from the Russian Internet in a matter of hours. Telecoms watchdog Roscomnadzor says that it is obliged to act on the instructions of the Court and will instruct ISPs around the country to disabled access to Yandex.
“Roskomnadzor is required to comply with the court’s decision, which introduced preliminary provisional [blocking] measures against Yandex’s resource, regardless of the company’s appeal against this decision,” a spokesperson said.
But while executing a potentially devastating block on the one hand, Roscomnadzor is also offering to help mediate a peaceful solution to this growing dispute.
“We are ready to assist in finding points of interaction between companies,” Deputy Head of Roskomnadzor Vadim Subbotin told Interfax.
“I hope that in the pre-trial procedure, Yandex will take steps to resolve this conflict before the blockade, I very much hope that this will be done in cooperation with the rights holders,” he said.
Absent some last-minute miracle, it seems Yandex is doomed to preliminary blocking measures sometime today. While these usually last for an initial 15 days, the big question is how they will be carried out.
It’s unclear if a precise element of the service can or will be targeted (i.e Yandex.ru/video/ and/or Yandex.video) or whether Roscomnadzor will go down the Telegram route and block everything.
Ominously, Rosomnadzor is already warning that it doesn’t know what effect the blocks will have on Yandex’s other services.
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Looking for a more immersive virtual reality experience than you can get by sticking your smartphone into a folded piece of cardboard? The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets are designed to work with a high-powered PC… but they also have relativel…
Looking for a more immersive virtual reality experience than you can get by sticking your smartphone into a folded piece of cardboard? The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets are designed to work with a high-powered PC… but they also have relatively high price tags. And then there are Windows Mixed Reality headsets, which started […]
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20-day old change, long corrected by OpenStreetMap, was pushed out via Mapbox.
Enlarge / Multiple applications, including Zillow, Snapchat, and Citibike, displayed vandalized map data to users identifying New York City as "Jewtropolis." (credit: Snapchat, Zillow, Citibikes)
Late yesterday, users of Snapchat and a number of other applications began to report that the label on in-application maps for New York City had been changed to "Jewtropolis." That change in data from the mapping developer kit company MapBox had been pulled in from OpenStreetMap—a community-driven mapping project also used by Wikimedia.
Whatever mapping service that Snapchat, CitiBike, StreetEasy, (perhaps others) use — it seems — is showing New York City as "Jewtropolis" this morning. pic.twitter.com/nsVe8goLyo
— Micah Grimes (@MicahGrimes) August 30, 2018
The same map data made its way to the real estate application Zillow:
Couldn't find a way to report directly to @streeteasy or @zillow or @openstreetmap so here's a screen shot of a condo located in "Jewtropolis". Assuming they've been hacked. Might want to get on that and fix it. #Antisemitic @ADL_National pic.twitter.com/Z36GdrzLo9
— Brian P. Klein (@brianpklein) August 30, 2018
OpenStreetMap has frequently had to deal with data vandalism, rolling back malicious changes to map data by trolls. In one case in 2010, someone created a fictional town of "West Harrisburg" and imported GPS traces for nonexistent streets over what was actually forest and farmland. One vandal with the username MedwedianPresident was recently blocked after committing a series of changes to roadway names and other map details in New York, including changing the name of the Manhattan Bridge to "Ku Klux Klan Highway," changing the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive to "Zionist Cannibal Drive," and renaming the Hugh Carey Tunnel (formerly the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel) to "Adolph Hitler Memorial Tunnel," among other things.
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20-day old change, long corrected by OpenStreetMap, was pushed out via Mapbox.
Enlarge / Multiple applications, including Zillow, Snapchat, and Citibike, displayed vandalized map data to users identifying New York City as "Jewtropolis." (credit: Snapchat, Zillow, Citibikes)
Late yesterday, users of Snapchat and a number of other applications began to report that the label on in-application maps for New York City had been changed to "Jewtropolis." That change in data from the mapping developer kit company MapBox had been pulled in from OpenStreetMap—a community-driven mapping project also used by Wikimedia.
Whatever mapping service that Snapchat, CitiBike, StreetEasy, (perhaps others) use — it seems — is showing New York City as "Jewtropolis" this morning. pic.twitter.com/nsVe8goLyo
— Micah Grimes (@MicahGrimes) August 30, 2018
The same map data made its way to the real estate application Zillow:
Couldn't find a way to report directly to @streeteasy or @zillow or @openstreetmap so here's a screen shot of a condo located in "Jewtropolis". Assuming they've been hacked. Might want to get on that and fix it. #Antisemitic @ADL_National pic.twitter.com/Z36GdrzLo9
— Brian P. Klein (@brianpklein) August 30, 2018
OpenStreetMap has frequently had to deal with data vandalism, rolling back malicious changes to map data by trolls. In one case in 2010, someone created a fictional town of "West Harrisburg" and imported GPS traces for nonexistent streets over what was actually forest and farmland. One vandal with the username MedwedianPresident was recently blocked after committing a series of changes to roadway names and other map details in New York, including changing the name of the Manhattan Bridge to "Ku Klux Klan Highway," changing the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive to "Zionist Cannibal Drive," and renaming the Hugh Carey Tunnel (formerly the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel) to "Adolph Hitler Memorial Tunnel," among other things.
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