Um ihre Produkte besser zu verkaufen, können sich Amazon-Verkäufer auf der Streaming-Plattform Live präsentieren. Das erinnert nicht nur durch die extrovertierte Moderation an QVC und Co. Das Unternehmen nimmt außerdem zusätzliches Geld ein, um Partner…
Um ihre Produkte besser zu verkaufen, können sich Amazon-Verkäufer auf der Streaming-Plattform Live präsentieren. Das erinnert nicht nur durch die extrovertierte Moderation an QVC und Co. Das Unternehmen nimmt außerdem zusätzliches Geld ein, um Partner noch besser sichtbar zu machen. (Amazon, iOS)
Baut Google eine eigene Smartwatch? Zwei Jobangebote zeigen, dass das Unternehmen zumindest eine Form von Wearables entwickeln will. Das könnte ein Vorzeigemodell für Android Wear sein, das allerdings mit etablierten Marken wie der Apple Watch konkurri…
Baut Google eine eigene Smartwatch? Zwei Jobangebote zeigen, dass das Unternehmen zumindest eine Form von Wearables entwickeln will. Das könnte ein Vorzeigemodell für Android Wear sein, das allerdings mit etablierten Marken wie der Apple Watch konkurrieren muss. (Android Wear, Google)
Der neunzehnjährige David Aguilar ist mit einer Behinderung geboren, weiß sich aber mit Legosteinen zu helfen. Er baut funktionierende Prothesen aus handelsüblichen Legosets. Die Projekte zeigt er auf seinem Youtube-Kanal. (Lego, Roboter)
Der neunzehnjährige David Aguilar ist mit einer Behinderung geboren, weiß sich aber mit Legosteinen zu helfen. Er baut funktionierende Prothesen aus handelsüblichen Legosets. Die Projekte zeigt er auf seinem Youtube-Kanal. (Lego, Roboter)
Seit Kurzem können Fans sich die bisher in Deutschland nicht verfügbare dritte Staffel und alle anderen Folgen der Sci-Fi-Serie The Expanse anschauen – in Originalton oder auf Deutsch. Sie wird von Amazon Prime Video weitergeführt, nachdem es 2018 nich…
Seit Kurzem können Fans sich die bisher in Deutschland nicht verfügbare dritte Staffel und alle anderen Folgen der Sci-Fi-Serie The Expanse anschauen - in Originalton oder auf Deutsch. Sie wird von Amazon Prime Video weitergeführt, nachdem es 2018 nicht gut um die Serie stand. (Amazon Prime, Amazon)
In 2018 it was revealed that illegal online casinos are sponsoring huge numbers of pirate videos in Russia. One of the major players, Azino777, was accused of financing camcorder piracy and embedding its logos and watermarks into thousands of videos. Now, however, a blunder by a court in Ukraine has accidentally unmasked a major suspect in a criminal investigation into Azino777.
Last September, international cyber-security firm Group-IB revealed that almost all movies released in 2018 had been leaked online.
While that isn’t particularly surprising, the company went on to highlight the activities of an organized group of “camcording” pirates in Russia.
“This group is financed by online-casinos, which support online-pirates as well. Online-casinos integrate their ads in the pirated copies and TV-shows in the form of logos, captioning or even as audio tracks,” Andrey Busargin, Director of Brand Protection at Group-IB, told TorrentFreak.
According to Group-IB, the major player utilizing this tactic is Azino777. The gambling service is unlicensed and therefore illegal in Russia. Under orders from the court, it is currently blocked by local ISPs along with hundreds of its own mirror sites. Nevertheless, the business is doing everything it can to recruit new customers.
In 2018, Azino777 was reported to be one of Russia’s top advertisers, outspending leading search engines Yandex and Google, and even Coca Cola and Pepsi. Now, however, a crisis could be looming following a blunder by a court in neighboring Ukraine.
Online casinos are illegal in Ukraine, so the authorities there have been taking a keen interest in Azino777. Following a criminal investigation by local police, it’s reported that the casino’s alleged offices in Kiev were raided in June 2018 and equipment seized.
This week, Russian news outlet The Bell discovered that a court in Kiev had failed to redact the name of 33-year-old Russian IT expert Albert Valiakhmetov from documents relating to that operation. The publication’s investigation, which references Ukraine court documents, indicates that the Russian is the suspected creator of Azino777.
While Azino777 is still operational, it’s clear that the heat is being turned up on the operation, both in Russia and Ukraine, which could have a potential impact on the piracy landscape in both countries.
Last week, TorrentFreak reported on data provided by Group-IB, which indicated that streaming piracy in Russia is dominated by professionals operating ‘pirate’ CDNs ( Content Distribution Networks) that not only supply movies and TV shows, but also additional services that make it easy to setup and maintain a pirate site. According to Group-IB, Azino777 is deeply involved.
“Azino777 has become an integral part of the existing ecosystem of pirated content in Russia. Azino777 closely cooperates with key pirated resources, placing advertising on such pirate CDNs as Moonwalk (the largest in Russia) and HDGO (second most popular),” says Dmitry Tyunkin, Deputy Director Anti-Piracy at Group-IB.
“In the case of Moonwalk, most often pre-roll and mid-roll ads are bought (excluding ad inserts in the body of the video). In the case of HDGO, a unique precedent was achieved; the advertising network was built into the player. This meant that, apart from the classic pre-roll/mid-roll ads, all new content uploaded into the player is marked with a watermark and advertising within the video file itself.”
The amount of advertising in each title depends on the popularity of the release. Tyunkin says that the number of ads can vary between one and four, and can even include audio ads that are dubbed at the request of Azino777. Given the number of releases, the scale is impressive.
According to Group-IB data, in 2018 a total of 218 movies appeared in ‘cam’ format, with more than 90% of them containing advertising. TV shows posted with exclusive voiceovers exceeded 540 titles. Overall, the company believes that Azino777 is responsible for around 1,415 movie releases and 1,835 TV shows.
Group-IB says it can’t put a value on the revenues generated by these activities but says that the advertising format (via pirated content) is effective. The content spreads naturally and advertising on pirate sites is cheap – four to five times less than on equivalents in the US or EU – and the number of sites is huge.
“The estimated number of existing portals that are indirectly (through advertising networks and pirate CDNs such as HDGO) or directly linked to this casino is approximately 6,100 portals,” Tyunkin says.
Interestingly, Azino777 isn’t the only – or indeed first – company to embark on this kind of mass marketing. Group-IB says that JoyCasino was the first to experiment with the pirate model, with 1XBet trying the same in India and English speaking countries.
In short, there are takers around to fill the niche, even if Azino777 somehow falls.
Frankreich geht in die Matrix und Deutschland verweigert die blaue Facebook-Pille. Wir arbeiten ein Monat mit ChromeOS und testen eine Radeon-Grafikkarte für Liebhaber. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Internet)
Frankreich geht in die Matrix und Deutschland verweigert die blaue Facebook-Pille. Wir arbeiten ein Monat mit ChromeOS und testen eine Radeon-Grafikkarte für Liebhaber. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Internet)
Of the more than 1,600 generic drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration since January of 2017, more than 700—or 43 percent—are not for sale in the US, according to a new analysis by Kaiser Health News.
The finding means that many pricy, brand-name drugs are not facing the competition that could help drive down soaring prices. Among the drugs missing in action are generic versions of the expensive blood thinner Brilinta and the HIV medication Truvada. Moreover, of the approved drugs that would offer a brand-name drug its first competition, 36 percent are being held off the market, the analysis found.
Experts told KHN that the reasons drug makers may withhold an approved generic from the market are varied. Industry consolidation has made buying, manufacturing, and distributing generics more difficult in recent years. Generic drug makers also, as always, face patent litigation from brand-name makers. Then there’s potentially anti-competitive deals, in which brand-name drug makers simply pay generic makers to keep their product off the market for a while—a so-called “pay for delay” tactic.
The latest version of Chrome OS brings a number of new features for Chromebooks and other devices running Google’s operating system… including the growing number of Chrome OS tablets. Among other things, Chrome OS 72 includes a version of t…
The latest version of Chrome OS brings a number of new features for Chromebooks and other devices running Google’s operating system… including the growing number of Chrome OS tablets. Among other things, Chrome OS 72 includes a version of the Chrome browser that’s been optimized for touchscreen devices when you’re using them in tablet mode. […]
Enlarge/ New Horizons took this image of the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 (nicknamed Ultima Thule) on Jan. 1, 2019, when the NASA spacecraft was 8,862km beyond it. The image to the left is an "average" of ten images. (credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI)
Back in early January, when scientists pulled down their first batch of data from the New Horizons spacecraft, they celebrated an odd snowman-shaped object in the outer Solar System. From this first look, it appeared as though Ultima Thule, formally named 2014 MU69, consisted of two spheres in contact with one another—a contact binary.
Now that scientists have downloaded more data from the distant spacecraft, however, our view of Ultima Thule has changed. A sequence of images captured as New Horizons moved away from the object in the Kuiper Belt at a velocity of 50,000 km/hour, taken about 10 minutes after closest approach, show a much flatter appearance.
After analyzing these new images, scientists say the larger lobe more closely resembles a large pancake, and the smaller lobe looks a bit like a walnut. The new photos reveal a dramatically different object because they were taken from a different angle than the images that were downloaded first.
Apple will design its own modems in-house, according to sources that spoke with Reuters. In doing so, the company may hope to leave behind Intel modems in its mobile devices, which Apple has used since a recent falling out with Qualcomm.
According to the sources, the team working on modem design now reports to Johny Srouji, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware technologies. Srouji joined Apple back in 2004 and led development of Apple’s first in-house system-on-a-chip, the A4. He has overseen Apple silicon ever since, including the recent A12 and A12X in the new iPhone and iPad Pro models.
Before this move, Apple’s modem work ultimately fell under Dan Riccio, who ran engineering for iPhones, iPads, and Macs. As Reuters noted, that division was heavily focused on managing the supply chain and working with externally made components. The fact that the team is moving into the group focused on developing in-house components is a strong signal that Apple will not be looking outside its own walls for modems in the future.
Um ihre Produkte besser zu verkaufen, können sich Amazon-Verkäufer auf der Streaming-Plattform Live präsentieren. Das erinnert nicht nur durch die extrovertierte Moderation an QVC und Co. Das Unternehmen nimmt außerdem zusätzliches Geld ein, um Partner noch besser sichtbar zu machen. (Amazon, iOS) 
Baut Google eine eigene Smartwatch? Zwei Jobangebote zeigen, dass das Unternehmen zumindest eine Form von Wearables entwickeln will. Das könnte ein Vorzeigemodell für Android Wear sein, das allerdings mit etablierten Marken wie der Apple Watch konkurrieren muss. (
Der neunzehnjährige David Aguilar ist mit einer Behinderung geboren, weiß sich aber mit Legosteinen zu helfen. Er baut funktionierende Prothesen aus handelsüblichen Legosets. Die Projekte zeigt er auf seinem Youtube-Kanal. (
Seit Kurzem können Fans sich die bisher in Deutschland nicht verfügbare dritte Staffel und alle anderen Folgen der Sci-Fi-Serie The Expanse anschauen - in Originalton oder auf Deutsch. Sie wird von Amazon Prime Video weitergeführt, nachdem es 2018 nicht gut um die Serie stand. (
Frankreich geht in die Matrix und Deutschland verweigert die blaue Facebook-Pille. Wir arbeiten ein Monat mit ChromeOS und testen eine Radeon-Grafikkarte für Liebhaber. (
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