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Mercedes-Benz debuts EQV electric van at the Geneva auto show

It seats between six and eight, and will have up to 249 miles of range.

Mercedes-Benz brought the Concept EQV to the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show. It will go into production in 2020. [credit: Mercedes-Benz ]

The Geneva International Motor Show just got underway in Europe. If, like me, you're sitting at home, that means waking up to a flood of new car reveals. Audi showed off a smaller e-tron sedan and some plug-in hybrids; I'm still waiting to find out which—if any—are coming to the US. There were a bunch of hand-built hypercars, some from companies you've heard of, and some you haven't. Volkswagen had the new I.D. Buggy we showed you yesterday. And then there was the Mercedes-Benz Concept EQV.

It's the latest all-electric EQ concept from the automaker. Some of these, like the Smart Vision EQ or the Vision EQ Silver Arrow will remain one-offs, corporate flights of fancy. But others are headed to production. Later this year the EQC battery electric vehicle goes into production, with US sales starting in 2020. Some time around then, the EQV electric van will also go into volume production.

"Mercedes-Benz Vans is consistently advancing the electrification of its product portfolio. With the Concept EQV, we are now taking the next step. The concept offers all of the brand-typical attributes from this segment that Mercedes-Benz customers have come to know, appreciate and accept. From a daily driver for the family, a leisure-time adventurer or a shuttle vehicle with lounge ambience, the combination of these characteristics with a battery-electric drive mean the Concept EQV is a concept car with a future. We are particularly excited that we will soon be able to offer a series-production model on the basis of this concept," explains Wilfried Porth, Member of the Daimler AG Board of Management for Human Resources and Director of Labor Relations, Mercedes-Benz Vans.

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Corning: Faltbares Smartphone-Glas ist in Arbeit

Bei den ersten Falt-Smartphones ist ein Hersteller wie Corning bisher nicht vertreten. Das liegt daran, dass das eigene flexible Glas sich nicht mit Displays verträgt. Doch in einiger Zeit will Corning das Problem gelöst haben. (Corning, Smartphone)

IMHO: Valve, so geht es nicht weiter!

Massenvergewaltigung als Spielinhalt auf Steam? Klingt unglaublich, hat Valve aber lange nicht weiter gestört. Es wird Zeit, dass das Unternehmen lernt, die Gefühle seiner Kunden ernst zu nehmen! Von Peter Steinlechner (IMHO, Jugendschutz)

AVM FritzOS: Neue Labor-Version zeigt DSL-Leitungslänge an

AVM hat neue Builds der kommenden FritzOS-Version 7.08 für Fritzboxen und einige Mesh-Geräte veröffentlicht, die nicht nur Fehlerbehebungen, sondern auch Neues mit sich bringen. (AVM, DSL)

Concept EQV: Mercedes stellt schicken Elektro-Van vor

Die Karosserie ist die eines Vans. Mercedes hat den EQV aber als elektrische Großlimousine für bis zu acht Insassen konzipiert. Die Serienversion soll in wenigen Monaten fertig sein. (Mercedes Benz, Technologie)

Ocean heat waves remake Pacific and Caribbean habitats

Short, extreme events may have a bigger impact than a slow warming.

Climate change tends to deal in averages. We measure its progress using the global mean temperature, and we use climate models to project what that value will be in the future. But those average changes don't always capture what future climate change will be like. While you can raise an average by increasing every day's temperature by a tiny amount, but it's also possible to raise an average by throwing in an occasional extreme event. to do so by throwing in an occasional extreme event. Heat waves and extreme storms have indicated that nature seems to be going for the latter option.

A new paper shows that this kind of climate change isn't just affecting the sorts of weather we typically experience; it's happening in the oceans as well. The study shows that, over the course of less than a century, the frequency of oceanic heat waves went up by over 50 percent. The study looked into the effects these events are having on ecosystems, and it showed that we're pushing species toward the poles without affecting all of them equally.

Heating the ocean's waves

When the subject is the atmosphere, the common practice is to track the frequency and extent of heat waves and even to determine if they have been influenced by climate change. In contrast, there was no widely accepted definition of when warming waters constituted a heat wave until 2016. That's in part because of the differences in the driving process and scale. Localized ocean heat waves can be driven by a corresponding heat wave in the atmosphere, while El Niño events are driven by large-scale current patterns that influence most of the Pacific.

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Rightsholders Can’t Sue Without a Copyright Certificate, Supreme Court Rules

The US Supreme Court has ruled that creators can’t sue someone for copyright infringement before they’ve obtained a copyright registration certificate. In a unanimous decision, Justice Ginsburg clarifies that applying for a copyright registration is not sufficient. Major copyright holders are not happy with the decision, but for some others it may offer hope.

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In pretty much every part in the world, creators can claim copyright on their work without having to register anything.

This is also true in the United States. However, when rightsholders want to sue someone for copyright infringement, they have to back up this claim.

Over the years, US courts have issued mixed judgments on what kind of ‘proof’ is required. Some held that it’s enough when a creator applied for a registration certificate at the Copyright Office, while others required registration to be completed.

This week the US Supreme Court put an end to the split decisions. In the case between Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corporation and Wall-Street.com, the Court unanimously decided that copyright holders must wait for a registration certificate before filing a lawsuit.

The case in question dealt with news articles that were published without permission, but the outcome of the case will affect all future copyright cases. This ranges from potential pre-release movie and leaks to the thousands of copyright-trolling cases that are filed every year.

The latter is particularly relevant as the majority of the copyright lawsuits are filed against alleged BitTorrent downloaders. The rightsholders that file these suits don’t always have a copyright registration certificate. Following the Supreme Court decision, several defense attorneys indicated that this decision may help their clients.

“It is very relevant for our BitTorrent copyright defense practice,” Jeffrey Antonelli noted on Twitter.

Rightsholders are less pleased with the Supreme Court’s opinion, however. The RIAA said it is disappointed with the ruling which will require more time before copyright holders can take action against alleged copyright infringement.

“This ruling allows administrative backlog to prejudice the timely enforcement of constitutionally based rights and prevents necessary and immediate action against infringement that happens at Internet speed,” the RIAA commented.

“Given this ruling, the Copyright Office must also work at Internet speed to ensure adequate enforcement protects essential rights.”

At the moment it takes months before a copyright registration certificate is issued. That can be problematic in a world where new content is produced at an increasingly rapid rate. This problem is also highlighted by the Copyright Alliance.

“[O]n average, it takes the Copyright Office six months to process a claim. That average goes up to nine months if a Copyright Office Examiner needs to correspond with a copyright owner. In a world of viral, online infringement, a lot of damage can be done to a copyrighted work while an owner is powerless to stop it,” Copyright Alliance’s Terry Hart writes.

The Supreme Court is well aware of the registration delays. However, in the order, it notes that this doesn’t change how Congress intended the law, which requires a proper copyright registration certificate.

“Delays, in large part, are the result of Copyright Office staffing and budgetary shortages that Congress can alleviate, but courts cannot cure. Unfortunate as the current administrative lag may be, that factor does not allow this Court to revise §411(a)’s congressionally composed text,” Justice Ginsburg notes.

While the ruling is seen as a drawback for major rightsholders, pre-registration of copyright still remains available to certain classes. This was granted under the Artist’s Rights and Theft Prevention Act of 2005 and applies to movies and music that have yet to be published.

For various types of user-generated content, the ruling may pose a challenge though. People who want to sue someone for copying their viral video without permission will first need to go through the full registration process.

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A copy of the Supreme Court ruling in Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com is available here (pdf).

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Respawn Entertainment: 50 Millionen Spieler haben Apex Legends ausprobiert

Apex Legends entwickelt sich zur Erfolgsgeschichte: Nur einen Monat nach der Veröffentlichung hat das Actionspiel die Marke von 50 Millionen Spielern geschafft. Unklar ist derzeit, wann die erste Season beginnt. (Apex Legends, Electronic Arts)

OpenAI Neural MMO: Im Multiplayerspiel zeigen KI-Agenten Verhalten von Tieren

OpenAI entwickelt ein MMO-Spiel für neuronale Netzwerke. Dabei treten viele unabhängige KI-Agenten gegeneinander an – mit dem Ziel, so lange wie möglich zu überleben. Dabei erkennen die Forscher Parallelen zum Verhalten von Tieren und Menschen. (KI, Te…

OpenAI entwickelt ein MMO-Spiel für neuronale Netzwerke. Dabei treten viele unabhängige KI-Agenten gegeneinander an - mit dem Ziel, so lange wie möglich zu überleben. Dabei erkennen die Forscher Parallelen zum Verhalten von Tieren und Menschen. (KI, Technologie)

Uploadfilter: Spontane Demos gegen Schnellvotum angekündigt

Eigentlich soll das Europaparlament gegen Ende März über Uploadfilter und Leistungsschutzrecht abstimmen. Doch Verhandlungsführer Axel Voss von der CDU will das Votum schon nächste Woche ansetzen – vor den europaweiten Demos am 23. März. (Urheberrecht,…

Eigentlich soll das Europaparlament gegen Ende März über Uploadfilter und Leistungsschutzrecht abstimmen. Doch Verhandlungsführer Axel Voss von der CDU will das Votum schon nächste Woche ansetzen - vor den europaweiten Demos am 23. März. (Urheberrecht, Leistungsschutzrecht)