Microsoft hat das October 2018 Update mittlerweile für alle Windows-10-Geräte freigeben. Es wird über das automatische Update installiert. Das Problem: Mittlerweile steht schon der nächste Inhaltspatch an. (Windows 10, Microsoft)
Microsoft hat das October 2018 Update mittlerweile für alle Windows-10-Geräte freigeben. Es wird über das automatische Update installiert. Das Problem: Mittlerweile steht schon der nächste Inhaltspatch an. (Windows 10, Microsoft)
Enlarge/ A VT100 remote terminal, which is basically the same thing as Windows Remote Desktop. (credit: Wolfgang Stief)
Initially announced last September, Microsoft's Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service has now entered public preview.
The service brings together single-user Windows 7 virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and multi-user Windows 10 and Windows Server remote desktop services (RDS) and is hosted on any of Azure's virtual machine tiers. Microsoft is pricing WVD aggressively by charging only for the virtual machine costs; the license requirements for the Windows 7- and Windows 10-based services will be fulfilled by Microsoft 365 F1/E3/E, Windows 10 Enterprise E3/E5, and Windows VDA subscriptions. The Windows Server-based services are similarly fulfilled by existing RDS client access licenses. This means that for many Microsoft customers, there will be no additional licensing cost for provisioning desktop computing in the cloud. The virtual machine costs can be further reduced by using Reserved Instances that commit to purchasing certain amounts of VM time in return for lower pricing.
As another big sweetener, Windows 7 users will receive all three years of Extended Security Updates (ESU) at no extra cost; this is in contrast to on-premises deployments that will cost either $25/$50/$100 for the three years of ESU availability or $50/$100/$200, depending on the precise Windows license being used.
Toolmaking giant aims to teach heavy metal machines robotic tricks—with a familiar interface.
Enlarge/ An operator puts an excavator to work with a game-style controller using Stanley's ROC remote operating system. (credit: Stanley Black & Decker)
In a parking lot at an industrial and office park just outside Baltimore, I took a mid-sized excavator for a spin. I pushed around some cinder blocks with a leveling blade, nosed them around with the excavator's shovel, and maneuvered the heavy metal beast around to make room for an incoming tractor-trailer. And I did all of this with a wireless controller that was almost identical to the one I used to play Forza the night before.
The excavator was configured with a prototype of the Remote Operated Control (ROC) System from Stanley Black & Decker's Infrastructure Innovation unit—a bolt-on remote control system that allows heavy machinery from major manufacturers to be operated either from in the cab as usual or with a wireless game-style controller.
Stanley is currently recruiting contracting companies to act as beta testers for the technology, which is currently being targeted at Bobcat, CAT, Kubota, and John Deere excavators under 10 tons. The remote control kit can be installed in existing excavators in about 5 hours by someone with little to no mechanical experience. And the control system has a physical switch that allows an operator to quickly switch back and forth between local and remote control.
Mehrere Hundert Mobilfunkstandorte mit GSM- und UMTS-Versorgung haben bei der Telefónica erstmalig LTE erhalten. Bestehende LTE-Standorte bekamen neue Frequenzen. (Telefónica, Long Term Evolution)
Mehrere Hundert Mobilfunkstandorte mit GSM- und UMTS-Versorgung haben bei der Telefónica erstmalig LTE erhalten. Bestehende LTE-Standorte bekamen neue Frequenzen. (Telefónica, Long Term Evolution)
Das unverschlüsselte Speichern von Passwörtern gilt als grober Verstoß gegen den Datenschutz. Bei Facebook sollen bis zu 600 Millionen Nutzer davon betroffen gewesen sein. (Passwort, PHP)
Das unverschlüsselte Speichern von Passwörtern gilt als grober Verstoß gegen den Datenschutz. Bei Facebook sollen bis zu 600 Millionen Nutzer davon betroffen gewesen sein. (Passwort, PHP)
Rapa Nui islanders survived by building strong communities around limited resources.
Enlarge/ Moai statues in a row, Ahu Tongariki, Easter Island, Chile. (credit: De Agostini Picture Library/Getty Images)
Chile's Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built by early inhabitants some 800 years ago. The islanders likely chose the statues' locations based on the availability of fresh water sources, according to a recent paper in PLOS One.
Scholars have puzzled over the moai on Easter Island for decades, pondering their cultural significance, as well as how a Stone Age culture managed to carve and transport statues weighing as much as 92 tons. They were typically mounted on platforms called ahu. According to co-author Carl Lipo, an anthropologist at Binghamton University, you can have ahu (platforms) without moai (statues) and moai without ahu, usually along the roads leading to ahu; they were likely being transported and never got to their destination.
Back in 2012, Lipo and his colleague, Terry Hunt of the University of Arizona, showed that you could transport a ten-foot, five-ton moai a few hundred yards with just 18 people and three strong ropes by employing a rocking motion. Last year Lipo proposed an intriguing hypothesis for how the islanders placed red hats on top of some moai; those can weigh up to 13 tons. He suggested the inhabitants used ropes to roll the hats up a ramp.
Harrison cites data center “innovations… not visible to the outside world.”
Google's Phil Harrison (you may remember him from his days at Sony).
SAN FRANCISCO—Google's Phil Harrison tells Ars that Stadia game streaming should provide a smooth, full-resolution experience on Internet connections above a threshold of 20 to 30mbps, a level that should allow for "hundreds of millions of potential players in the markets that we're talking about."
While the company set a threshold of 25mbps for its beta testing late last year, Harrison told Ars that "in actual fact, we only use an average of 20mbps; it obviously bounces up and down depending on the scene." Since that beta, Harrison said infrastructure and codec improvements "now allow us to get up to 4K resolution [at 60 frames per second] within about 30mbps. So we saw a dramatic increase in quality between then and now without a significant increase in bandwidth."
Even at that threshold, Harrison acknowledges that "I know [Stadia] won't reach everybody [and] I respect that some people will be frustrated by that. But I suspect that some of those people don't get a great YouTube experience, they might get a good Netflix experience today. The good news is the Internet continues to grow in quality and reach. So there is a bit of a rising tide that lifts all boats, with 5G potentially helping that equation in the future. That's a little bit over the horizon today, but it's I think going to come into view pretty quickly."
T-Mobile today said it is starting "an invitation-only pilot for in-home Internet service on LTE" and will connect up to 50,000 homes this year in rural and underserved parts of the country. It will cost $50 a month.
T-Mobile CEO John Legere said his company plans to "take the fight to Big Cable on behalf of consumers and offer real choice, competition and savings to Americans nationwide.”
Invitations for the home service will go out this week by email and US mail to current T-Mobile wireless customers in "select areas," which T-Mobile did not identify in its announcement.
The popular “Save The Internet!” petition, which urges lawmakers to vote against Article 13 of the EU Copyright Directive, reached a new milestone of five million signatories today. The petition is part of an intensifying campaign which also features offline demonstrations and Wikipedia blackouts. Meanwhile, supporters of Article 13 are not sitting still either.
With the final vote on Europe’s Copyright Directive coming up next week, campaigning efforts from both supporters and opponents are reaching new heights.
Earlier this month hundreds of organizations from the creative industries called on the European Parliament to quickly adopt the proposals. These organizations were later followed by many individual creators.
These supporters stress that the planned Copyright Directive will help them to protect their rights and get fair compensation for the use of their works on the Internet. This is also the message that EU copyright rapporteur Axel Voss is trying to convince the public with.
On the opposing side, there hasn’t been any shortage of action either. Today the “Stop the censorship-machinery! Save the Internet!” petition passed five million signatures, making it one of the largest to be hosted on the platform.
5 million votes
The petition is part of a broader campaign. It has been up for months, but this latest milestone will undoubtedly be used to convince members of the EU Parliament to reject Article 13 and Article 11 in the upcoming vote next Tuesday.
Several well-known digital rights groups have also launched the Pledge2019 campaign, encouraging people to contact their representatives in the EU Parliament. According to the latest stats, 121 MEPs have thus far pledged to vote against the Copyright Directive.
There are anti Article 13 website blackouts scheduled as well, which we also saw with the anti-SOPA protests several years ago. The German version of Wikipedia is going dark for 24 hours today, for example, and it is joined by the Slovak edition.
Offline there are also several demonstrations planned around Europe, from Portugal all the way to Finland. However, much of the protest is centered in and around Germany where the public has been very vocal about the Copyright Directive plans.
Demonstrations
The Copyright Directive is a hot topic in German politics at the moment. Last Friday, Germany’s largest political party, CDU, announced a plan to prevent “upload filters” in the country. Instead, large Internet platforms should pay flat-rate licensing payments to copyright holders.
This proposal, which assumes the Copyright Directive will pass, has been widely criticized too.
As the vote nears, the atmosphere is becoming more grim. Last weekend, German police investigated a bomb threat directed towards the office of Axel Voss. Meanwhile, some press publishers reportedly threatened Parliament Members with bad press if they vote against the Copyright Directive.
With less than a week to go, the campaigns from opponents and supporters will soon reach their climax. Then, it’s up to the Members of the European Parliament to have their final say.
In smarten Lautsprechern und Sprachassistenten sieht Qualcomm seinen neuen QCS400-Chip. Der unterstützt deshalb Techniken wie Dolby Atmos, verarbeitet Sprachbefehle und kann per WLAN im Netz funken. Jetzt sind Softwareentwickler gefragt. (Qualcomm, Pro…
In smarten Lautsprechern und Sprachassistenten sieht Qualcomm seinen neuen QCS400-Chip. Der unterstützt deshalb Techniken wie Dolby Atmos, verarbeitet Sprachbefehle und kann per WLAN im Netz funken. Jetzt sind Softwareentwickler gefragt. (Qualcomm, Prozessor)
Microsoft hat das October 2018 Update mittlerweile für alle Windows-10-Geräte freigeben. Es wird über das automatische Update installiert. Das Problem: Mittlerweile steht schon der nächste Inhaltspatch an. (Windows 10, Microsoft) 
Mehrere Hundert Mobilfunkstandorte mit GSM- und UMTS-Versorgung haben bei der Telefónica erstmalig LTE erhalten. Bestehende LTE-Standorte bekamen neue Frequenzen. (
Das unverschlüsselte Speichern von Passwörtern gilt als grober Verstoß gegen den Datenschutz. Bei Facebook sollen bis zu 600 Millionen Nutzer davon betroffen gewesen sein. (
With the final vote on Europe’s Copyright Directive coming up next week, campaigning efforts from both supporters and opponents are reaching new heights.
In smarten Lautsprechern und Sprachassistenten sieht Qualcomm seinen neuen QCS400-Chip. Der unterstützt deshalb Techniken wie Dolby Atmos, verarbeitet Sprachbefehle und kann per WLAN im Netz funken. Jetzt sind Softwareentwickler gefragt. (
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