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Openload, one of the world’s most-visited sites, particular by those looking for movies and TV shows, has ended its uploader affiliate program. The announcement is tied to falling advertising revenues and related economic stresses. Last year it was reported that Openload generated more traffic than Hulu or HBO Go.
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Earlier this month we reported on the plight of Rapidvideo, a popular file-hosting site that specializes in hosting videos.
The site previously allowed visitors to view content uploaded by other users for free, with the system funded by advertising. However, interesting market conditions forced the platform into a surprise announcement.
“We can’t finance ourselves from internet ads any longer,” the company said while revealing plans for a $5 per month subscription plan.
One of the main problems, it transpired, was the massive influx of Kodi users, whose ‘pirate’ add-ons access the site’s content, bypassing its advertising.
“We have around 650 Gbit/s of bandwidth in use, while 320 Gbit/s is for KODI, download tools, etc and for that we don’t get paid by the ads,” the site explained.
In comments to TF, Rapidvideo said that the add-ons in question are able to use the URL from the site’s HTML5 player, resulting in huge amounts of unmonetized video traffic. The need for a subscription package would help to mitigate that issue, the site added.
Of course, Rapidvideo isn’t the only site to suffer from this and similar problems. This week, another file-sharing giant changed its business model, again citing unsustainable ad revenues as the cause.
Openload is currently one of the top 250 most-visited sites on the entire Internet. Last year we reported how it generates more traffic than Hulu or HBO Go. However, similar pressures to those being experienced by Rapidvideo have forced the platform towards change.
The big immediate difference is that users who upload content to the site will no longer get paid based on the number of views their videos get. That’s a bit like YouTube de-monetizing all of its most popular contributors.
“We are closing our Affiliate Program from 15/04/2019. Balances which exceed the minimum withdraw amount of 20$ can be withdrawn until 30/04/2019!” the site said in a statement to its many affiliates.
“Unfortunately we had to do this step due to recent events and ongoing weakness in generating revenue from advertising. In order to keep the service alive and stable we have to go this way.”
Only the operators of the site know how many of these uploading affiliates it has but there was certainly no shortage of criticism online when the program was withdrawn. That being said, all businesses are affected by changes in the market and if the revenue doesn’t pay the bills, then that’s life.
Affiliates aren’t paid a lot. The image above (redacted for privacy reasons) shows the Openload affiliate panel. The user had made less than $9 but of course, he won’t be getting any money because he didn’t accumulate at least $20. Others, however, report being paid out, as promised.
The other key issue is that affiliate programs incentivize users to upload content to a particular service, with YouTube operating the most famous program of all. It’s easy to see how the removal of the Openload program could result in less content being uploaded there. However, the operators of the site say they are fully aware of what might happen.
“All our decisions are final. We are aware of the consequences,” a representative said.
For now, it appears that a handful of other services are rallying round in an attempt to attract former Openload affiliates to their sites. Whether that will be successful will remain to be seen, but there certainly appears to be a connection between the size of these sites and their ability to earn revenue from ads.
The bigger they are the harder it is, apparently. Which means that successful sites might eventually start suffering from the same issues as both Rapidvideo and Openload.
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In Satisfactory bauen wir die perfekte Fabrik, in Outward packen wir den Rucksack und Baba Is You fordert unsere grauen Zellen – die Indiegames-Rundschau stellt besonders interessante Neuheiten im April vor. Von Rainer Sigl (Indiegames Rundschau, Spiel…
In Satisfactory bauen wir die perfekte Fabrik, in Outward packen wir den Rucksack und Baba Is You fordert unsere grauen Zellen - die Indiegames-Rundschau stellt besonders interessante Neuheiten im April vor. Von Rainer Sigl (Indiegames Rundschau, Spieletest) Sony’s lead architect for the PlayStation 5 has revealed the first official details about the upcoming console.Mark Cerny, who also worked on the designs for the PS4, told Wired in an exclusive interview what gamers could expect from the PS5….
Sony's lead architect for the PlayStation 5 has revealed the first official details about the upcoming console.
Mark Cerny, who also worked on the designs for the PS4, told Wired in an exclusive interview what gamers could expect from the PS5.
Perhaps the biggest inclusion for the PS5 is that it will be backwards compatible with the PS4, meaning your existing game library won't become obsolete after you upgrade. The inclusion of this feature necessitates the inclusion of an optical disc drive, suggesting that unlike moves being made by Microsoft, the PS5 won't be a digital-only console (at least not all variants).
Despite the lack of TVs that can display the resolution, the PS5 will also allow for 8K output to future proof the console. To provide the PS5 with the power to output in 8K (although at this point, it's unknown if 8K output will be limited to just video, or it would include gaming as well), the PS4 will feature a new 'Ryzen' CPU and 'Navi' GPU combo from AMD. The latter will support advanced graphics features such as ray tracing.
The PS5 will address an issue that has become increasingly problematic on current generation consoles. The PS5 will come with a solid state drive, meaning games will now load at a fraction of the time it takes on the PS4. Cerny demonstrated the benefits of SSD by loading Spider-Man on PS4 and initiating fast travel in the game and then doing the same on the PS5 dev-kit. The PS4 took 15 seconds to load the game, while the PS5 dev-kit only took 0.8 seconds.
Cerny also noted that the PS5 will accommodate the existing PSVR headset, but was otherwise coy when it comes to expanding on Sony's VR strategy for the new console. 3D audio provided the new AMD chip will, in Cerny's words, will "redefine what sound can do in a videogame" and add another level of immersion into the gaming experience.
[via SMH, Wired]
Remember when Facebook asked for email passwords? The blunder just got worse.
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Facebook's privacy gaffes keep coming. On Wednesday, the social media company said it collected the stored email address lists of as many as 1.5 million users without permission. On Thursday, the company said the number of Instagram users affected by a previously reported password storage error was in the "millions," not the "tens of thousands" as previously estimated.
Facebook said the email contact collection was the result of a highly flawed verification technique that instructed some users to supply the password for the email address associated with their account if they wanted to continue using Facebook. Security experts almost unanimously criticized the practice, and Facebook dropped it as soon as it was reported.
In a statement issued to reporters, Facebook wrote:
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ThreadX joins Azure Sphere, Windows 10 for IoT.
Enlarge / Multi-threading. (credit: Jamie Golden / Flickr)
Not content with having a Windows-based Internet of Things platform (Windows 10 IoT) and a Linux-based Internet of Things platform (Azure Sphere), Microsoft has added a third option. The company has announced that it has bought Express Logic and its ThreadX real-time operating system for an undisclosed sum.
Real-time operating systems (RTOSes) differ from more conventional platforms in their predictability. With an RTOS, a developer can guarantee that, for example, interrupt handling or switching from one process to another takes a known, bounded amount of time. This gives applications strong guarantees that they'll be able to respond in time to hardware events, timers, or other things that might make an application want to use the CPU. This predictability is essential for control applications; for example, ThreadX was used in NASA's Deep Impact mission that hurled a large object at a comet. ThreadX was also used in the iPhone 4's cellular radio controller, and ThreadX is embedded in the firmware of many Wi-Fi devices. These tasks need the determinism of an RTOS because there are timing constraints on how quickly they need to respond.
Linux can be built with various options to offer more predictable behavior and so can address some similar scenarios. But ThreadX has another big advantage up its sleeve: it's tiny. A minimal ThreadX installation takes 2,000 bytes of storage and needs 1KB of RAM, far less than Linux can use. By way of comparison, Microsoft's Sphere hardware (which uses a custom-designed ARM processor with various security features embedded) has 4MB of RAM for applications and 16MB of storage. There are an estimated 6.2 billion deployments of ThreadX running on several dozen different kinds of processor or microcontroller.
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Google and Amazon both are both launching free, ad-supported versions of their streaming music services. And both are available exclusively on smart speakers at launch. You can now listen to YouTube Music for free if you have a Google Home or another G…
Google and Amazon both are both launching free, ad-supported versions of their streaming music services. And both are available exclusively on smart speakers at launch. You can now listen to YouTube Music for free if you have a Google Home or another Google Assistant-powered speaker. And Amazon Music is now free for anyone with an […]
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There’s no indication that it will extend outside Facebook’s own hardware—yet.
Enlarge / Along with video chatting through Facebook Messenger, both Portal devices have built-in Amazon Alexa. (credit: Facebook)
Facebook is working on developing an AI voice assistant similar in functionality to Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, or Siri, according to a report from CNBC and a later statement from a Facebook representative.
The CNBC report, which cites "several people familiar with the matter," says the project has been ongoing since early 2018 in the company's offices in Redmond, Washington. The endeavor is led by Ira Snyder, whose listed title on LinkedIn is "Director, AR/VR and Facebook Assistant at Facebook." Facebook Assistant may be the name of the project. CNBC writes that Facebook has been reaching out to vendors in the smart-speaker supply chain, suggesting that Portal may only be the first of many smart devices the company makes.
When contacted for comment, Facebook sent a statement to Reuters, The Verge, and others, saying: "We are working to develop voice and AI assistant technologies that may work across our family of AR/VR products including Portal, Oculus, and future products."
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Die iBOX-R1000 ist eigentlich für das Embedded-Segment gedacht, dennoch bewirbt Asrock den Mini-PC als Alternative zu Intels NUCs. Im Inneren steckt ein passiv gekühlter Dualcore-Ryzen mit Vega-Grafikeinheit. (
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