Month: April 2019

Ubisoft Blue Byte: Preload der offenen Beta von Anno 1800 eröffnet

Mitten in der Nacht beginnt am 12. April 2019 die offene Beta von Anno 1800. Spieler können dann drei Tage lang ihre Traumsiedlung aus dem Inselboden stampfen und dabei bis in die dritte Zivilisationsstufe vordringen. (Anno 1800, Ubisoft)

Mitten in der Nacht beginnt am 12. April 2019 die offene Beta von Anno 1800. Spieler können dann drei Tage lang ihre Traumsiedlung aus dem Inselboden stampfen und dabei bis in die dritte Zivilisationsstufe vordringen. (Anno 1800, Ubisoft)

British police arrest Julian Assange on behalf of the US government

Assange had been holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012.

Julian Assange gestures to the media from a police vehicle on his arrival at court on April 11, 2019 in London.

Enlarge / Julian Assange gestures to the media from a police vehicle on his arrival at court on April 11, 2019 in London. (credit: Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

British police arrested Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday. He had been hiding in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012 and was arrested after the Ecuadorian government invited the Metropolitan Police Service into the embassy to remove him. Assange was initially arrested for jumping bail in 2012, but the Metropolitan Police Service subsequently announced that he had been "further arrested on behalf of the United States authorities."

After Assange's arrest, the US Justice Department unsealed its indictment against him. The indictment focuses on Assange's role in helping Chelsea Manning steal classified information from the US military.

In 2010, "Assange agreed to assist Manning in cracking a password stored on United States Department of Defense computers," the indictment charges. Manning allegedly provided Assange with the the hash of a password and asked Assange to crack it.

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Hands-on with the 2.2 pound Acer TravelMate X5 business laptop

The Acer TravelMate X5 is one of those laptops that’s so lightweight that when you first pick it up, you kind of wonder if they forgot to include a battery or something. First unveiled in March, the TravelMate X5 should be available in the US in …

The Acer TravelMate X5 is one of those laptops that’s so lightweight that when you first pick it up, you kind of wonder if they forgot to include a battery or something. First unveiled in March, the TravelMate X5 should be available in the US in June for $1100 and up. And I got a […]

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Raytracing: Geforce 425.31 schaltet DXR für GTX-Karten frei

Der aktuelle Geforce-Grafiktreiber macht DirectX Raytracing (DXR) unter Windows 10 ab einer Geforce GTX 1060 möglich. Wie flüssig das läuft, können Nutzer mit Demos von Atomic Heart, Justice und Star Wars Reflections selbst ausprobieren. Wir raten mind…

Der aktuelle Geforce-Grafiktreiber macht DirectX Raytracing (DXR) unter Windows 10 ab einer Geforce GTX 1060 möglich. Wie flüssig das läuft, können Nutzer mit Demos von Atomic Heart, Justice und Star Wars Reflections selbst ausprobieren. Wir raten mindestens zu einer Geforce GTX 1080. (Nvidia Pascal, Grafikhardware)

Untersuchung vorgestellt: Kartellamt warnt vor Tricks der Vergleichsportale

Anderthalb Jahre lang hat das Bundeskartellamt die deutschen Vergleichsportale unter die Lupe genommen. Der Vergleich bestätigte die Bedenken der Wettbewerbshüter gegen mehrere Praktiken der Anbieter. (Verbraucherschutz, Internet)

Anderthalb Jahre lang hat das Bundeskartellamt die deutschen Vergleichsportale unter die Lupe genommen. Der Vergleich bestätigte die Bedenken der Wettbewerbshüter gegen mehrere Praktiken der Anbieter. (Verbraucherschutz, Internet)

First look at the PinePhone dev kit running KDE Plasma Mobile & PostmarketOS

The folks at Pine64 are working on a Linux-powered smartphone that could sell for as little as $149. It’s called the PinePhone, and the team unveiled the project and launched a development kit earlier this year. Now that developers are starting t…

The folks at Pine64 are working on a Linux-powered smartphone that could sell for as little as $149. It’s called the PinePhone, and the team unveiled the project and launched a development kit earlier this year. Now that developers are starting to work with that pre-release hardware, we’re getting our first look at what the […]

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A private spacecraft from Israel crashed into the Moon Thursday [Updated]

No private company has ever achieved what SpaceIL is trying to do.

Beresheet captured this image of the Moon from an altitude of 500km.

Enlarge / Beresheet captured this image of the Moon from an altitude of 500km. (credit: SpaceIL)

Thursday 3:35pm ET Update: The Moon remains a harsh mistress.

On Thursday, SpaceIL's lunar lander attempted to make a soft landing on the surface of the Moon, but instead it apparently crashed instead into the gray world. Although a postmortem analysis has not yet been completed, telemetry from the spacecraft indicated a failure of the spacecraft's main engine about 10km above the Moon. Thereafter, it appears to have struck the Moon at a velocity around 130 meters per second.

“We have had a failure in the spacecraft," Opher Doron, general manager of the space division at Israel Aerospace Industries, which built the lander, said during the landing webcast. "We have unfortunately not managed to land successfully.” Israeli engineers vowed to try again.

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Momentum 326M6VJRMB: Philips bringt 32-Zoll-4K-Bildschirm speziell für Konsolen

Der Momentum 326M6VJRMB ist eine Alternative für Konsolenspieler, die nicht unbedingt immer an einem großen Fernseher zocken wollen. Der Monitor bietet HDR, 4K und viele HDMI-Anschlüsse für Playstation 4, Switch und Xbox One, eignet sich für PC-Spieler…

Der Momentum 326M6VJRMB ist eine Alternative für Konsolenspieler, die nicht unbedingt immer an einem großen Fernseher zocken wollen. Der Monitor bietet HDR, 4K und viele HDMI-Anschlüsse für Playstation 4, Switch und Xbox One, eignet sich für PC-Spieler aber nicht optimal. (Philips, Display)

1 GBit/s: Verkehrsministerium hat keine Informationen zu Glasfaser

Das Bundesverkehrsministerium kann keine Angaben dazu machen, wie viele Kilometer Glasfaser neu bis in die Haushalte verlegt wurden. Rund 1,2 Prozent aller Haushalte wurden neu versorgt. (Glasfaser, Telekom)

Das Bundesverkehrsministerium kann keine Angaben dazu machen, wie viele Kilometer Glasfaser neu bis in die Haushalte verlegt wurden. Rund 1,2 Prozent aller Haushalte wurden neu versorgt. (Glasfaser, Telekom)

Sharp’s flexible smartphone concept folds in half… the other way

Samsung’s first foldable smartphone closes up like a book when you want to fold it in half. So does Huawei’s, Oppo’s and most of the other upcoming models we’ve seen so far (except for Xiaomi’s prototype, which has a tri-f…

Samsung’s first foldable smartphone closes up like a book when you want to fold it in half. So does Huawei’s, Oppo’s and most of the other upcoming models we’ve seen so far (except for Xiaomi’s prototype, which has a tri-fold wallet-like design). But Sharp is showing off a prototype of a smartphone display that folds […]

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