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Nintendo confirms portable-only, $200 “Switch Lite” for September [Updated]

Smaller unit features non-removable controls, can’t be docked to a TV.

Turqoise, grey, and yellow are the first three official Switch Lite colors.

After months and months and months and months and months of credible rumors, Nintendo this morning confirmed that the Switch Mini is real in a short video announcement. The cheaper system, which is "dedicated to handheld play" and not compatible with docking to a TV set, will be available for $200 starting September 20, 2019 in three different colors.

The more compact system shrinks the original Switch's 6.2 inch screen to 5.5 inches, diagonally. The screen keeps the same 1280 x 720 resolution, though, resulting in a small increase in PPI and overall sharpness. The Lite system also reduces the original's weight (from about 0.88 pounds to about 0.61 pounds, including Joy-Cons), height (4" to 3.6"), and width (9.4" to 8.2").

Nintendo says there should be no performance difference between the two versions of the console when comparing portable mode. And the smaller system still supports games on physical cards, eShop downloads to SD card storage, standard wired headphones, and a Wi-Fi connection to the Nintendo Switch Online service.

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Handheld: Nintendo stellt die Switch Lite für unterwegs vor

Etwas leichter als die Mobilversion der Switch, etwas längere Akkulaufzeit und kein Anschluss an den Fernseher: Nintendo hat die ab September 2019 verfügbare Switch Lite angekündigt. (Nintendo Switch, Nintendo)

Europäischer Gerichtshof: Amazon muss keine Kundenservice-Telefonnummer angeben

Der Europäische Gerichtshof sieht keine Pflicht für Amazon und andere Händler, eine Telefonnummer für Kunden anzugeben. Auch andere Kommunikationsmittel wie Chat oder E-Mail sind zulässig. (Amazon, Verbraucherschutz)

Prodesk 400 und 600 G5: HP kündigt neue Mini-Rechner an

HP hat neue Versionen seiner besonders kleinen Rechner vorgestellt. Die neuen Prodesk Desktop Mini nutzen Intels neue Sechs-Kern-Prozessoren. Es gibt derzeit allerdings Unstimmigkeiten bei den technischen Daten. (HP, PC-Hardware)

Local Home SDK: Google bietet SDK für Smarthomesteuerung im lokalen Netzwerk

Basierend auf Google Home und der Sprache Javascript bietet Google ein Software Development Kit für das heimische Smart Home in der Preview an. Das Local Home SDK funktioniert nach der Einrichtung auch ohne Cloud-Anbindung. Diese kann aber als Rückfall…

Social Media: Trump darf kritische Nutzer nicht blockieren

Für Donald Trump gelten auf Twitter schon bestimmte Sonderregeln. Gegen die amerikanische Verfassung darf aber auch der US-Präsident nicht verstoßen. (Twitter, Soziales Netz)

YouTube ‘Blocks’ Popular MP3 Stream-Ripping Sites

Several stream-ripping sites have been unable to download and convert files from YouTube starting a few hours ago. It appears that the video streaming platform is actively blocking requests from these sites. While the reason for the sudden blocking efforts is unknown, the music industry would certainly welcome a more aggressive stance from YouTube.

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Free music is easy to find nowadays. Just head over to YouTube and you can find millions of tracks, including many of the most recent releases.

While some artists happily share their work, the major record labels don’t want tracks to leak outside YouTube’s ecosystem. For this reason, they see YouTube-to-MP3-rippers as a major threat.

Several prominent music companies have already taken legal action against key players in recent years. They managed to shut down sites such as YouTube-MP3, blocked others, and are currently involved in a civil lawsuit against FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com in the US.

At the same time, music companies have repeatedly asked YouTube to step up as well. While the streaming site threatened several stream-ripping sites with tough language in the past, it hasn’t taken any strong countermeasures.

However, it appears that this position may have changed. Several operators of YouTube-to-MP3 rippers have confirmed that the streaming service is actively blocking requests from their sites.

“All my servers are blocked with error ‘HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests’,” the operator of Dlnowsoft.com informs TorrentFreak. As a result, the stream-ripping site currently displays a “service temporarily unavailable, we will come back soon” error message.

The site in question is not alone. Mp3-youtube.download, another stream-ripper, is facing a similar issue. According to its operator, something changed yesterday evening and users now see a ‘this URL does not exist’ error message when they try to convert a YouTube clip.

The massively popular Onlinevideoconverter.com, which is among the top 200 most-visited sites on the Internet, appears to be affected as well. While videos from sites such as Vimeo can still be converted, YouTube links now return the following error message.

None of the site operators we heard from was warned by YouTube in advance.

We also reached out to the video streaming service for a comment and further details, but at the time of writing, we have yet to hear back.

While YouTube’s efforts, intentional or not, are effective, they will likely trigger a cat-and-mouse game. The operator of a popular stream-ripper, who prefers to remain anonymous, managed to get around the blockade by deploying several proxy servers.

Many other stream-rippers and YouTube converters such as FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com are still working fine as well, but it’s not clear whether they were actively targeted by YouTube.

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Vereinigtes Königreich: Provider-Verein nimmt Kritik an Mozilla zurück

Die Nominierung Mozillas als “Internetschurke” hat der Provider-Verband des Vereinigten Königreichs nun offiziell zurückgenommen. Die Umsetzungspläne für DoH will der Verband aber weiter “genau hinterfragen”. (Mozilla, Firefox)

Die Nominierung Mozillas als "Internetschurke" hat der Provider-Verband des Vereinigten Königreichs nun offiziell zurückgenommen. Die Umsetzungspläne für DoH will der Verband aber weiter "genau hinterfragen". (Mozilla, Firefox)

Computergeschichte: Apollo-Navigationscomputer der Nasa kann Bitcoin schürfen

Ein 35 kg schwerer Klotz mit Ferritringspeicher – trotzdem hat der Bastler Ken Shirriff den restaurierten AGC der Nasa zum Schürfen von Bitcoin konfigurieren können. Das habe viel Aufwand und manuelles Anpassen des Sha-256-Algorithmus gekostet, sagte d…

Ein 35 kg schwerer Klotz mit Ferritringspeicher - trotzdem hat der Bastler Ken Shirriff den restaurierten AGC der Nasa zum Schürfen von Bitcoin konfigurieren können. Das habe viel Aufwand und manuelles Anpassen des Sha-256-Algorithmus gekostet, sagte der Entwickler. (Kryptomining, Computer)

Chinese air pollution dimmed sunlight enough to impact solar panels

Pollution from coal and biomass burning blocks 13% of solar electricity.

A truck filled with coal drives down a freeway in China.

Coal is seen by many as an enemy of renewable energy and the first fossil fuel in line for elimination as things like solar and wind generation have gotten cheaper. But counterattacks from coal can go even further than lobbying against pro-renewable policies, it seems. According to new research, China’s coal-driven air pollution is significantly reducing the output of solar panels by dimming the Sun.

China is easily number one in terms of new solar construction right now, accounting for over half of the world’s installs in 2017, for example. Between 2010 and 2017, China went from having less than 1 gigawatt of solar capacity to 130 gigawatts, and the country is headed for around 400 gigawatts by 2030. After a run of transformative economic growth powered by coal and other fossil fuels, China is dealing with choking air pollution that is a major driving factor in this solar push.

Recent research has compiled a record of solar radiation measurements around China going back to the late 1950s. The research shows a declining trend in solar radiation until about 2005, when it leveled off and began to tick back upward. That tracks the increasing particulate air pollution due to coal-burning power plants and manufacturing—as well as biomass burning—that has only recently been addressed.

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