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Samsung Galaxy Book Flex and Ion laptops coming in early 2020 (QLED displays and 10th-gen Core processors)

Samsung has unveiled two new thin and light convertible notebooks that will hit the streets early next year. The new Samsung Galaxy Book Flex 2-in-1 convertible and Galaxy Book Ion clamshell-style notebook will be the first laptop computers to ship wit…

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NASA shares details of lunar surface missions—and they’re pretty cool

But there is a catch if you want to bring back Moon rocks.

Look! Here's an artist's conception of an astronaut on the Moon. It appears as though she is installing a geophone. [credit: NASA ]

There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical that NASA will actually enact the Artemis Moon program to land astronauts on the Moon by 2024—Congress may not fund it, NASA's large, costly rocket remains far behind schedule, and history has been unkind to deep-space exploration programs since Apollo. However, should lunar landing missions occur during the next decade, they have the potential to go far beyond what NASA accomplished with the Apollo program half a century ago.

NASA scientists John Connolly and Niki Werkheiser spoke Wednesday at the annual meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, and they provided more details about the agency's plan for human missions in the 2020s.

Nearly a week

The first mission to the Moon's surface, consisting of two crew members, will remain on the surface for 6.5 days—this is double the longest period of time any of the Apollo missions spent on the surface. The two astronauts will conduct up to four spacewalks on the surface of the Moon, performing a variety of scientific observations, including sampling water ice. "We will have a very robust science program from the very beginning," Connolly said.

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Millions of UK Football Fans Seem Confused About Piracy

A new survey published today suggests that up to five million people may have accessed football matches illegally in the UK at some point in their life. While that headline figure is high, it’s the confusion among many consumers that seems the greatest concern for outfits like the Premier League.

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Football, or soccer as it’s more commonly known in the US, is the most popular spectator sport in the UK. As a result, millions watch matches every week, both legally and illegally.

The latter method of consumption is a big thorn in the side of organizations such as the Premier League, which has been working hard to stamp out piracy in all its forms, often via aggressive enforcement. However, a new survey published today suggests more education is also needed.

Commissioned by betting tips service OLBG and carried out by market research company OnePoll in September, the survey looks at some of the habits of 1,000 football fan respondents.

The survey begins by noting that 16.6% of respondents usually attend live games, closely followed by 14.3% who “usually” watch in the pub. However, the largest audience (46.9%) are those who regularly watch matches live at home.

This, of course, opens up the opportunity for piracy. The report states that 22.4% of football fans surveyed admitted to knowingly using “unofficial streams” at some time in the past, a figure that is extrapolated in the report to “over five million UK football fans” admitting to illegal streaming.

Asking whether fans had watched a pirated stream in the past 12 months (or even “usually”) would have arguably been a little more useful, in order not to inflate the figures beyond current consumption habits. There will be fans in those millions who, in varying combinations, attend matches, watch legally in the pub, and on occasion, illegally at home too.

Nevertheless, the report provides some interesting data on the knowledge of those surveyed when it comes to illegal and legal consumption.

For example, just over 61% of respondents acknowledged that accessing streams from unofficial providers is illegal, meaning that almost 40% believe that watching matches from third-party sources is absolutely fine. That’s a pretty big problem for the Premier League and other broadcasters when four out of ten fans can’t tell the difference between a legal and illegal provider.

Strangely, the figure drops slightly when respondents were asked about “Kodi-style” devices. Just 49% said that these boxes provide content illegally, meaning around half believe they offer football matches legally. Given the drive to stamp out the illegal use of these devices globally, this is also an eye-opener.

Moving to other methods of access, the figures are a little bit more predictable. Just under 29% felt that social media streams (Facebook Live etc) are illegal, so that may raise the possibility that respondents associated the perceived legitimacy of the platform with legality.

Password sharing is also tackled in the survey, with 32.5% of respondents stating that they believe that using someone else’s login to access football matches is illegal. If that happens outside the subscriber’s household it might constitute a terms-of-service breach but actual illegality is open to question, account stealing aside.

All that being said, according to the survey, just 11% have actually used a family member’s login to watch football during the past 12 months, a figure that drops to 9.8% when borrowing from a friend.

In common with the debate around password sharing on Netflix and other platforms, this issue is likely to receive greater attention in the future but how it will be tackled by providers is far from clear. At least at the moment, the problem seems limited.

Finally, and just returning to the headline “five million football pirates in the UK”, it’s worth noting that this refers to people who have “EVER” used an unofficial stream to watch football, so it’s not necessarily five million fans who don’t ever part with a penny.

As far as we could see, no question in the report tried to determine what percentage of fans currently freeload all of the time, which is undoubtedly the biggest problem for the Premier League.

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Geheimdienstchefs im Bundestag: Verfassungsschutz will komplette Server kopieren

Im Kampf gegen Cyberangriffe wünschen sich die Nachrichtendienste mehr Befugnisse. Während der Verfassungsschutz mehr Daten abgreifen möchte, sieht sich der BND für Hackbacks gerüstet. (Hackback, Datenschutz)

LG G8X ThinQ smartphone coming November 1st (Dual Screen case too)

The LG G8X ThinQ is a smartphone with decent specs including a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, dual rear cameras, a 32MP front camera, stereo speakers, and a 32-bit HiFi quad DAC. But the phone’s standout feature …

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Dealmaster: Buy a month of Amazon Music Unlimited, get an Echo Dot for $1 extra

With auto-renewal. Plus deals on Vizio and Sony 4K TVs, iPads, and more.

Greetings, Arsians! The Dealmaster is back with another round of discounts and price drops. Today's list is headlined by a deal on Amazon's Echo Dot, which you can effectively get for $9 or $11, depending on whether you're a Prime member. Amazon is bundling the diminutive smart speaker for $1 extra when you buy a month of its Music Unlimited streaming service, which costs $8 a month for Prime members or $10 a month for everyone else on its own. If you're a Prime member who is new to Music Unlimited, the bundle will cost $9; if not, it will go for $11.

The catch is that the deal requires you to enable auto-renewal on the subscription, but you're also free to cancel. (We'd wait until after you receive the Echo Dot just to be safe, though.) Either way, the Echo Dot sees frequent discounts but normally costs somewhere in the $30-50 range, so if you're just interested in the speaker, it's a good deal.

As with any smart speaker deal the Dealmaster highlights, we're obligated to remind you that the Echo Dot isn't exactly a darling of privacy advocates. Alexa can still be abused by malicious apps, Amazon has admitted it reviews samples of customer audio, and sounds the Echo captures can be used in criminal trials. There's a reason Amazon gives these things away for cheap so often—margins on the hardware aren't its main concern. But chances are you already know how you feel about the privacy-to-utility ratio with devices like this.

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Verrohung in Social Media: Landes-Antisemitismusbeauftragter verlässt Facebook

Michael Blume, Antisemitismusbeauftragter in Baden-Württemberg, verlässt Facebook und Twitter. Grund hierfür seien neben Drohungen und Beschimpfungen auch die Geschäftsmodelle der sozialen Medien. (Facebook, Soziales Netz)

FCC plans Huawei/ZTE ban, may require ripping out existing network gear

Ban on Chinese vendors would affect recipients of Universal Service funding.

Enlarge / A sign outside Huawai's offices in Santa Clara, California, August 17, 2017. (credit: Getty Images | Smith Collection/Gado )

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai is moving ahead with a ban on equipment from Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE in US-funded telecom projects. The FCC will vote on Pai's proposal at its November 19 meeting, the commission said in an announcement and fact sheet released yesterday.

Pai's proposal "would bar communications companies from using any support they receive from the FCC's Universal Service Fund (USF) to purchase equipment or services from companies posing a national security threat, like the Chinese companies Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp.," the announcement said.

The order specifically designates Huawei and ZTE "as companies that pose a national security risk" and would create "a process for designating other suppliers that pose a national security threat," the FCC said. Huawei's network gear is used by numerous small, rural Internet providers.

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Razer’s new $100 Junglecat controller is like a Joy-con for Android phones

Gaming hardware company Razer has its own line of Android smartphones. But now the company is introducing a new accessory that lets you turn other Android phone into gaming phones. The new Razer Junglecat controller is a $100 Bluetooth controller that …

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Google’s parent company reportedly wants to buy Fitbit

So… how exactly would Fitbit help Google in the smartwatch wars?

The Fitbit Versa 2 smartwatch. [credit: Valentina Palladino ]

Reuters has a shocker of a report claiming that Google's parent company, Alphabet, is trying to buy Fitbit.

The report says, "There is no certainty that the negotiations between Google and Fitbit will lead to any deal," and "the exact price that Google has offered for Fitbit could not be learned," but apparently an offer was made.

Fitbit made a name for itself in wearables by producing a popular, cheap, simple fitness tracker. Since 2009, the company has produced simple clips or bracelets that log your activity and sync it to an app. Xiaomi, Huawei, and others eventually started muscling in on Fitbit's turf, though, and the company responded by buying Pebble and producing devices that worked more and more like a full-blown smartwatch. Fitbit faces fierce competition in the smartwatch market, too, though, as over the past few years Apple has made fitness a core part of the Apple Watch. It's no surprise that Fitbit's revenue has been down for three straight years, as the company is getting squeezed at the low end by China and the high end by Apple.

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