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This year Samsung introduced the first 108MP camera sensor for smartphones, and now Chinese device maker Xiaomi has officially launched the first phone to make use of the camera. As expected, the Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro features five rear cameras,including t…
This year Samsung introduced the first 108MP camera sensor for smartphones, and now Chinese device maker Xiaomi has officially launched the first phone to make use of the camera. As expected, the Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro features five rear cameras,including that 108MP primary camera. By default, it’ll actually save photos as 27MP images, combining data from four […]
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Want to get beyond 60fps? Go ahead. Want to buy and load the game on Steam? Not yet.
Let's get stoic again... this time on Windows PC. All images in this gallery were captured from live gameplay at near-max settings. [credit: Rockstar Games ]
After years of waiting, we finally have a Red Dead Redemption game on Windows PCs... and it's the newer one from October of last year. Tuesday morning marked the PC launch of Red Dead Redemption 2—now available for purchase exclusively through the Rockstar Games Launcher for $60 and up—so we grabbed a copy to see how this PC port turned out.
The meat of it all comes in the attached galleries, which all include near-max settings at native 1440p resolution and the game's temporal anti-aliasing (TAA) toggle turned to "high." I've only tested enough to get through the campaign's opening snowy portion, though the game's built-in benchmark mode (below) includes plenty of outdoor footage.
In good news, RDR2's PC port works as a pretty, settings-cranked-high alternative to last year's console release. Its most obvious upgrade comes in the form of an unlocked frame rate. In one morning of testing, I was already able to crank performance (after downgrading a bunch of settings) to an apparent 120fps-and-up threshold, although random performative spikes—usually triggered by sharp cuts in cinematic scenes—made me glad I had a variable refresh rate monitor.
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PopcornTime.sh, considered by many to be the ‘official’ successor to the original Popcorn Time application, has serious domain issues. According to public records, its domain registrar has issued an order to its registry to deactivate its DNS access. Separately, an as-yet unconfirmed report suggests that an arrest in Tunisia may be connected to the current downtime.
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In 2014, the application known as Popcorn Time burst onto the scene to transform the BitTorrent landscape.
Instead of accessing torrent files from indexing platforms such as The Pirate Bay to download them in a comparatively boring regular client, users were given a beautiful, Netflix-style, all-in-one solution.
Very quickly, Popcorn Time became a smash-hit sensation but it also attracted movie and TV show companies determined to shut it down. While some success was booked on this front, Popcorn Time’s open-source nature meant that it could be replicated by enthusiasts, such as those who ultimately ended up operating from PopcornTime.sh.
While there are other variants, Reddit’s /r/popcorntime considers the .sh domain as offering the ‘official’ version of PopcornTime and the site was previously linked from the official Github repository. As the image below shows, the website and associated services attached to the app via the .sh domain were working just fine on November 3, 2019.
The situation today, however, is very much different. PopcornTime.sh and all the sub-domains which allow its app to work as intended have been rendered inaccessible.
According to WHOIS data, late on Monday the domain was updated. It isn’t due to expire for another year but its domain status is currently listed as “clientHold”, which can signal bad news.
‘ClientHold’ status is set by the domain registrar, 101domain.com in this case, and informs the registry not to activate the DNS for PopcornTime.sh. As a result, the website in question has been rendered inaccessible.
“This status code tells your domain’s registry to not activate your domain in the DNS and as a consequence, it will not resolve,” ICANN’s official advice reads. “It is an uncommon status that is usually enacted during legal disputes, non-payment, or when your domain is subject to deletion.”
We have been unable to officially confirm why PopcornTime.sh has been given this treatment but in the past, clientHold status has proven problematic for domains and has sometimes signaled legal issues. Information received earlier today adds at least some weight to that theory.
This afternoon we received an email from the folks at InternetProtocol.co who, citing anonymous police sources, claim that the site’s operator may (and that’s a pretty big ‘may’) have been arrested in Tunisia.
The publication also posted an image that supposedly shows items confiscated as evidence as part of a “raid” carried out in “cooperation with some international copyright organization.”
Unable to confirm the allegations from any other source and given its worldwide position on anti-piracy enforcement, TorrentFreak contacted the Alliance For Creativity and Entertainment seeking confirmation or indeed denial that it was involved in this alleged and as-yet unconfirmed action.
We were told by their spokesperson that at this point in time, he wasn’t able to provide us with any information.
Although the moderators of the official PopcornTime sub on Reddit claim to have no direct connection with the software distributed and maintained from the .sh domain, TorrentFreak requested comments from all of them. At the time of publication, however, we were yet to hear back.
Whether the domain issue will be solved in time is unclear but that seems largely reliant on whether the information about a supposed arrest in North Africa holds up as credible.
Similar action in that region is extremely rare, perhaps unheard of as far as popular applications go, so there will be a waiting game for the full picture to emerge, if it ever does. Last year, PopcornTime.sh was targeted by movie companies seeking the identity of its operator but what ultimately became of that remains unclear.
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Maingear’s latest gaming laptop features a thin-and-light design (by gaming laptop standards), but packs a lot of horsepower. The Maingear Vector features a 15.6 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel, 144 Hz display, an Intel Core i7-9750H hexa-core processor,…
Maingear’s latest gaming laptop features a thin-and-light design (by gaming laptop standards), but packs a lot of horsepower. The Maingear Vector features a 15.6 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel, 144 Hz display, an Intel Core i7-9750H hexa-core processor, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of PCIe NVMe solid state storage. But […]
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Raleigh Island, off the northern Florida coast, was a center of shell bead making.
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A team of archaeologists and its trusty drone are revealing an island community that once supplied valuable beads to the inland towns of the Mississippian culture, which thrived in the eastern United States from 800 to about 1600 CE.
A drone armed with laser beams discovered the remains of a long-lost culture on Raleigh Island, off the north coast of Florida. The high-resolution aerial laser scans mapped a massive complex of 37 oyster-shell rings, 23m to 136m across—the kind of rings that build up around coastal settlements through years of people eating oysters and discarding the shells. Some of the rings stood less than a meter high, but others loomed four meters above their surroundings. They formed four cloverleaf-shaped clusters, each with between six and 12 shell rings arranged around the one in the center.
"Given the general size and shape of the shell rings, we suspect each was the locus of a house and household of five to eight people each," University of Florida archaeologist Kenneth Sassaman told Ars Technica. Assuming all the rings were used at about the same time, that means 200 or 300 people once lived on the long, low-lying 30-hectare island—and it looks like every household on the island was involved in making beads from lightning whelk shells.
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Plus deals on 512GB microSD cards, Nintendo Switch games, iPads, and more.
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Greetings, Arsians! The Dealmaster is back with another round of discounts and price drops. Today's list is highlighted by a number of deals on Anker chargers, charging cables, and related gear. Amazon is featuring a handful of products from the accessory maker as part of a deal of the day promotion, but many of the discounts we like are actually available outside of that sale.
Some highlights include $5 off (with checkout codes) the company's three- and six-foot PowerLine II Lightning cables (both of which are MFi-certified by Apple), a five-pack of PowerLine microUSB cables for $11, and a 30W USB-C PD wall charger for $20. There's plenty more beyond that, though, so have a look at the full rundown below. While the MSRPs of Anker chargers have generally trended upward in recent months, the Dealmaster has found these products to be consistently reliable, and just about everything here is backed by an 18-month warranty at minimum if something goes haywire.
If you're all set on the charging front, we also have deals on Samsung microSD cards and SSDs, Audible subscriptions, various Nintendo Switch games, the new 10.2-inch Apple iPad, and more.
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8chan was live again at 8kun.net, but not for long.
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8chan was back online this week—albeit with a new name—three months after the site was essentially kicked off the public Internet. 8Chan is now called 8kun and located at 8kun.net. (In Japanese, "chan" is generally an honorific for children while "kun" is generally an honorific for young adults.)
We were able to access the site this morning, but it's offline again now around mid-day. 8chan administrator Ron Watkins previously warned that DDoS attacks and people protesting against 8chan's re-emergence could cause problems.
"Not sure how long we will be able to stay online with clearnet due to activists trying to deplatform us, and hackers preparing to ddos us. The tor hidden service should remain available regardless," Watkins wrote on Twitter Saturday. 8kun was also available on Loki, which Watkins described as an experimental alternative to Tor.
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Die PC-Version von Red Dead Redemption 2 bietet schönere Grafik als die Konsolenfassung – aber nach der Installation dauert es ganz schön lange bis zum ersten Feuergefecht. Ärgerlich neben technischen Problemen: Die Tastaturbelegung lässt sich nicht um…
Die PC-Version von Red Dead Redemption 2 bietet schönere Grafik als die Konsolenfassung - aber nach der Installation dauert es ganz schön lange bis zum ersten Feuergefecht. Ärgerlich neben technischen Problemen: Die Tastaturbelegung lässt sich nicht umstellen. (Red Dead Redemption 2, Spieletest) While there’s a lot of talk today about whether you’re better off buying a Surface Pro X with an ARM processor or a Surface Pro 7 with an Intel x86 chip, there’s another option that can save you a lot of money — just buy an olde…
While there’s a lot of talk today about whether you’re better off buying a Surface Pro X with an ARM processor or a Surface Pro 7 with an Intel x86 chip, there’s another option that can save you a lot of money — just buy an older Surface tablet. With a 6th-gen Intel Core processor, […]
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Die Provider im Netz der Telefónica gewinnen überraschend den Connect-Test der Discount-Mobilfunktarife. Doch einige wichtige Anbieter wurden nicht berücksichtigt. (Studie, Server)
Die Provider im Netz der Telefónica gewinnen überraschend den Connect-Test der Discount-Mobilfunktarife. Doch einige wichtige Anbieter wurden nicht berücksichtigt. (
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