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Ein Modder hat Nintendos Game Boy zum portablen Mining-Rig für Bitcoins umgebaut. Reich macht ihn der schürfende Handheld aber wohl nicht. (Kryptomining, Nintendo)
Ein Modder hat Nintendos Game Boy zum portablen Mining-Rig für Bitcoins umgebaut. Reich macht ihn der schürfende Handheld aber wohl nicht. (Kryptomining, Nintendo) A staffer sums it up (before knowing the damage): “The walking dead, a dystopian situation.”
The trailer for HBO's The Last Cruise.
Filmmaker Hannah Olson might be the only person to ever have two world premieres at South by Southwest while never having her work shown on a single screen in town. Back in 2020, Olson was ready to bring Baby God, her HBO documentary on the fallout from revelations about disgraced fertility doctor Quincy Fortier. But then March 6, 2020 happened—the city of Austin declared a disaster and effectively cancelled SXSW for the first time in the event's 30-plus-year history.
"The pandemic became very real for me very quickly because my premiere was canceled on March 6, 2020," Olson tells Ars. "So at that point, I felt very strongly I wanted to pivot... and I started looking closer at these people stuck on a cruise ship out in Japan."
Just like that, Olson had unexpectedly started on her second feature documentary before her first had even debuted.
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Is blockchain item authentication a speculative fad or a technological sea change?
Enlarge / Look ma, I'm on the blockchain (credit: Chris Torres | Beeple | Aurich Lawson)
It has been nearly 10 years now since Ars Technica first described Bitcoin to readers as “the world’s first virtual currency… designed by an enigmatic, freedom-loving hacker, and currently used by the geek underground to buy and sell everything from servers to cellphone jammers.” A decade later, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are practically mainstream, and even most non-techies know the blockchain basics powering a decentralized financial revolution (or a persistent bubble, if you prefer).
What Bitcoin was to 2011, NFTs are to 2021. So-called “non-fungible tokens” are having a bit of a moment in recent weeks, attracting a surge of venture capital cash and eye-watering speculative values for traceable digital goods. This despite the fact that most of the general public barely understands how this blockchain-based system of digital authentication works, or why it’s behind people paying $69 million for a single GIF.
Perhaps the simplest way to start thinking about NFTs is as a digital version of the various “certificates of authenticity” that are prevalent in the market for real-world art and collectibles. Instead of a slip of paper, though, NFTs use cryptographic smart contracts and a distributed blockchain (most often built on top of Ethereum these days) to certify who owns each distinct, authentic token.
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Die Filmwirtschaft findet die Feiertagsregeln fürs Kino nicht mehr zeitgemäß. Die Abschaffung wird seit Langem gefordert. (Digitalkino, Streaming)
Die Filmwirtschaft findet die Feiertagsregeln fürs Kino nicht mehr zeitgemäß. Die Abschaffung wird seit Langem gefordert. (Digitalkino, Streaming) Telefónica setzt bisher auf “echtes 5G” bei 3,6 GHz. (5G, Telefónica)
Optimierte Technik, Quests und Welt in Cyberpunk 2077: Neben hunderten von Verbesserungen kommt auf PC auch Raytracing für AMD-Karten. (Cyberpunk 2077, Rollenspiel)
Optimierte Technik, Quests und Welt in Cyberpunk 2077: Neben hunderten von Verbesserungen kommt auf PC auch Raytracing für AMD-Karten. (Cyberpunk 2077, Rollenspiel) Media giant ABS-CBN has filed a new lawsuit accusing several websites of offering pirated copies of its movies and TV-shows. One of the mentioned domain names, craigwhittakermp.co.uk, was previously used and promoted by British Member of Parliament Craig Whittaker. The new owner turned it into a pirate site and faces millions of dollars in damages.
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In recent years, ABS-CBN, the largest media and entertainment company in the Philippines, has filed a series of lawsuits against pirate sites in the US.
These complaints typically list domain names as defendants, accusing their anonymous operators of copyright and trademark infringement, among other things.
This legal campaign has been relatively successful to date. ABS-CBN has won millions of dollars in damages through default judgments and settlements. At the same time, domain name registrars and registries have been ordered by courts to take domains offline.
A few days ago, ABS-CBN filed a new lawsuit at a federal court in Florida, listing the operators of 21 allegedly infringing domain names as defendants.
“Defendants’ entire Internet-based website businesses amount to nothing more than illegal operations established and operated in order to infringe the intellectual property rights of ABS-CBN and others,” the complaint reads, stressing the importance of the domain names.
“The Subject Domain Names themselves are a significant part of the means by which Defendants further their infringing scheme and cause harm to ABS-CBN in that they cause and effect the infringement as described herein.”
These allegations are in line with the other lawsuits ABS-CBN has filed in the past. Most of the domain names clearly give away the intention of the sites, such as hdfullmovies.net and fullpinoymovieshub.com. However, there is one that sticks out like a sore thumb.
Amidst the ‘pirate’ domain names, ABS-CBN also lists craigwhittakermp.co.uk. As the name suggests, this domain was previously used by British Member of Parliament (MP) Craig Whittaker.
In fact, the domain name was linked to the MPs official website up until 2017, which is still promoted in old tweets.
Today, Whittaker has a new website and, as far as we know, the old domain name is no longer registered to or controlled by the MP. Instead, the craigwhittakermp.co.uk domain name now promotes Pinoy TV-shows and movies, which offends ABS-CBN.
According to the media giant, craigwhittakermp.co.uk and the other domains are classic examples of pirate operations that willfully infringe ABS-CBN’s copyrights and trademarks. Through the lawsuit, the company requests the court’s help to stop this allegedly illegal activity.
“Defendants’ websites operating under the Subject Domain Names are classic examples of pirate operations, having no regard whatsoever for the rights of ABS-CBN and willfully infringing ABS-CBN’s intellectual property,” the company writes.
The complaint accuses the defendants of trademark and copyright infringement, among other things, requesting an injunction to halt this activity. Because defendants may not respond, ABS-CBN also requests an injunction ordering domain registries to take the domains offline.
In addition, the media giant asks the court to order all defendants to pay statutory damages. These can reach $2 million for each trademark infringement and an additional $150,000 for every copyrighted work shared without permission.
TorrentFreak reached out to Craig Whittaker for a comment but he didn’t immediately respond.
There are no signs that Whittaker is in any way involved with his old domain name at the moment. The most likely scenario is that it expired at some point and that a third-party registered it afterward.
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A copy of the complaint filed by ABS-CBN at the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida is available here (pdf)
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Sog und Wellenschlag sind kein Problem, wenn ein Elektro-Boot mit über 55 km/h übers Wasser flitzt. (Elektromobilität, Technologie)
Sog und Wellenschlag sind kein Problem, wenn ein Elektro-Boot mit über 55 km/h übers Wasser flitzt. (Elektromobilität, Technologie) It can unload trucks, build pallets, and will fit anywhere a pallet fits.
Stretch is a mobile box-moving robot, with a beefy arm and a large mobile base.
After 28 years of research and development, Boston Dynamics entered the commercial robot market last year with the launch of Spot. This is a ~$75,000 robotic dog that can march around facilities for remote inspections and, with an extra arm attachment, can even open doors and do remote manipulation.
Today, Boston Dynamics' quest for commercialization continues with the announcement of a second commercial robot, "Stretch," a box-moving bot designed to meet the demands of warehouses and distribution centers. The robot is designed to "go where the work is" in a warehouse, unloading trucks, de-palleting shipments, and eventually building orders. For now, we're seeing a prototype, but Boston Dynamics hopes companies will start buying Stretch when it hits commercial deployment in 2022.
As Boston Dynamics VP of Product Engineering Kevin Blankespoor told us shortly before the launch of Stretch, the company is going to where the customers are. "When we released our first Atlas "Next-gen" video," Blankespoor said, "there was a part of that video that showed Atlas moving boxes, and we got a big reaction from people in the warehouse space. They wanted Atlas to come work at their warehouse." Atlas is the company's do-everything humanoid research robot and is probably far too expensive to be a commercial product.
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