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The Chuwi CoreBook X is a laptop with a 14 inch, 2160 x 1440 pixel IPS display, an Intel Core i5-8259U processor with Iris Plus 655 graphics, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage. Basically it’s a notebook that combines modern design elements (like …
The Chuwi CoreBook X is a laptop with a 14 inch, 2160 x 1440 pixel IPS display, an Intel Core i5-8259U processor with Iris Plus 655 graphics, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage. Basically it’s a notebook that combines modern design elements (like a 3:2 aspect ratio display) with previous-gen premium hardware (like the […]
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Ob die Pandemie eine Epochenwende herbeiführt, bleibt abzuwarten. Klar ist: Seuchen greifen in das Triebleben der Zeitgenossen ein. Ein Reservoir an Vorurteilen hilft, die Katastrophen zu überstehen
Nations with sufficient supply could donate doses to vaccinate 60% of world population.
Enlarge / A vial with the Pfizer Biontech vaccine. (credit: Thomas Lohnes | Getty Images)
The world could “end the pandemic” in mid-2022 by vaccinating 60 percent of the population at a cost of $50 billion, the IMF has said, as rich countries and vaccine manufacturers pledged to address the inequality undermining the global response to coronavirus.
Countries with sufficient vaccine supplies could afford to donate 1 billion doses in 2021, even while continuing to prioritise the immunisation of their own populations against Covid-19, the IMF said in its report released at a virtual G20 Health Summit on Friday.
Combined with upfront financing, the vaccine donations would bring a faster end to the pandemic, saving millions of lives and yielding economic benefits of about $9tn to global gross domestic product by 2025, it estimated.
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Ana’s formation is part of a trend toward earlier storms in the Atlantic.
Enlarge / Subtropical Ana forms in the Atlantic on Saturday morning. (credit: NOAA)
The National Hurricane Center said that a low-pressure system to the northwest of Bermuda had become sufficiently organized on Saturday morning to become a subtropical storm. It will be named Ana.
Although Ana has some tropical characteristics, it is considered "subtropical" because it is associated with a low pressure system in the upper atmosphere, and its maximum winds are located further from its center. Ana should not strengthen significantly above its current maximum of 45 mph winds, and should dissipate by early next week as it moves away from Bermuda.
Despite its relative weakness, Ana is notable for a couple of reasons. This is the seventh consecutive year, dating to 2015, that a "named" storm has formed in the Atlantic basin—which includes the northern Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico—before June 1. The beginning of June traditionally marks the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season.
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Technology related to deepfakes helps match facial movements to dialogue.
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You talkin' to me... in German?
New deepfake technology allows Robert De Niro to deliver his famous line from Taxi Driverin flawless German—with realistic lip movements and facial expressions. The AI software manipulates an actor’s lips and facial expressions to make them convincingly match the speech of someone speaking the same lines in a different language. The artificial-intelligence-based tech could reshape the movie industry, in both alluring and troubling ways.
The technology is related to deepfaking, which uses AI to paste one person’s face onto someone else. It promises to allow directors to effectively reshoot movies in different languages, making foreign versions less jarring for audiences and more faithful to the original. But the power to automatically alter an actor’s face so easily might also prove controversial if not used carefully.
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Ob Klimaschutz, Tierwohl oder die eigene Gesundheit das Hauptmotiv sind: Die Beliebtheit vegetarischer und veganer Ernährung nimmt stetig zu
Die Streaming-Dienste Deezer und Spotify ermöglichen nun auch Downloads ihrer Inhalte auf die Apple Watch für ein reines Offline-Erlebnis. (Apple Watch, Streaming)
Die Streaming-Dienste Deezer und Spotify ermöglichen nun auch Downloads ihrer Inhalte auf die Apple Watch für ein reines Offline-Erlebnis. (Apple Watch, Streaming) Anti-piracy group BREIN has shut down Discoverthisplace, a pirate site offering tens of thousands of movies, TV shows, music albums, eBooks and magazines. Homing in on an administrator and two major uploaders, BREIN went to court and convinced a judge that the matter was significantly urgent to warrant an ex parte injunction. Following service from a bailiff, the site was taken offline.
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Acting on behalf of a wide range of copyright holders and entertainment companies, BREIN is the most prominent anti-piracy group in the Netherlands.
Over the years BREIN has shut down thousands of platforms, the majority of which aren’t detailed outside its annual report. On occasion, however, BREIN highlights the processes that led to a specific shutdown and today it details the demise of pirate platform Discoverthisplace.
According to BREIN, Discovethisplace provided links to tens of thousands of films, TV shows, music, eBooks, comics and magazines. The pirated content was stored on cyberlockers, with around 3,800 audiovisual files, 3,300 music files and 24,000 pieces of literary content uploaded by the administrator of the site and two major uploaders.
BREIN said that the site made efforts to stay under its radar by maintaining a strict admissions policy but that doesn’t appear to have presented a barrier for long. The anti-piracy group said that it discovered that some users were paying five euros per month to gain swift access to the latest files, with cyberlockers paying the uploaders of the most popular files.
In order to pressure Discoverthisplace to shut down, BREIN went to court in the Netherlands back in February. Documents filed with the District Court of the Hague are redacted but it appears that at some point, the anti-piracy group did manage to identify the three people on its radar.
BREIN told the Court that it had been researching Discoverthisplace in recent weeks and had established that the three individuals were not only site managers but also large-scale distributors of copyrighted content, otherwise made available on legal platforms such as Netflix and Spotify. BREIN said this illegal distribution breaches its clients’ rights, including those of the Motion Picture Association and FPN (Filmproducenten Nederland).
In respect of the first respondent, BREIN told the Court that he or she is not only the creator of Discoverthisplace but also uploads films on a daily basis, amounting to thousands of titles in recent months. These include movies such as Wonder Woman 1984 and Trolls, made available on the site in breach of BREIN’s clients’ rights.
Respondent two was described as a person who had uploaded thousands of music albums and magazines in recent months and respondent three was said to be uploading pirated eBooks on a daily basis.
None of the respondents has permission to distribute the content in question, BREIN explained, and by posting the links to the site, this constitutes an illegal communication to the public. As a result, BREIN said its clients were suffering financial damage and were likely to continue doing so, if the Court did not restrain the three individuals from similar future conduct.
BREIN told the Court that it had not summoned the respondents so any defense to its allegations were unknown. However, given that commercial-scale infringement was underway on Discoverthisplace, the awarding of an ex parte injunction would have a much greater effect on compliance than correspondence from BREIN.
In addition, it would prevent the trio from continuing their activities through another website where it would be more difficult for BREIN to track them down.
The Court was convinced that urgent action was required without the respondents being present. The judge handed down an order requiring the respondents to cease-and-desist on pain of a 2,400 euros penalty for every day (or part thereof) that they are in breach of the court’s orders, up to a maximum of 50,000 euros. This had the desired effect.
“After service by the bailiff, the site was immediately taken offline. Those involved have pledged to cease the infringement and have reached a settlement of 20,000 euros,” BREIN reports.
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“Overwintering” fires smolder under the snow, reigniting vegetation in the spring.
Enlarge / White smoke rising from the tundra in front of the Baird Mountains. (credit: Western Arctic National Parklands (CC BY 2.0))
Each winter, as snow blankets Alaska and northern Canada, the wildfires of the summer extinguish, and calm prevails—at least on the surface. Beneath all that white serenity, some of those fires actually continue smoldering underground, chewing through carbon-rich peat, biding their time. When spring arrives and the chilly landscape defrosts, these “overwintering” fires pop up from below—that’s why scientists call them zombie fires.
Now, a new analysis in the journal Nature quantifies their extent for the first time, and shows what conditions are most likely to make the fires reanimate. Using satellite data and reports from the ground, researchers developed an algorithm that could detect where over a decade's worth of fires—dozens in total—burned in Alaska and Canada’s Northwest Territories, snowed over, and ignited again in the spring. Basically, they correlated burn scars with nearby areas where a new fire ignited later on. (They ruled out cases that could have coincided with a lightning storm, as well as ones close enough to people to have been caused by an accidental ignition.) They calculated that between 2002 and 2018, overwintering fires were responsible for 0.8 percent of the total burned area in these lands. That sounds small, but one year stood out: 2008, when a single zombie fire was actually responsible for charring 38 percent of the total burned area.
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Zahlreiche Chrome-Nutzer beschweren sich über spontane Browser-Abstürze unter Windows und Linux. Google liefert Updates. (Chrome, Google)
Zahlreiche Chrome-Nutzer beschweren sich über spontane Browser-Abstürze unter Windows und Linux. Google liefert Updates. (
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