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In Kooperation mit Valve wird über Proton künftig DLSS auf Nvidia-RTX-GPUs möglich. Das dürfte die Frameraten in Linux-Games verbessern. (DLSS, Nvidia)
The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending May 15, 2021, are in. Another DC Universe Animated Original Movies is this week’s top seller. Find out what movies it was in our weekly DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra…
The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending May 15, 2021, are in. Another DC Universe Animated Original Movies is this week's top seller. Find out what movies it was in our weekly DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales stats and analysis feature.
Viele Unternehmen wollen dauerhaft Büroflächen einsparen: Nur wenige gewährten bisher Zuschüsse für Homeoffice-Kosten
Eine neue Studie zur Arbeitssicherheit bei Amazon enthält schwere Vorwürfe wegen Akkorddrucks und Verletzungen. Doch Amazon rät, die Arbeiter sollten sich als “Industriesportler” sehen. (Amazon, ARD)
An intriguing and much more unusual alternative to the six-figure supercar.
KISSIMMEE, Fla.—At the upper end of the automotive market, there exists the restomod. A portmanteau of restoration and modification, the restomod is usually a reimagining of a classic car, with a fit and finish far in excess of factory spec—and a price tag to match. It's a less conventional alternative to spending six figures on a supercar and a great way to stand out from the crowd (or blend in, depending on how stealth you go). And nothing in the world of restomodding appeals to me as much as the electric conversion.
Some classic cars lend themselves to the electric restomod treatment better than others—like the gloss-white 1995 Range Rover Classic you see in the photos here. No one's really going to miss its old Rover V8, originally originally an engine of Buick design as nerds will know. And while you could replace it with a modern V8 fresh out of a crate (as is the case for most of ECD Automotive's restomods), doesn't a Tesla drive motor and some Tesla lithium-ion sound a whole lot cooler?
It looks a lot cooler under the hood of the electric Range Rover, too. Instead of an oily engine bay, you find one of the two battery packs, nestled with ancillaries like the cooling system beneath a custom cover. The other pack is at the far end, where it takes up some (but not too much) space in the cargo area. In total, the batteries amount to 100 kWh, good for about 220 miles (350 km) of range. The packs feed a single 450 hp (335 kW) drive motor from a Tesla Model S, mounted roughly where the transmission used to be so it can drive the front and rear axles in a 50:50 torque split.
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Der Aktienkurs von AMC ist mit Hilfe der Reddit-Community erneut rasant angestiegen. Dieses Mal hat die US-Kinokette selbst zum Hype beigetragen. (Börse, Reddit)
A wide variety of public interest groups, trade organizations, and law professors have come out to support ISP Cox Communications in its effort to reverse a piracy liability ruling. In various amicus briefs, they inform the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that if the current verdict stands, many people risk having their Internet access cut off based on one-sided piracy accusations, which would be extremely harmful.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Two years ago Internet provider Cox Communications lost its legal battle against a group of major record labels.
A Virginia jury held Cox liable for pirating subscribers because it failed to terminate accounts after repeated accusations, ordering the company to pay $1 billion in damages.
The ISP disagreed with the verdict and filed an appeal. In its opening brief, filed at the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit last week, Cox argued that it’s incorrectly being held liable for pirating subscribers. Not only that, but the company also warned against the harm that a loss of Internet access can cause to businesses and individuals.
Cox is not alone in this assessment. This week, a variety of organizations and groups have submitted amicus curiae briefs to the court, supporting Cox’s call to reverse the verdict. All these groups highlight the harm Internet disconnections will cause.
The first amici curiae brief comes from seventeen intellectual property law professors, who are connected to universities throughout the United States. They highlight various legal arguments.
For example, the professors explain that Cox shouldn’t be held liable for vicarious copyright infringement, as there is no evidence that its policies acted as a ‘draw’ to potential pirates. On the contrary, Cox’s anti-piracy policy appeared to be more strict than those of its competitors.
“There was no evidence in this case that customers subscribed to Cox because of any knowledge or expectation about how it treated infringement. Indeed, the record shows no evidence that customers subscribed to Cox for any reason other than to access the internet for its wide variety of legal uses,” the professors write.
Keeping the current verdict intact will violate internet principles, the professors note. It causes disproportionate harm because ISPs have to closely monitor the traffic of subscribers, which invades privacy. Alternatively, they can terminate accounts of customers based on third-party allegations, which would be harmful as well.
“If ISPs are forced to engage in proactive enforcement, they have a limited set of actions they can take to control alleged infringement. Their primary tool — terminating accused subscribers from the internet altogether — is a blunt instrument that would lead to remedies disproportionate to any violation.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the internet’s importance,” the professors add (pdf). “A loss of internet service, now more than ever, could seriously harm almost every aspect of an individual’s personal and professional life”
Similar arguments were made by other amici curiae. This includes a broad coalition of the EFF, Public Knowledge, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and various library organizations.
Their brief (pdf) stresses that Internet terminations are not required under the DMCA, as there are other options to deter pirates. If ISPs are required to disconnect users, based simply on third-party complaints, it will lead to catastrophic consequences.
“More aggressive termination policies would punish the innocent and guilty alike,” the organizations warn the court.
“Distance learning, telework, and telemedicine have become essential during the pandemic and are likely to remain so. For many or even most subscribers, loss of internet access would be catastrophic.”
A similar warning is repeated in the amicus curiae brief from the Internet Association. The group argues that ISPs can indeed stop piracy by terminating Internet access, but that doesn’t make it a reasonable solution.
If an ISP can be held liable for copyright infringement because it fails to terminate alleged pirates, would the same apply to the power company that supplies the energy for the pirating device?
“Termination of internet access to a house, business, or smaller ISP is not like removing or disabling access to infringing content,” the Internet Association writes (pdf).
“It is more like cutting off electricity to a building. Doing so may stop illegal downloading from occurring on the property, but failure to do so does not make the power company contributorily liable for whatever takes place.”
In yet another amici curiae brief, the broadband and wireless organizations CTIA, NTCA, and USTelecom, present another analogy.
In addition to various legal arguments, the groups equate the use of Internet terminations to stop piracy to shooting cannons to kill a mosquito. It may work, but at what cost?
“This is a quintessential case of using a cannon to kill a mosquito. The consequences of denying consumers access to the internet based on unverified allegations of prior copyright infringement cannot be overstated,” the organizations write (pdf).
“It has become particularly evident over the past year that the internet has become not only an essential platform for the exercise of free speech, but a critical means of access to education, employment opportunities, vaccines, medical care, defense and vindication of legal rights, and access to food and other essential products and services.”
All the highlighted briefs support Cox’s request to reverse the district court’s liability ruling. In the weeks to come, the music companies are expected to share their arguments, which will likely be backed by other copyright holders in various amicus briefs.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Debuts in No Man’s Sky‘s demanding VR mode, and we have numbers, image comparisons.
Enlarge / No Man's Sky added a bunch of trippy stuff this week, including rideable mounts. We love mounts. But we also love frames, so hence, we're analyzing the game's newfound use of DLSS, specifically in its punishing VR mode. (credit: Hello Games)
Over the past few years, Nvidia's Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS) standard has largely delivered on its magical promise: smoother gaming performance and crisper imagery, all based off of zillions of machine-farm computations to predict 3D game visuals. (You can see comprehensive DLSS breakdowns in my reviews of the RTX 3060 and RTX 3080 Ti.) The catch remains that your computer needs a compatible Nvidia "RTX" GPU to tap into the proprietary standard, which has become an ever-tougher pill to swallow in a chip-shortage world.
Still, if you run a DLSS-compatible game on an Nvidia RTX GPU, the performance gains can range from a solid 25 percent to an astonishing 90 percent—usually with greater returns coming from higher resolutions. Up until this week, one demanding PC-gaming use case has somehow not been a part of the DLSS ecosystem: virtual reality.
The default pixel resolution on popular headsets like Oculus Quest 2, Valve Index, and HP Reverb G2 often surpasses an average 4K display, and those headsets also demand higher frame rates for the sake of comfort. Thus, the DLSS promise seems particularly intriguing there. When DLSS works as advertised, a given game renders fewer pixels. This is when Nvidia's RTX GPUs leverage their "tensor" processing cores to fill in the missing details in ways that, theoretically, look better than standard temporal anti-aliasing (TAA) methods.
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Für die Kommunikation mit Behörden gibt es für Unternehmen künftig ein bundesweites Portal. Zum Login dienen Elster-Zertifikate. (Digitalisierung, Internet)
Für die Kommunikation mit Behörden gibt es für Unternehmen künftig ein bundesweites Portal. Zum Login dienen Elster-Zertifikate. (Digitalisierung, Internet) French physicist Gabriel Lippmann created the first color photographs in 1891.
French physicist Gabriel Lippmann pioneered color photography and snagged the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for his efforts. But according to a recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Lippmann's technique distorted the colors of the scenes being photographed. Physicists at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland were able to determine the nature of that distortion and developed a means of reconstructing the original spectrum that created the plates.
"These are the earliest multi-spectral light measurements on record so we wondered whether it would be possible to accurately recreate the original light of these historical scenes," said co-author Gilles Baechler. "But the way the photographs were constructed was very particular, so we were also really interested in whether we could create digital copies and understand how the technique worked."
A physics professor at the Sorbonne, Lippmann became interested in developing a means of fixing the colors of the solar spectrum onto a photographic plate in 1886, "whereby the image remains fixed and can remain in daylight without deterioration." He achieved that goal in 1891, producing color images of a stained-glass window, a bowl of oranges, and a colorful parrot, as well as landscapes and portraits—including a self-portrait. (Fun fact: Lippmann's laboratory protégés included a promising Polish physics student named Marie Skłodowska, who went on to marry Pierre Curie and win two Nobel Prizes of her own.)
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In Kooperation mit Valve wird über Proton künftig DLSS auf Nvidia-RTX-GPUs möglich. Das dürfte die Frameraten in Linux-Games verbessern. (
Eine neue Studie zur Arbeitssicherheit bei Amazon enthält schwere Vorwürfe wegen Akkorddrucks und Verletzungen. Doch Amazon rät, die Arbeiter sollten sich als "Industriesportler" sehen. (
Der Aktienkurs von AMC ist mit Hilfe der Reddit-Community erneut rasant angestiegen. Dieses Mal hat die US-Kinokette selbst zum Hype beigetragen. (
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