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Director Johannes Roberts wanted to evoke dark tone and scary aspects of the games.
Back to a familiar place... and time. [credit: YouTube/Sony Pictures ]
When the first Resident Evil game debuted in 1998, it was an immediate commercial and critical success, spawning several sequel games, comics, novels, and a very lucrative film franchise directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and starring Milla Jovovich. But those films were only loosely based on the games, keeping a few primary characters and the basic concept, but little else. Sony Pictures just dropped the official trailer for its upcoming reboot, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, and it looks like it will hew much more closely to the source material than its big-screen predecessors.
(Some spoilers for the first two games in the franchise below, but no major reveals.)
The sixth and final film in the Anderson series was released fairly recently, in 2016. But the franchise made a ton of money, so naturally a complete reboot was in the works by early 2017, with Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down) at the helm.
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As an addendum to our iOS 15 review, we look at what’s new on the iPad.
Enlarge / Widgets on iPadOS 15's home screen. (credit: Samuel Axon)
Last year, Apple released a meaty iOS update for iPhones, but some of the biggest changes didn't make it over to the iPad. This year, the iPhone update is modest—so does that mean that the iPad update is the big one this time around?
Well, that depends on your point of view. iPadOS 15 brings almost everything iOS 15 brought to iPhones, but it also brings those major iOS 14 omissions from last year to the tablet. As a result, iPadOS 15 feels like a significant update if you haven't been using an iPhone lately, but if you've already used iOS 14's new home screen and app library features, it instead ends up feeling like it's late to the party.
We published a lengthy, iPhone-focused review of iOS 15 earlier this week. Consider this a short addendum to that review that puts the spotlight on the iPad. Refer to the earlier review for details on new features like Focus that aren't iPad specific or for a list of iPads that are supported by iPadOS 15.
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As the Right to Repair movement picks up steam, a group of Microsoft investors filed a resolution in June, asking the company to look at the social and environmental impact of making its Surface and Xbox hardware easier to repair. Now Microsoft has agreed to do just that, promising to commission an independent study and […]
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As the Right to Repair movement picks up steam, a group of Microsoft investors filed a resolution in June, asking the company to look at the social and environmental impact of making its Surface and Xbox hardware easier to repair. Now Microsoft has agreed to do just that, promising to commission an independent study and then to act on its findings.
In other recent tech news from around the web, Mozilla is trying out a new way to make money from Firefox – by selling URL search bar suggestions, the Nintendo Switch OLED officially launches October 8th, and Chinese phone maker Honor has a big new phone on the horizon: the Honor X20 Max is expected to launch later this month, with a 7.2 inch display and a 6,000 mAh battery.
Microsoft will take steps to make its hardware easier to repair by the end of 2022. ln response to a resolution from an investor advocacy group, MS will hire a third-party company to conduct a study of social and environmental impact of increased repairability for Surface and Xbox devices, then act on findings by providing repair documentation and spare parts available outside of Microsoft’s currently Authorized Service Provider Network.
Windows Subsystem for Linux, which lets you run Linux apps on Windows PCs, works better than ever with Windows 11. It’s easier to install, supports apps with sound and graphics, and more… but it still won’t work with every Linux application.
Mozilla introduces Firefox Suggest for contextual website suggestions in the address bar. Positioned as tool to save you time while searching, the optional feature includes sponsored results, so they’re basically adds in the address bar.
With a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, the OnePlus 6 is one of the most powerful phones capable of running something close to a mainline Linux kernel, which means you don’t need to rely on Android hardware drivers while running Linux on the phone.
The Honor X20 Max is expected to be a massive smartphone with a 7.2 inch display, a 6,000 mAh battery, and a MediaTek Dimensity 1100 processor. Honor is said to be planning an official launch for the phone later this month.
Reminder: The Nintendo Switch OLED goes on sale October 8th for $349. For $50 more than the original Switch, this upgraded model has a larger, more vivid 7 inch OLED display and twice the storage, at 64GB.
Upgrade kits will be going out soon to the first 500 backers of the AYA Neo handheld gaming PC, who received early versions of the hardware, enabling screen, frame, speaker, and PCB upgrades. Production on the higher-spec AYA Neo Pro begins this month.
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Apple’s Macs with M1 processors deliver some of the best performance-per-watt of any personal computers to date, but there’s a down side for some users – the only operating system that’s officially supported is MacOS. Unofficially though? Developers have been working to port Linux to play well with Apple Silicon since shortly after the first […]
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Apple’s Macs with M1 processors deliver some of the best performance-per-watt of any personal computers to date, but there’s a down side for some users – the only operating system that’s officially supported is MacOS.
Unofficially though? Developers have been working to port Linux to play well with Apple Silicon since shortly after the first Macs with M1 chips arrived, and they’ve made a lot of progress in recent months. The developers behind the Asahi Linux project say the operating system is now “usable as a basic Linux desktop” on Macs with Apple Silicon.
Asahi is a custom Linux distribution designed for Macs with Apple Silicon, but the goal of the project is to upstream all the custom drivers and other code needed to allow Linux distros to work with Apple’s chips. So eventually you may have your pick of Linux-based operating systems to run on a Mac.
For now, most basic features are said to be working with Asahi Linux, with a few notable exceptions. There’s no support for Thunderbolt, USB 3, audio, or camera hardware yet. And there’s no support for hardware-accelerated graphics yet either.
But the team notes that Apple’s M1 CPU is so fast that software-based graphics rendering is pretty good, with a Linux desktop environment rendering more quickly via software on a PC with an M1 chip than it does via hardware on a computer with a Rockchip ARM64 processor.
For now, the team notes that there are working drivers for things like power management, CPU frequency scaling, the display controller, NVMe storage, PCIe, and USB-C, among other things.
One thing that the Asahi Linux team hasn’t made available yet? A user-friendly installer. There is an alpha installer that developers and advanced users can use to get started, but you may need to reach out to the Asahi team via their IRC channel to set things up.
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After Triller sued the popular H3 Podcast for $50m claiming that the people behind it had pirated the Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren fight on YouTube, the defendants sought to dismiss the “fatally flawed” complaint. Now Triller is shifting its approach, claiming that it’s not suing over a commentary video but the underlying ‘stolen’ fight hosted on YouTube. As such, fair use defenses fail.
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In May, Triller filed a lawsuit against the H3 Podcast, claiming that by showing a portion of the Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren fight event on YouTube, the defendants breached the company’s rights.
Triller initially alleged two types of copyright infringement, violations of the Federal Communications Act (FCA), conversion, and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The company demanded $50m in damages after the “unauthorized broadcast” was allegedly viewed one million times. A first amended complaint named Ethan and Hila Klein as defendants and a second removed the fraud allegations.
Early September the defendants fired back with a motion to dismiss the “fatally defective” complaint, arguing that they only used a very small portion of the four-hour broadcast for the purposes of commentary and criticism, a key component of a fair use defense. Triller’s allegation, that Ethan Klein admitted that the copy of the fight he watched was pirated, does not amount to anything since viewing such content is not an offense, the defendants argued.
Considering these points and others formed along similar lines, Triller’s lawsuit should be dismissed, the defendants said. In an opposition to that motion, filed late Wednesday, Triller argues otherwise, shifting emphasis away from the podcast itself and onto the video clip used by H3, which was placed on YouTube as an ‘unlisted’ video.
In its opposition, Triller moves directly to the core of its new focus. The company says that Ethan Klein admitted online that he pirated the Jake Paul fight and uploaded “substantial portions” of that broadcast to YouTube in the form of an unlisted video. Third parties were allegedly able to view that video without paying Triller PPV fees.
“These are textbook violations of the Copyright Act, and Defendants should not be permitted to thumb their noses at the law or this Court,” Triller writes.
Triller’s initial stance was that the H3 Podcast episode that contained the fight clip was viewed a million times but they now state that the episode, which contained commentary and criticism, is not what this lawsuit is about.
“This lawsuit does not concern or seek to stifle Defendants’ commentary relating to the Broadcast. To the contrary, this lawsuit concerns Defendants’ creation and dissemination of the Unlisted Video,” its motion reads.
According to Triller, the “stolen” clip used in the H3 episode contained a piece of information that undermines the defendants’ case. By displaying the fight clip and its URL (location on YouTube), a breaches of copyright law took place.
“To the extent Defendants wanted to provide commentary concerning the Broadcast, Defendants could —and should— have done so without violating the Copyright Act by hiding, obstructing, or obscuring the URL for the Unlisted Video,” Triller’s opposition to the motion to dismiss reads.
“But, whether out of negligence, willfulness, or maliciousness, or some combination thereof, Defendants chose to not hide, obstruct, or obscure the URL for the Unlisted Video, and thereby unlawfully permitted at least 65 individuals to view the essential portions of the Broadcast without paying Plaintiff the required pay-per-view fee.”
Triller says that because each of these 65 individuals failed to pay Triller and the unlisted video was monetized, the defendants’ profited from their direct infringements. On the other hand, Triller notes that the defendants may not have earned anything at all (as the defendants have previously claimed) but want the opportunity to ascertain the facts during a discovery process.
In respect of the defendants’ claim that simply viewing the event from a pirated copy wasn’t illegal, Triller suggests the whole process that facilitated that needs to be examined. The company says that the defendants not only viewed the broadcast without paying but also downloaded the broadcast and uploaded it to YouTube, where it was viewed by third parties.
“By unlawfully viewing and downloading the Broadcast, Defendants engaged in direct copyright infringement. By uploading the Broadcast to YouTube where other individuals could —and did— unlawfully view the Broadcast, Defendants engaged in vicarious copyright infringement,” Triller adds.
The company also addresses the defendants’ claim that the unlisted video was a “digital stream” and therefore inherently “transitory”, stating that the file was “fixed” on YouTube’s servers.
In their motion to dismiss, the Kleins stated that under the doctrine of “intermediate use” the preliminary step of copying a video for use in the creation of a fair use work also qualifies as fair use. However, Triller believes the way that video was obtained weighs in its favor.
“Defendants did not obtain the Broadcast lawfully; indeed, Defendants expressly proclaimed to the world that they stole the Broadcast,” Triller notes.
In respect of H3’s commentary and criticism podcast, Triller says the same effect could’ve been achieved without showing the broadcast at all, or by lawfully purchasing the broadcast like any other consumer.
“But Defendants did not do this. Instead, Defendants admittedly ‘pirated’ or ‘bootlegged’ the Broadcast, uploaded a copy to YouTube so others could —and did— similarly unlawfully pirate or bootleg the Broadcast, and profited therefrom.”
Further weighing in on the “intermediate use” defense, Triller says that case law only allows infringements that are “not ultimately used in any end product” and in this case, the H3 Podcast episode indisputably contains copyrighted material.
“Accordingly, the intermediate use doctrine does not apply to the Unlisted Video as a matter of law,” Triller adds.
Again focusing on the ‘Unlisted Video’ rather than the H3 Podcast episode, Triller says that there was no comment or criticism in it. It was a “substantial portion” of the broadcast, in its original form, and was in no way transformative.
That source video was viewed at least 65 times without comment or critique and since those viewers were able to watch the Jake Paul fight in full, the video was a market substitute for the broadcast. This meant there was a substantial effect on and the market and value of the copyrighted work.
Finally, in the event that the court decides to dismiss any of Triller’s causes of action, the company requests permission to amend its complaint once again.
Triller’s opposition to the motion to dismiss the second amended complaint can be found here (pdf)
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“Recent” is relative—the samples are roughly two billion years old.
Enlarge / An electron micrograph of some of the volcanic material returned by the Chang'e 5 mission. (credit: Beijing SHRIMP Center, Institute of Geology, CAGS)
Chang'e-5 represented a major step forward for China's lunar program, as it was the first of the country's missions to return samples to Earth. Now the results of dating the samples are in, and it's clear that while the deposits are old, they're young enough to be a bit of an oddity.
China has now successfully landed several probes and rovers on the lunar surface as part of a larger exploration program. Chang'e 5 represented the next step, as it had a drill to obtain subsurface samples and a return vehicle that could take them back to Earth. The spacecraft successfully landed almost two years ago, and a few weeks later, it returned roughly 2 kilograms of rock to Earth from the Moon.
China has the benefit of decades of knowledge gained since the Apollo missions, along with a greater theoretical understanding of the Moon's formation. And it carefully chose Chang'e 5's landing site, a large volcanic deposit called the Oceanus Procellarum, thought to be one of the younger areas of the Moon's surface. But "younger" covers a lot of ground, as estimates based on its crater count ranged from 3.2 billion years old down to just 1.2 billion.
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Motorola’s latest Moto G series smartphone is a budget model with a big screen and a big battery that the company says provides up to 2 days of battery life. The Moto G Pure with a 6.5 inch HD+ display and a 4,000 mAh battery goes on sale through retailers this week for $160, and it’s […]
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Motorola’s latest Moto G series smartphone is a budget model with a big screen and a big battery that the company says provides up to 2 days of battery life.
The Moto G Pure with a 6.5 inch HD+ display and a 4,000 mAh battery goes on sale through retailers this week for $160, and it’s headed to Verizon October 14th. Other carriers including AT&T and T-Mobile will also begin offering the phone sometime in the next few months.
The Moto G Pure has a 1600 x 720 pixel IPS LCD display with a 20:9 aspect ratio and a pixel density of 269 pixels per inch.
With 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage, this is very much a budget device, but it does have a few nice features including support for face unlock, a fingerprint reader (in the Motorola logo on the back of the phone), an IP52 rating for water resistance (it’s not waterproof, but it should withstand the occasional splash), and dual cameras: the phone has a 13MP primary camera plus a 2MP depth sensor for features like portrait mode, which allow you to blur the background while keeping the subject in focus.
The smartphone also has a 5MP front-facing camera, a USB 2.0 Type-C port, a 3.5mm audio jack, a microSD card reader, and support for WiFi 5, Bluetooth 5.0, and 4G LTE. It comes with a 10-watt charger.
The Moto G Pure is powered by a MediaTek Helio G25 processor, which is a 2 GHz ARM Cortex-A53 octa-core processor with 650 MHz PowerVR GE8320 graphics.
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Motorola’s latest Moto G series smartphone is a budget model with a big screen and a big battery that the company says provides up to 2 days of battery life. The Moto G Pure with a 6.5 inch HD+ display and a 4,000 mAh battery goes on sale through retailers this week for $160, and it’s […]
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Motorola’s latest Moto G series smartphone is a budget model with a big screen and a big battery that the company says provides up to 2 days of battery life.
The Moto G Pure with a 6.5 inch HD+ display and a 4,000 mAh battery goes on sale through retailers this week for $160, and it’s headed to Verizon October 14th. Other carriers including AT&T and T-Mobile will also begin offering the phone sometime in the next few months.
The Moto G Pure has a 1600 x 720 pixel IPS LCD display with a 20:9 aspect ratio and a pixel density of 269 pixels per inch.
With 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage, this is very much a budget device, but it does have a few nice features including support for face unlock, a fingerprint reader (in the Motorola logo on the back of the phone), an IP52 rating for water resistance (it’s not waterproof, but it should withstand the occasional splash), and dual cameras: the phone has a 13MP primary camera plus a 2MP depth sensor for features like portrait mode, which allow you to blur the background while keeping the subject in focus.
The smartphone also has a 5MP front-facing camera, a USB 2.0 Type-C port, a 3.5mm audio jack, a microSD card reader, and support for WiFi 5, Bluetooth 5.0, and 4G LTE. It comes with a 10-watt charger.
The Moto G Pure is powered by a MediaTek Helio G25 processor, which is a 2 GHz ARM Cortex-A53 octa-core processor with 650 MHz PowerVR GE8320 graphics.
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