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Nur eine sehr geringe Minderheit der Eltern will ihrem Kind erst mit 15 Jahren ein Smartphone zur Verfügung stellen. (Smartphone, Mobil)
Nur eine sehr geringe Minderheit der Eltern will ihrem Kind erst mit 15 Jahren ein Smartphone zur Verfügung stellen. (Smartphone, Mobil) Der britische Geheimdienst warnt vor staatlich unterstützen Cyberattacken und manipulativer Wahleinmischung durch fremde Staaten. (Geheimdienste, Internet)
Der britische Geheimdienst warnt vor staatlich unterstützen Cyberattacken und manipulativer Wahleinmischung durch fremde Staaten. (Geheimdienste, Internet) Wie eine Zielerfassungstechnik zu kriegerischen Eskalationen in Kurdistan, Bergkarabach, Jemen und andernorts beträgt. Und was das mit Zivilklauseln zu tun hat
Resident Evil zeigte vor 25 Jahren, wie Horror im Videospiel auszusehen hat. Wir schauen uns den Klassiker im Golem retro_ an. (Retrogaming, Capcom)
Resident Evil zeigte vor 25 Jahren, wie Horror im Videospiel auszusehen hat. Wir schauen uns den Klassiker im Golem retro_ an. (Retrogaming, Capcom) In Zeiten der Pandemie geben sich Linke als bessere Staatsverwalter. Die Zero-Covid-Kampagne hat einen anderen Ansatz
Niedersachsens Waldzustandsbericht veröffentlicht. Im Rheinland holzt derweil der dortige Braunkohlekonzern weiter ab
“Androids can change, just like human beings.”
The second season of HBO's new original sci-fi series, Raised by Wolves is coming in February.
The first teaser for S2 of Raised by Wolves is here, and our feelings are mixed. On the one hand, once again, the visuals are amazing and we're thrilled that the strikingly androgynous Danish actress Amanda Collin is returning to star as Mother. Her extraordinary performance anchored the first season's narrative arc and spooky, other-worldly vibe, and that same moody, disquieting viibe is present in the teaser. On the other hand, we were seriously disappointed in the S1 finale, which has shaken our confidence that S2 will rebound from that fiasco to become the genuinely original and visionary series it initially had promised to be.
(Major spoilers for the S1 finale below.)
The series was created by Aaron Guzikowski, with Ridley Scott serving as executive producer and directing the first two episodes. As I've written previously, the story involves two androids serving as Mother (Amanda Collin) and Father (Abubakar Salim) figures on a strange virgin planet, Kepler 22b (an actual observed extrasolar planet), after Earth has been destroyed by the outbreak of a religious war. They are programmed to incubate, birth, and raise human children to rebuild the population and set up an atheist civilization to keep the human race from going extinct. It's a harsh, dangerous environment, even for androids, and only one of their original six children survived: Campion (Winta McGrath).
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Fischer-Price has made tons of iconic toys for children over the years. One its most memorable, the Chatter phone, got a 21st-century reissue this year. The updated Chatter phone features Bluetooth connectivity, allowing you to pair it with your smartphone to make and receive calls. This cheerful little device can even be used as a […]
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Fischer-Price has made tons of iconic toys for children over the years. One its most memorable, the Chatter phone, got a 21st-century reissue this year.
The updated Chatter phone features Bluetooth connectivity, allowing you to pair it with your smartphone to make and receive calls.
This cheerful little device can even be used as a speakerphone, so you can finally recycle that stodgy Poly sitting on your desk and replace it with something a whole lot more playful. Just imagine the looks you’ll get on your next Zoom call when your co-workers catch a glimpse of the Chatter phone’s cheerful little face!
Power is supplied via a micro USB port, but Fischer-Price has also equipped Chatter with a lithium ion battery that provides up to 9 hours of talk time.
That means you can still take Chatter for a drive and watch its eyes wobble to help pass the time when you’re stuck on a long, boring call. Just don’t wheel it more than 15 feet away from your phone, because that’s about as far as Chatter can go without dropping the Bluetooth connection.
As an added bonus you can, in fact, use Chatter a Bluetooth speaker, too. Take him along on your next picnic at the park or day at the beach and crank up the tunes!
To get in on the fun all you have to do is get your hands on one. Unfortunately that’s not as easy as running down to the nearest Walmart or Toys-r-Us.
The Bluetooth-enabled Chatter is a Best Buy exclusive and only a limited number were released by Fischer-Price. They sold out very quickly on Best Buy’s website because nostalgia is one of the most powerful forces in the universe.
There will be another release… sometime in 2022, according to responses on Best Buy.
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Publisher’s nominations will stand as Keighley walks back noncommittal position.
Enlarge / A statuette from The Game Awards. (credit: The Game Awards)
Activision Blizzard will "not be part" of next week's annual Game Awards broadcast beyond its nominations, award host and creator Geoff Keighley said in a Twitter thread Friday night.
Keighley's post comes after a more non-committal statement on Activision's participation published in The Washington Post Friday morning. "We want to support employees and developers" Keighley told the Post before adding "we have to think very carefully about how to proceed here."
That statement drew widespread condemnation among industry members and watchers on social media in light of ongoing lawsuits and investigations surrounding widespread reports of employee harassment and gender inequity issues.
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PropellerAds has hit back at the MPA after the Hollywood-backed group nominated the business as a “notorious market” that facilitates piracy. The advertising company characterizes the report as factually wrong and libelous. The company further reminds the US Government that Hollywood also framed the VCR as an illegal technology years ago.
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With a reach of a billion users and 10,000 new advertising campaigns per week, PropellerAds is a major player in the online advertising industry.
The Cyprus-based company works with advertisers and publishers from all over the world. Many of these are legitimate companies, but there are likely some bad apples in the bunch too.
A few weeks ago Hollywood’s MPA listed the company as a potential candidate for the US Trade Representative‘s annual list of “notorious markets”. In the overview, the advertising outfit is flanked by traditional pirate sites such as The Pirate Bay and Fmovies.
“Although primarily based in Cyprus, PropellerAds is an ad network operated by Russian individuals that has subsidiary offices in the Czech Republic and the Isle of Man. The company is a dominant ad provider to streaming cyberlockers,” MPA wrote.
The goal of this “notorious markets” process is to identify pressing piracy problems. It’s very much a diplomatic pressure tool with the ultimate goal of helping US rightsholders tackle online piracy around the world.
Initially, PropellerAds didn’t respond to the allegations. However, after the official deadline passed, Boston Law Group’s Val Gurvits sent a letter to the USTR, rebutting MPA’s allegations. According to the lawyer, PropellerAds is a perfectly legitimate business.
“PropellerAds does not knowingly or intentionally work with any advertiser or publisher that engages in any illegal or unlawful activities,” the letter reads.
“PropellerAds actively works to combat abuse by expeditiously taking action on reports of illegal or unlawful activities including, when appropriate, terminating business dealings with the advertiser or publisher engaging in such activities.”
The company’s counsel gives a detailed overview of relevant U.S. jurisprudence which shows that advertising networks are not responsible for the alleged infringing activities of their publishers.
Among other things, PropellerAds don’t store or transfer infringing material and neither does it induce copyright infringement in any way, the letter notes. PropellerAds characterizes MPA’s listing as legally baseless and even libelous.
“In short, there is no basis to claim that PropellerAds can be or should be alleged to be taking part in piracy. The assertions by the MPA that PropellerAds is willfully funding piracy websites is not only factually wrong, but also is also legally baseless and libelous.”
The advertising company continues by pointing out that the MPA never reached out to hear its side of the story or ask for more details about its business practices.
PropellerAds says that it complies with all the “best practices” recommended by the USTR. In addition, it offers an easily accessible abuse report form. However, MPA never used this, nor did the company send any copyright infringement notices.
Without knowing any inside details about the business, and without due process, MPA decided to flag PropellerAds as a pirate business. This clearly goes too far, the company argues.
This type of ‘scapegoating’ is not new, according to the lawyer, who points out that Hollywood also framed the VCR as a dangerous and illegal technology years ago.
“I remind you that the MPA is a special-interest industry group. MPA’s members have historically had difficulties accepting new technology — they are the very same companies that at one point claimed that the VCR is illegal,” the letter reads.
While the MPA may not like some of the websites that use PropellerAds, the company says that there is no valid reason to conclude that it engages in illegal activities or is harboring copyright infringement.
Finally, the advertising outfit warns that, if the USTR adopts the MPA’s claims without questioning them, it participates in the manufacture of evidence.
Generally speaking, the USTR takes over recommendations from rightsholders without doing its own research. The rightsholders then use this “US Government” report in lawsuits and lobbying efforts, even though they provided this “evidence” themselves.
“I caution you that by simply repeating MPA’s unfounded allegations, the USTR is participating in the manufacture of evidence,” PropellerAds writes.
PropellerAds is not the only advertising company that has responded to the MPA’s recommendations. Previously, Popads labeled the Hollywood group’s submission as false and misleading.
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A copy of PropellerAds full response to the US Trade Representative is available here (pdf)
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