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Weil ihm der Akkutausch zu teuer war, hat der Finne Tuomas Katainen sein Tesla Model S sprengen lassen. (Tesla Model S, Elektroauto)
Weil ihm der Akkutausch zu teuer war, hat der Finne Tuomas Katainen sein Tesla Model S sprengen lassen. (Tesla Model S, Elektroauto) Die Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe BVG kaufen 90 Elektrobusse von Ebusco, so dass dann 228 Elektrobusse unterwegs sein werden. (Elektrobus, Elektromobilität)
Die Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe BVG kaufen 90 Elektrobusse von Ebusco, so dass dann 228 Elektrobusse unterwegs sein werden. (Elektrobus, Elektromobilität) Routers won’t stop working, but most functions will be shut off.
Enlarge / The Google OnHub. (credit: Ron Amadeo)
If you're still using a Google OnHub router, Google wants you to know that you're nearing the end of the line. According to Android Police, the company has been emailing OnHub owners to let them know that support for the router is ending on December 19, 2022. The router will still function on a basic level after that date, but advanced services and router configuration will no longer be available through Google's apps, and you'll no longer receive security updates.
In the email it's sending to OnHub users, Google is also offering 40 percent discounts on Nest Wifi hardware for people who want to replace their OnHub with another Google router.
OnHub has always been a bit of an outlier in Google's hardware lineup; it shipped with mediocre performance and was never very flexible or configurable, and it was replaced with Google Wifi (now Nest Wifi) just a year after it launched. OnHub early adapters could always integrate the older router into their modern Google or Nest Wifi setups as a router or satellite, but that functionality will presumably go away when Google ends support a year from now.
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Experten des UN-Hochkommissariats für Menschenrechte waren weder von Polen noch Belarus in die Grenzregion vorgelassen worden. Das Team trug dennoch besorgniserregende Aussagen zusammen
Aircraft manufacturers claim 5G radio signals will interfere with altimeters.
Enlarge / Aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Airbus claim that an upcoming C-band 5G rollout will interfere with airplane instrumentation.
Boeing and Airbus have asked US Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to delay the deployment of C-band spectrum for 5G wireless service. The companies claim the rollout will interfere with key aircraft instruments.
“5G interference could adversely affect the ability of aircraft to safely operate,” said the letter, which has been obtained by Reuters. Boeing CEO David Calhoun and Airbus Americas CEO Jeffery Knittel claim that the rollout, currently scheduled for January 5, could have “an enormous negative impact on the aviation industry.”
Both manufacturers and aviation regulators have expressed concerns over C-band 5G signals interfering with radio altimeters on commercial aircraft. The instruments work by beaming radio signals in the 4.2–4.4 GHz band toward the ground and listening for a reply. By measuring the time it takes for the signal to return to the sensor, the aircraft can calculate its height above the ground. Radio altimeters give pilots a more precise reading than barometric altimeters, which rely on air pressure.
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President Biden outlined the federal government’s response to omicron’s ascendancy.
Enlarge / Rapid at-home COVID-19 test kits. (credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images)
In an address to the nation today, President Joe Biden outlined his administration's plans to battle the omicron variant. The federal government plans to purchase 500 million rapid COVID-19 test kits for home use, set up new testing sites, and mobilize 1,000 military medical personnel to pitch in at hospitals slammed by the surge in COVID-19 cases.
"I want to start by acknowledging how tired, worried and frustrated many of you are," Biden said at the onset of his remarks.
Biden then encouraged vaccine holdouts to take action as omicron spreads across the country. "If you're not fully vaccinated, you have good reason to be concerned." He additionally called on folks who have not received boosters to schedule them.
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Last year a startup called OSOM announced plans to develop new hardware with an emphasis on privacy. Founded by a group of folks who had previously worked at the now-defunct Essential Products, all signs pointed to that hardware including a new smartphone. Now the company has confirmed that one of its first products will be a […]
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Last year a startup called OSOM announced plans to develop new hardware with an emphasis on privacy. Founded by a group of folks who had previously worked at the now-defunct Essential Products, all signs pointed to that hardware including a new smartphone.
Now the company has confirmed that one of its first products will be a smartphone called the OSOM OV1, which is expected to launch next summer.
While there aren’t many details about the phone’s hardware yet, it’s clear from a short teaser video that the phone has two rear cameras, an LED flash, and a fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone.
In an interview with Android Police, OSOM CEO Jason Keats also mentioned that the phone will have an unspecified Qualcomm processor and that more details would be announced during the annual Mobile World Congress show in February, 2022.
Keats also notes that the phone will run close-to-stock Android software with some small customizations. The goal is to provide additional privacy protections on top of those already baked into Google’s mobile operating system, but it’s unclear if that will mean losing one of the things that made Essential’s first and only smartphone stand out from the crowd: timely software updates.
The Essential PH-1 was released in 2017 and quickly earned a reputation for offering high-quality design and good performance at an affordable price tag (one possibly mark against the phone was its camera though, which wasn’t particularly good, even by 2017 standards). But the phone’s greatest strength might have been software support – Essential often rolled out Android OS and security updates the same day Google made them available. Sometimes Essential PH-1 smartphones would even receive updates before they started rolling out to Google’s own Pixel devices.
But, as Android Police points out, even if OSOM does manage to produce hardware and software that offers a truly unique experience, that might not be enough for the company to succeed in the crowded smartphone space.
The company has raised about $20 million in funding, which is far less than the $300 million that Essential Products had raised by the time it launched its first phone. And Essential only lasted for a few years.
OSOM seems to be aiming low though – Keats says the small startup doesn’t “have to sell a million units to be financially successful,” which means a better point of comparison might be niche startups like Fairphone or Pine64 which have sales that are measured in the thousands rather than the millions, but which have built some loyalty by delivering hardware that’s truly different than anything else available.
The OSOM is expected to go on sale in the US, Canada, and some parts of Europe in the summer of 2022.
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Several Hollywood studios and Netflix have been awarded a High Court injunction to block 15 pirate streaming sites in the UK. Under the banner of the Motion Picture Association, the injunction compels six major ISPs including BT, Sky, and Virgin Media to block 17 domains that have pulled in hundreds of millions of visitors over the past six months alone.
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One of the key anti-piracy strategies of the movie and TV show industries is site blocking, whereby internet service providers are compelled via court order to deny subscriber access to specified domains.
Due to limited transparency, it is difficult to say exactly how many domains are blocked by ISPs in the UK but they could run into the thousands after more than a decade of legal action. What is becoming ever more evident is that this still isn’t providing the desired results. Blocking does reduce traffic to targeted domains but replacements appear extremely quickly.
To counter this threat, Hollywood studios including Columbia, Disney, Paramount, Universal and Warner, accompanied by relative newcomer Netflix, regularly return to the UK High Court asking for more domains to be blocked. Their latest application, which has now been granted, shows that even relatively obscure sites can accrue staggering levels of traffic in a relatively short time.
The latest application covers 15 sites operating from 17 domains (detailed below). None of the sites carry infringing content on their own platforms but aggregate links to pirated movies and TV shows hosted on third-party providers.
This content is made available via an embedded player on each of the domains so, from the perspective of the user, the fact that content is hosted elsewhere is not immediately apparent. All of the sites were served with copyright infringement notices before the application was filed but none of them responded.
0123movies.net: This streaming platform currently enjoys around 1.6 million visits per month according to SimilarWeb stats, with around 40% of visitors coming from the UK.
1-2-3movies.com: Back in the summer, this site was enjoying around 7 million visits but for reasons that aren’t immediately clear, traffic tanked to just 1 million before recovering to the 3 million mark more recently. Roughly 12% of the site’s traffic comes from the UK.
123moviesfree.love: This movie and TV show streaming site’s traffic appeared to peak at 14 million visits per month in September but dropped by almost half recently to ‘just’ 7.7 million. Around 14% of the site’s visitors come from the UK.
cmovies.ac / cmovies.online: Back in August this platform was servicing around 7.5 million users but since then traffic has tailed off significantly to almost nothing.
flixhq.ru: At the time of writing this streaming portal appears to have around 4.2 million visitors per month but that represents just a fraction of the traffic pulled in thus far this year. In the summer the domain was receiving a staggering 31 million visits with around 5% coming from the UK
fmovies.co: This domain’s traffic over the past several months has been steady at around the 8 million visits mark. It is most popular in the United States, with around a third of its visitors hailing from the country. However, the UK appears to be increasing its share and while that accounts for just 10% of overall traffic, that’s up more than 50% on the previous month.
gototub.com: This domain is also on a downwards trend, from 7.5 million visits in the summer to around 6 million now. It is most popular in the US with the UK accounting for 8% of traffic.
hurawatch.ru: Surprisingly popular with around 30 million visits per month in August, this is another domain losing traffic for reasons unknown. Currently pulling in 7.6 million visits per month, around 28% are from the US with the UK and Australia trailing behind with 12% and 9% respectively.
sflix.to: This is a pretty big one. The movie and TV show portal describes itself as “not technically a legal site” on its main page but that doesn’t seem to act as a deterrent. Last month the site enjoyed 25 million visits, with around 19% coming from the United States and 12% from the UK.
soap2day.video: This site has familiar branding which has probably contributed to its success but from 28 million visits per month in August, now enjoys ‘just’ 13 million. With just over a fifth (22%) of its traffic coming from the UK, the site is equally popular in India.
tvshows88.com: From 20 million visits in June to just 3 million now, this streaming site is clearly on a downwards trend. Popular anti-malware tools flag the domain as problematic, which may have contributed to its decline.
watchserieshd.ru: With 27 million visits every month, 17% from UK, this is an extremely popular domain. It also triggers malware warnings which may represent a risk for users. Nevertheless, the studios want it blocked in the UK, to prevent any further growth.
zoechip.com: This site is the last of the high-traffic domains with around 8 million visits per month. Just over a quarter hail from the US (28%) with 12% coming from the UK. 123movies.vu, 123-movies.gy, and onionplay.se complete the list, all with fairly limited traffic.
In a decision handed down by Mr Justice Adam Johnson, the High Court found that all of the sites infringe copyright by communicating copyright works to the public, contrary to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (CDPA) 1988. The Court also found that the operators of the sites carry out their business on a for-profit basis, putting them at odds with a 2016 ruling from the EU Court of Justice.
Furthermore, the Court found that the websites infringe copyright by authorizing the infringing acts of copying by their users.
“That is because the streaming process causes the user’s computer or device to create copies of the content in the memory of the device, which is an act of infringement under section 17(1) CDPA,” the decision reads.
ISPs BT, EE, Plusnet, Sky UK, TalkTalk and Virgin Media are now required to block the domains.
The decision can be found here
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DuckDuckGo is probably best known for its privacy-focused search engine that doesn’t track your searches and other data that way that Google and Bing do. But the company has also been offering mobile web browsers for years. Now the company has announced plans to offer desktop web browsers with an emphasis on privacy, simplicity, and […]
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DuckDuckGo is probably best known for its privacy-focused search engine that doesn’t track your searches and other data that way that Google and Bing do. But the company has also been offering mobile web browsers for years.
Now the company has announced plans to offer desktop web browsers with an emphasis on privacy, simplicity, and speed.
DuckDuckGo says that rather than forking Google’s Chromium like many other web browsers, the new desktop browsers will use the default rendering engine provided by the host operating system, much the way that its mobile browsers do. That means the macOS version of the DuckDuckGo desktop app will most likely be based on Safari, while the Windows version will be based on Edge.
Both will have privacy features baked in. DuckDuckGo says it’s “privacy protection that works by default across search, browsing, email, and more.”
Like the company’s mobile apps, the the upcoming desktop browser will also block third-party trackers from websites, enforce encrypted connections for enhanced security, and include a “Fire Button” that allows you to close all browser tabs and clear your data with a single click.
While the goal is to offer better privacy than you’d get from other web browsers, DuckDuckGo notes that its app is also “significantly faster” than Google Chrome, likely due to the reduced overhead that often comes from processing requests from third-party trackers, among other things.
According to The Verge, a macOS version of the DuckDuckGo desktop app is currently in closed beta testing, but a Windows version is also on the way. There’s no word on if or when we’ll see a DuckDuckGo desktop app for Linux.
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Eine Frau aus Ratingen wollte eine CD von Eric Clapton bei Ebay verkaufen. Dessen Anwälte verklagen sie nun, weil es sich um illegale Aufnahmen handele. (Urheberrecht, Musik)
Eine Frau aus Ratingen wollte eine CD von Eric Clapton bei Ebay verkaufen. Dessen Anwälte verklagen sie nun, weil es sich um illegale Aufnahmen handele. (Urheberrecht, Musik) 
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