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What’s old is new again. Nearly two decades ago, Microsoft introduced support for widgets (called gadgets) that displayed snippets of information in a sidebar for Windows Vista. It became an optional feature with Windows 7, and it was discontinu…
What’s old is new again. Nearly two decades ago, Microsoft introduced support for widgets (called gadgets) that displayed snippets of information in a sidebar for Windows Vista. It became an optional feature with Windows 7, and it was discontinued by the time Windows 8 arrived. But Windows 11? It’s got widgets again, this time stuffed […]
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Google’s Area 120 is an in-house incubator where employees work on experimental new products that may or may not be released to the general public. Some of Google’s biggest successes including Gmail, AdSense, and Google News started as Are…
Google’s Area 120 is an in-house incubator where employees work on experimental new products that may or may not be released to the general public. Some of Google’s biggest successes including Gmail, AdSense, and Google News started as Area 120 projects. Now Google is allegedly scaling back the focus its incubator program. Sources tell Bloomberg […]
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From 2024, Ford EVs will only be sold at Model e-certified dealerships.
Enlarge / Ford Motor Company President and CEO Jim Farley at the launch event for the Ford F-150 Lightning at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan, on Tuesday, April 26, 2022.
Ford dealers have until the end of October to decide if they want to keep selling electric vehicles. And they'll have to agree to some new conditions if they do, including transparent, set pricing, available online, according to a new report at Inside EVs.
We've known for some time that Ford was looking to shake up the way people buy its EVs in the US, moving all its EVs into a new business unit called Model e, with another called Ford Blue that will be responsible for internal combustion vehicles and hybrids. In June, CEO Jim Farley said: "We've got to go non-negotiated price. We've got to go 100 percent online. There's no inventory, it all goes directly to the customer. And 100 percent remote pickup and delivery," during a presentation to investors.
Farley's not going to get all those wishes, but this week the automaker gave dealers a look at the future during an annual dealer conference. If a dealer wants to sell Model e EVs, they'll have to agree to invest in regular training, install charging infrastructure, improve their physical and digital sales experiences, and perhaps most importantly, publish non-negotiable pricing online. You should be able to buy a Ford EV without ever setting foot in a dealership, but due to state laws the sales will continue to be facilitated through dealerships, not directly from Ford.
Woot is selling the Google Pixel 5 for $400 today, but for a dollar less you can pick up the Pixel 6a from Amazon and get a newer phone with the same amount of storage and the same camera system, but a Google Tensor processor and around a year of addi…
Woot is selling the Google Pixel 5 for $400 today, but for a dollar less you can pick up the Pixel 6a from Amazon and get a newer phone with the same amount of storage and the same camera system, but a Google Tensor processor and around a year of additional OS and security updates. […]
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A group of U.S. lawmakers wants domain name registry Verisign to help tackle online piracy. The company has a key role in the domain names system, overseeing many popular TLDs including .com, .tv and .net. Verisign believes that it should operate in a content-neutral manner but it doesn’t rule out that, through the right protocols and processes, it can help to address piracy as well.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
There are plenty of options for copyright holders to frustrate the operations of pirate sites, but one of the most effective is to attack their domain names.
In recent years, various entertainment industry groups have called on the domain name industry to help out on this front.
As a result, the MPAA signed a landmark agreement with the Donuts registry under which the movie industry group acts as a “trusted notifier” of “pirate” domains. A similar deal was later announced with the Radix registry.
Several of the largest players in the domain name industry have been more reserved in their responses. The Public Interest Registry, which oversees the .org gTLD, previously denied requests to take action against The Pirate Bay.
That hasn’t stopped the calls for action from rightsholders who recently received backing from a group of US lawmakers. Representatives from the House and Senate, including Sen. Mazie Hirono, Rep. Ted Deutch, and Sen. Christopher Coons, urged Verisign to step up.
The Verisign registry is responsible for .com, .net, .cc and .tv domain names, among many others. This means that it’s one of the key players in the domain name ecosystem whose actions can affect millions of domain names.
According to the lawmakers, Verisign should use this position to assist copyright holders in their anti-piracy efforts.
“Verisign serves as the registry for almost half of all domain name registrations,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter cited by Deadline. “The company is therefore uniquely positioned to help curb this illegal activity. Its failure to do so has served as a significant contributor to the enormous scope and scale of the problem.”
The letter was sent last spring but wasn’t initially made public. However, after the Kiwi Farms problem reignited the debate about voluntary curation, it has now been brought to the forefront.
Voluntary agreements between rightsholders and domain registries are not new. The Motion Picture Association previously partnered with Radix and Donuts, for which it acts as a “trusted notifier” by calling out pirate sites.
Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono stresses that it is important to curb online piracy as it costs the economy ‘billions of dollars’ and leads to ‘hundreds of thousands’ of job losses. In addition, it leaves the public vulnerable to malware and scams.
“Domain name registration service companies have a responsibility to protect creators and consumers by working to stop online copyright piracy,” Hirono told Deadline, adding that she will continue to push Verizon to take the matter seriously.
Responding to the letter, Verisign CEO Jim Bidzos said that this is a complicated matter. The company has a decades-old agreement with the Department of Commerce that requires it to operate in a content-neutral way. This means that it can’t simply boot domains offline.
There appears to be some wiggle room, however. Verisign already has a “trusted notifier” agreement with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to target websites that illegally sell opioids.
In addition, the registry works with the FBI to take down COVID-19 scam domain names and partners with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to take down domain names involving child abuse.
The above means that there is room for Verisign to intervene without any judicial oversight. While the company stresses that there are due process, transparency and proportionality concerns to weigh, it doesn’t rule out voluntary anti-piracy solutions.
“[W]e believe that the protocols and processes we developed can also be used to address domain names associated with illegal copyright theft,” Bidzos replied to the lawmakers.
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Jane Doe “was re-victimized by this unconstitutional practice,” lawsuit says.
Enlarge / San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott answers questions in a meeting with the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. (credit: San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images)
San Francisco has been sued by a sexual assault victim in a complaint that describes "the San Francisco Police Department's shocking practice of placing crime victims' DNA into a permanent database without the victims' knowledge or consent."
"Plaintiff Jane Doe, a sexual assault survivor, was re-victimized by this unconstitutional practice," alleged the lawsuit filed Monday in US District Court for the Northern District of California. "In 2016, she provided a DNA sample to the San Francisco Police Department as part of its investigation into her sexual assault. However, she never consented to it to be stored or used for any other purpose. Nevertheless, the Department maintained Plaintiff Doe's DNA in the database for more than six years."
According to the lawsuit, Jane Doe was arrested on burglary charges in 2021 after DNA from a crime scene apparently matched the DNA she provided five years earlier. The charges were eventually dropped.
New printers still block non-HP ink, but HP is compensating for lack of advance notice.
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HP continues to pay for abruptly blocking third-party ink from its printers and has agreed to pay compensation to additional customers impacted by the company's use of DRM to prevent third-party ink and toner from working in its printers. The settlement pertaining to customers in Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Portugal comes after the company already agreed to a settlement in the US and was fined in Italy.
HP printer owners were annoyed, to say the least, in 2016, when HP introduced Dynamic Security, a firmware update that prevented ink and toner cartridges lacking an HP chip from working in HP printers. Customers who already owned these printers suddenly faced error messages preventing them from printing with cartridges that were fully functioning before. At the time, HP claimed that the move was about helping customers avoid counterfeit and subpar ink and protecting HP's IP. However, it largely felt like a business tactic aimed at protecting one of HP's biggest profit-drivers at the time, which was tied to a declining industry.
As reported by Bleeping Computer on Monday, Euroconsumers, a European consumer group, announced on September 7 a settlement with HP that would seek to financially compensate customers located in the aforementioned regions. HP agreed to set up a $1,350,000 (about 1,351,147 euro) for "compensation to certain HP printer owners for losses allegedly suffered as a consequence of being unaware that their printers were enabled with Dynamic Security," according to Euroconsumers' announcement. Individuals can receive 20–95 euro, depending on their printer model and consequences suffered.
Only the very latest Apple and Samsung devices can ride the 3.45 GHz wave.
Enlarge / You can buy a number of 5G phones in an AT&T store, but only a handful of them will make use of the carrier's most reliable frequencies.
AT&T has admitted it will not upgrade "older" phones and tablets—some released as recently as June—as it rolls out its newly acquired midband 5G frequencies, going back on public statements it made as recently as late August.
The carrier told CNET on August 23 that it would release a software update that would allow phones like the iPhone 12 and 13, the Pixel 6, Galaxy S21 models, and low-cost Motorola phones to utilize the 3.45 GHz C-band AT&T purchased for roughly $9.1 billion in early 2022. Combined with the low-band access AT&T already offered, this would give its 5G phones access to both wider coverage and faster average speeds.
This was notably different from AT&T's stance in January 2022, just after it had won its hard-fought spectrum auction. Back then, Chris Sambar, AT&T's executive vice president of technology operations, told CNET that 3.45 GHz support would only be available on "the major flagship devices in 2022, the big devices from the big OEMs."
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It's Wednesday, which means it's time for another Dealmaster. Our latest roundup of the best tech deals from around the web includes a strong discount on Anker's Soundcore Life Q30, with the wireless noise-canceling headphones currently down to $60 as part of a one-day Amazon sale. That's $20 off their normal rate, and it matches the price we saw during Amazon's Prime Day sales event earlier this year. It's also within $5 of their all-time low.
We continue to recommend the Soundcore Life Q30 as a great value for those who can't spend more than $100 on wireless noise-canceling headphones. To be clear, they can't match the best options from Apple, Sony, and Bose regarding raw noise-canceling strength, and their default sound profile is far more bass-boosted by comparison. But no wireless headphone under $100 is without compromises. For $60, the Q30s' active noise cancellation is still good enough to be useful on a flight or in the office. The headphones get a tremendous 40-ish hours of battery life, and their lightweight design means they're not a strain to wear for hours at a time.
Anker released a few updates to this pair since it launched, and while those are also good, they're either only a marginal upgrade (as with the Soundcore Life Q35) or too expensive (as with the new $150 Soundcore Space Q45) to really compete with the Q30 in terms of pure value. You should still spring for something like Sony's WH-1000XM4 or XM5, Apple's AirPods Max, or Bose's QuietComfort 45 if you can afford them, but if you want to stay on a budget, the Q30s get enough right for the money.
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