Month: August 2023

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Sports leagues are urging the US to require "instantaneous" takedowns of pirated livestreams and new requirements for Internet service providers to block pirate websites.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 requires websites to "expeditiously" remove infringing material upon being notified of its existence. But pirated livestreams of sports events often aren't taken down while the events are ongoing, said comments submitted last week by Ultimate Fighting Championship, the National Basketball Association, and National Football League.

The "DMCA does not define 'expeditiously,' and OSPs [online service providers] have exploited this ambiguity in the statutory language to delay removing content in response to takedown requests," the leagues told the US Patent and Trademark Office in response to a request for comments on addressing counterfeiting and piracy.

Enlarge / Ruth Marie Terry, aka the "Lady of the Dunes," in the 1960s. The FBI has identified her killer as her husband, Guy Muldavin. (credit: Courtesy of FBI)

Last year, after nearly 50 years, the FBI finally identified the murdered woman known as the "Lady of the Dunes," found in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1974: Ruth Marie Terry. And now the Massachusetts State Police have officially closed the case after identifying her killer: Terry's husband, Guy Rockwell Muldavin, who died in Salinas, California, in 2002.

As previously reported, a 12-year-old chasing after her barking dog discovered the mutilated body of a woman in the Race Point Dunes of Provincetown, Massachusetts, on July 26, 1974. The body was badly decomposed, with insect activity indicating she had been dead for about two weeks. She was nearly decapitated from a brutal strangulation, but the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the side of the head.

There was no sign of a struggle, but there was evidence of sexual assault that likely occurred after death. In fact, it seems that her attacker had been lying next to her, based on the angle of the blow to the head. Both her hands and one forearm were missing, and several teeth had been removed. Her last meal consisted of a burger and fries. Her body was buried at St. Peter's Cemetery near the center of town, with an inscription on a small gravestone: "Unidentified female body found Race Point dunes July 26, 1974."

Enlarge / You can start speculating about the meaning behind the invite image now, if you're into that sort of thing. (credit: Apple)

As previously rumored, Apple plans to reveal the next iteration of the iPhone and the Apple Watch on September 12 in a livestream. The company confirmed the date with invitations sent out to members of the press this morning.

The invitation named the date, included (as usual) a cryptic image, specified that the event would be broadcast from Apple Park, and included the word "Wonderlust" as a teaser.

While it does say the event would be broadcast from Apple Park, it's worth noting that since 2020 Apple has actually streamed a video that was prerecorded before the day of the event rather than doing a stage presentation. Insiders so far have said that will continue this year.

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  The Oppo Find N3 Flip, with its bigger camera bump and rounded-over corners. [credit: Oppo ]

Oppo's newest flip phone is the Oppo Find N3 Flip, a 6,799 yuan (~$932) foldable debuting in China but heading to the rest of the world soon. The Find N3 Flip will be taking on the likes of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Motorola Razr, and while both of those phones have tried to power up with a big front screen, the N3 Flip's front display is basically the same size as last year. Oppo is making up for that with a pretty big spec sheet, though.

This is a normal-size phone, with a 6.8-inch, 2520×1080, 120 Hz inner OLED display, and the whole thing folds in half, becoming a smaller, 16.45-mm-thick square. When closed up, you can casually poke around on the tiny 3.26-inch front screen. The fun bit of this design is that the front 720×382, 60 Hz OLED looks just like a mini phone, and you'll have a few proprietary mini apps to play with, like a media player, a notification view, a weather app, a fitness app, plus a few more. The front screen is not as big as Oppo's competitors because you'll be getting a big, round camera bump, featuring three sensors, a 50 MP main camera, 48 MP ultra-wide, and a 32 MP 2x telephoto camera.

The SoC is a Mediatek Dimensity 9200, which means it features a 4 nm SoC with one 3.05 GHz Arm Cortex X3 core, three 2.85 GHz Cortex A715 cores, and four Cortex A510 cores, plus an Arm Mali-G715 Immortalis MP11 GPU. It also comes with 12GB of RAM, 256GB or 512GB of UFS 4.0 storage, a side-fingerprint reader, Wi-Fi 7 support, and NFC.