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The LG UltraPC 16U70R is a notebook with a 16 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel display. But it’s also a fairly lightweight notebook that clocks in at just 3.63 pounds, making it easier to tote around than most laptops with screens that large. LG normally…
The LG UltraPC 16U70R is a notebook with a 16 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel display. But it’s also a fairly lightweight notebook that clocks in at just 3.63 pounds, making it easier to tote around than most laptops with screens that large. LG normally charges $1,000 for a model with an AMD Ryzen 7 […]
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Early Labor Day sales bring terrific savings on some of our tech favorites.
Enlarge / Lenovo Slim 7 Pro X. (credit: Scharon Harding)
The end of summer is just around the corner, and with the changing of the season comes the time for a refresh. Whether you need to upgrade your laptop or update your home storage and organization needs, our pre-Labor Day Dealmaster comes with plenty of discounts. From laptop savings on popular brands like Microsoft, Apple, Lenovo, Dell, and HP to deals on essential tools for around the home to sales on headphones and smartphones, there's a lot of tech to choose from. But if you're not interested in new tech for Labor Day, we also found deals on storage containers, kitchenware, and personal care products.
The updated XPS 13 with 8th-generation Intel processors. (credit: Valentina Palladino)
Jabra's Elite 75t noise-canceling true wireless earphones. (credit: Jeff Dunn)
The display on the 2021 14-inch MacBook Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon)
DeWalt drill kit with carrying bag. (credit: DEWALT)
iRobot's Roomba j7+ robot vacuum. (credit: iRobot)
j7+ Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum & Mop for $799 (was $1,100) at Amazon
Sony's PlayStation 5. (credit: Sony)
Amazon's Kindle Scribe is a 10.2-inch e-ink e-reader with a bundled pen and handwriting support. (credit: Amazon)
Don't worry: There are better uses for the emoji button. (credit: Scharon Harding)
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The popular file-hosting site AnonFiles.com has thrown in the towel. The site’s operators cite massive abuse by uploaders as the reason for the shutdown. AnonFiles tried to limit the problems though automated upload filters and filename restrictions but nothing helped. While the current team says its work is over, others are invited to buy the domain name and give it a shot themselves.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Founded in 2011, AnonFiles.com became known as a popular hosting service that allowed users to share files up to 20GB without download restrictions.
As the name suggests, registering an account wasn’t required either; both up and downloading files was totally anonymous.
The same also applies to BayFiles.com, an affiliated file-hosting service that was launched by The Pirate Bay. Both sites launched around the same time and shared a similar design and identical features.
While AnonFiles and BayFiles had their ups and downs over the years, their no-nonsense approach attracted a steady user base. This included legitimate users but also people who shared a wide variety of shady or outright illegal content.
Both sites had millions of visitors but AnonFiles stood out with over 18 million visitors a month. This popularity didn’t go unnoticed by rightsholders, who repeatedly flagged AnonFiles as a “notorious” pirate site.
In 2021, for example, the music industry’s anti-piracy watchdog RIAA reported the file-hosting service to the U.S. Trade Representative.
“The site rarely responds to notices and, as such, is widely used as a storage and distribution medium for numerous pirate sites, including those distributing pre-release content. The site does not provide any method of communication other than a web form, thereby limiting our ability to escalate,” RIAA wrote.
Rightsholders and law enforcement authorities were not the only ones unhappy with the illegal content posted to the site. For AnonFiles’ operators, it caused major problems too.
The current owners purchased the site two years ago but didn’t expect the abuse to be so massive that the only option would be to shut it down. According to a goodbye message posted on the site, they simply can’t continue.
“After trying endlessly for two years to run a file sharing site with user anonymity, we have been tired of handling the extreme volumes of people abusing it and the headaches it has created for us.”
The operators tried to contain the abuse by setting up all sorts of automated filters and filename restrictions, taking thousands of false positives for granted, but that didn’t help much.
With tens of millions of uploads and petabytes of data, no anti-abuse measure was sufficient. And when the site’s proxy service pulled the plug a few days ago, AnonFiles decided to call it quits.
“We have auto banned contents of hundreds of thousands files. Banned file names and also banned specific usage patterns connected to abusive material,” the AnonFiles team writes.
“Even after all this the high volume of abuse will not stop. This is not the kind of work we imagine when acquiring it and recently our proxy provider shut us down. This can not continue.”
TorrentFreak reached out to the site, hoping to get more details on the types of abuse, but the operators didn’t immediately reply to our request for comment.
While the current AnonFiles team has thrown in the towel, the name itself may not disappear. The current owners dare someone else to buy the domain and give it a try. Whether the same applies to BayFiles.com, which has also gone offline, is unknown.
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Lack of sleep harms memory and cognition, but our easy remedies can’t fix everything.
Enlarge / A cup of coffee might provide you some pep, but it won’t fully make up for lost sleep. (credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus)
There is no denying the importance of sleep. Everyone feels better after a good night of sleep, and lack of sleep can have profoundly negative effects on both the body and the brain. So what can be done to substitute for a lack of sleep? Put another way, how can you get less sleep and still perform at your peak?
As a psychologist who studies the ways in which sleep benefits memory, I’m also interested in how sleep deprivation harms memory and cognition. After some initial research on sleep deprivation and false confessions, my students at Michigan State University’s Sleep and Learning Lab and I wanted to see what interventions could reverse the negative effects of sleep deprivation.
We found a simple answer: There is no substitute for sleep.
OpenAI could be fined up to $150,000 for each piece of infringing content.
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Weeks after The New York Times updated its terms of service (TOS) to prohibit AI companies from scraping its articles and images to train AI models, it appears that the Times may be preparing to sue OpenAI. The result, experts speculate, could be devastating to OpenAI, including the destruction of ChatGPT's dataset and fines up to $150,000 per infringing piece of content.
NPR spoke to two people "with direct knowledge" who confirmed that the Times' lawyers were mulling whether a lawsuit might be necessary "to protect the intellectual property rights" of the Times' reporting.
Neither OpenAI nor the Times immediately responded to Ars' request to comment.
This new electric SUV shares a lot with the Cadillac Lyriq.
Enlarge / This is Acura's first battery-electric vehicle, the new ZDX. (credit: Acura)
Today in California, Acura took the wraps off its first electric vehicle. It's called the ZDX, and it's the product of a partnership between Honda (which owns Acura) and General Motors, using the latter company's new battery platform and battery EV architecture. Acura says the first customer deliveries should begin in early 2024, with single-motor versions priced at around $60,000.
"The arrival of the new ZDX is an exciting moment for the Acura brand," said Assistant Vice President of Acura National Sales Emile Korkor. "It signals our transition to a zero-emissions future and demonstrates our commitment to precision crafted performance in the electrified era."
Honda is still at work developing an in-house EV architecture it can use for North American vehicles, but it has also partnered with GM to create a range of other EVs for this market. The ZDX and the related Honda Prologue, which we got a preview of last year, are the first two, but in the coming years, we also expect to see some smaller, affordable EVs as a result of the collaboration.
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