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The TCL NXTPAPER 10 5GB is an Android tablet with mid-range specs including a MediaTek octa-core processor, 6GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage. But its stand-out feature is the 10.4 inch, 90 Hz, 2000 x 1200 pixel display that uses TCL’s NXTPAPER 3…
The TCL NXTPAPER 10 5GB is an Android tablet with mid-range specs including a MediaTek octa-core processor, 6GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage. But its stand-out feature is the 10.4 inch, 90 Hz, 2000 x 1200 pixel display that uses TCL’s NXTPAPER 3.0 technology to offer a glare-free viewing experience. First unveiled in January, the TCL […]
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The TCL NXTPAPER 10 5GB is an Android tablet with mid-range specs including a MediaTek octa-core processor, 6GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage. But its stand-out feature is the 10.4 inch, 90 Hz, 2000 x 1200 pixel display that uses TCL’s NXTPAPER 3…
The TCL NXTPAPER 10 5GB is an Android tablet with mid-range specs including a MediaTek octa-core processor, 6GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage. But its stand-out feature is the 10.4 inch, 90 Hz, 2000 x 1200 pixel display that uses TCL’s NXTPAPER 3.0 technology to offer a glare-free viewing experience. First unveiled in January, the TCL […]
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The SZBOX G48S is a compact computer that looks more like a router than a PC… although the lines between those two product categories are pretty blurry these days. What makes this mode interesting is that it’s a small, affordable, and sile…
The SZBOX G48S is a compact computer that looks more like a router than a PC… although the lines between those two product categories are pretty blurry these days. What makes this mode interesting is that it’s a small, affordable, and silent system that pairs an Intel Alder Lake-N processor with support for up to 16GB […]
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Getting an AI to distinguish red from orange was a major challenge.
Enlarge / So much depends upon a red puzzle cube, pinned by servo motors, inside Mitsubishi. (credit: Mitsubishi)
The last time a human set the world record for solving a Rubik's Cube, it was Max Park, at 3.13 seconds for a standard 3×3×3 cube, set in June 2023. It is going to be very difficult for any human to pull off a John-Henry-like usurping of the new machine record, which is more than 10 times faster, at 0.305 seconds. That's within the accepted time frame for human eye blinking, which averages out to one-third of a second.
TOKUFASTbot, built by Mitsubishi Electric, can actually pull off a solve in as little as 0.204 seconds on video, but not when Guinness World Records judges were measuring. The previous mechanical record was 0.38 seconds.
Mitsubishi Electric's TOKUFASTbot, solving a Rubik's-like puzzle on May 7, two weeks before judges showed up to verify its world-record speed.
There are a few footnotes and caveats to what would otherwise be an incremental gain and nifty slow-motion video. The first thing is that the world record reported is for "fastest robot to solve a rotating puzzle cube." That intriguingly sidesteps the much better-known "Rubik's Cube" identifier. Rubik's notably lost its trademark on any rotating 3×3×3 cube puzzle game in Europe. Perhaps Mitsubishi and Guinness simply wished to avoid touching a trademark registered to a company with a known litigation history.
YouTube’s latest Transparency Report shows that fewer copyright holders used the Content ID system to protect their works. Despite the modest decline, the claim volume continues to grow. For the first time, the number of processed claims exceeded one billion in the six-month reporting period.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
YouTube is the most watched streaming platform in the world. The endless library of videos, uploaded by both amateurs and professionals, is simply unrivaled.
The site’s popularity translates into hard dollars, with YouTube and its creators generating billions in yearly revenue. However, there are downsides too, as some content is shared without permission.
To protect copyright holders, YouTube uses an advanced content recognition system called Content ID that flags potentially infringing videos. Videos can then be taken down, or monetized, depending on the preference of the claiming party.
The Content ID system works reasonably well, but access is limited to a select group of major copyright holders. According to YouTube’s latest transparency report, the group is shrinking.
In the last six months of 2023, 7,791 partners had access to Content ID, down from over 8,900 partners in the first half of the year. No reason for the reduction is mentioned but of all partners that had access, 4,511 actively used Content ID.
Companies and individuals that don’t have access to the automated system can use the webform to file DMCA notices manually. Alternatively, there are almost 3 million YouTube users who have access to the Copyright Match tool, a 25% increase compared to the previous reporting period.
The table above shows that users of the Copyright ID tool are in the minority, representing less than 2% of all complaining rightsholders. However, this relatively small group is responsible for more than 99% of all copyright claims on YouTube.
For the first time, YouTube has processed more than a billion Copyright ID claims in a six-month period. Between July 2023 and December 2023, a total of 1,016,137,305 potential infringements were flagged.
The vast majority of the flagged videos weren’t removed, but monetized instead. This is big business, which has generated more than $9 billion in revenue for rightsholders over the years.
The number of claims per six months has also steadily increased in recent years. When YouTube published its first transparency report in 2022, it reported 722 million Content ID claims, a figure that has increased by 40% since then.
Not all copyright claims come from Content ID, as shown below. However, the webform and Copyright Match claims pale in comparison, coming in at just a few million in total, which is less than 1% of all ‘actions’.
More claims logically result in more challenges. Percentage-wise, the Content ID challenges have also increased from 0.40% to 0.42%. That seemingly small percentage translated to more than 4 million disputes in the last half of 2023. In 2.7 million cases, the content was successfully disputed at the first attempt.
The other takedown tools have a higher dispute percentage. For classic webform DMCA takedowns, 7.5% was challenged through a counter-notice, up from 5.9% a year earlier.
The relatively high ‘abuse’ rate is one of the main reasons why YouTube hasn’t opened up its Content ID system to a broader group of rightsholders. After all, a Content ID mistake has the potential to impact many thousands of user uploads at once.
“While a single copyright removal requested from the webform impacts only one (or a handful) of videos, a single invalid reference file in Content ID can impact thousands of videos and users, stripping them of monetization or blocking them altogether,” YouTube clarifies.
This doesn’t mean that Content ID is perfect, of course. There have been plenty of mistakes in the past and even outright criminal abuse. With the current setup, YouTube hopes to have found a balance that most rightsholders and content creators can live with. Whether that’s indeed the case, depends on who you ask.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
The announcement could be good news for those whose data has been inaccessible.
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The FBI is urging victims of one of the most prolific ransomware groups to come forward after agents recovered thousands of decryption keys that may allow the recovery of data that has remained inaccessible for months or years.
The revelation, made Wednesday by a top FBI official, comes three months after an international roster of law enforcement agencies seized servers and other infrastructure used by LockBit, a ransomware syndicate that authorities say has extorted more than $1 billion from 7,000 victims around the world. Authorities said at the time that they took control of 1,000 decryption keys, 4,000 accounts, and 34 servers and froze 200 cryptocurrency accounts associated with the operation.
At a speech before a cybersecurity conference in Boston, FBI Cyber Assistant Director Bryan Vorndran said Wednesday that agents have also recovered an asset that will be of intense interest to thousands of LockBit victims—the decryption keys that could allow them to unlock data that’s been held for ransom by LockBit associates.
Last June was the warmest June on record. Every month since has been similar.
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June 2023 did not seem like an exceptional month at the time. It was the warmest June in the instrumental temperature record, but monthly records haven't exactly been unusual in a period where the top 10 warmest years on record have all occurred within the last 15 years. And monthly records have often occurred in years that are otherwise unexceptional; at the time, the warmest July on record had occurred in 2019, a year that doesn't stand out much from the rest of the past decade.
But July 2023 set another monthly record, easily eclipsing 2019's high temperatures. Then August set yet another monthly record. And so has every single month since, a string of records that propelled 2023 to the warmest year since we started keeping track.
Yesterday, the European Union's Copernicus Earth-monitoring service announced that we've now gone a full year where every single month has been the warmest version of that month since we've had enough instruments in place to track global temperatures.
DOJ to probe Nvidia while FTC takes lead in investigating Microsoft and OpenAI.
Enlarge / Nvidia logo at Impact 2024 event in Poznan, Poland on May 16, 2024. (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto )
The US Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission reportedly plan investigations into whether Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI are snuffing out competition in artificial intelligence technology.
The agencies struck a deal on how to divide up the investigations, The New York Times reported yesterday. Under this deal, the Justice Department will take the lead role in investigating Nvidia's behavior while the FTC will take the lead in investigating Microsoft and OpenAI.
The agencies' agreement "allows them to proceed with antitrust investigations into the dominant roles that Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia play in the artificial intelligence industry, in the strongest sign of how regulatory scrutiny into the powerful technology has escalated," the NYT wrote.
Questioning the design and dev progress was apparently “against company policy.”
Enlarge / The Humane AI Pin.
The Humane AI Pin has launched, crashed, and burned, with founders already looking to sell the company just one month after launch. The New York Times has an article detailing exactly how the company got to the point of launching a dead-on-arrival product and provided a few updates on the sales of the product and the company.
Humane, if you haven't heard, is a company founded by two former Apple employees, Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, in 2018. The company raised $230 million from some big-name investors like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, and, before launch, was valued at $1 billion. The product, the AI Pin, is sort of trying to be a Star Trek communicator. You magnetically clip it onto your shirt and can tap it for voice commands. It has "no apps" (the founders bragged about this feature) and is mostly just a voice assistant box with a touch panel, battery, camera, and speaker/microphone. There's no traditional screen, but a laser projector can shoot a smartwatch-like UI onto your hand that you control with gestures.
The going rate for one of these things is $700, plus a $24 a month subscription, a hard sell in the face of a $400 Apple Watch. It also doesn't really work and was universally panned in reviews, with conclusions ranging from The Verge's "not even close" to Marques Brownlee's "the worst product I've ever reviewed." Apparently, the voice commands are very slow, the battery life is an awful two to four hours, it's heavy and drags down your shirt, and the projector doesn't work well in many lighting conditions. It's also reportedly a fire hazard, with Humane emailing customers this week and telling them to "immediately stop using and charging" the battery case because some units with defective batteries "may pose a fire safety risk."
There might not be new hardware, but Apple could make up for it with software.
Enlarge / The logo for WWDC24. (credit: Apple)
Apple's annual developer conference, WWDC, kicks off in Cupertino, California, next week. As always, it will start with a livestream keynote on Monday morning at 10 am Pacific, 1 pm Eastern. We'll be in attendance reporting on the event, so let's take a moment to take stock of what we expect to see next week.
But first, let's note something we don't think we'll see: Due to some peculiarities about Apple's upgrade cycles, as well as a push toward the M4, we're not actually expecting any major hardware announcements at WWDC this year.
That's OK, though, because it looks like it's going to be a big one for software news. iOS has seen relatively modest updates in the past couple of years, but that's about to change.
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