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The first laptops and tablets with Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus and Snapdragon X Elite chips are now available, and so far they all come with Windows 11 pre-installed. But Qualcomm has already made it clear that the chips can be used with other operatin…
The first laptops and tablets with Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus and Snapdragon X Elite chips are now available, and so far they all come with Windows 11 pre-installed. But Qualcomm has already made it clear that the chips can be used with other operating systems and the company has already done some work to bring […]
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We drive Audi’s new 800-volt EV ahead of US deliveries in Q4 2024.
Enlarge / Audi took the lead on developing VW Group's new Premium Platform Electric, and its first EV to use PPE is the 2025 Q6 e-tron. (credit: Audi)
The arrival of the Q6 e-tron marks a significant milestone on the electric journey that Audi and its corporate siblings began in the wake of dieselgate, nearly a decade ago. Now, after developing electric vehicles based on its own gas-powered models, a cheaper VW platform, and a tweaked Taycan, the brand has led the development of a new platform just for electric vehicles, one that incorporates lessons learned from those earlier EVs.
We've followed the development of that Premium Platform Electric architecture and the Q6 e-tron for some time. Now, we've finally been behind the wheel.
Audi made its name with "quattro" all-wheel drive powertrains, and both versions of Q6 e-tron to be offered initially will use twin-motor, all-wheel drive powertrains—an asynchronous motor driving the front wheels and a permanent magnet synchronous motor at the rear. Both versions will use the same capacity 100 kWh (94.4 kWh net) battery pack, which operates at 800 V and DC fast-charges from 10–80 percent in 21 minutes.
Roaring Kitty was briefly accused of deceiving his meme stock army.
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Keith Gill—the meme stock influencer known as "Roaring Kitty" and "DeepF—Value" who has rallied millions on X and Reddit behind GameStop—briefly faced a lawsuit claiming that he knowingly deceived his loyal followers to reap millions of dollars in gains. The lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff, Martin Radev, on July 1.
The proposed class action was filed Friday by Radev, a GameStop investor who accused Gill of a "pump-and-dump scheme" that allegedly artificially rose prices of GameStop securities between May 13 and June 13. As a result, perhaps thousands of investors were harmed, including Gill's followers, Radev's complaint alleged, while speculating on the class size. On Monday, Radev asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit without prejudice.
Radev's complaint followed reports that E-Trade was considering banning Gill for suspected stock manipulation but reportedly feared backlash from Gill's so-called meme stock army. According to the aggrieved investor, Gill's scheme allegedly worked like this:
Companies like Charter brought about the streaming industry they now want to join.
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It's clear that streaming services are the present and future of video distribution. But that doesn't mean that cable companies are ready to give up on your monthly dollars.
A sign of this is Comcast, the US' second-biggest cable company, debuting a new streaming service today. Comcast already had an offering that let subscribers stream its Xfinity cable live channels and access some titles on demand. NOW TV Latino differs in being a separate, additional streaming service that people can subscribe to independently of Xfinity cable for $10 per month.
However, unlike streaming services like Netflix or Max, you can only subscribe to NOW TV Latino if Xfinity is sold in your area. NOW TV Latino subscriptions include the ability to stream live TV from Spanish-language channels that Xfinity offers, like Sony Cine and ViendoMovies. And because Comcast owns NBCUniversal, people who subscribe to NOW TV Latino get a free subscription to Peacock with commercials, which usually costs $6/month.
Hellboy creator Mike Mignola co-wrote the screenplay based on his short story from comics.
Hellboy: The Crooked Man is based on a 2008 limited series by Mike Mignola and artist Richard Corben.
It has only been a few years since David Harbour starred in the 2019 reboot of the Hellboy film franchise—a critical and box office failure, although Harbour's performance earned praise. But via Entertainment Weekly, we learned that there's a new reboot coming our way: Hellboy: The Crooked Man. The project wrapped filming in May and now has a teaser—inexplicably released in 480p—giving us our first glimpse of star Jack Kesy's (Claws, Deadpool 2) take on Mike Mignola's iconic character.
It's definitely a very different look and vibe from the previous big studio releases. Director Brian Taylor (Crank) is clearly leaning into the low-budget folk horror genre for this, but will fans embrace a bargain-basement Hellboy reboot—even one co-written by Mignola himself?
Mignola based his script on a 2008 Hellboy limited series he created, with artwork by Richard Corben. That story features a younger Hellboy wandering in the Appalachian Mountains in 1958 after "finishing up some stuff down South." He meets regional native Tom Ferrell, coming home after decades away. When he was young, Tom was initiated as a witch and has returned to atone for that, even though he has never actually practiced magic—apart from a magical "witch-bone" he carries with him.
When the Thunderbolt 4 standard launched in 2020 it brought support for a bunch of new features including support for high-speed connections over longer cables and guaranteed support for up to two 4K displays or a single 8K display. But data transfer …
When the Thunderbolt 4 standard launched in 2020 it brought support for a bunch of new features including support for high-speed connections over longer cables and guaranteed support for up to two 4K displays or a single 8K display. But data transfer speeds topped out at the same 40 Gb/s as Thunderbolt 3, which had […]
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The work underpinned an Alzheimer’s drug by Cassava, now in a Phase III trial.
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A federal grand jury has indicted an embattled Alzheimer's researcher for allegedly falsifying data to fraudulently obtain $16 million in federal research funding from the National Institutes of Health for the development of a controversial Alzheimer's drug and diagnostic test.
Hoau-Yan Wang, 67, a medical professor at the City University of New York, was a paid collaborator with the Austin, Texas-based pharmaceutical company Cassava Sciences. Wang's research and publications provided scientific underpinnings for Cassava's Alzheimer's treatment, Simufilam, which is now in Phase III trials.
Simufilam is a small-molecule drug that Cassava claims can restore the structure and function of a scaffolding protein in the brain of people with Alzheimer's, leading to slowed cognitive decline. But outside researchers have long expressed doubts and concerns about the research.
A model trained in a virtual environment does remarkably well in the real world.
Enlarge / Right now, the software doesn't do arms, so don't go taking on any aliens with it. (credit: 20th Century Fox)
Exoskeletons today look like something straight out of sci-fi. But the reality is they are nowhere near as robust as their fictional counterparts. They’re quite wobbly, and it takes long hours of handcrafting software policies, which regulate how they work—a process that has to be repeated for each individual user.
To bring the technology a bit closer to Avatar’s Skel Suits or Warhammer 40k power armor, a team at North Carolina University’s Lab of Biomechatronics and Intelligent Robotics used AI to build the first one-size-fits-all exoskeleton that supports walking, running, and stair-climbing. Critically, its software adapts itself to new users with no need for any user-specific adjustments. “You just wear it and it works,” says Hao Su, an associate professor and co-author of the study.
An exoskeleton is a robot you wear to aid your movements—it makes walking, running, and other activities less taxing, the same way an e-bike adds extra watts on top of those you generate yourself, making pedaling easier. “The problem is, exoskeletons have a hard time understanding human intentions, whether you want to run or walk or climb stairs. It’s solved with locomotion recognition: systems that recognize human locomotion intentions,” says Su.
During the first six months of 2024, the UK’s leading internet service providers were required to block at least 7,000 domains and subdomains to prevent subscribers accessing pirate sites. The majority of blocking activity was aimed at disrupting pirate IPTV services offering live sports and other live broadcasts. In common with previous years, the music, movie, and publishing industries continued with their blocking programs.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Next month will mark the 13th anniversary of the first site blocking injunction in the UK.
Action by the major Hollywood studios against Usenet indexing site Newzbin led to ISP BT being ordered to block the service.
That was just the beginning and in most cases today, major UK ISPs including BT, Virgin Media, and Sky, are supportive of site blocking requests and happily carry them out, despite increasing complexity.
In broad terms, blocking injunctions allow rightsholders to block domains, subdomains, and IP addresses, depending on the services targeted and the type of injunction obtained. Largely static piracy websites are tackled by blocking domains and subdomains, which are often deployed en masse by pirate sites to circumvent blocking.
In many cases, the details of specialist ‘live’ blocking injunctions targeting IPTV providers are treated as confidential by the High Court. These blocks are usually temporary in nature and designed to prevent piracy of specific sporting events, typically football matches in the UK’s Premier League.
There is no reliable way of tracking this type of blocking and we make no attempt to cover it here. The one major exception is blocking carried out on behalf of broadcaster Sky following an injunction the company obtained in 2023.
Specific details remain unavailable to the public but the volume of fully-qualified domain names (FQDN) blocked as a result of the Sky order renders the broadcaster the most prolific requester of blocks (on a URL basis) for the whole of the UK for the first half of 2024.
Sky’s dramatic lead and the unusual nature of the order led to the pirate services targeted deploying thousands of subdomains in an effort to mitigate blocking. In no small part this has led to the massive blocking seen in the first half of this year.
A not-dissimilar situation has also led to the BPI targeting hundreds of domains/subdomains featuring the term ‘mp3juice’ or variations thereof. The music industry group has also been kept busy trying to block various unblocking portals that regularly spring up to circumvent blocking of more traditional sites including The Pirate Bay, TorrentDownloads, 1337x, and LimeTorrents.
For the MPA, a tsunami of 123movies, movies123, soap2day, putlocker, solarmovie, lookmovie, and bflix variants maintained their reputation as irritants in the first half of the year.
At the same time, these and similar brand names presented pirate site visitors with an impenetrable sea of clones and look-a-likes that may (or may not) infect their machines with malware. This is mostly due to the virtually impossible task of sifting through a quagmire of copycat domains to determine which (if any) relate to sites previously considered safe or safer to use, before they were blocked.
It’s likely that the second half of 2024 will serve up more of the same. Whether piracy rates will fall as blocking increases is a completely different question, unlike the risk of malware infection which seems primed for movement in an upwards direction.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
PC-Schrauber kennen den deutschen Hersteller Arctic durch seine Gehäuselüfter. Günstiger gibt es die USB-Tischventilatoren. (Lüfter, PC-Gehäuse)
PC-Schrauber kennen den deutschen Hersteller Arctic durch seine Gehäuselüfter. Günstiger gibt es die USB-Tischventilatoren. (Lüfter, PC-Gehäuse) 
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