M8Pe: Plextor veröffentlicht PCIe-SSD in drei Varianten

Eine Basis, drei Optionen: Plextors M8Pe ist demnächst im Handel erhältlich. Die SSD unterstützt das NVMe-Protokoll über eine schnelle PCIe-Anbindung und wird optional mit Kühler ausgeliefert. (Plextor, Speichermedien)

Eine Basis, drei Optionen: Plextors M8Pe ist demnächst im Handel erhältlich. Die SSD unterstützt das NVMe-Protokoll über eine schnelle PCIe-Anbindung und wird optional mit Kühler ausgeliefert. (Plextor, Speichermedien)

Xbox One: Firmware-Update mit Hintergrund und Sprachauswahl

Parallel zum Anniversary Update für Windows 10 hat Microsoft das Summer Update für die Xbox One veröffentlicht. Es enthält Verbesserungen, etwa bei der Sprachauswahl, und führt die Stores der beiden Plattformen zusammen. (Xbox One, Microsoft)

Parallel zum Anniversary Update für Windows 10 hat Microsoft das Summer Update für die Xbox One veröffentlicht. Es enthält Verbesserungen, etwa bei der Sprachauswahl, und führt die Stores der beiden Plattformen zusammen. (Xbox One, Microsoft)

Windows 10: Anniversary Update bringt mehr Sicherheit und Komfort

Am 2. August beginnt Microsoft mit der Verteilung des Anniversary Updates für Windows 10. Mit der Aktualisierung gibt es einen Zugewinn an Sicherheit. Außerdem machen einige Verbesserungen die Nutzung des Betriebssystems komfortabler. (Windows 10, Microsoft)

Am 2. August beginnt Microsoft mit der Verteilung des Anniversary Updates für Windows 10. Mit der Aktualisierung gibt es einen Zugewinn an Sicherheit. Außerdem machen einige Verbesserungen die Nutzung des Betriebssystems komfortabler. (Windows 10, Microsoft)

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 08/01/16

The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘The Nice guys’. ‘Batman: The Killing Joke’ completes the top three.

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indepenThis week we have three newcomers in our chart.

Independence Day: Resurgence, which came out as HDRip with Korean subtitles, is the most downloaded movie.

The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise.

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Ranking (last week) Movie IMDb Rating / Trailer
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1 (10) Independence Day: Resurgence (Subbed HDRip) 5.6 / trailer
2 (…) The Nice Guys 7.7 / trailer
3 (3) Batman: The Killing Joke 7.3 / trailer
4 (1) X-Men: Apocalypse (Subbed HDRip) 7.7 / trailer
5 (4) Warcraft (subbed HDRip) 7.7 / trailer
6 (2) Central Intelligence 6.9 / trailer
7 (8) The Secret Life of Pets (HDTS) 6.8 / trailer
8 (…) Jason Bourne (CAM) 7.4 / trailer
9 (…) The Angry Birds Movie 6.3 / trailer
10 (5) The Purge: Election Year (subbed HDRip) 6.3 / trailer

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Amazon: Kopfhörer mit Geräuschminderung sollen bei Gefahr abschalten

Amazon hat in den USA ein Patent für einen geräuschmindernden Kopfhörer zugesprochen bekommen, der bei möglicher Gefahr abschaltet. Das Gerät könnte Sirenen, Hupen oder den Namen des Trägers durchlassen, damit diesen Warnungen erreichen. (Kopfhörer, Sound-Hardware)

Amazon hat in den USA ein Patent für einen geräuschmindernden Kopfhörer zugesprochen bekommen, der bei möglicher Gefahr abschaltet. Das Gerät könnte Sirenen, Hupen oder den Namen des Trägers durchlassen, damit diesen Warnungen erreichen. (Kopfhörer, Sound-Hardware)

Genovation GXE: Elektro-Corvette schafft 330 km/h

Viele Elektroautos beschleunigen zwar stark, erreichen aber keine hohen Endgeschwindigkeiten. Bei der umgebauten Corvette Genovation GXE ist das anders: Das Fahrzeug hat 330 km/h erreicht. (Elektroauto, GreenIT)

Viele Elektroautos beschleunigen zwar stark, erreichen aber keine hohen Endgeschwindigkeiten. Bei der umgebauten Corvette Genovation GXE ist das anders: Das Fahrzeug hat 330 km/h erreicht. (Elektroauto, GreenIT)

Crowdfunding: Amazon verkauft Kickstarter-Produkte

Amazon hat in seinem Onlineshop eine eigene Abteilung für Produkte eröffnet, die ursprünglich auf Kickstarter ins Leben gerufen worden sind. 300 Artikel in mehreren Kategorien werden bereits angeboten. (Crowdfunding, Amazon)

Amazon hat in seinem Onlineshop eine eigene Abteilung für Produkte eröffnet, die ursprünglich auf Kickstarter ins Leben gerufen worden sind. 300 Artikel in mehreren Kategorien werden bereits angeboten. (Crowdfunding, Amazon)

Philips’ new Health Watch tackles chronic disease instead of fitness

It’s part of a family of medical devices for those with serious health issues.

(credit: Philips)

Comparing the potential benefits of one fitness device to another can be difficult when the market is so saturated, and companies work hard to stand out from the competition. For Philips, that means medical devices instead of fitness devices. The new suite of health devices that Philips launched today, including the Philips Health Watch, targets people who have or risk developing chronic conditions such as hypertension. In addition to the watch, Philips has a smart scale, a thermometer, and two blood pressure monitors as part of its family of medical-grade consumer devices.

With its simple black frame and Gorilla Glass-covered display, the Philips Health Watch isn't trying to be flashy or make a fashion statement. The watchface itself isn't a touchscreen, but the bezel around it is, so you swipe and tap on the circumference of the watch to change the display. A bunch of quick views shows you stats like steps, calories burned, active time, and so forth, and tapping the top lets you access a detailed menu full of in-depth stats. You can even input what foods you've eaten directly into the watch, which means you don't have to log every meal and snack through your phone.

Inside the $250 watch is a Philips-developed continuous optical heart rate monitor, as well as an accelerometer. In addition to basic metrics like steps, calories, and heart rate, this sensor also tracks resting heart rate, resting respiration rate, active time, sedentary time, and sleep. Even though the Health Watch is not a fitness device, it can automatically track running, walking, and biking so you don't have to manually start tracking those exercises. The watch's heart rate monitor is smart enough to know when your heart rate is consistently high, so it will register when you're doing other kinds of workouts as well.

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Reboots be damned, Stranger Things shows a better way to do nostalgia

And as a bonus, the show adds some needed credence to the Netflix model.

This trailer is completely fine, but the series is so much more charming.

Warning: This post contains minor spoilers for Stranger Things' first season.

New Netflix sci-fi series Stranger Things wastes no time transporting viewers to a time, place, and feeling. There are vinyl records and cassette tapes, endless freedom via fixed gear bikes, and AV Club devotees with ham radios and walkie-talkies. The first episode even uses an epic, demogorgon-loaded Dungeons & Dragons campaign as both a delightful pop-culture reference and as an obvious call-out to some expected character tropes from the '80s.

Our four kid heroes represent well-established kid-movie roles: the quiet one (Will), the cynic (Lucas), the optimist (Mike), and the realist (Duncan). They have awkward, older siblings at opposite ends of the popularity spectrum, and they interact with adults we already kind of know at first blush—a flawed but capable sheriff, a stressed but determined single mom, a sage-like science teacher. Add allusions to Stephen King, Steven Spielberg, and a bevy of other era-appropriate pop culture entities, and you'd be forgiven for thinking you know how this "set in 1983" series will play out.

One of many, many videos you can find citing and explaining the pop culture allusions in Stranger Things

After all, this is a story that could happen (and has happened) in any era. A kid has gone missing, some dark forces seem to be at play, and it'll take a village (or at least a team of adults, our D&D nerds, and their siblings) to figure everything out. But what makes Stranger Things stand out after its eight-episode first season is that the show only uses the familiar as a backdrop; it doesn't wallow in it or simply retread known stories. This isn't Ready Player One, new Ghostbusters, or any of the upcoming Star Wars onslaught. Instead, Netflix's lovely homage to 1980s genre fiction deploys nostalgia only to speed up and deepen world-building. Its story, by contrast, feels fresh by including enough twists and turns to keep even the most capable pop-culture detectives guessing and entertained.

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Nvidia offers $30 to GTX 970 customers in class action lawsuit over RAM

Graphics card spec discrepancy could lead to a small payout for customers.

A class action lawsuit brought against Nvidia over a slow RAM partition has resulted in a proposed settlement (PDF) that could pay $30 to anyone who bought the company’s GTX 970 graphics card before its troubles came to light.

In early 2015, a group of customers found that the GTX 970—which was advertised to have 4GB of high-speed GDDR5 RAM—experienced performance issues when pushed to the limits of that memory allotment. It then came to light that the graphics card only had 3.5 GB of the high-speed RAM, with the remaining 0.5 GB running roughly 80 percent slower, as Ars Technica reported last year.

Nvidia claimed at the time that there was an error in communication between the company’s engineers and its technical marketing team, but that it had not been intentionally misleading. A year later, that position hasn’t changed: according to the motion for preliminary approval of the settlement filed in Northern California District Court last week, Nvidia “[continues] to vigorously deny all of the claims and contentions alleged in this Action.” The company, however, “considered the risks and potential costs of continued litigation of this action,” and decided to work toward a settlement, the motion adds.

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