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3D-Druck: Polizei will Smartphone mit nachgemachtem Finger entsperren

Eine Gruppe von Wissenschaftlern hat einen ungewöhnlichen Auftrag erhalten: Sie sollen anhand von Fingerabdrücken eines Mordopfers dessen Finger nachbilden, um sein Smartphone entsperren zu können. Bei einigen Geräten dürfte dies aber nicht funktionieren. (Wissenschaft, Smartphone)

Verizon to acquire Yahoo’s web business for $4.8 billion

There were rumors floating around last year that AOL and Yahoo were considering a merger. Then Verizon went and bought AOL for $4.4 billion instead. Now it looks like AOL and Yahoo will be under one roof after all, because Verizon is spending $4.8 billion to acquire most of Yahoo’s business.

Basically Verizon will handle Yahoo’s content, advertising, and related assets, but the company that will no-longer-be-known-as-Yahoo will retain its shares in Alibaba Group Holdings or Yahoo Japan, Yahoo’s cash, or some oft he company’s intellectual property, described as “non-core patents.”

Once the sale of Yahoo’s core business to Verizon is complete, Verizon will own the Yahoo name and the other company will start calling itself something else and become a new, publicly traded company.

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Official: Yahoo snapped up by Verizon in $4.8 billion deal

’90s Internet pinups Yahoo and AOL together at last.

Verizon has confirmed earlier reports that it will buy ailing Internet pioneer Yahoo in an all-cash deal with a price tag of nearly £3.7 billion (~$4.8 billion).

The sale doesn't include Yahoo's shares in Alibaba, Verizon said. Yahoo's Japan shares, its non-core patents, and minority investments are also set to be cut loose from the planned takeover.

Those assets will form part of a new publicly traded company that will be spun out of Yahoo as a separate business. It's unclear who will head up that firm, however.

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The scientific arms race to age our whiskey

Despite more whiskey research than ever, proprietary desires may limit our understanding.

Almost every distillery tour follows the same format. First, you’re led by a display of raw materials. Then, the guide takes you around the fermentation tanks and by the still. But the magical part is what comes next. Once the whiskey is collected from the still, it’s put into barrels and stored in cool, shadowy warehouses called rickhouses. The air here smells of the vanilla and oak and grain from the spirit that’s evaporated. And since most rickhouses aren’t even wired for electricity, you almost feel like you’ve stepped back in time. Whatever comes from here will taste like pure wonder.

In reality, the spell was cast long before you stepped foot into these whiskey-scented buildings. Labels, websites, and other bits of marketing work together to paint pictures about things like generations of distillers, specific grain blends, or the surface details of aging. And within those first steps of any tour, a guide spins a narrative made of half myth and half fact, incorporating widely accepted statistics like the percentage of each barrel that evaporates each year. Despite the lack of published evidence to back such information up, these whiskey standards are often repeated as fact, especially by PR reps, bartenders, and enthusiastic consumers.

The truth is, most of the research being done on whiskey, especially about how and why it ages, will never be available to the public. With revenue from whiskey sales topping $2.7 billion in 2014 in the US and projected to keep rising, producers’ hesitance to share is somewhat understandable. In many cases, the data collected could give any company a competitive advantage.

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Modesetting: Debian und Ubuntu verzichten auf Intels X11-Treiber

Wegen der Probleme mit Intels X11-Treiber werden Debian und Ubuntu diese nicht mehr verwenden. Stattdessen soll der generische Modesetting-Treiber genutzt werden, der leichter gepflegt werden kann. (X Window System, Ubuntu)

Elementary OS Loki im Test: Hübsch und einfach kann auch kompliziert sein

So übersichtlich wie Mac OS, aber freie Software: Das Betriebssystem Elementary OS ist in der Vorabversion der neuen Veröffentlichung Loki schon erstaunlich stabil und ausgereift. Für erfahrene Linux-Nutzer könnte die vereinfachte Anwendungsverwaltung aber zu umständlich sein. (Ubuntu, Server)

Mobilfunkausrüster: Ericsson feuert seinen Konzernchef

Ericssons Chef ist mit sofortiger Wirkung abgesetzt. Vestberg wurde wegen privater Nutzung des Firmenjets und hoher Prämien in für die Firma schweren Zeiten kritisiert. Gewinn und Umsatz des Unternehmens sind wiederholt stark gesunken. (Quartalsbericht, Ericsson)