
Stack Overflow brings its gamified peer support to documentation
The same collaborative approach to writing docs as for peer support.

For many developers, Stack Overflow has become the go-to place on the Internet for getting programming questions answered. The site's community-based question-and-answer model, combined with extensive gamification, has made it not just an essential resource for programmers of all kinds, but one of the most visited sites on the Internet. Today, the company announced a new product that aims to tackle another long-standing developer bugbear: documentation.
With this new product, named Documentation, Stack Overflow is hoping to bring the same influences that made Stack Overflow a success to the world of creating developer documentation that is rich with sample code to meet the needs of developers. As with the Q&A site, the intent is to develop a community that is rewarded for its contributions through upvotes and badges, giving a way to thank people for adding value and to offer recognition to those who consistently improve the content.
The first focus of Documentation is the development of code samples. Stack Overflow has worked with a handful of companies including PayPal, Dropbox, and Twitch in a closed beta. These companies all offer APIs that are already documented. The value that Documentation adds is the ability to extend those references describing the names of functions and the meanings of the parameters to include much richer content showing how to use those APIs in ways that the user community finds useful. Useful sample code is often missing from API documentation, and even when it exists, it's often narrowly tailored to do the bare minimum to demonstrate how a particular API or APIs are used. The hope with Documentation is to go far beyond this, creating a system where developers can offer a much wider range of examples.
Kaby Lake is coming: Intel begins shipping 7th-gen Core chips
Intel’s next-gen processors have begun shipping, which means we should start seeing notebooks and other computers powered by the 7th-gen Intel Core series processors soon.
Code-named “Kaby Lake,” the new chips will be manufactured using a 14nm process, much like the 5th and 6th-gen “Broadwell” and “Skylake” processors before them, but Intel says the new processors feature optimizations that should offer better performance.
Up until now, Intel has been releasing chips on a Tick-Tock schedule, which means moving to a smaller process with every other chip release.
Continue reading Kaby Lake is coming: Intel begins shipping 7th-gen Core chips at Liliputing.

Intel’s next-gen processors have begun shipping, which means we should start seeing notebooks and other computers powered by the 7th-gen Intel Core series processors soon.
Code-named “Kaby Lake,” the new chips will be manufactured using a 14nm process, much like the 5th and 6th-gen “Broadwell” and “Skylake” processors before them, but Intel says the new processors feature optimizations that should offer better performance.
Up until now, Intel has been releasing chips on a Tick-Tock schedule, which means moving to a smaller process with every other chip release.
Continue reading Kaby Lake is coming: Intel begins shipping 7th-gen Core chips at Liliputing.
4.5G: Vodafone Deutschland bringt 375 MBit/s in die Funkzelle
Geschäftskunden: Deutsche Telekom meldet Störung bei DSL und Telefonie
Microsoft: Frankreichs Datenschützer kritisieren Windows 10
Die französische Datenschutzbehörde CNIL äußert Kritik an Windows 10. Das Nutzerverhalten würde von Microsoft zu intensiv überwacht und auch bei der Sicherheit gebe es Probleme. Microsoft wird aufgefordert, das bisherige Verhalten zu ändern. (Windows 10, Microsoft)

Blue Byte: Anno 2205 besiedelt den Orbit
Moto Z review: Lenovo brings a huge price increase, lame modular system
The first Moto flagship under Lenovo’s rule isn’t a compelling one.
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Under Google, Motorola was one of our favorite OEMs. The company delivered bang-for-your-buck hardware, stock Android with some actually good additions, and speedy updates. Motorola couldn't hold Google's interest for very long, though, and in 2014, Google sold Motorola to Lenovo.
When Google took over Motorola, the company mentioned it would have to clear "12 to 18 months of product pipeline" before Google's changes would take effect. Assuming the Lenovo had the same 12 to 18 months of pipeline after the October 2014 takeover, the Moto Z and Moto Z Force mark the first "Lenovorola" flagship.
And boy, are things different. Along with the new name (RIP, Moto X) comes a huge jump in price: Motorola's flagship has gone from $400 in 2015 to $720 (for the Z Force) in 2016. That's an 80-percent increase. Moto Maker—Motorola's design service that let you customize the outside of the device—is dead, at least for the flagship. Motorola's love of software updates seems to have gone out the window, too. Major updates now take several months instead of several weeks, and a Motorola rep told us the company won't be providing security updates for the Moto Z.
Last known VCR maker stops production, 40 years after VHS format launch
Declining sales, parts shortage blamed; 750,000 units were sold last year.

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40 years after the first VHS video cassette recorder rolled off the production line, the last known company making the devices is ceasing production. According to Japanese newspaper Nikkei, Funai Electric, a Japanese consumer electronics company, will give up on the format by the end of the July after 30 years of production.
Declining sales, plus a difficulty in obtaining the necessary parts, prompted Funai Electric to cease production. While the Funai brand might not be well-known in the west, the company sold VCRs under the more familiar Sanyo brand in China and North America.
Funai Electric began production of VCRs in 1983 following the unsuccessful launch of its own CVC format in 1980. While CVC had its strengths—its quarter-inch tape made its machines smaller and lighter than VHS machines, which used half-inch tape—VHS and Betamax were strong competitors.
Firefox to start blocking Flash content in August
SWF supercookies will be blocked first, full click-to-play coming in 2017.

Firefox will begin retiring Adobe Flash on August 2 with the release of Firefox 48. In 2017, probably with Firefox 53, Flash plug-ins will require the user to actively click-to-play.
In Firefox 48, Mozilla will enable a new Firefox plug-in blocklist by default. Initially the blocklist will be small, mostly containing URLs of Flash SWF files that have been identified by Mozilla as supercookies (i.e. cookies that are very hard to shake off) or fingerprinting files (i.e. they scan your system and create a unique fingerprint, again usually for tracking purposes).
The Github repo explains the criteria for adding new SWFs to the blocklist: