Höhere Bildrate dank neuer Schnittstelle: id Softwares Doom unterstützt mit dem zweiten Patch das Vulkan-API. Davon profitieren AMD- und Nvidia-Grafikkarten sowie Intel-GPUs messbar. (Doom, API) Dealmaster: Get 40 percent off all kinds of cool stuff on Prime Day
Desktops, laptops, and a bunch of other things on Amazon’s day of deals.
Greetings Arsians! Thanks to our partners at TechBargains, we have a list of some of the best Amazon Prime Day deals. Today only, you can take advantage of all the deals below if you're an Amazon Prime member. Some of the best ones are 40 percent off open-box laptops, desktops, monitors, routers, and more. You can even get a $10 Amazon credit when you purchase a $50 Amazon gift card. Prime members also get free two-day shipping, so anything you buy today will get to you as quickly as possible. Snatch up all the deals that you want before the day ends!
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Liberty Global: Unitymedia-Konzern gibt Netflix Schuld an lahmem Streaming
Netflix läuft bei einigen Kabelnetzanbietern langsamer. Die Verantwortung dafür sehen sie beim Streaming-Anbieter und dessen Infrastruktur. Netflix führe die Daten nicht richtig zu, meint der Liberty-Global-Chef. (Liberty Global, Netzneutralität)
Netflix läuft bei einigen Kabelnetzanbietern langsamer. Die Verantwortung dafür sehen sie beim Streaming-Anbieter und dessen Infrastruktur. Netflix führe die Daten nicht richtig zu, meint der Liberty-Global-Chef. (Liberty Global, Netzneutralität) Trike: Dreirädriger Can-Am Spyder fährt mit E-Antrieb
Das Trike Can-Am Spyder gibt es bisher nur mit Verbrennungsmotor, doch nun hat der Hersteller Bombardier auch eines mit Elektroantrieb gezeigt. Mit einer Akkuladung soll es erstaunlich weit kommen. (Elektroauto, Technologie)
Das Trike Can-Am Spyder gibt es bisher nur mit Verbrennungsmotor, doch nun hat der Hersteller Bombardier auch eines mit Elektroantrieb gezeigt. Mit einer Akkuladung soll es erstaunlich weit kommen. (Elektroauto, Technologie) Content Owners Warn Against Fair Use
Copyright holders in Australia have hit out against calls to implement Fair Use legislation in the country.Fair Use clauses are exceptions to existing copyright law. These exceptions exist for limited purposes in order to ensure copyright does not hind…
Copyright holders in Australia have hit out against calls to implement Fair Use legislation in the country.
Fair Use clauses are exceptions to existing copyright law. These exceptions exist for limited purposes in order to ensure copyright does not hinder creativity, freedom of expression and research. Fair Use rights could prevent rights holders from abusing copyright law to silence criticism and remove unfavorable opinions, for example.
While the United States, which has some of the toughest copyright laws around the world, has a Fair Use provision, the same does not exist in Australia. This is why the Australian government's own independent advisory body, the Productivity Commission, called for the introduction for such a provision earlier in the year.
The Productivity Commission also called for a ban on the use of geo-blocking, in order to protect competition and consumer rights.
These recommendations, however, have not been met with open arms by copyright holders in Australia, with most coming out against Fair Use.
Most centered their argument on the grounds that any watering down of copyright laws would harm "innovation", as these groups believe that it's strong copyright laws that help to protect creativity.
"The music industry exists because of copyright. Copyright drives innovation and creativity, enables record companies to invest in artists and repertoire, and gives creators an income," says music group IFPI.
Local pay television operator Foxtel mirrored the same sentiment.
"Fair use will have negative economic consequences and have a significant impact on creative output due to the associated uncertainties. Foxtel strongly believes that this type of reform will have a significant impact on creative outputs due to the uncertainties it will create," writes Foxtel in their submission to the Productivity Commission.
Ironically, Hollywood's staunch pro-copyright stance does include room for Fair Use. Hollywood's trade group, the MPAA, has previously offered support for Fair Use in court cases, and as the group explains in this article, Fair Use is something that rights-holders often rely on as well, when producing their own unique work.
"Our members rely on the fair use doctrine every day when producing their movies and television shows – especially those that involve parody and news and documentary programs," wrote the MPAA.
[Via TorrentFreak and MPAA]
General Motors: Weltraumhandschuh steht am Fließband
Der ursprünglich für Weltraumeinsätze gedachte Handschuh Roboglove soll Fließbandarbeitern und Kranken helfen, kraftvoller zuzugreifen. Er ist von der Nasa und General Motors entwickelt und vom schwedischen Unternehmen Bioservo verfeinert worden. (General Motors, Technologie)
Der ursprünglich für Weltraumeinsätze gedachte Handschuh Roboglove soll Fließbandarbeitern und Kranken helfen, kraftvoller zuzugreifen. Er ist von der Nasa und General Motors entwickelt und vom schwedischen Unternehmen Bioservo verfeinert worden. (General Motors, Technologie) Holmes to remain at Theranos despite federal ban and gross negligence
Baffling disregard for clinical protocols led to lab shutdown and 2yr ban for CEO.
Theranos CEO and founder Elizabeth Holmes. (credit: Max Morse for TechCrunch)
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Late last Thursday, blood testing company Theranos announced that the worst possible outcome of its troubled dealings with federal regulators had come to pass: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) had issued sanctions that, among other things, would revoke the company’s license to operate its Newark, California laboratory and bar its high-profile CEO and founder Elizabeth Holmes from owning, operating, or directing any lab for at least two years.
The massive blow from the CMS should be no surprise for Theranos; for months, the company had been dogged by reports that its propriety testing device—said to perform hundreds of tests with just drops rather than vials of blood—didn’t work properly. Theranos was forced to void or correct years’ worth of test results and its valuation dropped from $9 billion to $800 million. In the CMS’ 33-page letter to the company informing it of the sanctions, the agency outlined extensive problems at the California lab and the company’s inexplicable failure to fix them. And the company also faces criminal probes from the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission over whether it misled investors and regulators, plus at least eight lawsuits from ex-costumers, each seeking class-action status for bogus testing.
Still, last week’s news raises the question of what will happen to the company’s other clinical laboratory in Scottsdale, Arizona, at which 90 percent of the company’s tests are processed. So far, that lab has passed regulatory muster and the company said it will remain open for now. But, if Theranos intends to keep it running, it must split from Holmes before the sanctions take effect September 5.
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SEC investigating Tesla crash investor disclosure, WSJ says
After man was killed using autopilot, SEC wants to know what investors needed to know.
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal published Monday afternoon, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating whether Tesla Motors should have disclosed the nature and circumstances of a recent fatal crash to investors earlier than it did. By SEC rules, companies must report “material” events to shareholders, although auto companies do not generally report individual car crashes to investors.
Still, this particular crash has earned so much attention because it involves the first fatality in a car running autonomous functions (although Tesla cautions in its user manual that autopilot features do not make the car fully autonomous and car owners still bear the responsibility for driving the car). The victim was a 40-year-old Tesla owner who crashed into a left-turning truck on a Florida highway in early May.
“A person familiar with the matter” told the WSJ that “the SEC’s inquiry is in a very early stage and may not lead to any enforcement action by regulators.”
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Amazon Prime Day deals (7-12-2016)
Prime Day is Amazon’s answer to the question: why isn’t there a Black Friday-style shopping holiday in the summer?
Last year the company offered deep discounts on thousands of items, and this year for the second annual Amazon Prime Day the company says it’ll offer at least twice as many deals… although some will surely be more exciting than others.
Prime Day kicks off at midnight on July 12th, with some deals lasting all day, or at least as long as supplies last, and others showing up as “Lightning Deals,” which will be available for a brief period, with new deals launching as often as every five minutes.
Continue reading Amazon Prime Day deals (7-12-2016) at Liliputing.
Prime Day is Amazon’s answer to the question: why isn’t there a Black Friday-style shopping holiday in the summer?
Last year the company offered deep discounts on thousands of items, and this year for the second annual Amazon Prime Day the company says it’ll offer at least twice as many deals… although some will surely be more exciting than others.
Prime Day kicks off at midnight on July 12th, with some deals lasting all day, or at least as long as supplies last, and others showing up as “Lightning Deals,” which will be available for a brief period, with new deals launching as often as every five minutes.
Continue reading Amazon Prime Day deals (7-12-2016) at Liliputing.
Poll finds majority of Americans disagree with FBI in Clinton e-mail flap
Respondents’ answers depended largely on their political affiliation.
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A poll out Monday concludes that a majority of Americans disapprove of the FBI's decision not to recommend charges against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presumptive nominee for president who has been embroiled in a scandal involving her treatment of classified e-mail when she was Secretary of State.
The ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted by Langer Research Associates found that 56 percent of those surveyed said they "disapprove" of FBI Director James Comey's decision last week. Attorney General Loretta Lynch backed the recommendation. Thirty five percent answered that they "approve" of the decision. About 9 percent of respondents said they had "no opinion" on the issue.
Clinton (credit: CSPAN)
The poll was conducted July 6-7 of a random sample of 519 adults on landlines and mobile phones. It has a margin of error rating of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
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