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Measure your muscle and fat anywhere with Skulpt Chisel

The $99 device uses EIM to tell you how strong your muscles really are.

Video shot/edited by Jennifer Hahn. (video link)

It can be hard to see progress when you're trying to get fit. Pounds don't fly off in a week, and massive muscles don't appear overnight. But a company called Skulpt wants to make it easier for you to see the fitness hurdles you've already jumped. Its $99 Skulpt Chisel is a brick-like device that uses "electrical impedance myography" to assess muscle quality and fat percentage all across the body. Think of it as a tracker for your fitness tracker, if you use a fitness tracker—the Chisel can assess if your workouts are actually working for you. Even if you don't use a fitness device, it can show you which parts of your body need improvement and how you've gotten stronger over time.

How it works: Feel the currents

Design and features go hand-in-hand with the Skulpt Chisel. It's a white, rectangular device that's slightly taller than a deck of cards, with a thin light ring around the edges. The front of the device is just the Skulpt logo, but the back is where all the technology is. That's where you'll find small electrode strips covering most of the surface, along with four small nodes that fit into its charging base. Those electrodes measure muscle quality and fat percentage on different parts of the body using electrical impedance myography, or EIM.

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Closer look at the Alcatel Xess 17 inch Android… thing

The Alcatel Xess is an Android tablet with a big screen. Or maybe it’s an all-in-one computer with a reasonably small screen and Android software. Any way you look at it, the Xess is a device with a 17.3 inch full HD display, a 9,600 mAh battery, and a built-in kickstand and handle. It weighs […]

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Betriebssystem-Statistik: Windows XP ist weiter verbreitet als Windows 8.1

Das dritthäufigste Desktop-Betriebssystem? Windows XP! Das veraltete und unsichere Betriebssystem kommt aktuellen Zahlen zufolge immer noch häufig zum Einsatz. Windows 10 belegt den zweiten Platz. (Windows XP, Mac)

Aboard HMS Cavalier, where Wargaming is battling to shape the future of VR films

World of Tanks maker is doing great work preserving the HMS Cavalier.

Sometimes promotion for a videogame can go too far, becoming overwrought and vastly inflating the value of what it is promoting. Other times it can be subtle, unique, maybe even truly interesting, and draw in a new audience that might not have otherwise have cared. Then there's the Wargaming approach, which seems to be: "make something that doesn't promote any of our games, purely because we can."

Thus, Virtually Inside Warships was born: a virtual, 360-degree video tour of the HMS Cavalier, made with virtual reality headsets in mind, but the kind of thing you can just as easily watch on a smartphone, tablet, or even (with some cumbersome mouse-swiping) your browser. It is a complex technical undertaking, requiring much preparation, technical know-how, and traditional documentary-making chops—and, if you didn't already know ahead of time, there's almost no indication that it was made by a gaming company.

This isn't uncharted territory for the Minsk-based studio, which is best known for developing the game World of Tanks. Its first VR outing was Virtually Inside Tanks, and it followed that with a 360-degree 1941 battle re-enactment, a neat proof-of-concept for where the studio wants its VR ambitions to end up. But Virtually Inside Warships sees a number of improvements to the technology used, including a far more experienced production team, and a level of ambition I've yet to see in any VR or 360-degree film to date.

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Dell: Aktuelles XPS 13 mit Ubuntu erhältlich

Linux-Freunde können ab sofort ein aktuelles XPS 13 mit vorinstalliertem Ubuntu bestellen. Das Gerät ist auch mit mattem Full-HD-Display verfügbar. (Dell XPS 13, Ubuntu)

Verbraucherschutzminister: “Kupfer verhindert Glasfaser”

Die Vectoring-Technologie der Deutschen Telekom ist umstritten. Nachdem die Bundesnetzagentur das Unternehmen unterstützt, warnt der Verbraucherschutzminister von Baden-Württemberg jetzt vor der Technologie. Sie “schade” dem Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland. (Vectoring, DSL)

Die Vectoring-Technologie der Deutschen Telekom ist umstritten. Nachdem die Bundesnetzagentur das Unternehmen unterstützt, warnt der Verbraucherschutzminister von Baden-Württemberg jetzt vor der Technologie. Sie "schade" dem Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland. (Vectoring, DSL)

BPI Buys Up ‘Pirate’ Domains To Foil Pro-Piracy Activists

Internet pirates are a swarthy bunch that have been known to hijack anti-piracy projects to further their own aims. The BPI is aware of these kinds of efforts and has registered a whole heap of ‘pirate’ domains to avoid a similar fate befalling the UK’s Get it Right From a Genuine Site campaign.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

For many digital pirates the Internet is a playground, a place where they can do as they please without fear of retribution. While that assertion has become less valid as the years have progressed, acts of sharing defiance are still commonplace.

With the ‘War on Sharing’ apparently impossible to win by force alone, various educational campaigns have been launched by the entertainment industries in the hope that pirates and would-be pirates will eventually see the error of their ways.

In the UK one such project from Creative Content UK is known as Get it Right From a Genuine Site. While yet to achieve significant mainstream exposure, the overall campaign is head and shoulders above the offensive and aggressive campaigns of years gone by.

Whether the millions being spent by the government will have the desired effect is unknown at this point, but those behind the campaign have already taken measures to ensure that it doesn’t get sabotaged.

UK music group BPI owns the GetitRightFromaGenuineSite.org domain but to be doubly sure there are no imposters the group has also bagged at least 17 others, including the .audio, .band, .biz, .com, .digital, .email, .foundation and .net variants.

TF discovered these domains while trawling through WHOIS records this week but it was more of a surprise to see that the BPI had also grabbed a bunch of ‘pirate’ versions too. As can be seen below, the BPI has secured the opportunity for people to GetitRightFromaPirateSite too.

Of course, the chances of the BPI turning its hand to torrent and streaming site promotion are somewhat slim so there must be an alternative reason for it securing not only this .com variant but also many, many more.

We spoke to the music group who confirmed that their intention was indeed preventing abuse of the ‘Get it Right’ campaign.

“It’s standard practice to adopt in respect of brands or major campaigns or initiatives,” a BPI spokesperson said.

“It gives options should alternatives ever be required and also helps to reduce possible abuse.”

The BPI’s strategy here is pretty sound as this kind of thing has happened in the past.

Perhaps most famously, aggressive Swedish anti-piracy outfit and Pirate Bay nemesis Antipiratbyran (Anti-Piracy Agency) was countered by equally notorious piracy activist group Piratbyran (Piracy Agency) whose website remains operational to this day.

But while a notional threat of sabotage remains in 2016, it seems much less likely today than it did several years ago. It’s true that millions of people are currently sharing content every day but the stunts carried out by activists during file-sharing’s golden years have largely disappeared.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

Falcon 9: SpaceX gelingt Landung auf Drohnenschiff

Die zweite gelungene Landung der Falcon 9, diesmal auf dem Meer, zeigt, dass die Wiederverwendung von Raketen ein Teil der Zukunft der Raumfahrt sein wird. (SpaceX, Internet)

WordPress.com: 1 Million neue Let’s-Encrypt-Seiten

In Zusammenarbeit mit Wordpress wird Let’s Encrypt alle dort gehosteten Seiten mit einem SSL-Zertifikat ausstatten. Ein Problem mit Windows-XP-Nutzern wurde zwischenzeitlich behoben. (Let’s Encrypt, Firefox)

In Zusammenarbeit mit Wordpress wird Let's Encrypt alle dort gehosteten Seiten mit einem SSL-Zertifikat ausstatten. Ein Problem mit Windows-XP-Nutzern wurde zwischenzeitlich behoben. (Let's Encrypt, Firefox)

Die Woche im Video: Ein gigantisches Datenleck und großartige VR-Erlebnisse

Mehr als 200.000 Briefkastenfirmen in Panama sind in dieser Woche aufgeflogen. Wir sind mit HTCs Vive durch Höhlen gekrochen und mit Microsofts Hololens auf dem Mars gewesen. Sieben Tage und viele Meldungen im Überblick. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Internet)