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Windows 10: Gratis-Upgrade demnächst auch für kleine Unternehmen

Microsoft will demnächst auch kleinen Unternehmen das Gratis-Upgrade auf Windows 10 anbieten. Das kostenlose Upgrade gibt es für Systeme mit Windows 7 und Windows 8.1. (Windows 10, Microsoft)

Microsoft: Neues Insider Build von Windows 10 verfügbar

Microsoft verteilt das erste Insider Build für Windows 10 in diesem Jahr. Große Neuerungen gibt es noch nicht und die bereits bekannten Fehler dürften einige vom Ausprobieren abhalten. (Windows 10, Microsoft)

Fixstars SSD-13000M: SSD mit 13 TByte Speicherkapazität

Fixstars hat eine SSD im 2,5 Zoll-Formfaktor vorgestellt, die 13 TByte Daten speichern kann. Doch nicht nur der zu erwartende Preis macht sie für den Einsatz im heimischen PC untauglich. (Solid State Drive, Speichermedien)

VR-Brille: Raumklang für Google Cardboard

Google erweitert die VR-Brille Cardboard um Raumklang, damit der Benutzer Töne im Raum orten kann. Das soll das Erlebnis deutlich immersiver machen. Die Technik dafür hat Google 2015 gekauft. (Raumklang, Display)

Multifunctional Light: Sony macht Deckenleuchte zum Smarthome-Zentrum

Sony hat eine Deckenleuchte mit Smarthome-Funktionen vorgestellt. Bewegungsmelder, Helligkeits- und Feuchtigkeitssensoren, Thermometer, Infrarotsensor, Lautsprecher und Mikro erlauben umfangreiche Steuerungsmöglichkeiten. (Smarthome, Sony)

Actionkameras: Gopro entlässt Mitarbeiter

Gopro hat Probleme mit dem Verkauf seiner Actionkameras und überrascht mit schlechten Zahlen. Die Aktie stürzte daraufhin ab. Zudem werden sieben Prozent der Belegschaft entlassen. (Gopro, Digitalkamera)

Microsoft finally has a proper way to opt out of Windows 7/8 to Windows 10 upgrades

The upgrade will also now be offered to eligible domain-joined systems.

Microsoft has announced its intent to make the Windows 10 upgrade for existing Windows 7 and 8.1 users more widely available. In tandem with this, the company has also, at last, offered a good way of rejecting the upgrade and making the notifications about it go away forever.

The free upgrade is available to anyone not running an Enterprise version of Windows 7 or 8.1. Home users that update their systems through Windows Update have received a range of quite persistent advertisements in their system tray and the Windows Update app itself to encourage them to upgrade. However, domain joined systems have so far been excluded from this advertising.

Microsoft is changing this imminently. Domain-joined eligible systems that use regular Windows Update for their updates (which is to say, systems that do not have their updates managed by WSUS or SCCM) will start receiving the upgrade offer in the US later this month and worldwide thereafter.

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Worldwide Box Office Sets New Record despite Widespread Piracy

Hollywood’s dire warnings about the effect of piracy seems to be far and wide of the mark, as the movie industry enjoyed a spectacular 2015 in terms of ticket sales and profit.With two of the top four all time box office hits being released in 2015 (‘J…

Hollywood's dire warnings about the effect of piracy seems to be far and wide of the mark, as the movie industry enjoyed a spectacular 2015 in terms of ticket sales and profit.

With two of the top four all time box office hits being released in 2015 ('Jurassic World' and 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'), it was a record year for box office takings in North American and around the world.

For the first time ever, ticket sales in North American broke through the $11 billion barrier, up 9% from a year ago. Globally, box office receipts were also at a record breaking $38 billion, with China, a previous (and perhaps current) piracy hotbed, now being the second largest market in the world.

The actual number of tickets sold also increased, by more than 5%, suggesting that it's not just the rise in ticket prices that's accounting for the higher takings.

All of this comes despite 2015 being another massive year for piracy, with the increasing threat of easy to use piracy platforms such as the "Netflix-for-pirates" Popcorn Time enjoying huge popularity among eager movie pirates.

It appears for now though that piracy's effect on the movie business can be contained, and certainly seems to be more optimistic than the previous predictions of bankruptcy, job losses and even the entire end of movie-making business.

New Remote Desktop client could almost make me a Continuum believer

This almost feels like a killer feature.

Remote desktop on the phone screen. (credit: Microsoft)

One of Windows 10 Mobile's truly distinctive and unusual features is Continuum. If you hook a phone up to a screen and, optionally, a mouse and keyboard, you can run desktop-style apps, albeit still powered by the phone. The connection to the screen and other peripherals can be wireless, using Miracast and Bluetooth, or wired, using the USB 3 Display Dock.

While the novelty of this is appealing, I'm not altogether sure that it's ever going to be a major selling point. There are a couple of reasons: first, it requires quite specific hardware (although Miracast with Bluetooth is quite widely available); second, it requires Universal Windows Apps that specifically enable the ability to run on a large screen.

Remote Desktop in Continuum mode. A full-size desktop on a full-size screen.

A new preview app has me feeling a little more excited about Continuum. Microsoft has released a preview of the Remote Desktop client for Windows 10 Mobile that includes Continuum support. The value of this is obvious: you can connect to a desktop PC running desktop apps, but unlike traditional smartphone remote desktop apps, you don't have to try to use those desktop apps from the small screen of a phone. Just Miracast the display to a big screen, and those desktop apps will look and work exactly the way they should.

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When drones attack other drones

Drone uses a net gun to capture other drones in mid-flight, and there’s video.

See what it's like to be stalked and captured by a drone, from the point of view of a drone.

When drones go bad, what can you do? Shooting them down could be dangerous, especially if they have explosives on board. So why not pit drone against drone? That's the reasoning behind this drone catcher, created by a team at Michigan Tech University.

Using drones against each other isn't a new idea, and there's a whole cottage industry devoted to tech that stops drones. But Michigan Tech roboticist Mo Rastgaar and his students took on this new design as a "pet project." Rastgaar got the idea to make a drone catcher two years ago, when he learned that snipers were protecting the crowd from renegade drones during the World Cup. There had to be a better solution. So Rastgaar and his students gave the drone catcher a net gun, which allows it to capture another drone in mid-air and carry it away.

The group took only two months to develop the project, Rastgaar told Ars via e-mail. "We started this project in fall 2014, and by January 2015 we had the system," he said. "The video goes back to early 2015. So with some limited extra time we had, we developed this system as a proof of concept. Everything in the system, such as net size, net range, and hunter drone specifications, can be modified to meet the specific demands based on the different scenarios."

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