
Messenger-Apps: Franz, das Kommunikationsgenie
Der österreichische Kaiser Franz Joseph I. kümmert sich jetzt in Form einer App um unsere Kommunikation. Sie vereint die wichtigsten Instant Messenger in einer Anwendung und will uns damit den Alltag erleichtern. Wir haben mit zwei Entwicklern über Franz und die Fragmentierung der Kommunikation gesprochen. (Instant Messenger, Steam)

Opera 39: Browser verspricht längere Notebook-Akkulaufzeit
Blu-ray, Ultra HD Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 28th May 2016
The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending 28th May 2016 are in. Risen, which was also available on Ultra HD Blu-ray, was the week’s best new release, but finished second overall behind ‘Deadpool’.
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The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending 28th May 2016 are in. Risen, which was also available on Ultra HD Blu-ray, was the week's best new release, but finished second overall behind 'Deadpool'.
Read the rest of the stats and analysis to find out how DVD, Blu-ray, Ultra HD Blu-ray did.
Mobiles Bezahlungssystem: Apples Konkurrenz CurrentC in Schwierigkeiten
Das mobile Bezahlungssystem CurrentC, das einst als Konkurrenz für Apple Pay angetreten war, scheint Probleme zu haben. Betatestern werden zum Ende des Monats die Konten geschlossen. Im Mai soll die Betreibergesellschaft bereits 30 Personen entlassen haben. (CurrentC, Zahlungssysteme)

Barracuda: Koffer mit eingebautem Notebook-Tisch
Der Faltkoffer Barracuda sieht zunächst aus wie ein gewöhnliches Boardcase. Ein breiter Ring als Griff, ein ausklappbarer Notebook-Tisch sowie ein Akku machen ihn aber zu etwas Besonderem. (Kickstarter, Technologie)

Open Bike: Kommunikationsbus für Fahrräder geplant
Ein Akku für alle Gadgets und Zubehörteile am Fahrrad: Das ist die Vision hinter Open Bike, einem Kommunikationsbus für das Fahrrad, das ein Startup entwickeln will. Elektronisches Zubehör diverser Hersteller soll damit funktionieren, wenn sie sich an den selbstproklamierten Standard halten. (Smart Bike, Technologie)

Miscreants breach NFL’s Twitter account, reveal its weak password
Takeover comes a few days after hijacking of Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter account.

Enlarge (credit: @ChelseaGatesTV)
Online miscreants took over the National Football League's Twitter account and used it to falsely report the death of league commissioner Roger Goodell.
During the brief span that @NFL was taken over, it followed exactly one new Twitter account—specifically, @IDissEverything, which has now been suspended. Before the account was suspended, it claimed the password protecting the NFL Twitter feed was "olsen3culvercam88." The Daily Dot said someone connected to the IDissEverything account claimed the password was revealed after someone managed to get into the email of a social media staffer at the NFL, where we found the credentials in a message." It's still not clear how the group got access to the e-mail account.
Tuesday's breach was only the latest one to affect a high-profile Twitter user. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently saw his dormant Twitter account taken over by someone who discovered its password—"dadada"—was the same one that protected his LinkedIn account. Zuckerberg's LinkedIn account, in turn, had been compromised in a 2012 breach of the career networking site. Other celebrities, including Kate Perry, Lana Del Rey, and Kylie Jenner have also reportedly had their Twitter accounts taken over in recent days.
We don’t update our biases, even after they lead us astray
In at least this one case, we don’t update our expectations after making mistakes.

(credit: Dennis Skley)
In adapting to our environment, we'd ideally use the results of previous actions to inform future choices, updating our expectations and decisions to reflect knowledge gained from earlier experiences. However, sometimes we ignore the past's feedback when we really should pay attention it, leaving us trapped in a series of bad decisions. A study published in PNAS demonstrates that this “bad choice persistence” occurs when changing our decisions would go against our existing biases. This means that our beliefs can trap us in a difficult-to-break bad-decision feedback loop.
To examine this phenomenon, researchers looked at how subjects integrated new experiences with their past history when completing a sensory stimulus task. The participants were asked to predict whether a visual stimulus would appear on the left side or the right side of a screen based on where the stimulus appeared in previous trials.
In the first set of experimental trials, the location of the stimulus was randomized. These trials assessed the subjects’ baseline biases towards choosing one side of the screen or the other. After establishing these biases, the participants began a second set of experimental trials. In these experiments, the stimulus' location was determined by a probabilistic model that set the odds of its location using both the participants' previous choice history and the item's previous locations.
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