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Google’s next foray into virtual reality is a platform called Daydream that lets you use an Android phone or iPhone as a VR screen. The company is introducing a series of hardware specs for Daydream-ready phones, which means that developers can target those specs and be sure that anyone with a Daydream-ready device should be able to run their apps and games.

Phones will need to have low persistent displays, high-performance processors with support for 60 frames per second video, and low-latency sensors for tracking your head movement when the phone is strapped into a headset.

Continue reading Google’s Daydream ensures Android VR apps can run on Daydream-ready phones at Liliputing.

Wer nicht hören kann, hat nicht nur ein Problem mit dem Wahrnehmen der Sprache seines Gegenübers, sondern mit Annäherungen von hinten oder nicht hörbaren Telefonen. Fujitsu will das Problem mit Ontenna lösen. (Fujitsu, Mobil)

Amazon Web Services sucht in Deutschland Mitarbeiter. Die Region Frankfurt sei die am schnellsten wachsende internationale Region in der Firmengeschichte, sagte ein Manager. (AWS, Web Service)

Milleniatas M-Disc gibt es jetzt auch als Blu-ray-Disc im BDXL-Format. Die Dauer der Archivierung soll dabei weiterhin sehr hoch bleiben. (Blu-ray-Brenner, Speichermedien)

Movie companies worldwide see Popcorn Time as one of the largest piracy threats against their businesses.

They are doing their best to put a halt to its popularity and are taking broad steps to contain it, sometimes with help from the authorities.

Earlier this year Norwegian rightsholders reported a local Popcorn Time site to the local economic crime police. Responding to this referral, the authorities seized the Popcorn-Time.no domain name.

While it uses Popcorn Time in the domain name the site didn’t host the application itself but instead posted news articles, as well as links to sites that offered the application.

This broad takedown of a news-focused site raised concerns with digital rights activists and legal experts. Not only is the legality of the site debated, but also the use of a far-reaching measure without a proper judicial review.

Hoping to hold the authorities accountable, Electronic Frontier Norway (EFN) and the Norwegian Unix User Group (NUUG) took the case to court. The main question they want answered is whether the domain seizure was appropriate in this case.

However, late last week the court refused to take on the case, arguing that both parties lacked standing, as they were not sufficiently affected by the domain seizure.

While it was a disappointing decision for the groups, it didn’t mark the end of the case. Today, EFN and NUUG filed an appeal and this time were joined by the legal owner of the domain name, the Norwegian company IMCASREG8.

IMCASREG8 didn’t run the site but acted as an intermediary between the operator of the domain and the registrar. On paper, they are the legal owner of the domain name.

Popcorn-time.no when it was still active

With the new party the groups hope to have sufficient standing to have the case heard. In their appeal there’s a strong focus on the free speech element, and they hope the court will clarify when domain seizures are appropriate.

“We feel that this is an important case that addresses the limits of free speech,” EFN’s managing director Tom Fredrik Blenning tells TorrentFreak.

NUUG leader Hans-Petter Fjeld adds that the authorities shouldn’t be allowed to seize the domain name of a news site, which writes about open source software that by itself is not infringing.

“Part of what makes us upset is that the domain name of a news site about a piece of free software that has both legal and illegal uses, has been seized without judicial scrutiny,” Fjeld says.

It is now up to the court to decide whether the appeal will be heard. For now, the Popcorn-Time.no site remains offline, flashing a police notice.

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

The Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 11E features an 11.6 inch touchscreen display and a 360 degree hinge that lets you use this small notebook like a big tablet.

It has a relatively low-power processor, but the ThinkPad Yoga 11E is available with more memory and storage than most other convertibles in this size range. And right now Woot is offering a pretty great price: for $270 you can pick up a model with 4GB of RAM, 128GB of solid state storage, and an Intel Celeron N2940 processor.

Continue reading Deals of the Day (5-19-2016) at Liliputing.

Ein neues Arduino.org-Board verfügt über einen kraftvollen ARM-Cortex-M4-Mikrocontroller, viel Speicher und ist vergleichsweise anschlussfreudig. Der Mikrocontroller kommt nicht wie üblich von Atmel, sondern von ST Microelectronics. (Arduino, Embedded Systems)

Dürfen französische Datenschützer weltweit vorschreiben, welche Links von Suchmaschinen angezeigt werden? Nach Ansicht von Google könnte dadurch der Zugang zu legalen Informationen überall erschwert werden. (Google, Datenschutz)

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