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Alcatel Xess 17 inch Android all-in-one device launches April 22nd for $499

The Alcatel Xess is an Android device with a 17.3 inch full HD touchscreen display, a 1.5 GHz octa-core MediaTek processor, 3GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage. It’s basically a tablet that’s big enough to use as a TV… or a desktop computer. It runs a custom version of Android called Phoenix OS that […]

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Overwatch has its sights set on e-sports, but it’s too much fun for that

Blizzard’s grand FPS-MOBA experiment hits open beta in May, and you’ll love it.

A few months ago, Blizzard launched a closed beta for its upcoming shooter Overwatch—and I've been engrossed in the PC version ever since. For all its faults—and there are many faults—it's hard not be impressed with not just how much fun Overwatch is, but how Blizzard's managed to successfully combine a solid first-person shooter along the same lines as Team Fortress 2 with the mechanics of a modern MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) like its own Heroes of the Storm and Riot's League of Legends.

That Blizzard's managed to create a compelling online experience comes as little surprise. This is, after all, the same studio that kept millions upon millions of players hooked to World of Warcraft for over a decade, and created Hearthstone, one of the most popular online collectible card games. With Overwatch, it has its sights set not just on creating the most popular online shooter, but one that can take on MOBAs on their home turf: the e-sports arena.

It's been hard to picture Overwatch as a crowd-pleasing, e-sports giant as I've sat alone in my bedroom moaning about what a bully Bastion (a transforming battle robot character) is to others over a clip-on voice mic. But now, sat with a team playing a huge multiplayer game at an event in London's Soho, and struggling against an unfair number of turrets from the opposition, Blizzard's e-sports vision is a little clearer.

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Hololens im zweiten Hands on: So stellt man sich Augmented Reality vor

Für Entwickler ist die Hololens fertig. Die Brille ist mittlerweile so gut, dass es nur noch in Ausnahmefällen zu Verzögerungen kommt. Außerdem eignet sie sich nicht nur für Augmented Reality, sondern auch für Virtual Reality. (Hololens, Microsoft)

Open Compute: Google baut offene Server mit Power9-Architektur

Zusammen mit dem Hoster und Cloud-Spezialisten Rackspace will Google offene Server designen, die Chips der Power9-Architektur von IBM nutzen sollen. Damit setzt Google wohl auf GPUs von Nvidia als Beschleuniger. (Google, IBM)

All-bacterial battery makes a nutrient when charged, eats it to discharge

Cathode got its start in cow manure.

Diagram of a microbial fuel cell that runs on acetate, one-half of the bacterial battery described here. (credit: Oak Ridge National Lab)

The chemical that powers most of our cellular processes is produced through something called the electron transport chain. As its name suggests, this system shuffles electrons through a series of chemicals that leaves them at a lower energy, all while harvesting some of the energy difference to produce ATP.

But the ultimate destination of this electron transport chain doesn't have to be a chemical. There are a variety of bacteria that ultimately send the electrons off into the environment instead. And researchers have figured out how to turn these into a fuel cell, harvesting the electrons to do something useful. While some of these designs were closer to a battery than others, all of them consumed some sort of material in harvesting the electrons.

A team of researchers in the Netherlands figured out how to close the loop and create an actual bacterial battery. One half of the battery behaves like a bacterial fuel cell. But the second half takes the electrons and uses them to synthesize a small organic molecule that the first can eat. Its charging cycle is painfully slow and its energy density is atrocious, but the fact that it works at all seems rather noteworthy.

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EU-Generalanwalt: Link auf illegal gepostete Playboy-Fotos soll erlaubt sein

Wer auf eine Webseite mit unerlaubt veröffentlichten Fotos verlinkt, begeht nach Ansicht des EuGH-Generalanwalts keine Urheberrechtsverletzung. Sonst würde das Internet nicht mehr funktionieren. (Leistungsschutzrecht, Google)

World of Warcraft: Blizzard lässt Originalversionsserver schließen

Viele Spieler finden, dass World of Warcraft früher besser war und haben deshalb das Original auf dem privaten Server Nostalrius gespielt. Der wird nun auf Anordnung von Blizzard geschlossen – die Fans wehren sich mit einer Petition. (WoW, MMORPG)

Viele Spieler finden, dass World of Warcraft früher besser war und haben deshalb das Original auf dem privaten Server Nostalrius gespielt. Der wird nun auf Anordnung von Blizzard geschlossen - die Fans wehren sich mit einer Petition. (WoW, MMORPG)

Samsung: Gewinnsteigerung dank Galaxy S7

Nach einer Serie von Rückschlägen hat Samsung seinen Umsatz und Gewinn wieder steigern können. Alles deutet darauf hin, dass das an guten Verkaufszahlen für die neuen Galaxy-S7-Modelle liegt. (Samsung, Mobil)

Linking to Pirated Content Is Not Copyright Infringement, Says EU Court Adviser

Linking to pirated content that is already available to the public can not be seen as copyright infringement under the European Copyright Directive. This is the advice Advocate General Melchior Wathelet has sent to the EU Court of Justice, in what may turn out to be a landmark case.

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

One of the key roles of the EU’s Court of Justice is to interpret European law to ensure that it’s applied in the same manner across all member states.

The Court is also called upon by national courts to clarify finer points of EU law to progress local cases with Europe-wide implications.

In recent years the Court was called upon to rule on several cases related to hyperlinking, in an effort to established whether links to other websites can be seen as copyright infringement.

Previously, it ruled that links to copyrighted works are not infringing if the copyright holder published them in public, and the same is true for embedding copyrighted videos.

But what if a link points to content that is not authorized by the copyright holder? Would this still be allowed? According to EU Advocate General Melchior Wathelet, it is.

In an advisory opinion to the EU Court of Justice, which will issue a final ruling later, the Advocate General reviewed a dispute between the Dutch weblog GeenStijl.nl and Playboy.

In October 2011, GeenStijl.nl published a post linking to leaked Playboy photos, which were hosted on the file-hosting service FileFactory.

Playboy publisher Sanoma successfully requested the removal of the photos at the hosting service, but in response GeenStijl continued to link to other public sources where they were still available.

The Dutch Court asked the EU Court of Justice to rule whether these links can be seen as a ‘communication to the public’ under Article 3(1) of the Copyright Directive of the Copyright Directive, and whether they facilitate copyright infringement.

In his advice today the Advocate General acknowledges that the hyperlinks facilitate the discovery of the copyrighted works, and make them more easily available. However, this isn’t copyright infringement.

“…hyperlinks which lead, even directly, to protected works are not ‘making them available’ to the public when they are already freely accessible on another website, and only serve to facilitate their discovery,” the EU Court of Justice’s writes, commenting on the advice.

The Advocate General argues that “linking” is not the same as making the content available, which would apply to the original uploader. This means that GeenStijl’s actions can not be characterized as copyright infringement.

“The actual act of ‘making available’ is the action of the person who effected the initial communication. Consequently, hyperlinks which are placed on a website and which link to protected works that are freely accessible on another site cannot be classified as an ‘act of communication’ within the meaning of the Directive.”

“In fact, the intervention of the owner of the site which places the hyperlink, in this case GS Media, is not indispensable to the photos in question being made available to internet users, including those who visit GeenStijl’s website,” the Court clarifies.

The advice is a setup for a landmark ruling. However, the Court stresses that the advice only applies to this particular case.

Technically, most torrent sites including The Pirate Bay, mostly link to material that’s already available elsewhere. However, in these cases the general purpose of the site may also be taken into account.

That said, the advice is good news for news sites, bloggers and the general public, as incidentally linking to relevant copyrighted material should be allowed in most cases.

The Advocate General’s advice is not binding, but the European Court of Justice often uses such advice as the basis of its rulings. The final verdict is expected to be released later this year.

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Ultra-HD-Blu-ray-Disc: Fehlstart mit 4K-Chaos

Zum Start der Ultra-HD-Blu-ray-Disc herrscht im Handel 4K-Chaos, und auch für den Europa-Start fehlt es an Hardware. Zudem fehlt ausgerechnet der starke Blu-ray-Unterstützer Sony. Eine Playstation 4K würde gleich zwei Probleme lösen. (UHD-Blu-ray, Blu-ray)