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About two months after launching the Mi Pad 2 tablet with Google Android software, Chinese company Xiaomi is getting ready to sell a Windows model with the same hardware. The Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 with Windows 10 will be available in China starting January 26th for 1299 yuan, or about $200. That price gets you a […]
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About two months after launching the Mi Pad 2 tablet with Google Android software, Chinese company Xiaomi is getting ready to sell a Windows model with the same hardware. The Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 with Windows 10 will be available in China starting January 26th for 1299 yuan, or about $200. That price gets you a […]
Xiaomi launches Mi Pad 2 tablet with Windows 10 for about $200 is a post from: Liliputing
Like last time, the booster flew to space and then stuck a vertical landing.
The reused New Shepard booster rolls out to the launch pad at the company's West Texas launch site. (credit: Blue Origin)
The barriers to reusable rockets keep falling. Late Friday night Blue Origin posted a new video of its New Shepard rocket booster flying into space a second time and then landing safely again back in West Texas. This marked the first time a rocket booster has been flown into space, landed, and re-flown again.
Friday's launch to an altitude of 101.7km, which is just above the Karman line considered to be the boundary of outer space, follows a similar flight of the same booster in November. A month later, in December, SpaceX landed a much larger booster, the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket, back at Florida for the first time. But even as SpaceX has begun testing that rocket, which will likely not fly again, Blue Origin has moved ahead to a second flight.
Video of the launch of a reused New Shepard booster.
The rivalry between Blue Origin's Jeff Bezos and SpaceX's Elon Musk is spurring the race toward reusability, with the aim of driving down rocket costs so that more people and hardware can be launched into space. As the new video's tagline says, "You can't get there by throwing the hardware away." This may be a subtle dig at NASA, which is building an expensive, massive new rocket, the Space Launch System, which is entirely expendable.
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Uncertain pedestrians make U-turns, which were hard to predict. But not any more.
(credit: Flickr user Andree Lüdtke)
Every year, the Dutch physics community gets together to celebrate the year in physics. These are some highlights from the meeting. Since it is a meeting, it is not possible to link to published work (a talk could cover multiple papers or just parts of papers). Where possible, we've linked to the research group that presented the work.
The flow of pedestrians is a critical part of the design of buildings, stadiums, and much more. The obvious reason is that designers need to ensure that people can exit the building quickly in case of a disaster, but it goes much further than that. Are people significantly impeded during normal use? Where will people congregate and will this obstruct access to various parts of the building? All of this and more must go in to the building design.
Most pedestrian models are reasonably simple. Pedestrians are particles that are driven by some force to go in a direction; they don’t collide with each other because there is a repulsive force between them keeping them apart. At their most simple, the models can treat pedestrians as a hard sphere—the pedestrians touch and bounce off each other like billiard balls. However, you can use any number of different physical models to study pedestrian interactions.
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Since the Blackberry, IT has struggled to keep up with demands for ubiquitous mobility.
In the past decade, mobile computing has gone from a niche market for well-heeled enterprises with large field organisations to the fastest growing, and often most popular, way for employees of organisations of all sizes to do business computing. The near-universal adoption of mobile devices by consumers—who are also employees—has forced one of the most major shifts that corporate IT has ever seen.
In many cases, expensive company-owned laptop rollouts have been replaced by leveraging phones and tablets that are owned by employees. Business applications are quickly being rewritten, and new ones are being invented that leverage the power and ubiquitous nature of mobile devices.
Mobile computing is no longer just another way to access the corporate network: it is quickly becoming not only a new computing platform, but the dominant computing platform for many enterprises. Along the way, corporate culture has had to change to accommodate the always-present nature of the modern smartphone, and security practices have been completely rethought to deal with the challenge of alien, uncontrolled devices being brought inside the corporate firewall.
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Im Frühling erscheint einem neuen Bericht zufolge das iPhone 5SE. Das stehe für Special Edition oder 5S Enhanced und sei der Name des kommenden 4-Zoll-iPhones. Das Smartphone soll die Ausstattung und die Technik des iPhone 6 und des iPhone 6S verbinden. (Apple, Smartphone) 
Im Frühling erscheint einem neuen Bericht zufolge das iPhone 5SE. Das stehe für Special Edition oder 5S Enhanced und sei der Name des kommenden 4-Zoll-iPhones. Das Smartphone soll die Ausstattung und die Technik des iPhone 6 und des iPhone 6S verbinden. (Apple, Smartphone) 
It’s now common knowledge that users of Netflix in one country can often get access to a better range of movies and TV shows if they use a proxy or VPN. While Netflix is trying to clamp down on the practice, what kind of benefits can be achieved by bypassing the company’s controls? uNoGS has the answers.
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Netflix has just announced its expansion into 130 more countries around the globe but the company’s penetration hasn’t always been so deep. Millions of potential customers outside the United States have had to wait for the service to land on their shores to become a customer – well that was the theory at least.
An open secret for years and common knowledge during the past couple of weeks, it’s possible – and easy – to be a customer of Netflix in one country and gain access to it from another.
Before the service landed on their shores last year this meant that Australians with no official access to the service have been able to view using a VPN. Equally, users with limited local libraries have been able to fool Netflix into thinking they’re American – with all the riches that provides.
Last week Netflix announced that it had begun cracking down on these content-tourists (or VPN pirates as they’re sometimes called) in order to appease rightsholders but for those who can still beat the system, what are they enjoying? The answer to that question and more can be found by visiting the ‘unofficial Netflix online Global Search’ or uNoGS for short.
uNoGS is essentially a searchable database which allows users to see which content is available on Netflix in any given area in the world. For instance, when Netflix unceremoniously curtailed my viewing of Donnie Brasco in the UK earlier this month, a search on uNoGS revealed the movie was still on the service and accessible from 22 other countries.
This means that by using a VPN to switch countries I was able to continue viewing, but uNoGS actually goes a step further by providing details on which VPN, proxy or DNS providers can provide access on a movie-by-movie basis.
For example, selecting TorGuard reveals options in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.
Selecting Private Internet Access reveals five usable servers located in Finland, France, Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. Since the language is also displayed by uNoGS, those seeking English audio are able to rule out the second and fourth options.
Interested by the project, TorrentFreak caught up with uNoGS operator Brian to find out more about his baby.
“uNoGS is very much a one man show juggled as a hobby between work and family life. I initially built the site just for myself because the few sites that were providing a service like this were extremely limited in terms of search functionality,” Brian says.
“I wanted to be able to see what was available in every country, when it was added, when it was supposed to expire and when it actually expired. Once I completed the initial build for myself I decided to share it with everyone and uNoGS went live in early May 2015.”
Brian says the site’s aim is to provide an overview of what’s on in every country served by Netflix globally and to provide users with advanced search functionality to find titles by name as well as a variety of specific parameters. In addition to dates of availability, uNoGS provides details on audio tracks and subtitling. It also offers TV series data plus iMDb and Rotten Tomatoes listings.
Also available are total movie and TV show counts for each country. Found here, the table reveals the United States as the best Netflix region by far, with ‘French Southern Territories’ the most under-served.
In total, uNoGS indexes content available on Netflix in 243 territories and updates the same on a daily basis, but Brian suggests that in an ideal world his service wouldn’t be needed.
“Traditional media outlets like cable, satellite and terrestrial tv are dead but they haven’t fully realized this yet. Most of them are trying to hang on to their lucrative commercial models which they love but consumers hate,” he explains.
“At the moment these different providers have enough money to buy up the rights to a variety of shows making the geo-restrictions necessary. In time, this will change as more and more viewers go to disruptive services which charge a fair monthly fee and allow users to watch titles on their own terms. With the moves that Netflix is currently making, hopefully these changes will come sooner rather than later.”
In the meantime Netflix is in the clutches of copyright holders who it admits trying to appease with its recent VPN clampdown. TorrentFreak began speaking with uNoGS early January before that particular news broke but in our conversations back then, Brian made an accurate prediction.
“In the future with the advent of tools like Smartflix and search engines like uNoGS, I think [region switching] will become more mainstream and eventually upset the content providers enough to push Netflix to take action. I think this will be a shame but most likely inevitable,” he correctly concluded.
“Overall I think the VPN/DNS switchers are a good thing and most likely keep people from obtaining media through less official methods.”
uNoGS can be found here, complete with API access for those interested.
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Diese Woche wurde viel über einen neunten Planeten in unserem Sonnensystem spekuliert. Netflix hatte Gutes und Schlechtes zu vermelden, und Linux hat eine vermeidbare Lücke. Sieben Tage und viele Meldungen im Überblick. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Server) 
Diese Woche wurde viel über einen neunten Planeten in unserem Sonnensystem spekuliert. Netflix hatte Gutes und Schlechtes zu vermelden, und Linux hat eine vermeidbare Lücke. Sieben Tage und viele Meldungen im Überblick. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Server) 
Comms software has been widely blamed for enabling denial-of-service attacks.
Microsoft has rolled out a new version of the desktop Skype client that should make users of its service a little safer from denial-of-service attacks. The Skype client has long leaked IP address information, allowing other users on the network to determine which IP address is being used by an account. A number of online services of various degrees of shadiness offer instant IP address lookups, and historically at least, these have worked effectively.
This leakage has been particularly widely abused in gaming communities. Many professional Dota 2 games last year were disrupted by denial-of-service attacks. Players were forcibly disconnected from the game, causing their team to play at a 4-versus-5 disadvantage. Skype, which is often used for coordinating games and in-team communication, was routinely fingered as the culprit since it leaks the IP address information of the players and thus enables these attacks.
The information leakage is likely a relic of Skype's peer-to-peer nature; the IP address of each user had to be disseminated in order to enable direct peer-to-peer connections to those users. But for some time, the client has had an option to hide your IP address from people who aren't on your contact list. In this mode, any traffic between non-contacts goes through Microsoft's servers, and IP addresses aren't readily disclosed. Judicious use of this option protects your address from the various IP address lookup services, thereby protecting against denial of service attacks.
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There’s no shortage of cheap, tiny computers with Intel Atom processors these days. But Chinese device maker Voyo’s latest model is one of the first that I’ve seen to feature an Intel Atom x7-Z8700 processor, 4GB of RAM, 128GB of solid state storage, and a USB Type-C port. That makes the Voyo V3 one of […]
Voyo V3 is a mini PC with Atom x7, 4GB RAM, 128GB storage is a post from: Liliputing
There’s no shortage of cheap, tiny computers with Intel Atom processors these days. But Chinese device maker Voyo’s latest model is one of the first that I’ve seen to feature an Intel Atom x7-Z8700 processor, 4GB of RAM, 128GB of solid state storage, and a USB Type-C port. That makes the Voyo V3 one of […]
Voyo V3 is a mini PC with Atom x7, 4GB RAM, 128GB storage is a post from: Liliputing
Microsofts neue Version des Messengers Skype verbirgt von Haus aus die IP-Adresse. Das verbessert den Schutz der Privatsphäre und soll Dota-2-Spieler vor DDoS-Attacken in Turnieren bewahren. (
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