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Amazon’s sale on Fire TV devices continues, which means you can save up to $35 on the company’s media streamers (although the best deal may be the Fire TV Stick 4K Max – at $40 it’s $15 off the list price, and it’s one of the fastest, most future-proof models in Amazon’s lineup). Now Amazon […]
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Amazon’s sale on Fire TV devices continues, which means you can save up to $35 on the company’s media streamers (although the best deal may be the Fire TV Stick 4K Max – at $40 it’s $15 off the list price, and it’s one of the fastest, most future-proof models in Amazon’s lineup).
Now Amazon is also offering discounts across its Fire line of tablets: the Fire HD 8 is on sale for $45 which is half off the list price, while you can also save $15 on an entry-level Fire 7 tablet or $40 on a Fire HD 10. Meanwhile several budget Android and Chrome OS tablets from Samsung and Lenovo are also on sale today.
Here are some of the day’s best deals.
Tablets
Kids tablets
Laptops
FHD media streamers
4K media streamers
Audio
Other
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An anti-piracy outfit, acting on behalf of Columbia Pictures, asked Google to remove our news article on the “Spider-Man: No Way Home” leak. And that’s not the only error. The same notice targets several other news sites and even the website of competitor Sony Pictures is flagged as a pirate operation.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
It’s perfectly understandable that copyright holders don’t want pirated copies of their work circulating online.
Most companies deal with this problem by sending DMCA takedown requests. These notices are often sent to sites and services that host content, but linking sites and search engines receive them as well.
Google search, for example, has processed takedown notices for more than 5 billion URLs over the past few years. Most of the reported links are indeed problematic but copyright holders continue to make glaring errors as well.
This week we spotted a problematic takedown request sent by anti-piracy group 3ANTS on behalf of Columbia Pictures. The notice is supposed to flag pirated copies of “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” but it also targets our recent news coverage of the film in question.
If we wanted to stir up some controversy we could argue that the Hollywood studio is removing news articles to make sure that people don’t know that the film leaked. However, we’re pretty sure that this is ‘simply’ an error.
As it turns out, we’re not the only news site to be targeted. The takedown notice also lists articles from Syfy, RollingStone, Radio Times, Collider, and The Free Press Journal, among others. None of these articles are even remotely infringing.
And things get even more bizarre. The takedown notice also lists the “Spider-Man: No Way Home” page of the official Spanish Sony Pictures website. Needless to say, Sony doesn’t host any pirated content.
We fully understand that people can make mistakes, but that might not be the problem here. If a person sent these notices it would have been easy to spot the errors. It wouldn’t surprise us if the errors above were actually made by automated scripts.
It often takes humans to spot these errors and hold the senders accountable and that’s exactly what we’re doing here. If another human could then adjust the automated takedown tools to prevent this from happening again in the future, all will be good.
This isn’t the first time that we have been targeted by an inaccurate takedown request, it has happened well over a hundred times now. Luckily there is a silver lining, as Google is quite good at spotting these.
The same is true for the “Spider-Man” mistakes we pointed out in this article. Most news articles are still in Google’s index and the same is true for Sony Pictures’ site.
Not all sites were that lucky though. The Free Press Journal’s article on the cryptocurrency miner that was found in some illegal downloads is no longer in Google’s search results, and the same is true for an article published by the Peruvian news site Depor.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
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A mid-priced, cable-free option strikes the right balance.
Enlarge / Logitech Signature M650 in the rose colorway. (credit: Scharon Harding)
| Specs at a glance: Logitech Signature M650 | |||
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| Sensor | Optical (model not disclosed) | ||
| Connectivity options | Bluetooth Low Energy or 2.4 GHz dongle | ||
| Programmable buttons | 3 | ||
| Onboard profiles | 0 | ||
| Lighting | None | ||
| Size | Standard: 4.22×2.43×1.49 inches (107.19×61.80×37.8 mm) Large: 4.65×2.58×1.63 inches (118.19×65.65×41.52 mm) |
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| Weight | Medium: 3.57 ounces (101.2 g) Large: 3.92 ounces (111.2 g) |
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| Warranty | 1 year | ||
| Price (MSRP) | $40 | ||
| Other perks | AA battery included | ||
Many mice offer very basic functionality—left-click, right-click, scroll wheel, and not much more. Others boast a range of programmable buttons, premium sensor specs, USB-C charging, and other features for power users. But what if you don't need that extreme level of functionality but don't want something cheap and bare-bones, either?
Released this past week, the Logitech Signature M650 wireless mouse is a middle-ground device that supports Windows, macOS, Linux, Chrome OS, iPadOS, and Android. It doesn't have the most advanced features, but it isn't basic, either. And by skipping some add-ons, like multiple Bluetooth profiles, the mouse is able to maintain an affordable $40 price point.
Logitech's latest cord-free mouse also comes in three different versions: a standard size, a large size, and a large left-handed version, providing something for everyone—unless you have a smaller left hand, that is.
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Misinformation and muddled public health messaging have failed expectant parents.
Enlarge (credit: Getty | Dmitry Rogulin )
Calendar year three into the pandemic, and vaccination coverage among pregnant people remains staggeringly low.
According to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of January 1, just over 40 percent of pregnant people in the United States between age 18 and 49 were fully vaccinated prior to pregnancy or during their pregnancy, compared with 66 percent of the general population over the age of 5. For Black pregnant people, the figure plummets to about 25 percent. Data for the United Kingdom is a little less up to date, but in August 2021 just 22 percent of women who gave birth were fully vaccinated.
And with Omicron running rampant, this is a problem. At the end of 2021, the UK’s vaccine watchdog, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization, announced that pregnant women would be made a priority group for vaccination, after reams of research has shown just how vulnerable the group is to Covid.
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