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Last year Japanese PC maker VAIO launched a 2 pound laptop with a 12.5 inch display and an 8th-gen Intel Core processor… at a time when rivals were moving to 10th-gen Intel chips. Now VAIO is back, and this time it’s bringing more up-to-dat…
Last year Japanese PC maker VAIO launched a 2 pound laptop with a 12.5 inch display and an 8th-gen Intel Core processor… at a time when rivals were moving to 10th-gen Intel chips. Now VAIO is back, and this time it’s bringing more up-to-date specs. The new VAIO SX12 laptop is still thin, light, and packed with […]
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So far, we’ve seen numerous broken in-store demos and a failed folding test.
An in-store Razr unit with a broken display. That vertical line is not supposed to be there. [credit: Jeremy DeBose ]
So, just how durable is the new Moto Razr? Motorola's nostalgic, folding-display flip phone has a number of unproven features that, after the public failure of the Galaxy Fold, every potential customer should be concerned about. Evidence is starting to pile up that the Razr might be another delicate foldable that isn't up to the task of day-to-day smartphone usage.
In addition to the same display durability issues that the Galaxy Fold had—an OLED display that has to deal with both the stress of bending and an easily-damageable plastic display coating—the Razr has a trick hinge system that is a lot more complicated than that of the Galaxy Fold. In an effort to keep the display from creasing deeply, Motorola says the Razr hinge "includes moveable support plates that rigidly support the display when the phone is open but collapse out of the way when the phone is closed." There have been a few sources now that suggest this hinge design isn't going to last.
The first piece of evidence comes from CNET, which just wrapped up a torture test of the Moto Razr with disappointing results. CNET got a hold of SquareTrade's Foldbot, a robot designed to open and close folding smartphones repeatedly until they die. The Galaxy Fold survived the Foldbot for 120,000 folds before the fatigue from bending destroyed the display. CNET was hoping the Razr would last for a similar 100,000 fold torture test, but Moto's phone only lasted for about a quarter of that time. After 27,000 folds, the hinge mechanism jammed up, and the phone wouldn't close anymore.
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Ein großer Teil des Seekabels PLCN zwischen China und den USA wird dem Handelskrieg geopfert. Die Investoren Google und Facebook geben einen bereits verlegten Teil des Kabels auf. (Seekabel, Google)
Katy Perry’s writers lost a $2.8m lawsuit against Christian rapper Flame last year over the use of a handful of notes. Musician Adam Neely published a hit video on YouTube slamming the lawsuit but in a bizarre twist, Perry’s publisher Warner Chappell has now filed an infringement complaint against Neely. Not only have they claimed all of the advertising revenue from his video, they’ve turned the entire matter into an unbelievable trainwreck.
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In August 2019, a jury found that the writers of the Katy Perry hit ‘Dark Horse’ had infringed on the rights of Christian rapper ‘Flame’ over his 2008 track ‘Joyful Noise”. The $2.78 million judgment sent shockwaves through the industry, with Perry’s side describing the decision a “travesty of justice.”
“The writers of Dark Horse view the verdicts as a travesty of justice. There is no infringement,” the statement read. “There was no access of substantial similarity. The only thing in common is unprotectable expression — evenly spaced ‘C’ and ‘B’ notes — repeated. People including musicologists from all over are expressing their dismay over this.”
One of those who found the lawsuit ridiculous was musician and YouTuber Adam Neely, who posted a video on YouTube explaining why it made absolutely no sense. The video, in which he unequivocally supported Perry’s side, pulled in millions of views and as a result the musician was asked to comment by numerous news publications covering the case.
Unfortunately, Neely himself now finds himself at the center of a copyright dispute as a result of his original video. In a new video posted to YouTube today, Neely recounts his journey following the case, noting that he strongly defended both Katy Perry and her publisher, Warner Chappell, in the belief that the lawsuit was bad for musicians, bad for creativity, and bad for the artform of music-making.
Warner Chappell, however, appear to see things differently. Instead of quietly thanking their avid supporter, they have hit his video with a copyright complaint instead.
“Katy Perry’s publisher, Warner Chappell, just claimed one of my videos. Warner Chappell did not hire me to make this video defending their platform in public and yet they have now claimed the advertising revenue for the video,” he explains.
“That is, of course, an incredibly crappy thing for Warner Chappell to do. But it gets a lot weirder. Katy Perry lost that suit so where does that leave the copyright for Warner Chappell? Dark Horse was found to be infringing on Joyful Noise so why is Warner Chappell still able to claim my video and take my advertising revenue?”
But Neely’s frustrations only increase after digging into the claim itself. It claims that Neely “used the melody” for Dark Horse in his video. However, the defendants in the Perry case previously stated that particular musical component of Dark Horse wasn’t a melody at all, but rather a background element to their track. The melody of Dark Horse never even appeared in Neely’s video – but the drama doesn’t stop there.
The allegedly-infringing content according to Warner Chappell was found between 35 seconds and 44 seconds into Neely’s video. However, as the exasperated musician points out, that part of the track was actually a demonstration of a section of Joyful Noise, not Dark Horse.
“[Warner Chappell] are claiming my video for a melody that they just lost a lawsuit defending. My video was all about how they should HAVE NOT lost the lawsuit because that melody was so minor as to not be copyrightable,” Neely says.
Only adding insult to injury is that this wasn’t a claim actioned automatically by YouTube’s systems, but was actually filed manually by a human being. This, Neely suggests, means that whoever filed the claim couldn’t tell the difference between the melodies in the two tracks and ended up filing a complaint against the wrong one.
This trainwreck is going to be hard to explain away…
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Repeal still intact, but appealing to the Supreme Court is an option.
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The Federal Communications Commission has defeated another challenge to its repeal of net neutrality rules, as a federal court yesterday decided that it won't rehear the case.
In October 2019, a three-judge panel at the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules. Mozilla, consumer-advocacy groups, and state attorneys general asked for a rehearing in front of all the DC Circuit court judges, but the request was denied yesterday in a very short ruling.
The petitioners could still appeal to the US Supreme Court but haven't said if they will do so. "While today's result is unfortunate, it's not that surprising," Free Press VP of Policy and General Counsel Matt Wood said. "Courts routinely deny rehearing requests like this. But we'll keep weighing our legal options."
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Kostspielige Lizenzrechte an Der Herr der Ringe und Die Säulen der Erde, aber offenbar unzureichende Einnahmen: Das Hamburger Entwicklerstudio Daedalic Entertainment ist wieder in Schwierigkeiten. Eigentümer Bastei Lübbe prüft eine Neuausrichtung. (Dae…
Kostspielige Lizenzrechte an Der Herr der Ringe und Die Säulen der Erde, aber offenbar unzureichende Einnahmen: Das Hamburger Entwicklerstudio Daedalic Entertainment ist wieder in Schwierigkeiten. Eigentümer Bastei Lübbe prüft eine Neuausrichtung. (Daedalic, Der Herr der Ringe) Pretend conversations early on lead to better vocabularies later.
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Confronted with a baby—or puppy—most adults can’t stop themselves from dissolving into baby talk: “WHO’S the cutest? It’s YOU! YES it IS!” We slow down, increase our pitch by nearly an octave, and milk each vowel for all it’s worth. And even if the baby can’t speak yet, we mimic the turn-taking of a conversation.
This “parentese” is found across cultures, and babies exposed to more of it at home seem to do better at acquiring their home language. But it’s not all about instinct: a paper published in PNAS this week suggests that parents can be trained to improve their parentese and that this training gives their babies’ language a boost.
Why does more parentese go hand in hand with language acquisition? It’s an open question. Recordings from parents and children in their homes show a correlation—the more parentese there is, the more likely the babies are to be a little more advanced with their language abilities. But is the parentese itself actually helping? And if so, how? Or is there another factor at play that boosts them both?
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Ende 2019 hat Qualcomm sein neues SoC Snapdragon 865 vorgestellt, bisher gibt es aber noch kein Smartphone, das den Chip verwendet. ZTE hat mit dem Axon 10s Pro nun ein Gerät vorgestellt, das das SoC verwendet – ein Veröffentlichungsdatum ist allerding…
Ende 2019 hat Qualcomm sein neues SoC Snapdragon 865 vorgestellt, bisher gibt es aber noch kein Smartphone, das den Chip verwendet. ZTE hat mit dem Axon 10s Pro nun ein Gerät vorgestellt, das das SoC verwendet - ein Veröffentlichungsdatum ist allerdings noch nicht bekannt. (ZTE, Smartphone) Smartphones haven’t been the same since Apple launched the first iPhone with a capacitive touchscreen display designed for finger input. But some things are still easier to do with a fine-tipped pen or stylus than a finger, which explains why Sam…
Smartphones haven’t been the same since Apple launched the first iPhone with a capacitive touchscreen display designed for finger input. But some things are still easier to do with a fine-tipped pen or stylus than a finger, which explains why Samsung’s pricey pen-equipped Galaxy Note line of phones has remained popular over the years. As […]
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US-Justizministers William Barr fordert eine Übernahme von Nokia oder Ericsson durch die USA. Nur wenige Tage zuvor wollten die USA 5G noch mit billiger Hardware und Open-Source-Software als Open RAN realisieren. (5G, Huawei)
Ein großer Teil des Seekabels PLCN zwischen China und den USA wird dem Handelskrieg geopfert. Die Investoren Google und Facebook geben einen bereits verlegten Teil des Kabels auf. (
US-Justizministers William Barr fordert eine Übernahme von Nokia oder Ericsson durch die USA. Nur wenige Tage zuvor wollten die USA 5G noch mit billiger Hardware und Open-Source-Software als Open RAN realisieren. (
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