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Omni: Kamerakäfig mit sechs Gopro für 5.000 US-Dollar

Gopro muss angesichts schlechter Geschäftszahlen mehr Kameras verkaufen. Jetzt bietet das Unternehmen ein Kameragehäuse für 5.000 US-Dollar an, in das gleich sechs Gopro passen. (Gopro, Bildstabilisierung)

PS5008-E8(T): Phisons 3×2-Controller ermöglicht günstige NVMe-SSDs

Zwei PCIe-Lanes plus NVMe-Protokoll: SSDs mit Phisons neuem Controller sollen genauso viel kosten wie langsamere Sata-Modelle. Obendrein gibt es noch eine Variante ohne DRAM-Cache. (Solid State Drive, Speichermedien)

Google: Videokonferenz mit Quadcopter

Schau mir in die Augen, Quadcopter: Google will Drohnen bei Videokonferenzen einsetzen, um die Teilnehmer auf Augenhöhe zu filmen und ihnen ein Display vor das Gesicht zu halten. Bisher ist die Idee nur patentiert worden. (Drohne, Google)

PM1643 & PM1735: Samsung zeigt V-NAND v4 und drei Rekord-SSDs

Samsungs neue Generation an 3D-Flash-Speicher steckt gleich in mehreren Produkten: der kleinsten 1-TByte-, der größten und der schnellsten SSD. (Samsung, Speichermedien)

Lenovo unveils 48TB SSD, Seagate shoots for 60 terabytes

Remember last summer when Samsung introduced a 16TB solid state drive? That’s nothing. This week Seagate announced that it’s working on a 16 terabyte SSD, and Lenovo is also working on a 48TB SSD.

Sadly, neither of these storage devices is likely to show up in your next laptop.

Both Lenovo and Seagate are positioning their high-capacity SSDs as solutions for servers rather than personal computers. They’ll likely be very expensive, but offer higher speeds, better reliability, and lower power consumption than hard drives, which could make them attractive options for some enterprise customers.

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Sadly, neither of these storage devices is likely to show up in your next laptop.

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Scammers Take Over Popular KickassTorrents ‘Mirror’

The popular KickassTorrents ‘mirror’ KAT.am is back online. After a brief suspension, the registry re-released the domain name for registration, allowing scammers to pick it up. While the site still appears to be a mirror, it asks people to sign up for an account with a credit card if they want to download something.

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

kickasstorrents_500x500 After losing two of the largest torrent sites, KickassTorrents and Torrentz.eu, there’s a lot of uncertainty and doubt in the torrent community.

Many people are looking for alternatives to their favorite sites and a natural response is to look for mirrors.

KAT.am was one of the first sites to present itself as a replacement. While it misleadingly claimed to have a copy of KAT’s database, a flurry of news reports helped the site to gain traction.

This ended abruptly last week. The mirror’s domain name was suspended after a complaint from the Motion Picture Association, forcing the operators to move elsewhere.

However, for the past few days KAT.am has been back in action. At first glance it appears to be a fully working mirror, but people who try to download something will be prompted to register a ‘free’ account.

“Free Account Required. You must create a Free Account to access KickassTorrents,” the popup notification reads.

The signup page redirects to a scammy portal, and requires people to enter their credit card details if they want a free trial.

Needless to say, this has nothing to do with the original KickassTorrents site, and has all the signs of a classic pay to download scam, which usually ends in disappointment for those who sign up.

So how can it be that scammers managed to get hold of the popular domain?

Well, as it turns out the .AM domain registry simply made the domain available for registration again after it was suspended. This allowed the scammers to pick it up, and link it to their KickassTorrents ripoff.

The “register to download” mirror scam isn’t anything new. Several other “mirrors” employ the same tactics and have been doing so for years. However, with the current confusion created by KickassTorrents’ demise, they can do a lot more damage now.

For this reason, we can probably expect many more scammy sites to appear during the days and weeks to come.

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

Titan appears to have steep gorges and rivers like the Nile

Rivers. Lakes. A thick atmosphere. Titan is a strange, almost Earth-like world.

Saturn's exotic moon Titan, with its thick atmosphere and large, methane lakes, continues to beguile planetary scientists. Now, using data collected by an altimeter aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists have found liquid methane flowing through deep gorges on the moon's surface.

Unlike Earth and its water cycle, Titan's hydrologic cycle is based on methane, the main component of natural gas. It exists as a liquid on the very cold surface of Titan, with an average temperature of about -180 degrees Celsius. Scientists have previously discovered a number of hydrocarbon seas—or mare—on Titan. However, by analyzing additional data from various Cassini flybys over the last decade, they are now finding other features of Titan's complex hydrologic cycle.

In a paper published in Geophysical Review Letters, an assessment of altimeter echoes has identified steep canyons carved into the icy surface of Titan as deep as 570 meters, with a reflection at their bottoms that indicates they are filled with liquid hydrocarbons. Studying the 400km-long Vid Flumina river that flows into Titan’s second-largest sea, Ligeia Mare, scientists identified eight ice-lined canyons branching off of this Nile River-like feature.

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Replicant 6.0 is under development (Android 6.0 stripped of all proprietary code)

Android is an open source operating system… in that Google typically releases the source code for each new version of Android when it’s ready. But Android is developed largely behind closed doors and the versions of the operating system that ship with most phones, tablets, and other devices included some closed-source software including Google Play Services and proprietary drivers for graphics, wireless chips, and more.

For the past few years the folks at Replicant have been offering a version of Android that’s stripped of all that proprietary code.

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For the past few years the folks at Replicant have been offering a version of Android that’s stripped of all that proprietary code.

Continue reading Replicant 6.0 is under development (Android 6.0 stripped of all proprietary code) at Liliputing.

How sky-high hype formed a storm cloud over No Man’s Sky’s release

After years of vague marketing, this might not be the game you imagined.

Ship's down! But before I go about doing all of these repairs...

Yesterday, two people expected that they'd be able to see each other when they met up, against all odds, in No Man's Sky's massive, virtual galaxy of 18 quintillion planets. But in spite of confirming that they were in each others’ line of sight (by communicating outside of the game), neither player could see the other. They were alone, even though they were both standing next to each other on the exact same planet orbiting the exact same star. In No Man’s Sky, you’re always alone.

These two players had good reason to expect their interstellar meetup would work—Hello Games Managing Director Sean Murray has promised that kind of limited multiplayer interaction numerous times in the last two-and-a-half years. (Follow-up tweets from Murray early this morning confirm he never expected this to happen so quickly and suggest that server overload might be to blame for the missed multiplayer connection).

At the same time, if you're actually trying to find another person in the vast, uncaring cosmos of No Man's Sky, you've probably misaligned your expectations for what the game is actually supposed to be about. That's partly the fault of Hello Games, but it's also partly the fault of a player- and press-driven hype machine that quickly spiraled out of the developer's control.

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HP Stream line of entry-level notebooks updated, prices still start at $199

HP unveiled the Stream line of entry-level notebooks in 2014, offering low-cost laptops with Chromebook-like specifications (and price tags), but Windows software.

The laptops got a refresh in 2015, and now HP is introducing its 3rd-gen HP Stream lineup.

Prices still start at $199 for an 11 inch model. But there’s also a $220 model with a 14 inch display and a convertible HP Stream x360 which will sell for $249.

Continue reading HP Stream line of entry-level notebooks updated, prices still start at $199 at Liliputing.

HP unveiled the Stream line of entry-level notebooks in 2014, offering low-cost laptops with Chromebook-like specifications (and price tags), but Windows software.

The laptops got a refresh in 2015, and now HP is introducing its 3rd-gen HP Stream lineup.

Prices still start at $199 for an 11 inch model. But there’s also a $220 model with a 14 inch display and a convertible HP Stream x360 which will sell for $249.

Continue reading HP Stream line of entry-level notebooks updated, prices still start at $199 at Liliputing.