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Gamescom 2016: Taschenkontrollen und strenge Regeln für Cosplayer

Auf der Gamescom 2016 gelten neue Sicherheitsregeln: Besucher müssen sich auf Taschenkontrollen und entsprechend lange Wartezeiten einstellen. Das Mitführen von waffenähnlichen Elementen ist Cosplayern in diesem Jahr nicht erlaubt. (Gamescom, Games)

Windows 10 Anniversary Update hits phones “in the coming weeks”

Microsoft’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update is now available for PCs including laptops, desktops, tablets, and convertibles. But what if you’re one of the small number of people with a Windows 10 Mobile smartphone?

You’ll have to wait a little longer. Microsoft says the Anniversary Update will be available for phones “in the coming weeks.”

That’s the bad news. The good news is that you’re not really missing much. The Anniversary Update brings a bunch of new things for desktop users, including enhanced Windows Ink features, support for extensions in the Edge web browser, and even the ability to run some Ubuntu Linux software within Windows.

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You’ll have to wait a little longer. Microsoft says the Anniversary Update will be available for phones “in the coming weeks.”

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Galaxy Note 7 hands-on: Samsung goes full sci-fi with an iris scanner

We take a look at Samsung’s newest flagship and the new Gear VR.

The Galaxy Note 7.

NEW YORK CITY—Samsung is back with its second flagship for 2016, the Galaxy Note 7. It's basically a bigger Galaxy S7 with a stylus, but this year Samsung is adding an Iris scanner and finally upgrading to USB Type C.

Like Microsoft before it, Samsung's marketing department has had a bit of trouble counting this year. After the Galaxy Note 5 in 2015, the company has totally skipped the Galaxy Note 6 and advanced to the Galaxy Note 7. The idea is that the Galaxy Note line will now line up with the Galaxy S line—this year we're getting the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy Note 7. (A word of warning for next year: don't confuse the Galaxy Note 8 with the Galaxy Note 8.0, a Samsung tablet from 2013.)

This doubles as likely the best way to think of the Galaxy Note 7: it's a Galaxy S7, but a bit bigger. The design and materials are very close to the S7—the Note 7 is a glass-backed device with a metal frame, sporting the typical Samsung look. The specs are about the same, too, with a Snapdragon 820 (not the new 821), 4GB of RAM, and a 5.7-inch 2560x1440 AMOLED display. The Snapdragon is for the US market. Internationally, Samsung is again using an Exynos chip.

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Remix OS 3.0 released for Google Pixel C, Nexus 9 tablets

Android 7.0 Nougat will bring multi-window support to Android phones and tablets. But there are already a few custom versions of Android with multi-window capabilities, including Phoenix OS and Jide’s Remix OS.

While Remix OS was initially only available to folks who bought a device with the OS pre-loaded, these days you can download the operating system and run it on a wide range of notebook or desktop PCs with Intel or AMD chips.

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Judge blasts FBI for bugging courthouse, throws out 200 hours of recordings

Another judge held that bugged courthouses in two East Bay counties were legal.

The FBI violated the Fourth Amendment by recording more than 200 hours of conversation at the entrance to a county courthouse in the Bay Area, a federal judge has ruled.

Federal agents planted the concealed microphones around the San Mateo County Courthouse in 2009 and 2010 as part of an investigation into alleged bid-rigging at public auctions for foreclosed homes. In November, lawyers representing five defendants filed a motion arguing that the tactic was unconstitutional, since the Fourth Amendment bans unreasonable searches.

"[T]he government utterly failed to justify a warrantless electronic surveillance that recorded private conversations spoken in hushed tones by judges, attorneys, and court staff entering and exiting a courthouse," US District Judge Charles Breyer wrote in an order (PDF) published yesterday. "Even putting aside the sensitive nature of the location here, Defendants have established that they believed their conversations were private and they took reasonable steps to thwart eavesdroppers."

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With chance to soothe Theranos’ critics with data, Holmes gives sales pitch

Theranos didn’t say how the new device is better or offer validation data.

Late Monday afternoon, a few thousand clinical chemists packed into a cavernous convention hall in Philadelphia to hear a presentation by Elizabeth Holmes, the embattled CEO and founder of blood testing company Theranos. Her presentation, given in a controversial session of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry’s annual conference, was expected by many to be an opportunity for Holmes to finally reveal data that could back up the company’s lofty claims about its blood testing technology—technology now mired in scandal.

Last month, federal regulators revoked the company’s license to perform those blood tests, saying it posed “immediate jeopardy to patient health and safety.” The company now faces lawsuits from ex-patients and a criminal probe for allegedly misleading investors on claims about its technology's performance. Federal regulators have banned Holmes from owning or operating a lab.

Yesterday’s presentation could have been the data-driven turning point Holmes has been promising. And the conference attendees—experts in clinical testing—gathered anxiously to hear the results.

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Deals of the Day (8-02-2016)

Chromebooks are more than just cheap laptops… there are are some models that are actually pretty expensive.

But even the cheapest models offer some of the key benefits of Chrome OS: the operating system is fairly secure, since apps run in a sandboxed environment. Chrome OS boots in seconds and resumes from sleep even more quickly. And updating to the latest build of the operating system is as simple as rebooting the computer: it takes just a few seconds once the update is downloaded.

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Chromebooks are more than just cheap laptops… there are are some models that are actually pretty expensive.

Continue reading Deals of the Day (8-02-2016) at Liliputing.

Court Rules Whole Site Blocking Justifiable in Piracy Fight

Forcing ISPs to block entire websites to tackle Internet piracy is justifiable, a court in India has ruled. The decision by the Delhi High Court means that copyright holders will not have to target specific URLs when attempting to stop infringement on sites that are involved in widespread piracy.

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Forcing Internet service providers to block access to ‘pirate’ content is one of the preferred methods of copyright holders dealing with online infringement.

How that should be carried out in practice is a matter for debate. In most cases thus far, sites that carry or index a large proportion of infringing content have been targeted by legal action, with rights holders arguing that whole domains should be blocked by ISPs.

In other cases, arguments have been made for pinpoint action against specific URLs, although this clearly has its problems. URLs are easily removed or replaced, and entertainment companies would much rather take out a whole domain for good instead of playing a game of cat and mouse.

Over in India, this debate has been playing out in a case involving Star India Pvt Ltd, an entertainment company owned by 21st Century Fox. Back in 2014, Star filed a complaint against more than 70 websites that were preparing to stream copyrighted sports broadcasts without permission.

The Delhi High Court considered the merits of the case and sided with Star, ordering local Internet service providers to block 73 websites which contained the specific URLs listed in the complaint.

However, the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEIT) filed an appeal early 2015, opposing the positioning of the government in the middle of a private copyright dispute and arguing that whole sites should not remain blocked once the events in question had concluded. The public should not be denied access to content that does not infringe Star’s rights, lawyers for the government added.

In March 2016, the Delhi High Court sided with the government, ruling that in the interests of free access to information only specific URLs carrying or linking to infringing content should be blocked. Star immediately filed another appeal, with success.

In a decision handed down last Friday, the High Court found that blocking entire sites engaged in large volumes of infringement is a justified course of action for copyright holders.

“In relation to websites which have hardly any lawful business and which are in entirety or to a large extent indulging in piracy, merely blocking a URL where the infringing content is located not an effective solution,” the Court ruled.

The Court found that dozens of sites carried up to 2,000 infringing URLs, each linking to cricket matches to which Star owned the rights. Blocking each one individually would prove an arduous task.

“It would be a gargantuan task for [Star] to keep on identifying each offending URL and especially keeping in view that as and when the respondent identifies the URL and it is blocked by the ISP, the rogue website, within seconds can change the URL thereby frustrating the very act of blocking the URL,” the Court’s added.

However, in instances where sites contain infringing URLs but are not “entirely or to a large extent indulging in piracy”, requests can be made to block only the URLs in question.

In respect of the assertion by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology that government departments shouldn’t become involved in private copyright disputes, the Court found that it is the “duty of the government” to “assist in the enforcement of court orders.”

Star India welcomed the decision.

“We believe that this landmark judgment will have a positive impact as it creates a fair balance between rights owners and public interest allowing for rights owners to more efficiently protect their rights against outright rogue or pirate websites that blatantly infringe copyright and contain large extent of infringing content,” the company’s legal team said.

Whether this ruling will prompt a new wave of blocking requests remains to be seen but that seems the most likely outcome.

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Tiny rocket company aims for 100 launches a year—and it just might succeed

Vector Space Systems completes a successful test flight and has its first customer.

Before Saturday's test flight, Vector's P20 rocket gets carried to the launch pad.

Vector Space Systems

Alone in the Mojave desert, the tiny rocket stood barely as tall as a basketball goal backboard. Launch control was a laptop inside a nearby bunker, and the small gathering of aerospace engineers and investors seemed almost like a rocket hobby club as it watched the vehicle soar to about 5,000 feet before parachuting back to Earth. But this scene may have represented something much more than that. With its small-scale test Saturday, the company Vector Space Systems took another step toward upending the rapidly expanding small satellite launch market.

Not since the Germans and their V-2 rockets during World War II has anyone launched more than a few dozen of the same rockets per year. Now, within about five years Vector intends to launch as many as 100 of its 13-meter-tall Wolverine vehicles annually, with a capability to put a 50kg satellite into low-Earth orbit. The company aims to fill a niche below the current generation of launchers being developed by companies such as RocketLab and Virgin Galactic, with rockets capable of delivering 200 to 250kg satellites to low-Earth orbit.

So far, it seems like a good bet. On Tuesday morning, Vector announced that it has acquired its first customer, Finnish-based Iceye, to conduct 21 launches of the company’s commercial synthetic aperture radar satellite constellation. “Getting your satellite into orbit is one of the biggest challenges for new-space companies, but there just isn’t the launch capacity right now,” Iceye Chief Executive Rafal Modrzewski said in a news release.

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Xbox One S: Geshrinkter Chip macht Konsole schneller und sparsamer

Die Xbox One S setzt auf einen neuen Chip, weshalb die Konsole weniger Energie benötigt und flotter ist als die reguläre Xbox One. Vorerst verkauft Microsoft aber nur das teuerste Modell. (Xbox One S, TSMC)