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Deals of the Day (7-08-2016)

Amazon is holding its second-annual Prime Day on July 12th. It’s a made up holiday when the company will offer deep discounts on a number of products. Amazon is promising more deals than you get on Black Friday… although some deals will probably be a lot better than others.

In the week leading up to Prime Day, the company has been running a series of other promotions, and today’s deals are particularly noteworthy, with a great price on a high-capacity external battery, a super-cheap Amazon Tap, and $10 off any order over $20 placed through the Alexa voice service between now and July 12th.

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LTE: Wieder Störung bei Vodafone

Heute gibt es eine “überregionale Einschränkung der Telefonie im LTE-Netz” bei Vodafone. Laut einem Unternehmenssprecher ist das Problem angeblich schon wieder behoben, und nur “einige Kunden” waren betroffen. (Vodafone, Long Term Evolution)

Heute gibt es eine "überregionale Einschränkung der Telefonie im LTE-Netz" bei Vodafone. Laut einem Unternehmenssprecher ist das Problem angeblich schon wieder behoben, und nur "einige Kunden" waren betroffen. (Vodafone, Long Term Evolution)

Secret Communications: Facebook-Messenger bald mit Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung

Mit Secret Communications sollen künftig auch Facebook-Nutzer verschlüsselt chatten können. Wie Whatsapp setzt der Messenger dabei auf das Signal-Protokoll, Nutzer müssen aber einige Entscheidungen treffen. (Facebook, Instant Messenger)

IRS demanded tax deal business records, Facebook responded with 3 e-mails

In 2010, firm created “Facebook Ireland Holdings Unlimited” to lower tax burden.

(credit: mightykenny)

Federal investigators have asked a judge in California to force Facebook to open up its financial and business records for 2010—the year that the social networking giant established a subsidiary in Ireland, largely for tax reasons.

According to a Wednesday affidavit by Internal Revenue Service agent Nina Wu Stone, Facebook failed to produce a host of documentation last month that the agency needed to understand the 2010 deal. Facebook’s move across the Atlantic was likely done in order to take advantage of a form of tax trickery known as the "Double Irish," a quirky Irish tax law arrangement that allows organizations to incorporate in Ireland but legally route money through other jurisdictions such as the Netherlands.

Facebook and many other tech firms have recently come under increased scrutiny for using this method to drastically—and legally—reduce tax burdens. The "Double Irish" was phased out in early 2015, but companies already using it have until 2020 to transition to something else.

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VG Media: Verleger zahlen beim Leistungsschutzrecht kräftig drauf

Mit den Einnahmen aus dem Leistungsschutzrecht wollten sich große Verleger gesundstoßen. Doch offenbar reichen die Einnahmen nicht einmal annähernd aus, um die zahlreichen juristischen Verfahren zu bezahlen. Eine Ausschüttung gab es bislang noch nicht – ganz im Gegenteil. (Leistungsschutzrecht, Google)

Mit den Einnahmen aus dem Leistungsschutzrecht wollten sich große Verleger gesundstoßen. Doch offenbar reichen die Einnahmen nicht einmal annähernd aus, um die zahlreichen juristischen Verfahren zu bezahlen. Eine Ausschüttung gab es bislang noch nicht - ganz im Gegenteil. (Leistungsschutzrecht, Google)

Star Cloud PCG03U is a compact Ubuntu PC for $90

Chinese device maker has been offering tiny Windows and Android computers for a few years, but the company first came to my attention back in 2012 when I learned that the Android-powered Mele A1000 TV box was also able to run Linux.
This year the compa…

This year the company started selling some products with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed, and the latest is the PCG03U, a compact computer/TV box with 2GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, an Intel Atom Bay Trail processor, and Ubuntu 14.04 Linux.

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Gamedeck VR: Holodeck braucht Unterstützer

Eine kleine künstliche Welt auf Basis von Augmented-Reality-Technologie soll Gamedeck VR werden. Das Münchner Entwicklerstudio Reality Twist stellt einen Prototypen vor und sucht auf Kickstarter nach Unterstützern. (VR, Augmented Reality)

Radeon RX 480 erneut vermessen: Treiber reduziert Stromstärke auf PEG-Slot

Versprochen und geliefert: AMDs neuer Grafiktreiber verringert die Leistungsaufnahme über den PEG-Steckplatz bei der Radeon RX 480 messbar. Wer möchte, kann die Karte optional drosseln. Generell steigt durch die aktuelle Radeon Software zudem die Geschwindigkeit. (Polaris, AMD)

Fukushima, Vieques, Rocky Flats: Radioactive photos tell nuclear stories

Ars speaks to artists about their unique approaches to cameras and nuclear energy.

PORTLAND, Ore.—In the cool, hushed atmosphere of Portland’s Newspace Center for Photography, a Geiger counter clicks steadily as I orient myself to the room. White walls, wood floors, and the faint, clean smell of an elementary school auditorium. I was here to see the "Reactive Matters" exhibit, a small collection of photography by three artists whose works document nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, and the disasters that have peppered our history of experimenting with radioactive material.

Photographing Superfund sites with buried nuclear waste and old reactor locations doesn’t always make for compelling visual media. Instead, these artists used radioactivity itself to build more interesting and abstract art.

Jeremy Bolen

Vieques #3, Archival pigment print made from buried film, window screen, artist’s frame, fragments of buried film. 36 in x 40 in.

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Digging deep

Chicago-based artist Jeremy Bolen told Ars over the phone that he became interested in nuclear energy after he visited "Site A" in the Red Gate Woods on the former grounds of the Argonne National Laboratory. (Argonne still exists in Illinois, but the lab was moved in 1947.) Site A became the first nuclear waste dumping ground in the US after scientists built an early nuclear reactor there in 1943.

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Explanet: Forscher finden System mit einem Planeten und drei Sternen

Hier gibt es drei Sonnenaufgänge am Tag: Astronomen haben einen Planeten entdeckt, der gleich drei Sterne um sich hat. Es ist das erste bekannte derartige Sternsystem. (Exoplanet, Wissenschaft)