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Xiaomi launches Mi Band 2 fitness tracker for $23 (in China)

Chinese device maker Xiaomi launched its first wearable nearly two years ago. The Mi Band is a simple fitness-tracking bracelet that sold for just $13 at launch, and that low price tag helped Xiaomi snag the second place spot in the wearable space.

Now Xiaomi is launching the Mi Band 2. It’s priced at $23, which makes it almost twice as expensive as the original… but still pretty cheap when you consider all the new features Xiaomi has added.

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Deep Text: Facebooks KI liest Nachrichten der Nutzer

Um besser zu verstehen, was die Nutzer von Facebook meinen, analysiert das Unternehmen Nachrichten in dem sozialen Netzwerk oder auch im Messenger per künstlicher Intelligenz. Das könnte künftig für Vorschläge genutzt werden. (Deep Learning, Spam)

Pluto’s Sputnik Planum is an ocean of slowly shifting nitrogen ice

Convection within the ice renews the surface, keeps it crater-free.

Some of the strange features in Sputnik Planum. (credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI)

The stunning images returned from New Horizons' flyby of Pluto revealed a tremendous amount of information about the dwarf planet's features. That's been followed with the long, hard slog of trying to figure out how these features got there. One of the most striking things that needs an explanation is the apparent youth of Pluto's surface, as some areas appear to be crater-free, including the huge area called Sputnik Planum.

Now, researchers are offering an explanation for Sputnik Planum's apparent youth. Two papers in this week's edition of Nature indicate that radioactivity from Pluto's core would be sufficient to power convection of nitrogen ice. But the huge volume of ice involved creates another mystery, as it appears that almost all of Pluto's inventory of this element somehow ended up in Sputnik Planum.

Sputnik Planum, the white plains to the left of center in this view. (credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)

Here on Earth, nitrogen is a gas making up the majority of our atmosphere. Those who have spent some time in a lab may be familiar with its liquid form, used for things that have to be cooled well below environmental temperatures. But on Pluto, it's typically cold enough—about 35K—that the majority of the dwarf planet's nitrogen is in solid form. This nitrogen ice has a couple of unusual properties. One is that it's much denser than water ice, which would allow the equivalent of icebergs to float on its surface. The other is that, since it's not held together by strong interactions among nitrogen molecules, it's relatively easy to deform.

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ABL Social Federation: Fehlstart beim freien WiFi in Berlin

Die Verbindung mit den WiFi-Hotspots war bei der Eröffnung des Projekts “Freies WLAN für Berlin” nicht möglich. Es wurde darüber gewitzelt, dass der Regen schuld sei. (WLAN, Internet)

Die Verbindung mit den WiFi-Hotspots war bei der Eröffnung des Projekts "Freies WLAN für Berlin" nicht möglich. Es wurde darüber gewitzelt, dass der Regen schuld sei. (WLAN, Internet)

Sundar Pichai im Interview: Google will mehr Funktionen für Nexus-Android

Google-Chef Sundar Pichai will die Android-Version der Nexus-Smartphones künftig mit mehr Funktionen ausstatten. Bisher war die Benutzeroberfläche zwar übersichtlich, bei eigenen praktischen Funktionen hinkt Google hier verglichen mit der Konkurrenz aber immer noch nach. (Android, Google)

Torus von CoreOS: Einfaches Storagesystem für komplizierte Containertechnik

Die Verwendung von Containersystemen birgt einige Probleme beim Speichern von Daten. Cloud-Spezialist CoreOS möchte diese mit der Storagetechnik Torus lösen, die Containern einfache Dateien zum Einhängen ganzer Speichersysteme bietet. (Cloud-Storage, Storage)

Mercedes-Entwickler: Warum autonome Autos nicht selbst lernen dürfen

Autonome Autos werden Städte verändern: Sie werden Platz schaffen, sagt Mercedes-Entwickler Ralf Herrtwich. Im Interview spricht er über Schuld und Moral – und erklärt, warum Autos nicht selbst ihre Algorithmen schreiben sollen. (Autonomes Fahren, Auto)

Autonome Autos werden Städte verändern: Sie werden Platz schaffen, sagt Mercedes-Entwickler Ralf Herrtwich. Im Interview spricht er über Schuld und Moral - und erklärt, warum Autos nicht selbst ihre Algorithmen schreiben sollen. (Autonomes Fahren, Auto)

Gog.com: Import von Steam-Spielen ohne DRM ermöglicht

Die Betreiber von Gog.com haben eine neue Möglichkeit gefunden, die Betreiber von Steam zu ärgern: Mit einer neuen “Import”-Funktion lassen sich Spiele in Gog.com freischalten – ohne Kopierschutz. (GOG, DRM)

Die Betreiber von Gog.com haben eine neue Möglichkeit gefunden, die Betreiber von Steam zu ärgern: Mit einer neuen "Import"-Funktion lassen sich Spiele in Gog.com freischalten - ohne Kopierschutz. (GOG, DRM)

Movie Companies Want to Destroy Massive Pirate Communities

Social networks are increasingly being used to spread copyrighted content but rather than take down infringing items individually, entertainment companies would like to take a broader approach. Should copyright holders be allowed to wipe out communities with millions of members to protect copyright?

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

VKontakte (or Russia’s Facebook as it’s often known) is the largest European social network with 300 million registered users, around a third of which are active. Due to the way it hosts user content largely without question, VK carries huge amounts of infringing movies, music, TV shows.

Like similar sites, vKontakte has groups dedicated to endless regular topics. It also has groups dedicated to movie and TV show piracy inhabited by those looking to obtain content for free. Of course, copyright holders have the ability to take this content down via regular takedown notices, but like their counterparts in the West they’re tired of playing whac-a-mole.

To this end, copyright holders are now teaming up to put vKontakte under pressure to remove entire groups from where infringing content is being made available. Under the immediate spotlight are the ten largest groups specializing in movies and TV shows. They are huge.

Alexei Byrdin of the Internet Video Association informs Russia’s Izvestia that each group has a minimum of one million members while the largest has more than seven million. As a result the rightsholders’ anti-piracy group wants vKontakte to completely take them down.

“We have repeatedly appealed to the groups themselves to remove the content, but the complaints were not satisfied and content continued to be active,” says WebKontrol CEO Olga Valigurskaya, adding that if vKontakte wants to do the right thing it should either delete all the content or remove the groups altogether.

However, vKontakte’s owners over at Mail.ru (who own all three top social networking platforms in the country) see the situation somewhat differently, as do vKontakte themselves.

“In most cases we refuse to block communities specializing in video content as we consider this measure excessive,” a vKontakte spokesperson explained.

“Instead, we remove specific videos that violate the rights of a particular copyright holder, provided that the rightsholder has provided all the necessary documents. And managers of these communities are sent a notification about the inadmissibility of posting illegal content.”

Rightsholders wanting broad anti-piracy action and tech platforms demanding a precision approach is a common and growing theme online today. A similar war of words is playing out in both the United States and Europe, where whole sites are being censored and entertainment companies are demanding a “takedown, staydown” approach to copyright enforcement.

Whether they will get their way remains to be seen, but in the meantime the battle lines are being drawn in Russia – and unsurprisingly it’s copyright versus tech all over again.

“The platform should stop IP violations. If they cannot stop the violation in any other way, except to remove a whole group, then it is necessary to remove the group,” National Federation of the Music Industry (Sony, Universal, Warner, EMI) chief Leonid Agronov told Izvestia.

Agronov’s stance was predictably rejected by Sergey Grebennikov, director of the Regional Public Center of Internet Technologies (ROCIT), a non-profit with a mission to popularize the Internet.

“Deleting whole groups is unlawful,” he said. “Removals should concern only the videos, for which rightsholders have rights.”

There can be little doubt that the issue of infringing online content is largely descending into a worldwide battle not between copyright holders and actual pirates, but between entertainment companies and Internet platforms such as vKontakte, YouTube and Google. It won’t be settled any time soon.

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

RT2600ac und SRM 1.1: Synologys Mehrjahresplan für WLAN-Router

Der erste Router von Synology war offenbar erfolgreich, denn das Unternehmen will ein weiteres Modell auf den Markt bringen. Und wie bei den NAS-Systemen sollen die Systeme über Jahre hinweg aktualisiert werden. (Synology, DSL)