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T-Mobile dumps the HTC 10 after just two months

HTC can’t catch a break as carrier opts to stop selling its flagship phone.

Poor HTC. The company's flagship handset, the HTC 10, is apparently not selling well. T-Mobile has decided to dump the device after just two months on the market.

T-Mobile hasn't come out and ended sales officially, but the HTC 10 is no longer available from T-Mobile online. The phone used to live on T-Mobile's website at http://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phones/htc-10.html, but that link now redirects to a generic HTC page that only shows the HTC Desire 530. A Reddit thread notes that the HTC 10 vanished from T-Mobile's site in July, which gives it a shelf life of just two months. TmoNews says it was originally told that the 10's disappearance was "a glitch" and that the phones would be back. But as Android Police points out, the 10 is still gone, and local stores don't have any plans to receive more units.

Too bad. We called the HTC 10 the "the best Android flagship of 2016." HTC finally cleaned up the huge front bezels, and we were won over by its metal body and a software package that was close to stock Android. None of that seems to be translating into sales, though. After a 35 percent year-over-year decline in revenue for 2015, HTC is on pace for a 50 percent year-over-year decline in 2016.

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Media Broadcast: Viele weitere Senderstandorte für Digitalradio DAB+

Das Digitalradio DAB+ wird derzeit stark ausgebaut. Zur Verdichtung des Netzes wächst die Zahl der Senderstandorte bis Ende 2016 auf 110 an, wie Media Broadcast meldet. (DVB-T, Freenet)

Radiocarbon dating finds a Greenland shark that could be 400 years old

Proteins in the lens of the eye have been around for centuries.

At four to five meters in length, the Greenland shark (Squaliformes, Somniosus microcephalus) is the largest fish native to the Arctic waters. Getting that big must take a while, and scientists have long known that these sharks grow less than one cm per year. So these sharks probably live a very long time, but little was known about their longevity and maturation.

In an investigation recently published in Science, a team of researchers used radiocarbon dating to put together a timeline of the Greenland shark's lifespan.

Because Greenland sharks lack bones—they’re cartilaginous fish—conventional methods of tracking growth, like carbon dating of bones, won't work. Instead, the team used a modified radiocarbon dating technique that has worked before on other boneless animals: tracking the chronology of the eye lens. The eye lens nucleus is composed of inert proteins. The central portion of the lens is formed during prenatal development, and during growth, the tissue retains the original proteins, which were largely made before birth.

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Deals of the Day (8-12-2016)

The HP Spectre x2 is a 12 inch Windows tablet with an Intel Core M Skylake processor, a 1920 x 1280 pixel IPS display, and a built-in kickstand and a detachable keyboard that lets you use the tablet as a notebook. It also supports an optional digital pen (sold separately).

HP introduced the Spectre x2 in late 2015 and continues to sell select models for $850 and up. But today Best Buy is offering an entry-level version for just $400, which is one of the best prices I’ve ever seen for this 2-in-1 tablet.

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Duraforce Pro: Kyocera stellt robustes Smartphone mit Weitwinkelkamera vor

Mit dem Duraforce Pro versucht Kyocera, ein robustes Smartphone mit einer weitwinkligen Actionkamera zu verbinden: Das Smartphone ist gegen Stöße und Wasser geschützt und kann Videos mit einem Winkel von 135 Grad aufnehmen. (Kyocera, Smartphone)

Elektromobilität: VW entwickelt Elektroauto mit großer Reichweite

Eine Million Elektroautos im Jahr werde VW Mitte des kommenden Jahrzehnts bauen, hat VW-Chef Herbert Diess angekündigt. Im kommenden Monat will der Wolfsburger Konzern einen seriennnahen Prototypen vorstellen, der sich durch eine große Reichweite auszeichnen soll. (VW, Elektroauto)

League of Legends maker goes to court to stop cheat programs

Riot says LeagueSharp “ruins the game… for players that take [it] seriously.”

League of Legends maker Riot Games is now combating cheating in the game with legal tools as well as technological tools. In a lawsuit filed in the US District Court for Central California (and obtained by The Rift Herald), Riot argues that popular cheating tool LeagueSharp (a.k.a L#) has "cause[d] serious harm to Riot and its community" by illegally circumventing the game's DRM and breaking the Riot's Terms of Use.

The lawsuit accuses a trio of German hackers—Matthias "Jodusmame" Oltmann, Stefan "0hm" Stefan Delgato, and Tyrone Tom "Beaving" Pauer—of being behind a Peruvian shell company that publishes LeagueSharp. The software, which costs between $15 and $50 a month, is advertised as "easy, efficient, gamebreaking." Riot, on the other hand, calls it "a product that is specifically designed to enable a subset of LoL players who do not wish to play fair to gain substantial unfair advantages over legitimate players (in other words, to cheat)" in its lawsuit.

In addition to making and distributing LeagueSharp, Riot accuses the hackers of conducting "repeated attacks on Riot’s game servers" and advising players on how to avoid detection. What's more, Riot alleges, the hackers or their associates "disseminated personal and non-public information about a Riot employee, threatened that employee, and posted offensive comments on the employee’s social media."

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IT-Konsolidierung der Bundesregierung: Ministerien streiten um die Blechlösung

Die Bundesregierung will ihre IT-Infrastruktur konsolidieren, doch die Ministerien stehen sich gegenseitig im Weg. Kaum eines will auf Kompetenzen verzichten – eine baldige Einigung ist unwahrscheinlich. Jetzt macht der Bundestag Druck. (Bundesregierun…

Die Bundesregierung will ihre IT-Infrastruktur konsolidieren, doch die Ministerien stehen sich gegenseitig im Weg. Kaum eines will auf Kompetenzen verzichten - eine baldige Einigung ist unwahrscheinlich. Jetzt macht der Bundestag Druck. (Bundesregierung, E-Mail)

Rightscorp Threatens Every ISP in the United States

Following a court win by its client BMG over Cox Communications this week, Rightscorp has issued an unprecedented warning to every ISP in the United States today. Boasting a five-year trove of infringement data against Internet users, Rightscorp warned ISPs that they can either cooperate or face the consequences.

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This week was one to forget for United States service provider Cox Communications after a federal court in Virginia found it liable for copyright infringements carried out by its customers.

The ISP was found guilty of willful contributory copyright infringement and ordered to pay music publisher BMG Rights Management $25 million in damages.

The case was filed in 2014 after it was alleged that Cox failed to pass on cash settlement demands to customers that were sent by anti-piracy outfit Rightscorp on behalf of BMG. The ISP also failed to take firm action against repeat infringers.

Now, with a BMG victory on the record, Rightscorp has come out swinging. Welcoming the decision of Judge Liam O’Grady, the anti-piracy outfit says that its long-held position, that ISPs must comply with its wishes, has been proven accurate.

“For nearly five years, Rightscorp has warned US internet service providers (ISPs) that they risk incurring huge liabilities if they fail to implement and enforce policies under which they terminate the accounts of their subscribers who repeatedly infringe copyrights,” the company said in a statement.

“Over that time, many ISPs have taken the position that it was simply impossible for an ISP to be held liable for its subscribers’ actions — even when the ISP had been put on notice of massive infringements and supplied with detailed evidence. There had never been a judicial decision holding an ISP liable.”

Of course, that changed this week with Judge O’Grady’s decision, and Rightscorp CEO Christopher Sabec couldn’t be happier.

“Although Rightscorp was not a party in this case, we are delighted with the outcome. The Federal District Court declared the liability of ISPs to be precisely what Rightscorp has been saying it is for years,” Sabec says.

“With this final Federal Court ruling, not only has our position on ISP liability been confirmed, but our Company’s technology and processes for collecting and documenting evidence of peer-to-peer copyright infringement on ISP networks has been validated as well.”

While Rightscorp was expected to make the most of BMG’s victory in its future dealings with ISPs, the level of aggression in its announcement still comes as a surprise. Essentially putting every provider in the country on notice, Rightscorp warns that ISPs will now have to cooperate or face the wrath of litigious rightsholders.

“As we have consistently told ISPs, we stand ready to assist those ISPs that desire to work in a constructive way with the copyright community in order to reduce the massive infringements that occur every day on their networks,” Sabec says.

“But our company has also amassed a vast amount of data documenting infringements that have occurred over the past five years on the network of essentially every ISP in the country. That data will be made available to copyright holders that wish to enforce their rights against ISPs that are not inclined toward a cooperative solution.”

Whether this week’s developments will help to pull Rightscorp out of the financial doldrums will remain to be seen. The company has been teetering on the edge of bankruptcy for a couple of years now, and its shares on Wednesday were worth just $0.038 each. Following the BMG news, they peaked at $0.044.

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There’s a new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer, and it’s awesome

Things are looking good for the first Star Wars spinoff movie.

Are you getting excited about December? We are—and not because of the presents. Disney just dropped the official trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which hits theaters December 16th. The film is the studio's first foray outside the adventures of the characters we've grown up with, taking place shortly before the events depicted in Episode IV. The Empire is completing work on the Death Star, and the Rebellion needs to find its weakness; it recruits Jyn Erso (played by Felicity Jones) to do so.

This isn't our first look at Rogue One. Disney released a trailer early in April replete with visuals of AT-ATs storming tropical beaches set to a melancholy piano riff of John Williams' "Force theme" punctuated by a wailing siren riff guaranteed to light up anyone's secondary somatosensory cortex. But this new trailer takes a slightly different tone, perhaps the result of studio displeasure which led to several weeks of reshoots earlier this summer.

It does give us a better look at several characters, though. There's Chirrup Imew (played by Donnie Yen), a blind warrior living on Jedha—a planet that's the source of those little crystals that make lightsabers work. And Casein Andor (Diego Luna), a captain in the Rebellion working with Erso to steal the plans to the Death Star, accompanied by a laconic droid, K2SO (Alan Tudyk). Oh, and we also get another peek at Saw Gerrera (Forest Whitaker) looking a lot like a pirate in power armor.

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