Einen Ableger von Might & Magic, das mit großem Aufwand produzierte The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot und zwei weitere Free-to-Play-Titel will Ubisoft in den kommenden Wochen schließen. Entschädigungen für Restguthaben oder virtuelle Gegenstände gibt es nicht. (Ubisoft, Games) Smart Home: Philips-Hue-Bewegungsmelder und neue Leuchten angekündigt
Philips bringt zur Ifa 2016 einen Bewegungsmelder für das Hue-System. Er erlaubt personalisierbare Einstellungen für schwächeres Licht in der Nacht und kann beliebige Lichtstimmungen in unterschiedlichen Räumen aktivieren. Außerdem werden 26 neue Leuchten vorgestellt. (Philips Hue, Hausautomation)
Philips bringt zur Ifa 2016 einen Bewegungsmelder für das Hue-System. Er erlaubt personalisierbare Einstellungen für schwächeres Licht in der Nacht und kann beliebige Lichtstimmungen in unterschiedlichen Räumen aktivieren. Außerdem werden 26 neue Leuchten vorgestellt. (Philips Hue, Hausautomation) Multirotor G4: DLRG setzt auf Drohne zur Personensuche im Wasser
Die Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft ( DLRG) setzt bei ihren Rettungsmissionen nun auch auf eine Drohne. Der Hexacopter soll helfen, bei bestimmten Einsatzlagen einen besseren Überblick mit weniger Einsatzkräften zu gewinnen. (Drohne, Technologie)
Die Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft ( DLRG) setzt bei ihren Rettungsmissionen nun auch auf eine Drohne. Der Hexacopter soll helfen, bei bestimmten Einsatzlagen einen besseren Überblick mit weniger Einsatzkräften zu gewinnen. (Drohne, Technologie) Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 08/29/16
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. ‘Now You See Me 2′ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Blood Father’. ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ completes the top three.
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This week we have two newcomers in our chart.
Now You See Me 2 is the most downloaded movie for the second week in a row.
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise.
RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart.
| Ranking | (last week) | Movie | IMDb Rating / Trailer |
|---|---|---|---|
| torrentfreak.com | |||
| 1 | (1) | Now You See Me 2 | 6.8 / trailer |
| 2 | (…) | Blood Father | 7.1 / trailer |
| 3 | (2) | Independence Day: Resurgence (Subbed HDRip) | 5.6 / trailer |
| 4 | (…) | The Conjuring 2 | 7.8 / trailer |
| 5 | (3) | The Legend of Tarzan (Subbed HDRip) | 6.6 / trailer |
| 6 | (4) | Neighbors 2 | 6.0 / trailer |
| 7 | (9) | Jason Bourne (HDTC) | 7.4 / trailer |
| 8 | (6) | The Jungle Book | 7.8 / trailer |
| 9 | (8) | Warcraft | 7.7 / trailer |
| 10 | (5) | Imperium | 6.7 / trailer |
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Android 7.0: Erste Nougat-Portierung für Nexus 4 verfügbar
Für das beliebte Google-Smartphone Nexus 4 gibt es eine erste Portierung von Android 7.0 alias Nougat. Von Google selbst hatten Besitzer des Smartphones nicht einmal mehr Android 6.0 alias Marshmallow erhalten. (Android 7.0, Google)
Für das beliebte Google-Smartphone Nexus 4 gibt es eine erste Portierung von Android 7.0 alias Nougat. Von Google selbst hatten Besitzer des Smartphones nicht einmal mehr Android 6.0 alias Marshmallow erhalten. (Android 7.0, Google) Philips’ Hue motion sensor lets you walk to turn on your lights
No more fumbling to the bathroom in the dark at midnight.
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Philips knows that building a smart home lighting ecosystem doesn't mean just bombarding the market with different types of Wi-Fi connected light bulbs. On the heels of the introduction of Hue wall switches last year, Philips has just debuted the new Hue motion sensor for its lighting system. The tiny square sensor is meant to be placed anywhere in the home where you'd want lights to automatically come on whenever someone walks past.
The device is self-explanatory but it really comes to life when paired with the Hue app. The motion sensor can be placed anywhere to control up to two rooms of lights. It has a motion detection range of about 5 meters, or 16.5 feet, so whenever anyone walks near it, lights turn on. While you could set the motion sensor just to control, say, your bathroom lights so you don't have to fumble for a switch in the middle of the night, you can also set the switch to turn on both the bathroom and hallway lights so your entire nighttime trip to the can is illuminated. While the sensor has limited field-of-motion detection, it can control the lights in any part of your home, so walking through your front door could trigger your upstairs bedroom lights to turn on.
Since the motion sensor controls full rooms of lights, it can also be set to turn on a specific scene if you have the Hue multicolor smart bulbs. In the app, you can set these scenes using multiple different lights emitting different colors to get the best ambience for certain events, such as getting ready for bed or waking up in the morning. With the motion sensor, those scenes can be triggered whenever you walk near it, so you don't have to go into the app to bring them up.
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Assistiertes Fahren: Tesla-Autopilot-Update soll Unfälle verhindern
Der laxe Umgang mit den assistierten Fahrfunktionen der Tesla-Elektroautos hat zu einigen Unfällen geführt. Tesla will mit einem Softwareupdate seinem Autopiloten Sanktionen ermöglichen, wenn der Fahrer sich nicht an die Regeln hält. (Tesla Motors, GreenIT)
Der laxe Umgang mit den assistierten Fahrfunktionen der Tesla-Elektroautos hat zu einigen Unfällen geführt. Tesla will mit einem Softwareupdate seinem Autopiloten Sanktionen ermöglichen, wenn der Fahrer sich nicht an die Regeln hält. (Tesla Motors, GreenIT) AR-Brille: Microsoft spricht über die Hardware der Hololens
Vier wesentliche Komponenten der AR-Brille Hololens hat Microsoft selbst entwickelt: den Akku, das Display, die Tiefenkamera und die Holographic Processing Unit. Die Gründe sind einleuchtend. (
Geographical Globe With Self-Rotation and Night Mode
If you’ve seen the night time of our Earth, you’ll know how beautiful it is. You can freely browse around the most popular continents using Google Map night mode, but if you are lazy opening your tablet or laptop, here is a practical substitution in case you love the night time globe. This is a […]
If you’ve seen the night time of our Earth, you’ll know how beautiful it is. You can freely browse around the most popular continents using Google Map night mode, but if you are lazy opening your tablet or laptop, here is a practical substitution in case you love the night time globe. This is a […]
Running a Torrent Tracker For Fun Can Be a Headache
In January 2016, a BitTorrent enthusiast thought he’d launch a stand-alone tracker for fun. Soon, Zer0day.ch was tracking thousands of torrents after being utilized by The Pirate Bay and ExtraTorrent. Now it’s tracking almost four million peers and a million torrents, but the ride has been far from smooth.
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While torrents will work without them, trackers are very handy for quickly finding other BitTorrent peers with the same content. They’re also essential for those who have DHT and PEX disabled in their clients.
Often run by people with an interest in the technology, public trackers are incapable of generating funds in their own right. This means that from a financial perspective there’s almost no incentive to run one.
The important thing to remember about trackers is that they carry no infringing content whatsoever, they merely direct torrent client traffic to a particular torrent hash. Nevertheless, this doesn’t stop tracker operators from getting copyright-related headaches.
In early 2016, a new stand-alone tracker was born. Operating from zer0day.ch, the tracker grew quite quickly in the first few days of life after ETRG (ExtraTorrent’s release group) added the tracker to its releases.
But with its first 10,000 torrents tracked, the problems began. The tracker was hosted in Germany and soon its host ran out of patience with mounting copyright infringement claims. After moving to Romania, history repeated itself when the tracker’s host suspended its server.
“They didn’t want to hear that running a tracker is not illegal,” zer0day’s admin informs TF.
Late April, the tracker moved again, this time to a Latvia/Sweden setup. From there the tracker’s popularity went through the roof after an important development. Unknown to the tracker’s admin, The Pirate Bay began adding zer0day as one of the default trackers in its magnet links.
Now coordinating millions of peers, zer0day became an important player but in August the site had yet more trouble. The tracker’s server went offline again, this time without any prior notice and despite the fact that in eight months of operation not a single DMCA notice had ever been directly filed with the tracker.
With a fourth server secured elsewhere, zer0day continued with its business but more aggravation was on the horizon. Early this month, Swiss domain registry Switch told the site’s operator that his .CH domain was in trouble.
According to Switch, someone had tried to send some documents to the domain owner by snail mail and the documents had not reached the address mentioned in the WHOIS. Zer0day’s admin was given 30 days to prove his identity (with residency papers, for example) or face his domain being deleted.
While keeping the .CH domain would have been preferable, Switch didn’t make anything easy. They blocked the domain from being transferred to a third party and refused to say which agency had tried to contact the tracker’s operator.
Frustrated, the tracker’s admin decided to jump ship after a friend donated a server and a new .to (Tonga) based domain. At the time of writing the tracker is doing well, reporting 1.21m torrents and 4.44m peers (3.04 M seeders + 1.40 M leechers) on its main page.
Speaking with TF, the tracker owner says that while the ride has been a bumpy one, things got much worse after Pirate Bay began adding his tracker URL by default, something he had no control over.
“Things went from bad to worse after TPB added the tracker to their magnet links. [That knowledge] might help ease someone’s efforts to run a torrent tracker in the future,” he concludes.
As mentioned earlier, trackers aren’t absolutely essential for the functioning of BitTorrent transfers. However, their existence certainly improves matters and sites like zer0day are happy to contribute, even if their work mainly flies under the radar.
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