Category: Internet

Austria draft law would require real names for internet comments

[ad_1] It would only affect sites with more than 100,000 registered users, bring in revenues above €500,000 per year or receive press subsidies larger than €50,000. There would also be exemptions for e-commerce sites as well as those that don’t earn money from either ads or the content itself. If passed and cleared by the […]

AI generates non-stop stream of death metal

[ad_1] The result isn’t entirely natural, if simply because it’s not limited by the constraints of the human body. There are no real pauses. However, it certainly sounds the part — you’ll find plenty of hyper-fast drums, guitar thrashing and guttural growling. In a chat with Motherboard, Carr noted that death metal’s rapid-fire pace is […]

Epic banned over 1,200 ‘Fortnite’ World Cup players for cheating

[ad_1] Eight accounts received bans for teaming, or making unofficial alliances with their opponents. Only one had to give up prizes, but it’s still serious. There’s also one unnamed person who made it all the way to the semi-finals but was permanently banned from the game after they were caught using cheat software in the […]

PayPal and GoFundMe cut off donations to militia detaining migrants

[ad_1] The group has been accused of not only detaining migrants at gunpoint, violating citizen’s arrest limits, but of impersonating law enforcement. Mark Cheney, who describes himself as a commander for UCP, denied that the group had used online donations for weapons. However, he acknowledged that the cutoff “killed” the group’s resources — it’s scrambling […]

Mental health apps are sharing data without proper disclosure

[ad_1] A handful of these apps (which revolved around issues like depression and quitting smoking) shared particularly sensitive data like health diaries and voluntary substance use reports. As the University of Toronto’s Qunn Grundy (not involved in the study) told The Verge, this info could give outsiders a picture of your mental health that you […]

Netflix might have more Beyoncé specials planned after ‘Homecoming’

[ad_1] A Vulture report says HBO was also interested in Homecoming, but backed down after Netflix offered Beyoncé a lot of money for a multi-project agreement. We might have to wait a bit to see the star’s other two programs if they’re anything as big as her Coachella documentary, though. She dropped a 40-track accompanying […]

Coachella was built for YouTube

[ad_1] Coachella 2019 review: A festival built for YouTubePaul A. Thompson,Pitchfork For years, Coachella’s opening weekend has been a huge event for YouTube. A weekend’s worth of livestreams don’t deliver all of the acts to your living room, but the site typically offers a lot of the big names so you don’t have to travel […]

Cracking open the Galaxy Fold

[ad_1] We need a map.Console gaming is at a crossroads This week Microsoft revealed an “all-digital” Xbox One S while Sony promised the PS5 would feature physical media. Which path is the right one? Ours is still going strong.Samsung Galaxy Fold review units are already broken The flexible Galaxy Fold hasn’t even gone on sale […]

SiriusXM’s Essential streaming service doesn’t need car satellite radios

[ad_1] An Essential subscription also gives you access to over 200 channels, including all the network’s musical programming, along with comedy, news and sports shows. However, the plan doesn’t come with Howard Stern’s, the NBA, NHL and NCAA channels. According to Variety, you’ll have to wait for the $13 Premier Streaming plan to come out […]

Christchurch shooting videos are still on Facebook over a month later

[ad_1] One variation had been around since the time of the attack. All of the videos Feinberg found were sitting on Arabic-language pages. Facebook has removed one of the videos as of this writing, and reiterated its plans to improve its filtering technology. It’s using audio recognition to spot clips that might otherwise evade filters, […]