Gopro hat mit der Karma seine erste Drohne vorgestellt. Der Quadcopter verfügt über eine stabilisierte Kamerahalterung, die abgenommen und an einem Selfie-Stick am Boden weiterverwendet werden kann. (Gopro, Digitalkamera)
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WASHINGTON — The Anti-Defamation League is placing a representative in Silicon Valley to work on cyber hate and harassment issues, BuzzFeed News has learned.
The move comes after significant trolling, particularly on Twitter, of Jewish journalists and other public figures, amounting to a wave of anti-Semitic expression not seen in the American conversation for decades — and as tech companies struggle to reckon with their role in regulating abusive speech.
“As a leading civil rights advocacy organization, ADL was early to recognize the burgeoning issue of cyberhate and how extremists were exploiting online platforms to spread antisemitism and target Jews as well as other minorities,” said Brittan Heller, who will become the group’s first Director of Technology and Society, in a statement. “From its first report on these cyberhate more than 30 years ago to this year’s work tracking the harassment of journalists on social media, ADL has demonstrated its commitment to ensuring our online communities are a safe and just place for all.”
Heller is a former cyber crime and human rights investigator and prosecutor, has also been a high-profile victim of online harassment. While she was at Yale Law School, she was subjected to sexual harassment on a law school messaging board. She and another student sued the board’s administrator as well as anonymous commenters for invasion of privacy and defamation. Heller and the other plaintiff settled with the defendants in 2009.
“We've really doubled down on the work that we&039;re doing to deal with this new emerging and metastasizing trend of online harassment and cyber hate,” said ADL director Jonathan Greenblatt in an interview with BuzzFeed News, calling what has been happening on social media “breathtaking and downright scary.”
The 103-year-old ADL has traditionally focused on combating anti-Semitism, an issue that has been in the spotlight this year as Donald Trump’s candidacy has had the effect of empowering online trolls. The organization conducted an online harassment survey of journalists over the summer.
“We&039;ve had some wins with companies,” Greenblatt said, citing its participation in Twitter&039;s Trust and Safety Council and its working with Google to take down the Chrome extension which enabled users to place parentheses around Jewish names, a common device employed by the alt-right. The ADL declared the parentheses used in this way to be a hate symbol.
The group has been vocal during this election cycle about highlighting the issue of online harassment, forming a task force to investigate bigoted harassment of journalists in June and participating in SXSW’s Online Harassment Summit.
Quelle: <a href="Anti-Defamation League Boosting Presence In Silicon Valley“>BuzzFeed
AWS CloudTrail now records launch and termination events for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. If you already have AWS CloudTrail logging enabled, no further action is necessary. These events will now appear in your existing trails, so that you can perform security analysis, change tracking, and compliance auditing of your Spot instance usage.
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It’s official: Images, GIFs, videos, polls, and quoted tweets no longer count against your tweet’s 140-character limit.
Back in May, amid rumors that it would extend the character limit to 10,000 characters, Twitter announced that it planned to lengthen tweets by excluding media from the character limit. That change is now live. One exception: linking to another tweet still uses up your precious characters, since links still count against the limit.
The Verge reports that handles contained within replies will not count towards character limits, including replies with multiple handles. This specific feature is not live for all users yet, according to Recode.
Quelle: <a href="Twitter Just Made Your Tweets A Little Longer“>BuzzFeed
Amazon RDS SQL Server now supports Local Time Zones. You can now set the time zone for your Amazon RDS for SQL Server instances to the local time zone for your application.
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We are excited to announce a new edge location in Mumbai, India (Asia-Pacific) for Amazon CloudFront. This is the second edge location for Mumbai and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 61.
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GoPro
GoPro is known for its rugged, outdoor sports-friendly cameras and its newest releases are no different. Both cameras also come something a little extra: voice control. Here's what you need to know about GoPro&039;s latest.
The Hero 5 Black and Hero 5 Session have the same water-resistance rating: submersion up to 10 meters (or 33 feet) without a separate housing case. Previously, GoPro&039;s most advanced camera, the Hero 4 Black, needed a protective case to protect it from water exposure.
The cameras also have the same video recording capabilities at 4K resolution and stereo microphones. GoPro has also dropped micro USB ports in favor of USB-C. The Hero 5 Black also has a micro HDMI port.
Voice control offers hands-free control of the cameras. You&039;ll be able to say, “GoPro, take a photo” or “GoPro, start recording” in English, as well as German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Chinese.
The cameras also have video stabilization built-in for the first time. The software can produce smoother video capture than previous models.
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The Hero 5 Black has a touch display for changing settings, editing footage, and reviewing stills and clips, while the screen-less Session has a dedicated button for recording and is controlled through the companion GoPro mobile app.
The Hero 5 Black has the same photo/video capabilities of its predecessor, the Hero 4 Black: 12 megapixels for stills and, in addition to 4K at 30fps, 1440p video at 80 frames per second, and 1080p video at 120 frames per second – but is $50 less than the Hero 4 Black&039;s original $450 price.
Additionally, the camera also includes GPS for location capture and the ability to take photos in RAW or WDR mode.
It can capture 10 megapixel photos (vs. 8MP), and 1440p at 60 fps (vs. 30) and 1080p at 90 fps (vs. 60), as well as 4K video, which was not available in the first-generation Session.
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The drone, which can fly up to 400 feet high, 1000 feet away, can fold up and fit into a backpack that GoPro includes with the flying gadget. It costs $799 on its own.
Quelle: <a href="Your Voice Can Control GoPro&039;s New Hero 5 Camera“>BuzzFeed
In addition to the advanced and real time analytics capabilities in Azure CDN premium offering, you can now set up real time alerts to get notified on delivery anomalies, such as bandwidth, cache statuses, and concurrent connections to your content. This enables continuous monitoring of the health of your CDN service at any time.
Learn how this feature works and set up your first alert today!
See also:
Real time analytics
CDN feature overview
Azure CDN UserVoice
Azure CDN MSDN forum
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You can now create YAML-formatted templates to describe your AWS resources and properties in AWS CloudFormation. Now, you have the option to use either YAML-formatted templates or JSON-formatted templates to model and describe your AWS infrastructure. YAML-formatted CloudFormation templates follow the same anatomy as existing JSON-formatted templates and support all the same features.
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You can now provision aliases in AWS Key Management Service (KMS). An alias creates a display name for a customer master key. Visit here to learn more.
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