Auf dem Hauptbildschirm der Fire-TV-Geräte werden neuerdings Netflix-Inhalte eingebunden. Filme oder Serien des Streaminganbieters können damit direkt vom Startbildschirm abgespielt werden. Prime-Markierungen fehlen in Amazons Videodienst derweil weiterhin. (Fire TV, Amazon)
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Joshua Brown's Model S after May&039;s fatal crash.
NTSB
Tesla will issue an update to its Autopilot software in the coming weeks that would have prevented the fatal Model S crash that is under federal investigation, CEO Elon Musk said Sunday.
Musk said that Autopilot, Tesla’s advanced driver assist system, will disengage if drivers ignore warnings to keep their hands on the wheel, and will rely more heavily on radars to trigger the brakes if an oncoming object is detected.
“I do want to emphasize this does not mean perfect safety. Perfect safety is really an impossible goal,” Musk told reporters on a conference call. “It’s really about improving the probability of safety.”
The update to Autopilot comes as the technology is under investigation by two federal agencies to determine whether the feature played a role in two recent crashes, including a deadly accident in Ohio in May.
In that fatal crash, “neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied,” Tesla said. The Model S, traveling at 74 mph with a 65 mph speed limit, hit the trailer and traveled under it before veering off the road, killing driver Joshua Brown.
Increasing the use of radars, alongside the car’s cameras, will help Autopilot detect not only the object directly in front of it, but also whatever is in front of that car, Musk said. To prevent false positives so Teslas on Autopilot don’t brake when they see overhead road signs, for example, the company is building a “geocoded whitelist” of fixed items cars should not stop for.
Elon Musk in October, 2015.
Beck Diefenbach / Reuters
Tesla has promoted its Autopilot technology as an incremental step toward self-driving cars. When drivers activate it, though, the display warns them to keep their hands on the wheel at all times. But people haven’t always followed that warning: There are plenty of YouTube videos of drivers sitting in Teslas while using Autopilot hands-free.
Musk said the company has noticed that Tesla drivers sometimes ignore as many as 10 warnings to keep their hands on the wheel within an hour. “We really want to avoid that situation,” he said on the conference call.
Beck Diefenbach / Reuters
Part of the Autopilot 8.0 software update will address that issue. For Teslas traveling slower than 45 mph while on Autopilot, drivers will be able to spend a maximum of five minutes hands-free before being reminded to keep their hands on the wheel. In Teslas moving faster than 45 mph on Autopilot, drivers will be reminded after one minute if they are not driving behind another vehicle, or three minutes if there is another car ahead. (Musk said the technology’s accuracy improves if the car is following another vehicle, hence the disparity.) Otherwise, the Autosteer system will disengage until the car is parked.
Musk claimed the update would make Tesla vehicles using Autopilot three times safer than other cars.
The update could affect the federal investigations surrounding Autopilot. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, one of the agencies probing the fatal May crash, sometimes closes investigations if it determines a manufacturer has resolved the issue at hand and no further investigation is warranted. Bryan Thomas, a spokesman for NHTSA, said the agency is reviewing information from Tesla about the Autopilot update.
“We do not have an update on the Tesla investigation to share at this time,” he said.
LINK: Tesla’s Big Problem With Autopilot Feature May Come Down To Its Name
Quelle: <a href="Tesla Says Its Update To The AutoPilot Feature Would&039;ve Prevented A Deadly Crash“>BuzzFeed
Nicht laden, nicht mit ins Flugzeug nehmen und jetzt – am besten gar nicht mehr anfassen. Samsung warnt seine Nutzer nicht mehr nur vor dem Laden des Galaxy Note 7, sondern gleich ganz vor der Nutzung des Gerätes. (Galaxy Note 7, Samsung)
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Fürchtet der Konzern weniger verkaufte Modelle als im vergangenen Jahr? Apple wird nach dem Launch des iPhone 7 erstmals keine Verkaufszahlen des neuen Gerätes vom Startwochenende angeben. (iPhone 7, Apple)
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Media Services is excited to be back at IBC and to be a part of the IBC Hackfest.
It has been a busy year for the Azure Media Services team since the last IBC. We launched several products including Azure Media Analytics, General Availability of Azure CDN from Akamai Standard and Microsoft Stream.
We also just wrapped up streaming the Rio Olympics to record audiences worldwide. One of the key highlight was that viewers live streamed 2.71 billion minutes of Olympic coverage – a new record for live event coverage. In addition to this, we had zero downtime. The streaming of Olympics demonstrates the strength of our platform to handle large media workflows reliably.
“Rio 2016 set numerous consumption records, including over 3 billion minutes streamed. More than one-third of those who streamed the Games did so from connected TV devices. Our partnership with Microsoft Azure helped us extend our reach to more people and more devices via cloud streaming than ever before.” – Eric Black, Digital CTO, NBC Sports Group
In addition to the building trusted partnerships, we often hear from our customers that the reason they pick Azure is twofold. First, the scalable end-to-end capabilities we offer to build media workflows in the cloud and second, our commitment to continuous innovation which brings cutting edge video workflows to the Azure cloud.
In keeping with this commitment, at IBC 2016, we are thrilled about the following key announcements:
Multi-DRM: With the recent announcement of FairPlay Streaming DRM service hitting general availability, Azure Media Services now provides all major DRMs (Microsoft PlayReady, Google Widevine and Apple FairPlay) license delivery. This will help media customers to deliver DRM protected premium content to a really wide set of audience on various devices, easily and quickly. We also offer dynamic encryption capability on our streaming server to encrypt media stream on the fly for both video-on-demand (VOD) and live streaming. With this leading content protection services, we provide a single point of control for you to quickly build a multi-DRM solution with high scalability and reliability.
Media Analytics: We launched Azure Media Analytics, a collection of speech and vision services including Indexer, Hyperlapse, Motion detection, Face and emotions detection, Video summarization, Video Optical Character Recognition and Content moderation. We are adding Azure Media Redactor, which will perform anonymization by blurring the faces of selected individuals, and is ideal for use in public safety and news media scenarios. Some of the applications areas include law enforcement and public safety than can now efficiently process large volumes of video footages form video sources including surveillance cameras and body cams.
HEVC: We are conducting trials of HEVC encoding and delivery in Azure Media Services with our customers. Built on the same platform as the Premium Encoder, the new encoder provides enhancements including the following HEVC encoding at UHD/4K resolutions, including 4096×2160 pixels at 60 frames/second and support for high dynamic range (HDR) content.
GA of Azure Media Services in the new Azure Portal: We are pleased to announce the general availability of Azure Media Services in new Azure portal. Besides all features in the old portal, we have developed a few additional features into the new portal: new Media Analytics processors, asset details, closed caption configuration, FairPlay DRM support, enhanced live streaming workflow and etc. You still can access the old portal and manage your existing account by directly pinging manage.windowsazure.com, however, you won’t be able to create new Azure Media Services account in the old portal. We will sunset Azure Media Services old portal access in the near future too. Therefore, this is definitely a good time for you to switch over to our brand new experience!
Azure Cool Storage: We now support Azure Cool Storage in the media workflows. Customers can take advantage of Azure Cool Storage by using it to upload mezzanines and thereby reduce cost. They could then transcode, and prepared assets stored on Hot Storage.
IBC Hackfest: We are also very excited to be part about the IBC Hackfest. Microsoft Azure is a trusted platform for innovation for developers. We look forward to the creative ideas that the teams come up with that leverage the Azure Platform and Azure Media Analytics in particular.
We’re continually moving the needle when it comes to scalable, secure, and cost-effective media workflows in the cloud, and invite you to take advantage by building on Microsoft Azure.
We are located in Hall 15 MS.1. Drop by to see a demonstration of several of our services including our cutting edge Media Analytics capabilities.
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Wer ist schuld an einem Unfall, und wie sollen automatisierte Autos in Gefahrensituationen reagieren? Verkehrsminister Dobrindt will diese Fragen von einer Ethikkommission klären lassen. (Alexander Dobrindt, Internet)
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Um gegen Cheater vorzugehen, sperrt Pokémon-Entwickler Niantic künftig Nutzer mit Root und Jailbreak aus. Viele Spieler sind sauer und fordern, dass der Hersteller sich um die wirklichen Probleme des Spiels kümmern solle. Immerhin existiert ein Workaround. (Pokémon Go, Internet)
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E-Mails zu verschlüsseln gilt schon als kompliziert, doch wie verschlüsselt man eigentlich eine ganze Mailingliste? Das Tool Schleuder soll das ermöglichen, allerdings kann der Server dabei Nachrichten mitlesen. (OpenPGP, E-Mail)
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Mit dieser weltweiten Empörung hatte Facebook wohl nicht gerechnet. In Zukunft dürfen Nutzer ein bekanntes Foto aus dem Vietnam-Krieg posten und teilen, das ein nacktes Kind auf der Flucht vor Napalm-Bomben zeigt. (Facebook, Soziales Netz)
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Fährt in Zukunft doch kein iCar über die Straßen? Angeblich hat Apple seine Entwicklungsabteilung für autonome Autos teilweise geschlossen und Mitarbeiter entlassen. (Bob Mansfield, Technologie)
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