Noch vor der Bundestagswahl will Heiko Maas sein “Facebook-Gesetz” durchsetzen. Der Justizminister geht auch davon aus, dass alles klappt. Doch der Gesetzesentwurf droht gleich aus mehreren Gründen zu scheitern. Von Dietmar Neuerer und Till Hoppe (Fake-News, Video-Community)
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In der zweiten Jahreshälfte sollen Power9-Maschinen erscheinen und nicht bloß mit 24 starken CPU-Kernen glänzen, sondern auch mit PCIe 4.0, OpenCAPI 3.0 und NVLink 2.0.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
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Here’s an idea for a fun social app: It starts with a camera. First, you take a picture or video. Then you add fun effects — masks that hew to your face, or crowns that rest at your hairline. You can send these images or videos to friends via a direct message, or share them with all your contacts via a feature called Stories. Also, they disappear.
A year ago, these features were unmistakably Snapchat’s. But now the Facebook-owned Instagram has them too. After copying Snapchat’s Stories feature last August, Instagram is releasing a version of its selfie lenses today, finishing off a brazen cloning of Snapchat’s most beloved features just as its parent company, Snap Inc., is getting its footing on the public market. The only thing missing is Discover, a collection of just-for-Snapchat media created by professionals and publications.
Snapchat didn’t invent selfie lenses, but it did popularize their use. That pioneering role did not merit a mention in an Instagram blog post announcing the new selfie lenses — which are interactive, just like Snapchat’s. This was a departure from when Instagram introduced its version of Stories, a feature that Instagram loudly credited to Snapchat.
“Today, we’re introducing face filters in the camera, an easy way to turn an ordinary selfie into something fun and entertaining,” Instagram said. “Whether you're sitting on the couch at home or out and about, face filters help you express yourself and have playful conversations with friends.”
Instagram's new “face filters”
Instagram’s introduction of selfie lenses (it calls them “face filters”) comes in the midst of a major push from Facebook to layer digital experiences on top of the real world via its apps’ cameras. At its F8 conference in April, Facebook unveiled a new camera effects platform, inviting developers to create their own masks and filters that, after approval, would be made available for use inside Facebook (which already has its own set of face filters). Using the same backbone technology, Instagram could easily introduce a similar platform of its own.
With its effects platform, Facebook appears to be attempting to surpass Snapchat in terms of mask and filter quality. But its ambition is far greater. Relying on computer vision technology, Facebok would like to map out the world and allow developers to build games, and overlay digital art on top of the physical world we live in today. “When you can make it so that you can intermix digital and physical parts of the world, that's going to make a lot of our experiences better and our lives richer,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told BuzzFeed News in an interview ahead of F8.
In the meantime, the Snapchat cloning appears to be a boost for Facebook, at least inside Instagram. Instagram’s Stories feature is used by 200 million people every month. WhatsApp’s Stories copy, Status, is used by 175 million people each day. Facebook and Messenger appear to be somewhat behind that. Snap, struggling to grow revenue and, to some extent, its user base, saw billions of dollars wiped off its market cap last week.
Asked if Instagram plans to ship more Snapchat-inspired features, an Instagram spokesperson said, “We aren’t sharing any other updates at this time.”
Even if they were, there’s little left to copy.
Quelle: <a href="Instagram Adds Face Filters, Snapchat Cloning Complete“>BuzzFeed
This excerpt from Get started with architectures by Kim Gajda was originally published on the IBM Bluemix blog.
Once upon a time, a developer’s job was simple: Write code to connect to your company database, and voilà, you have a new app and happy users.
That might have been your manager’s view of your job. In any case, today’s users are more sophisticated and expect more than access to data. They want insights. Enter App Delivery Act II, brought to you by the cloud, where your app can access cognitive services from Watson, scale workload on demand, and handle resiliency.
The good news is that you don’t need to start with a blank sheet of paper.
Based on years of consulting engagements between the IBM team of cloud experts and client IT shops, the IBM Cloud Garage Method distills a portfolio of practices and provides blueprints that address business challenges. The blueprints, or reference architectures, are based on proven solutions that combine compute infrastructure and cloud-based services. Each reference architecture documents the business scenario, functional requirements, and resources that deliver the solution.
Common architecture questions answered
Architectures and their implementations are meant to answer common questions:
Where do I start?
I have all of these services, but how do they fit together?
Do I want to use infrastructure, such as virtual machines (VMs), or services, such as a data store?
Now that I’ve proven an approach, how do I scale up and move into production?
How does my service talk to that other service?
How is security handled?
How can I build, deploy, and manage an application?
Each architecture provides a business challenge, a reference architecture description and diagram, implementations, links to related practices and learning, and more resources to answer your questions.
Reference architectures fall into two categories: application architectures and cross-cutting architectures.
Application architectures focus on building function into an application. Application architectures include web, mobile, data and analytics, cognitive, and Internet of Things (IoT).
Cross-cutting architectures emphasize how to address non-functional capabilities to scale applications into enterprise-grade production systems. The cross-cutting aspects often relate to the “-ilities” in a system, such as availability, resiliency, security, and scalability. All applications require one or more of the cross-cutting architectures, no matter what function the application provides.
The IBM Cloud Garage Method features over a dozen architectures in its Architecture Center.
The post Answering 7 common cloud architecture questions appeared first on Cloud computing news.
Quelle: Thoughts on Cloud
Sony baut die PS4 zur virtuellen Schießbude aus. Mit dem neuen Plastik-Gewehr zielt man auf außerirdische Spinnen. Warum das gelungen ist und was andere VR-Entwickler daraus lernen können.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprises neue Version von The Machine verfügt über weitaus mehr lokalen RAM als andere Systeme. Das Forschungsprojekt ist zudem mit ARM-basierten Thunder X2 und optischen Interconnects ausgestattet. (HPE, Server)
Quelle: Golem
HPE baut The Machine weiter aus – der Rechner soll einen Architekturwechsel zum "Memory Driven Computing" einläuten. Das System schöpft die Möglichkeiten der photonischen Links voll aus, HPE schweigt sich allerdings darüber aus, wo diese liegen.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
Für BSI-Präsident Arne Schönbohm ist die Handlungsfähigkeit des Staates ein
wichtiger Bestandteil der IT-Sicherheit. Nur wenn dieser die
Informationssicherheit gestalten kann, werde die Digitalisierung gelingen.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
Im jahrelangen Streit zwischen dem Piratenpolitiker Patrick Breyer und der Bundesregierung hat der BGH nun entschieden. Doch mit dem Urteil geht der Prozess in eine neue Runde. (Datenschutz, Internet)
Quelle: Golem
Zenimax klagt gegen Samsung. Der Vorwurf: Samsung habe vom Ideenklau seitens John Carmack gewusst und sein VR-Headset dennoch unverändert angeboten.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
