Samsungs Top-Smartphones sind seit einigen Generationen vor Wasser und Staub geschützt – technisch gesehen aber nicht komplett wasserdicht. Dennoch soll Samsung in der Werbung einen anderen Eindruck erzeugt haben, findet der australische Verbraucherschutz – eine Klage soll folgen. (Samsung, Smartphone)
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Der freie Userspace-Teil des AMD-Grafiktreibers für die kommenden Navi-Karten ist in das Mesa-Projekt eingepflegt worden. Linux-Nutzer können die Karten dann wohl problemlos ab September einsetzen. (AMD Navi, AMD)
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Ein Kanal, der Anleitungen zum Aufspüren von Sicherheitslücken gab, bekam von Youtube eine Verwarnung. Auch wenn diese mittlerweile zurückgenommen wurde, sieht die IT-Security-Community darin eine Gefahr. (Youtube, Video-Community)
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Alexander Dennis und BYD haben einem Medienbericht zufolge zusammen den ersten Elektro-Doppeldecker nach London geliefert. Der hat eine Reichweite von 250 Kilometern und ist aber ein – zumindest für deutsche Verhältnisse – kurzer Doppeldecker. (Elektromobilität, Elektroauto)
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Wer eine ältere NVMe-SSD über hat, kann diese immer noch als sehr schnellen USB-Stick verwenden: Preiswerte Gehäuse wie das Orico Enclosure nehmen M.2-Kärtchen auf, der Bridge-Chip könnte aber flotter sein. Ein Test von Marc Sauter (Solid State Drive, Speichermedien)
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Der Volkswagen Bulli Typ 2 war der erste Kleinbus von Volkswagen aus den 60er Jahren. In Kalifornien wurde einer der Oldtimer nun vom konzerneigenen Innovation and Engineering Center California (IECC) elektrifiziert und auch optisch ein wenig verändert. (VW, Technologie)
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VWs elektrische Rekordjagd geht weiter: Der französische Rennfahrer Romain Dumas soll mit dem VW ID.R beim Goodwood Festival of Speed antreten und zeigen, dass ein Elektroauto auf der Strecke einen Benziner schlagen kann – aus der Formel 1. (Elektroauto, Technologie)
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Beim Euro-NCAP-Crashtest hat das Model 3 von Tesla die höchste Bewertung von fünf Sternen sowie in der Kategorie Sicherheitsunterstützung die beste Wertung aller Fahrzeuge bisher erhalten. (Tesla Model 3, Technologie)
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Editor’s Note: Today we hear from Paul Benjamin, Director of Product Management at First Tech Federal Credit Union. This financial institution has set out to partner with a broad range of fintechs to offer new apps to its membership base, and APIs are key to making this happen.First Tech Federal Credit Union is the sixth largest credit union in the United States. Our membership base is about half a million people strong and we have an asset base upwards of $12 billion. We work with many of the world’s leading technology companies, and our membership is made up of their employees. This means our customers are tech savvy, interested in the latest fintech innovations, and definitely inclined to try new products and services—in fact, they’ve come to expect them.Our participation in an API-driven economy hinges on providing our members with new online and mobile offerings that combine a variety of financial services provided not only by us, but by an ecosystem of partners. These services might include account alerts, credit card account management controls, account aggregation, and loan financing. Sharpening our competitive edge and staying relevant requires us to step out of our traditional banking shell and explore mutually beneficial partnerships with fintechs and other companies in adjacent markets.Over the past few years we’ve seen how companies, not just in the financial sector but across all industries, have adopted API-driven models and how that has helped them fuel further growth. First Tech has had an API gateway to serve our internal technology needs but, given our need to enable ecosystem partnerships, we needed a more mature and sophisticated API management platform that could enable us to expose and manage public APIs. We hope to introduce new products and services as well as new channels around existing products and services. Google Cloud’s Apigee API Platform fit the bill for several reasons. The top two? Security and scalability. As a financial institution, securing our members’ data is always our top priority and we needed a proven product that gave us the tools to enforce our desired control and security policies. In terms of scalability, given that First Tech is a not-for-profit, community-based financial institution, we were looking for a solution that would allow us to scale as cost effectively as possible as we build out our API platform over the next five years. The growing range of partners we’ll be working with will leverage the same APIs. As a result, having a formal platform will enable consistency, security, and proper support for the partners that build on our APIs—and that, in turn, will have a direct impact on our ability to grow our membership base.We’re still early in our usage of our new API management platform, but the agility, speed, and control we’ve seen so far is impressive. Other Apigee features that are already proving to be key include monitoring, analytics, and reporting, as they let us not only track and analyze the services we offer, but ensure that we are able to respond and scale to meet the needs of our partners’ business models. As we delve further into our implementation, we look forward to exploring additional functionality, such as API rate limits and monetization. Once we get past the initial implementation phase, we want to enable more enhanced monitoring to gain valuable insights. We foresee using analytics to help us monitor activity and API security, but also to monitor associated infrastructure costs for serving these APIs. We’re viewing the Apigee partnership not as a one-off initiative but something that is foundational for our long-term vision.To learn more about API management on Google Cloud, visit our Apigee page.
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FOX Sports made history at last year’s FIFA Men’s World Cup in Russia by using live streaming technology for remote editing on a scale it had never achieved before. In previous years, broadcasters traditionally sent their entire editing staff and equipment overseas to the venue. By taking advantage of IBM Aspera live streaming technology, FOX Sports was able to begin producing highlights in near real time from their state-of-the-art production facility in Los Angeles, with only a small crew onsite in Russia, saving the broadcaster time and money while creating richer content for viewers. Ultimately, this event ended up being the largest production in FOX Sports’ 24-year history.
2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup fully edited from Los Angeles
Tasked with delivering a similar experience for the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France, FOX Sports wanted to go all in on remote editing, with 100 percent of the editing and post-production work taking place in Los Angeles. The projected number of concurrent streams to remote storage over the course of the tournament was expected to more than double the FIFA Men’s World Cup. This creates a challenge to not only build on last year’s performance, but to continue to deliver a spectacular viewing experience for audiences worldwide.
Achieving greater efficiencies while reducing production time
To help with this massive undertaking, FOX Sports again teamed up with IBM Aspera. The Aspera streaming technology, along with Telestream and Levels Beyond, are delivering new remote production capabilities and greater efficiencies, such as real-time direct-to-cloud archiving, more extensive and consolidated monitoring, and live streaming into Adobe video editing. Creative teams are able to quickly begin working on live-capture feeds in Los Angeles, delivered straight from Paris while the match is in progress. Transcoding, packaging, editing and other downstream workflows work off the streamed video. As a result, live camera feeds from matches were edited in Los Angeles within Adobe Premiere Pro in less than 10 seconds of live action.
This capability significantly shortens highlight and feature story production cycles while increasing the quality and value of the produced content. Furthermore, within seconds of a match being completed, raw, high resolution footage will be fully archived in the cloud, saving the production team the time typically spent on the post-match archival process while also allowing it to fix issues with downstream assets in minutes instead of hours.
“IBM Aspera has built a legacy in sports broadcasting,” said Kevin Callahan, FOX Sports VP Field Operations. “Given our success with the Aspera live-streaming technology at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, we pushed even harder to move all editing to LA this year while adding exciting new capabilities like real time auto-archival to the cloud.”
Through the Round of 16, FOX Sports had achieved the following results using IBM Aspera:
Streamed 350 live edit feeds from 40 matches from Paris to LA, for a total of 118TB of content.
Transferred roughly 500TB of video content to cloud object storage for archival and editing.
FOX Sports plans to use the joint Aspera solution for other major sporting events in the future to deliver consistently great content for viewers.
A partial view of all high bit rate feeds being streamed from Paris to Los Angeles and Portland for live editing and archival in real time.
Enhancing the viewer experience with IBM Watson
Also at the World Cup this year, FOX Sports worked with IBM to uplevel the viewer experience with a new broadcast segment called Player Spotlight built with IBM Watson. The AI-backed tool helped generate stat analysis for match commentary using a natural language interface. Watson offers the power to reason, understand, categorize and learn what’s inside video footage, further enabling FOX Sports to enhance viewer engagement. Commentators can interact directly with the tool, which in turn surfaces highlights, data and analytics that the broadcasters can reference on-air.
For more information on IBM Aspera streaming solutions, visit http://ibm.biz/aspera-streaming.
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