Das für Ende April erwartete Linux 4.11 soll Teile von Radeon-GPUs an virtuelle Maschinen überstellen können, damit sich die Grafikbeschleunigung performant nutzen lässt. Auch sind Verbesserungen für selbstverschlüsselnde Festplatten und Raspis geplant.
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Today, AWS Marketplace released new feature enhancements to the Seller Self-Service Listings feature, a web-based interface that lets AWS Marketplace software vendors manage their product listings through the AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). Starting today, software vendors that have product listings in AWS Marketplace can use Self-Service Listings to make changes to their Amazon Machine Image (AMI)-based product listings, including updating product metadata, uploading new versions, making changes to instance types and pricing, and more. In addition, Self-Service Listings allows vendors to create new AMI-based or SaaS Subscriptions product listings.
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It’s no secret that the business world is changing rapidly. Sometimes it can seem like it’s changing faster than you can keep up. This pace is only going to continue to increase. New companies, and even new industries, appear every day. To stay competitive, you’ll need to create inventive and interactive customer experiences that bring you closer to your target audience.
It’s not just about selling anymore. Customers are increasingly searching for a connection with businesses where they spend their money. Traditional commerce is not set up to facilitate these kinds of relationships, but that’s exactly where the digital economy shines. Transforming into a digital business might seem like a daunting undertaking, but it’s all about connections, whether it’s connections between people or processes. IBM Cloud Integration can help you achieve these connections by allowing you to move data easily across your business network and by providing the flexibility you need to serve your customers.
The emergence and evolution of cognitive APIs is fueling this economic atmosphere by lowering the barrier of entry for new businesses and enabling existing businesses to transform. The goal of this evolution is to achieve a point of presence, which is when a business connects with a customer at the perfect moment with the perfect offer. The point of presence allows customers and businesses to transcend the buyer/seller relationship and enter a mutually beneficial partnership.
Cognitive APIs provide the capability to easily connect applications and data wherever they exist. By combining cognitive services with information from Internet of Things devices, such as weather and traffic data, complex processes like supply chain become more intelligent. You get a whole new view where potential problem areas are identified and integrated. Cognitive services can even predict problems and recommend changes before they pose a risk to businesses or the public.
Imagine a dairy shipment headed from Wisconsin to California on a refrigerated truck that’s due to have a layover in Nevada for a night. Hours before the truck arrives, a sensor in the facility’s cooler shows that the equipment is not functioning properly. Rather than waiting to find out about the problem when the cargo is lost, businesses can use a supply chain solution to locate and contact an alternative facility. The driver is seamlessly rerouted and the business avoids any compromise to the cargo or the schedule. That’s just one small glimpse into the power of a fully integrated, cognitive API-fueled digital business.
The Trends and Directions session at InterConnect 2017 will demonstrate the importance of points of presence. It will dive into the emerging technology that creates these crucial integrations and enables them to interact both inside and outside of your organization. You’ll learn not only what you can accomplish with IBM Cloud Integration, but also how far-ranging and significant integration can help you achieve next-generation customer experiences.
Join me Tuesday, March 21 from 3:45 PM to 4:30 PM in Bayside A. If you still haven’t registered for InterConnect, be sure to sign up today.
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Die Deutsche Bahn will ein System zur Videoüberwachung testen, das mittels Software Gefahrensituationen automatisch erkennen soll. Zum Testort wurde der Berliner Bahnhof Südkreuz erkoren.
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Sen. Ron Wyden will soon introduce legislation to prevent Customs and Border Patrol agents from demanding the passwords to online accounts and mobile devices from American travelers without a warrant.
In a letter sent to Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly dated Feb. 20, the senator from Oregon said that border searches that take place without a warrant circumvent the right to privacy and “weaken our national and economic security.”
“I am alarmed by recent media reports of Americans being detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and pressured to give CBP agents access to their smartphone PIN numbers or otherwise provide access to locked mobile devices,” Sen. Wyden writes. “Circumventing the normal protections for such private information is simply unacceptable.”
He goes on to say that he will introduce legislation that will ensure that the “4th Amendment is respected at the border.”
Read the letter in full:
Quelle: <a href="A Senator Will Introduce Legislation Requiring Warrants Before Phones Can Be Searched At The US Border“>BuzzFeed
Helena Price / Via bannedproject.com
Banned, a new online photo project that debuts today, looks at the impact of President Trump’s immigration order through the lens of tech workers whose lives have been affected by the ban. The collection features portraits and in-depth interviews with six individuals, like Shahrouz, an Iranian-American product designer for Pinterest, who lives in fear of being separated from his wife and son, and Ruthia, a product designer for Facebook here on a work visa from Beijing, who is worried that Trump’s policy could increase anti-immigrant sentiment among the people around her.
In the interviews, subjects describe a sudden sense of panic following Trump’s order, which is still being debated in court. “I have [US] citizenship, so I think that grants me certain rights, but overnight, people with green cards are no longer able to be in the country,” said Gabriel, a virtual reality product designer at Facebook, who was born in Cuba. He said he has family members who are trying to enter the US stuck in limbo.“Who knows? All these things that we take for granted that we think are like a foundation of security, all those things might be stripped away overnight.”
On January 27, Trump signed an executive order banning refugees and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the US. A few days later, after the ban inspired large protests in the US and caused chaos and confusion at airports around the world, a federal judge issued a nationwide order halting enforcement of both visa and refugee provisions of Trump's order. Since then, a federal appeals court has denied the government’s request to allow it to enforce the order as the case challenging it makes its way through the courts. Late last week, Trump announced plans to soon issue a new executive order to replace his first travel and refugee ban.
Omid, an Iranian citizen here on a green card who used to work for Google and is currently getting his MBA at Stanford, said he felt “humiliated” after living in the US for seven years. “Suddenly I felt degraded as a second-class person in this country.”
Helena Price, the photographer and oral historian behind the project, told BuzzFeed News that the goal of Banned is to fight stereotypes around immigration, which exist even in Silicon Valley, where tech companies have made a big show of disavowing Trump’s executive order. People who have been hurt by the administration’s policies, “might be working next to you at Google or Facebook, but they are secretly dealing with existential crises than most of us can’t even comprehend,” said Price.
Banned is a “special edition” of Techies, Price&039;s larger scale photo project that attracted a lot of media attention when it was released last April. Techies also blended art and activism, featuring portraiture and interviews that focused on groups that typically get excluded from the Silicon Valley narrative, such as women or people of color. Price said that tech companies have used the repository of 100 profiles to recruit speakers and employees. One Google employee even got promoted after the company read her entry, she said.
But Price was dubious about whether Banned could make an impact beyond artistic impression. “I don’t know, to be honest,” she said. “I think at the lowest level it’s really just me sticking to my philosophy that we should always use our skills in a way that elevates those who don’t have the same advantages.”
Compared to other immigrants singled out by Trump’s executive order, tech workers seem to have the support of their employers and more resources at their disposal. Still, said Price, “All of the Silicon Valley privilege in the world can’t help them because of where they’re from. It’s kind of this big equalizer, when you think about it, if suddenly your papers don’t count.”
The lengthy interviews, presented both as text and audio, touch on similar facets of the immigrant experience — the bureaucratic vetting process, the anxiety of hoping to win the visa lottery. Many of the subjects also described the sense of belonging they felt living in the Bay Area before Trump’s immigration order was issued.
“The funny thing is I never … Until two weeks ago, I never even thought of myself as an immigrant,” Omid told Price. “I know I was not an American because I didn&039;t have the citizenship, but I always saw myself as a fully contributing and highly integrated member of the society, paid my taxes, embraced American values, lived the American dream in many ways, and suddenly you get this stamp on you which says you&039;re an immigrant. Not only that, you&039;re also from one of those seven countries we just suddenly decided not to like.”
Shahrouz, the designer from Pinterest, spoke candidly about his reaction to the new administration. “Immediately after Trump was elected, my first thought was, &039;Thank goodness my son looks white,&039; which is a terrible thought to have. There&039;s something psychologically profound about being labeled an enemy even though I have nothing but love for this country and its potential. In the eyes of so many people who don&039;t know me, who don&039;t know my family, just having a bias against us that we would want to hurt them in some way, is troubling at best.”
Quelle: <a href="These Photos Tell The Stories Of Tech Workers Hurt By Trump’s Immigration Order“>BuzzFeed
Today, WhatsApp debuted a new feature: your status updates can now include pictures, videos, and GIFs. Like Stories on Snapchat, they'll also last for just 24 hours. Previously, status updates were text-based and stayed for as long as you left them.
The new version of status updates is rolling out across Europe this week and will likely hit the rest of the world in the weeks soon after, according to WhatsApp.
Sharing status updates was once WhatsApp&039;s only function, but soon after its founding it morphed into a texting app and became one of the most popular messaging services in the world.
As with WhatsApp&039;s text conversations, status updates will be encrypted by default. People in your contacts will be able to see your status updates, though you can select who can and can&039;t see them. You can also send them en masse to individuals with WhatsApp&039;s broadcast feature, which sends the same message to several individual conversations.
The feature looks a lot like Instagram Stories, which looks a lot like Snapchat Stories. WhatsApp status updates mimic the bars at the top of the screen from Instagram Stories, which show how much time is left in the story. Both Instagram and WhatsApp are owned by Facebook.
When asked whether WhatsApp consciously borrowed from Snap, WhatsApp product manager Randall Sarafa said, “I don’t think the format exists in just one app at this point. This is a model that others have contributed to and has been widely adopted, and we adopted it ourselves. It’s groundwork for the things we want people to be able to share.” Unlike Snapchat, WhatsApp does not plan to introduce ads into the new status feature.
Snap Inc may have cause to be worried by increasing competition from other social apps launching features similar to its own. In 2016, its monthly active user growth stagnated in comparison to Instagram Stories and Snow, a Snapchat-esque app that&039;s booming in Asia. Facebook and Messenger have both integrated features similar to Snapchat Stories.
Sarafa said that the timing of the update has nothing to do with Snap&039;s imminent IPO, but rather coincides with WhatsApp&039;s eighth anniversary on February 24.
The update to the status feature, Sarafa said, is the culmination of three things WhatsApp has focused on in the past year. It retooled how the app handles video so that you can play a video right away in the app rather than downloading it; it overhauled the camera in the app to provide a more immediate experience, and it made it possible to send and share GIFs. The new WhatsApp camera feature, which debuted in October 2016, lets you crop, add emoji and text, and draw on photos much in the same way you can on Snapchat.
“These are things we’re seeing people do already,” Sarafa said. “So we don’t want them to have to jump out of our app to do them.
“A lot of our users, especially ones outside the US where there isn’t as much choice, who are spending much of their time in WhatsApp, will find this is a novel way to share media. It doesn’t mean they have to update their WhatsApp status and then do the same thing in another app.”
The messaging app has seen media-sharing explode over the past year among its 1.2 billion users (up from a billion a year ago). Sarafa said that WhatsApp users send 3.3 billion photos per day, double what they did this time last year, and 760 million videos per day, triple last year&039;s amount. Since launching the ability to share GIFs in November, the app&039;s seen that type of sharing increase to 80 million GIFs per day. Overall, people on WhatsApp send 50 billion messages per day.
“Videos are a hard format to deal with when you’ve got such a diverse user base,” Sarafa said. “They&039;re on all kinds of different phones and networks, and videos are inherently larger than photos. It’s a challenge, but it’s an especially rich format.”
Quelle: <a href="WhatsApp&039;s New Status Feature Looks A Lot Like Snapchat Stories“>BuzzFeed
Das neuseeländische Recht wird Kim Dotcom in den USA nicht helfen, wenn er ausgeliefert wird. Wir sprachen mit einem Fachanwalt über den Hintergrund der heutigen Entscheidung des Gerichts. (Kim Schmitz, Internet)
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Ein "Right to Repair" würde Nebraska zu einem Mekka für Hacker machen führte ein Apple-Lobbyist gegenüber einer Parlamentarierin des US-Bundesstaats ins Feld. Der iPhone-Konzern will ein derartiges Gesetz verhindern.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
Amazon CloudWatch introduces Alarms on Dashboards, a new feature that enables customers to bring metrics and alarms together on a dashboard. This new feature can help you stay better informed about important changes in your AWS resources and metrics with more informative dashboards that integrate alarm conditions.
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