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As French taxi drivers protest, UberBoat arrives in Istanbul as on-demand ferry

As taxi drivers across France  protested  UberPop in several cities nationwide, on the other side of Europe, Uber quietly launched UberBoat in Istanbul on Thursday. Uber As the name implies, the service allows people to summon boats to ferry them across the Bosphorous Strait, the waterway separating the European and Asian sides of Turkey’s largest city. Uber is working with an existing boat company, Navette-Tezman Holding , to provide the maritime service. According to Bloomberg , public ferries currently serve roughly 20 different routes and are quite affordable to most locals at the price of 2.15 Turkish lira (81¢) per ride. Read 2 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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AMD Fury X reviews show strong 4K performance, but doesn’t beat 980 Ti overall

The first reviews for AMD’s top-of-the-line Radeon R9 Fury X —which sports the first iteration of stacked High Bandwidth Memory (HMB)  and a huge 8.9-billion-transistor Fiji GPU—have landed, showing performance almost as good as the identically priced Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti. While that not might be the total landslide AMD fans might have been hoping for, the Fury X is the first time in a long time that AMD has been competitive with Nvidia at the high-end: not just in terms of price, but  performance as well. Naturally, there are some caveats to the Fury X’s performance, the biggest being that at 1080p resolution it’s easily beaten out by the GTX 980 Ti, and in some cases even the GTX 980. That’s not too surprising given the Fury X’s focus on memory bandwidth, which comes into play when larger textures are being shuffled in and out of memory. That said, it’s unlikely anyone buying a £550/$650 graphics card is looking to play at 1080p (unless they’re into 100 FPS and higher gaming). At 1440p and 4K resolutions the Fury X more than holds its own. Over at Tom’s Hardware , the site found the Fury X bested the GTX 980 Ti and Titan X running Far Cry 4 at 1440p by around 10 FPS, with a similar lead in the game at 4K. Performance at 4K is definitely a high point for the Fury X, where in games like The Witcher 3, Metro Last Light, and Shadow of Mordor , it beat the Nvidia cards. But in Grand Theft Auto V , it was the GTX 980 Ti that was faster at both 1440p and 4K. This was a theme across the reviews of most sites, with the two cards trading blows across a range of games. Read 7 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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Airplanes grounded in Poland after hackers allegedly attack flight plan computer

Around 1400 passengers at Warsaw’s Chopin (Okecie) airport in Poland were grounded on Sunday after hackers allegedly attacked the computer system used to issue flight plans to the airplanes. The source of the attack isn’t yet known. The alleged hack targeted LOT, the state-owned flag-carrying Polish airline. Reuters is reporting that the attack took place on Sunday afternoon, and was fixed about five hours later. 10 LOT flights were cancelled and about a dozen more were delayed, according to a LOT spokesman. The spokesman didn’t provide any details of what had actually occurred, though he did give away this one tantalising morsel: “We’re using state-of-the-art computer systems, so this could potentially be a threat to others in the industry.” The spokesman said that flights that were already in the air were not affected by the hack and could land normally. Also, the hack didn’t affect the airport itself; it was just the LOT computers. Read 3 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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Sprint stops throttling heavy users to avoid net neutrality complaints

Sprint has stopped throttling its heaviest data users, even when its network is congested, to avoid potential violations of the Federal Communications Commission’s new net neutrality rules that ban throttling. Instead, Sprint will manage congestion with a policy aimed at giving all customers a solid connection to the network. “Sprint said it believes its policy would have been allowed under the rules, but dropped it just in case,”  The Wall Street Journal reported . “Sprint doesn’t expect users to notice any significant difference in their services now that we no longer engage in the process,” Sprint told the newspaper. Read 18 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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California Lifeguards Get Drone, Instantly Spot 10-12 Great Whites

Orange County’s Seal Beach is a popular spot for swimmers and surfers, so its lifeguards figured they’d use a camera drone to keep a better eye on them. But what they saw instead was “10 to 12 great white sharks just feet from shore.” Read more…

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AMD unveils R9 Fury X, Fury, and Nano graphics cards

25 more images in gallery There’s not one, not two, but three brand new high-end graphics cards on the way from AMD. As rumoured, AMD is dropping the numerical branding and is instead grouping its top cards under the “Fury” banner. All are based on its new Fiji chip, which is a tweaked version of the company’s long-standing GCN architecture, and—as expected—all will come equipped with 4GB of stacked, on-package high bandwidth memory (HBM). The flagship is the $649 R9 Fury X, which launches on June 24. At that price, it is pitched directly against Nvidia’s GTX 980 Ti . It features 4096 stream processors—a huge jump over the 2816 stream processors found in the R9 290X—”up to” 1050MHz core clock, 256 texture units, 64 ROPs, HBM memory with 512 GB/s of bandwidth, a 67.2 GP/s pixel fill rate, and a six-phase VRM (voltage regulator module), which AMD claims is ideal for overclocking the card. We don’t yet have UK pricing, but it’ll probably be around £550. Despite using two 8-pin power connectors, the Fury X’s power consumption isn’t as high as some feared: the TDP is 275W, just a tad higher than the R9 290X’s, although it’s worth bearing in mind that in real-world usage, the R9 290X was much closer to 300W. The Fury X supports up to 375W of power for overclocking. Read 7 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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EA at E3: Star Wars Battlefront, Mirror’s Edge reboot, and new IP Unravel

23 more images in gallery LOS ANGELES—At its pre-E3 presentation, EA revealed an orgy of games, though there only appeared to be one truly original IP: an adorable puzzle-platformer called Unravel . Throughout the 90-minute presentation, a few games stood out. Need For Speed , powered by Frostbite 3, looks truly sensational. In the words of an EA exec, “Frostbite will make you question whether it’s real, or in-game,” and we have to admit, there was one sequence that really did look like live-action actors, despite the fact that it was apparently “pre-alpha footage.” Need For Speed is arriving on November 3. EA also announced a new expansion for the free-to-play MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic , dubbed Knights of the Fallen Empire . It’s due on October 27 and will be free to subscribers. Read 8 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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Stuxnet spawn infected Kaspersky using stolen Foxconn digital certificates

Some of the malware that infected the corporate network of antivirus provider Kaspersky Lab concealed itself using digital certificates belonging to Foxconn, the electronics manufacturing giant and maker of the iPhone, Xbox, and other well-known products. Cryptographically generated credentials are required to install drivers on newer, 64-bit versions of Windows. Foxconn used one such certificate when installing several legitimate drivers on Dell laptop computers in 2013. Somehow, the attackers who infected the Kaspersky Lab network appropriated the digital seal and used it to sign their own malicious drivers. As Ars explained last week, the drivers were the sole part of the entire Duqu 2.0 malware platform that resided on local hard drives. These drivers were on Kaspersky firewalls, gateways, or other servers that had direct Internet access and were used to surreptitiously marshal sensitive information in and out of the Kaspersky network. Not the first time The Foxconn certificate is the third one used to sign malware that has been linked to the same advanced persistent threat (APT) attackers. The Stuxnet malware, which reportedly was developed by the US and Israel to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program, used a digital certificate from Realtek, a hardware manufacturer in the Asia Pacific region. A second driver from Jmicron, another hardware maker in the Asia Pacific, was used several years ago to sign Stuxnet-related malware developed by some of the same engineers. Like the previous two certificates, the one belonging to Foxconn had never been found signing any other malicious software. Read 9 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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Hands-on with YouTube Gaming—Google built itself a Twitch Killer

NEW YORK—YouTube Gaming is coming! YouTube’s Twitch Killer was announced on Friday , so we stopped by the YouTube Space in Manhattan to try out a pre-release version of the service. (And we took a  ton of screenshots, see below.) YouTube says the service will launch “this summer”—it’s kind of “this summer” right now— and sure enough, the version we tried out seemed 99% finished. We spent most of our time with the desktop website, and we weren’t even on a developer sandbox—it was just the live gaming.youtube.com site with a properly-flagged account. Let’s get started! The Interface Ron Amadeo An open live stream, complete with chat. It’s Twitch! Note the “-1:43” tooltip: you can rewind the stream! 3 more images in gallery In its blog post, YouTube neglected to show the most important screenshot: the live streaming video page, so that was the first place we explored. The live video page is an all-dark interface with a large video player and a tabbed interface to the right. The tabs house chat, the typical YouTube related videos list (which should be great for discovery), and a description tab. Read 27 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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Virgin America upgrades inflight entertainment system with Android, SSDs

Virgin America’s inflight entertainment system Red was already something of a technical marvel , at least compared to offerings from other airlines. Sporting 9-inch, 1024×600 pixel resolution touch screens, USB ports, power outlets, Ethernet sockets, and a custom Linux-based OS, Red gave the airline industry a serious kick when it launched in 2007. But the competition is heating up, and with Emirates and Singapore Airlines taking the top spots for inflight entertainment last year, Virgin America has decided that it’s time for a upgrade. Enter the latest version of Red, this time built on a new Android-based based platform, which the airline is planning to beta test on 18 aircraft by the end of the year. The Red beta makes use of Panasonic’s latest Eco V2 inflight system (the current version of Red also runs on Panasonic hardware), which pairs a 9-inch (or 11-inch) 720p capacitive touch screen with the company’s latest Android-based software. The screens will also sport integrated audio jacks, USB sockets, and a credit card reader, and decode HD video at 720p. Panasonic says it’s offering out software development kits to airlines, including a rack simulator, example code, developer tools, and a custom API. Virgin America claims that using Android will make the system easier to maintain and upgrade. With many developers already intimately familiar with Google’s OS, the airline should have an easier time adding new services to the platform. The first of those new services to hit the beta are new games, including retro classics like Atari’s Asteroids and Pac-Man , as well as an upgraded interactive map that finally recognises pinch and swipe gestures. Read 2 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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