Social media platform Parler was all but wiped off the internet last week, but on Sunday, showed some signs of life. A message from Parler CEO John Matze, first noted by CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan- is now appearing at the site’s URL, with an image showing a “technical difficulties” banner, and a message.
“Now seems like the right time to remind you all — both lovers and haters — why we started this platform. We believe privacy is paramount and free speech essential, especially on social media,” the message reads, pledging to “welcome all of you back soon.”
Amazon dropped Parler from its hosting platform earlier this month, saying in a letter it “cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages or incites violence against others.” Parler was identified as a site where people who participated in the deadly January 6th assault on the Capitol had planned the attack.
The site is now hosted by Epik, as CNN notes, a hosting company that also supports far-right sites such as Gab and 8chan. Amazon’s suspension followed Apple and Google removing Parler’s app from their respective app stores. Matze said even Parler’s lawyers had cut ties.
Parler sued Amazon for cutting off its hosting, and in a response, Amazon detailed some of the graphic, violent threats posted to the site that led to its removal, including posts that called for shooting police officers, killing Black and Jewish people, and assassinations.
Parler launched in 2018, and its user numbers soared after Election Day in the US, as other social platforms tightened their moderation policies. Parler’s its less-strict moderation policies were a draw for many new users.
Parler may have a tough road back to its former state, however, after researchers archived 99 percent of its posts, scraping videos and other data, some with GPS info. That archive was used to create an interactive map of the attack on the Capitol.
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The Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV) wants to make cookie selection banners on the Internet more user-friendly. “Consent to data protection provisions on websites is often unfriendly to consumers – long texts, a lot of small print, complicated browser windows,” said the State Secretary responsible for consumer protection Christian Kastrop of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . As a result, consumers often annoyed and click “Accept”. “We want to make rejecting cookie settings just as easy as giving consent.”
The permanent state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Justice and honorary professor at the FU Berlin Christian Kastrop wants to simplify the rejection of cookies for users.
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Decline should be easier According to agency reports that a spokesman for the ministry confirmed to heise online no new laws are currently planned. Kastrop spoke of manipulation in this context. Even when the query was complicated, consumers often clicked on “Accept”, annoyed, in order to shorten the process. A new law is not planned, the newspaper quoted the State Secretary as saying.
Rather, the ministry is relying on the establishment of a competence center for consumer behavioral research. According to the information, psychologists and economists should work together in it. Corresponding requirements could come from the EU’s privacy directive, which is currently being negotiated, added the spokesman.
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A digital photo frame is a small screen that can sit on your desk in your office or in your kitchen displaying your favorite pictures, changing at regular intervals. The first commercial digital photo frame was introduced in the 1990s shortly after the digital camera. Digital photo frames made a comeback in popularity during 2020, perhaps because people were staying at home more.
In this tutorial, we’ll turn our Raspberry Pi into a digital photo frame using MagicMirror and the GooglePhotos module. Please note, we will skip installation of the 2-way mirror in the original Magic Mirror project. Consider this project, “Magic Mirror, without the mirror.”
What You’ll Need
Any Raspberry Pi 4 or Raspberry Pi 3B+, or the new Raspberry Pi 400. Raspberry Pi Zero W is not supported.
8 GB (or larger) microSD card (see best Raspberry Pi microSD cards) with a fresh install of Raspberry Pi OS with Desktop. Raspberry Pi Lite is not supported.
Power supply/Keyboard/Mouse/Monitor/HDMI Cable (for your Raspberry Pi)
HDMI monitor, 7” Raspberry Pi Touchscreen, or 3.5” or 5” TFT screen.
Stand for your Touchscreen or TFT screen. Here’s one I 3D printed for this project.
Your Gmail account.
Timing: Plan for a minimum of 1 hour to complete this project.
The majority of this tutorial is based on terminal commands. If you are not familiar with terminal commands on your Raspberry Pi, we highly recommend reviewing 25+ Linux Commands Raspberry Pi Users Need to Know first.
Setting up Your Google Photos Album
To get started with this project, you’ll need to set up a Google Photo Album. We suggest that you create a new Photo Album and add 5 to 10 photos. You can add more photos later. The more photos in your album, the longer your Raspberry Pi digital photo frame will take to load.
On your preferred browsers on your existing laptop or desktop computer, navigate to https://photos.google.com/
In the left menu column, click Albums.
ClickCreate Album.
Name your album something easy to remember. I recommend “MagicMirror” for your album name.
Once you have created your album, add 5 to 10 photos to your MagicMirror photo album. You can drag and drop to upload new photos or select from your existing photos to add.
Basic Magic Mirror Install on Raspberry Pi
1. Connect your screen, mouse and keyboard to your Raspberry Pi.
2. Boot your Raspberry Pi. If you don’t already have a microSD card see our article on how to set up a Raspberry Pi for the first time or how to do a headless Raspberry Pi install.
3. Update Raspberry Pi OS. Open a terminal and enter:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
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4. Perform a basic installation of Magic Mirror on our Raspberry Pi with the instructions from the official Magic Mirror page. The commands should execute fairly quickly with npm install taking the longest depending on your Raspberry Pi model and internet speed. On a Raspberry Pi 4 with high speed internet, npm install took approximately 5 minutes to execute.
Your Raspberry Pi screen should now be filled with the default Magic Mirror screen.
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5. Hit Ctrl-M to minimize and return to the Pi desktop.
6. Press Ctrl-C to stop Magic Mirror. This step is necessary to install the module that will show our Google Photos.
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Google Photos Installation on Magic Mirror
1. In the Pi terminal, install the Google Photos module.
cd ~/MagicMirror/modules
git clone https://github.com/eouia/MMM-GooglePhotos.git
cd MMM-GooglePhotos
npm install
2. Open your Chromium browser and navigate to Google API Console. Login with your gmail account credentials. Full Link: https://console.developers.google.com/
3. Create a new project with a name of your choice. I named my project ‘MagicMirror123’.
4. Click ‘+ Create Credentials’ and select ‘OAuth client ID’.
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5. For Authorization Type, select ‘TVs and Limited Input devices’ from the dropdown menu
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6. Click ‘Create’ to create your OAuth client ID.
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7. Click ‘OK’ to return to the main Credentials page for your project.
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8. On the OAuth 2.0 Client ID you just created, click the down arrow to download your credentials.
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9. Open your File Manager from your Raspberry Pi desktop, navigate to Downloads and rename the file you just downloaded from ‘client_secret-x.json’ to ‘credentials.json’.
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10. Move your newly renamed ‘credentials.json’ file to your MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GooglePhotos folder.
11. In your Terminal, run the following command to authenticate your Pi.
cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GooglePhotos
node generate_token.js
12. Select your account when Google prompts you to authorize your device.
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13. Scroll down, click ‘Advanced’ and then ‘Go to MagicMirror (unsafe)’.
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14. Grant MagicMirror permissions on the following screens by clicking ‘Allow’ for each prompt.
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15. Copy your Success code and paste it into your terminal. Press Enter.
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16. Open your File Manager and navigate to /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GooglePhotos or type ‘ls’ in your Terminal (within the MMM-GooglePhotos directory) to view all files. If you see token.json as a file within this folder, you have successfully authorized your device to access your Google Photos.
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17. Open the config.js file for editing in the /home/pi/MagicMirror/config folder.
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18. In your config.js file, comment out all modules except for notifications by adding ‘/*’ before the Clock module and ‘*/’ after the Newsfeed module.
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19. Add the code for MMM-GooglePhotos into the modules section of your config.js file.
{
module: "MMM-GooglePhotos",
position: "fullscreen_above",
config: {
albums: ["MagicMirror"], // Set your album name.
updateInterval: 1000 * 60, // minimum 10 seconds.
sort: "random", // "new", "old", "random"
uploadAlbum: null, // Only album created by `create_uploadable_album.js`.
condition: {
fromDate: null, // Or "2018-03", RFC ... format available
toDate: null, // Or "2019-12-25",
minWidth: null, // Or 400
maxWidth: null, // Or 8000
minHeight: null, // Or 400
maxHeight: null, // Or 8000
minWHRatio: null,
maxWHRatio: null,
},
showWidth: 800, // Set this to the resolution of your screen width
showHeight: 480, // Set this to the resolution of your screen height
timeFormat: "YYYY/MM/DD HH:mm", // Or `relative` can be used.
}
},
20. In the config section of MMM-GooglePhotos, enter the name of the album you created at the beginning of this project in the ‘albums’ parameter.
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21. Set the order in which you wish to view your photos in the ‘sort’ parameter.
New = latest images will display first
Old = images will display from oldest to newest
Random = images will display in random order
22. Set the frequency to change the images in the ‘updateInterval’ parameter. The default is 60 seconds.
23. Set the resolution of the screen that you are using in the parameters ‘showWidth’ and ‘showHeight’. The default resolution for the 7” Raspberry Pi screen is 800 x 480.
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24. Save your changes in config.js.
25. In your terminal, run the command ‘npm run start’ to restart your Magic Mirror. There will be a 30 second or more delay while your Pi pulls images from your Google Photos album. Your Pi will need to stay connected to the internet to display your images.
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26. To stop Magic Mirror, press Ctrl-M followed by Ctrl-C in the terminal. You can continue to make adjustments in your config.js file until you are happy with the way that your images are displayed.
27. At this point, you can start adding more images to your Google Photos album. Your Raspberry Pi Magic Mirror digital photo frame should automatically update with any new images.
Launch Magic Mirror on Boot
If you reboot your Pi, you’ll need to enter the command ‘npm run start’ each time you want to start your digital photo frame. Let’s set our Raspberry Pi to display our digital photo frame on boot.
1. Install PM2 by running the following commands in your Raspberry Pi terminal. PM2 is a daemon process manager to keep your applications running continuously. In this project we will utilize PM2 to continuously run Magic Mirror for our digital photo frame.
sudo npm install -g pm2
pm2 startup
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2. Your terminal will provide the next command. Copy and paste the command into your terminal.
sudo env PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin /usr/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 startup systemd -u pi --hp /home/pi
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3. Create a shell script named mm.sh.
cd ~
nano mm.sh
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4. Within mm.sh enter the commands to start Magic Mirror.
cd ./MagicMirror
DISPLAY=:0 npm start
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5. Press Ctrl-X to exit, ‘y’ to Save mm.sh, and Enter to return to the Terminal.
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6. Make mm.sh an executable file with the chmod command.
chmod +x mm.sh
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7. Start your Magic Mirror with PM2.
pm2 start mm.sh
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Your Magic Mirror should automatically start running again. You can test your auto start functionality with a reboot now.
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Disable Screen Blanking
You may find that after setting up your automatic digital photo frame that your Raspberry Pi screen goes blank after 10 minutes. In this case, you can disable screen blanking.
1. Navigate to the Raspberry Pi Configuration menu. From your Raspberry Pi start menu, click ‘Preferences’ and select ‘Raspberry Pi Configuration’.
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2. Toggle Screen Blanking to Disable on the Display tab. Select the ‘Display’ tab. For ‘Screen Blanking’ select Disable. Click OK.
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Facebook won’t let people create events that take place “in close proximity” to the White House, the US Capitol building, or any state capitol buildings through Inauguration Day, the company announced on Friday. The move builds upon Facebook’s previously announced Inauguration Day preparations aiming to prevent the platform from being used to organize a violent event like the January 6th attack on the US Capitol.
Facebook is also doing a “secondary review” of all inauguration-related events and will remove those that violate the platform’s rules. The company is also continuing a policy that blocks pages and accounts based outside the US from creating events located in the US. That policy was first put in place for the US presidential election.
The company has come under scrutiny for allowing posts promoting and organizing the January 6th riots to spread across Facebook and Instagram, and for ads promoting military equipment that ran alongside content that contained election misinformation and calls for violence, according to BuzzFeed News. Although Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said she believes the riots were “were largely organized on platforms that don’t have our abilities to stop hate,” the company is still stepping up enforcement of its policies and working to remove potentially dangerous content ahead of Inauguration Day.
Accounts that have repeatedly violated Facebook’s policies could be restricted. Those restrictions may include being blocked from creating live videos, events, groups, or pages, according to the company.
Facebook isn’t the only platform trying to prevent Inauguration Day gatherings. Airbnb is blocking and canceling all DC metro area reservations during inauguration week and is banning people who were involved in the January 6th riots.
In the days since that attack, many platforms have taken actions to try and prevent people from organizing another one. Facebook, for example, is now blocking the phrase “stop the steal.” Apple and Google have banned conservative-friendly social app Parler from their app stores, and Amazon has terminated Parler’s hosting, effectively kicking it off the internet.
The Apulian UNESCO heritage site officially becomes a “HoloMuseum”, which can be visited both on site and remotely. The project saw the collaboration of Microsoft and the Ministry of Economic Development who made this innovative digital and cultural experience possible
of Lorenzo Tirotta published on 15 January 2021 , at 21: 11 in the Technology channel Microsoft
In a period of severe restrictions and social distancing, the use of digital has grown exponential in many sectors, especially in the artistic and cultural one. Digital museums and multimedia exhibitions have portrayed and told the peculiarities of the most famous and well-known works in the world. Digitization does not replace the possibility of having to itself the original work but rather it offers an additional and innovative experience , with the aim of promoting the artistic and cultural heritage in an alternative way and making it even more accessible . The latest site to enter the multimedia world is Castel Del Monte , a famous medieval fortress of the thirteenth century commissioned by Frederick II of Swabia. The castle is located inside the Alta Murgia National Park , between the province of Bari and BAT (Barletta, Andria, Trani). The site has become a digital HoloMuseum that can be visited both on site or remotely through mobile devices such as smartphones or PCs, through the oleographic computer HoloLens 2 from Microsoft. The project saw the collaboration of Hevolus Innovation, Infratel and Microsoft which has made available its advanced technologies of Cloud Computing , Artificial intelligence and Mixed Reality to make the realization possible multimedia site.
?? The project carried out for Castel del Monte is the demonstration of how new technologies – AI, Cloud Computing and Mixed Reality ?? strategic levers are important for the growth and innovation of this sector and in general for the enhancement of our artistic and cultural heritage. In fact, a digital transformation process such as this, on the one hand, generates new opportunities for relaunching the territory, in a complex moment where tourism and the cultural sector are severely tested by the health emergency, on the other hand new digital tools allow people to live extraordinary museum experiences and acquire new knowledge through innovative and engaging ways of using them, bringing them even closer to the culture of our country? declared Silvia Candiani, Director Delegate of Microsoft Italy.
Holograms, interviews and multimedia contents, here is the experience of the digital museum
The union between culture and technology represents an important lever for the promotion and revitalization of the natural and artistic heritage, where the tourism and culture sector are severely tested by the health emergency. When the museums reopen, the octagonal fortress can be visited on site in phygital mode . The mode is activated through a dedicated application called MVRGA (Android and iOS), where the user interacts directly with the 3D avatar of Frederick II of Swabia that will accompany the visitor in the various stages of the museum. Along the way you will encounter audio-visual contents on the history of the castle and real interviews with art critics on the different architectural components of the site.
?? From the point of view of tourism, culture has extraordinary power ?? comments Antonella La Notte, CEO of Hevolus Innovation . ?? So we created HoloMuseum, a concept of a phygital museum, which makes the traditional exhibition context evolve into a hybrid exhibition environment by making the world coexist physical and virtual digital content: thanks to Microsoft Extended Reality XR, Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing technologies, visiting a museum or an exhibition can become an amplified, immersive, highly engaging, immediate and interactive experience ??.
All this was possible thanks to a desired collaboration between public institutions, large companies and innovative start-ups such as Hevolus Innovation. In fact, the initiative is part of the project Piazza Wi-Fi Italia , signed between the Ministry of Economic Development, the Puglia Region, the Alta Murgia National Park and Infratel Italia with the aim of create new areas of free Wi-Fi access by installing an internet point near places of cultural interest.
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Bottleneck in chip production slows down car production The shortage of electronic chips for cars causes manufacturers and Suppliers for growing problems. Now Audi will also send approximately 10 in the coming week. 000 Employees in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm on short-time work. In December, Volkswagen reported bottlenecks in semiconductors and applied for short-time work for its plant in Emden, Daimler for production in Bremen, and the global shortage of microchips is also slowing production at the supplier Hella. The reason for the problems is that many chip companies during the car sales slump at the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic in the spring 2020 had switched their production to entertainment electronics.
Facebook is suing Portuguese developers for stolen user data Facebook has filed a lawsuit in Portugal against two developers based there who are said to have stolen user data from Facebook users. The developers are said to have used self-programmed browser extensions that are offered by the company “Oink and Stuff”. These access data such as name, user ID, gender, relationship status, age group and other information without the consent or knowledge of the user. “Web for Instagram plus DM”, “Blue Messenger”, “Emoji Keyboard” and “Green Messenger” should therefore function like spyware. These browser extensions are available for Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Microsoft Edge and at least some of them can still be downloaded.
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Pandemic delayed DisplayPort 2.0 The products with DisplayPort 2.0 originally planned for the end of last year have been delayed. Monitors are being developed, but could not be widely tested as usual due to the coronavirus pandemic. The first DisplayPort 2.0-compliant products should go on sale this year. DisplayPort 2.0 offers more bandwidth and allows higher resolutions of up to 16 K. Alternatively, several high-resolution displays can be controlled one after the other via a cable.
File sharing: US provider has to pay 1 billion dollars The US Internet provider Cox Communications has to pay one billion US dollars to 57 Transfer record companies and music publishers. Customers of the Internet provider have in the years 2013 and 2014 more than 10.000 Pieces of music copied over file sharing networks. Because Cox has not cut off these customers from the Internet despite complaints from the rights holder, the company must now be responsible for the copyright infringements of its customers as a contributor.
Anyone who collects information from many sources on a daily basis needs a tool to manage it. The Devonthink tool for macOS can do that – we’ll show you how.
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Knowledge base and paperless office: Devonthink 3 second memory The Devonthink databases Import or index data Use input groups dates and Record documents Export databases and documents Supported text and file formats Scanned documents make searchable Organize documents and information Use smart functions Find data and use intelligent rules Conclusion and further help with the operation Article in Mac & i 13 / 2020 read Despite the age of digitization, we work today still essentially paper-based. Therefore it makes sense to strive for the “paperless office” just to conserve our resources. The term primarily refers to digital document management. With Devonthink you can conveniently collect fragments of information from the Internet, save entire web content, PDFs, scans of invoices, screenshots and much more. Thanks to the “artificial intelligence” with which it processes documents and inserted content, the program goes far beyond just managing documents.
You could certainly create a suitable folder structure in the Finder and then trust Spotlight search. In the end, however, there is usually a mountain of snippets of information and documents that you can only use with greater effort – provided that you can find what you need again.
The databases of Devonthink With Devonthink you organize your documents in databases. This means, on the one hand, the storage location for documents in the user folder (standard: ~ / databases) and, on the other hand, the location in the program interface where you organize your document inventory. Access to all contents of heise + exclusive tests, advice & background: independent, critically well-founded c’t, iX, Technology Review, Mac & i, Make, c’t Read photography directly in the browser register once – on all devices read – can be canceled monthly first month free, then monthly 9 , 95 € Weekly newsletter with personal reading recommendations from the editor-in-chief Start FREE month Now start the FREE month heise + already subscribed?
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While the setup made for a rough start, and the extra cost for security is annoying, these nuisances are largely forgotten with the granular control of prioritization for network traffic that can truly optimize gaming in a congested network environment.
For
DumaOS 3.0
Network congestion control
Supports Wi-Fi 6
Integration with the smartphone app
Against
Single USB port
Only four 10/100/1000 wired ports
Security requires additional subscription
High price
Setup drudgery
Netgear offers a full variety of networking gear, including its Nighthawk Pro Gaming line of routers and accessories. At the top of this product stack is the XR1000, which boasts the latest version of the company’s DumaOS which is 3.0. We go hands-on to see if the cost of $349 is justified for this piece of premium networking hardware, or if most gamers should look for something more affordable.
Design
The XR1000 is designed to sit horizontally on a shelf or table, with four positionable, external antennas and no internal antennas. It strikes a good balance of showing its gaming intentions with its tasteful red accents while avoiding the over-the-top gaming look with flashing RGB lights that can turn off some adult gamers (or adult gamers will just turn off). There are some white LED indicator lights roughly arranged in a “V” on the top of the device.
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The router’s dimensions are 11.61 x 7.87 x 2.51 inches (295 x 200 x 64 mm) with a weight of 1.32 lb (600 g).
Specifications
Processor
1.5GHz Triple-Core processor
Memory
256MB flash and 512MB RAM
Ports
Five (5) 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit Ethernet ports – 1 WAN & 4 LAN
Encryption
802.11i, 128-bit AES encryption with PSK
Wi-Fi Technology
WiFi 6 (802.11ax) Dual Band WiFi (AX5400)
Beamforming: Explicit Beamforming for 2.4 & 5GHz bands
1024-QAM—25% data efficiency and faster speeds than a 256-QAM router
Dimensions
11.61 x 7.87 x 2.51 in (295 x 200 x 64 mm)
Weight
814.5 g
Price
$349.00
At the heart of the XR1000 is a 1.5 GHz triple-core processor, with 512 MB of RAM and 256 MB of flash storage. These specs are certainly solid, but hardly class-leading among high-end gaming routers. The rear of this router houses the essential connections, which include a single USB port, a WAN port with four LAN ports that are all Gigabit Ethernet. However, there are no 2.5 Gig LAN ports, which would be a nice bit of future-proofing given the price. There is also a physical, on/off toggle switch, and a recessed reset button.
The wireless for the XR1000 gets designated as Wi-Fi 6, with 5.4 Gbps throughput. This corresponds to dual-band Wi-Fi, with 2.4 GHz speeds of up to 600 Mbps, and 5 GHz speeds that max out at 4.8 Gbps. There is also Beamforming available on both bands to optimize reception to the client.
Setup
Getting the XR1000 up and running is a bit of a stumbling block. It starts with downloading the Netgear Nighthawk app for your smartphone, then following the prompts to connect the router for initial setup. It requires the creation of a Netgear account with security credentials, which is done through the phone and takes additional time. Furthermore, during setup we somehow got locked out of the account and had to go through the drudgery of the lost password sequence to get back into setup.
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Once back into the account, the setup proceeded more smoothly. We appreciate that the setup included a step that upgraded the firmware to the latest, an important step to avoid security vulnerabilities and get the latest bug fixes. The XR1000 also does a bandwidth test, which provides the actual throughput, and then subsequently gets used for divvying up the bandwidth.
Features
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The XR1000 has as one of its highlights, the DumaOS, which is now at version 3.0. You may recall that this is the nifty OS that debuted in the NetDuma R1 from the UK that made claims that it could “dominate lag,” however the original hardware seriously held it back. Now, Netgear has taken this software and put it into updated hardware for the best of both worlds.
From a gaming perspective, there are two levels of control when it comes to the DumaOS and the important QoS that can prioritize gaming traffic. The first is what the DumaOS dubs as ‘Congestion Control’ which can be set to Always, Never, and Auto-Enable. This lets the router analyze data packets so that the time-sensitive ones, namely gaming and streaming content, can be prioritized over other content for a better experience.
There is another level of control, called ‘Bandwidth Allocation’ that allows types of traffic, with categories including Gaming, File sharing, VoIP, Web, among others, to be designated a specific amount of bandwidth. This allows specific granular control to ensure that each activity can get the minimal bandwidth it needs, and is controlled separately on both the upload and the download side of the equation.
Security
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The security for the XR1000 is provided by Netgear Armor. Annoyingly, it cannot be activated from the router’s web-based interface, but rather needs to be turned on from the Nighthawk app. To add insult to injury, it’s only a free one-month trial. The subscription includes Bitdefender Security, which may not be the best value as Bitdefender offers a free tier with its Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition. There is also a promise of 35% off the Netgear Armor security package, but annoyingly the $69.99 price is not indicated until you get to the webpage to pay.
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Much of the security goes through the Netgear Armor app. It provides a report that includes a security score, an assessment for vulnerabilities, and a running tab of the threats blocked. From the app, a firmware upgrade can also be triggered.
Performance
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On the bandwidth testing with NetPerf, the XR1000 put up some solid scores, with 2.4 GHz throughput at 214.6 Mbps on the near test (8 feet), although it drops off to 158.4 Mbps on the far test (30 feet). The 5 GHz speeds remained more consistent as the distance increased, from 845.3 Mbps when near, with minimal penalty at the further distance, at 812.5 Mbps.
Testing Configuration
QoS
FRAPS avg
max
8k dropped frames
Pingplotter spikes (>100 ms)
Latency (ms)
Ethernet
no
110.6
142
n/a
0
183
Ethernet + 10 8k videos
no
57.3
95
25.30%
14
188
Ethernet + 10 8k videos
Gaming priority 50%
112.1
136
18.10%
3
183
5 GHz
no
115.2
137
n/a
0
64
5 GHz + 10 8k videos
no
95.5
135
59.60%
0
185
5 GHz + 10 8k videos
Gaming priority 50%
115.1
147
37.70%
0
186
2.4 GHz + 10 8k videos
Gaming priority 50%
60
112
29.50%
20
179
On our network congestion testing, the XR1000 was able to show the value of the DumaOS 3.0. When wired to an Ethernet port for a baseline, our game of Overwatch posted a healthy 110.6 FPS with no PingPlotter spikes (>100 milliseconds) seen during gameplay. We then congested our Internet connection (Optimum cable connection, DOCSIS 3.0, 300 Mbps down, 35 Mbps up), with a total of ten streaming 8K videos on YouTube. Not surprisingly, the FPS on Overwatch dropped considerably to 57.3, along with 14 PingPlotter spikes, and the video dropped 25.3% of the frames. We then applied the Congestion Control on auto-play, and allocated 50% of the bandwidth on both upload and download to Gaming traffic. With the same ten videos playing, the Overwatch FPS was restored fully to 112.1, with the 8K video dropped frame rate lowered modestly to 18.1%.
A similar, albeit less-dramatic effect was demonstrated with the application of QoS on the 5 GHz wireless gaming as well.
Bottom Line
The NetGear XR1000 is an intriguing entry into the higher-end gaming router market. Misses range from the buggy setup that requires a smartphone app, the extra cost for router-based security, and the less-than-stellar hardware specs. However, the pros do include the powerful DumaOS 3.0 that allows for fine-tuning of the network to prioritize traffic, as well as Wi-Fi 6 with Beamforming. While this XR1000 may not be for everyone, gamers that want a true gaming router with granular controls rather than colorful lights should put this on their shortlist of products for consideration.
When Napster was founded in the year 1999 , nobody suspected that the music exchange would turn the industry upside down. What started out as a small project quickly developed into the starting point for free music. Although the consumers liked this, the artists received nothing. So the musicians went to court and have since tried to legally expel the illegal downloads from the Internet. That this is hardly crowned with success even after 20 years And even today there are still a large number of illegal music files to be found on the Internet, seems to be irrelevant . Overall, 57 labels and publishers sued the provider. The reason for this was that the service provider 1999 and 2014 has not prevented the copying of pieces of music. Despite complaints from the copyright owners, the company did not block the responsible pages. As a result of this, Cox Communications for a total of 10. 017 illegally downloaded pieces of music receive compensation of one billion US dollars.
The judges would also have had the option of setting a maximum amount of up to 150. 000 US dollars to be imposed per violation. However, this has apparently been disregarded. The ISP can currently still appeal and contest the imposed penalty. It remains to be seen whether this will succeed.
Cox Communications got off lightly despite the large sum. Had the full fine been imposed, the company would have to pay over $ 1.5 billion to rightsholders.
Who is the best operator in the area Italian for network quality? According to Altroconsumo it is Vodafone! Download speed, upload speed, video viewing quality and website browsing quality with these parameters outlined the best network of the moment. Here are the details.
by Bruno Mucciarelli published 15 January 2021 , at 12: 21 in the Telephony channel Vodafone TIM Iliad WindTre
Vodafone’s GigaNetwork is the best mobile network in Italy, at least according to the results that Altroconsumo carried out with its own tests on download and upload speed but also internet browsing and video streaming. Vodafone, in fact, obtained the highest average score in the latest national ranking of ” Che Banda ”, the Altroconsumo app, which analyzed the performance of the main operators on 3G, 4G and 5G networks (where present). For the third year in a row, Vodafone’s GigaNetwork confirms the best network in Italy according to Altroconsumo with WindTre now closer, always second, but capable of overtaking even TIM.
Vodafone in first place: here is the ranking
The overall judgment, deriving from the results of the 4 speed and quality tests , for the twelve months of 2020 , tells us that the ranking of operators sees Vodafone with 18. 988 always point to first place, followed by WindTre (18. 269) that overrides TIM (16.989) is Iliad (15. 0 16), which remains in the rear with an overall score of 14. 897 points. In this case, the score is attributed to each operator and is the total that the algorithm calculates taking into account the results obtained in all the tests (download speed, upload speed, internet browsing and movie viewing). Specifically, it is an index given by the ratio between the two speed tests (download and upload calculated in kbit / s) and the two quality tests (calculated as a percentage of viewing and browsing without delays).
Looking at all the other data that the app CheBanda di Altroconsumo is known as the quality worsened during the months of lockdown and then to have a recovery, until September, and a subsequent new decline with a slight downward trend. This means that the quality of the network travels simultaneously with the trend of the restrictive measures implemented to contain the infections and the reasons can be substantially two:
A greater use of the mobile network by everyone with a consequent increase in traffic which affects the speed of the network itself.
Greater use of the mobile network indoors where, compared to open places, there are worse results in terms of performance.
On the other hand, looking at the data regarding the download speed, you immediately notice that there is a perfect correlation between the overall judgment and the download speed : this pe because the other parameters involved in the formula to obtain the overall judgment (upload speed, viewing quality and browsing quality) do not vary so widely from operator to operator.
New algorithm to calculate the performance of the last ones 12 months:
Download speed . The time required to download a file of a certain size is calculated.
Upload speed . The time required to send a file of a certain size is calculated.
Video viewing quality . With this test it is possible to verify the time needed to start the reproduction of a video and its possible interruptions or errors.
Quality of browsing on websites . With the test it is possible to verify the opening of a list of internet pages in an integrated browser by evaluating whether the page opens correctly or not and the time required.
Yesterday at 18: 18 Polish time Blue Origin sent on its first suborbital flight an improved New Shepard capsule. This is another test of the spacecraft for astronauts, the development of which is the responsibility of the company of the founder of Amazon.com – Jeff Besos. The company clearly aims to create a solution that allows tourist flights to orbit. This is nothing but the growing competition for the SpaceX project. Elon Musk should not underestimate the serious player who, as can be seen from the title information, takes the matter seriously and achieves success in this field. What exactly was yesterday’s Blue Origin New Shepard test flight to check and can we talk about the full success of the process stage?
The creator of Amazon’s power, Jeff Besos, specifically his company Blue Origin, took another step towards popularizing tourist flights. The New Shepard capsule made another test flight focused on crew amenities.
SpaceX: We will fly to Mars and the Moon straight from the sea platform
We live in amazing times, in which all the technology that surrounds us significantly and really increases the comfort of life human. Convenience, security and entertainment are not all that today’s world offers us. Giants-innovators work on a variety of solutions dedicated to various aspects of life. This also applies to traveling. Tourism may see enormous changes in the coming years. Soon, instead of intercontinental travel, we will fund “space trips”, which SpaceX and Blue Origin are working on.
SpaceX, Blue Origin and OneWeb: the future of the cosmic Internet
The latter company sent yesterday modernized manned tourist flights and the safety of passengers, the New Shepard capsule in flight along a sub-orbital trajectory. At its peak, an altitude of approximately 105 km was reached. The reusable rocket returned to the ground and landed smoothly. It was similar with the New Shepard capsule itself (RSS First Step), but here parachutes were used. This is another success of Blue Origin, a company that simply strives to make tourist space flights available to everyone.
Due to the pandemic situation, it is not possible to hold a JavaLand conference on site in Phantasialand in March. Therefore, the JavaLand team decided to release this year’s edition on 16. and 17. March as a two-day online conference.
Far more than 100 Lectures The conference program has been online since mid-December. The participants expect around 120 online lectures in eight lecture streams on all important topics from the Java area. An online conference tool is available for participation over the Internet. The organizers attach great importance to maintaining personal exchange and the interactive lecture experience as much as possible. In this way, the participants should be able to experience the event easily and comfortably from home or the office.
With an online ticket, visitors have access to all lectures at the conference. After the conference, all lecture recordings and materials will be made available to them. Chat functions and interactive features should also offer the exchange with participants and speakers as well as the possibility of direct feedback.
Early bird prices until February 4th The ticket shop for the JavaLand conference has also been open for a long time. The early bird conditions apply until February 4th 2021: An online 2-day ticket costs until then 320 Euro instead of 420 Euro (plus 19 % VAT).
Further information can be found on the conference website. The program with more than a hundred lectures is available in the conference planner.
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