The Daily Populous

Wednesday August 2nd, 2017 night edition

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Canadian cable companies have ratcheted up their war on piracy by launching a new legal battle.

The effort has already seen Bell, Rogers and Quebecor's Videotron search a Montreal software developer's home and interrogate him for more than nine hours.

"The whole experience was horrifying," says Adam Lackman, founder of TVAddons and defendant in a copyright infringement lawsuit launched by the television giants.

"It felt like the kind of thing you would have expected to have happened in the Soviet Union.".

Now the companies are also targeting Lackman and TVAddons — a library of hundreds of apps known as add-ons.

Vincent Wesley shows off an Android box — a device that has this country's big cable companies very frustrated.

"At this point, there is no choice but to fight," he said in a written statement to CBC News. »

Are women paid less than men for the same work?

Authored by economist.com
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The ensuing furore was less over the absolute level of pay than about the differences between men’s and women’s incomes.

Just over half of the BBC’s staff are men, but among the 96 high earners listed, two-thirds are male.

In a petition, female presenters said this was evidence that women at the BBC are paid less than men “for the same work”. »

IBM scientists have captured 330TB of uncompressed data into a tiny cartridge

Authored by theverge.com

In a new world record, scientists at IBM have captured 330 terabytes of uncompressed data — or the equivalent of 330 million books — into a cartridge that can fit into the palm of your hand.

Areal recording density is the amount of information that can be stored on a given area of surface.

Tape drives were invented over 60 years ago and were traditionally used for archiving tax documents and health care records. »

Bookkeeper of Auschwitz Oskar Groening, 96, declared fit for prison

Authored by metro.co.uk
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Oskar Groening has been declared fit to serve his sentence (Picture: TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images).

A former SS officer known as the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz has been declared fit to go to prison.

Oskar Groening was convicted in July 2015 of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews and sentenced to four years in prison. »