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Logitech’s new webcam has a neat built-in privacy shutter

The Brio 500 is still 1080 but with a better design

Logitech’s Brio 500 is a new webcam with a compact design that features a neatly integrated physical privacy shutter and a “Show Mode” designed to broadcast what’s on your desk. It’s 1080p rather than 4K, the same as Logitech’s classic C920 webcam. It’s going on sale this month for $129 alongside a new Bluetooth headset called the Zone Vibe 100, which will retail for $99.99.

The Brio 500 has a cylindrical design, with its 4-megapixel camera flanked by a pair of beamforming microphones that are designed to reduce background noise during calls. The privacy shutter design is pretty slick and can be brought down by turning a dial on the right side of the webcam. Showing off your desk is achieved by “tilting the camera angle towards the desk,” according to Logitech.

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Viral internet documentary series Channel 5 is getting the HBO treatment

Internet documentary series Channel 5 has taken viewers to gross pick-up artist conventions, Miami Beach during spring break, and Ukraine shortly after Russia’s invasion of the country.

Now, it’s clear the popular show has gotten the attention of the film industry and executives at more established entities. HBO has acquired Channel 5’s dispatch from the January 6th insurrection, Variety reports, and A24 is producing the documentary. Andrew Callaghan, who’s fashioned himself as a gonzo journalist-type figure while hosting the Channel 5 videos, will serve as director and executive producer of the documentary, along with Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim of Tim & Eric. The film will follow Callaghan’s “wild RV journey through America in the months leading up to the January 6 Capitol Riot,” according to Variety.

The small Channel 5 team travels around the country, documenting both bizarre gatherings and timely news events. One week, they’re in the parking lot of a Phish concert; the next, Callaghan is interviewing insurrectionists in prison. The creators also have a widely popular Patreon account, where subscribers pay to access exclusive content and support Channel 5 operations. The channel has more than 2 million subscribers on YouTube and more than 500,000 Instagram followers.

Creators breaking into more traditional industry spaces isn’t totally new. Viral TikTok songs have originated on the app only to soon start playing on the radio and pop up on the Billboard Hot 100. And earlier this year, The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical, created first on TikTok, won a Grammy — the first such project to do so. But Channel 5 inking a deal with HBO is still interesting, with Callaghan occupying a space at the intersection of content creator, independent journalist, and now, filmmaker with backing from major entertainment companies.

“I think I provide a gateway to engagement with reporting for people who don’t watch the news,” Callaghan told Nieman Lab earlier this year. “People who don’t watch the news watch me. People who watch the news don’t watch me.”

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Umwelt

Here’s how much energy crypto mining gobbles up in the US

The Biden administration has ideas about how to stop the industry from burning through so much energy

Crypto industry operations in the US use about as much electricity as all of the nation’s home computers combined, according to a report released today by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The report paints the clearest picture yet of what crypto operations are costing both power grids and the environment in the US. It also lays out some potential actions the Biden administration could take to address these challenges.

Democratic lawmakers in particular have been worried about whether the crypto industry that has exploded in the US over the past year might derail climate goals. And as extreme weather pushes power grids to their limits across the US, there’s growing concern that the most electricity-hungry cryptocurrencies could put even more strain on already vulnerable energy systems.

Burning through that much electricity generates greenhouse gas emissions that are heating up the planet.

Crypto asset operations use between 0.9 and 1.7 percent of the US’s total electricity use, according to the new report. And burning through that much electricity generates greenhouse gas emissions that are heating up the planet. Crypto asset activity in the US is responsible for about as much greenhouse gas pollution as all the diesel fuel used on the nation’s railroads, the report says. That’s 25 to 50 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, or 0.4 to 0.8 percent of total US greenhouse gas emissions.

The data in the report includes cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and other tokens using blockchain technologies. But there’s one particular technology that’s driving most of these challenges: it’s a kind of security system called proof of work that currently underpins the largest cryptocurrency networks: Bitcoin and Ethereum.

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Technologie

Everyone knows what YouTube is — few know how it really works

Mark Bergen is the author of a new book about YouTube called Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination.

YouTube has always been fascinating to me because it’s such a black box — everyone feels like they know how the platform works, but very few people have a real understanding of the internal politics and tradeoffs that actually drive YouTube’s decisions. Mark’s book is one of the best of its kind I’ve read — not only does he take you inside the company, but he connects the decisions made inside YouTube to the creators who use the platform and the effects it has on them.

Keep in mind that for as little as we might know about YouTube, we might know even less about TikTok, which is driving all sorts of platforms, even YouTube, into competing with it.

This is a fun one. Okay, Mark Bergen, author of Like, Comment, Subscribe. Here we go.

Mark Bergen is a tech reporter at Bloomberg and the author of the new book, Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination. Welcome to Decoder.

Thanks for having me, Nilay.

I’m excited to talk to you. We have known each other for a long time. I think this is the first time we have done something here.

My first debut. Long-time listener, first-time caller.

Well, the book is great. I think it’s one of my favorites of its kind in quite some time. There is a lot of reporting in it and a lot of insight into how YouTube operates from a variety of different perspectives. Most importantly, there are a lot of perspectives from the creator community at YouTube that round out how these decisions affect a lot of people, both from the creator perspective and the audience perspective. First of all, congratulations on the book. It’s great.

Yeah, thanks. I really appreciate it. Thanks for reading it.

It’s my job, but I think the listener should read it too, in a non-professional capacity.

I hope you were entertained at least somewhat non-professionally as well.

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Gesellschaft

Rassistische Gewalt wurde zum Argument!

Vor dreissig Jahren setzte in Rostock ein Mob ein Haus voller Migrant:innen in Brand. Historiker Patrice Poutrus über das Gedenken daran als Verdrängungsversuch.

WOZ: Herr Poutrus, Sie haben verfolgen können, wie aus dem Pogrom von Rostock-Lichtenhagen ein Gedenkereignis wurde. Wie war die zurückliegende Woche für Sie?

Patrice Poutrus: Ich war darauf zwar ­einigermassen vorbereitet, trotzdem haben mich diese Tage des Erinnerns stark mit­genommen. Nach einer Podiumsdiskussion zu dem Pogrom habe ich einige Stunden gebraucht, um mich wieder zu beruhigen. Das hatte vor allem damit zu tun, dass wir über weiterhin ungelöste Konflikte in der deutschen Gesellschaft gesprochen haben.

Was meinen Sie damit?

Die Entwicklungen von 1992 und 1993 waren ein Angebot an weite Teile der deutschen Gesellschaft für innere Einheit – jenseits von Menschenwürde und Verpflichtung zu humanitärer Hilfe. Der imaginierten Abstammungsgemeinschaft der weissen Deutschen wurde ein elementarer Vorrang eingeräumt. Für Leute wie mich – Black and People of Color und Mi­grant:in­nen – wurde klar, dass man in diesem Land strukturell gefährdet ist, was sich in Ereignissen wie dem Pogrom und der daraus folgenden Schleifung des Asylrechts zeigte. Diese Zeit hat meine Haltung zur Bundesrepublik, genauer gesagt zur Berliner Republik, entscheidend definiert. Interessanterweise wurde nun der Zusammenhang zwischen rassistischer Gewalt und Verfassungsänderung in den Medien nur partiell thematisiert. Ich habe den Eindruck, dass um den Jahrestag herum versucht wurde, einen bedingungslosen Versöhnungsprozess einzuleiten – und das finde ich hochgradig problematisch.

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Allgemein

Klar und gut lesbar – und endlich für alle

Viele Websites sind schlecht zugänglich für Menschen mit Behinderungen. Das ist fatal, denn ein barrierefreies Netz nützt allen.

Zürich, vor einigen Tagen. Gianfranco Giudice sitzt vor dem Computer und versucht, die WOZ zu lesen. Eine Computerstimme sagt: «Rausch-und-sex-im-lazarett-anmelden-abonnieren-app-laden.» Sie spricht rasend schnell. Giudice lacht und sagt, er habe den Screenreader bewusst langsam eingestellt, damit auch Ungeübte etwas verstehen. Der Screenreader ist ein spezielles Programm für Blind­e, das vorliest, was auf dem Bildschirm zu sehe­n ist. Und Giudice ist blind. Normalerweise lässt er das Vorleseprogramm so schnell laufen, dass Sehend­e nur Kauderwelsch hören.

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Allgemein

Falsch abgebogen

Europa will weg von der Abhängigkeit von russischem Gas. Doch statt den überfälligen ökologischen Umbau einzuleiten, setzt die EU auf Flüssiggas.

Für einmal durfte der deutsche Wirtschaftsminister Robert Habeck (Grüne) am Sonntag gute Nachrichten verbreiten: Die Gasspeicher Deutschlands füllen sich schneller als erwartet, das Speicherziel für Oktober von 85 Prozent dürfte bereits jetzt, Anfang September, erreicht werden. Ein Blick in die offiziellen Gasspeicherstatistiken zeigt zudem, dass auch fast alle weiteren europäischen Länder ähnlich hohe Füllstände aufweisen, einzig Lettland hinkt deutlich hinterher.

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Umwelt

Sicher ist nur das Risiko

In diesen Tagen gibt die Nagra bekannt, wo sie den radioaktiven Müll begraben möchte. In den drei möglichen Regionen im Aargau und im Kanton Zürich gibt es seit langem einen organisierten Widerstand. Begegnungen mit Aktivist:innen in den drei Landschaften.

Unter dem Eindruck der Nuklearkatastrophe von Fukushima strebte der Bundesrat 2011 den schrittweisen Ausstieg aus der Atomenergie an. Parlament und Stimmbevölkerung folgten ihm. Seit 2018 werden keine neuen Atomkraftwerke bewilligt.

Just diese Woche startete nun aber ein bürgerliches Kommitee die Unterschriftensammlung für die Initiative «Jederzeit Strom für alle, Blackout stoppen!». Diese verlangt die Aufhebung eben dieses Verbots. Auch als angeblich probates Mittel gegen die Klimaerhitzung erlebt die hochgefährliche Technologie eine Renaissance. In den USA lassen die Milliardäre Bill Gate­s und Warren Buffett den Prototyp eines neuartigen Reaktors bauen; kleinere Kraftwerke sollen sicherer sein und weniger radioaktiven Abfall hinterlassen. Auch China investiert in die Weiterentwicklung dieser Technologie. Befür­worter:in­nen der Atomkraft glauben, in zehn bis zwanzig Jahren sei diese neue Reaktorgeneration «marktreif».

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