ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced Strix XG438Q, the world’s biggest and fastest 4K UHD FreeSync 2 HDR gaming monitor, offering the perfect balance of smooth visuals and high contrast HDR performance for incredibly immersive gameplay. The new display features a 43-inch 4K UHD panel with an astonishing 120Hz refresh rate, high-dynamic-range (HDR) technology with 90% DCI-P3 professional colour gamut coverage and exceptional contrast for DisplayHDR™ 600 certification, plus support for AMD Radeon™ FreeSync™ 2 HDR technology.
Strix XG438Q also includes GameFast Input technology for responsive, lag-free control that heightens gameplay experiences and gives games a vital edge over their opponents.
Big-screen, no-distraction gaming and entertainment in full 4K HDR glory
The standout feature of Strix XG438Q is its vast 43-inch panel, which delivers big-screen gaming and entertainment experience without sacrificing the high- and variable-refresh-rate technologies usually found only in smaller panels.
Strix XG438Q also has a special anti-glare coating to deliver a consistent viewing experience across the display under all types of indoor lighting conditions, enabling the enjoyment of on-screen content without distraction – making the display perfect for everything from fast-action gaming to kicking back to watch a movie.
Ultra-fluid performance for super-smooth gameplay, and superb colour accuracy
Strix XG438Q is loaded with technology to deliver world-leading gaming experiences and superior visual fidelity on a 43-inch display. The ultrafast 120Hz refresh rate, ensures that even the fastest-paced games played at the highest visual settings remain buttery-smooth and completely lag-free. The display also features Radeon™ FreeSync™ 2 HDR technology to render buttery-smooth visuals with low latency and improved brightness and contrast. In particular, FreeSync 2 stipulates low-latency processing for both standard and HDR content, reducing the input lag typically associated with HDR content. ASUS-exclusive GameFast Input technology further reduces input lag, by providing faster motion delivery so gamers are always up to speed with the action – affording them precious extra milliseconds to respond.
Brilliant brightness, contrast and colour accuracy are also cornerstones of Strix XG438Q. The display supports HDR technology across a range of luminance up to 700cd/m2 to deliver a wider colour range and higher contrast than traditional monitors – so the brightest whites and the darkest blacks bring out details like never before. Strix XG438Q also delivers DCI-P3 90% colour gamut and contrast performance that meets the requirement for DisplayHDR™ 600 certification, making it ideal for professional design endeavors.
Ready for kick-back entertainment, with included remote control and integrated speakers
Strix XG438Q’s expansive 4K UHD panel lends itself to enjoyment of all kinds of entertainment, from gaming to television and movies. The included remote control makes it easy to manage the monitor’s output, enabling at-a-distance control of the on-screen display (OSD) to make quick adjustments to brightness, contrast, input source and other settings. The remote zapper also includes volume-control buttons – perfect for fine-tuning the output of Strix XG438Q’s integrated 10W stereo speakers.
AVAILABILITY & PRICING
ASUS ROG Strix XG438Q will be available in Canada in Q3. Please contact your local ASUS representative for further information.
If You Have A Ring Doorbell, Law Enforcement Can Get Video From It Simply By Asking For It
Posted in Commentary with tags Amazon on August 6, 2019 by itnerdA report in GovTech caught my eye this morning as it had news that Amazon is working with police to provide access to video from the popular Ring doorbells simply by having the cops ask for it:
What has raised eyebrows, however, is the company’s push for partnerships with law enforcement agencies across the country, a fact that some feel has allowed police to create informal surveillance networks in hundreds of neighborhoods.
Under Ring partnerships, police are provided with a special portal that allows them to communicate with and request video from community residents.
Amazon offers these partnerships for free, in exchange for the signing of a memo of understanding that has also caused controversy. Critics allege these memos allow Amazon the unprecedented ability to ghostwrite a majority of law enforcement’s press releases about the product, leading to accusations that “Ring is using local police as a de facto advertising firm.”
“What we’re talking about is a private company trying to disrupt the public safety infrastructure of this country in the same way that companies have gone into other parts of our society,” said Dave Maass, senior investigative researcher with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Among other things, Maass sees the product as problematic for both consumer privacy and cybersecurity.
“Information is being collected on people who are just going about their lives. Not necessarily doing anything nefarious, yet they’re having information collected on them anyway,” he said. “By deploying tens of thousands of these cameras in any given community, you’re also creating a very wide surface area for attack [for hackers],” he went on. “We’ve seen over the years that IoT devices — specifically web cameras and CCTV cameras — have proven very rich targets for malicious actors.”
However, here’s the other side of this:
However, he [Tony Botti, public information officer for the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office] noted, there is a workaround if a resident happens to reject a police request. If the community member doesn’t want to supply a Ring video that seems vital to a local law enforcement investigation, police can contact Amazon, which will then essentially “subpoena” the video.
“If we ask within 60 days of the recording and as long as it’s been uploaded to the cloud, then Ring can take it out of the cloud and send it to us legally so that we can use it as part of our investigation,” he said
There’s a whole number of ways that this isn’t good. Privacy for example is at the top of the list. Unauthorized access is second on that list as I would be concerned at someone trolling through videos that a Ring Doorbell records for giggles. But on the other hand, you could make an arrangement that this shouldn’t be an issue because if you have video that could help the cops, any good citizen should want to hand it over. Thus eliminating the need for the cops to troll through your video. In other words, this is a complex issue that likely needs debating in public and Amazon answering some pointed questions before this goes away.
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