Retail can look back on increased sales In November the German retail trade 2020 done good business despite Corona restrictions – at least according to the estimates of the Federal Statistical Office. Including the price increases, retailers would have made 6.5 percent more money in November compared to the same month last year. However, not all retailers should have benefited equally from the development. While the sales of mail order and Internet retailers compared to November 2019 in real terms by 31, 8 percent increased, retailers for textiles, clothing, shoes and leather goods had to lose 20 Percent manage.

The car is dirty and goes to the car wash Developers at the Japanese car company Toyota have devised a method by which a car should be able to determine whether it is ready for the car wash. The patent application states that the data on journeys made is used to examine whether the car has been driving on a dirt road or in snow or rain since it was last washed. Toyota is thinking above all of operators of car sharing with autonomous cars. According to the patent application, the car wash is also connected to the server and washes the car fully automatically.

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Massive disruption in Slack resolved after hours The massive disruption in the Slack office communications service has largely been resolved. More than four hours after the first problems occurred, the US company announced that the service had largely been restored. At first there were still problems with the integration of calendars and other apps. The causes remained unclear. Slack was paralyzed for hours on Monday afternoon European time – just as the first working day of the new year began in many places in the USA. Users had problems logging in and sending messages, among other things.

SoC Snapdragon 480 with 5G and much more power One year after the launch of the Snapdragon 460 chip manufacturer Qualcomm brings the successor Snapdragon 480 for entry-level smartphones. The System-on-a-Chip is making big leaps in many ways. There is the computing power, as far as processor and graphics unit is concerned, but also the cellular network: The Snapdragon 480 transmits in 5G -Netz and should ensure an increasing spread of the standard in the smartphone price range below 31 euros.

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