Laender want more accessibility in the media For people with a disability, media content should be more accessible according to the will of the federal states will. The federal states are therefore already striving for an initial amendment to the new Interstate Media Treaty signed in April. For the first time there should be a definition for barrier-free media offers. Reporting obligations are to be further specified. Those affected repeatedly describe that, for example, important press conferences at the federal and state level are not always accompanied by sign language interpreters. At the same time, they draw attention to the fact that TV stations do not always take over barrier-free offers from the federal government.

Facebook wants to stop the New York University project New York University started a project last month to find out how political ads are distributed on Facebook. For this purpose, more than 6000 volunteers installed the browser extension AdObserver, with which the data is collected. But now Facebook wants to prevent this. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal , not only should the project be crushed, but also all previous data should be deleted. Accessing data, even with good intentions, is against the guidelines of the social network.

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Microrobot moves through the intestines of a living mouse The idea of ​​introducing tiny robots into the body so that they specifically target diseased cells is nothing new. However, researchers at Purdue University in the USA have now succeeded for the first time in a test in a living organism. The microrobots were inserted into the intestine of a mouse. The forces measured during locomotion in the intestine were so small that damage to the intestinal walls was not to be feared, the researchers write. They are confident that, in the future, microrobots will not only facilitate or partially replace colonoscopies, but can also be used in other parts of the body, for example to make drugs as efficient as possible.

HP apps lose macOS security certificate Owners of Hewlett-Packard printers are currently having problems if they use the device Use on a Mac: The manufacturer’s official applications fail by the dozen