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Best External Drives: Portable Hard Drives and SSDs of 2021

Home Best-picks (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Any portable drive will let you store, backup, and transport files. But getting the best external hard drive or best portable SSD for your needs is important. An external hard drive or SSD is a do-it-all storage device. It’s a pocket-friendly gadget that lets you carry huge files (or… Read more

DJI Mavic Air vs DJI Spark: Worth the upgrade?

(Pocket-lint) – The first generation Mavic Air and the DJI Spark were the two smallest drones in the company’s profuct offering when they first launched. They’ve since been replaced by the Mini and the Air 2, but if you’re looking to get into droning with something small and easy, you could still do worse than… Read more

10 best Lego sets 2021: Our favourite Star Wars, Technic, City, Frozen II sets and more

(Pocket-lint) – Each year Lego unveils stacks of new sets that combine top name franchises, other brands and the best of traditional series such as Lego City and Lego Technic. There are hundreds of new sets to choose from and, now that Lego appeals to huge numbers of adults as well as kids, the choice… Read more

Fairytale Moments: The Pictures of the Week (KW 02)

With photography you take a break from everyday life. Sometimes you will be rewarded with magical moments, a moment like in the picture Standing Tall by Sophie 1404. The photographer was traveling in the southern Black Forest. She explains about the atmospheric tour: “Thick fog and storm with heavy snowdrifts whipped almost horizontally from the… Read more

The Renault 5 is reborn: look how modern it is and how electric it is!

The small car that marked the history of the Renault brand, and of the entire automotive industry, returns in an electric version. Here are all the ads of the French house of Rosario Grasso published 15 January 2021 , at 10: 01 in the Technology channel Renault Renault 5 Prototype is the name under which… Read more

Arctic Alpine 23: Small and affordable AMD cooler

Arctic has introduced the Alpine 23, a successor to its Alpine AM4. The new model was also developed as a pure AMD cooler for Socket AM4. The Alpine 23 is particularly compact and inexpensive. According to Arctic, the mounting system in particular has been revised. The Alpine 23 can simply be plugged onto the existing… Read more

Register modernization: When the state can call up a profile at the push of a button

Experts agreed on Monday at a hearing in the Bundestag that in the digital age, a modern register landscape that complies with data protection is overdue. Opinions diverged completely on the way to this goal. In the end – with a kind of abstention and a lot of stomach ache – there was about three… Read more

heise + | Linux shell for iPhone and iPad: iSH shell for developers and admins

Linux Shell for iPhone and iPad: iSH Shell for developers and admins Finally execute code file interface Interview with the developer Theodore Dubois Article in c’t 25 / 2020 read An iOS app rarely gets the attention to be presented in a multi-page practical article. In most cases, it is also quickly explained what such… Read more

Debate on tax ID: informational self-determination is so 1983

Members of the government parliamentary groups of the CDU / CSU and SPD did not allow themselves to be upset by sharp criticism from the opposition at the 1st reading of the controversial government draft for a law on register modernization in the Bundestag on Thursday evening. “What is behind this is what we all… Read more

Networked registers: Kelber warns against playing Vabanque with the tax ID

Politicians are about to break their “sacred promise” that the controversial tax identification number will only be used for tax purposes. This criticism was exercised by the Federal Data Protection Commissioner Ulrich Kelber on Tuesday during an online discussion by the “Authority Mirror” on the planned modernization of the register. On very thin ice Should… Read more

The highlights at Netflix, Disney + and Amazon Prime Video in November 2020

American Horror Story: 1984 is the 9th season of the horror series that is well worth seeing. In the eponymous year, the protagonist Brooke and her friends from the gym make their way to Camp Redwood, where they want to try their hand at being a supervisor. On the way to the remote holiday camp,… Read more

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, first impressions on Multiplayer – Preview

After having examined the preliminary version of the new shooter, let’s take stock of the main innovations put in place by Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. The comparison with the most recent Modern Warfare is inevitable, either because of the ‘reboot’ nature of the product, or because of the reworking of some game… Read more

iSH: Apple lets Linux shell in the App Store

Apple has surprisingly approved the Linux environment iSH Shell for distribution in the App Store, so that the app can now be downloaded directly to iPhones and iPads. iSH is based on Alpine Linux and contains a number of common command line programs such as wget, curl and Vi, running Linux software in the app… Read more

E-Perso usage continues to stagnate – although a card reader is no longer necessary

The electronic identity card just doesn’t move: According to the new “E-Government Monitor” by Initiative D 21 and the Technical University of Munich only six percent of those surveyed have used the online identification function – as many as in the previous year. You no longer need a special reader for the E-Perso: Since 2017… Read more