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Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X / S: That's how big the new consoles are

More performance in a significantly larger overall package: Xbox Series X and Playstation 5 are significantly more powerful than the current generation of consoles. Only the Xbox Series S, the little sister of the Series X, also fits in small media cabinets. The photo series shows how the dimensions of the test consoles sent to… Read more

Millions avoid public transport

The corona pandemic has caused the number of passengers on buses and trains to plummet. According to the Federal Statistical Office, approximately 71 percent fewer people were on long-distance transport from April to June than in the same period of the previous year. Long-distance rail traffic shrank by 71 percent, line traffic with long-distance buses… Read more

KI commission of the Bundestag: refusing is not an option

After a good two years of work, the Enquete Commission on Artificial Intelligence (KI) of the Bundestag handed its final report to Parliament President Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) on Wednesday. The 19 MPs and 19 external experts have placed the work under the model of a “human-centered AI” and are thus following in the footsteps of… Read more

Console pre-orders: Playstation 5 is going round the PS4

The pre-order campaigns for the Playstation 5 game console were an economic success for Sony. Jim Ryan, Sony’s head of gaming, revealed that the PS5 sold as often in the United States within the first 12 hours as the PS4 sold within the first 12 weeks. “The demand, as indicated by the pre-order level, is… Read more

JavaScript: Next.js 10 aims to dynamically load images when needed

The developers of Next.js have released version 10 of the framework for creating server-side applications with React. An important innovation is the “lazy” loading function for images on the web, in which HTML elements in the markup with the tag are automatically replaced by next / image . Accelerated page loading: load images as required… Read more

1000001 and many questions unanswered: Bill Gates' birthday

2020 is not a good year for Bill Gates. Like Rockefeller, Soros and other donors before him, he is hostile from many corners. His appeals to limit the corona crisis with simple measures are fading, at least in the USA. The publication date for his book on combating the climate catastrophe has been postponed to… Read more

Covid-19: Confusion in the RKI database on NPGEO

Bad submission from the Robert Koch Institute for the Chancellor’s Corona meeting with the Prime Minister: Anyone who wanted to get the current Corona numbers from the RKI database on NPGEO (National Platform for Geographic Data) received an offer by Tuesday morning 8: 45 Clock under the data status 28. 10. 2020 00: 00 Clock… Read more

heise + | PostgreSQL database system: use machine learning functions via Python

PostgreSQL database system: Use machine learning functions via Python Analysis environment costs money and time Use Python’s ML functions in PostgreSQL Prepare data for modeling Convert alphanumeric values into numbers More values against a wrong order Train models with partial data Conclusion Article in iX 11 / 2020 read Modern applications are increasingly integrating machine… Read more

MSI B550 Unify: AM4 motherboard without RGB LEDs and with four M.2 slots

In times of brightly colored hardware, MSI advertises black mainboards without RGB LEDs. MSI goes with the two AM4 boards B 550 Unify and B 550 Unify-X not only optically new old ways, but also relies on equipment options that were previously not found. The two sister models only bind one PCI-Express-x 16 slot to… Read more

DDoS attack paralyzed the Robert Koch Institute's website

Unknowns temporarily paralyzed the website of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) last Thursday. The attack was in the morning between 8 00 and 10. 00 o’clock, said a spokesman for the Federal Information Technology Center (ITZBund). He thus confirmed a corresponding report by the news magazine Spiegel. It was a so-called DDOS attack (Distributed Denial… Read more

GraphQL Editor 3 enables export of JAMStack sites and bundles

The third major version is available for the editor of the open source query language GraphQL. The development team behind the GraphQL Editor classifies the release as the largest since the project began. In addition to a number of new features, the update mainly brings changes to the user interface. Revised hierarchy view The new… Read more

ECJ: truck toll is not for the traffic police

The costs for the traffic police may not be included in the calculation of the HGV toll. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg decided on Wednesday and thus approved a Polish forwarding company. Don’t miss any news! With our daily newsletter you will receive all the news from heise online from the past… Read more

Security update: Attackers could run their own commands on Qnap NAS

Network storage from Qnap can be attacked through two holes. A patch can help. (Image: Artur Szczybylo / Shutterstock.com) Anyone who owns a NAS from Qnap should bring the QTS operating system up to date. Otherwise, attackers could attack devices. In a security warning, Qnap reported the vulnerabilities (CVE – 2020 – 2490, CVE –… Read more

“Watch Dogs Legion” alluded to: Evil New World

Hacking drones, assassination or with the assault rifle through the front door – “Watch Dogs Legion” gives the players a free choice. It’s a shame that little of the gloomy scenario remains in the exciting missions. The day the lights went out London, sometime in not too distant future: the city is hit by terrorist… Read more

Why Deutsche Bahn is now saving its data at Microsoft and Amazon

Actually, Deutsche Bahn had taken up to the year 2022 to fundamentally rebuild its computer infrastructure. But these days the last computers are being dismantled in the Berlin-Mahlsdorf data center. Everything in the cloud At peak times, the railway had around 8000 Server operated itself in order to evaluate the huge data stream from the… Read more