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Air taxi: Lufthansa is to train Lilium pilots

They are not yet whizzing through the air, the electric high-flyers from the Munich startup Lilium, but the pilot training has already been taken care of. Lufthansa Aviation Training (LAT) is to take over the task of finding suitable candidates and making them fit to be able to control the air tax. First, LAT and… Read more

Airlines prepare for a restart

“We can’t wait for the vaccine.” The outgoing General Director of the global airline association IATA, Alexandre de Juniac, has once again put huge pressure on to accelerate the restart of the aviation industry in the coming months with the help of mass corona rapid tests. The pandemic took the airlines with it almost last… Read more

Management dispute at VW: “Support” for Group boss Diess against works council

VW boss Herbert Diess prevailed in parts in the recent power struggle for the leadership of the car manufacturer – but the supervisory board avoided an early extension of his contract. The inspectors expressed their “full support” to the manager at a special meeting on Monday evening. However, the company’s official statement does not mention… Read more

Crypto Wars: Bitkom calls for a “clear ban” on government backdoors

The German digital economy calls for a ban on state-controlled backdoors to combat crime. Against the background of the current security policy debate, the industry association Bitkom has issued a declaration of principle clearly against a targeted weakening of encryption. “We have to do everything to make electronic communication as secure as possible, and strong… Read more

Why Demon’s Souls is my game of the year

I nearly gave up on Demon’s Souls. I should have known what I was getting into. I bought the Demon’s Souls remake for the PlayStation 5 as my opportunity to finally play a “Soulsborne” game. After hearing about the genre for more than a decade, I knew that the game would be extremely hard, that… Read more

“Cyberpunk 2077”: CD Projekt pays bonuses despite bumpy start

The developers of “Cyberpunk 100” are said to have bonuses regardless of the average critical reviews of their action game get paid. This is reported by the Bloomberg news agency, which has received an internal email from the management. The studio boss of CD Projekt Red, Adam Badowski, takes responsibility for the bumpy start of… Read more

Apple boss calls for a climate-neutral economy

Apple CEO Tim Cook has called on governments and companies to take action against climate change. At this moment of “historical urgency”, corporations finally had to act, emphasized the Apple boss at the Climate Ambition Summit 2020, which the United Nations is working with in several countries. Apple has already succeeded in working climate-neutrally in… Read more

Renewable energies will cover almost half of electricity consumption in 2020

Renewable energies such as wind and solar power covered almost half of the electricity consumption in Germany this year, reports the dpa. Specifically, the share of electricity from wind, photovoltaics, biomass and other regenerative energy sources was a good 46 percent of the gross electricity consumption, according to preliminary calculations by the Center for Solar… Read more

Review: Monitor Audio Bronze 500 (sixth generation)

With the sixth generation of the affordable Bronze family is the last major renewal operation of Monitor Audio (almost) complete. The Gold and Silver updates brought significant technical and visual improvements to the table, but is all of that possible at a much lower price point? To investigate, in this review we look at the… Read more

Review: Gerrard Street always a new pair of headphones

RESUME Of course, the Prince’s main focus is the rental model. There is certainly something to be said. Two years from now, you will still have working headphones in good condition, for example. The fact that you can replace parts is more sustainable, and more durability is certainly allowed in our opinion. Regardless of that… Read more