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Review: Sennheiser HD560

Sennheiser is a brand that basically every audiophile must have had once. The manufacturer has knowledge and expertise that goes back to the first half of the last century. That sounds nice and far away, but it shows that Sennheiser is a name that certainly belongs in the established order. Bee 75 year you might… Read more

10 of the best 1960s albums to test your system

Home Features (Image credit: Aretha Franklin) When it comes to testing a new turntable, stereo amplifier, pair of speakers or a whole vinyl system, it is, of course, vital that you are familiar with the music and recording that you are listening to. Otherwise, how can you tell one piece of equipment from another and… Read more

JBL celebrates 75 years with two products for enthusiasts, including the limited edition of the L100 Classic speakers

For his birthday JBL gives enthusiasts a celebratory version of the JBL L speakers 75 Classic 75, which resume in all respects the style of the ‘years 70 with Quadrex foam front grille, plus JBL SA integrated amplifier 750 by Roberto Colombo published 08 January 2021 , at 12: 11 in the Audio Video channel… Read more

Climate change could make Antarctica greener and force species extinction

Due to climate change, the flora and fauna in the Antarctic could change significantly in the next few decades. As the Antarctic waters warm, species from more temperate regions are likely to migrate and diversity may increase initially. Other species are likely to disappear. Research results like these were carried out by scientists in the… Read more

New test procedure for gaming laptops with Intel Tiger Lake-H, AMD Cezanne-H, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3000

The last test procedure for gaming laptops was presented for nearly two years – at that time notebooks with Intel Coffee Lake-H and Coffee Lake-H Refresh processors, as well as with cards NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics 2000 from the Turing family. The first laptops to also offer hardware support for ray tracing and a new… Read more

Shadow of the Tomb Raider, GreedFall and Man Eater free on PS Plus this month

Matthew Wilson 2 days ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming The January line-up of free games for PlayStation Plus subscribers has been revealed. Starting on the 5th of January, there will be three games up for grabs – one for PS5 owners and two more for PS4 owners. On the PS5 side, PS Plus… Read more

Habeck for digital tax: online trading is a business of the century

The retail trade is dense and online trade is booming: The Corona crisis shows the urgency of a digital tax from the point of view of Greens boss Robert Habeck. “The local shops are closing to protect against pandemics, inner cities are threatened with extinction,” Habeck told the German press agency. “The big online retailers,… Read more

Berlin's Senator for Transport: A breakthrough for electric cars is imminent

Berlin’s Senator for the Environment and Transport, Regine Günther, expects a breakthrough for electric cars in the capital and in Germany as a whole soon. “We are at the beginning of an exponential growth phase,” said the Green politician of the German press agency. You see the breakthrough “already coming very clearly”. Charging infrastructure is… Read more

DWD balance sheet for 2020: The weather is too warm and too dry for months

The year 2020 is one of the warmest on record. According to preliminary calculations by the German Weather Service (DWD), it could be in second place behind the record year 2018 as the mean temperature 10, was 5 degrees. This Wednesday, the DWD in Offenbach will present its annual balance sheet. It was already clear… Read more

Forty years have passed as one day, that is, the favorite games of a forty-year-old once again. They used to make good games

Just over twenty years ago, PC owners did not have an easy life, especially if they were players. On the one hand, the entire market departed from MS-DOS, on the other hand, the fifth generation of consoles (mainly Sony PlayStation) was mixed up a lot, and on the third, the most popular PC software platform,… Read more

Mobility turnaround: After free public transport, Luxembourg continues to build new offers

The free public transport introduced in Luxembourg on March 1st has brought the second smallest country in the EU far ahead with its planned transport turnaround: “Free local transport was the lever to stimulate a real mobility revolution in Luxembourg,” said Luxembourg Mobility Minister François Bausch (Greens) of the German Press Agency. Of course, the… Read more

For tomorrow's technology: from quantum dots to quantum technologies

The properties of electronically zero-dimensional quantum dots in semiconductor heterostructures differ fundamentally from those in higher-dimensional structures such as quantum wells. In quantum dots, the energy of charge carriers is not a function of the momentum. Their properties are similar to those of atoms embedded in a dielectric matrix. Based on gas phase or molecular… Read more

Boss by lot: “Chance is a wonderful instrument for cutting power”

If executive positions are filled randomly after a preselection of candidates, this counteracts arrogance, abuse of power and discrimination. Scientists from different faculties at the University of Zurich have found this out in experiments. In an interview, economist Margit Osterloh, one of the researchers, names good reasons for the focal chance decision and also explains… Read more

100 Years of the Christmas Concert – Germany's first radio broadcast

No discussion – the first real radio program in Germany was broadcast 1923 from the Vox house in Berlin . But before regular operation, it was necessary to try whether everything worked as desired and hoped for. So it happened on 22. December 1920 at 14 Watch the first radio broadcast Christmas concert in Germany… Read more

Cooking videos were one small savior of 2020

Early one morning, a week after the pandemic started, chef and food writer J. Kenji López-Alt strapped a GoPro to his head and filmed himself making breakfast. In the video, you can see López-Alt rummaging through his fridge, slicing and frying bacon, and peeling a bit of egg off a pan to give to his… Read more