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Pretty cars: Car Design Awards for Hyundai, Ferrari and Porsche

Hyundai for its Prophecy concept car, Ferrari for its production car Roma and Porsche for the design language of its entire model range are the winners of this year’s Car Design Awards. The “Oscar” of the auto designers 696 was launched by the Italian auto design magazine Auto & Design. This time the award ceremony… Read more

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heise + | Photogrammetry Guide: Going From Drone Photo To 3D Printing

Photogrammetry guide: How to get from the drone photo to 3D printing drone and camera Photogrammetry Blender Freshly printed Article in c’t 23 / 2020 read Photogrammetry digitizes the world, for example for the new Microsoft Flight Simulator . It uses data from satellite and aerial photography to render realistic-looking cities across the virtual world…. Read more

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Sentinel-6 satellite is supposed to measure sea levels with millimeter precision

Coastal cities could be regularly under water, hurricanes and storm surges could increase their destructive power and island paradises sink into the sea: The rise in sea level is one of the greatest threats that climate change brings with it. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assumes that with unchecked climate change it could… Read more

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HBO GO: VOD movie and series premieres on November 1-14, 2020

The HBO GO streaming service is characterized by the fact that not only movies or full seasons of series, but also subsequent episodes of individual series in a cyclical form appear on the platform almost every day. Therefore, in the first part of this material, we present interesting film and series news (excluding the series… Read more

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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

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Valuable raw material as a by-product: domestic lithium from geothermal systems

Generally speaking, data is considered to be the oil of 16. Century. But one raw material would also be entitled to this title: lithium. It is an elementary component of lithium-ion batteries and is what makes smartphones, laptops and electric vehicles mobile in the first place. In addition, there are non-rechargeable lithium batteries, which have… Read more

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Outlawing killer robots: the time window is closing

The increasing use of automated or future autonomous weapon systems (AWS) could represent a paradigm shift and warfare in 21. Revolutionize the century. The Office for Technology Assessment at the Bundestag assumes this in an analysis that has now been published. Politicians must act promptly to prevent a terminator scenario with killer robots that have… Read more

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heise + | Lab-Box presented: film development in the mini-laboratory in daylight

Owners of a darkroom full of developer cans, bobbins, basins, bowls, chemicals and other useful utensils for developing films can now leaf through relaxed. You have everything you need and you know exactly what to do. Owner of an analog camera from the 20. Century, who would like to develop a film again, or for… Read more

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Serial 1 Cycle Company, Harley-Davidson's new e-bike division

The announcement of the start arrives of a new adventure in the e-bike sector, the American manufacturer has in fact decided to found a brand dedicated to it, precisely the Serial 1 Cycle Company, inspired by the first Harley-Davidson model of 1903 called “Serial 1” in order to underline the intention to remain faithful to… Read more

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Assassin's Creed – Netflix and Ubisoft are working on an acting series

The cooperation between Ubisoft and Netfliks seems to be going well for both companies, because it has just deepened. In recent months, we have mentioned in PurePC that the animated Splinter Cell or the film Beyond Good & Evil are in preparation, and we are already getting to know the first details about the next… Read more

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Creative Outlier Air V2 and Air Sports V2 with touch panels

Previous generations of Creative Outlier Air and Creative Outlier Air Sports wireless in-ear headphones were very popular, although some users reported problems with sticking physical buttons. Personally, I was able to test a very similar Creative Outlier Gold design with the same design, but I did not experience these problems myself. The voices of the… Read more

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Century Reveals RAID 0 M.2 NVMe Thunderbolt 3 External Exclosure

Home News (Image credit: Century) If you want super-fast external storage, Century might have just the solution for you: The company has unveiled an all-new M.2 SSD external enclosure featuring M.2 RAID 0 support for what it claims are the fastest read and write speeds from a portable device. The external enclosure sports a 15W… Read more

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Corsair K100 RGB keyboard test costing over PLN 1000

Corsair recently launched its new K mechanical keyboard 60 RGB PRO, which is theoretically the lowest positioned model with this type of switches, which was additionally funded by the premiere Cherry Viola switches. However, the universe needs a balance, which is why in October the most advanced keyboard in the offer of the American manufacturer… Read more

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Species migration: global increase in alien species

In the globalized world, borders are easier to overcome. This also applies to animals and plants. The Frankfurt Senckenberg Research Center for Biodiversity and Climate predicts a strong increase in species migration: In the next 30 years, by the middle of the century, so-called alien species – also called “alien species” in biologists’ jargon –… Read more

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iPhone 12 teardown reveals Qualcomm X55 5G modem and 2,815 mAh battery

The iPhone 12 and 12 Pro are both officially going on sale starting this Friday. Thanks to a teardown video posted by Century Weifeng Technology, we are getting a close look inside the 6.1-inch iPhone 12 model. The teardown video compares the iPhone 12 to the iPhone 11 and although there are some similarities in… Read more

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