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heise + | WordPress plugin: Your own online shop with WooCommerce

With our step-by-step instructions for the WooCommerce plugin, you can quickly and easily transform WordPress into an e-shop. (Image: serato / shutterstock.com) WordPress plugin: Your own online shop with WooCommerce Perform the basic installation Complete and complete setup Important administrative settings summarized Working with product variants WordPress has been that for years most successful CMS,… Read more

The ashes of Scotty from Star Trek are aboard the International Space Station

The ashes of the late James Doohan, who played chief engineer Montgomery Scott on the original Star Trek television series, have been aboard the International Space Station for 12 years— and the Times of London has the fascinating backstory of how it happened. Doohan died in 2005 at the age of 85, and his family… Read more

heise + | This is how you optimally secure your WordPress website

How to secure your WordPress website optimally Change the name of the administrator account limit the number of login attempts Secure basic installation Customize the WordPress configuration file Before installing – check plugins According to statistics from W3Techs as of December 2020 WordPress is based on 38 percent of all websites used worldwide. If you… Read more

heise + | Experience report volcano photography: With the camera to the mountains of fire

Glowing lava, fiery fountains and difficult climbs: For some motifs, some photographers go to the limit. They are rewarded with spectacular pictures. Olympus E-M5 Mark II | 9 mm | ISO 800 | f / 4.0 | 1/40 s Experience report volcano photography: With the camera to the mountains of fire A look into the… Read more

Nuro can now charge for robot deliveries in California

Nuro is now the first company in California that’s allowed to operate autonomous cars commercially (via TechCrunch). The company received a permit that allowed it to test its robots earlier this year, but this permit will allow the firm to actually charge people for the service. According to a Medium post by Nuro’s chief legal… Read more

Steam begins its Christmas sales with numerous titles discounted up to 70%

by Pablo López Make 25 minutes … Steam has already started the Christmas offers through discounts on a good number of games that will be on sale until January 5, 2021. As expected, Steam It has already started the Christmas offers of the platform as every year. This time we also have numerous games and… Read more

heise + | Short tests: student tutorial, USB management tool, grade scanner

Short Tests: Student Tutorial, USB Management Tool, Note Scanner Learning program: Medienwerkstatt Mühlacker learning workshop 10 USB management tool: USBDeview Note scanner: Capella-scan 9 Students in grades 1 to 6 practice with the learning workshop 10 independent math and German. The large pool of learning material also includes the first English and French vocabulary. The… Read more

Steam Winter Sale 2020 has started – Christmas promotions for PC games. There are also sales at Ubisoft and EA Origin stores

The annual Christmas sale on the popular Steam platform has started. The Winter Sale is considered to be the hottest promotion period on Valve’s digital distribution store, although it has to be admitted that the discounts are getting more modest every year. Finding a good offer is therefore more and more difficult, which does not… Read more

heise + | Digital Identity: Race to dominate digital identity verification

In the market for secure digital identities, private providers are competing with the state: Verimi and Yes want to replace the electronic identity card. Digital Identity: Race for the dominance of digital identity verification Models from the north Digital storage and acceptance Three services for digital identification Together against Google and Apple Article in c’t… Read more

heise + | IT security: reverse engineering of Android apps

Many apps process highly sensitive data, but how well do they take care of it? You can quickly set up your own test laboratory for the analysis with our tips. (Image: Albert Hulm) Health apps are all the rage, and accordingly many of them are currently seeing the light of smartphone displays. However, there are… Read more

heise + | Coronavirus Spread Through Aerosols: Helpful Antidotes

Coronavirus spread through aerosols: Helpful antidotes Problem aerosol For and against air exchange Commercial air filters Corona Bazooka Read article in Make Magazine 6 / 2020 As long as there is no approved vaccine in sufficient quantities against the Covid – 19 – there are pathogens , it is important to protect yourself from the… Read more

Xiaoice: How Microsoft created a virtual girlfriend with its AI technologies

Xiaoice is a widely used service in China and other Asian countries: Microsoft built it starting from the artificial intelligence technologies underlying the search engine Bing of Rosario Grasso published on 22 December 2020 , at 15: 11 in the Telephony channel Microsoft Xiaoice was born as chatbot but in over time it has become… Read more

heise + | .NET Framework: Performance and deployment in .NET 5.0 improved

Microsoft has moved the vision “One .NET” to .NET 6.0. But even without the promised standardization .NET 5.0 brings some progress. Of Dr. Holger Schwichtenberg .NET Framework: Performance and deployment in .NET 5.0 improved The classic is slowed down Conclusion Article in iX 1 / 2021 read Microsoft announced in May 2019 to merge the… Read more

heise + | Versatile Video Coding: The new video compression standard works so efficiently

Versatile Video Coding: This is how efficiently the new video compression standard works Temporal structures Local structures Coding core … transform, quantize … Application profiles Results 50 Percent – this magic number has dominated for almost 20 Years of developing new video compression standards. The H. 264 / MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) standard achieved… Read more

heise + | In the test: apps for image editing and photo development with the iPad

App developers combine intuitive and touch-optimized operation with clean retouching and bring modern, professional-level image processing to the iPad. (Image: Rudolf A. Blaha) In the test: Apps for image editing and photo development with the iPad Photo development deluxe Image processing like on the desktop Individual meetings More apps for Photo and image processing Conclusion… Read more