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14 best educational TV shows on YouTube, iPlayer, Netflix and more

Home Features (Image credit: BBC) Homeschooling can be a challenge at the best of times and there’s no shame in tapping out whenever you need your sanity and switching on the TV, particularly when there’s such a wealth of excellent educational TV shows available on the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, BBC iPlayer and… Read more

More than 500 brown dwarfs: 3D map of the neighborhood of our sun

With the help of thousands of volunteers, a team of astronomers has created the most comprehensive 3D map of so-called brown dwarfs in the vicinity of the sun to date. You have now presented the map with 525 celestial bodies, including 38 newly discovered objects. According to the research results, the closer environment of our… Read more

Before Amazon shutdown: Allegedly 70 Tbytes of data archived by Parler

The social network Parler, which is particularly popular with right-wing extremists and right-wing extremists and has since been taken offline by Amazon, apparently had several serious security gaps. According to their own statements, internet activists archived roughly 70 Tbytes of posts, videos and images, including geodata, from the platform in a coordinated action. After the… Read more

The digital civil service is born: a plan to improve citizens' digital skills

Memorandum of understanding signed between the Minister for Technological Innovation and Digitization Paola Pisano and the Minister for Youth Policies and Sport Vincenzo Spadafora by Rosario Grasso published on 29 December 2020 , at 10: 41 in the Innovation channel The Digital civil service is a new plan of the Government aimed at improving citizens’… Read more

Squadron 42 – Star Citizen's story campaign is a distant future. The creators draw conclusions from the premiere of Cyberpunk 2077

The end of the year is the period of summaries of the past months. It’s no different in the case of Cloud Imperium Games studio, whose founder, Chris Roberts, decided to share an extensive letter to Star Citizen fans on the official blog. He discussed, among other things, what progress has been made on the… Read more

Artificial intelligence, analytics, generational change: from SAS 7 forecasts on the trends that will characterize 2021

The 2020 was a year of unpredictability, which however gave a great boost to communication and collaboration technologies, but also to intelligence artificial and analytics. What should we expect for 2020? The opinion of SAS by Alberto Falchi published 24 December 2020 , at 08: 21 in the Innovation channel Sas artificial intelligence The 2020… Read more

Civil rights groups move to block expansion of facial recognition in airports

A coalition of civil rights groups led by the American Civil Liberties Union have filed an objection to the proposed expansion of Customs and Border Protections facial recognition at land and sea ports. The National Immigration Law Center, Fight for the Future, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are also participating in the motion, alongside twelve… Read more

Dozens of Al Jazeera journalists targeted in apparent iOS spyware attack

36 personal phones belonging to Al Jazeera journalists, producers, anchors, and executives were hacked in a spyware campaign between July and August 2020, a new report from Citizen Lab alleges. The attacks reportedly used Pegasus technology provided by the Israeli firm NSO Group, and are thought to be the work of four operators. Citizen Lab… Read more

Citizen Lab: Spyware attack on iPhones by journalists at Al Jazeera

The personal smartphones of dozens of employees at the Qatari news broadcaster Al Jazeera have been hacked by suspected state-funded attackers with ties to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The spyware used comes from the Israeli provider NSO Group, according to the security researchers at the Canadian Citzen Lab, who have now made… Read more

TKG amendment: “Too little light and too much shadow”

As expected, the Cabinet initiated the amendment to the Telecommunications Act (TKG) on Wednesday morning. According to the Federal Ministries for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWI) and for Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) in Berlin, the plan, which is heavily controversial in individual points, is intended to create “a tailor-made and future-oriented legal framework for… Read more

Register modernization: When the state can call up a profile at the push of a button

Experts agreed on Monday at a hearing in the Bundestag that in the digital age, a modern register landscape that complies with data protection is overdue. Opinions diverged completely on the way to this goal. In the end – with a kind of abstention and a lot of stomach ache – there was about three… Read more

Debate on tax ID: informational self-determination is so 1983

Members of the government parliamentary groups of the CDU / CSU and SPD did not allow themselves to be upset by sharp criticism from the opposition at the 1st reading of the controversial government draft for a law on register modernization in the Bundestag on Thursday evening. “What is behind this is what we all… Read more

Corona warning app: First “purify”, then expand

The Corona Warning App (CWA) could “help a lot” in the winter of the pandemic, but it does not work properly despite investments already worth millions. This is what the chairman of the Green parliamentary group, Katrin Göring-Eckardt, assumes. Reason enough to invite experts to a “digital exchange” about meaningful possible further developments. They were… Read more

Codebug Connect: Kid Friendly IoT Projects

Home News (Image credit: Codebug / Dr Andrew Robinson) Codebug Connect, a project to enable anyone to create their own gadgets is now available via Kickstarter. Codebug Connect is a microcontroller based board that aims to “democratise making and allow people to build what they imagine without technology getting in the way.” To do this… Read more

AMD Announces the Instinct MI100 GPU, CDNA Breaks 10 TFLOPS Barrier

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD announced its 7nm Instinct MI100 GPU today, along with a slew of design wins from the likes of Dell, HPE, and Supermicro. The Instinct MI100 marks the first iteration of AMD’s compute-focused CDNA architecture. The new architecture offers up to 11.5 TFLOPS of peak FP64 throughput, making the Instinct… Read more