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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

Watch the Skies this Holiday with Raspberry Pi Meteor Detector

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) From Santa’s sleigh to celestial objects leading kings to babies, this is a big week for unexpected things showing up in the night sky. What’s not so unexpected are the small meteor showers that hit Earth on a daily basis. These tend to only catch our attention when the… Read more

CD Projekt Red Faces Possible Class-Action Lawsuit Over ‘Misrepresentation’

Home News (Image credit: CD Projekt Red) Among the numerous issues surrounding CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077, the Poland developer faces another challenge. The company could soon be facing a class-action lawsuit that accuses the developer of “misrepresentation in order to receive financial benefits.” As reported by The New York Times, Warsaw attorney and CD… Read more

Long-Term-Release Linux 5.10: An overview of the most important new features

The Sunday before last, Linus Torvalds released the last release of the Linux kernel for this year. The new kernel 5. 10 receives Long Term Support (LTS) and will therefore receive patches for at least the next two years. Currently kernel.org gives as “End of Life” (EOL) December 2022 at. As a rule, however, the… Read more

Briefly informed: delivery bottlenecks, virus variant, parcel delivery, Threema

Delivery bottlenecks for IT products threaten well into the year 2021 Graphics cards, game consoles, webcams: many hardware components cannot be bought at the moment, the warehouses are empty. Reasons for this are the strong demand, triggered by the boom in home work and video conferences as well as problems with air freight, writes the… Read more

CoraLibre: The Corona warning app without Google services

The Corona Warning App (CWA), which was or is being developed by SAP and Deutsche Telekom on behalf of the Federal Government, is known to need Google Play Services on Android in order to function. This means that an estimated several million people in Germany cannot install the CWA because their smartphone does not meet… Read more

Lupin III: The First is the perfect holiday adventure

It is shockingly hard to find a new movie that’s interested in an old-fashioned adventure. You know what I mean: the globe-trotting Indiana Jones kind, with riddles to solve and death traps to avoid, featuring a hint of romance and a strange treasure at stake. Thankfully, Lupin III: The First is exactly that. Written and… Read more

Ransomware Disguised as Mobile Version of Cyberpunk 2077

Home News (Image credit: CD Projekt Red) Despite the current state of Cyberpunk 2077, eager fans everywhere are still trying to get as much time with the game as they can. This presented the opportunity for some sneaky person/persons to take advantage of this by creating ransomware and disguising it as a mobile version of… Read more

Threema is now completely open source

As announced in late summer, the developers of the crypto messenger Threema have published the code of the Threema apps as open source. In addition to detailed documentation of the cryptographic process (white paper PDF) and regular security audits, the open sourcing service is intended to guarantee full transparency. As a result, it is no… Read more

Qt Design Studio 2.0 revises the interface and evaluates crashes

The Qt Company has released Design Studio 2.0. The tool is based on the Qt Creator development environment and is intended to improve collaboration between designers and developers. The new features of the second main version include so-called logic helpers for implementing simple processes. The team has also redesigned the controls for 2D effects. After… Read more

More code security with open source: One year GitHub Security Lab

As part of the Universe 2019 GitHub presented a new initiative to improve code security a year ago. GitHub Security Lab aims to help secure the open source ecosystem. The cooperation between all parties interested in secure software (developers, companies, security researchers) should be simplified and made more effective. The partners at the Security Lab… Read more

Encrypting messenger: Threema apps are now completely open-source

Threema becomes open source and thus reveals the source code. “To celebrate, we are lowering the app price by 28. December by 50%”, the Messenger writes -Provider in the announcement. Threema already had documentation of the cryptographic process, now the complete inspection and release of the code follows. According to Threema, the code is subject… Read more

Wage arrears and chaos: Apple contract manufacturer Wistron gets probation

For the time being, Apple does not want to place any new orders with the manufacturer Wistron, as its iPhone factory in South India was destroyed by employees. According to the first results of Apple’s investigation of the incident, working hours in the factory were not correctly recorded, which led to delays in wage payments… Read more

The characteristics of the 11th generation Intel Core Rocket Lake CPUs

We collect the main technical characteristics of the processors Intel Core 11th Generation for Desktop Systems: Nanometer 14 products, will have a maximum of 8 cores but they will adopt new architecture by Paolo Corsini published 21 December 2020 , at 08: 41 in the Processors channel Intel Core Rocket Lake The rumors of recent… Read more

Publishing plans of AMD and Intel processors for the coming years have been leaked. What are the industry giants preparing for us?

Everything seems to indicate that the dry time in the world of processors is running out and the next few years will be interesting premieres. After all, we will face the debut of many interesting technologies and standards, which in turn means that we are in for an extremely interesting duel between Intel vs AMD…. Read more