Corona

Perspective: Folding screens and 5G flop, or slowly maturing?

What does the year 2021 look like in terms of the most significant smartphone technologies of recent times? The smartphone market has become quite saturated in recent years, and the past year, helped by the corona, has indicated that the rise in the price level of high-end phones in particular is beginning to reach its… Read more

Federal Network Agency locks more than 21 million unsafe devices from the market

In the past year, the Federal Network Agency withdrew more than 000 million unsafe electronic devices from circulation, which over a total of 2142 Online offers should be brought into circulation. Every third device was a baby monitor, as the Federal Network Agency announced on Tuesday. In the case of these devices sold over the… Read more

Micro-chips: Auto industry laments supply bottlenecks

Europe’s carmakers remain vulnerable – even if many of the destroyed supply chains have only just been repaired after the Corona crash. But an indispensable group of components is missing more and more frequently: semiconductor modules, the heart of all electronic systems and microchips. Some auto production lines have to close again because supplies are… Read more

Statistics of the week: The cloud knows no boundaries

(Picture: shutterstock / 3dmask ) In our weekly column we present numbers, curves and diagrams from technology and science. The cloud market has no corona crisis, like data from Statista Technology Market Outlook show. As a result, sales with software, infrastructure and platform-as-a-service offerings fell last year by 25, 5 Percent grown. And it should… Read more

Contact tracking: Two thirds of the health authorities rely on fax & Co.

By the end of 2020, according to plans of the federal government 90 percent of the 375 Health authorities in Germany use the “Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System” (Sormas), which the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig developed to combat Ebola and last year added a Sars-Cov-2-specific module. With 111 from… Read more

Authorities and Corona – what about home office in administration?

Administrative employees who work in the home office and access digital files instead of rolling over mountains of paper in the authority? For a long time it was difficult to imagine. The corona pandemic could change that now. Because the appeal to work at home if possible has also reached the administration. “When it comes… Read more

Singapore: Abuse of Trust in Corona Contact Tracking

In Singapore, the pandemic response has been largely technology-based – two systems to be precise. The first is a QR code that became ubiquitous across the country in April and May as part of the “SafeEntry” contact tracking system. SafeEntry meant that anyone who wants to enter a public place – restaurants, shops, malls –… Read more

heise + | Build aerosol traffic light: ESP8266 warns of aerosols, fine dust and smells

Build aerosol traffic light: ESP 8266 warns of aerosols, fine dust and smells Aerosols in the fine dust sensor Olfactory burden Housing made of wood Firmware Measured values interpret Article in c’t 3 / 2021 read Aerosols are on everyone’s lips. Unfortunately. The tiny droplets also transport coronaviruses and are therefore for most infections with… Read more

Corona year 2020: Deutsche Bahn as punctual as it has been in 15 years

Fewer passengers, shorter waiting times: Deutsche Bahn (DB) was as punctual in the Corona year 2020 as it has been since 15 years no longer. Overall 81, 8 percent of all ICE and IC / EC trains were on the way according to plan, the railway announced on Sunday in Berlin. That is almost six… Read more

Bavaria wants to promote home office with tax incentives

Bavaria presents specific proposals for promoting work in the home office. Finance Minister Albert Füracker (CSU) advocates improving the depreciation options for companies and permanently extending the home office flat rate for employees. “We need as much home office as possible,” said Füracker of the dpa. “Bavaria does not rely on legal obligations, but on… Read more

Cluster recording: New app enables corona tracing at larger meetings

The Berlin start-up Videmic has published an app of the same name for tracking corona infection chains in large crowds in the App Store and on Google Play. The mobile tracing application saves stays in busy locations in the app’s user profile and thus enables cluster recording without scanning a QR code, as is necessary… Read more

Avira takes stock of cyber threats: beware of stalkerware

The 2020 was one of the most prolific years for hackers, who used media attention on Covid to spread malware. The use of stalkerware is growing, a sub-category of spyware by Alberto Falchi published 16 January 2021 , at 09: 31 in the Security channel Avira Avira , the well-known solution manufacturer antivirus, published its… Read more

Fairytale Moments: The Pictures of the Week (KW 02)

With photography you take a break from everyday life. Sometimes you will be rewarded with magical moments, a moment like in the picture Standing Tall by Sophie 1404. The photographer was traveling in the southern Black Forest. She explains about the atmospheric tour: “Thick fog and storm with heavy snowdrifts whipped almost horizontally from the… Read more

First exit in the BMW i4 electric car: A cornering star?

They, those responsible, were brave when they 2013 the technically exciting i3 on the market, which does not fit into the rest of the Bavarian range. We do not know whether the rather hesitant interest of the customers was the reason why the next attempt in the direction of electromobility was so much lead time…. Read more

Corona warning app is being expanded and should run on older iPhones

The functions of the official federal corona warning app will be significantly expanded in the coming weeks. In addition, the app should also be able to run on the older iPhone models 5s and 6 from mid-February. The Federal Ministry of Health announced this on Friday. The new functions include a dashboard on which current… Read more