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Music streaming continues to boom – a third increase

Audiostreaming has underpinned its importance as the format with the highest sales in the German music market with again significantly increased usage figures in the previous year. According to a special evaluation by the market research institute GfK Entertainment and the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI), 2020 in this country were more than 139 Billions of music… Read more

Artificial Intelligence: Unpredictable Risks and Attack Methods

The advantages of artificial intelligence (AI) are considerable, states the European IT security agency ENISA. AI can help with security and the fight against online crime. Instruments such as “intelligent firewalls” are helpful here. At the same time, in its new report on AI threats, the agency also highlights major problems that the “emerging technology”… Read more

Lavie Mini is This Year’s CES Prototype Switch Clone

Home News (Image credit: Lavie) PC Gamers love to take pride in the power of our systems, but that does mean that our rigs aren’t always the most portable. At this year’s virtual CES, NEC has a new prototype 2-in-1 laptop with an 8-inch screen that also works with an optional controller to make it… Read more

New test procedure for gaming laptops with Intel Tiger Lake-H, AMD Cezanne-H, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3000

The last test procedure for gaming laptops was presented for nearly two years – at that time notebooks with Intel Coffee Lake-H and Coffee Lake-H Refresh processors, as well as with cards NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics 2000 from the Turing family. The first laptops to also offer hardware support for ray tracing and a new… Read more

Dying Light 2 – Techland calms you down and reminds you that the game is still in development, although already six months ago it was “on the home straight”

Gamescom 2019 has provided us with a lot of intriguing information, including that the upcoming Game Dying Light 2 will receive real-time ray tracing. At the end of August 2019 we also received 30 – a minute-long gameplay from the production, showing ray tracing in practice. Unfortunately, the beginning of last year did not bring… Read more

Which gaming PC to buy? Recommended computer sets for January 2021. Ready configurations at different prices

What computer should I buy for games? Which processor to choose? Which graphics cards and processors are the best? Internet forums are flooded with similar questions, because the situation on the component market can change quickly and it is difficult to keep up with the news that turn previous concepts upside down. Before buying a… Read more

Brexit: The EU data flow to Great Britain continues to shake

Even with the end of 2020 agreed trade and cooperation agreement between the EU and Great Britain, the cow is responsible for the transfer of personal data between companies on both sides of the English Channel not from the ice yet. The agreement only provides for an additional four-month transition period for data transfers since… Read more

11 great sci-fi books from 2020 to check out on your new Kindle

It’s not easy to make it to a library right now, and with a long winter stuck at home looming ahead for many of us, there’s never been a better time to hunker down with a good book. If you’ve been lucky enough to receive a new Kindle (or a non-Amazon-branded e-reader or just a… Read more

ISS: New deliberations on the future of the space station in the new year

Talks are to begin in the new year about the future of the International Space Station 2024. The Russian space agency Roskosmos announced this to the German press agency in Moscow. Russia will be consulting with the US space agency NASA and other partners. “The extension of the operating time depends on both technical and… Read more

MediaTek has beaten Qualcomm, Apple and Samsung – we have the new king of mobile chips for smartphones in Q3 2020

For a long time, Qualcomm has been the most important player in the smartphone market, responsible for the diverse portfolio of Snapdragon processors. MediaTek chips were also quite popular, more than Samsung’s Exynos or HiSilicon’s Kirin, but due to changes in China and India, the manufacturer managed to gain the position of a global leader…. Read more

For tomorrow's technology: from quantum dots to quantum technologies

The properties of electronically zero-dimensional quantum dots in semiconductor heterostructures differ fundamentally from those in higher-dimensional structures such as quantum wells. In quantum dots, the energy of charge carriers is not a function of the momentum. Their properties are similar to those of atoms embedded in a dielectric matrix. Based on gas phase or molecular… Read more

Contemplative moments: The pictures of the week (KW 52)

An eventful year will soon be behind us. The time between the years offers the opportunity to relax. The photographers of our pictures of the week found this calm in nature. The beginning was made on Saturday “Blende1. 209”, which presented us with an unusual landscape shot from the mountains. In the pale sunlight and… Read more

Large Hadron Collider: Supersymmetry put to the test

The standard model of particle physics has been repeatedly confirmed in measurements, but has no answer to some fundamental questions. This could possibly provide the supersymmetry. Therefore, the LHC experiments aim to search for supersymmetric particles. The analyzes are extremely diverse and sensitive to other extensions of the standard model. In recent years, very difficult… Read more

The vastness of the range (I.): The purist

It is strange to see films and TV shows in which people without masks shop, crouch close together, go to the cinema or even hug and kiss in greeting. After months of the pandemic, dreams and memories that breathe freely, while the virus is now trying to grab our breath, tens of millions of national… Read more

New, sometimes critical gaps discovered in the Treck TCP / IP stack – updates available

Intel researchers have discovered four security flaws in the (closed-source) TCP / IP stack from Treck – the stack that was released in June of this year by 19 Collection “Ripple 20” was affected. Two of the new vulnerabilities are considered critical: remote, unauthenticated attackers could misuse them to paralyze vulnerable systems via denial-of-service attacks… Read more