Google

Vrbo is blocking new Washington, DC reservations during inauguration week

Vrbo has changed its stance on people making reservations in the Washington, DC area during the week of the inauguration. The company announced on January 19th, the day before the event, that it will block any new reservations through Friday, January 22nd. Vrbo previously stated it was evaluating new bookings and that it would “take… Read more

Almost 160 million euros in GDPR fines in 2020

The penalties imposed for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU increased significantly 2020 to a total of 158, 5 million euros. Compared to 20 months since the DGSVO came into force in May 2018 this means a plus of 39 percent. These figures about the 20 EU member states plus GB,… Read more

heise offer: c't online: Get out of the performance trap

Google has announced that it will introduce the “Page Experience” as a ranking factor for its search engine in May. This particularly includes website performance. So if you want to ensure that your pages appear prominently in the search result pages in the future, you should make sure that they load quickly. There are of… Read more

Microsoft joins General Motors' Robotaxi company

Microsoft wants to be the next technology company to get involved in the self-driving car business. The Windows giant is participating in a two billion dollar financing round of the robotaxi company Cruise of the auto company General Motors, as the company announced on Tuesday. Cruise was given a total of 30 Billion dollars. The… Read more

Wiko View 5: only autonomy and price save it. Sin! The review

Wiko continues to make smartphones and having realized he could not fight the high end, he decided to go straight to the medium-low one. Wiko View 5 is a smartphone from 169 ?? and therefore the demands are not many. On autonomy, certainly few people beat it but otherwise it is really difficult to find… Read more

DuckDuckGo: More searches than ever before

According to its own statement, DuckDuckGo recorded more than 102 million search requests in one day for the first time in January. In the year 2020 the average of daily search queries increased by 62 percent. In January 2021 users made an average of 90 million requests a day DuckDuckGo advertises to be completely anonymous:… Read more

Right network: Parler partly online again, full return announced

The website of the social network Parler, which is particularly popular with right-wing extremists and right-wing extremists, is partially online again and the platform should be back online before the end of the month. At least he was “confident” in this regard, Parler boss John Matze assured Fox News. At the moment the service only… Read more

l + f: Children playing hacked Linux Mint

Diagdsahfghgf3 “hgjGgh = jh + / ma-meöèhghimmē … oops! Mooomēnt! Stop! There are patches. (Image: Biehler Michael / Shutterstockcom) Of Olivia von Westernhagen Four wildly typing, mouse-clicking children’s hands managed to bypass the Linux Mint screen saver lock last month. The “Screensaver lock by-pass”, which was discovered by two small “hackers” by chance and which… Read more

My BIK – Credit Information Bureau starts with an application for Android and iOS smartphones. Check your credit history

The fact that the Credit Information Bureau is getting ready to introduce its own mobile application for smartphones operating under the control of Android and iOS has been discussed for some time. Nevertheless, details were lacking. These appeared only now, that is, at the time of the program’s debut. My BIK enables the implementation of… Read more

Astian Translate: Open source translations in nine languages

With Translate, Astian publishes a new translation service that appears as free software. At the start the program can handle nine languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic and Chinese. The automatic recognition of the input is still experimental. Users can try the service on the Astian operated libretranslate.com, but the software also… Read more

Honor is working on a new line of smartphones with Google Services

Huawei has been a bargaining chip in the US-Sino trade war since mid-2019 and as such has been dragging its Honor brand along. The Shenzhen-based company finally sold the division, leaving it to flourish on its own and allowing it to trade with US companies, including Google. According to Kommersant, a reputable Russian newspaper, Honor… Read more

Machine learning: “Understand” GPT-3 & Co. Language?

There are now AI systems that give the impression of understanding language and even do better than humans in a number of comprehension tasks. However, it is precisely these natural language processing (NLP) models that do not seem to notice when words are mixed up in a sentence. The problem lies in the way AI… 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

TechStage | Oppo Reno 4 Pro in the test: top smartphone for 500 €

Testing Tests overview Smartphone Oppo Reno 4 Pro in the test: Top smartphone for 500 € Motorola Moto G 5G Plus test: A lot of battery for little money Huawei P Smart 2020: Budget model with room for improvement Asus Zenfone 7 Pro: Turbo smartphone with flip camera Samsung Galaxy Xcover Pro in the test:… Read more

WhatsApp delays privacy policy update amid concerns over data sharing with Facebook

Home / Software & Gaming / Apps / WhatsApp delays privacy policy update amid concerns over data sharing with Facebook Matthew Wilson 3 hours ago Apps, Security If you tend to use WhatsApp regularly, then over the last week you’ve likely encountered a pop-up about the app’s new privacy policy. This new policy immediately stirred… Read more