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Show of force? – Google is blocking media in Australia for testing purposes

Some news sites currently do not appear in Google search for certain users in Australia. They are blocked for testing purposes, explains Google when asked by the Australian Financial Review. Accordingly, “a few experiments, each affecting one percent of Google search users in Australia, to measure the interactions between the news business and Google search.”… Read more

Corona warning app: data synchronization on some Android smartphones disrupted

The synchronization of the transaction data or the key was a while ago … (Image: heise online) The users of the Corona-Warn-App may not currently receive the current result of the risk assessment. On Wednesday, several users reported (also in the editorial office of heise online) that the app was not updating the risk status… Read more

Suggestion for language change: Go should get generics

The programming language Go, originally developed for Google, is one of the few statically typed languages in recent years that does not have support for generic data types. The implementation of parameterized types has been discussed for years – actually since the release of Go on 10. November 2009. Now a proposal has been submitted… Read more

Which is best for cloud gaming?

Introduction “Do you guys not have phones?” This has to be the most iconic line when we think of mobile gaming. It’s been more than two years since Blizzard announced Diablo Immortal and these words went viral, yet the game is nowhere to be found. But over the course of these two years the entire… Read more

HTC Wildfire E3 appears in Google Play Console

HTC’s Wildfire series will get a new member soon with the upcoming Wildfire E3 which appeared in a Google Play Console listing. The Wildfire E will be a budget option with a waterdrop notch screen of HD+ resolution, 3GB RAM and the MediaTek MT6762d aka Helio P22 chipset. On the software side, we have Android… Read more

ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED and more: Asus laptops unveiled at CES

Asus unveiled at CES 2021 a totally updated range of notebooks. Between innovative and avant-garde solutions, there is something for everyone: those who have to work, play or simply surf the net and study. by Manolo De Agostini published 14 January 2021 , at 14: 11 in the Portable channel ASUS VivoBook ZenBook Chromebook During… Read more

Windows 10, the 'floating' Start Menu is coming and many other new features: here's how they could be

There are many news that Microsoft is setting up on Windows 10, with debut expected by the end of 2021, and one of them is a new “floating” Start Menu. Here’s how it could be based on a first concept by Nino Grasso published 14 January 2021 , at 12: 21 in the Operating Systems… Read more

CES 2021: New Asus Chromebook CX9 and Flip CX 5 with Intel 11th Gen CPU and Xe Graphics

Asus has presented at this CES 2021 Las Vegas two new models of Chromebooks, the Asus Chromebook Flip CX5 and Chromebook CX9 powered by 11 Intel processors and Intel Iris Xe graphics. Asus Chromebook Flip CX5 with Intel processor from 11 1st Gen The Asus Chromebook Flip CX5 is the first Chromebook with 14 screen,… Read more

The video portal Rumble sues Google for abuse of dominant position by prioritizing YouTube

by Antonio Delgado Yesterday at 14: 90 … The Canadian online video service Rumble has accused Google of abuse of a dominant position by claiming that the search engine has unfairly manipulated its search algorithms , always showing the results of its own video service, Youtube, above those of Rumble. The lawsuit accuses Google of… Read more

BlackBerry has just sold almost one hundred patents for solutions used in smartphones

BlackBerry is an icon in the mobile market. The manufacturer, who was appreciated by the broadly understood business for years, created well-made smartphones that we could recognize by one feature. I am talking about the extremely comfortable qwerty keyboard, which offered unparalleled convenience at the time. Unmatched in the heyday of the brand, because today’s… Read more

Briefly informed: inventory data information, CES, Corona-Warn-App, TikTok

Opposition warns of new attack on digital civil rights Representatives of all opposition factions have sharply criticized the bill with which the grand coalition wants to adapt the provisions on the provision of inventory data to the requirements of the Federal Constitutional Court. The FDP network expert Manuel Höferlin fears that this threatens the “next… Read more

Sysdig observed a shift left at Container Security

The platform provider Sysdig, which focuses on Secure DevOps, has presented its annual “Container Security and Usage Report” for the fourth time. In the output for 2021, Sysdig comes to the conclusion that more and more users are attaching greater importance to security and monitoring. Almost three-quarters (74 percent) of the DevOps teams surveyed scan… Read more

Bundestag wants to restrict the market power of Google, Facebook & Co.

The Bundestag wants to restrict the market power of large IT groups such as Google, Apple Facebook and Amazon under antitrust law. To this end, on Thursday he passed the government draft for the tenth reform of the Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB) with a few changes. In addition to the coalition factions of… Read more

JPEG XL is said to inherit JPEG, PNG, GIF and Webp

The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) has fixed the format of its new standard JPEG XL. In addition to the description of the code stream, the Freeze Release format also contains an open source library for reading and writing the new format as well as an encoder and a decoder as reference implementations. JPEG XL… Read more

Corona warning app: Google fixes bugs in the Exposure Notification Framework

Google has eliminated the error in the technical interface of the Corona warning app for Android smartphones. Google announced on Thursday. The error had led to a number of users of the Corona warning app not having received the current result of the risk assessment since Tuesday evening. Several users reported on Twitter and the… Read more