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heise + | Energy transition: my money, my electricity

When Franz Pöter looks out over his city from the 192 meter high Rotenberg, then In addition to the Stuttgart TV tower, he discovers many unused areas – roofs of apartment buildings. The managing director of the Baden-Württemberg interest group Solar Cluster sees great development potential in this for the solar generation of tenant electricity…. Read more

Amazon Cloud: Storage at AWS, without changes to the business processes

In future, Amazon’s AWS Transfer can also be used with the in-house Elastic File System (EFS). Transfer is a service that allows users to transfer files to the cloud provider’s servers via SFTP, FTPS and FTP. So far, Transfer could only be used with S3 as a goal. EFS is Amazon’s implementation of a fully… Read more

CES: Sony relies on mini LEDs and artificial intelligence for TVs

Sony promises a lot for its upcoming Bravia TVs: The high-end devices from the new XR series include organic displays with higher peak brightness and LCDs with many small light-emitting diodes in the finely dimmable Direct-LED backlight. Sony is joining LG and Samsung, who also presented high-contrast displays with mini LEDs at the CES. Sony… Read more

Renault Captur E-Tech hybrid review: Cleaner crossover with practical charm

(Pocket-lint) – The Renault Captur was one of the first true crossovers to grace the roads. Sure, it followed the Nissan Juke – which created this segment – but the Captur has seen success. It’s Renault’s best-selling SUV in Europe and the best-selling UK model for Renault too. That’s no surprise, with a fusion of… Read more

Pre-reserve a Galaxy S21 in India, get a free cover

Samsung is making the Galaxy S21, S21+, and S21 Ultra official at a special event on January 14. As we get closer to that day, we’re seeing more and more local Samsung websites start up pre-reservation systems for the new devices, even if they aren’t being named. The latest to join this club is Samsung’s… Read more

Phytium Develops Eight-Core ARM CPU for Desktops

Home News (Image credit: Phytium) Tianjin Phytium Technology, a China-based processor developer, has introduced its new CPU for client PCs. The new D2000 processor packs eight general-purpose cores designed for both compact desktops, a’la Mac Mini, as well as sophisticated tower machines with expansion capabilities. The Phytium D2000: Eight Cores for Desktops The Phytium D2000… Read more

Sony 2021 TV line-up: models, sizes, specs, everything you need to know

Home Advice (Image credit: Sony) It’s not every year that Sony launches a brand new TV processor to run throughout its range, so we have high hopes for the Sony 2021 TV line-up. It’s headlined by the Cognitive Processor XR chip, which adds an extra layer of cognitive intelligence analysis to the already excellent Sony… Read more

Amazon pledges two billion dollars for housing promotion in the US

The world’s largest online retailer, Amazon, is following the example of other large US tech companies and announcing a multi-billion dollar package of measures for affordable housing. Overall, the company promises to provide around $ 2 billion in funding for affordable housing in its key U.S. locations. Funding in the form of loans According to… Read more

“iPhone 13”: More mmWave on the approach

Apple is apparently working on improvements to 5G support for its next iPhone generation. That can be heard from Asian suppliers. Currently the fastest 5G technology, the mmWave tape, which promises a maximum speed of 4 gigabits per second, is only available with the iPhone – 12 – and 12 – Pro models that are… Read more

Container: Dynamic templates for FreeBSD jails with Bastille

Bastille was released in version 0.8. The tool automates and manages jails under FreeBSD, i.e. operating system and application containers. An instance of a FreeBSD jail provided with Bastille with the full range of commands of the base system only requires around 10 to 12 Mbytes of space on the data carrier. Improved and dynamic… Read more

CES: Dell brings the noble 14-inch Latitude 9420 notebook

beginning 1920 made its debut at the then CES, the noble business -Notebook series Latitude 9000 with a 15 – tariff. Well, a year later, a 10 – Zöller joins: That Latitude 9000 in a stylish metal case weighs around 1.3 kilograms and is less than one and a half centimeters thin. Like its big… Read more

Samsung announces 2021 TV lineup with Neo QLED and microLED

Samsung today announced its 2021 lineup of televisions at the virtual CES 2021. These include models featuring Samsung’s Neo QLED as well as micoLED. Samsung introduced what it calls Neo QLED to its flagship 8K (QN900A) and 4K (QN90A) models. Neo QLED is a combination of a new backlighting technology and new image processing. Neo… Read more

The Redmi Note 9T will be presented on January 8 with 5G

Last Friday a new smartphone from Redmi, the Note 9T, appeared on geekbench, and this terminal will be an evolution of the Note 9, but equipped with the new MediaTek Dimensity 800 U as we learned in the leak, and would hit the market this month. Now, the company has confirmed that it will indeed… Read more

l + f: Security nightmare SMB in the browser

Security purists have long warned against technologies like web assembly and web sockets. Now a hacker shows what is possible with it. A hacker has a lot Effort implemented the proprietary Microsoft protocol for Windows networks (SMB) in web assembly. What initially appears to be a quirky tinkering project could have enormous effects on IT… Read more

Japan: Labor shortage is driving the robotics revolution

There are two Toyota cars in Japan – and both are interested in automation. While the mobility group Toyota Motor concentrates on robots in the care sector, its second largest shareholder, the former loom manufacturer Toyota Industries, relies on useful special applications for corporate customers. With Japan’s largest global airline All Nippon Airways (ANA), the… Read more