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Technology and Corona: the biggest failures of 2020

Technology has had to save us for almost a year. A pandemic is sweeping the world, there have been dire forest fires, troubled political times and the airy miasm of social media wafts through our lives. 2020 has shown more clearly than ever how technical innovations can help us, but also hurt us at the… Read more

Raspberry Pi OS Update Kills Flash

Home News (Image credit: Future) The end has finally come for Adobe Flash on the Raspberry Pi. What once powered many memes and early Internet games is no more. With the latest update to Raspberry Pi OS, Adobe Flash has been removed from the official Raspberry Pi operating system but this brings about an issue… Read more

Tom’s Hardware CES 2021 Awards: Hot New Hardware for the Year Ahead

Home News (Image credit: Asus, Lenovo, LG, Thermaltake, Razer, MSI, Nvidia, EVGA. iBuyPower, AMD and Shutterstock) Let’s be honest. This wasn’t the CES anyone wanted. We’ve been covering North America’s largest tech show for years, so we can definitively say that, without in-person booths and demos, it’s just not the same. The most interesting things… Read more

Samsung Galaxy S21-series announcement coverage wrap-up

It sure was a busy day, as is becoming a tradition when Samsung holds one of its Unpacked events. The company announced another a trio of flagship models alongside the Galaxy Buds Pro with smarter ANC and even better audio quality, and the Smart Tag trackers. The S21 Ultra is surely looking like one of… Read more

Windows 10: Previously unpatched vulnerability supposed to damage the NTFS file system

A security researcher is currently warning of a vulnerability under Windows 10, probably since version 1803, which should allow attacks on the NTFS file system. Executing a specific, short command via the command line causes damage to the file system – sometimes to such an extent that a new installation is necessary. The Researchers also… Read more

TechStage | Fiido M1 Pro in the test: The foldable E-Fatbike for winter, forest and weather

Start Processing Driving Battery Price Conclusion Comments by Matthias // 13. 01. 2021 16: 37 Clock The Fiido M1 Pro is a full-suspension folding e-bike from China with fat bike tires and strong 450 – Watt motor for only 897 Euro. In the test, we cruise perfectly through winter, forest and weather. In May 2020… Read more

heise + | Photography in winter: mastering the times of day and white balance

Winter creates amazing plays of color. The camera often cannot capture these automatically. Photographers therefore have to take action themselves. In the polar night above the 64 ° latitude reached the direct light of the sun in December even at noon only higher cloud formations, such as this disintegrated storm system off the coast of… Read more

Distributed database: Cockroach Labs secures funding for further growth

Cockroach Labs, provider of the distributed, cloud-native SQL database CockroachDB, was able to double both the number of its customers and sales in the past year, as the company announced in a blog post without disclosing any specific financial data. In order to be able to continue financing the growth, however, Cockroach Labs secured itself… Read more

TechStage | Ratgber gaming chairs: How do you gamble at 50 euros?

Beginning Basics From 50 Euro Alternatives Conclusion Comments from Lenz // 13. 00. 2021 14: 39 Clock Anyone looking for a gaming chair will find models from 50 Euro. TechStage shows what they can do and what alternatives there are. Gaming chairs are like office chairs – only more colorful and gaudy. But they have… Read more

Against inequality: Apple supports black universities and projects

Apple wants to support further African American institutions and projects in the USA as part of its “Racial Equity and Justice Initiative”. Companies today have “more than ever” the responsibility to “tackle structural racism” and to ensure greater equality of opportunity, said Apple manager Lisa P. Jackson, who heads the initiative. The aim of the… 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

“Galaxy-sized” observatory finds evidence of gravitational wave background

A group of researchers may have found the first indication of the so-called gravitational wave background and hopes to open a completely new window into the universe for us soon. The extremely difficult and not yet unequivocal detection was achieved within the framework of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav). Should the… Read more

CES: Nvidia Ampere graphics for notebooks: GeForce RTX 3080, 3070, 3060 “Notebook GPU”

Nvidia has the first three graphics chips from the Ampere family GeForce RTX 3000 for notebooks. Compared to the 2000he and 1000 series heralds a small paradigm shift: The mobile graphics chips differ more from the desktop graphics cards of the same name than in the last two generations . On its own product page,… Read more

“Staingate”: Apple is still exchanging notebook displays

Ugly display spots on expensive notebooks: Apple’s so-called Staingate affair, which has preoccupied the company for more than five years, is entering the next round. If MacRumors reports to Apple’s authorized service providers (ASPs) citing an internal paper, an exchange program for affected devices is still active. However There could be delays in treatment this… Read more

Extreme Networks is sleeping through the end of Flash

The blocking of Flash content by Adobe means that certain management interfaces of Extreme Networks products have been used since 12. January 2021 are no longer available. Components with the so-called WiNG GUI are affected, for example wireless access points and wireless LAN controllers. Initially, the manufacturer found a change in the client system time… Read more