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Audi reveals its Porsche-powered E-Tron GT

Images: Audi Starting at a cool $100,000 Audi has announced the E-Tron GT, an expensive new high-performance electric sedan built on technology developed for Porsche’s first EV, the Taycan. Due out this spring in Europe, the E-Tron GT will start at €99,800 with a top-spec RS version starting at €138,200. It will then come stateside… Read more

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Pimoroni to Release RP2040-Powered Mechanical Keyboard

Home News (Image credit: Pimoroni) The Raspberry Pi Pico’s RP2040 SoC is turning up in the most unlikely of places, one of which is a redesigned mechanical keyboard from Pimoroni. Keybow 2040 is the latest version of Pimoroni’s Keybow keyboard add ons, and this version is the first to feature the RP2040 SoC as the… Read more

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A Glitch in the Matrix is quirky, creepy, and way too unreal

In February 2003, a 19-year-old named Joshua Cooke shot his parents to death in their Virginia home. Cooke told his lawyers that he believed he was living in the Matrix, a simulated universe outlined in the 1999 Keanu Reeves blockbuster of the same name. Cooke pleaded guilty, and the defense was never used. But years… Read more

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Beeper: 15 messaging apps in one service! It's the bet of the former CEO of Pebble (at $ 10 a month)

One service with 15 messaging applications. It is not a dream but the new platform of the former CEO of Pebble. It’s called Feeber and gathers all messaging services (even iMessage) in one place. The price? 10 $ per month. by Bruno Mucciarelli published 22 January 2021 , at 10: 41 in the web channel… Read more

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VW ID.3 Pure: basic model for 21,925 euros

It didn’t quite work out, but the cause is likely to be primarily from politics: The basic model of the VW ID.3 should, as the group announced at the launch, be less than 30. 000 Cost euros. Now are 31.495 Euros, of which, however, a manufacturer’s share of 3570 euros and 6000 euros from the… Read more

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Philips 288E2UAE – 28-inch IPS monitor with 4K resolution. It has a hub with four USB ports and displays images from two sources

Philips has introduced a new monitor model called 288 E2UAE. The device is equipped with 28 – inch, 10 – IPS bit panel with 4K resolution (3840 x 2160). In addition, the product is characterized by a minimalist design and narrow frames. The device is based on the already mentioned IPS matrix with wide viewing… Read more

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Beeper: Chat app wants to combine 15 messengers in one interface

An app instead of numerous messengers on the smartphone – Beeper wants to be this dream. 15 Services including iMessage are to be combined there in one interface. So far, the project was called NovaChat, which Eric Migicovsky, CEO of the former smartwatch manufacturer Pebble, announced on Twitter Beepers can then be controlled include WhatsApp,… Read more

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Pebble founder promises iMessage on Android and Windows with universal chat app

Beeper is a new universal chat app that’s an attempt to unify 15 different chat platforms into a single interface. The app is the work of a team that includes Eric Migicovsky, the CEO and founder of former smartwatch manufacturer Pebble, who announced its launch on Twitter. Beeper’s site notes that the project was previously… Read more

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Raspberry Pi Pico Review: ‘Pi Silicon’ Debuts on $4 Microcontroller

Our Verdict A first for Raspberry Pi, the Pico microcontroller provides an affordable and simple way to control lights, motors, sensors and other electronic components. For Low cost Small size Ease of use Built-in ADC Against C workflow is tricky No built-in wireless No 5V output Raspberry Pi has a history of disrupting the status… Read more

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Decentralized company chat with Slack and Matrix

Element has introduced a new bridging service for Slack for its Matrix Services (EMS). It is a connection between the collaboration platform and the decentralized messenger matrix, which Element manages completely for the customer. The new offer is based on the free matrix-appservice-slack, which companies can also set up themselves. With the software, users can… Read more

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Iiyama G-Master G2740QSU-B1 Black Hawk: well-priced 27-inch gaming monitor with IPS panel with QHD resolution

iiyama launches a new gaming monitor – iiyama G-Master G 2740 QSU-B1 Black Hawk . This 27 – inch model with screen aspect ratio 16: 9 with a matrix made in IPS technology with QHD resolution (2560 x 1440 pixels). The panel used is characterized by wide viewing angles, saturated and precisely reproduced colors and… Read more

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Basic work with Qt 6: KaOS 2021.01 published

With the switch to version 6 of the application framework Qt, which is used for the cross-platform development of user interfaces, the KaOS developers are preparing their distribution for a change from the plasma desktop to the Qt 6 basis. A number of applications in KaOS are already based on Qt 6. For the first… Read more

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Contact tracking: Two thirds of the health authorities rely on fax & Co.

By the end of 2020, according to plans of the federal government 90 percent of the 375 Health authorities in Germany use the “Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System” (Sormas), which the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig developed to combat Ebola and last year added a Sars-Cov-2-specific module. With 111 from… Read more

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Flashback: the original Samsung Galaxy S was a best-seller that spawned an empire

We’ve covered the Galaxy S II and Galaxy S III in previous Flashback articles, but now it’s time for the original – the one that started it all. Well, ther was the I7500 Galaxy after which almost all of Samsung’s Android phones are named, but we mean the original S-series phone. The Samsung Galaxy S… Read more

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The security billing: WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal? | uplink # 36.2

The weekly c’t podcast c’t uplink is available … This uplink sequence about messenger security is also explicitly aimed at non-nerds – at least in the first 20 For a few minutes, we try not to stir too much in technical details; you can also send the link to this uplink to your in-laws. Among… Read more

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