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Data science for a better world

data.org, a US nonprofit, has announced the winners of its “Inclusive Growth and Recovery Challenge”. The funding of 10 million US dollars will go to eight projects that use data science to improve people’s lives. One of the selected projects is an app from the non-profit Swiss foundation BASE, which gives Indian smallholders access to… Read more

Less variable salaries: the collective is becoming more important

The fat years for employees in the automotive industry are over. Because the car business is no longer running, bonuses are being cut or canceled. The same applies to the tourism industry, which is almost at a standstill due to the travel restrictions due to Corona. These payments are voluntary and one-time special payments by… Read more

Valve and five game publishers fined millions for geo-blocking Steam games in EU

Valve and five PC video game publishers have been fined a total of €7.8 million (around $9.5 million) by the European Commission for restricting cross-border game sales in the European Economic Area. The Commission said that the companies geo-blocked around 100 PC video games, preventing them from being activated and played outside certain EU countries…. Read more

First 5 minute rechargeable electric car battery produced

The technology comes from the Israeli company StoreDot, while the first battery capable of this performance, which would allow the vehicle to be recharged as quickly as with traditional petrol or diesel cars, was produced in China, by Eve Energy by Rosario Grasso published the 20 January 2021 , at 12: 41 in the Technology… Read more

Netflix surpasses 200 million subscribers thanks to a record 2020

Lockdowns led to Netflix overcoming i 200 millions of subscribers. The company expects a slowdown in growth in 2021, but relaunches on content to respond to fiercer competition than ever. by Manolo De Agostini published 20 January 2021 , at 12: 21 in the Audio Video channel Netflix Netflix has exceeded the 200 millions of… Read more

Semiconductor supplier ASML achieves record sales of 14 billion euros

The Dutch semiconductor supplier ASML has 454 made more money than ever before: almost 3.7 billion euros in profit at almost 13 billion euros in sales. The fourth quarter 2020 accounted for almost 4.3 billion euros in sales and 1.1 billion euros in profit. ASML has almost a third of its annual turnover with the… Read more

Volkswagen expects strong growth in China despite the lack of chips

With the recovery of the Chinese economy, Volkswagen 2021 expects “significant growth” in its key market. China boss Stephan Wöllenstein expects the market share to increase. “There are good reasons that the Volkswagen Group can develop better than the overall market,” said Wöllenstein on Wednesday (20. Jan. 2021) in front of journalists in Beijing. “We… Read more

MediaSaturn mother Ceconomy: Good business despite lockdowns

Despite the lockdown, electronics retailer Ceconomy did good business with the Media Markt and Saturn brands in the Christmas quarter. Thanks to booming online shops and successful discount campaigns in November, sales, adjusted for currency and portfolio effects, were around 11, 4 percent above the previous year’s level, like the group announced on Wednesday based… Read more

Road load balancing

Should you stay in a traffic jam on the motorway or should you leave? It feels, however you do it, wrong. Classic navigation systems are not of great help here. If you recommend a detour, it will soon be congested as well – while the motorway may have long been clear again. “The traffic jam… Read more

TIM: sanction of almost 1 million euros for the remodeling of the basic plan

The sanction for TIM of 928. 00 0 ?? for having incorrectly remodeled the contract linked to the conditions of the Basic Plan with a cost of 1, 99 ?? per month for some customers in the absence of active offers. Here are the details. by Bruno Mucciarelli published 20 January 2021 , at 11:… Read more

DNSpooQ: Vulnerabilities discovered in DNS / DHCP server Dnsmasq

Security researchers from JSOF have found seven vulnerabilities in the DNS / DHCP server Dnsmasq. Attackers could attack devices equipped with them and manipulate DNS entries, for example, in order to redirect victims to websites they control. 2008 the computer scientist Dan Kaminsky presented such a DNS attack for the first time. The execution of… Read more

Wind farms in the North Sea produce more electricity than ever

The wind power plants in the North Sea delivered more electricity than ever before. Overall, the amount produced increased by , 4 percent on 22, 60 Terawatt hours (TWh), such as the network operator Tennet in Bayreuth communicated. In addition there were 4, which remained practically unchanged compared to 2019, 13 TWh from the Baltic… Read more

Netflix has over 200 million users and is stopping the money burning

Netflix 2020 grew particularly strongly. The streaming provider 36 won 5 million paying subscribers, including 8.5 million in the fourth quarter. This value is 42 percent above Netflix’s own expectations. In total, the company now has almost 204 million paying subscribers, i.e. the symbolic mark of 200 Millions exceeded. In the current quarter, Netflix expects… Read more

Storytelling incubator Wattpad is getting bought for over half a billion dollars

Last week, we told you how Wattpad has become a place where budding authors can sometimes turn their work into Hollywood film and TV, with Hulu, Netflix and others adapting Wattpad writers’ labors into titles like The Kissing Booth, Light as a Feather and After We Collided. But it looks like Wattpad may no longer… Read more

Netflix surpasses 200 million subscribers, but has more competition than ever in 2021

Netflix has surpassed another major milestone: 203.6 million subscribers around the world. The achievement comes after Netflix saw spectacular growth in the first half of 2020. But as it celebrates passing the 200 million subscriber mark, Netflix is also acknowledging that 2021 likely won’t see as many net subscriber gains every quarter, starting in the… Read more