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iQOO 7 units worth CNY 200 million sold in first sale, update brings 1,000Hz touch sampling rate

The iQOO 7 unveiled earlier this week went on its first sale today and iQOO announced it sold units worth more than CNY200 million, which translates to about $30.9 million. The iQOO 7 comes in two memory configurations – 8GB/128GB priced at CNY3,798 ($585/€485) and 12GB/256GB priced at CNY4,198 ($650/€535). The phone maker didn’t reveal… Read more

Emissions law violation: Toyota pays $ 180 million fine in the US

Toyota has to pay a multi-million dollar fine in the US for years of emissions reporting violations. As part of a settlement to settle civil litigation, the company must have 148 million dollars (148 Million euros), announced the Justice Department in Washington on Thursday. Systematic violations of the “Clean Air Act “. The US Environmental… Read more

Frustration factor distance learning – only worksheets again?

With the corona crisis, many new words have found their way into everyday language: no one has to look up incidence, intensive capacities or R-value. In the school sector, the word creations and paraphrases for the new pandemic-related non-normality are particularly diverse: “presence operation”, “restricted regular operation”, “alternate model” or “hybrid teaching”. And meanwhile it… Read more

TWS segment sees significant growth in 2020, more to come in 2021

A new report released by Counterpoint Research, says the wearables market continues to grow quickly. The latest research shows that 52% of wearables in Q3 2020 consisted of hearables. Smartwatches and fitness trackers accounted for 41%. Skinwear, bodywear, and eyewear accounted for the remaining 7% share. Source: Counterpoint Research. *Includes smartwatches and bands. The hearables… Read more

File sharing: US provider has to pay the music industry $ 1 billion

The US Internet provider Cox Communications has to pay one billion US dollars (currently 150 million euros) to 57 record companies and music publishers. Customers of the ISP have in the years 2013 and 2014 10. 017 Pieces of music copied via file sharing networks. Because Cox has not cut off these customers from the… Read more

WWF: 43 million hectares of tropical rainforest destroyed

43 According to calculations by the environmental organization WWF, millions of hectares of tropical rainforest are in 24 particularly badly affected areas have been destroyed. The WWF announced on Wednesday in Berlin that this is based on satellite data from 2004 to 2017. The largest loss occurs in the Amazon region in Brazil, Colombia, Peru,… Read more

Power to Liquid: The potential for “excess” electricity

Since there has been a constant debate lately about synthetic fuels (“Power to Liquid”, PtL) as an alternative to battery-electric cars, here is a small calculation. First of all, it is undisputed that the direct use of electricity for driving is many times more energy-efficient than the detour via chemical substances. If the electricity has… Read more

Hackers looted nearly $ 3.8 billion in cryptocurrencies in 2020

Over the past year, blockchain hackers have been involved in over 78 attacks of all kinds around 3, 78 Billions of dollars in cryptocurrencies stolen from the January Bitcoin high 2021 is used as the basis for calculation. This means that around a third of all blockchain attacks recorded so far took place in the… Read more

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

Russia is considering banning foreign satellite internets

In Russia fines for access to the Internet via foreign providers could soon be threatened. A corresponding legislative proposal is being processed in the Parliament of the Russian Federation. It is justified with national security. Citizens could bypass Russian network monitoring via providers such as SpaceX and OneWeb. The proposed law provides for fines of… Read more

Dispute over the use of Microsoft products in digital teaching

Numerous associations have spoken out against the use of Microsoft products on the digital education platform for schools in the south-west. Corresponding plans by the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs should be rejected due to inadequate data protection, announced on Wednesday, among other things, the state student council, the state parents ‘council, the education… 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

Bitkom: “The signs are pointing to growth again” for the digital sector

The digital economy in Germany has recovered from the negative consequences of the corona pandemic faster than the German economy as a whole. Sales of products and services from ICT companies 2020 only fell by 0.6 percent to just under 170 billion euros, while other industries sometimes suffered double-digit losses. For the current year, the… Read more

Telefonica is getting rid of radio masts for 7.7 billion euros

The sale of radio masts should help the Spanish telecommunications group Telefonica to reduce debt. The Telefonica division Telxius will be scarce due to the sale of 31. 000 radio masts in Spain , Germany and South America to the US group American Tower Corporation (ATC) take 7.7 billion euros, Telefonica announced on Wednesday in… Read more