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Patent application: The car is found dirty and goes to the car wash

Developers at the Japanese car company Toyota have devised a method by which a car should be able to determine whether it is ready for the car wash. An application for the property right for such an assessment system has now been submitted to the US Patent Office. For the When deciding whether it is… Read more

MSI MEG X570 Godlike Review: Flagship Class, Five M.2 slots, 10 GbE

Our Verdict The MSI Godlike performs above average in our testing and easily handled overclocking the Ryzen 9 5950X. With five M.2 sockets, two premium audio codecs, a watercooling ecosystem and an extreme overclocking capable power delivery, there is no doubt the features (and $699 price) are flagship class. For 19-Phase 70A Power Delivery Killer… Read more

Sony’s new Bravia CORE streaming service goes big on IMAX Enhanced movies

Home News (Image credit: Sony Pictures Entertainment) Sony is launching a high-bitrate video streaming service alongside its 2021 Bravia TVs. It’s called Sony Bravia CORE (the ‘CORE’ stands for ‘Centre of Real Entertainment’) and it exists to offer the latest box office films to Sony 2021 TV owners at bitrates beyond those of many 4K… Read more

Sony Bravia XR TV range brings cognitive intelligence to picture processing

Home News (Image credit: Sony) Sony has unveiled its 2021 TV range at this year’s virtual CES event and, with it, an all-new picture processor to power its Sony Bravia XR TVs, called the Cognitive Processor XR. Replacing the Picture Processor X1 series of chips, the Cognitive Processor XR adds a layer of cognitive intelligence… Read more

Boeing criminally charged for lying about 737 Max crashes, fined $2.5 billion

Boeing has been criminally charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States by the Department of Justice and will have to pay a $2.5 billion fine for lying to the Federal Aviation Administration before and after the fatal 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019. The Justice Department announced the charges and fine, which were… Read more

Samsung patent reveals how the company plans to make under-display cameras

A recently filed patent at USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) by Samsung reveals how the company plans to make the under-display camera tech work. And unsurprisingly, it’s not all that different from the current implementation we’ve seen from Oppo and ZTE. We even had the chance to review the ZTE Axon 20 5G…. Read more

Lenovo announces IdeaPad 5G, IdeaPad 5 Pro and Tab P11: here are specifications and prices

Two laptops and one Android tablet among the innovations introduced by Lenovo at the CES 2021. Here’s everything you need to know about the new products by Nino Grasso published 07 January 2021 , at 15: 01 in the Laptops channel Lenovo IdeaPad In response to people’s changing needs during the COVID pandemic – 19… Read more

New Neo QLED TVs for Samsung at CES 2021 with Mini LED backlight

Samsung makes its move too thank you to a new backlight source, called Quantum Mini LED. It is a matrix of LEDs in which the individual elements occupy 1 / 40 of a Conventional LED, with the possibility therefore of having a greater density of LEDs and to manage the backlight levels of its new… Read more

Cyber attacks: German authorities also used SolarWinds software – only which?

In Germany too, authorities could be affected by the hack on the network software of the Orion series from SolarWinds. Accordingly, use or used 15 ministries and federal agencies at least partially or “occasionally” products of the US company, as from an answer from Federal government at the request of the Bundestag member Manuel Höferlin… Read more

Despite US sanctions: GitHub is fully available again for users in Iran

Microsoft’s developer portal GitHub will soon be fully available again for users in Iran, despite the continued US sanctions against the Islamic Republic. The managing director of Github, Nat Friedman, announced this in a blog entry shortly after the consequences of the sanctions became visible again. Since the summer 2019 GitHub has not been fully… Read more

Federal Transport Minister wants better protection for cyclists and pedestrians

Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) wants more protection for cyclists and pedestrians in road traffic. When asked by the German Press Agency, Scheuer said: “We are not only working on a new road safety program, we are also investing massively in research into automated and networked driving.” Technical progress in infrastructure and vehicles means… Read more

Christmas quarter gives online retail a strong growth spurt

In the Christmas business, online retail saw another strong surge in growth, not least due to the effects of the corona pandemic and the associated restrictions. According to a consumer study by the Bundesverband E-Commerce und Versandhandel (bevh) Germany, online sales in the fourth quarter were almost 24 Percent above the previous year’s level. The… Read more

Breakdown: Secret NRW State Chancellery documents published on the Internet

The construction and property company of North Rhine-Westphalia accidentally posted secret floor plans for the State Chancellery and confidential documents on the Internet. The Landeshaus in Düsseldorf (Image: Pitlane 02, CC BY-SA 3.0) The complete floor plans of the NRW State Chancellery and confidential documents for the planned renovation of the cabinet room have inadvertently… Read more

Police warn colleagues: be careful with private chats

The Berlin police have warned their officers to be careful and cautious in private chats and chat groups. Disrespectful statements, even if they are meant jokingly, could lead to problems with the employer or even be punishable, the police wrote in an “employee information sheet on the use of private messenger services”. “The exchange in… Read more

Brief information: retail, car wash, Slack, Snapdragon 480

Retail can look back on increased sales In November the German retail trade 2020 done good business despite Corona restrictions – at least according to the estimates of the Federal Statistical Office. Including the price increases, retailers would have made 6.5 percent more money in November compared to the same month last year. However, not… Read more