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US plans major expansion of facial recognition authority at airports

US Customs and Border Protection has filed for a significant expansion in its authority to conduct facial recognition at airports. On November 19th, the agency submitted a filing to the Federal Register seeking to expand the ongoing biometric exit program, broadening the program’s scope to include all air and land ports. The filing also shifts… Read more

heise + | For Flight Simulator and Co .: Cheap flight sticks from 70 euros in the test

For Flight Simulator and Co .: Cheap flight sticks from 70 Euro in the test Thrustmaster TCA Sidestick Airbus Edition Titanwolf Vulture Conclusion At least since the new edition of Microsoft’s Flight Simulator, the control stick has experienced a renaissance as a gaming accessory. Because even if the demanding flight simulation can even be (reasonably)… Read more

Go read this LA Times report about how toxic jet fumes can seep into the air on planes

A stunning new report from the Los Angeles Times details how toxic jet engine fumes can leak into airplanes’ air supplies, sickening passengers and crew — and the airline industry has known this was a problem for several decades. The Times reports that one pilot told colleagues the situation was “the tobacco and asbestos of… Read more

Walmart will use fully driverless trucks to make deliveries in 2021

Walmart will use fully autonomous box trucks to make deliveries in Arkansas starting in 2021. The big-box retailer has been working with a startup called Gatik on a delivery pilot for 18 months. Next year, the two companies plan on taking their partnership to the next level by removing the safety driver from their autonomous… Read more

Air taxi: Lufthansa is to train Lilium pilots

They are not yet whizzing through the air, the electric high-flyers from the Munich startup Lilium, but the pilot training has already been taken care of. Lufthansa Aviation Training (LAT) is to take over the task of finding suitable candidates and making them fit to be able to control the air tax. First, LAT and… Read more

Deutsche Bahn: Video surveillance is to be expanded significantly

The number of video cameras on station premises should be from around 8000 to 800 Stations to about 11. 000 increase. That is an increase of around 30 percent. The federal government and Deutsche Bahn agreed on this. You want to spend around 180 million euros for this. After homicides 2019 in Frankfurt am Main… Read more

Virgin Galactic: test flight into space aborted shortly after release

The most recent test flight of the Virgin Galactic space glider was aborted seconds after the carrier aircraft disengaged. Recordings from the ground show that the VSS Unity only fired its engine briefly before the sequence was automatically interrupted. The pilots then brought the vehicle back to Spaceport America, where they touched down safely, as… Read more

Comment: More range for e-planes

I have an idea to submit completely free of charge and license-free. It’s about the range of electric flying. Accelerating, starting and climbing only make up a relatively short part of the flight, but it is very energy-hungry and drains the batteries accordingly. An overview by the German Aeroclub quantifies the energy consumption during the… Read more

TeamViewer Tensor updates and integrates the functions of TeamViewer Pilot

In addition to the integration of Pilot for remote assistance, functions for co-browsing and multi-tenancy were added, respectively to support customers directly from the site, both during the purchase phase and for technical assistance by Alberto Falchi published 25 November 2020 , at 10: 29 in the Cloud channel TeamViewer TeamViewer has updated its Tensor… Read more

Robotaxis get the green light for paid rides in California

California has long been ground zero for autonomous vehicle testing in the US, but the state has never allowed companies to use those vehicles to make money from a commercial ride-hailing service. That changed last week when the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved two new programs that allow autonomous vehicle operators to launch their… Read more

Go read this story about resurrecting Sega VR

In the annals of video games, there are an uncountable number of products — canceled games, scrapped hardware — that feel as though they’re lost to time. But most of the time they’re only forgotten, not lost. And that’s where the Video Game History Foundation steps in. As the name suggests, the foundation is an… Read more

Crew for private mission to the ISS complete – speculation about shooting

Ax-1, the first private mission into Earth orbit and to the International Space Station, is slated for launch at the end of next year. It is being implemented by Axiom Space, and the company has now recruited three private astronauts to fly into space together with the former NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria. It starts in… Read more

Boeing 737 Max: US authorities can restart the crisis jet subject to conditions

Boeing’s unlucky jet 737 Max was granted permission to take off after being banned from flying for more than one and a half years. One of the prerequisites for this is the installation of new control software on the aircraft, as the US air traffic control authority FAA announced on Wednesday in Washington. It should… Read more

Fight against Corona: Signify and Edeka disinfect supermarket with UV lamps

Until vaccines ban the risk of Covid – 19, other measures must first of all prevent the pathogen SARS Keep the CoV-2 in check when shopping, traveling or in public spaces. In order to remove viruses from aerosols in indoor air, mobile filter systems are currently given a major role. Another, less invasive alternative are… Read more

Electric cars: Study puts charging station requirements at at least 440,000 by 2030

Germany needs at least 440 in the year 2030. 000, maybe even 843.000 publicly accessible charging points for electric cars. This is the result of a study by the National Control Center for Charging Infrastructure on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Transport. The number depends on it how many private charging points there are… Read more