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heise + | Brazil's path to data dictatorship

For many years the largest democracy in Latin America has been a pioneer in data management. 1995 she founded the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee. The stakeholder panel helped establish principles for Internet governance. Driven by Edward Snowden’s revelations, the government of Dilma Rousseff 2014 pioneered the Marco Civil, a kind of “Internet Bill of Rights… Read more

The best Lightning headphones 2020 for your iPhone or iPad

(Pocket-lint) – To listen to music on any iPhone since the iPhone 7, you either need a pair of wireless Bluetooth headphones, a 3.5mm to Lightning converter (no longer included in the box for 2018 and later iPhones) or a pair of wired headphones that will connect to the Lightning port. Best noise-cancelling (ANC) headphones for… Read more

Gaia-X: Big US hyperscalers want to get involved in the EU cloud

Gaia-X should become an interoperable European alternative to cloud services from IT giants such as Amazon, Alibaba, Google or Microsoft. But most of the Americans in particular immediately expressed interest in participating and are now all on board at least as partners and members of technical working groups. At the two-day digital “Gaia-X Summit”, all… Read more

IMAX Enhanced comes to Polk Audio and Definitive Technology speakers

Home News (Image credit: Xperi) Polk Audio and Definitive Technology have become the first home cinema brands to have their speaker packages certified for IMAX Enhanced compatibility. The move allows an almost end-to-end IMAX Enhanced experience which can now included a certified 4K Blu-ray film, AVR, TV or projector and speaker system too. The IMAX… Read more

Volkswagen is investing billions in e-mobility and digital

There are great concerns about a long dry spell in the auto industry – Volkswagen is now countering the difficulties arising from the Corona crisis and changes in direction in the mobility transition by investing billions of euros. Overall, the expenditure stagnates from 2021 to 2025, but they are growing significantly in the future areas…. Read more

Bitcoin spin-off Bitcoin Cash is splitting again

With the Bitcoin spin-off Bitcoin Cash, another spin-off took place on Sunday. Behind the fork is a group called Bitcoin ABC around the developer Amaury Sechet. Their goal was an update with a protocol change that was supposed to introduce a kind of mining tax at Bitcoin Cash: Eight percent of the mining income should… Read more

40 years ago: The first major video game tournament ended

40 years ago, on 10. November 1980, the final of the first major video game competition takes place. Long before the word “e-sports” was born. Round 10. 000 Participants compete to “Space Invaders”. It is certainly not the first tournament on the screen. Many early games are designed for two players because the technology does… Read more

HUAWEI FreeBuds Pro vs Apple AirPods Pro: dynamic cancellation and price makes the Chinese win

On the one hand FreeBuds Pro from HUAWEI , earphones just arrived on the market from the other side Apple AirPods Pro which instead have now been present for some years. Two true wireless headphones that seek to take music listening to the next level. How do they differ? Here is our comparison. by Editorial… Read more

Do zebrafish provide pieces of the puzzle for understanding intelligence?

Animals such as fruit flies or zebrafish have so far been regarded as comparatively simple stimulus-reaction machines that react to certain environmental stimuli with fixed behaviors. However, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen have found evidence that there are amazingly long-lived internal states in the brains of these animals that… Read more

VDA proclaims itself the European champion of e-mobility

In the current electric car boom, German manufacturers see themselves clearly ahead across Europe. “The German automotive industry is already the European champion in electromobility,” said the President of the VDA, Hildegard Müller, of the German Press Agency . With 600.000 new e-cars overtaken Chinese market They are leaders in the European market and have… Read more

Stage victory for Sonos in the patent dispute with Google

In the patent dispute between Sonos and Google, a Northern California federal court rejected one of the patents on which Google based its counterclaim as trivial and removed it from the proceedings. The patent describes a method of comparing the availability of content from different sources and initiating a notification in the event of changes…. Read more

The flying car PAL-V Liberty is allowed on the road – but initially only while driving

The moving gyroplane “Liberty” made by the Dutch manufacturer PAL-V has now received European road approval. Next, he will be on the road with folded wings on European roads for testing purposes in the coming months, the company announced. Don’t miss any news! With our daily newsletter you will receive every morning all the news… Read more

Lidar technology: Continental joins US startup

The German automotive supplier Continental is investing in the US startup AEye, which specializes in lidar sensor technology. Continental is acquiring a minority stake in the lidar pioneer, the companies announced on Tuesday. The partners did not provide any information about the financial details. AEye would like to bring its technology to series maturity with… Read more

Bug in HDMI 2.1 chips: AV receivers, next-gen consoles and graphics cards affected

After the market introduction of HDMI 2.1 had dragged on for years, Denon, Marantz and Yamaha presented the first audio / video receivers with the new version of the Audio in the past few months – / video interface – just in time for the launch of the next-generation Xbox Series consoles from Microsoft and… Read more

iPhone 12 Pro Warrior collection from Caviar

Caviar launches a luxury iPhone 12 Pro (Max) Limited Edition collection, consisting of 6 unique phone models dedicated to the Roman era. The Russian luxury accessories brand Caviar just released a new iPhone 12 Pro Limited Edition series called ‘Warrior’, dedicated to the Roman era. Caviar is known for decorating high-end Apple and Samsung smartphones… Read more