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heise + | Photography in winter: mastering the times of day and white balance

Winter creates amazing plays of color. The camera often cannot capture these automatically. Photographers therefore have to take action themselves. In the polar night above the 64 ° latitude reached the direct light of the sun in December even at noon only higher cloud formations, such as this disintegrated storm system off the coast of… Read more

Apple was reportedly interested in electric car startup Canoo

In order to promote the development of its own electric car, Apple allegedly also had talks with the startup Canoo: In several meetings in the first half of the year 2020 various options have been explored – from an investment to a takeover, as The Verge reports with reference to informed persons. Chassis for electric… Read more

Huawei insiders criticize employee bargaining

At Huawei there is allegedly a “quasi-military corps spirit” in the sense of the company’s founder Ren Zhengfei, who preaches a rough management style in the sense of a “wolf spirit”, also in the European headquarters in Düsseldorf and other branches on the old continent. In doing so, the Chinese network supplier is sometimes violating… Read more

CES: Zephyrus Duo and ZenBook Duo: Asus relies on dual-screen notebooks

Asus is renovating its three dual-screen systems for the CES 1700 Notebooks RoG Zephyrus Duo 14, ZenBook Duo 14 and ZenBook Pro Duo 14. In addition to the obligatory screen in the lid, they have another, narrow display between the lid and the keyboard; the latter was in turn moved to the front edge. In… Read more

Start-up with CPU architect veterans: Qualcomm wants to buy Nuvia

Founded less than a year ago and already valued at a ten-digit figure: Mobile processor manufacturer Qualcomm wants to take over the start-up Nuvia. Both companies have agreed on a purchase price of 1.4 billion US dollars – now only the authorities have to approve the takeover. Reason for the high price, Nuvias are engineers,… 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

Distributed database: Cockroach Labs secures funding for further growth

Cockroach Labs, provider of the distributed, cloud-native SQL database CockroachDB, was able to double both the number of its customers and sales in the past year, as the company announced in a blog post without disclosing any specific financial data. In order to be able to continue financing the growth, however, Cockroach Labs secured itself… Read more

Intel CEO Bob Swan resigns, Pat Gelsinger takes over

In February, the previous VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger changes to the executive position of Intel. He had previously worked for the chip manufacturer for three decades. (Image: Alexander Tolstykh / Shutterstock.com) Pat Gelsinger returns to Intel as CEO. (Image: Intel) After only two years at the helm of the processor manufacturer, Robert (Bob) Swan takes… Read more

heise + | Sony KD-65A8: 65-inch OLED television creates a cinema atmosphere

Sony KD – 65 A8: OLED -TV with 65 – Customs creates a cinema atmosphere Color edges and jitter Conclusion and test table Read article in c’t 2 / 2021 Sony’s 65 – imperial Like all televisions from the Japanese entertainment specialist, Topmodell uses Android TV as the operating system. You can quickly get lost… Read more

BeagleV: Single-board computer with RISC-V-CPU, HDMI and AI accelerator

The Chinese manufacturer Seeedstudio has announced the BeagleV, a comparatively inexpensive RISC-V single-board computer. Unlike the Raspberry Pi 4, for example, the BeagleV uses a RISC-V processor with two U 64 CPU cores from architecture designer SiFive. The subsidiary StarFive designed the processor JH 7100 using SiFive technology. The pure CPU performance should be on… Read more

TechStage | Ratgber gaming chairs: How do you gamble at 50 euros?

Beginning Basics From 50 Euro Alternatives Conclusion Comments from Lenz // 13. 00. 2021 14: 39 Clock Anyone looking for a gaming chair will find models from 50 Euro. TechStage shows what they can do and what alternatives there are. Gaming chairs are like office chairs – only more colorful and gaudy. But they have… Read more

CES: Supermicro presents Threadripper Pro workstation

Supermicro has his new workstation 5014 A-TT within the framework of CES 2021 presented. It is a system with AMD’s middle 2020 announced Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3000 WX, i.e. processors with up to eight Zen-2 chiplets including a maximum of 64 cores and 128 PCI-Express-4.0-Lanes. The CPU is flanked by eight RAM slots (Octa-Channel) for… Read more

App development: Google's Cloud Functions support the Ruby programming language

Google’s Cloud Functions, a platform for Function as a Service (FaaS), supports the Ruby programming language. The newly released Functions framework for Ruby should enable developers to write idiomatic Ruby functions for the cloud. According to the publisher, it can be used to create business-critical apps and integration layers. Cloud Functions for Ruby is in… Read more

Show of force? – Google is blocking media in Australia for testing purposes

Some news sites currently do not appear in Google search for certain users in Australia. They are blocked for testing purposes, explains Google when asked by the Australian Financial Review. Accordingly, “a few experiments, each affecting one percent of Google search users in Australia, to measure the interactions between the news business and Google search.”… 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