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Eleven year cycle confirmed: solar activity reconstructed for almost 1000 years

The most accurate data on solar activity so far for the past 993 not only confirm “impressively” the eleven-year activity cycle of our star, but also provide clues for two previously unknown radiation outbreaks in the High Middle Ages. This has been determined by an international team of researchers with the collaboration of the Max… Read more

Citizen Score: China's social credit system no longer on target

China’s social credit system, which was officially announced seven years ago, including a citizen rating in the form of a “Citizen Score”, has been delayed. According to the plan of the central government in Beijing, the “Schufa on anabolic steroids”, which in the West is an essential piece of the puzzle in the Chinese surveillance… Read more

Android Automotive OS: Does Google Still Give Automakers A Chance?

Android is actually not particularly suitable as an operating system for the telematics unit of the center console, the infotainment system. It boots for ages, it struggles with security problems and the rampant hardware growth has always kept Google on its toes. But the first current and probably all cars in the future rely on… Read more

Virgin Orbit brings satellites into space for the first time

Virgin Orbit put satellites into orbit for the first time. For this purpose, the company detached and detonated a liquid fuel rocket from an airplane flying off the coast of California on Sunday afternoon (California time). Ten small satellites were on board for the “Launch Demo 2” mission. These are One satellite each from eight… Read more

NiOh 2 Complete Edition – hardware requirements. Get your samurai PC ready, we have yokai demons to slaughter

NiOh 2, the continuation of the Japanese action RPG from Team Ninja studio known from such series as Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive, debuted in March last year, but only on Sony PlayStation 4 console. However, as in the case of the previous installment of this slasher series in the TPP convention, the creators… Read more

Fairytale Moments: The Pictures of the Week (KW 02)

With photography you take a break from everyday life. Sometimes you will be rewarded with magical moments, a moment like in the picture Standing Tall by Sophie 1404. The photographer was traveling in the southern Black Forest. She explains about the atmospheric tour: “Thick fog and storm with heavy snowdrifts whipped almost horizontally from the… Read more

More than 500 brown dwarfs: 3D map of the neighborhood of our sun

With the help of thousands of volunteers, a team of astronomers has created the most comprehensive 3D map of so-called brown dwarfs in the vicinity of the sun to date. You have now presented the map with 525 celestial bodies, including 38 newly discovered objects. According to the research results, the closer environment of our… Read more

Astronomy: Algorithms Find 1200 New Gravitational Lenses

With the help of algorithms, a group of astronomers has discovered more than 1200 previously unknown gravitational lenses and thus their number somewhat doubled. They are now presenting their work in The Astrophysical Journal. The large number of finds now enables better exploration of fundamental aspects of our universe such as dark matter and the… Read more

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

Windows 10, the 'floating' Start Menu is coming and many other new features: here's how they could be

There are many news that Microsoft is setting up on Windows 10, with debut expected by the end of 2021, and one of them is a new “floating” Start Menu. Here’s how it could be based on a first concept by Nino Grasso published 14 January 2021 , at 12: 21 in the Operating Systems… Read more

AMD and NVIDIA commented on graphics card availability issues

Both companies believe that availability issues will continue well into spring or even summer Both AMD and NVIDIA released a new generation of graphics cards last fall. However, the availability of graphics cards has been at an unprecedentedly low level amid increased demand from the coronary pandemic. Now both companies have shared their views on… Read more

Measurements at the edge of the solar system: The universe is brighter than expected

Our universe is quite dark, but it is brighter than assumed. At least one group of researchers who evaluated data from NASA’s New Horizons probe came to this conclusion. After all, it is further away from the sun than almost all other earthly instruments. At a distance of well over seven billion kilometers from our… Read more

CES 2021: Samsung unveils 110-inch Micro LED TV

Samsung has presented at CES 2021 the new Television with MicroLED technology from 110 inches , similar to Samsung Walls up to 292 inches, but this time for more domestic use, since they only have of a diagonal of 110 inches. The new televisions Samsung’s MicroLEDs have a panel made up of an inorganic LED… Read more

LG imagines a bed with a hidden see-thru OLED TV set

LG Display is continuing its trend of reimagining the future of screens at CES 2021 with a new transparent TV. The panel is a 55-inch OLED, but its transparent design lets you see through it even when it’s turned on and displaying an image. The screen achieves 40 percent transparency, LG Display says, which is… Read more

Arlo, here is the Arlo Essential Video Dorbell wireless doorbell

The new Arlo Essential Video Dorbell doorbell allows you to monitor the front door of your home 24 hours on 24, 7 days a week. Here are all the features and the selling price. by Manolo De Agostini published 07 January 2021 , at 18: 41 in the Home channel Arlo Arlo presented the wireless… Read more