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Why the FDA is taking 22 days to look over J&J’s data

A billion years ago last summer, people were getting antsy about vaccines. They wanted things to move faster, maybe skip a few steps in clinical trials to speed things up. This was, at the time, generally considered a bad idea that would result in less accurate data and cause people to lose trust in the… Read more

Primephonic enriches its classical music streaming with Maestro listening guides

Home News (Image credit: Primephonic) Classical music streaming service Primephonic has just announced the launch of Maestro, an in-app listening guide offering detailed, step-by-step “walkthroughs” of classic works. With Maestro, you can listen to classical music alongside a written description of the musical passage and the instruments, as and when they are heard. The Dutch… Read more

Google’s cloud business lost more than $5.5 billion last year, but it’s growing fast

Google parent company Alphabet weathered the tail end of 2020 to post better-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter of the year. But the bigger story is that Alphabet broke out Google Cloud’s sales for the first time ever, revealing an eye-popping $5.6 billion annual loss last year, but a nearly 50 percent jump in revenue… Read more

E-Trade won’t let you buy GameStop and AMC stock either, reports now say

Financial services company E-Trade has restricted purchases of GameStop and AMC stock, a source tells Bloomberg. The two stocks have become popular on forums like the r/WallStreetBets subreddit and seen their prices skyrocket to unprecedented highs over the past week. (GameStop hit $483 earlier on Thursday and briefly went above that during the day. Last… Read more

A year into coronavirus, we’re still counting the dead

A year ago this week, The Verge published our first story about the virus. It was January 21. The first case had arrived in the US. We’d only heard of about 300 cases reported in China and six deaths. We still knew there was a chance it could get bad. “It’s bringing back SARS flashbacks… Read more

In WandaVision’s third episode, the devil really is in the details

It’s just a jump to the left and a step to the right for Wanda and Vision, who have time warped from the ‘50s and ‘60s to the 1970s. The third episode picks up right where the last ended: Wanda is pregnant, but she and Vision are still trying to figure out how they ended… Read more

Fireworks ban: should the calm, dust-free New Year's turn stay?

On New Year’s Day 2021 Berlin offered an unusual picture for residents who have been living in the capital for some time. In many neighborhoods – with the exception of problem areas – the streets were as clean as they were leaky. The tons of fireworks and firecrackers rubbish that the city cleaning department usually… Read more

ZooMaa, CoD pro player, forced to retire due to hand injury

Thomas “ZooMa” Paparatto, gamer professional 25 years extremely popular on the Call of Duty scene, is forced to retire due to a hand injury that prevents him from compete at a high level. by Manolo De Agostini published 21 January 2021 , at 08: 41 in the Videogames channel 41. This is the case of… Read more

Clubhouse – the hype about the live podcasts with data protection deficiencies

Done! It took a while, but I’m in. In the new hot shit called the Clubhouse. And so, dear friends who appear in my contacts, the provider also has all of your numbers. Clubhouse is not only an extremely hyped live podcast app, Clubhouse also wants to know as much as possible! But let’s start… Read more

Contact tracking: Two thirds of the health authorities rely on fax & Co.

By the end of 2020, according to plans of the federal government 90 percent of the 375 Health authorities in Germany use the “Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System” (Sormas), which the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig developed to combat Ebola and last year added a Sars-Cov-2-specific module. With 111 from… Read more

Newspaper: Justice Department wants to redesign cookie banners

The Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV) wants to make cookie selection banners on the Internet more user-friendly. “Consent to data protection provisions on websites is often unfriendly to consumers – long texts, a lot of small print, complicated browser windows,” said the State Secretary responsible for consumer protection Christian Kastrop of the… Read more

The Medium: new live action trailer, Ray Tracing and DLSS support announced

Microsoft and Bloober Team talk to us again of one of the most anticipated games of this month. The Medium shows itself again in a live action trailer, where we admire its protagonists (human and otherwise) and the disturbing atmospheres of this psychological horror. Meanwhile, Nvidia confirms support for Ray Tracing and DLSS. by Pasquale… Read more

Computer breakdown: Thousands of data deleted from British police files

Due to a breakdown, a lot of data has been deleted from the central computer system of the British police. It was more than 150. 000 arrest records with DNA data and fingerprints, reported the Newspaper The Times on Friday. The Ministry of the Interior admitted the breakdown at the Police National Computer (PNC), the… Read more

The ten most popular posts on heise Developer in 2020

The year 2020 was marked by the corona pandemic, which will continue to be with us. But what were the most important trends and the most interesting topics from the point of view of the readers of heise Developer ? In the following, the team takes a look back and presents the top – 10… Read more

Nickelodeon aired an NFL game and proved technology can make football way more fun

If people tuned into the Chicago Bears vs. New Orleans Saints game on CBS, they may have missed all the slime. In a play for a broadcast aimed at a younger audience, the NFL aired the Wild Card matchup simultaneously on Nickelodeon, with its own announcers, goofy on-screen animations, and touchdown celebrations featuring SpongeBob SquarePants… Read more