Overall, Australian companies and users benefit from 53 billion Australian dollars through the services of Google. This is the result of an economic report by the search engine giant. The investigation is related to the dispute over the planned media law.
1.3 million companies receive thanks to Google 39 Billion Australian Dollars (approximately 25 billion euros) more revenue, millions of customer contacts and are significantly more efficient, which in turn saves time and money. Users have a ” Billion Dollar” advantage through productivity, convenience, and access to information. Google search saves you five days a year, using Maps would save 5.6 hours.
Thanks to the Google Play Store, Australian app developers would have 639 Took millions of dollars and reached one billion people worldwide. The report also showed that 60 percent of all revenues go to small and medium-sized companies and 90 Percentage for companies that do not come from the tech sector. 116. 200 jobs were directly related to Google, others 162. 700 indirectly.
Saving time equals money The individual calculations are available online in the report. It says, for example, that the Google search company 39 saves hours per year and employee time, which is allocated to 4 .6 billion dollars. A customer saves 4.9 days per year by searching – that corresponds to 5.1 billion dollars.
Using search and Google Ads brings Australian company 31, $ 7 billion a year in revenue. For advertisers who use AdSense, be it 60 billions, all content creators on the web generated by AdSense 196 Millions.
Google and the Media Act Between Google and the Australian Government Dispute over a planned media law, according to which Google should pay publishers a kind of license fee for the use of content. One of the criticisms of the search engine provider is the associated arbitration procedure. Google does not consider the implementation to be possible, as there is no concrete equivalent value for the content.
The government has already made concessions that Google should take into account the forwarding of Google to the news sites during the negotiations . Accordingly, the figures presented in the report could serve as a calculation aid for Google. It is not the only step that the company is currently taking to clarify its position. It was recently discovered that Google was blocking individual media in Australia for testing purposes. The pages simply do not appear in the search. A spokeswoman said they wanted to measure the interactions between the news business and Google search. Publishers have called the procedure a “show of power”.
A new APK teardown of the Google Messages app version 7.2.203 for Android revealed a strong of text that suggested some change is coming to the default SMS client for Android. Google took charge of the next generation of SMS called RCS and the latest effort was offering end-to-end encryption for the instantaneous messaging service.
Perhaps it is due to this new secure feature of Google Messages that Google might be disabling the app from working on “uncertified devices” this is according to an APK teardown by XDA-Developers that revealed a string of text, suggesting that phones not certified to work with Google Mobile Services will cease to work with the Messaging app.
On March 31, Messages will stop working on uncertified devices, including this one.
An uncertified device is a device that runs the Android OS, but failed Google’s certification process for Google Mobile Services. This may include devices running unofficial modded software, Huawei devices that aren’t certified for GMS, or even devices with unlocked bootloaders. These devices don’t meet the requirements that Google sets for GMS and thus may compromise the security of its online services – such as Google Messages’ RCS support.
Google has not yet acknowledged the change. Given the March 31 date, it seems that Google intends to notify affected users of the change with once the notification is triggered by a future update of the Android Messages app.
Nvidia has updated its Shield TV media streaming box to add support for the Bluetooth enabled PlayStation 5 DualSense and the Xbox Series X|S controllers. These controllers can now be paired with the streaming device through the latter’s Bluetooth settings.
The Shield TV is a media streaming box but it can also play Android games from the Google Play Store. On top of that, the device is compatible with the Nvidia GeForce Now service, which allows you to play games from Nvidia’s cloud service.
The Shield TV devices are compatible with other wireless controllers and Nvidia also sells its own but now if you already have a PS5 or Xbox Series controller around then you don’t need to purchase one separately for the Shield TV. Then again, it’s hard to say how many people will be playing on their Shield TV when they already have a PS5 or Xbox Series console around.
Nvidia added support for Control4 home automation system in this update for the Shield TV, which allows Control4 remote or app to navigate the Shield TV UI. The OS has also been patched with the Android December 2020 security update.
(Pocket-lint) – If you just can’t get enough gaming goodness, but standard console controllers aren’t cutting it for your PC, then you might be considering an upgrade.
There are a number of decent PC controllers out there that cater to different devices and help up your game. Robust designs, multi-functional capabilities and customisation options abound.
We’ve been playing with some of the best to compile a list of the most interesting and capable gaming controllers money can buy.
Upgrade your gear and upgrade your game.
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Astro C40 TR gaming controller
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Supports: PS4, PC and Mac
Customisable design with swappable Analog Stick caps
Adjustable layout, customisable buttons, adjustable sensitivity levels and hair-trigger switch
2.4Ghz wireless with 5ms wireless latency
Weighs 310g
12 hours battery life with Lithium-Ion rechargeable battery
Includes hard carry case, 2-metre micro-USB cable and swappable buttons
The Astro C40 TR is a wireless controller that’s designed for the “serious” gamer. TR stands for Tournament Ready, so that already gives you a sense of how serious Astro is about the design of this controller. Sure, it might be expensive, but you very much get what you pay for.
It features a snazzy, well-thought-out and robust design aesthetic which means it feels weighty in the hand, but not on an obnoxious way, in a way that alludes to the quality. It’s that build quality that’s the first thing that strikes when you get it out of the box and remove it from the hard carry case and continues on as you use it. Inside that case is a multitude of things to help you on your way to controller mastery. Along with the charging cable and wireless dongle, you get a tool for removing the faceplate, some replacement analogue stick caps and space for more upgrades in the future.
With the tool, you can remove and swap the position of the analogue sticks with the directional pad and customise the position according to your personal playstyle. In the software, you can remap the buttons, adjust sensitivity levels of the sticks and triggers and even create two different profiles that you can switch between on-the-fly with the flick of a button near the triggers.
There’s another button for individually turning the standard triggers into hair triggers – meaning you don’t need to depress them as far to activate them. And yet another switch for switching between wireless and wired modes. The customisation is the very heart of this controller. It’s designed for PS4, but also works on PC and can be mapped to work via Steam’s Big Picture mode in your game library with relative ease.
If you want the very best, then this Astro C40 TR might be it. Especially when it comes to customisation options. There are even more upgrade accessories you can buy to tweak it further, with different style stick caps, d-pad buttons and more.
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Razer Raiju Ultimate
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Supports: PS4, PC and smartphone app
USB or Bluetooth connectivity option
Interchangeable thumbstick and D-pad buttons
Razer Chroma RGB lighting
Extra multi-function buttons, trigger stops for quick action
The Razer Raiju Ultimate is another serious bit of kit for PlayStation/PC gamers who love the feel of a hefty, customisable and well-built controller in their hand. Although the Raiju Ultimate isn’t quite as customisable as the Astro C40 TR it still has plenty of interesting design features. You can switch the style and height of the analogue stick caps, for example, and the style of the D-pad, but you can’t swap their position.
The Raiju Ultimate also uses Bluetooth instead of 2.4Ghz wireless. Making it easy to pair and sync with other devices. This connectivity also means you can use the smartphone app (for Android or iOS) where you can easily remap buttons, switch between onboard memory profiles, adjust RGB lighting and stick sensitivity too.
The Raiju Ultimate is as easy on the eye as it is in the hand, with a premium design that includes texture grips on the handles and sticks to ensure it doesn’t slip when you’re in the middle of a good gaming session.
As if all this wasn’t enough, it also stands out from the standard PlayStation style controllers thanks to the addition of extra multi-function buttons on the underside and near the triggers. Trigger stops mean you can turn the main triggers into hair triggers, add that to sensitivity tweaks and you can customise how the controller reacts when you game.
This controller is designed to work with PC and PlayStation and though it will connect to your smartphone via Bluetooth it’s not certified to work with games on it. It’s designed to work nicely with Steam games and has drivers for non-steam games too.
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Razer Raion Fightpad
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Supports: PS4 and PC
6 face button layout, 8-way Mecha-Tactile D-pad
Button lock function for competition mode
Razer Mechanical Switch pushbuttons
Weighs 275g
3-metre wired connection
The Razer Raion is a bit of a different monkey. It’s more affordable than some of the other controllers on this list, but it’s also designed for a different undertaking – namely fighting games specifically. Large tactile buttons take up the face of this controller alongside a distinct lack of analogue control sticks.
It also has two more buttons on the top to give your fingers access to more in the middle of a fight. These face-buttons are also built using Razer’s Yellow mechanical switches. Meaning they’re not only robust (with an 80-million tap lifecycle) but also react quickly and accurately to your strokes.
For accurate and precise movement, the Razer Raion also boasts an 8-way directional pad to help you pull off perfect combos, finishing moves and more. A built-in function lock button means you can disable the extra buttons when you don’t need them, so you can customise according to your playstyle.
All-in-all, if you love fighting games, then you need this controller.
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MSI Force GC30
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Supports: PC and Android
600 mAh lithium battery, lasting 8 hours usage
Metal magnetic swappable d-pads
2 million click guarantee switches
Wireless, wired and support for Android too
2-metre USB 2.0 cable and 0.3-metre OTG smartphone cable
If you’re looking for something more affordable, but still useful and well designed, then the MSI Force GC30 might well be worth a look. This is a wireless controller that’s designed to work with PC and Android smartphones (assuming you have a micro USB connection).
It comes with two easily swappable D-pad covers with a metal design. They connect via magnets and quickly detach when you need them too, offering slight customisation options but nothing as fancy as the other controllers on this list.
The MSI Force GC30 feels a little light in the hand and obviously isn’t the same quality as the pricier options, but it packs in a lot of neat features and design aesthetics.
Design highlights include textured side grips so the controller doesn’t slip out of your hand in the middle of a game, a capable wireless dongle with the freedom to play in wired mode too and more. A decent battery life, the ability to use it on some phones and an affordable pricepoint make this controller an interesting option.
Writing by Adrian Willings. Editing by Max Freeman-Mills.
The application of Google Messages soon will stop working on all those Android devices that are not certified by Google itself . That will leave out smartphones like Huawei, affected by the US veto and that cannot have Google services or certifications.
In version 7.2. 90 of the application a text string has been found that warns that as of 31 of March, the Messages app will stop working on non-certified devices.
From the 31 March, Google Messages would stop working on non-certified Android phones
It seems that the reason behind this decision would be to guarantee the security of communications, since Google plans to add point-to-point encryption to its application in order to be able to match other messaging applications that already exist with this system, something that may not be easy to verify in a non-certified terminal. Even so, other applications such as Telegram do maintain that extra layer of security without depending on Google’s certification.
We will have to wait for Google to pronounce on the matter to see if this measure finally takes place. applies.
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Antonio Delgado
Computer Engineer by training, editor and hardware analyst at Geeknetic since 2011. I love gutting everything that comes my way, especially the latest hardware that we get here for reviews. In my spare time I fiddle with 3d printers, drones and other gadgets. For anything here you have me.
Microsoft has released “Listen” as a native app for iPhones. The tool is designed for company use and should enable mobile access to all existing lists and lists shared in the team for information management. The app makes it possible to edit lists and create new lists while on the go – either using templates or from an Excel file, as Microsoft announced. The iOS app should offer all the core functions of the web app. Lists is also already integrated in Microsoft Teams.
Designed for mobile devices, initially only iPhones The app is designed for professional use, the templates include lists that can be used as a bug tracker, to record project progress, as an agenda or as an introduction for new employees.
In addition to list management, photos can also be added via iPhone – including support for QR codes – emphasized Microsoft. The release of lists is also possible. The iOS app also gives offline access to lists that have already been loaded and supports system functions such as dark mode. Lists can be found quickly with various filter functions. The app supports device management via Intune, data security is designed for corporate use.
In contrast to Microsoft’s “To Do” task app, end users cannot simply use Microsoft Lists: They can only log in if a There is a company subscription for Microsoft 365, which also includes SharePoint, as the software group emphasizes.
The native app Microsoft Listen is currently only available for the iPhone and is running accordingly only in a reduced view on the iPad. The manufacturer promises that adjustments for Apple’s tablets will follow soon. A list app for Android is also in work, details will only be given later this year.
Big discount, just under 50% on the official price list, for MIcrosoft 365 Family that allows you to equip up to 6 Microsoft users of the Office package and each of 1TB of storage space via OneDrive
of Editorial published on 20 January 2021 , at 16: 09 in the Software channel Microsoft Microsoft 365 OneDrive
Microsoft 365 is the package so ftware known until a few months ago with the name of Office 365, thanks to which it is possible to acquire a user license that includes the use for one year of the Office suite applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook.
The peculiarity of Microsoft 365 is to offer the possibility of installing your license, linked to your Microsoft account, on multiple personal devices . In addition to this, its users are combined with a cloud storage space of 1TB through Microsoft’s OneDrive service, accessible both from PC with Windows operating system as from mobile devices based on Android or iOS OS thanks to the appropriate APP provided by Microsoft in the respective stores.
Microsoft 365 is offered to end users in a Personal version , which provides a license for a single person, or in the richer Family that can be shared with a maximum of 6 people . By purchasing one of these licenses, therefore, the user not only gains access to their own 1TB storage space with free use of the Office package applications but can share everything up to 6 people, each able to receive on their own Microsoft account not only the Office APPs that can be installed on their personal devices (personal computers, smartphones and tablets) but also their own 1TB cloud storage space via Onedrive.
Microsoft 365 Family is on promotion on Amazon, with a price that is equal to 54, 99? ? at this time against the 99? ? to which it is typically proposed. Difficult to miss this opportunity, which with less than 10 ?? per user per year, it allows you to install the applications of the Office package on the personal devices of 6 users with Microsoft accounts as well as having 1TB storage space available in the cloud with OneDrive. This last feature alone pays off the cost, which is extremely competitive and interesting.
(Pocket-lint) – Air fryers offer an alternative and healthy way to crisp up your food without the need for half a bottle of oil. They are basically small ovens that use powerful – and normally pretty noisy – fans, along with a concentrated heat source to deliver a fried finish to your food, whether that be chips, chicken, wings or even veg.
Requiring very little oil, or none at all, and a touch of a couple of buttons to deliver crispy chips, crunchy onion bhajis or anything else you might otherwise fry, air fryers are essentially a guilt-free way to eat chips. There are several options around, all with various features, and while Tefal and Ninja appear multiple times on our best air fryers list, there are others to consider too.
Here’s our pick of the best air fryers to buy today
Ninja
Ninja Foodi Max AG551UK
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The Ninja Foodi Max AG551UK isn’t the cheapest on our list, but it’s not just an air fryer. This smart-looking device has six cooking functions: air fry, bake, roast, reheat, dehydrate and grill.
There’s a 5.7-litre cooking pot, 3.8-litre crisper basket for delicious chips and wings, a grill plate for cooking chicken or steak, a cleaning brush and you get a recipe guide. There’s also a leave in digital probe to make sure your food is perfectly cooked.
Tefal
Tefal FZ773840 Actifry Genius+ Air Fryer
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The Tefal FZ773840 ActiFry Genius+ Air Fryer is higher up this list than the 2-in-1 option below, mainly for price. Like the more expensive option though, this air fryer has automatic programs to take care of temperature, cooking and stirring time, making cooking a breeze.
This model only has a single zone, but the 1.2kg removable bowl is dishwasher safe for easy cleaning, can handle between 5 and 6 portions and you can download the free app for hundreds of specific ActiFry recipes.
Tefal
Tefal ActiFry Genius XL 2in1 YV970840
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The Tefal ActiFry Genius XL 2in1 YV970840 is one pricey bit of kit. In fact, it’s more expensive than most full-blown ovens, but it does pretty much everything for you by adjusting the temperature, time and stirring.
There are 54 smart program combinations taking advantage of the two cooking zones to cook all parts of your meal and have them ready at the same time, as well as nine smart auto programs and a built-in timer. The 1.7kg capacity can handle up to eight portions and there’s a dedicated free app with over 300 recipes too. Striving for the perfect dinner party host? This will be your best friend.
Ninja
Ninja Air Fryer Max Air Fryer Max AF160UK
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The Ninja Air Fryer Max AF160UK comes in three capacities so you can choose the best one for your home, depending on the number of people and your available cupboard space. We’ve picked the middle option for our list.
It offers six cooking functions: Max Crisp, Air Fry, Roast, Bake, Reheat and Dehydrate. There’s a 5.2-liter non-stick basket that is dishwasher safe for easy cleaning and the controls are nice and intuitive, making this one easy to use. It’s not bad looking either.
Philips
Philips Viva Collection Air Fryer HD9621/91
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The Philips Viva Collection Air Fryer HD9621/91 is probably one of the best looking air fryers on our list. Like others, it has an accompanying app that offers hundreds of recipes and tips to make the most use of your air fryer.
You can grill, roast, fry and bake using this model and it offers adjustable time and temperature control. It also has easy cleaning and dishwasher safe parts.
Instant Pot
Instant Pot Vortex 6 (4-in-1)
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The Instant Pot Vortex 6 offers four programs in one with Air Fry, Bake, Reheat and Roast functions. There’s a 5.7-liter capacity that fits up to 1.8kg of chicken or 1kg of chips and there’s the option to cook from fresh or frozen.
The smart dial control offers temperature adjustment up to 205-degrees and cooking time up to an hour, and it looks pretty good too so if you don’t have the cupboard space, you might not mind it on display. It’s also one of the cheapest on this list.
Tefal
Tefal ActiFry Genuis XL AH960840
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The Tefal ActiFry Genius XL AH960840 has nine automatic programs including ‘1-meal-1-go’, where you add all the ingredients at once and let the Genius XL do all the work for you.
It offers a 1.7kg capacity, has an automatic stirring paddle and the automatic programs adjust the temperature and stir, without you having to lift a finger. This model will also turn itself off, keep food warm and it has dishwasher safe parts for easy cleaning.
Ninja
Ninja Foodi Air Fryer AF300UK Dual Zone
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The Ninja Foodi Air Fryer AF300UK Dual Zone has two independant cooking zones, perhaps unsurprisingly based on its name. These zones allow you to cook different foods using different programs that will be ready at the same time.
Like other Ninja Air Fryers, this model has six cooking functions: Air Fry, Max Crisp, Roast, Bake, Reheat & Dehydrate. It comes with two 3.8-litre cooking drawers, two crisper plates and a recipe guide.
Cosori
Cosori Air Fryer
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The Cosori Air Fryer has a built-in digital one touch screen that offers 11 preset cooking functions, including steak, poultry, seafood, shrimp, bacon, frozen foods, french fries, vegetables, root vegetables, bread, desserts and preheat.
It’s a little bigger than some on this list, and not as streamlined in design, but its square basket has a 3.5-liter capacity and it’s removable, as well as dishwasher safe for easy cleaning.
Writing by Britta O’Boyle. Editing by Dan Grabham.
There are those who never have too much LED backlight. I am talking about lovers of Corsair equipment, who so far have probably received every possible periphery with this type of illuminations, but still patiently waited for … a large illuminated pad. Soon players will have the opportunity to make up for the current “arrears” and purchase the Corsair MM 700 RGB model, so the pad operating in the Corsair iCUE illumination environment. It will not be the first better washer, but quite a large (measuring 920 x 400 mm), the structure illuminated in three zones. Corsair MM 700 RGB is expected to be available in stores in early February.
Corsair MM 700 RGB is expected to be available in stores in early February. In addition to the backlight in the iCUE environment, it will also offer a USB HUB.
Corsair iCUE – RGB LED backlight environment with no secrets. Here’s what the iCUE ecosystem looks like and how to configure it
Measuring pad 92 x 40 centimeters received two backlight zones, and if you take into account the attached remote control with the Corsairs logo, you can talk about three zones . The aforementioned remote is used to quickly switch between the eight effects previously assigned in the iCUE app. However, this is still not all – the mentioned remote control is also a USB HUB, which is equipped with two USB type A ports and one USB type C – the latter is used to connect a computer pad.
Corsair case test 5000 D – Combination of two different worlds. Subdued style and modern interior
As always in this type of Corsair pads, we get a non-slip, rubber base, thanks to which the whole thing will not move on the desk an inch. The size of the pad will allow you to freely place both a larger keyboard and a mouse on it, and the only thing that may be a bit worrying is the low price. Corsair MM 700 RGB was priced at 269 PLN, although this amount can be slightly justified with the already mentioned USB HUB and cooperation with the iCUE environment. The official website of the gadget is HERE.
data.org, a US nonprofit, has announced the winners of its “Inclusive Growth and Recovery Challenge”. The funding of 10 million US dollars will go to eight projects that use data science to improve people’s lives.
One of the selected projects is an app from the non-profit Swiss foundation BASE, which gives Indian smallholders access to secure cold chains and supports them in making decisions based on weather and market data wants to see whether cooling is worthwhile. In this way, more food should be protected from spoilage. A project by the University of Aalborg in Denmark is also being funded to develop a map that can be used to identify economically particularly vulnerable regions. Community Lattice from the USA wants to give everyone easy access to critical environmental information so that they can assess health risks. Fundación Capital combines Mozambique’s largest digital platform for jobs in the informal sector with an AI assistant to give job seekers a better overview of job and income opportunities.
The University of Chicago receives funding, to develop maps and open source tools that can be used to identify regions that are left behind when Internet access is fast. GiveDirectly wants to use machine learning to accelerate digital cash transfer in Africa. Solar Sister promotes the spread of renewable energies in Africa with market analyzes. Women’s World Banking aims to make it easier for women entrepreneurs in Mexico, Nigeria and India to access credit.
data.org is a platform that partners with local actors to promote the use of data science in the social and societal fields wants to advance. It is funded by Mastercard’s Center for Inclusive Growth and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Nvidia is updating its Shield Android TV software to include support for the latest next-gen console controllers. If you own a Shield TV or Shield TV Pro device, you can now pair the PS5 DualSense or Xbox Series X controllers to play Android games or PC titles through Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming service.
To pair a PS5 DualSense controller, you can head into the Bluetooth section of the Shield TV, and then hold down the PlayStation button until the light pulses blue. For Xbox Series X / S controllers, you can hold the pairing button until the Xbox button starts blinking.
Alongside the controller support, Nvidia is also adding Control4 home automation system support in this Shield TV 8.2.2 update. This allows the Control4 remote or app to navigate around the Shield TV UI to launch apps. This Shield TV update also brings the devices up to Android’s December 2020 security patch level.
Nvidia has consistently updated its Shield TV software for years, improving its AI-powered 4K upscaling features last year along with improvements to remote control customizations. Nvidia also added IR and CEC volume controls last year to its latest devices.
Should you stay in a traffic jam on the motorway or should you leave? It feels, however you do it, wrong. Classic navigation systems are not of great help here. If you recommend a detour, it will soon be congested as well – while the motorway may have long been clear again. “The traffic jam oscillates – it sloshes back and forth between the main and the alternative route,” says Alexander Meister, an expert in traffic control at the Hanover-based start-up Graphmasters. It has developed navigation software that is supposed to distribute the traffic better. It is based on “collaborative” routing: All users receive individual recommendations so that the available roads are optimally used.
As a measure of how much Traffic is assigned a maximum road, the maximum speed is used. Tempo – 30 – Zones and game streets get accordingly less. This is to prevent alternate traffic from entering the surrounding residential areas. The real-time traffic data for this – according to the company, around 1.5 million traffic measurements per minute – comes from its own app called Nunav, among other things, but is also purchased from telematics service providers.
With the idea of collaborative routing, Graphmasters won the “Microsoft Imagine Cup” – at that time still under the name “Greenway” – 2012 . With the won 100. 000 Dollar seed capital, the start-up initially developed routing software for logistics companies and parcel services. “Every third package in Germany is now delivered with our software – for example by Hermes,” says Meister. “We are now used across the board at Austrian Post.” According to Graphmasters, the software saves more than 2019 tons of carbon dioxide per year through more efficient routing.
influence A new mainstay was added to the routing recommendations 2016: major events such as concerts and trade fairs . Organizers can then print a QR code on their tickets, which visitors can use to download the Nunav app. Then they can be guided on precisely defined routes to the designated parking spaces without getting in each other’s way more than necessary.
But how widespread does the app have to be in order to have a noticeable effect on traffic? “Of course, not every visitor downloads our app,” says Meister. “But research says that a spread of 1 percent is already an improvement of 15 percent for the flow of traffic. And our own experience and that of the police say that 3 to 5 percent penetration is about 20 Percentage improvement. ”
At concerts by Helene Fischer, Andreas Gabalier, Rammstein and Eminem, each with five-digit visitor numbers, up to a quarter of the visitors came with the Nunav app. There was no major traffic chaos. However, it is difficult to quantify how high the penetration is in everyday life, admits Meister. The most valid number is that of the regular route requests – currently around 24. 000 Routes per minute.
About Detours, but time-saving Since mid-January, the Lower Saxony traffic management center (VMZ) has also had a direct influence on the routing recommendations. It can, for example, guide car flows around building sites over a large area, keep them out of residential areas or coordinate the arrival and departure to trade fairs. And if park-and-ride parking spaces are set as destinations, local public transport can also be integrated. This is what happened on 30. November 2019, when buses and trains in Hanover could be used free of charge.
Whoever confides in Nunav, however, also has to use it expect to be led in a roundabout way – against the promise to need less time overall. A random comparison with Google Maps shows that this can definitely be the case. So Google routed on 14. January Drivers from Kassel to Hanover directly on the A7 – despite a large traffic jam near Northeim (total 165 kilometers, 2: 31 hours). The website of the Lower Saxony traffic management center, on the other hand, which uses the Graphmasters algorithm, suggests bypassing the traffic jam – and thus saves (at least in the calculation) more than half an hour (168 km, 1: 58 hours).
Graphmasters, which now has 31 employees, earns its money primarily with its paid app “Nunav Courier” for logistics. (The Nunav app for private users is free.) In addition, there is income from the organizers of major events. Another mainstay are services for traffic management centers. The state of Lower Saxony pays for this 180. 000 euros for three years. Meister hopes that other federal states will join in the future. Another source of income is the licensing of routing for third-party navigation software. “Pathfinder” from Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, for example, is equipped with it ex works. Other manufacturers are all masters under discussion, but he is not allowed to name their names yet. (grh)
Google is releasing a new version of Chrome this week that will improve its dark mode support, alongside removing FTP and Adobe Flash support. The dark mode improvements can be found on both Windows and Chrome OS. There are refinements to both the light and dark modes in Chrome OS, with the themes updated for the app launcher, quick settings, and shelf parts of Chrome OS.
How To Geek also reports that the Windows 10 dark mode is improved with Chrome 88, with scroll bars finally appearing dark. Unfortunately, these are currently limited to the settings, bookmarks, history, and new tab pages of Chrome 88 and not across all websites with dark themes.
Elsewhere, Google is also removing some old web technology in Chrome 88. The File Transport Protocol (FTP) is officially disabled with this latest version, removing support for a protocol that has been used for decades to send files across the web.
Chrome’s new tab search feature.
Adobe Flash is also being fully removed from Chrome 88, after being initially blocked and then disabled in recent years. The removal of Flash from Chrome marks the end of an era, following Adobe’s discontinued support on December 31st.
Google is also experimenting with some new features for Chrome. Both tab search and less intrusive website permission requests can be found hidden away in Chrome 88. You’ll need to enable the new tab search using chrome://flags/#enable-tab-search, and it will appear as a new drop down arrow in the Chrome tab UI. Smaller permission prompts can also be enabled from chrome://flags/#permission-chip.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released the second major version of its Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Go programming language. According to the publisher, user feedback from the first version was incorporated and new features of the language were taken into account.
Modularize service clients The revised modularization is new: Version 2 of the SDK packages each AWS Service Client as an independent Go module. This should enable developers to model service dependencies in their applications. Feature updates and the service client for app control can thus be handled separately and the size of individual modules shrinks. Go modules have been around since Go 1. 13, the innovation in the SDK follows the general versioning strategy for Go.
Configuration and API client methods are simplified or unified: Instead of numerous ways to call an API, version 2 offers a single API client to call services . Service operations can be called directly on the client, with each method taking the API input along with the context and then returning the response or the error.
Less Pointer for API parameters required The pointers for API parameters have also been streamlined. In the new version, the SDK requires fewer pointer references than before. Types can be converted into values whenever this is possible according to the API model data. Apparently this also applies to the map and slice data. Enums are now part of the type string aliases, can be generated as constants and can be used directly in the code.
According to the AWS team, this simplifies the type support for enums in the IDE ( Integrated Development Environment). With a code example, the team illustrates how value types for the API filters of the DescribeInstance in the Amazon Elastic Cloud let set. Filters and Values become value types instead of pointers (as in version 1 of the SDK):
result, err: = client.DescribeInstances (context.TODO (), & ec2.DescribeInstancesInput {Filters: types.Filter {{Name: aws.String (“instance-state-name”), Values: string {“running”, “pending”, “stopped”,},},},}) Configuring with a single config type The new SDK version for Go sees a single Config – Type before what the interaction between session – and Config – type simplified. The SDK developers have moved the configuration flags specific to each service to the area of individual service client options. According to the blog entry, this is intended to make it easier to find configuration values that the Service Client supports.
With the command LoadDefaultConfig developers can obviously define the standard configuration values in the configuration package and load configuration values from external sources. It could look like the following example code – details on this can be found in the developer guide for the AWS SDK for Go.
// Load SDK configuration with shared config profile. cfg, err: = config.LoadDefaultConfig (context.TODO (), config.WithSharedConfigProfile (“profile-name”),) // Create Amazon S3 API client using path style addressing. client: = s3.NewFromConfig (cfg, func (o s3.Options) {o.UsePathStyle = true}) Cross-page pagination Call-back functions are no longer used in pagination with a single context across all paginated service calls, which made error handling more difficult in the past. Instead, the new SDK version provides the context page by page and allows iteration over API results that can span several pages. According to the publisher, performance should also be increased, so the AWS team refers to its own benchmark program and a half-cut CPU load.
The AttributeValue and Expression packages are also new Package from Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon S3 Transfer Manager for transferring large files in smaller portions, using goroutines.
More information can be found in the migration guide. Further code examples and more detailed information can be found in the release notification in the AWS blog.
Facebook has released version 9 of its Software Development Kit (SDK) and other updates for the platform SDKs. The company has also announced that it will begin marking all SDK versions below version 9.0 as deprecated. Developers are encouraged to migrate to the current version. The Facebook SDKs provide helpful analysis functions and are used in app development.
The updates contain a new restricted mode (Limited Login) for the Facebook login. The limited login mode introduces protective measures that are intended to prevent a user’s login via an iOS app from being used to place advertising or to measure advertising success. In addition, Facebook is disconnecting from the automatic initialization of the Read Library. So far, all Facebook Platform SDKs were automatically initialized when starting.
Changes to the release cycle Facebook would like to update the platform SDK to Version 9.0 start, all previous SDK versions in the next two years (until 19. January 2023) to be marked as obsolete. If the goal is achieved, the previous versions of the SDK will be overridden. The company recommends users to switch to the current version as soon as possible.
Furthermore, Facebook announced that it would align all new main versions with annual releases in order to ensure that the SDK version numbers correspond to the latest version of the graph -API to adapt. Smaller updates are still planned – if necessary, a major version can be released outside of the cycle.
End of support for React Native Wrapper The company announces the end of support for its own React Native Wrapper around the SDKs for Android and iOS. The current version of the project moves to the Facebook archive. Facebook recommends that the community split (fork) this repository into a new project so that the community can continue to maintain it. Support for React Native continues and is not affected.
More information on the new features can be found in the post on the blog “Facebook for Developers”.
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