The first offer of Iliad with the 5G network: it’s called Flash 70 and will allow those who activate it (by 21 January 2021) to have up to 70 GB, unlimited calls and SMS for only 9. 99 ??. But in which cities is it available and which are compatible smartphones?
by Bruno Mucciarelli published 28 December 2020 , at 12: 21 in the Telephony channel Iliad
Iliad threw the real bomb before Christmas : the new tariff (first with its 5G) that can be activated until 21 January 2021. It’s called Flash 70 and is precisely the first offer of the operator with 5G included , available for all (new users and users from all operators) with 70 GB at only 9, 99 ?? . Inside the offer, however, there are also unlimited minutes and SMS and, like all offers, also the possibility of not having remodeling in the future or even hidden costs.
Iliad Flash 70: here are the cities where 5G is available!
What are the cities where it will be possible to use Iliad’s ultra-fast 5G network today? In this case, directly on the operator’s website, it is possible to see the precise list of cities where it will be possible to intercept the 5G antennas and therefore use your smartphone, if compatible, to surf at very high speed.
Here are the cities that support Iliad 5G
Alexandria
Bari
Bologna
Brescia
Cagliari
Como
Ferrara
Florence
Genoa
Spice
Latina
Messina
Milan
Modena
Padua
Perugia
Pesaro
Pescara
Piacenza
Prato
Ravenna
Reggio Calabria
Reggio Emilia
Rome
Turin
Verona
Vicenza
Here are the smartphones compatible with the 5G network
What are they smartphones currently available on the market that can be used for the 5G network with the new Iliad Flash rate 70? Here is the complete list:
XIAOMI: Mi 10 T Lite 5G, Mi 10, Mi 10 T, Mi 10 T Pro and Mi 10 Pro.
Iliad Flash 70: here is the first rate with 5G included
How does the new rate work and what are the your costs? Flash 70 sees the presence of a very respectable bundle with the possibility of having in one month up to 70 GB of traffic data to be exploited also, and here is the novelty, under the new 5G network in Italy. An incredible novelty especially because the rate is completed with everything that we usually found in the Iliad offers, that is, the minutes of calls and unlimited SMS for the whole month. The price? Only 9, 99 ?? but in this case the rate will be activated until the next 21 January 2021.
FLASH 70
Unlimited minutes of calls to all national fixed and mobile numbers
Unlimited SMS to all
70 GB of data traffic under the 5G network (where available) with Hotspot included
COST: 9. 99 ?? per month
WHERE TO ACTIVATE IT: ONLINE or STORE
Activation COST + SIM: 9. 99 ??
ILIAD: other offers
Next to this is proposed the ‘Voice only offer which allows you to have unlimited calls but practically without data for internet browsing. Here is specifically what it provides:
VOICE
Unlimited Minutes of calls to all national fixed and mobile numbers
Unlimited SMS to all
40 MB of data traffic under the 4G network with Hotspot included
COST : 4. 50 ?? per month
WHERE TO ACTIVATE IT: ONLINE or STORE
Activation COST + SIM: 9. 99 ??
But alongside these two offers, Iliad, still offers the old Giga 40 and the Giga 50 which, although not visible on the website directly, can still be activated.
GIGA 50
Unlimited minutes of calls to all national fixed and mobile numbers
Unlimited SMS Towards all
50 GB of data traffic under 4G network with Hotspot included
COST: 7. 99 ?? per month
WHERE TO ACTIVATE IT: ONLINE or STORE
Activation COST + SIM: 9. 99 ??
GIGA 40
Unlimited minutes of calls to all national fixed and mobile numbers
Unlimited SMS to all
40 GB of data traffic under ret and 4G with Hotspot included
The PlayStation 5 console appeared on the market a month ago and still does not want to leave the lips of users interested in technology. If I were to be biting, I would explain this fact not with technological advancement, but with a glaring lack of store availability. So happy those who have already purchased PlayStation 5. Although … probably not entirely happy. From time to time, the Internet reports minor problems related to the equipment. Now another one has appeared and this time it is about the DualSense controller. Thus, the pad joins the infamous list with the problems of childhood of the latest console. As users report, the controller triggers start to break after a short time.
There have been reports on the network that the new DualSense controllers “accompany” the PlayStation 5 console crash. The problem concerns the triggers (more often the R2 button than the L2 button) and partly also the analog knobs.
DualSense controller – The test crashes on the example of Astro’s Playroom
Players have reported the impression of cracking the inside of the triggers. There is also talk of loosening them, reducing sensitivity, and ultimately stopping operation altogether. So there is no question of a specific, identical failure, but a series of problems most likely resulting from poor design or poor quality materials. The case is all the more sad, because Sony for a long time before the premiere advertised haptics as one of the biggest advantages and new products in DualSense controllers.
Test Spider-Man Miles Morales – 60 FPS and Ray Tracing on PlayStation 5
At the moment, the Sony service mentions the registration of over a thousand reports of defective drains, although the brand still has not commented on the whole situation, wanting to look at it carefully first. However, this is not the end of the bugs regarding the new controllers. As reported by other players, in many models the material covering the analog knobs is torn off. So maybe it’s better to refrain from buying a new PlayStation for a while and watch the situation develop …
Despite the ongoing hacker attack on the Funke media group, most of the group’s daily newspapers can appear again on this Monday in larger volumes. A spokeswoman announced on Sunday. In North Rhine-Westphalia 24 pages are planned instead of the eight-page emergency issue on the day after the attack. In many other locations there are 20 pages. The Funke editors-in-chief Christine Richter would address the reader directly on the subject in the Monday issues.
‘Quarantine lock’ for new, clean IT infrastructure According to the spokeswoman, dozens of colleagues worked over Christmas to restore the IT systems. The aim is to gradually bring them to a new, “clean” infrastructure. “In view of the numerous nationwide Funke locations and potentially infected computers via 6000, this is a complicated and time-consuming process that demands a lot from all of us,” she explained.
Several rooms in the corporate headquarters have been converted into a “digital car wash”. It works like a lock or a quarantine network that every contaminated device has to go through. “At the same time, we are building a secure, new IT environment to restart our journalistic and business work.”
Newspaper pages built by hand Funke was the victim of a serious external hacker attack on Tuesday, according to the editor-in-chief of the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung ( WAZ), Andreas Tyrock, writes to the readers (Monday). The attack by ransomware continues unabated. “The newspaper pages are built by hand in many places in the home office. All texts and headlines are coordinated word for word in telephone calls between the media designers and the editorial team, and photos are very laboriously incorporated,” he explains.
It is similarly complicated in the printing works. Tyrock thanks the staff and the readers. “There were almost no complaints – on the contrary, very many of you turned to us and supported us, encouraged us.” For the time being, paid content is actually freely accessible on the Internet behind the paywall.
With the Internet of Things, the suffering of all users of networked devices is increasing, so that the dreary situation in the area of IT security could change for the better. The “Internet of Things” (IoT) could usher in a paradigm shift, said US encryption expert Bruce Schneier on Sunday at the remote Chaos Communication Congress (rC3). The reason for this is that with networked things “security collides with physical security”.
Software bad and too complex Even if someone hacked his thermostat on the Internet, “the lines could freeze”, Schneier gave an example. With networked homes, cars or even factories, the attack surfaces and threatening effects on the well-being of people and entire social groups multiplied. This could help to iron out the existing errors of the market through stronger state regulation.
Bad and overly complex software, which is the worst enemy of security, is currently following exactly, according to the lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School the laws of the market. In software, for example, these reward more and more functionalities, efficiency and speed, which leads to bloated programs. In contrast, simplicity and security are expensive. Most people did not want to pay extra for it, but deliberately took risks.
When the toaster suddenly e-mails sent Such short-term advantages would in the long run at the expense of society, emphasized Schneier in the online conversation with Frank Rieger from the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), which was interrupted by several technical problems. Politicians must therefore intervene, for example with requirements for food and drug safety. This applies above all to the IoT, since the devices and the associated software are often produced in countries such as China by companies that in some cases quickly went bankrupt. It’s not that far with updates.
In order to still be able to build a reasonably secure home network, routers should first act as watchdogs, suggested the 57 – year olds. You should be able to detect a connected device and get information and updates about it. If the toaster suddenly sends e-mails, this function should be able to be switched off via the intermediate instance.
Fewer connections to the outside world Rieger doubted that manufacturers would be more restrictive than before and would collect less data. Only Microsoft Office 365 on the Mac contact 32 other servers, some of which in China or the USA. Any impartial observer would have to classify such a program as malware. Schneier admitted that a lot of persuasion was still needed in this area. At least Microsoft knows the servers. However, the software giant would do well to gradually reduce the connections to the outside world.
The security expert did not consider a rapid reconstruction of IT landscapes under security aspects to be realistic. However, software should go through more audits, since everyone benefits from such testing processes. In this way, back doors could also be found more quickly, as they would have turned out to be a massive security risk for state and private infrastructures as well as a gateway for Russian hackers in the Orion software of the US service provider SolarWinds. Money should flow into pools to organize audits for open source products.
Encryption is critical infrastructure The idea propagated in the repeatedly flaring up Crypto Wars of weakening encryption and circumventing data protection rules was described by Schneier as “incredibly dangerous”. In particular, cryptographically secured cell phones and applications running on them, such as chats, were used by almost everyone, including government representatives and police officers. It is more or less a critical infrastructure that is important for “our societies and democracy to work”. Even if encryption makes law enforcement a little more difficult here, “it is better for all of us.”
Initially, countries such as the USA, Great Britain and Australia in particular requested access to encrypted communication in plain text, the reported Researcher. “Down under” there is even a relevant law that, as far as he knows, has never been applied. In the meantime, Germany and the EU have made similar appeals. But there is no magic bullet to counter this. The fact that he still calls for the state for IT security is not a shot in the oven: “We are the government,” he referred to the main features of popular rule. Should the government oppose “our interests”, “we need a better one”.
Quantum computer: “crypto apocalypse” canceled In principle, the cryptologist described encryption as a secure mathematical process. In practice, however, it is dependent on computers, software, networks and their users. If, for example, the messenger service Signal is running on a smartphone that has a small weak point and everyone can read what is happening on an unlocked screen, this is just as problematic as users who swear by simple passwords.
Schneier called off the “crypto apocalypse”, which was often linked to quantum computers. On the one hand, many more breakthroughs and manageable applications are necessary for practicable quantum computers before they can break encryption solutions, for example. On the other hand, the US standards organization NIST has already started a competition for quantum-resistant algorithms, in which some hot candidates are in the running. In the case of symmetrical encryption, the keys could also simply be extended. Solutions are still being worked on for public key cryptography, but many programs would get by without this approach.
With the command “Enter” and the appeal “Follow the white rabbit”, already known from “Alice in Wonderland”, the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) started its first rC3 (remote Chaos Communication Congress) in uncharted territory on Sunday afternoon. In addition, there was a hint from the director about the use of the online world that had been put into operation for four days: “There are still various construction sites, but the biggest corners and edges have already been sanded out.”
Popular online tickets the CCC, there is the dictum that the intergalactic hackers force with the establishment of the Congress even in the physical world it is never finished before dismantling starts. So this year initially there is not much more than the start screen available for logged-in visitors of the “remote chaos experience” from the planned “2D world”. This should enable a video chat with friends, participation in virtual workshops or the creation of a personal list of favorite presentations.
“The last bits & bytes are just falling into place,” it said on Sunday morning in an email to the lucky visitors who were able to get hold of one of the coveted online tickets for the inner halls of the platform. “The online structure is clearly different, but here we are slowly getting to the point where the gates of the rC3 are opening.”
From 8 to 16 Bit: Virtual rush too big The “Community Content” is already available with over 16 own stages, self-organized discussion groups and 256 Meetings in the form of so-called assemblies. “We had planned it as an 8-bit world,” joked the hacker “blubbel” at the official start. In view of the virtual rush, an upgrade to 14 bit was carried out, so that there is now enough space for everyone.
Bubble
(Image: CC by 4.0 rC3 media.ccc.de)
The program in the form of the “timetable” and the streaming portal are traditional for all those interested, even without a congress ticket freely available, via which the lectures are broadcast live on various online stages and then quickly made available for later retrieval. The “Video Operation Center” (VOC) had announced that “the cloud had been greatly expanded” and now offered enough storage space for all recordings. The recording management announced: “Satellite connection to Chaos Studios established”. The teams for translations and subtitles, the “Heralde” for the moderation and 256 “Engel” also stood out as more or less ready to go Heavenly helpers.
“There is also the Internet” Until In view of the comparatively low number of infections at the time, the CCC had hoped for the summer that the major event would be called “37 even in times of the coronavirus pandemic. Chaos Communication Congress “(37 C3) in Leipzig. But even then, angels, who worked full-time in hospitals, signaled that the intensive care units were full and that only smears and tests were being made.
At the beginning of September, the hackers decided with a heavy heart that a ” Superspreader event around Christmas would be irresponsible “. There is also “the Internet, where we all know our way around”. So the motto was: “We are chaos, we are nerds, are hackers. Reality has to be hacked”. Bring the caffeinated Club Mate fizzy drink, hit the keyboards, “solder, stick, flash”, we spat into our hands together.
Obligatory fax In between there was “a minor problem” with the first tickets and the long online queue. But now the master of ceremonies could make the announcement: “We have something prepared” after really hard work. Even the cat content and the mandatory fax worked. The “Infrastructure team” is ready and has “polished the fiber optics”. Fortunately, the Internet scales infinitely and it “isn’t bluetooth either,” explained Blubbel with a lot of hacker’s irony. The team for the “critical infrastructures” disinfected the hard drives themselves using a plentiful amount of anti-virus solution, so that hardly anything could go wrong.
At the beginning, however, the streaming platform had problems, initially it was not accessible. A talk planned for 14 clock only started with 20 Minutes delay.
The properties of electronically zero-dimensional quantum dots in semiconductor heterostructures differ fundamentally from those in higher-dimensional structures such as quantum wells. In quantum dots, the energy of charge carriers is not a function of the momentum. Their properties are similar to those of atoms embedded in a dielectric matrix. Based on gas phase or molecular beam epitaxy, photonic and electronic components have been developed in recent years that enable completely new applications. This includes quantum cryptography, new types of non-volatile memory and an energy-efficient, high-bit-rate Internet.
The age of the information society from the middle of the 19. Century began with the development of silicon-based compounds and technologies. The manufacture of integrated electronic circuits (SiICs) began about 60 years ago. Their first commercial applications were hearing aids. Today silicon-based integrated circuits are part of almost all everyday objects and the basis of the information society.
Dieter Bimberg studied mathematics, philosophy and physics in Tübingen and Frankfurt am Main, where he received his doctorate in physics. For the Max Planck Society he dismantled 1972 the high-field magnet laboratory in Grenoble, where he established a working group for optical spectroscopy headed. 1979 he accepted a position at RWTH Aachen. 1981 he followed the request of the TU Berlin to set up the Applied Physics course, where he 21 was Managing Director of the Institute for Solid State Physics and founder of the Center for Nanophotonics. Guest stays have taken him to the Technion in Haifa, the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in Malvern (UK), the HP Labs in Palo Alto, the University of California in Santa Barbara and the King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). Since 2018 he has headed a new center for “Green Photonics” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Changchun. He is a member or Foreign Fellow of the German, Russian and American Academies of Sciences.
Procedures such as molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) or gas phase epitaxy ( MOCVD) for the production of materials whose expansion is only a few nanometers in all three spatial dimensions, ie of “zero-dimensional” quantum dots, and their embedding in other materials, open up completely new possibilities for using quantum mechanical effects today. The aim is to change the electronic and thus also optical and electrical properties of complex structures in a targeted manner. These properties depend on the shape and size of the quantum dots. Their expansion in all three spatial directions should be below the De Broglie wavelength of the charge carriers so that quantum mechanics dominates. Quantum dots enable new types of electronic and photonic components. Three examples of this, based on one, a few and very many quantum dots, are described below.
This article was first printed in Physik Journal 8/9, 2020.
Self-organization of quantum dots The discovery of new physical effects in the simplest, low-dimensional semiconductor structures – two-dimensional quantum wells – and their use for semiconductor lasers can be traced back to the work of two physicists at Bell Labs. Ray Dingle and Charles Henry 1972 filed a patent on quantum well lasers. In doing so, they described the advantages of reduced dimensionality among other things as a reduced threshold current density at which the laser emission begins. They showed how the density of states of electrons changes with the transition from three to two and finally one-dimensional structures. These changes are considered to be the determining factor for all properties of the material and its components.
It was not until much later that two Japanese groups at the University of Tokyo and the Tokyo Institute of Technology ( TIT) zero-dimensional structures. The group around Suematsu at TIT calculated 1981 that the material gain was increased by a factor 20 increases and the threshold current density decreases for quantum dot-based lasers that are based on InP or GaAs-based heterostructures. These theoretical considerations were based on heterostructures whose different layers have identical lattice constants. Thirty years ago, this was a prerequisite for defect-free structures and is still part of the technology of many photonic components today. In the eight years that followed, tremendous efforts were made to demonstrate the benefits of such quantum dot-based lasers. Based on the technologies used at the time, this did not succeed for various reasons, whereupon the international activities quickly subsided.
Self-organized growth as a key Surface physicists classify the growth modes for the coherent growth of one material on a second material into three groups. In the case of identical lattice constants, for example AlGaAs on GaAs, there is often a two-dimensional growth monolayer on monolayer – with steps and roughness. With different lattice constants, three-dimensional clusters can grow coherently. Alternatively, in the case of structures with different lattice constants in the Stranski-Krastanov growth mode, a wetting layer (also rough) and a few monolayers thick can first arise on which three-dimensional clusters then grow. The theoretical description of this growth is complex, since there are both lattice constant mismatches with the elastically anisotropic growth surface and edge-induced stresses. In addition, the tensions change the surface reconstruction and cause a renormalization of the surface energies of the islands and the wetting layer. Kinetic effects are important for the dynamics of growth at real temperatures.
The self-organization on strained surfaces, which was first identified experimentally in my work group and then theoretically confirmed, assumes that atoms are sufficiently mobile on the surface, which is the case at the typical growth temperatures of the quantum dots of a few hundred degrees.
Images with the transmission electron microscope (TEM) of a single layer of (InGa) As / GaAs quantum dots show the theoretically predicted pyramid structure. The quantum dots similar to each other are arranged in a square pattern. The edges of the base point along the – and [010] – directions, since all III-V connections have an elastically anisotropic (001) – own surface. We have demonstrated a pyramid shape of the quantum dots in a single layer for both MOCVD and MBE growth of (InGa) As / GaAs quantum dots using cross-sectional TEM and tunnel spectroscopy. The shape determines the electronic properties.
Cross-sectional TEM images of stacked quantum dot layers show that the quantum dots in the layers are arranged on top of one another completely free of defects due to the long-range elastic tension to let. This is of the utmost importance for the most diverse variants of quantum dot-based diode lasers, which are to be grown electronically coupled or uncoupled depending on the application. The superior material gain of a single layer can be converted into a modal gain that is greater than the losses due to the defect-free stacking. This explains the lowest density of the threshold current found by us of all diode lasers and the otherwise unmatched efficiency in converting electrical into optical energy.
The stress-induced self-organized growth of quantum dots is universal. GaN-based lasers, which emit in the visible, have quantum dots as active layers. Exotic examples are the little researched InAs / Si quantum dots for silicon photonics or GaSb quantum dots on (AlGa) P with GaAs interlayers for novel nanoflash memories, which are described below. In the case of a GaSb / GaAs / GaP quantum dot that was produced by means of gas phase epitaxy, adjacent surfaces of the quantum dot pyramids are inequivalent to one another (see title picture). This is of decisive importance for the electronic properties discussed in the next section: Quantum dots of four-fold pyramidal shape do not have a four-fold, but only a twofold symmetry of the electronic properties.
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The Saarland Prime Minister Tobias Hans (CDU) is against a German solo effort on the digital tax for large Internet companies such as Amazon, Google or Facebook. “That would be the wrong signal,” said Hans, referring to the digital tax applicable in France.
Such a tax could also be “in the digital sector Be a brake on growth “. With a view to the considerable profits that the online retailer Amazon, for example, was making because of the corona pandemic, Hans emphasized: “I am absolutely in favor of business that is done in Germany ultimately also being subject to German tax liability.”
“Not a very easy thing” A digital tax should primarily target large technology corporations that earn billions in the EU but, according to critics, pay too little taxes in individual markets. So far, profits have been taxed where the foreign company has its permanent establishment. However, the introduction of a digital tax is “not a very easy thing,” said Hans. This question must be tackled “at the OECD level and, if this is ultimately not achievable, at the European level”.
“Anything else would be unrealistic. Those are thick boards that you have to drill. ” Hans said large corporations with an international focus would have to be “more involved” in tax revenue. However, online trading does not have to take place on a single large foreign platform that may not pay taxes anywhere in the world. Even small and medium-sized companies that have previously been active in stationary retail in Germany could counter this crisis with an online, order, pick-up or delivery offer. He would like consumers to “think a little more about where they consume and where they shop.”
Since my train was stranded and the iPhone had nothing more to say, I listened to Helmut the bus driver. The air conditioning is currently insufficient, he said, so he got a coolkeeper, a special seat mat so that he doesn’t have to stew in his own juice the whole shift. Fortunately, he drives a diesel-powered bus and not an electric one, so you have to be careful with the energy and you can’t just turn up the air conditioning, even in the heat like it is now. Then it could happen that the bus simply stops on the route. “I don’t have a spare canister then,” he insisted.
While I was paddling through potatoes, I could as a native city dweller, don’t imagine living there; as always when I drove across the country, even as a child, when I visited relatives with my parents, just under an hour’s drive northwest of Nienburg. At least for some errands I would have to rely on the car, I probably couldn’t just take public transport to work or even cycle. That for me as a passionate pedestrian who can switch to a bike or tram in the city for a quick trip and handle larger transports with the sharing car or that of a friend. The foot pressure would probably be even stronger if I lived in Schwabing, where, according to a BMW study by 1997 all motorists combined Every day 80.00 should have spent 0 kilometers searching for a parking space.
Reserve canister Normally at the end of the day I can’t remember which topics I worked on during the working day. They can then no longer be queried directly, they seem to be shifted into a kind of foreshadowing memory. When I come across a topic, I suspect that I had it on the table not long or a long time ago, and I can narrow down the archive search accordingly. On this Tuesday, however, I had another dpa message in mind: “Car traffic causes follow-up costs of 141 Billion euro”. In the year 2017, the alliance had calculated per rail. The costs would not be borne by the polluters alone, but by the general public. Criticism came from the FDP that it was tendentious to argue only with the follow-up costs and to ignore the benefits of mobility. As liberals, in the tradition of Adam Smith, you mean, of course, the economic benefits for the benefit of all.
Mobility includes immobility, cars stand around most of the time . In the country there are endless parking spaces for this, where the prerequisites would be more likely to charge the electric car in front of one’s own front door, as most owners of such cars are currently doing in view of the thin infrastructure and long charging times. In the city, on the other hand, the proportion of rental accommodation is high, there are quite a few multi-party houses, like the one in which I live, and correspondingly little parking space. Many apartment buildings have no parking spaces that are suitable as charging stations. After all, the legislators want to promote the private installation of charging stations by strengthening the rights of tenants.
“Reserve canister” was my catchphrase, thinking about the now empty power bank, about the system, even paradigm shift that came with the switch from Xenium to iPhone. Always keep an eye on the charge level and thus the option benefits, and if it fell below a certain threshold, keep your eyes wandering to the nearest socket. If someone seemed to be reachable, “may I” ask and mark the area with a plug. Middle of 00 he years, when people with touchscreens increased in the trains and subways I used, it became common in some pubs – at least in Stuttgart I had seen this more often, less in Bremen – for people to have their smartphones in front of them laid the table. In a cozy atmosphere it became tight between the beer and wine glasses in a high-tech, status symbolic way.
Trimmed expectation On this last Tuesday in August 2019 it was just a week ago that Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her expectation to like one on Germany’s streets Drive a million electric cars, from 2020 to 2022 had moved. Germany was still many thousands of electric vehicles away from the destination. An electric car is possibly a status symbol, but one that cannot be plugged in or put on the table.
The German fear of electromobility seems to be giving way, well encouraged by the Purchase premium offered by the state and manufacturers. From January to October 2020 were 121. 500 purely battery-electric powered cars newly registered, 130 percent more than last year. The federal government’s electromobility funding program has existed since July 2016 and was initially adopted very hesitantly. Four years later it is on many lips and often a quiet car sneaks past my living room window. The call of money is weighted on the scales against the fear of range, this special form of German fear.
“That’s why I wouldn’t buy an electric car privately. How should I go on vacation with it? “, the bus driver interrupted my thoughts from the future. “Please?” I winced. “I go to Spain with my wife every year,” said Helmut, “on the way I find petrol stations everywhere. But what about charging stations? Besides, after ten minutes I’m through with refueling. Do you know how long it takes to get one Fully charge your electric car? ” I thought of a message that I had written two years earlier: Three men had driven their Tesla from the North Cape to Tarifa and had 86 hours needed. Only for the loading went there 10 hours on it. In normal reality 70 percent of drivers in Germany daily maximum 50 kilometers, 17 percent between 50 and 100 km, Eon had found out through a survey. At the same time 20 percent expected from one E-car with a full charge between 141 and 500 km range, 21 Percent more than 500 km.
isochrones – Card by Francis Galton.
The British naturalist Francis Galton had 1881 produced an isochronous map. He colored areas on a world map that could be reached from a certain point – namely London – within a certain period of time. Within ten days to the Urals, 40 Days to Australia or central South America; Assuming the most favorable travel conditions and costs. The first electric cars were already around at that time, but I don’t know whether Galton included them in his considerations. Probably not, because at that time steam-powered vehicles such as ships and trains were more suitable for the range.
Delirium furiosum First train passenger 40 Years before Galton’s first isochronous map, it is said to be traveling with 30 km / h have become bad, medical councils are even said to have warned against a delirium furiosum. At the latest since Chuck’s Yeager’s flight 1881 with a Bell X-1 through the sound barrier, we can know that too higher speeds can be survived; Yeager only died 73 years after his pioneering act. The force that an electric car pushes the occupants into their seats when starting off in a sporty way has not harmed people either. What could the astronauts who were shot into space by the Saturn V say?
Today, since most of the world’s points can be reached within a few hours to days, isochronons have maps for normal people not as important as, for example, the broadband or mobile communications atlas. The one for Lower Saxony nowadays has hardly any dead spots. That was before 13 Years different when I started commuting from Bremen to Hanover by train. In order not to let the travel time pass unused, I went online with a UMTS stick on my laptop early in the morning in Bremen’s main train station, looked for topics for reports, researched and drove into a dead zone where I could write the report. If I was finished with the report, I could put it in the editorial system shortly before Verden or not, if research was still required. Then I used the reception until shortly after Verden, drove into the next radio hole and then had Internet again in the area around Nienburg. The third dead zone followed between Nienburg and Hanover.
Over the years I had become so used to the rhythm that I kept it when the ICE finally offered a continuous connection via WLAN. WLAN was already available in the ICE, but just like my UMTS stick it understood every radio gap. It only offered the opportunity to conserve my data volume if it worked. Sometimes the WiFi worked, but the router behind it wasn’t connected to the internet. When I pointed this out to the train drivers, they either asked me what I wanted, the WLAN was switched on, or they said the router had to be restarted, that would only be possible in Hanover, the destination of my morning journey.
No, reservations are no longer transferred to the displays on the seats via diskette, that has not happened for a long time, assures Deutsche Bahn. The reservation data would be on a DB server and would be received on the train via a modem or mobile phone via cellular network and then shown on the displays. But here, too, there are of course pitfalls, because it could well happen that the connection to the server can only be established after the journey has started, or not at all. Malfunctions on servers or cell phone providers could also prevent data transmission. The result: “Release if necessary.”
A jolt brought me out of my thoughts about yesterday, today and tomorrow, the bus reached Hoya and crossed the Weser. Here I had to change trains and, contrary to the written prohibition, spoke to the driver where I had to get off to get to Hassel, especially since the area had quickly become more rural again. “Oh, we’ve already passed the train station. But I’ll turn around for you and drop you off there.” He said, turned around and dropped me off a kilometer later.
Do you want to have your cake and eat it? We wouldn’t argue with you. You can easily enjoy the best of both worlds, combining the old-school sound of vinyl with the crystal clear convenience of wireless digital music – and this complete music system does just that.
We’ve put together a system that does what every great hi-fi should: be more than the sum of its parts. Yes, all the components here are excellent in their own right but that does not automatically make for a great system. We’ve selected these products because we know they work well together, complementing each other’s strengths and ironing out what little weaknesses there might be.
Read on for why this turntable and streaming system, featuring products from Rega, Naim and Fyne Audio, works quite so well.
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The system
Turntable: Rega Planar 3/Elys 2 (£649, $945) Streaming system: Naim Uniti Atom (£2249, $3290) Speakers: Fyne Audio F501 (£1099) Phono stage: Rega Fono MM MK3 (£200)
Total: £4197
We can’t think of another product that has dominated its market sector with the authority of Rega’s Planar 3 turntables. The original was launched in the late 1970s, and since then subsequent iterations have invariably remained the obvious choice in the class.
Rega will supply the Planar 3 without a cartridge for £550, but our sample has the company’s long-running (and rather good) Elys 2 moving-magnet fitted. The cartridge works so well as part of the package that we would advise anyone to spend the extra. Either way, try to position the deck well away from the speakers.
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To our ears, this version of the Planar 3 sounds considerably cleaner and clearer than its talented predecessor. There’s greater transparency and more resolution of detail too. It also becomes clear that the engaging musical character of the last generation hasn’t been diluted at all; if anything this new version is even more fun, and it’s right at home with all types of music.
There’s scale here, and a surprising dose of authority. Large-scale dynamic shifts are delivered with enthusiasm while shifts of a more subtle variety are handled with finesse.
Tonally, things are nicely balanced. By the highest standards, the Elys 2 could do with a touch more refinement at the top end, but there’s little else at this price that does notably better.
Importantly, the cartridge – and the complete package for that matter – conveys the music with cohesion and sparkle. The Rega ties together the individual strands in such a way that the music makes total sense. The music’s message and its emotional content are communicated with utmost clarity.
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And it feeds into the Naim Uniti Atom fairly simply, via the excellent Rega Fono MM MK3 phono stage, a capable-sounding Award-winner that boosts the signal from the record deck before feeding it into the Uniti Atom.
While the Uniti Atom is often described as a streamer, to do so is to do it something of a disservice. In effect it’s a system, to which you need attach only a suitably talented pair of speakers. And, in this case, a turntable.
The onboard amplifier is Class A/B, derived from the NAIT integrated amps. Naim says this presents a number of technical diffculties in terms of production and integration, especially in so small a unit, but its efforts are evident in the musical performance set loose.
As well as being able to play USB-stored music and pick up media elsewhere on your network, the Uniti Atom benefits from having Google Chromecast, Tidal, Spotify Connect and Internet radio built in, with further wireless connection available via AirPlay and Bluetooth aptX HD.
The most immediately noticeable upgrade from the Uniti Atom’s predecessor, the UnitiQute 2 is the level of clarity and insight. The UnitiQute is still an exceptional product that’s found a home on our personal hi-fi racks since we reviewed it two years ago – but the Atom is like opening a door and now listening to the music from inside the room.
From the opening brass parps of The Street’s It Was Supposed To Be So Easy to the hazy tremolo synthesizer hook of Blinded By The Light, via percussive snaps and Mike Skinner’s iconic conversational vocal, you can almost feel the textures through your fingers. And to say it sounds lean does not mean the Uniti Atom is lacking weight. It just doesn’t carry any fat.
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Timing was a forte of the last generation of Naim’s all-in-ones, so we’re pleased to find none of it sacrificed this time around.
We make an attempt to wrong-foot the Uniti Atom with a grander arrangement, via Tidal, using Sergei Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No1 In F-Sharp Minor, but have no luck. The Naim is entirely unfazed by the scale of the recording, the speed or intensity at which the pianist’s fingers are working, or with organising an orchestra around him.
There probably aren’t two much more disparate pieces of music we could use for testing, but the Uniti Atom treats both with the same level of insight, regimental timing and contouring dynamics – and that’s true of everything else we play that stylistically falls in between. If you hear the Uniti Atom and fail to be excited at the prospect of ownership then, quite frankly, there’s little hope left for you.
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So, what speakers to pair with such a remarkable pair of sources? Fyne Audio’s F501 floorstanders are previous Award winners in their own right, and thrillingly accomplished for their price.
Compact yet substantial At 98cm tall, 20cm wide and 32cm deep, the F501s are of unremarkable dimensions for a product of this type, and in terms of build quality and finish, they’re exactly what a floorstander at this price needs to be – that’s to say they’re sturdily made, from the chunky locking spikes beneath the substantial plinth all the way along the gently curved MDF-beneath-real-wood-veneer cabinets.
After the usual leisurely running-in period, we get the F501s positioned just so in our listening room.
It’s safe to say the thoughtful Fyne approach makes the speakers pretty forgiving of room position, but we find the F501s to be happiest – like the majority of loudspeakers we listen to – out in some free space, and toed in just a fraction towards our listening position.
At this sort of money, loudspeakers need to be able to turn their hands to any type of music without alarms – but we have to start somewhere, so we give the F501s the chance to show off their chops with Diana Krall’s version of Almost Blue.
This is a high-gloss hi-fi recording, with painstakingly recorded piano and close mic’d vocal supported by stand-up bass, brushed drum kit and economical guitar – and the F501s absolutely lap it up.
But while they’re borderline-fanatical about laying out the last scrap of information, the F501s don’t sacrifice the coherence or unity of a performance in the process. Timing and integration are excellent, and the sympathetic responsiveness of the musicians is never understated or overlooked.
The speakers’ cleverly judged crossover points mean, from the bottom of the frequency range to the top, there’s no noticeable gear-change to the F501s’ delivery. This unified tonality, along with the sweet timing and transparency of their sound, makes the picture the Fyne Audios paint absolutely convincing. Which is just what it needs to be when it’s relaying the signal given by such stellar system-mates.
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A new gaming PC is coming through a new crowd-funded campaign. At $799, the GPD Win 3 is a portable gaming PC running Windows 10 with a game pad integrated into the hardware. Under the 5.5-inch 720p screen is a keyboard that’s revealed when the screen slides up. There is also a fully integrated gamepad with two joysticks, four triggers, a directional pad, and four action buttons.
It has intake air vents on the rear, and an exhaust vent on the top. There’s also a USB-A port, power key, headphone jack, and built-in microphone. The bottom is where you’ll find the loudspeakers and a USB-C Thunderbolt 4.0 port. Finally, there are two customizable buttons on the rear side of the controller grips, which also contain rumble feedback.
The hardware’s design seems to borrow inspiration from the Sony Vaio VGN-UX series. I’m talking about a Vaio-branded handheld PC that Sony released to the market in 2006 – a year before the very first iPhone. It had every feature you could think of including a cellular modem for internet on the go. The Sony VGN series cost around $2000, ran Windows XP, and was painfully slow.
Sony Vaio VGN-UX Series (2006)
The GPD Win3 will, however, be much better equipped to handle modern PC games. The device will be powered by the latest 11th-generation Intel Core i5 (2.4 – 4.2GHz) or i7 (2.8 – 4.7 GHz) and come paired with 16GB of LPDDR4 RAM with 1TB of internal PCIe 3.0 SSD storage. It’s got an Intel Xe GPU and comes with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.0, and support for a microSD card.
The Win 3 will be powered by a 65W Power Delivery charger. Battery life is expected to last between 2 to 3 hours when playing heavy games, or between 6 to 8 hours with moderate use, or 11 hours with light use.
GPD Win 3 and its dock
Games can be played on the 720p screen in handheld mode, or the device can be docked to support a host of I/O connections. The dock will offer support for an external display via HDMI 2.0b, 1Gbps Ethernet, USB-C X1, USB-A X3.
With the integrated Intel Iris Xe graphics processor, gamers can expect the latest triple-A games to run at 60fps – the same refresh rate that the display will cap at. Remember, this display is a 720p panel, so even more demanding games will be easier to run with an integrated graphics setup.
The concept is interesting, and the price seems reasonable, but given the product is crowd-funded on Indiegogo, it will be interesting to see how well the final product will be executed. Check out the source link for the full specifications and benchmark tests run with the Win 3.
China’s antitrust authorities have launched an investigation against the Chinese Internet company Alibaba. As the authority announced, the country’s largest online retailer is being investigated for alleged monopoly offenses. There are also allegations that Alibaba is causing companies to only choose their own platform as an exclusive sales channel.
The investigations are for Alibaba another setback after the company had been increasingly targeted by the Chinese authorities in recent weeks. At the beginning of November, the planned record IPO of the Alibaba financial subsidiary Ant Group fell short after an intervention by Chinese supervisors. The Shanghai Stock Exchange had justified the move with the fact that the “regulatory environment” has changed significantly.
The IPO cancellation was accompanied by reports that Alibaba founder Jack Ma had angered the Chinese leadership. A speech by the second richest man in China is said to have not been well received. The Alibaba founder, who is otherwise always loyal to the Communist Party, had sharply criticized local and global regulatory authorities. Alibaba shares lost a significant 7.9 percent in Hong Kong trade by midday on Thursday.
It is strange to see films and TV shows in which people without masks shop, crouch close together, go to the cinema or even hug and kiss in greeting. After months of the pandemic, dreams and memories that breathe freely, while the virus is now trying to grab our breath, tens of millions of national coaches have become tens of millions of epidemiologists and we only buy non-essential things by phone or online, seem strange that we also like to use. The memory of a day in late August is also strange 2019. The last maskless summer – also meteorologically diametrically opposed to Christmas time 2020, since we are in dark mode. Also, I have not yet been permanently transferred to the Bremen home office, where I have been experiencing a strange time like everyone else since mid-March.
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A country trip with digressions, small-scale travel, the center of the world and spontaneous inventiveness: About complex systems, small causes with big effects and complicated questions that usually have no simple answers. A four-part (not only) for Christmas on heise online.
(I .): The Purist (24. 12.) (II.): Helmut on the cooling mat (25. 12.) (III.): The last Count of Hoya (26. 12) (IV.): Perrow’s normal disasters (27. 12.) It may have been a flight of sparks, triggered by a freight train with a defective brake that hit the embankment along the Hanover – Bremen i n set fire. At the time I was sitting on the train on the way home from my workplace in the heise online newsroom. It was an Intercity 2 train that Deutsche Bahn has been using since the end of 2015 , first of all stops on the Norddeich-Mole – Leipzig and Bremen route. It is a double-decker train that was probably first used on this route, because local transport tickets are valid from Bremen on the IC to the north and therefore arrive at the platform in Bremen main station shortly before 18 watch many people who want to commute back to the surrounding area after work or shopping. They can probably be served better with the new train, because the seats are less generously distributed in it, so more people fit in.
Get off everything The Intercity 2 replaced the old one-story train, which only had a few sockets per car had, but a much better seating comfort. The inclination of the seats of the IC2 cannot be adjusted to a comfortable position as in the previous model; instead, passengers can only change the height of the headrest and the position of the seat. That doesn’t change the angle of inclination of the backrest much. A worsening improvement that I soon afterwards in an editoral for the c’t 20 / 2016 themed. One reader saw his religious feelings hurt by the text and canceled his c’t subscription. At least that’s what he wrote to me in an e-mail.
The IC came to Nienburg on this late Tuesday afternoon in late August, as always, and did not continue from there after a short stop as it usually does. The announcement said that the journey would be postponed indefinitely due to an embankment fire. The fire brigade is on the way.
Embankment fires are in the ranking list of operational disruptions of Deutsche Bahn, which lead to “stop failures” 13. Position, that is, far behind train disturbances that top the list. From … to 2018 registered the Deutsche Bahn between 364 and 468 such fires per year that occur in hot, dry summers such as especially in the years 2018 and 2018 mainly from sparks, but also from thrown away burning cigarettes. The cause can also be broken glass, which act like a burning glass in the blazing sun and ignite the vegetation along the tracks. The fire can spread to bushes and trees in the area, no train should pass through the inferno.
This Tuesday afternoon in late August 2019 nothing more went from Nienburg. Since I had been commuting on the route for eleven years, I had already heard the conductor’s announcement in a few summers that the train could not continue because of a fire on the embankment. Each time he didn’t say how long the stop would be, how could he. There was only one IC2 in Nienburg, so no other train in front of it had been stopped by the fire, which had only recently been blazing or had been discovered. Shortly afterwards, an announcement instructed the passengers to get off, because the train should return to Hanover to make way for the next ICE. I took out my iPhone to explore the traffic connections between Nienburg and Bremen. The phone also told me that the battery was still 5 percent charged.
I had the first Apple smartphone as a commuter 2007 especially for this purpose: So that I can conveniently and thoroughly inform myself in the morning and after work whether the train is on time, and how in a case like this the alternatives look like. Over time, I was able to quench my curiosity on social media as to why the train I was on just wouldn’t move on when the loudspeakers stayed silent.
Under some circumstances train attendants can be humorous and talkative, for example at Carnival time when the train approaches Düsseldorf and the announcer clearly shows that it is from Cologne originates. In May 2020 a train attendant announced the following: “And finally, a note to all conspiracy theorists here On board: Please remember that the federal government is secretly collecting saliva samples to produce clones of you to replace, so wear your mouth and nose covering at all times to prevent the government from getting your DNA Thank you, also on behalf of all fellow travelers! ”
The Internet in the palm of your hand The predecessor of my iPhone was a Philips Xenium 9 @ 9 ++, which 2003 had come onto the market and, unlike its predecessor, had the antenna integrated in the housing. It could bring the Internet to the palm of my hand with GPRS and WAP. This also made it possible to check train connections, but that was tedious, cumbersome and expensive. I opted for the Xenium because Philips had dispensed with all of the newfangled gadgets such as color display, MMS and camera and therefore seven and a half hours of chat and hours of standby. With the iPhone, I’d hopped a big leap forward on the mobile internet, but an equally big step back in battery life. A Xenium didn’t offer too many functions, for example to pass the time in the waiting room, an iPhone all the more diverse. It was not without reason that the Philips device was described by reviewers as a mobile phone for purists.
After switching from the Xenium to the iPhone, I imposed a rigid charging regime on myself so that the device was really ready, when I urgently need it in an emergency. I meticulously made sure that the smartphone was connected to the electricity every evening and also at work in Hanover so that it was nice and juicy on the go. If, for whatever reason, I had forgotten to charge, the power bank that I bought as a reserve canister could help out. Unfortunately, I had forgotten to load it after I had used it extensively a few days earlier on my camping holiday on the Baltic Sea.
The iPhone was just able to tell me that there was no direct bus connection between Nienburg and Bremen there. I could drive from Nienburg to Hoya, from Hoya to Hassel, from there to Verden and finally to Bremen – then the battery was empty. A rail replacement service was not available, all passengers were dependent on using the conventional line service and crowded at the bus stops. Many phones were pulled out to reschedule appointments or just to let them know that someone was late for dinner.
I was in no hurry and let people get on the bus to Hoya, in the first, on the next buses that came until I was the only one left. The iPhone stopped making a sound. I got on the bus and asked the driver whether the three-change connections, as I still had in mind, were workable. “Yes,” he said, “get in.”
Noticeable rustling “It’s Brokser Marriage Market, all drivers are busy. That’s why there is no rail replacement service,” said the bus driver to me, the only passenger. I sat down next to him at the front and he introduced himself as Helmut. I was only vaguely familiar with the folk festival in nearby Bruchhausen-Vilsen, although it has a similar status for the area as the Freimarkt for Bremen or the Kramermarkt for Oldenburg. I knew from immigrants from the Stoppelmarkt in Vechta that it offered them many opportunities for dancing and dolling and for days off in the fizzy drink.
The Broks marriage market lasts five days and always ends on the last Tuesday in August. The Morning pint for visitors , Contest, fairground rides, trade exhibition, bachelor auction and 2019 the appearance of Victoria, the Helene- Fischer Double No. 1. I didn’t know any of that when I was on the bus and not as usual on the train, in which many displays light up their seats.
In the initial phase of my commuting, ICE picked up at a quarter past seven in the morning many took their Weser courier out of their pockets if they weren’t sleeping a little longer. Today it can be heard very clearly when someone is rustling the newspaper. In the old IC in Hanover, a man in work clothes would often greet me in the afternoons, sit down next to me and take the rake at hand. With the change to IC2, the commuters sorted themselves again, I haven’t seen this unknown friend since then. Whether he still appreciates paper news from the Nienburg district and takes out the bread from his lunch box that he actually made for his lunch break that morning?
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