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Filtered 3DMark results place the RTX 3060 Ti above the RTX 2080 Super

by Antonio Delgado 26 / 10 / 2020 3

It is not the first time that results of the RTX 3060 NVIDIA Ti , some graphs that, although they have not yet been announced, have been around the Internet lies for some time. Yesterday we knew some performance data in Ashes of The Singularity, and today the results of the 3Dmark Fire Strike and 3DMark Time Spy benchmark, based on DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 respectively.

The RTX 3060 Ti will outperform RTX 2080 Super according to these leaks

The leak shows that the RTX 3060 Ti, based on the Ampere architecture, achieves a score of 30. 829 points in the FireStrike and of 12. 175 points in DirectX 12, which would confirm the information that this card will surpass the RTX 2080 Super of the last generation, with 28. 980 Y 11. 640 points respectively.

These cards are expected to arrive with a GPU equipped with 4. 864 CUDA Cores and 8 GB of GDDRR6 memory for a price that will be around 400 Dollars, although for to be able to confirm these data, we will have to wait for its official presentation by NVIDIA.

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Apple Macbook Air with ARM M1 runs much longer on the battery

The first Apple Macbook Air and Macbook Pro laptops with proprietary Apple M1 ARM chips have recently debuted. This processor uses a 5nm technological process from TSMC and is said to be the most advanced chip ever developed by an American company. The first performance tests show that the 8-core ARM M1 is doing very well and competes with Intel or AMD processors without any problems. In turn, integrated graphics are even more efficient than competing solutions. How, however, is the issue of energy efficiency and battery operation? After all, the Apple M1 in this respect was to be much better than the current Intel processors. The new tests show that it is really solid.

According to the first tests of the Notebookcheck portal, Apple Macbook Air with the ARM Apple M1 chip even reaches 50% longer battery life compared to last year’s version.

Apple Macbook Air with ARM M1 is equipped with a lithium-polymer battery with a capacity of 49, 9 Wh. Therefore, it is not a very huge link, and yet the battery life is more than satisfactory. The laptop itself also has a Retina matrix (IPS) with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels – higher resolution also to some extent contributes to faster wear of the cell when working away from the power socket. In the Notebookcheck test, Apple Macbook Air with ARM did noticeably better compared to the last generation of Macbook Air with Intel Ice Lake-Y.

In a specific internet browsing test with matrix luminance set at 150 nits, Apple Macbook Air with ARM M1 managed to last 960 minutes, so until 16 hours. For comparison, Apple Macbook Air with Intel Core i3 10 generation (Ice Lake-Y) pulled out 661 minutes (11 hours and 1 minute), in turn the same laptop, but with a Core i5 processor it lasted from 512 to 617 minutes depending on whether the browser was in windowed mode (first result) or fullscreen (second result). Either way, ARM in terms of energy efficiency literally outclasses the Macbook Air with Intel processors.

Source: Notebookcheck

OECD: Corona crisis intensifies the effects of the digital divide

Since the coronavirus pandemic, digital technology has been used much more. “Some Internet providers report that their data traffic has increased by 36 percent since the beginning of the crisis,” writes the organization for economic cooperation and Development (OECD) in a current report on the state of the digital economy. In Germany, the increase was 5 percent. At the same time, it is becoming increasingly important to counteract the digital divide internationally and regionally.

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In their study “Digital Economy Outlook 2020 “the OECD states that the fiber optic share in broadband connections in the fixed network in Germany, Austria, Belgium and some other countries is 5 percent, in South Korea on the other hand 82 percent. Digital technology is important because it “enabled us to avoid the Covid 19 crisis leads to a complete standstill, “says the OECD, in which, in addition to Germany 36, other countries primarily from Europe, plus in Asia, Oceania and America are gathered together.

Dependency ” We were able to expand our knowledge of the virus, advance the search for a vaccine and follow the development of the pandemic, “said OECD Vice Secretary-General Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen. “But the crisis has also revealed how much we depend on digital technologies and how big the digital divide is within and between countries. How our societies and economies stand after the crisis also depends on how well we do it To narrow the gap. ”

The growing demand for bandwidth-intensive communication services through e-commerce, teleworking and social online activities as well as the increased cross-border cooperation between politics, education and research will further stimulate development, believes the OECD. However, this would also make effective strategies against cybercrime more urgent.

More usage, lower prices Mobile data usage per subscriber has quadrupled in the four years before June 2019 in the OECD countries. At the same time, the prices for heavily used mobile broadband services are between 2013 and 2019 by 59 percent. While in June 2019 per hundred inhabitants 113 Contracts for high-speed mobile internet came about ten years earlier 32.

The OECD study aims to provide a snapshot of the state of the digital economy and the political environment so that policymakers can shape a “stronger, broader digital future,” writes the OECD.

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Amazon Sidewalk: Neighborhood Network Confusion

As announced 2019 Amazon wants to start its free sidewalk network “later this year”. Sidewalk is supposed to bring remote Amazon devices to the Internet via “installed echo gateways” even if the WLAN connection fails or is insufficient. The group also announced this to users in Germany, which caused some irritation among the recipients. Above all, the fact that the devices can connect to third-party Echo gateways in order to access the Internet makes some Amazon customers suspicious. You are wondering whether and how data protection is observed.

However, little of the Sidewalk specification has so far been made public. According to the manufacturer, Echo devices reduce part of the connection capacity in order to bring third-party sidewalk-capable devices into the Internet if they are disconnected from their usual connection or if they cannot be reached via WLAN; therefore Amazon calls this architecture a neighborhood network. In addition, one should be able to use the Internet access provided via sidewalk in order to be able to set up new Echo devices more quickly on the in-house WLAN.

Three rabbits in one hat Contrary to what you might think, Sidewalk does not describe a single radio technology. If you look closely, Amazon even pulls three rabbits out of one hat for Sidewalk: Gateways offer Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) as a transmission medium (physical layer, PHY) in the 2.4 GHz band and also in license-free 900 – MHz radio band either LoRaWAN or a proprietary FSK method (Frequency Shift Keying).

The clients – Amazon calls them Sidewalk Endpoints – then, depending on the equipment and signal quality, pick one of these three radio paths to communicate with the Sidewalk Network Server via the gateway. Not only the intelligent Echo loudspeakers can work as gateways (also called bridges), but also devices such as the Ring Floodlight Cam.

Amazon assures that the Data protection is guaranteed; the transmitted data are protected by encryption (Amazon Sidewalk Privacy and Security Whitepaper). Since the service will initially only run in the USA, local users do not have to move, at least for the moment. However, Amazon initially gave the opposite impression because the group had erroneously written to users in Germany.

Actively deactivate It should be noted that sidewalk on the gateways in the USA is apparently activated by Amazon itself. Anyone who does not tolerate the service on their Internet connection must explicitly deactivate it in the account settings. The sidewalk concept sounds well thought out, however, and the data rate, which may be pinched off, appears acceptable. Sidewalk 10 KBit / s for yourself, the monthly upper limit per account is 500 megabytes. At the latest with these key data it becomes clear: Sidewalk is a narrowband network for the Internet of Things (IoT).

Accordingly, the Sidewalk endpoints include smart devices and sensors, whose status can be checked remotely. Amazon writes: “With Sidewalk, for example, you can still receive motion alarms from your surveillance cameras even if your WiFi goes down. Or if your WiFi doesn’t reach your smart lights at the edge of your driveway, Sidewalk can help you stay connected.” Amazon’s delivery program also includes pet and object trackers. The tracker division was incorporated into Amazon 2018 through the takeover of the US company Ring; Ring in turn bought the trackers 2017 when it took over Iotera. The trackers should only be integrated later.

The list of devices that can be addressed via sidewalk, however, looks quite extensive:

Ring Floodlight Cam (2019) Ring Spotlight Cam Wired (2019) Ring Spotlight Cam Mount (2019) Echo (2nd Gen) Echo (3rd Gen) Echo (4th Gen) Echo Dot (2nd Gen) Echo Dot (3rd Gen) Echo Dot (4th Gen) Echo Dot (2nd Gen) for Kids Echo Dot (3rd Gen) for Kids Echo Dot (4th Gen ) for Kids Echo Dot with Clock (3rd Gen) Echo Dot with Clock (4th Gen) Echo Plus (1st Gen) Ech o Plus (2nd Gen) Echo Show (1st Gen) Echo Show (2nd Gen) Echo Show 5 Echo Show 8 Echo Show 10 Echo Spot Echo Studio From the end of the year the company Tile will also use the sidewalk technology. Tile develops small radio buoys that can be attached to keys, wallets or backpacks in order to be able to locate them if they are lost.

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Bundestag maintains that the e-lawyers mailbox will be actively used soon

The Greens did not find a majority in the Bundestag on Friday for their request to postpone the obligation to actively use the special electronic lawyer’s mailbox (beA) until 2025. Apparently, many lawyers still have reservations about the digital process or there are other problems with commissioning, say the Greens. With them, however, only the AfD voted for the application. CDU / CSU, SPD and FDP were against it, the left abstained.

Since 2018 there is a passive usage obligation to receive documents and messages about the beA, which has been controversial for years. The Greens argued that technical difficulties and security loopholes kept cropping up. Nevertheless, it is provided that the active obligation to use from 2022 takes effect. Lawyers would then also have to send documents electronically to the courts.

The Greens wanted the federal government to enable the legal profession to switch to electronic legal transactions in a practicable and functioning manner. A postponement of three years is appropriate, since the federal government wants to achieve nationwide broadband expansion in Germany up to 2025. In addition, the voluntary period of use of the beA has been massively shortened due to its later introduction and several failures.

Unclear security It will Lawyers forbidden to put briefs in the mailboxes of the courts in an emergency if the internet fails, explained the Green Katja Keul. In the event of technical problems, they might even be liable with their personal assets.

“The security issues have not yet been finally clarified, and end-to-end encryption is not guaranteed,” emphasized Keul. It cannot even be ruled out that the former private contractor Atos still has the keys to spy on the entire legal profession. Citizens are also allowed to continue to submit court documents in the traditional way in trials without the need to use a lawyer, so that the paperless judicial authority is still a long way off.

State Secretary Christian Lange (SPD), on the other hand, declared in the Legal Committee on Wednesday that the use of the beA was accepted be very high. The rate of first-time registrations is 77 percent. The quota of resident lawyers alone is 81 percent, of in-house lawyers 54 percent. Christoph Sandkühler, Chairman of the User Advisory Board of the Federal Bar Association, admitted that there were sometimes problems with transfers. But these are mainly to be found in the judiciary. He is not aware of any significant difficulties in the beA system itself.

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Glass fiber: Deutsche Bahn wants to complete the networking of its routes

Deutsche Bahn has now taken the first steps towards further networking its route network with fiber optic cables. It is now looking for suitable companies for the project across Europe using the award procedure, those that are still outstanding 13. 400 km to wire. This should be completed in seven years.

So far, according to the railway, around 20. 000 km of fiber optic cables laid along their routes. So far it has only used a small part of it itself, and it rents out unused capacities. Own requirements are likely to increase soon, because the railway wants to have all signal boxes digitally converted by 2035. Many of them currently still have to be operated by hand.

The recent faltering expansion of the fiber optic network met with criticism from the Bundestag opposition. “The railway would have used the existing route network much earlier to lay fiber-optic connections and thus supply millions of households and companies,” said the left-wing member of the Bundestag Victor Perli recently. “There is a risk of years of delays if there are legal proceedings due to the award procedure.”

Fast Internet for the country In addition to digitization of its own network, Deutsche Bahn wants to use fiber optics to help provide rural areas with high-speed internet. The potential partners of the railway should be able to use the infrastructure for this purpose. Elaborate planning approval procedures were omitted, the railway announced.

The award procedure provides for fiber optic cables and possibly cable routing systems along 10. 100 kilometers of rails to be laid. Because 1900 kilometers ran in parallel, they could be developed together; the potential partners should supply about 8200 kilometers with fiber optics. The DB wants to expand about 3300 more kilometers to 2024 itself.

Two fiber optic cables are to be laid in the cable routing systems. Interested companies can first apply for a framework agreement with DB Netz. Then the entire route network or individual upgraded routes are to be awarded to the selected framework contract partners.

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IoT law is forcing US authorities to improve IT security

US federal agencies will soon have to clean out numerous connected devices. A new law called the IoT Cybersecurity Amendment Act of 2020 is intended to strengthen security in the Internet of Things (IoT) and lead to more transparency in IT security in general. Stricter procurement criteria could leverage the new law, so that more, better secured, networked devices become available.

First, the US standards authority NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) is to develop standards and guidelines for IoT devices at federal authorities, including minimum requirements for IT security and risk management and rules for secure installation, security updates, identity management and configuration. NIST should orientate itself as far as possible to existing standards.

Pay attention to quality when purchasing No later than six months after availability The budget authority OMB (Office of Management and Budget) should check the implementation of these provisions by all federal authorities and issue further regulations if necessary. Systems belonging to the area of national security are, however, left out. If NIST revises the standards and guidelines, which must be done no less than every five years, an examination by the OMB follows.

In addition, federal authorities are only allowed to Buy or use networked devices that meet NIST specifications. Exceptions can be made for research and national security, or if it is possible to secure the unsafe devices in other ways. These provisions will increase the demand for better secured IoT devices.

This could mean that companies and private individuals will also have more better secured devices to choose from. Perhaps the public sector can help to slow down the trend towards IoT devices that are generally becoming less secure.

Suppliers must help with IT security Part of the law is dedicated to IT security at US federal agencies in general: NIST is to develop standards for the coordinated collection, receipt and publication of information about security vulnerabilities and their elimination.

This standard will also require all suppliers and all their subcontractors to pass on information about potential IT security gaps and their elimination to the respective federal authorities. This means that the supplier’s duty of care will extend beyond the sale.

Both US parties support the IoT Cybersecurity Amendment Act of 2020. In the lower house it was decided without a detailed survey of the proportion of votes, in the upper house unanimously. The law has been in the White House since Tuesday and awaits the signature of the US President.

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AWS outage has taken down a big chunk of the internet

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s internet infrastructure service that is the backbone of many websites and apps, is experiencing a major outage affecting a large portion of the internet.

“Kinesis has been experiencing increased error rates this morning in our US-East-1 Region that’s impacted some other AWS services,” Amazon said in a statement to The Verge. “We are working toward resolution.” And, ironically, in a notice on the AWS Service Health Dashboard, Amazon said the issue has apparently “affected our ability to post updates” to that dashboard.

It seems the issue is fairly widespread, as a number of apps and services have posted on Twitter about how the AWS outage is affecting them, including Roku, Flickr, Adobe Spark, and Spotify-owned Anchor.

We are working to resolve this quickly. We are impacted by the widespread AWS outage and hope to get our customers up and running soon. Most streaming should work as expected during this time.

— Roku Support (@RokuSupport) November 25, 2020

[status] Identified: Members are receiving an “Oops, something went wrong” error when trying to log in or create an account due to a current AWS outage. We are monitoring the situation and will continue to share information here as it… https://t.co/drGhoVfYMv

— Flickr Help (@FlickrHelp) November 25, 2020

An Amazon AWS outage is currently impacting Adobe Spark so you may be having issues accessing/editing your projects. We are actively working with AWS and will report when the issue has subsided. https://t.co/uoHPf44HjL for current Spark status. We apologize for any inconvenience!

— Adobe Spark (@AdobeSpark) November 25, 2020

Hi there, yes Anchor is currently down due to a temporary AWS service outage. We are sorry for any inconvenience this is causing. Please know we are working on getting the website back up and running as soon as possible. We will make an announcement as soon as this is fixed.

— Anchor (@anchor) November 25, 2020

@RSS is one of the companies affected by the AWS system outage. Login and uploads not processing. Delivery and distribution of all episodes are unaffected. Public podcast pages are also available. New uploads will resume as soon as the issue is resolved.

— RSS Podcasting (@rss) November 25, 2020

Hello. We are currently unable to remove the A line service alert from our website and app because of the widespread Amazon AWS outage. A trains are no longer running local in Brooklyn. We will continue to post updates here as we have them.

— NYCT Subway. Wear a Mask. (@NYCTSubway) November 25, 2020

Unfortunately so. Our payment processor (Paddle) is currently experiencing issues (due to AWS, apparently). Hopefully we’ll be back online shortly.

— Rogue Amoeba (@RogueAmoeba) November 25, 2020

Downdetector.com is also showing spikes in user reports of problems with many Amazon services.

AWS is one of the most widely-used cloud computing services in the world, so any issues can have major ripple effects for other web services and apps. An outage in 2017 affected companies like Trello, Quora, and IFTTT, for example.

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A brief chat with xQc

Last week, the streamer Félix “xQcOW” Lengyel was temporarily banned from Twitch for cheating at a GlitchCon Twitch Rivals event. It was the third time this year he’s been suspended from Twitch, and his teammates Rabia “Nightblue3” Yazbek and Lucas “Mendo” Håkansson were banned alongside him. I got in touch with Lengyel to chat about what happened, and what he’s learned from the experience.

According to him, the stream sniping incident — when he and his teammates queued into a competitor’s lobby with the intent to derail their game — was a bit of banter that went too far, though Lengyel is careful to note that he’s not trying to justify what happened. “The atmosphere was really like funny, banter-y — we went to their Discord, they went to our Discord, you know, we’re talking shit, whatever,” he says. “And now that I’ve computed it, it’s like, holy, this is just… this is like so stupid.” After the event, Lengyel says he messaged the people involved to apologize. Even so, he says he didn’t think anything would happen on Twitch.

Lengyel’s Twitch partner manager broke the news of his ban. He’s not mad, though; competitive rulings are competitive rulings, and through his career as an esports competitor he understands why these decisions are made. “I don’t want to do wrong stuff. I want to always be better. It’s why I’m rarely upset at competitive rulings and bans and whatnot,” he says. “And I think it’s sort of healthy, for people that have my platform to know for sure that I got punished for something, they know why it happened.” Lengyel’s interested, he says, in modeling growth. That said, he’s not without controversy. Lengyel’s been temporarily banned from Twitch on multiple occasions for streaming explicit content, and he was previously suspended from esports teams for using disparaging language.

“If I can be an example of wrongdoing, I can be an example of redemption,” he says. “And I think that matters, maybe even more.” He also says you shouldn’t stream snipe in games.

Lengyel says he wants his audience to know that he’s trying to be better — to move forward. “Even though sometimes we take like, 10 steps back, as long as we create a pattern of gaining steps forward again, and getting through it again, I think that matters a lot.” (The overarching message, though, he says, is: “don’t fuck with competitive integrity.”)

To that end, Lengyel is starting something he’s calling a streamer showcase: a show of some kind that features smaller Twitch creators. It’s an idea that grew out of his Among Us games with smaller streamers earlier this summer, where he started a Discord server and invited people who replied to a tweet. “It’s been really crazy to see all these smaller streamers grow, like, out of the blue — and all of them getting partnered and getting sponsorships.” It’s an example, he says, of using his platform for good. He’s a little light on details. Personally, though, I think it’s interesting because to me it seems like he’s starting to grapple with the dynamics of online influence — with what it means to be famous on the internet.

And Lengyel’s organizational partners are behind him as well. He’s part of Luminosity Gaming, a professional esports outfit. “Being partners is more than just celebrating the good times. Felix knows he made a mistake and we’re encouraged to see how seriously he is taking his return,” wrote Corey Mandell, executive vice president of Enthusiast Gaming, Luminosity Gaming’s parent company, in an emailed statement. “We remain committed to supporting his personal journey and help realize his ambitious plans.” Lengyel is set to return to Twitch on Wednesday.

SpaceX sent a Falcon 9 rocket on its seventh trip to space

On Tuesday night, SpaceX successfully launched another batch of the company’s internet-from-space Starlink satellites to orbit, using a very space-hardened Falcon 9 rocket for the job. This launch marked the rocket’s seventh flight to space and back — the first time SpaceX has flown such a seasoned vehicle to orbit.

The Falcon 9 took off at 9:13PM ET from SpaceX’s launch site at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, with 60 Starlink satellites in tow. After a quick trip to space, the first stage of the Falcon 9 — the bulk of the vehicle that contains the main engines and most of the fuel — separated from the rest of the rocket and came back to Earth. It then performed one of SpaceX’s signature rocket landings, touching down on one of the company’s drone ships in the Atlantic.

Before this flight, the Falcon 9 had boosted two communications satellites to orbit on two separate missions, and SpaceX had also used the vehicle to launch four separate Starlink launches. It wasn’t just the rocket that had flown before either. The rocket’s nosecone, which surrounds the satellites during the climb to space, was also used before for previous flights. One half of the nosecone — or payload fairing — had flow once before, while the other half had flown twice before this launch.

By now, SpaceX has made these launch and landing routines a fairly regular sight out of Florida, with each new mission adding numbers to the company’s resume. Last night’s launch was notable for being SpaceX’s 100th Falcon 9 launch ever. It also marked the company’s 23rd launch of this year and the 67th time SpaceX has recovered one of its Falcon 9 boosters following a launch.

Those numbers are only expected to grow, with more launches slated this year. And with yesterday’s rocket successfully landing, an eighth flight is perhaps in the future.

Lightmeter 1.0: Monitoring tool for mail servers

Who does not know the problem: You want to send an urgent e-mail, but the target server refuses to receive the message. To investigate the cause, mail admins have to go through the logs and determine the reason for the rejection. The more mail servers an admin has under his wing, the more confusing and complex the whole thing gets.

Lightmeter recommends how you can remove the blacklist entry of your mail server.

(Image: Lightmeter)

As a remedy for this, the beginning 2019 Sam Tuke presented his project Lightmeter, a monitoring tool for Postfix Servers – after all, around a third of the market. It collects information and uses it to create statistics on the dispatch of e-mails, which it presents graphically in a dashboard. Now the project has released version 1.0, the biggest innovation of which is the ability to handle blacklisting entries, which was promised in January.

Recommendations for action included Lightmeter analyzes the logs of the Postfix mail server – including automatic import of historical logs -, extracts integrity metrics from them and visualizes them in real time. In the event of problems with the mail server, the monitoring tool generates notifications on the web and optionally via Slack. If one of the mail servers has landed on a real-time blackhole list (RBL), it determines recommendations on how to remove this entry.

Lightmeter had in June via the nlnet Foundation 50. 000 Euro received from the Next Generation Internet project of the EU Commission. The grant is intended to support Lightmeter in its efforts to maintain the independence of decentralized, digital communication from the large technology oligopolies. Lightmeter 1.0.0 is available as a Docker image and in GitLab or Bintray. The software is licensed under Affero GPL Version 3 (AGPLv3).

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ADFC is committed to connecting BER Airport to the cycling network

The Allgemeine Deutsche Fahrrad-Club eV (ADFC) wants to ensure that BER airport is connected to the cycling network. The airport is not safely accessible via bike paths, there are no bike parking spaces.

The club therefore demands the airport company FBB, the federal, state of Berlin and state of Brandenburg shareholders to promote the development of BER. In contrast to BER, important airports such as Amsterdam, Frankfurt or Copenhagen can be reached via the cycle path network of their regions.

Next project: Tesla-Gigafactory Grünheide “While the motorway and rail links to the capital’s airport have now been secured, despite earlier announcements, there is no up-to-date solution for cycling. The airport needs safe and comfortable cycling routes – and of course a large bicycle parking garage. This also applies to Tesla, by the way -Gigafactory in Grünheide “, says ADFC Federal Managing Director Burkhard Stork in the press release on Wednesday (25. Nov. 2020).

Exemplary Example: the ADFC-certified Fraport The association cites Frankfurt Airport with its model project for bicycle-friendly trades funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport as an exemplary example of the expansion of a cycling infrastructure areas. Cycle superhighways, some of which are still to be created, are intended to encourage ten percent of employees and numerous airport visitors to switch to bicycles up to 2020 Fraport AG operates its own Internet service “By bike to the airport” and is certified by the ADFC as a “bike-friendly employer”.

The ADFC suggested route of a cycle highway in the south of Berlin

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The ADFC is committed to the consistent promotion of cycling and is with more as 200.000 Members worldwide the largest advocacy group of its kind.

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TechStage | Tablets for homeschooling and learning portals

Beginning What are… PC or tablet? Tablets for … Others … Tablet with … Conclusion Comments from Stefan // 24. 11. 2020 15: 30 Clock

Regardless of whether it is a sofa tutor, the online learning library or the school minator – learning portals can be a sensible alternative to traditional tutoring for school children of all ages. We show the best tablets for it.

If the child is weak at school, there are several alternatives. In addition to personal initiative, this primarily includes follow-up sessions in learning groups such as the study group or individual tutoring, as offered by many older pupils or students. However, especially in times of epidemics, contacts with strangers must be restricted as far as possible, so traditional tutoring is usually ruled out.

What are learning portals? In addition to homeschooling (Guide: PCs for homeschooling from 150 Euro) is also available for tuition digital solutions in the form of learning portals. Depending on the provider, they usually offer help for grades 5 to 10, which is usually available in text and video form for several subjects. Some companies go far beyond this and have offers for all classes and school types as well as most of the subjects offered at the different school types.

There are sometimes educational games and in most cases exercises to check what you have learned and consolidate. In addition, some portals also offer personal support via chat, help with homework or complete individual lessons via video chat.

Providers such as Lernwerk, Schulinator or Studyhelp even offer their services free of charge, most of them others request between 5 and Euro. Free test phases or even some videos published on Youtube offer first insights into the type and quality of the offer. Payment is usually made for several months in advance or in an annual subscription, and some providers even give a money-back guarantee in the event of a lack of learning success.

PC or tablet? A PC is not always necessary, especially for learning videos much cheaper Android tablet for it. However, some criteria should be met so that the tutoring is fun on the technical side. This is how we see tablets with a display size below 10 inches (approx. 25 cm) critical and also a display resolution of 1920 × 1080 Pixel should not be undercut for sufficiently sharp display. The devices should have at least a quad-core processor and 2, better 3 GB of RAM so that inputs can be implemented without waiting time and videos can be played smoothly. Internally is a memory size of 30 GByte or larger optimally, so that apps and videos can also find space in the memory and can thus be used without direct Internet access.

WLAN as Internet access should be sufficient in most cases, expensive LTE modules parents can therefore confidently leave it out. For young students, it may be worthwhile to use particularly robust, but hardly available, children’s or outdoor variants. Alternatively, protective covers or tablets for children can be used here. Amazon offers the kids edition of its Fire HD tablets for this purpose. Not only do they last longer, they also allow parents to access and block certain distracting factors such as the app store and in-app purchases. For certain subjects or advanced students, purchasing a tablet with pen control can also be helpful. This enables sketches or handwritten notes to be digitized quickly.

Tablets for children The kids editions from Samsung and Amazon offer special ones as mentioned Protective covers, which are supposed to protect the tablet even in rough handling, and also offer various parenting functions such as restricting the available apps. Unfortunately, the RAM is a bit tight at 2 GB. They are more aimed at children who are not yet in secondary schools. However, they are definitely sufficient for the use of normal learning portals. The Fire HD 10 in the Kids Edition (test report) we have already tested.

Other tablets For round 150 to 200 Euro get those interested with the current models Odys Space One 10 LTE , Lenovo Tab M 10 Plus and Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 three 10 – Customs tablets that are up-to-date and meet the minimum requirements required by us. The Odys model not only offers a lot of memory (4 / 49 GByte), but also an LTE module. This allows learning sessions – a corresponding LTE contract (Article: Unlimited data volume from 20 Euro) provided – in good weather also in the park or at least in the garden. Android 10 are already available from the factory – this is far from normal with tablets.

That shows something like this Lenovo Tab M 10 Plus , which currently only offers Android 9 . The remaining specifications are marked with 4 / 64 GByte memory similar, only LTE does not exist. This is also the case with the Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 so, also the memory is with 3 / 32 GByte a little smaller. There are advantages for the chipset: The other two tablets also offer 8 cores, but Samsung uses a Snapdragon 662, which not only delivers decent power, but also favors future updates and is less power-hungry. Accordingly, this model already has Android 10. With 10, 4 inches, the screen of the Samsung tablet is also the largest, this also applies to the battery with 7040 mAh.

We have other suitable tablets in our purchase advice: How many tablets do you need? sorted by price.

Tablet with pen Tablets with additional pen control are available in a handful, currently and reasonably cheap, but above all the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite . It not only offers advantages in terms of design and installation depth, but also a stylus with suitable software and more memory.

Conclusion It doesn’t always have to be a full-fledged PC, even comparatively cheap tablets can help to improve school success. In addition to the appropriate learning portal, parents should also keep an eye on the right hardware – if you set too low, you may buy a new one after a short time.

Should it be a new PC for homeschooling? Then we have the right tips and recommendations in this article.

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