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Alibaba founder Jack Ma reappeared with video message

For the first time since the end of October, the Chinese billionaire Jack Ma has appeared again in public. Chinese state media broadcast a video message from the 56 -year-old on Wednesday, with which he reportedly addressed 100 Teachers in rural areas. Ma announced in the video that she wanted to do more for charitable… Read more

Space travel: aim high in 2021

Nothing went as planned in the space sector either 2019. Like almost all sectors, space activities have been hit hard by the pandemic. Observers were particularly looking forward to the start of seven planned space missions, some things went great: SpaceX sent astronauts into space, China brought moon rocks back to Earth. But many other… Read more

Studies on laptop versus pen in class: tie

Is it better to take notes by hand, or is it better to type in what you have heard, because the information is processed digitally anyway? The question, which at first glance seems harmless, has led to passionate scientific disputes, because opponents of digitization in schools like to use arguments from “Embodied Intelligence”. This school… Read more

heise + | Linux drivers: Why it is sometimes so tedious

drivers under Linux: Why it is sometimes so tedious Is it the device manufacturer? Is it up to the kernel developers? Is it because of the distributors? Article in c’t 3 / 2021 read The author earned ridicule and scorn from many colleagues when they heard about the current construction proposal “Allround PC” for adequate… Read more

Wind farms in the North Sea produce more electricity than ever

The wind power plants in the North Sea delivered more electricity than ever before. Overall, the amount produced increased by , 4 percent on 22, 60 Terawatt hours (TWh), such as the network operator Tennet in Bayreuth communicated. In addition there were 4, which remained practically unchanged compared to 2019, 13 TWh from the Baltic… Read more

heise offer: Online intensive course: Deep learning with TensorFlow and Keras

In this online course, you will learn with many practical exercises to program machine learning models with deep neural networks. In addition to the basics of deep learning, special emphasis is placed on convolutional neural networks (CNN) for processing images and recurrent neural networks (RNN) for processing sequential data such as texts. The course focuses… Read more

Union: IBM Germany is planning almost 1,000 layoffs

In Germany, IBM will give almost 1000 employees the termination. The group has informed its supervisory boards and the responsible works council committees accordingly in the last few days with maintaining competitiveness and realigning the organization and skills. This was announced by the service union ver.di. In order to implement the layoffs, negotiations on redundancy… Read more

Bit-Rauschen, the processor podcast from c't: The CPU innovations 2021 from CES

In the first podcast for the c’t column bit noise we talk about new processors from AMD, Intel & Co. that were announced at CES. The bi-weekly processor podcast from c’t is available … In the first edition 2021 / 01 of “Bit-Rauschen: The processor podcast from c’t”, Christof Windeck talks to Christian Hirsch about… Read more

NASA: SLS rocket engine shut down out of caution

The US space agency NASA declares the abandonment of the rocket propulsion test last weekend with its own caution. Deliberately conservative settings in the steering of the drives would have led to the termination. The rocket engines themselves ran without any problems and remained undamaged during the test. NASA had four over the weekend RS… Read more

Netflix has over 200 million users and is stopping the money burning

Netflix 2020 grew particularly strongly. The streaming provider 36 won 5 million paying subscribers, including 8.5 million in the fourth quarter. This value is 42 percent above Netflix’s own expectations. In total, the company now has almost 204 million paying subscribers, i.e. the symbolic mark of 200 Millions exceeded. In the current quarter, Netflix expects… Read more

Swiss recruits can only work from home to a limited extent

For round 12. 000 Recruits of the Swiss Army started the compulsory basic training, known in Switzerland as the Recruit School (RS), on Monday. But only around 60 percent of all expected new army members have physically moved into the barracks. In a second phase, the remaining 40 percent will follow on February 8th. Until… Read more

Regional social court: Job center has to pay computers and accessories for schoolgirls

The State Social Court of Thuringia has obliged the job center to take over the purchase of an internet-enabled PC with accessories for an eighth grader whose family receives Hartz IV. The equipment that should enable the student to take part in the corona-related online lessons include a computer, screen, keyboard, mouse, printer and three… Read more

ownCloud Infinite Scale: Go instead of PHP, microservices instead of LAMP

In a quiet little room, ownCloud has been working on the new version of its software for over a year and is now showing its new Infinite Scale project for the first time – but the developers are not slow, they have big plans. Up to and including ownCloud X, the software is a classic… Read more

Mailbox.org: Mailboxes and online services for Berlin teachers

The e-mail provider mailbox.org of the Berlin company Heinlein Support GmbH is to provide business e-mail inboxes for Berlin teachers in the future. Teachers can also use other services such as calendar, address book, task management, Office Suite, file storage and video conferencing. Departure from private e-mail accounts According to a decision by the Berlin… Read more

Apple M1: VLC Media Player runs natively on ARM Macs

New Macs with Apple chips can now get a native version of VLC Media Player: The open source project is stored in a separate ARM 64 Version 3.0. 12. 1 available for download for macOS – parallel to the new version 3.0. 12 for Intel Macs. The video player is likely to appear as a… Read more