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.NET Core is vital for CMS developers

Various trends from the IT environment are currently affecting content management systems (CMS). For 2021, the business application provider Progress, which specializes in CMS among other things, has identified six key topics for the CMS market. As the successor to the .NET framework, .NET Core enables cross-platform ASP.NET apps to be built for Windows, Mac… Read more

MacBook and iPad production in Vietnam: Factory comes for $ 270 million

Apple will in future rely on Vietnam as the second central production location in Asia. According to reports from last autumn, the efforts are now taking shape. The Group’s main contract manufacturer, the Taiwanese producer Foxconn alias Hon Hai Precision Industry, will build a large factory for a total of 270 million US dollars. Foxconn… Read more

New Intel boss wants to compete again with “lifestyle company” Apple

The freshly baked new Intel boss does not want to be stolen from the bread in Apple’s processor business. In an address to employees reported by the Oregonian local newspaper in the US state, Patrick P. Gelsinger said his company had to deliver “better products” to the PC ecosystem as “every possible thing a lifestyle… Read more

heise offer: iX workshop: system deployment and automation with Ansible

Ansible is probably the most widely used tool for configuration management. With the tool, systems in the network can be configured and managed from a central instance, and applications can be deployed and updated automatically. Ansible uses existing programs so that no special client software is required. In this interactive online workshop with many practical… Read more

Micro-chips: Auto industry laments supply bottlenecks

Europe’s carmakers remain vulnerable – even if many of the destroyed supply chains have only just been repaired after the Corona crash. But an indispensable group of components is missing more and more frequently: semiconductor modules, the heart of all electronic systems and microchips. Some auto production lines have to close again because supplies are… Read more

Machine learning: “Understand” GPT-3 & Co. Language?

There are now AI systems that give the impression of understanding language and even do better than humans in a number of comprehension tasks. However, it is precisely these natural language processing (NLP) models that do not seem to notice when words are mixed up in a sentence. The problem lies in the way AI… Read more

Statistics of the week: The cloud knows no boundaries

(Picture: shutterstock / 3dmask ) In our weekly column we present numbers, curves and diagrams from technology and science. The cloud market has no corona crisis, like data from Statista Technology Market Outlook show. As a result, sales with software, infrastructure and platform-as-a-service offerings fell last year by 25, 5 Percent grown. And it should… Read more

heise + | Adobe Photoshop 2021 and Lightroom: New Features in Practice

Photoshop 2021, Camera Raw and Lightroom have new features. We take a look at the highlights for photographers and check them for practicality. Adobe Photoshop 2021 and Lightroom: New functions in practice Focus on neural filters Color Grading instead of partial toning Better choice for motifs like hair and sky Neural Filters Color Grading The… Read more

After the hacker attack: All Funke daily newspapers will soon be back to normal

Weeks after a hacker attack, the daily newspapers of the Funke media group should appear regularly again during the week. “As of today, we are very optimistic about leaving the emergency mode this week,” said Funke on Monday. Thousands of computers cleaned The information technology (IT) of the media company is progressing faster than expected… Read more

Citizen Score: China's social credit system no longer on target

China’s social credit system, which was officially announced seven years ago, including a citizen rating in the form of a “Citizen Score”, has been delayed. According to the plan of the central government in Beijing, the “Schufa on anabolic steroids”, which in the West is an essential piece of the puzzle in the Chinese surveillance… Read more

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

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

Telephone spam Nazi fined millions

The US neo-Nazi Scott Rhodes is said to be fined almost ten million US dollars for forging his caller ID in racist spam calls. That was decided by the US regulator FCC. The man called thousands of US citizens automatically and harassed them with recorded messages. These included xenophobic lies, racist attacks on politicians, attempts… Read more

5G frequencies bring avalanche of money at US auction

The auction of US frequency usage rights in the range 3.7 to 3, 98 GHz breaks all records: 80, 917 billion US dollars (67 billion euros) in preliminary bids have already come together in the 97 rounds of the first auction phase. The US regulatory authority FCC has never raised that much money with a… Read more

TechStage | Oppo Reno 4 Pro in the test: top smartphone for 500 €

Testing Tests overview Smartphone Oppo Reno 4 Pro in the test: Top smartphone for 500 € Motorola Moto G 5G Plus test: A lot of battery for little money Huawei P Smart 2020: Budget model with room for improvement Asus Zenfone 7 Pro: Turbo smartphone with flip camera Samsung Galaxy Xcover Pro in the test:… Read more

Browser fingerprinting: favicons as “super cookies”

With a few tricks, website favicons can be converted into a kind of cookie replacement. A study by the University of Illinois in Chicago shows: Modern browsers are not yet prepared for such an attack. Mini-Logos for a better overview Favicons seem harmless at first glance. If you are looking for a particular website between… Read more