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Scientists: Artificial meat can make a huge difference to the environment

A chicken nugget was recently served for the first time in a restaurant in Singapore, the meat of which was made in the laboratory. The business ethicist Nick Lin-Hi from the University of Vechta sees this as a change of epochs, to which the agriculture and food industry in this country must also adjust. You… Read more

Aldi PCs: Inexpensive notebooks for students and home offices

From 28. January 2021 both Aldi Süd and Aldi Nord include two notebooks in their range, which so far only were sold in Northern Germany. The Akoya E 11202 has a price tag of 200 Euro primarily intended for young students who do not need a lot of computing power, but can use a shockproof… Read more

Authorities and Corona – what about home office in administration?

Administrative employees who work in the home office and access digital files instead of rolling over mountains of paper in the authority? For a long time it was difficult to imagine. The corona pandemic could change that now. Because the appeal to work at home if possible has also reached the administration. “When it comes… Read more

Semaphores in C ++ 20

Semaphores can be used to coordinate shared access to shared resources. You can also play ping-pong with them. A counting semaphore is a special semaphore that has a counter greater than zero. This counter is initialized in the constructor. Requesting the semaphore decrements and releasing it increments the counter. If a thread tries to request… Read more

Missing Link: No more going to a store! What speaks for the mail order business

Readers who invest emotionally in products are often bothered by the term “faulty design” in product tests. The meme has prevailed that technical progress has done something like this very rarely. The opposite is true. Advances in production are overshadowed by excessive complexity that leads to more accidental misconstruction than ever in history. Tesla built… Read more

Semaphores in C ++ 20

Semaphores can be used to coordinate shared access to shared resources. You can also play ping-pong with them. A counting semaphore is a special semaphore that has a counter greater than zero. This counter is initialized in the constructor. Requesting the semaphore decrements and releasing it increments the counter. If a thread tries to request… Read more

Singapore: Abuse of Trust in Corona Contact Tracking

In Singapore, the pandemic response has been largely technology-based – two systems to be precise. The first is a QR code that became ubiquitous across the country in April and May as part of the “SafeEntry” contact tracking system. SafeEntry meant that anyone who wants to enter a public place – restaurants, shops, malls –… Read more

heise + | Build aerosol traffic light: ESP8266 warns of aerosols, fine dust and smells

Build aerosol traffic light: ESP 8266 warns of aerosols, fine dust and smells Aerosols in the fine dust sensor Olfactory burden Housing made of wood Firmware Measured values interpret Article in c’t 3 / 2021 read Aerosols are on everyone’s lips. Unfortunately. The tiny droplets also transport coronaviruses and are therefore for most infections with… Read more

Android Automotive OS: Does Google Still Give Automakers A Chance?

Android is actually not particularly suitable as an operating system for the telematics unit of the center console, the infotainment system. It boots for ages, it struggles with security problems and the rampant hardware growth has always kept Google on its toes. But the first current and probably all cars in the future rely on… Read more

heise offer: XXL webinar: Microsoft Teams for administrators

Microsoft Teams is one of the most powerful but also complex collaboration tools for companies. At the 21. January you will learn in our XXL webinar “Microsoft Teams for Administrators” (9 to 14 o’clock) how you can manage teams in Implement your company correctly, administer it with the admin center and how to install /… Read more

Facial Recognition: Facebook pays $ 350 to every user in Illinois

In a class action lawsuit that has been going on for more than five years because of the unauthorized collection of biometric data from users, the courts, prosecutors and Facebook have reached a settlement. Facebook is committed to paying a total of 650 million US dollars to users from the US state of Illinois. That… Read more

Rocket drive for new NASA moon mission switches off prematurely during test

The rocket engine of the Space Launch System (SLS) was tested over the weekend as part of the preparations for NASA’s Artemis I lunar mission. Instead of simulating the complete rocket launch of eight minutes, the four RS – 25 rocket drives switched off after only a little more than a minute. NASA has not… Read more

Virgin Orbit brings satellites into space for the first time

Virgin Orbit put satellites into orbit for the first time. For this purpose, the company detached and detonated a liquid fuel rocket from an airplane flying off the coast of California on Sunday afternoon (California time). Ten small satellites were on board for the “Launch Demo 2” mission. These are One satellite each from eight… Read more

Linux boots for the first time on ARM Macs

Corellium, a specialist in the virtualization of ARM devices, has succeeded in porting the Linux kernel to Apple’s new M1 ARM processor. In a tweet, the company shows with a photo that the kernel is booting on the M1 Mac. The necessary code should be open source. Corellium CTO Chris Wade points out, however, that… Read more

Satellite Internet: OneWeb saves 41,000 satellites

Satellite operator OneWeb is drastically reducing the expansion plans for its Internet service. For the second expansion phase, the Indian-British company plans to take place 47. 844 satellites “only” 6. 372 satellites. This is a reduction by 41. 112 satellites or 87 percent. This is revealed by a request from OneWeb to the US regulator… Read more