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TechStage | Top 10: These are the best smartphones up to 500 euros

Testing Tests overview Smartphone Motorola Moto G 5G Plus test: A lot of battery for little money Huawei P Smart 2021: Budget model with room for improvement Asus Zenfone 7 Pro: Turbo smartphone with flip camera Samsung Galaxy Xcover Pro in the test: Hard but slow Oneplus Nord N 10 5G in the test: galloped… Read more

Crypto Wars: EU Commission does not want to weaken encrypted communication

The encryption of message services such as Whatsapp or Telegram should not be weakened according to the will of the EU Commission. The Brussels authority is not planning a proposal for a general ban on encrypted communications, said EU Interior Commissioner Ylva Johansson in a letter to three MEPs. No solution is being considered that… Read more

heise + | Photographing in winter: implementing motifs artistically

Sometimes I can’t explain why a picture touches me deeply. There are poetic moments when the mind rests and this calm is expressed in me through a tender, intimate feeling beyond pictures and words. Derived from the Greek poiesis, which can be translated as “creation”, poetry describes this inner, silent effect on us humans that… Read more

Dispute over Fortnite: Epic brings complaint against Apple and Google to Europe

Fortnite maker Epic Games is expanding its action against Apple and Google: After the USA and Australia, the games company has now also filed a competition complaint against both companies in Great Britain. Both Apple and Google would abuse their market power with the requirements relating to app sales for iOS and Android and violate… Read more

Brief information: car production, Facebook, DisplayPort 2.0, file sharing

Bottleneck in chip production slows down car production The shortage of electronic chips for cars causes manufacturers and Suppliers for growing problems. Now Audi will also send approximately 10 in the coming week. 000 Employees in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm on short-time work. In December, Volkswagen reported bottlenecks in semiconductors and applied for short-time work for… Read more

Elasticsearch search engine ends free licensing

Core components of the Elastic Stack from version 7. 11 should no longer run under Apache 2.0 License must be available. (Image: Elasticsearch BV) The Elasticsearch search engine and the Kibana visualization tool will no longer be available as free software under the Apache 2.0 license are available. Elasticsearch BV announced this in a blog… Read more

USB microphone: Mackie's EM-USB in a short test

With the EM-USB, the audio manufacturer Mackie has a table microphone in its program that can be connected directly to the computer via USB. The cardioid microphone is equipped with a USB-C port, has its own headphone jack and comes with a tripod. We like the device with its robust construction and useful equipment. On… Read more

Supermassive black hole: oldest and most distant quasar contradicts theories

A group of astronomers has discovered the oldest known quasar to date. It is so massive that two theories about the formation of such a gigantic black hole can be ruled out so early after the Big Bang, they now explain. At least they see J 0313 – 1806 in one state only 670 Millions… Read more

heise + | Knowledge base and paperless office: Second memory Devonthink 3

Anyone who collects information from many sources on a daily basis needs a tool to manage it. The Devonthink tool for macOS can do that – we’ll show you how. (Image: Wax, stock.adobe.com; Howard Bouchevereau, unsplash.com; Montage: Mac & i) Knowledge base and paperless office: Devonthink 3 second memory The Devonthink databases Import or index… Read more

Former Daimler board member Jürgen Hubbert has died

Jürgen Hubbert is dead. The former Daimler board member died on Tuesday (12. Jan. 2015) at the age of 81 years in Sindelfingen. At Mercedes-Benz AG and later at Daimler-Benz and DaimlerChrysler AG, Hubbert was a member of the Board of Management for almost the entire time from 1989 to 2005 responsible for the popular… Read more

First exit in the BMW i4 electric car: A cornering star?

They, those responsible, were brave when they 2013 the technically exciting i3 on the market, which does not fit into the rest of the Bavarian range. We do not know whether the rather hesitant interest of the customers was the reason why the next attempt in the direction of electromobility was so much lead time…. Read more

QuoVadis: HTTPS error due to a revoked certificate

An insufficiently communicated certificate change obviously leads to problems. Heise Security is currently receiving a lot of messages about errors when establishing HTTPS / TLS connections. The cause is apparently a revoked intermediate certificate from QuoVadis Intermediate CA. The following certificate is affected: QuoVadis Global SSL ICA G3 Obviously (on the server?) This must be… Read more

Telegram bot is supposed to sell phone numbers to Facebook profiles

A bot at Telegram is supposed to spit out the phone numbers of Facebook users on request and for a small fee. That should be possible with several hundred million accounts. It is unclear where exactly the data came from. However, there have already been multiple data leaks and other problems on Facebook, which led… Read more

Corona warning app is being expanded and should run on older iPhones

The functions of the official federal corona warning app will be significantly expanded in the coming weeks. In addition, the app should also be able to run on the older iPhone models 5s and 6 from mid-February. The Federal Ministry of Health announced this on Friday. The new functions include a dashboard on which current… Read more

Amazon lets companies build their own Alexa-based assistants

Amazon provides the technology behind its Alexa software for voice assistants from other providers. The first customer is the car manufacturer Fiat-Chrysler, which is developing its own Alexa-based assistance software for its vehicles, as Amazon announced on Friday. The partners can set other wake-up words, voices and additional functions for their voice assistants. The possibility… Read more