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#TGIQF – The ultimate quiz about e-mobility

Electromobility has been providing movement for over 100 years. In the automotive sector, the drive type has only been picking up speed again after a long dry spell: Manufacturers such as Tesla are attracting attention with extremely powerful electric cars and for the first time with a range that comes close to normal gasoline-powered vehicles…. Read more

Emissions law violation: Toyota pays $ 180 million fine in the US

Toyota has to pay a multi-million dollar fine in the US for years of emissions reporting violations. As part of a settlement to settle civil litigation, the company must have 148 million dollars (148 Million euros), announced the Justice Department in Washington on Thursday. Systematic violations of the “Clean Air Act “. The US Environmental… Read more

New territory: no more use of fax machines in the Bundestag

No more faxes in the Bundestag. Fax machines are to be completely abolished from the coming legislative period. This was decided by the Bundestag’s Council of Elders on Thursday. So far, fax machines are still eagerly used in certain areas in the German parliament, as emerged from a response from the federal government to a… Read more

Windows API replica: Wine 6.0 with Vulkan renderer for Direct 3D

One year after Wine 5.0, version 6.0 of the Windows compatibility layer for Linux, macOS, ReactOS and Android has now been released. The release brings a Vulkan backend for WineD3D and extends the implementation of the console and the integration of the Media Foundation framework. It also continues the conversion of the libraries to the… Read more

No higher broadcasting fee: Deutschlandradio cancels collective agreements

After the increase in the radio license fee blocked by Saxony-Anhalt by 86 cents to 18, 36 Euro are the first consequences of public broadcasting. Deutschlandradio has made use of a special right to terminate the current collective bargaining agreements, as the public broadcaster confirmed on request from dpa. Director Stefan Raue emphasized : “The… Read more

heise + | Windows 10: Find errors with on-board resources and external tools

Windows 10: Find errors with on-board resources and external tools Standard handles Search specifically for errors Performance Monitoring External tools The hard drive is making strange noises, a file cannot be deleted or small hackers keep appearing. But why is it? Now you can install some third-party diagnostic tools and thus rely on the Search…. Read more

CES: AirPop Active +: Smart breathing mask with Halo sensor and app

The corona pandemic also determines the CES 2015, and not just organizationally. With AirPop, a company founded in the year 2015 comes on the scene and presents the smart breathing mask Active + at the virtual technology show, which with an intelligent Sensor and its own app. The heart of the breathing mask is the… Read more

Bottleneck in chip production is slowing down car production

The lack of electronic chips for cars is causing growing problems for manufacturers and suppliers. Now Audi will also send approximately 000. 000 Employees in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm on short-time work. Volkswagen had already reported bottlenecks in semiconductors in December, “now it has overtaken us too,” said an Audi spokeswoman on Thursday. Volkswagen applied for… Read more

Attackers could permanently paralyze Junos OS network traffic

Meetings in Corona times require airing, as the virus spreads via aerosols. The AeVOC WLAN sensor warns when it is time to ventilate. 2 Comments c’t Magazine

Mars drilling instrument HP³ does not get into the ground: researchers give up

NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are giving up their attempts to get the HP³ drilling instrument of the Insight probe further into the soil of Mars. Even after HP³ was last pushed under the surface with the help of the robot arm from Insight, 500 hammer blows had not brought any noticeable progress… Read more

Seven warmest years: NASA sees continued dramatic warming trend

“The past seven years have been the warmest seven in history,” says Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). This characterizes the global sustained and dramatic warming trend. The GISS has determined that the global average surface temperature in the past year together with 2016 was highest. The World Weather Organization… Read more

Improvement in air quality in lockdown less than assumed

Air pollution in cities fell less than expected during the corona-related restrictions in spring 2020. According to a new analysis, the weather and the usual changes in the transition from winter to spring had a marked effect on the levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ), ozone (O 3 ) and particulate matter (PM 2.5… Read more

Fresh in the old look: Renault shows the third R5 as a study

Many cars in retro design have failed on the market in the medium term, the reasons for this may vary widely. Renault is now presenting a study that quotes the once very successful R5. This is not without risk, because those responsible are certainly aware that this prototype will arouse desires for a series model…. Read more

Frustration factor distance learning – only worksheets again?

With the corona crisis, many new words have found their way into everyday language: no one has to look up incidence, intensive capacities or R-value. In the school sector, the word creations and paraphrases for the new pandemic-related non-normality are particularly diverse: “presence operation”, “restricted regular operation”, “alternate model” or “hybrid teaching”. And meanwhile it… Read more

SAP: Solid annual financial statements, moderate goals for 2021

Europe’s largest software manufacturer SAP ended a difficult year with a decent final quarter. Earnings before interest and taxes adjusted for special effects were between October and the end of December at EUR 2. 77 billion euros, around 3 percent below the previous year’s value, as SAP surprisingly did in Walldorf on Thursday on the… Read more