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Astronaut Payette: Canada's Viceroy must abdicate

Ex-astronaut Julie Payette is forced to abdicate as Governor General of Canada. Her leadership style has become the scientist’s undoing. It is the first time in the history of the world’s largest monarchy that a governor-general has to resign. Until a successor is appointed, Richard Wagner takes over the official business. The grandson of a… Read more

IT security: Berlin transport companies want to be unimportant

The Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) are in a clinch with the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). It is disputed whether the BVG is a critical infrastructure (Kritis) for local passenger transport within the meaning of the BSI and IT Security Act. If so, reporting and certification requirements apply. In addition, the public company would have… Read more

TechStage | Guide: tablets for homeschooling and learning portals

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 2021: Budget model with room for improvement Asus Zenfone 7 Pro: Turbo smartphone with flip camera Samsung Galaxy Xcover Pro in the test:… Read more

VPN patent dispute probably costs Apple more than 1.1 billion US dollars

After more than a decade, the patent dispute between Virnet X and Apple could be nearing its conclusion: A US court has now denied Apple’s motion for a new trial and has confirmed the latest jury verdict that Apple is another payment of license fees in Amount of over 500 million US dollars (VirnetX vs…. Read more

Mobile networks: the federal government and the industry rely on Open RAN

The federal government is promoting the further development of the open mobile communications standard Open RAN (Open Radio Access Network) as part of the Corona economic stimulus package decided last summer with around 2 billion euros. According to media reports, the funding is now to be distributed by four ministries. Accordingly, the research ministry 635… Read more

heise + | Build a bat scanner with a MEMS microphone

Bats communicate and orientate themselves outside of our hearing range. With a MEMS microphone you can quickly track down the night owls. As I sat on the terrace on long and warm summer evenings, I noticed that there was a lot of bat flying in our garden at dusk. This is probably the best hunting… Read more

EU Parliament: Employees should also be able to switch off cell phones and other devices

After work and on vacation, employees should be able to switch off their work and communication devices such as smartphones or laptops without any negative consequences. This is what the EU Parliament calls for in a report that was adopted by a large majority on Thursday. 472 MPs voted for the initiative, 126 on the… Read more

Coronavirus app rejected: developer sued Apple

Apple’s control over app sales for iPhones causes a new legal dispute: the rejection of its coronavirus app last spring is inadmissible, argues an app provider in its lawsuit filed in a US court (Coronavirus Reporter vs. Apple, United States District Court for the New Hampshire District, Case 1: 21 – cv – 00047). Developer:… Read more

Opera buys YoYo Games and creates gaming division

The game development platform GameMaker and the gaming browser Opera GX will form the cornerstones of Opera’s new gaming division in the future. GameMaker’s own script language (GML) can be used to develop 2D games for all common consoles, Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux and HTML5. According to YoyYo Games, the development platform is aimed… Read more

Apache CloudStack 4.15 available with a new user interface

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has version 4. 15 of their IaaS software (Infrastructure as a Service) CloudStack released. The update is a so-called LTS release with an extended support period (long-term support). Since the release of CloudStack 4. 04 according to ASF, the open source software for creating cloud infrastructures has been about Improvements… Read more

Tuxedo InfinityBook S 15: Linux notebook with Tiger Lake CPUs from Intel

The German company Tuxedo brings that 15, 6-inch notebook InfinityBook S 15 with Intel’s Tiger Lake processors and pre-installed Linux operating system. Thanks to its compact dimensions, the model is quite light, and also provides a 73 -Watt-hour battery for a long runtime. The heart of the InfinityBook S 15 optionally forms a Core i5… Read more

Brief information: USA, Tesla Grünheide, LG Smartphones, eBay

WHO, Paris Climate Agreement: The US is back The US is back. Joe Biden signals that. The former US Vice President is on Wednesday as 46. President of the United States of America sworn in. He did not hesitate and within hours of taking office 15 issued decrees and two further orders to federal authorities…. Read more

Apple is allegedly planning high-priced virtual reality headsets

Apple supposedly wants to get involved in VR headsets in the future: In addition to AR glasses, which are still in an early stage of development, Apple is also working on a self-sufficient virtual reality headset, such as the financial news agency Bloomberg reported with reference to informed persons. Just like Facebook’s Oculus Quest, Apple’s… Read more

Snort 3: On the trail of the attacker with multithreading

Besides Suricata, Snort is the best-known open source network intrusion detection / prevention system (NIDS / NIPS). Originally started 1998 by Martin Roesch as a simple network sniffer, over the years it has developed into the NIDS reference in the open source environment . After seven years of development, the developer team has re-implemented the… Read more

“Spotify Podcast Ads”: Streaming service wants to optimize podcast advertising

Spotify wants to offer companies the possibility of switching data-supported and data-controlled podcast advertising in the future. In addition, the advertisers should receive information about the effect achieved by their advertising. The advertising format “Spotify Podcast Ads” and the advertising control tool “Streaming Ad Insertion” (SAI) will be available in Germany in the future. The… Read more