While the economy has recently picked up again in many places after the sometimes catastrophic pandemic year 2020, a chip shortage is now slowing down several industries. The chip manufacturers AMD and Nvidia do not assume that this will be resolved in the first half of the year. In Germany, for example, the automotive industry… Read more
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MediaTek has new high-end chips for 5G smartphones
MediaTek has two new system-ons with Dimensity 1100 and Dimensity 1200 -Chip (SoC) presented for upcoming 5G smartphones. These chips are being produced for the first time for the Dimensity series using 6 nanometer technology. That lowers your electricity consumption. So far, Dimensity SoC have come from 7 nm production. New CPU -Cores with old… Read more
read more...No entitlement to a paper replacement for electronic health cards
Statutory insurance cannot ask their health insurance company to provide proof of their insurance on paper as an alternative to the electronic health card. That emerges from a judgment of the Federal Social Court on Wednesday. The Kassel judges decided in two proceedings from North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. The legal regulations to the electronic health… Read more
read more...TechStage | Chargers for iPhone & iPad: Faster & better from 20 euros
Beginning Power Delivery Cable Charger Qi charger Conclusion Comments by Matthias / / 20. 01. 2021 18: 07 Clock If you want to charge your iPhone and iPad quickly, you need the right combination of power adapter and cable. We show good and cheap alternatives to expensive Apple accessories. Whoever one of the iPhone –… Read more
read more...WireGuard-VPN available in firewall distribution pfSense
Users who receive updates for their pfSense system from the development strand of the Community Edition will find the WireGuard entry in the pfSense web interface from the snapshot with version number 2.5. The integration of WireGuard at the kernel level took a little over a year. Now the VPN (Virtual Private Network) software can… Read more
read more...Electric cars: Rivian raises another $ 2.65 billion
The US electric car developer Rivian has closed another financing round. Now let 2, 50 billion US dollars (2, 19 billion euros), the company announced. The other investment companies Fidelity, Coatue, D1 Capital and others who have already participated in earlier rounds will be involved in the round, led by T. Rowe Price Associates. Also… Read more
read more...Facebook improves image descriptions for people with visual impairment
The social network Facebook has fed an AI with billions of public Instagram photos and the associated hashtags. From this, the AI learned to automatically recognize around ten times more concepts in the images than it was able to before, explained Facebook. Thanks to the improved image recognition, people with visual impairment could now receive… Read more
read more...Brave: Web browser with built-in IPFS support
The Brave web browser, which is focused on privacy, has supported the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) since version 1. 19. Resources in IPFS can be opened via an external HTTP gateway or via a local IPFS node that the browser starts as required in order to participate in the network. The latter in particular is… Read more
read more...Office 365: Microsoft brings lists to the iPhone
Microsoft has released “Listen” as a native app for iPhones. The tool is designed for company use and should enable mobile access to all existing lists and lists shared in the team for information management. The app makes it possible to edit lists and create new lists while on the go – either using templates… Read more
read more...Intel CPU “Alder Lake-S”: 16-core with DDR5-SDRAM in benchmark database
Since the summer 2020, entries on Intel’s upcoming desktop processor generation Alder Lake-S alias Core i have been appearing in online benchmark databases. 12000 on – the first desktop series with 10 – nanometers -Technology. In the case of a new run with SiSoftware Sandra, DDR5-SDRAM is now also used, and the clock frequencies are… Read more
read more...Brief information: home office, IBM, online lessons, solar activity
Home office wherever possible The people in Germany need further patience in the corona pandemic: The federal and state governments have extended the lockdown to mid-February out of concern about the virus mutation and partially tightened it. Schools and daycare centers should also remain closed until then. But the countries want to implement this controversial… Read more
read more...Sweden: 5G frequencies auctioned despite Huawei lawsuit
Despite ongoing legal disputes due to the exclusion of Huawei, the Swedish telecommunications authority PTS auctioned the coveted 5G frequencies on Tuesday. The approved companies Hi3G Access (Hutchison Group), Net4Mobility (Telenor and Tele 2) and Telia each have at least 100 MHz in for 5G designated 3.5 GHz band. The state communications service provider Teracom… Read more
read more...Free RHEL instead of CentOS
With two changes to the RHEL licensing, Red Hat probably wants to defuse its discontinuation of CentOS somewhat. On the one hand, the provider is expanding its developer program, with which individual developers can equip up to 16 systems with RHEL in the future. These can be used for test purposes, but it can also… Read more
read more...“Sunspot” and “Raindrop”: More malware in the SolarWinds attack chain discovered
Since the end of last year, security researchers, companies and authorities have been intensively analyzing supply chain attack tactics on SolarWinds Orion software that criminal hackers successfully used to compromise networks of large companies and authorities. Over the past few weeks, the analyzes have uncovered other malware families that were used in the course of… Read more
read more...heise + | Promotion of renewable energy: the crash with announcement
Solar modules and wind parks can now be found on roofs and meadows across the country. The alarm calls sound correspondingly loud every time the federal government changes the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG). One of the biggest points of contention this time around is the future of solar and wind power pioneers. The wind… Read more
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