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Nursing apps & Co .: Federal government is driving digital healthcare forward

More “digital helpers” are to be used in care in the future. The federal cabinet approved a bill on Wednesday “for the digital modernization of care and nursing”. Human attention is the basis for good care, explained Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU). However, useful apps could help those in need of care to cope… Read more

Decentralized company chat with Slack and Matrix

Element has introduced a new bridging service for Slack for its Matrix Services (EMS). It is a connection between the collaboration platform and the decentralized messenger matrix, which Element manages completely for the customer. The new offer is based on the free matrix-appservice-slack, which companies can also set up themselves. With the software, users can… Read more

Rights extension: Critical gap in older iOS and macOS versions

Apple’s important XPC interface enables malware to obtain extended rights: A logic problem in the handling of XPC services by the central process launchd can be “easily exploited and with 100 Abuse percent reliability to expand rights “, as security researcher Zhipeng Huo now announced. It is also possible for malware to break out of… Read more

Ministry of Justice rejects Scheuer's draft law on autonomous driving

The Federal Ministry of Justice has initially rejected a draft law by Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) on autonomous driving because of open questions about data protection. This was reported by the Handelsblatt . A spokeswoman for Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) said on Wednesday (20. Jan. 2021) On request, high data protection standards for mobility… Read more

Data science for a better world

data.org, a US nonprofit, has announced the winners of its “Inclusive Growth and Recovery Challenge”. The funding of 10 million US dollars will go to eight projects that use data science to improve people’s lives. One of the selected projects is an app from the non-profit Swiss foundation BASE, which gives Indian smallholders access to… Read more

Less variable salaries: the collective is becoming more important

The fat years for employees in the automotive industry are over. Because the car business is no longer running, bonuses are being cut or canceled. The same applies to the tourism industry, which is almost at a standstill due to the travel restrictions due to Corona. These payments are voluntary and one-time special payments by… Read more

heise + | Server: Lenovo ThinkSystem SR665 with two AMD EPYC 7H12 in the test

Server: Lenovo ThinkSystem SR 665 with two AMD EPYC 7H 12 in the test Cover open: The interior of the SR 665 CPU performance in comparison UEFI settings as a hurdle I / O surprise SAS versus NVMe Conclusion Read article in iX 2 / 2021 Under the name ThinkSystem SR 665 Lenovo does not… Read more

Semiconductor supplier ASML achieves record sales of 14 billion euros

The Dutch semiconductor supplier ASML has 454 made more money than ever before: almost 3.7 billion euros in profit at almost 13 billion euros in sales. The fourth quarter 2020 accounted for almost 4.3 billion euros in sales and 1.1 billion euros in profit. ASML has almost a third of its annual turnover with the… Read more

Volkswagen expects strong growth in China despite the lack of chips

With the recovery of the Chinese economy, Volkswagen 2021 expects “significant growth” in its key market. China boss Stephan Wöllenstein expects the market share to increase. “There are good reasons that the Volkswagen Group can develop better than the overall market,” said Wöllenstein on Wednesday (20. Jan. 2021) in front of journalists in Beijing. “We… Read more

Elastic: Amazon is to blame for the open source end

In a blog post, CEO Shay Bannon justifies why Elasticsearch no longer appears as free software. Amazon is solely responsible for the step, whose behavior towards the developers of the search engine is unacceptable. Now, as the market leader, Elastic has to stand up to the group. Specifically, it is about AWS offering Elasticsearch without… Read more

Federal government strengthens consumer rights on the Internet

The Federal Government wants to strengthen consumer rights and ensure that offers on the Internet become more transparent. The cabinet passed a corresponding draft law from the Ministry of Justice on Wednesday, which is intended to implement an EU directive. Among other things, the draft stipulates that comparison platforms on the Internet must state the… Read more

Chrome 88 is here: Without Flash and FTP support

With Chrome 88 Google has finally banned Flash from its browser. This means that even corporate customers are no longer able to access or offer Flash content – Google has been advising them to switch since 2017. Adobe itself has ended support for Flash. In addition, FTP support is to end. According to Google, usage… Read more

MediaSaturn mother Ceconomy: Good business despite lockdowns

Despite the lockdown, electronics retailer Ceconomy did good business with the Media Markt and Saturn brands in the Christmas quarter. Thanks to booming online shops and successful discount campaigns in November, sales, adjusted for currency and portfolio effects, were around 11, 4 percent above the previous year’s level, like the group announced on Wednesday based… Read more

Road load balancing

Should you stay in a traffic jam on the motorway or should you leave? It feels, however you do it, wrong. Classic navigation systems are not of great help here. If you recommend a detour, it will soon be congested as well – while the motorway may have long been clear again. “The traffic jam… Read more

ViacomCBS: Paramount + video streaming service is scheduled to start on March 4th

ViacomCBS plans to launch its Paramount + video streaming service on March 4th. As the media group announced, the start will initially take place in the USA and Latin America. In Canada, CBS All Access will be renamed Paramount +. To Europe, Paramount + is supposed to be on 25. March come, but initially only… Read more