The WEF, the CO2 and other problems
The WEF is currently taking place in Davos, Switzerland.
Despite the media presence of some persons the main
topic will be again how to save the climate and how to
reduce the ecolgical footprint of each of us.
The WEF is currently taking place in Davos, Switzerland.
Despite the media presence of some persons the main
topic will be again how to save the climate and how to
reduce the ecolgical footprint of each of us.
No good times for Intel at the moment. AMD still going
to take the lead in desktop processors while the 3990X
is going to invade Intel’s server and workstation market.
And now there’s a production shortage just ahead.
It took a while until Apple finally brought the
Mac Pro to stores. Now even the rack-mount
version is available in the Apple online store.
There’s one catch: It costs 700 dollars more…
The iPhone 11 Pro is the flagship from Apple when it
comes to smartphones. Apple has invested a lot of
brainpower to equip it with a remarkable camera as
well which is used for professional movie shots.
Windows 7 support officially ended yesterday and
with it a truly good time of one operating system as
reliable as good ol’ Windows XP. Since today only
customers with ESU subscription will receive updates.
Yesterday the official support for Windows 7
ended and with it the official support for an
OS that served us well for over ten years. But
Microsoft delivered one last important patch!
Now personally we’d say, we’ve seen it all. But a
gold-plated keyboard? Well, that new to us even
knowing those fancy smartphones that come
covered in gold and cost as much as a house.
While Windows 7 will soon receive no more updates
(January 14th, 2020), Google has announced yesterday
that they will deliver updates for Chrome browser at
least for the next upcoming18 months.
2019 was already challenging for Intel when AMD
announced the 3rd Gen Threadripper series. Intel
hoped that this would have been the only attack
from AMD. But AMD shifts the next gear…
The reaction of the USA killing Ghassem Soleimani
did happen on saturday evening local time and the
Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) website
had a clear statement visible instead of the usual page.
The CES will open soon and every major brand is about
to show their newest inventions. Samsung for example
has a 49-inch gaming display monster which has a
1000R curve. This allows a way better gaming immersion.
Intel seems to fear the next-gen Ryzen series so
that they bring a new CPU lineup with higher
clock speeds. Also the TDP has been raised for some
types in order to achieve new top clock speeds.
Corellium, known for software and OS virtualization
is facing a possible lawsuit from Apple for providing
ideas on how to circumvent the iOS security and also
allowing a jailbreak. A technique, Apple doesn’t like.
Happy 2020 fellow readers. Hope you enjoyed the New Year’s
Eve as much as I did and you had a great party. Right to the
start of the new year, there are again Top 15 Garfield comics
to start the year with a good laugh! Have fun and enjoy!
So the old year is nearing the end. Hope you all
have achieved your goals and plans for 2019.
Time to prepare for 2020 and set up plans and
achievements for everyone of you to reach.
While on the northern hemisphere there’s winter,
the southern hemisphere is summertime. Australia
has been struck with the hottest temperatures for
the last 50 years. this has consequences…
So while most of us already relax from the christmas
stress, some are still thinking of what to do with some
unwanted presents. Yes, also this year the amount of
presents gone wrong has raised. So what to do now?
The upcoming update delivered to all Tesla cars sold in the EU
will definitely not be very welcome. Tesla announced to limit
some features of their autonomous driving features. Among
these is the “Summon” function which brings the car to you.
The team of Netspark’s blog wishes you merry christmas
and a pleasant quet time to replenish your power for the
new year. If you have holidays, enjoy them with your
beloved ones!
It seems as if german cities and public services are
more often a target for ransomware. Just few days ago
the city page of Frankfurt/Main has been taken down
as Emotet has infected the server systems the site is on.
As an eager user of facebook, you’re always
using facebook on your smartphone as well.
Thinking of the security, you have already
disabled GPS tracking for facebook.
Big brother is watching you! This is version 2.0 of
what privacy breach can be. Tianhong Li and his
colleagues at the MIT foud a way to make a visible
radiography of a building and make walls translucent.
According to several news sites, there might be a big surprise on
February 18th, 2020 when Samsung is also releasing it’s newest
flagship phone, the Galaxy S11. Unlike it’s predecessor, the hardly
available Galaxy Fold, it’s display will be protected by glass.
WordPress has just released a new version of it’s
CMS and we have installed it already. So all is fixed
what has been known of open bugs thanks to the
newest release of WordPress.
DRM is omnipresent when it comes to movies, games
or other media that has to be protected against unwan-
ted copying or republishing. But what happens if you
have bought a movie of which the DRM is no longer?
In this case it affects Splunk, a monitoring tool.
What we remembered from the Y2K bug was the
fact that computers with dual-digit year numbers
were unable to handle dates after 31-12-1999.
It seems to be no good start for Google Stadia.
First, there’s the issue of streaming stutterings and
a bumpy start upon launch. Then the availability in
certain countries. and then the HDR issue at 4K.
Imagine this… you’re playing the lottery
for 16 years and in the moment of your luck
you’re denied your win for some quite doubtful
reason. This man has witnessed it now!
It seems as if it isn’t safe for you to live in Arizona even
if you’re a caring father. In this surveillance video there’s
a man shown who got tazed even with holding a little
child on his arm. The cops say he was a potential danger.
Well, cheating in games isn’t nice, especially if you play
against others and gain advantages by these cheats. One
eGamer has been caught and banned for life from Fortnite.
Fortnite is a First Person Shooter (FPS).
If you thought, you have been seeing everything
then check out this gallery of weird Walmart
situations where even the clerks might have
wondered about the situation they were seeing.
Hidden behind a small online scavenger hunt, Microsoft
has revealed the new logo that will be visible when using
the revamped Edge Browser. In the past, Edge wasn’t very
popular or used much although it was better than IE.