Sony has just released a 48MP camera module for smartphones.
With a size of just 0.8μm per pixel this module is one of the
smallest and most high-resoluting CMOS sensor ever made for
smartphones. But what about the image quality?

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Apple and Qualcomm seem to have trouble in their
partnership especially after Qualcom has sued Apple
for patent infringements. As of now it seems as if
Apple will stop using Qualcomm’s network chips.

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If you ever thought about buying an AMD Ryzen
Threadripper 2990WX, then you can do so now at
a canadian online shop. The price is roghtly about
2400 CAD which comes to about 1850 US$

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If you have a smartphone from Huawei, you might
have noticed that for some reason VLC Player is
not available for you in Google Play Store. Why?
VLC has received negative ratings from Huawei users.

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This year it will be the longest bloodmoon duration
visible in Europe. With about 103 minutes the
bloodmoon will be perfectly visible long enough to
even take awesome photoshots while the moon gets red!

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Hardly has the problem with SPECTRE been digested, there’s
a new nightmare ahead for users of Intel, AMD and ARM CPUs.
As the universities in Saarland, Germany and California have
detected, there are two main variants breaching the security…

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I wouldn’t have believed it if I didn’t see the raw footage. A speeding
female driver was stopped and while personal data was taken, the
cops used a virtual coin to determine how the womain is confined. Just
a bad joke or prank? Unfortunately not as the following example shows!

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SSDs are more and more a challenge for high-capacity
HDDs as prices drop and high-density memory dies
are being produced. Western Digital and Toshiba have
produced a QLC chip with 96 layers. What dies that mean?

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Just recently a report was stating that there’s a shortage
of about 310.000 IT specialists for jobs in Germany. To
cover that shortage, Angela Merkel however decided to
alter the Specialists-Immigration-Law.

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When planes transport planes’ parts…
One of the biggest challenges was to transport large
plane parts from one facility to the next. Earlier they
were transported by cargo ships. Unitl now…

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14 years have passed and World of Warcraft still can make
us spend several hours hunting monsters and clearing
dungeons. With the newest Addon beingg released soon,
also the newest Patch has already been rolled out.

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Ever wondered how drones would be able to fly through
curved 3D tunnels without tilting and shifting? Well, the
answer is a drone that can bend itself according to the
given surrounding using proximity sensors.

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4:2 – France has beat Croatia after 90 minutes!
So after 32 exciting World cup days, France has
finally beat Croatia in an exciting and thrilling
final match. Congratulations, France!

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HDMI – A common interface that rules home cinema
equipment for about 15 years now. While VGA with it’s
analogue signal was rather unreliable and DVI couldn’t
get past certain resolutions, HDMI made it’s way.

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One should think that pilots of an airplane are aware of certain
permissins on flight duty. However the co-pilot of a chinese
airline thought that an e-cigarette couldn’t do anything bad.
Wrong! After he started smoking, the plane went into alert mode.

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The migration of all video files has finally been finished.
So from now on you will only find MP4 videos on this blog
The reason for the change was the fact that Adobe has
announced to drop support for Adobe Flash in 2020.

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Many people still want Flash Video on their homepages, however the
usability has experienced a severe drawback in the last years whereas
security issues with the Flash player plugin for several browsers have
been the main reason to move on to a new format.

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Well, it seems as if Intel faces new challenges. As of yesterday
Apple has announced that it won’t use Intel’s 5G modems in
it’s Apple product portfolio in 2020. So Intel is now reducing
production capacity significantly as other brands do not…

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While the current price plan is 13.99 US$ / 19.90 CHF
for the premium package, Netflix is already testing a
new price plan that will have 4 different stages.
The basic plan will be SD-only quality.

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As if nuclear power plants wouldn’t be a safety problem in
general, it has been found out that Tihange in Belgium has
another flaws in their housing structure. That’s the building
that carries the core. A failure of the building would be fatal!

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Ever wondered about what the lowest temperature on
Earth can be? It seems as if AGU (Advancing Earth and
Space Science) has found the answer to that question!
While we know that 1984 the lowest temperature was…

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As you might have noticed, there are more blog entries
coming up in short period of time. At first I had to etch
out some kinks with the underlaying blog system. But
now most of the kinks are gone. Ther will be some…

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Just few days after AMD has announced the release of
the new Threadripper beast, Intel seems to answer that
by unveiling first specs of the new upcoming i9 flagship.
With 8 cores/16 threads it is said to be as fast as the…

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If you thought, SD memory cards have already
reached their technical maximum specification,
think again. Today the SD Association has
announced the next level SD card generation!

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WordPress amazes me more and more the newer the
releases become. While security reasons are important
to perform updates, the added new features can become
a real nuisance.

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If you thought, you’re safe to talk when around
on the streets, think again. According to a company
called WiSpear, it is now possible to hack your
smartphone from 500 to 1000m using a van.

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AMD and Intel are on the racetrack again. Who will
offer the fastest CPU for the fairest price out there?
It seems as if AMD is tackling Intel once more by
releasing a new beast to the public in near future…

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Incredible! Garfield has turned 40 years old on June 19th, 2018.
This gives that comic cat probably the record of the longest running
cartoon series. Of course Time has changed and so has the style of
Garfield…

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So the new Event is now officially scheduled for
September 12th, 2017. What’s clear is that we will
see a new iphone and a new apple Watch (version).
There’s also a new version of MacOS and iOS to be presented…

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…what’s going on here. Yes, it has become quiet in the
last months here. Lots of work to do and still no time at
home to perform all the tasks I want to apply on this blog.
And then all these updates… doesn’t make things easier!

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It’s time, to bring the embedded video files up to code again.
As FLV seems not to be well-embeddable these days, I decided
to re-encode all previously embedded files to MP4 and have them
played back with a more modern MP4 video player based upon HTML5.

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It took quite a while but now you have access to all Lightshows at Bundesplatz
Bern. The older videos have been remastered to ensure the quality is okay even
at Full HD. The new microsite will get a new addition as there’s a new lightshow
available. The next lightshow is already scheduled for October/November 2016.

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