If you thought, you’ve seen it all, think again. A theme
park in the south of China has opened a new attraction
(Bungee jumping tower, 70m height). To open the tower
officially, they decided for a rather doubtful event.

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The Nintendo Switch is still a remarkable mobile
console and it has good games to play on it. How-
ever the controllers (called Joy-cons) aren’t without
doubts when it comes to ergonomics.

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It is well-known that eReaders with eInk displays
today are as flexible as tablet pcs when it comes
to apps and all the stuff they come with. What
hasn’t changed though, is the eInk display…

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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.

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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…

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We’re sorry for any inconvenience. A lot of posts haven’t
been automatically posted during our absence. Lots of
Missed schedules occurred leaving the posts in Scheduled
state. We need to investigate more into this.

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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.

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The 36th Chaos Computer Club summit is taking
place and there’s already the first horror message
around. According to Kaspersky, a widespread
control system from Siemens seems affected.

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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?

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What does it look like when a fuel tank used for space
rockets is bursting? The NASA has released a video of
a load test where the fuel tank is put under stress
with pressure 260% above nominal value.

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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.

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What does it look like if a blizzard is heading towards
New York? A spectacular time lapse recording from
the One World Observatory (the visitor deck atop the
One World Trade Center) shows the white snow squall.

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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.

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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.

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Sorry for any inconvenience the last days. The
bug devil has striked us again and the post
scheduling system refused to work properly.
This had the effect of no post releases recently.

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IoT is a fine ting, most people of us think.
Checking room temperature, switch lights
remotely or do a surveillance remotely
using internet-connected webcams.

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220 years ago the metric system found it’s way to
our modern life. Everything measured is based upon
the metric system however there are some countries
still using the imperial system (USA, Australia, UK)

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Nothing’s forever. While Yahoo has announced
mid-october that it will shut down it’s service on
December 14th, they’re taking the step a bit
further: voluntary archivars aren’t allowed to save…

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Owner of a Panasonic DECT phone? Then you should
be aware of this: A secret code allows resetting the
system base PIN and allow the connection of a new
mobile handset that itself can be used for auditing.

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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?

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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.

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A “no” seems to be something Xerox won’t accept.
After the denial of HP to agree to the takeover offer
Xerox made few weeks ago, Xerox now intends to get
in touch with the HP shareholders directly.

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Now we’ve seen a lot of things, some of them being
weird. But this is really awkward. In Russia there’s a
study active where it is determined if cows produce
more milk when having a VR headset on.

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The life of an animal can be very dangerous.
Especially if natural needs urge you to get water.
This deer herd has been struck by a python killing
one of them by quickly snatching out of the pond.

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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.

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The Ryzen Threadripper 3970X is the 32-core
Threadripper from AMD and already a beast when
it comes to multicore computing. Dotriaconta-core
CPUs aren’t often seen for personal systems.

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The Galaxy S10 and the Note10 are the current
flagship cell phones of Samsung and they’re
providing good numbers in various benchmarks.
So should the S11, being leaked recently…

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5G was always a difficult thing for the USA. While
Huawei is being locked out as a supplier for 5G
despite bing the world leader in 5G technology,
Trump sees Apple in charge to take this part.

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Cloud services have become a profitable sector
in IT services in general. That’s why Google,
Amazon and Microsoft have invested massive
amounts of money to build up a massive cloud.

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Tesla has recently resented a new form of truck based
on an electric motor like Tesla’s usual cars are. The truck
shall carry 1.7 tons and also is said to be extremely
resistant to damage. Even the glass…

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When Zack Nelson performed his durability test
on the Google Pixel 4 XL, the phone snapped to
pieces easily due to weak spots in the frame.
The following video (teardown) shows why that is.

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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!

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