Arcade classics like "tron" are making a comeback in phones. Will we be able to play "space invaders" on our washing machines??

When we can play old arcade classics on our cell phones or palmtops, it’s just like goethe in paperback, says andreas lange, director of the computerspielemuseum berlin and author of the following article. But the retro avant-garde of games can also be of tangible economic importance in the very near future.

Panutat tejasen lives in chiang mai, a charming little town in northern thailand, and the world would probably never have known about him if he hadn’t been the programmer of the first 3-D shooter for minicomputers – the so-called "windows CE". Palmtops on windows CE base. If four years ago "doom" conquered the hard drives of pcs, today it is games like "warrior" (that’s what he called his game) that turn our smallest electronic companions into entertainment machines, be it pocket computers or cell phones. When asked why he started programming for these devices, which, according to him, are hard to buy in thailand, he replied that it is a good way for small companies to conquer market segments.

The bicycle club ADFC and federal minister of transport andreas scheuer (CSU) have awarded the 25 bicycle-friendly city of the federal republic of germany on tuesday. The crown of the ADFC bicycle climate test 2020, for the 230.Had voted 000 cycling nationwide, goes among the city with uber 100.000 inhabitants at karlsruhe with the school grade 3.1. The city has thus defended the first place in 2018 before munster (3.2) and freiburg (3.4).

In the class of the city over 500.000 inhabitants lies bremen with the no longer fully satisfactory rating 3.6 rank 1, closely followed by hannover (3.7). With the same note frankfurt pushes in 3 place, where it turns leipzig. Berlin received one "special price for handproof improvements" during the corona pandemic, after the senate administration in the capital since the spring had set up many pop up bike paths.

Auber dresden and bremen have all the city over 500.000 inhabitants of 2018 improved slightly from 4.08 to 4.02. Also in munchen, stuttgart and dusseldorf noticed the cycling "hand-proof signals for more bike-friendliness" in the disease. To do this, you pay mails like the establishment of bicycle straws, traffic-calmed zones or bollards for protection against through traffic. In dusseldorf and frankfurt, the participants praised better control of false parks on cycle paths.

Consumers in germany are threatening to increase their electricity costs in the coming year. The nationwide average price for a kilowatt-hour was able to swell by 7 percent to 32.2 cents if the expected increase in okostromufage is not prevented, the comparison portal verivox has calculated. A three-person household with an annual consumption of 4000 kilowatt hours must count on additional costs of 88 euros in this case.

After a forecast of the denkfabrik agora energiewende, the surcharge for the expansion of renewable energies 2021, mainly due to the significantly lower electricity price on the borse and the burglary of electricity demand by the corona crisis from now 6.8 cents per kilowatt hour on a record high of approximately 8.6 cents rise. The energy supplier EON and IG mining, chemistry and energy (IG BCE) also expect a similar increase, if not counteracted.

Relief by billion-heavy economic stimulus package

Business associations demanded the federal government to act. "If the electricity prices continue to rise, this could be a heavy brake in the way out of the crisis", said deputy general managing director of the industrial association BDI, holger losch, the german press agency. The main manager of the energy association BDEW, kerstin andreae, said the DPA, it is the highest time to act to avoid a drastic increase in electricity prices.

Microsoft used his home exhibition ignite to introduce several updates to his power platform. These include three products: powerapps, power BI and power automate, who all turn to the so-called citizen developer. Thus, users are meant that are not full-time developers, but with low code software can create their own applications for desktops and mobile devices.

Software development with low code and NO code platforms is therefore a trend in the IT industry, as more and more users have to create applications for microsoft 365, salesforce or servicenow with no or low programming skills, which help with increasing digitization of work processes. Now microsoft has tapped the power platform stronger with the in-house azure cloud and the developed tool visual studio. Distributing the citizen developer their apps of their apps are described above about teams.

On the ignite there was a live demo of power automate desktop, which is currently available as public preview. Microsoft had taken the RPA provider (robotic process automation) softomotive in may 2020 to power power automate. Whose wine automation allows you to automate recurring activities on windows desktops. For this purpose, it creates reusable workflows from recorded clicks and keypad entries. This technique now fell into power automate desktop and is explicitly dependent on business processes.

The already in the money-floating google parent company alphabet makes use with a billion-heavy bond edition of record low interest rates. The company announced on tuesday to have around 10 billion dollars with debt writing with maturities between FUNF and 40 years. Financial chef’s ruth porat was pleased with the high demand of investors – the bonds were clearly considered.

According to the financial service bloomberg, bids worth more than 38 billion dollars were delivered. Alphabet succeeded in proposing his bonds with seven and forty years of recording low interest rates of only 0.8 or 2.25 percent. The ten-year-old paper of the google mother are only 1.1 percent. 5.75 billion dollars of total unique wants to use alphabet for sustainable purposes such as environment, social and good corporation.

The internet giant has not – on the contrary: the group is already sitting on cash reserves of more than $ 120 billion and pays to the most liquid companies in the world. In view of the extremely low key rates of gross central banks such as the fed or the ECB, the temptation is to accommodate new money, but rough. Therefore, even a number of companies also put on the capital markets, which did not actually have not improved.

NDR survey on EXPO with skeptical results – sexy EXPO – action week against the EXPO

The millennium countdown has paid off, now the final spurt to the opening day of the 1st world expo begins. World’s fair on german soil. The united states are still not officially represented at the EXPO, but one would like to keep a door open for the USA. According to the report, a commission will fly to the states to look for common ways of participation. A particular difficulty for the organizers is the fact that, according to a decision of the congress, no public funds may be used for the world exposition. But we don’t have to worry, because chancellor gerhard schroder as ex-father of the state and savior in all situations will surely find an amicable solution with bill clinton.

Embarrassing surprises in the EXPO survey of the norddeutscher rundfunk among the population of lower saxony: only one percent of all respondents want to travel to the EXPO 2000 by organized bus tours. At the same time, hanoverians will breathe a sigh of relief in view of the expected traffic volume, as two-thirds of those surveyed intend to travel by public transport. Drivers are found in the 25-34 age group, while the older and more educated segments of the population tend to use public transport more often. The 18 to 24 year olds stand out once again because they cannot give any information about the place and time of the EXPO 2000. Here, the advertising strategies of the world’s fair do not yet seem to have fallen on fertile ground.

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The mirror is shocked over the discovery that a priced reporter has manipulated stories in coarse scope

The mirror unpacked before christmas, this time in our own thing. A fraud in its own house was disclosed, threw it yesterday afternoon. Have a reporter of the news magazine "in a coarse circumference manipulated their own stories". In the house you are shocked, colleagues are deep, the case relotius mark a low point in the 70th history of the mirror.

Why poker is becoming a popular sport

Uncomfortable feeling to confide in a provider of online poker. No matter. Everything goes very fast. Why is everyone leaving the table now? I had just won 30 cents twice in a row. And that with relatively weak blatters. A new table is needed. No problem, there are almost 15 thousand players online. And that in the afternoon at three o’clock. There are ten players at the next table, so it doesn’t take long for six dollars to go into the pot. Pedrofino46 leaves the table after having lost two dollars against my 10 parchment. The cards are in my favor, I bet only on good blattern and win 14 dollars within half an hour. Rough deal.

Poker is popular. Celebrities gamble on stefan raab, james bond no longer plays baccarat in "casino royale", as in the original story by ian fleming, but plays poker against the bosses, DSF broadcasts entire tournaments. Now the sports betting company bwin has entered the business with a casino license from gibraltar and providers from the USA have penetrated the european market. Poker fever is rampant in germany.

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The neoliberal policy of the greek government ensures a dispute in the european left

The call of gregor gysi was as simple as vague. "To all left and progressive power. Make unit to defeat neoliberal policy", he was.

Current macs are standard with USB-C connections that allow thunderbolt-3 transfers. But so far, apple himself had only a short thunderbolt 3-cable on offer. With the standard effluent, a maximum of 0.8 meters could be brooded – although with the maximum flow rate of 40 gbit per second, but for coarse setups, that was simply too short. If you needed more cable freedom, you had to look for yourself otherwise in accessories.

Active string

How to remove the online loading of the mac manufacturer is now otherwise. For a few days a two-meter long variant of the thunderbolt 3 cable has been available for the first time, with which various peripherals can be controlled.

Braided by apple

In contrast to the standard variant with under one meter, the strip is active (internally uses an optical connection), thus containing components that ensure that the throughput speed is maintained over the entire cable length. For the first time, apple also uses braided nylon than hulle, which should not be too stiff and yet a tangle prevents.