Berlusconi honored as fighter against anti-semitism

In new york, despite his remarks about mussolini, the italian head of government receives an award from the jewish organization anti-defamation league for his loyalty to the united states and israel

An unusual number of heads of government meet in new york this time to discuss the future of the international organization and iraq during the UN general assembly. U.S. President bush has already made his request that the international community of the U.S. Should provide stronger support in the reconstruction, the UN secretary general warned against the prevention strategy practiced by the U.S. Government, which would blow up the united nations. Bush meets with schroder. The head of the italian government, silvio berlusconi, who is a popular figure in the white house, also gave a speech and took the opportunity to accept an award for his active opposition to anti-semitism.

Berlusconi, who shortly before had appeared on italian television as sanger, kept to his role as holder of the EU presidency during his speech. He called for the strengthening of the UN, the security council and international agreements, and identified terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction as two of the greatest threats to peace and development. Contrary to the prevention strategy, he stressed that when all political and diplomatic means have been exhausted, recourse to force legitimized by the UN should not be ruled out. In the case of iraq, he held back diplomatically and avoided minefields. The UN plays an important role, a new government must be elected democratically, the council is a first step to that end. He also called for support for reconstruction at the donor countries conference in madrid.

Dispute with epic: valve has to issue steam sales data to apple

Dispute with EPIC: Valve has to ie Steam sales data to Apple

A US court has granted apple’s arrangement, which forces the game company valve for publishers of sales data of the platform steam. The legal dispute between EPIC games and apple uninvolved company now has to deliver sales, prices and further information about 436 on steam personed games to apple – until mitte marz. The data should rich down to the year 2017, slightly less widely called by apple originating back to 2015.

Judge: apple has arrangements "salt"

Apple has requested the data to deception monopoly forecast around the app store in litigation with epic games – they should show that there are significant competition in the distribution of apps. Valve apparently already provided individual, partly sworn documents to apple, rejected a further provision of data but as too cheerful and work propose.

Apple have with his "forced arrangements to salt the ground", valve was not concerned alone, noted the state judges of a US federal court (northern district of california oakland division) against valves law law360 reported. However, the judge closed apple’s reasoning that the steam sales data is relevant to the better understanding of the game market and software distribution over digital platforms.

Electricity too expensive?

Electricity too expensive?

Image: BDEW

The energy and climate newsreel: about electricity prices, excesses and luxurious demands in japan

The future of solar power payments is still up in the air. The federal government hopes that there is still before the summer break an agreement with the lander.

From multitasking and monotasking

From multitasking and monotasking

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Tendency to pay shorter attention to a task also depends on personality traits, according to one study, but why is higher attention associated with shorter sleep times?

Multitasking is the jumping of attention between two or more tasks. This is a natural process because attention is a needle’s eye of cognitive processing and can only focus on one process while the rest fades into the background. When we communicate with someone, we jump between talking, listening and observing as well as when we walk and let our eyes wander between near and far. Attention is also a danger and need sensor, which is why it is always geared to detecting changes and new things, which is why attention can easily be shifted from concentrated attention to focused attention by an appropriate stimulus environment "monotasking" can be distracted.

Iphone 13: new camera functions expected for professionals

IPhone 13: New camera functions expected for professionals

A few weeks before the expected date of publication, new details about the iphone 13 are leaked. Apple will set as a driving horse in the new smartphone generation among other things on camera controls, which are also designed for professional use, such as the financial news agency bloomberg reported on tuesday.

Apple especially for the post production with the video interaction final cut pro thoughtful prorses codec will give his debut on the iphone 13 to allow 4K recordings in high quality. Like the PRORAW format introduced last year, video recordings with the apple codec are limited to the more expensive PRO models.

Bokeh effect for videos

For the other video controls of the iphone 13 is a new cinematic mode, the recordings with (customizable) background creatures should be fulfilled, like bloomberg calling on informed persons. This place the scientific bokeh effect known from portrate photos for video recordings.

Land consolidation?

The party landscape after the bundestag elections

Speculations are also allowed in politics, and so now is the opportunity to participate in election betting. Charming is most likely, if one does not believe the trends from sunday polls. But the suspense is short-lived, on the late evening of the 22nd. The percentages are fixed. It may be more interesting to speculate in the long term about a possible change in the german party landscape in the aftermath of this federal election.

This kind of speculation cannot be applied to the question of the future fate of the party "pirates" and the "alternative for germany" limited. The parties already established in the bundestag have by no means a guarantee that the fields they now use will remain theirs, apart from minor shifts. Party-political consolidation is conceivable, but so too are lasting changes in the ownership structure of the.

Narcissistic ceos bet on new technologies

An international study claims to have found that self-absorbed ceos drive their companies forward

It is well known that being convinced of one’s own personality is not necessarily an obstacle to one’s career (celebrity or narcissistic personhood). But are narcissists, once they have found their way in the boardrooms of this world, also in a special way suitable for a career?, "discontinuous innovation" and are actually a step ahead of their time?

Narcissistic CEOs bet on new technologies

Caravaggio: narcissist. Image: the york project/GNU FDL

Continuous operation of tokamak fusion plants draws nearer

continuous operation of tokamak fusion plants jerks closer

ASDEX. Photo: IPP

Experiments in ASDEX upgrade were successful

Alexander bock, a plasma physicist at the max planck institute (IPP) in garching near munich, germany, investigated in his doctoral thesis how the kafig of the plasma can be made suitable for continuous operation. He succeeded in driving the 800-kiloampere current in the plasma of auben at the ASDEX upgrade fusion facility.

Trading war: samsung, sk hynix and lg introduce trade relations with huawei

Trading War: Samsung, SK Hynix and LG introduce trade relations with Huawei

Huawei spurt the effects of the amplified trading restrictions on the part of the USA. If the chip launcher TSMC had already set trade relations with huawei, follow now further gross companies from the semiconductor industry.

According to reports of the sudkorean magazine chosun biz stop samsungs sectors and SK hynix the sale of dram chips like LPDDR4 to huawei. Also deliver chosun biz according to samsung display department and LG no display panels more about huawei.

Displays from boe and co.

Alternatives offer chinese manufacturers, but not always in sufficient quantities. DISPLAY, for example, huawei already buys in coarse quantities of beijing boe display technology – smaller competitors such as visionox, tianma and china star optoelectronics technology (CSOT) should now collect the share of samsung and LG. It’s primary about OLED panels.