Author archives: Esther Schmidt

Apple iPhone 6 | Apple is welcoming us to the...

14. September 2014
Electronics, Entertainment
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Yeah, you didn’t read it wrong. Apple is probably thinking we are in the year 2012. This week, on 09/09/2014, the Apple iPhone 6  and the Apple iPhone 6 Plus were released and can now be preordered. On the 19.09.2014, the first Apple fans are going to have an iPhone 6 in their pockets. It features a powerful quad-core CPU,...

IFA Berlin 2014 | My Highlights!

13. September 2014
Electronics, Entertainment
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This week, the world’s largest electronics fair has ended. In short, this year’s highlights at the IFA are all about smartphones, smartwatches, tablets and smart gadgets such as the Samsung VR glasses. Quite a ‚smart‘ event, isn’t it? Just for you, I’ve been looking for the coolest, most innovative and best products exhibited at the fair. ..................................... 1 First of all, I...
Silk Road, TOR and how the FBI really found out who’s behind all that

Silk Road, TOR and how the FBI really found o...

11. September 2014
Electronics
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 Kingpin, Hacker, Millionaire, Idealist – Ross William Ulbricht. The former owner of the Darknet drug lane Silk Road was arrested on October 2nd in 2013. This year in February, he was officially charged. Along with the lawsuit, the FBI had to publish a report on how they got a hold of the IP...

Sony |"2K Displays aren’t worth it.“

6. September 2014
Electronics, Entertainment
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With their latest Sony XPERIA Z3 release, Sony has decided not to go with the extreme QHD and 2k resolution trend which has recently hit the Smartphone branch. QHD resolution is actually used for monitors that are utilized for professional image editing. A 2k resolution is used for PC monitors and TVs which are...

The Legendary TI-84 Plus Calculator – The o...

4. September 2014
Electronics, Entertainment
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When looking back at the last ten years of technological progress, we’ll notice that a whole lot has changed. Smartphones, Ultrabooks, LED-TVs, ‘real’ tablets –even smart vacuums were invented in the past ten years. One thing that barely changed however, is the Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus calculator. It stayed the same ever...

Battle against Smartphone Theft | Smartphone ...

31. August 2014
Electronics, Entertainment
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California is the place where digital progress happens and apps emerge on an hourly base. It’s the Eldorado for Smartphone and computer enthusiasts. In the Silicon Valley you’ll find companies such as Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe and Facebook. And this is exactly the place where the “Smartphone Killswitch” law was born. More than half of all...

Gaming News | Study reveals there’s more fe...

28. August 2014
Electronics, Entertainment
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Finally – you can officially say that gaming isn’t merely a boys’ thing. In a study the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has concluded that women aged above 18 years are currently the largest group among gamers. Around 36 per cent of all gamers, thus, are female and over 18 years old. The men aren’t falling too far...

DuckDuckGo The ultimate anonymous search eng...

24. August 2014
Electronics, Entertainment
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DuckDuckGo is a supposedly anonymous search engine. The CEO Gabriel Weinberg promises that absolutely no data is stored when requesting a search. Ever since the site launched in January 2011, the daily average requests grew from 36.000 per day to 5 million. Compared to other anonymous search engines, DuckDuckGo features an amazing search and ranking algorithm. DuckDuckGo is...

Google | A million link removal requests due ...

23. August 2014
Electronics, Entertainment
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For three years now, copyright holders or their representatives have been able to contact Google with an online form in order to have links removed from the Google search. In July 2014, Google received 30 million requests to delete links, which are allegedly infringing copyrights, from their search. From a statistical point of view, they got nearly 1...

No Man's Sky | The sun will burn out before y...

21. August 2014
Electronics
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No Man’s Sky was first introduced at the Gaming Expo VGX 2013 and has been on quite the hype train ever since. The indie developers Hello Games also stated that No Man’s Sky will be released in 2015. No Man’s Sky is a unique and promising game presenting a whole new way of...

IFA 2014 | The largest consumer electronics f...

9. August 2014
Electronics, Lifestyle & More
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This year’s “Internationale Funkausstellung” features more than 1400 exhibitors! I totally love browsing electronic stores to check out the latest products in the whole consumer electronics scope. Admittedly, many of my friends don’t really understand why. But, I know that I’m not the only person who loves to just poke around the store...

Gaming News | Release date for "Civilization:...

31. July 2014
Entertainment, Games
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The game publisher 2K Games and their developer Firaxis both announced that the new Civilization: Beyond Earth will be released on October 24th, 2014. Civilization is a number of real-time-strategy games, where you have to conquer the world through different means. Some of them are completely destroying your fellow players through...

IT News | Apple & IBM - A Dream Team?

20. July 2014
Electronics, Lifestyle & More
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When looking at IBM's and Apple's history, there’s just IBM and Microsoft who have been Apple’s serious rivals ever since. I’m not mentioning Google, because they joined the smartphone market in 2008. Through years of cooperation, Microsoft and IBM have both become vast companies in terms of consumer electronics. However, IBM isn’t just favored...
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