Category archives: Electronics

IFA Berlin 2014 | My Highlights!

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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 o...

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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.“

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

Interior Design Recommendation | The Photosho...

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Everyone would probably want to use Photoshop for his/her face at least once. Blending out pimples, whitening teeth and brightening up the eyes if possible. As long as this does not exist, we have to accept makeup and truth. ATYPYK is the company which produces something like a Photoshop mirror. Its...

DuckDuckGo The ultimate anonymous search eng...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

Neues aus Fernost: Die Tamagotchies kommen zu...

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Vergesst die ernsthaft gemeinten Versuche von David Hasselhoff, noch mal Fuß im Free TV zu fassen, denn dieses hier ist das Comeback des Jahres: Tamagotchies. Jedes Kind der 90er Jahre hatte eines. Und hattest du keines, konntest du einfach nicht mitreden. Es sollte uns helfen, Verantwortung zu erlernen, um dann ein echtes Haustier zu...

Spieletipp: Retro-Rollenspiel: Aegis Defender...

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Bei Aegis Defenders handelt es sich um eines dieser Indie Games, die ohne große Grafik auskommen. In 8-Bit-Manier kommt das Spiel retro-mäßig rüber und weckt in uns allen Erinnerungen an Zeiten, in welchen Spiele noch aus Liebe und Pixeln gemacht waren. Das Gameplay schaut durchaus interessant aus, denn es scheint eine Mischung...

IFA 2014 | The largest consumer electronics f...

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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...

IT News | Apple & IBM - A Dream Team?

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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...