Month: November 2024

Der Power-Schalter an der Unterseite des Mac Mini ist zu einem Meme geworden - bester Stoff für ernst gemeinte und scherzhafte Basteleien. (Mac Mini, Apple)

Amazon ist vor allem als Online-Händler bekannt - aber die Erlösperle des Konzerns ist das Cloud-Geschäft. Das wuchs zuletzt wieder rasant. (Amazon, KI)

Das Megabauprojekt Neom - zudem auch The Line gehört - steht schon lange in der Kritik. Nun zeigt ein Dokumentarfilm das ganze Ausmaß der Menschenrechtsverletzungen beim Bau. (Diskriminierung, Wall Street)

Vor 15 Jahren eroberte ein Linux-Taschencomputer die Herzen der Hacker-Gemeinschaft. Wir werfen einen Blick zurück auf das Smartphone ohne Grenzen. Ein Bericht von Martin Wolf (Nokia, Smartphone)

Der ATUVOS Wallet-Tracker ist jetzt so günstig wie nie und hilft, Geldbeutel, Reisepass und Taschen schnell wiederzufinden. (Technik/Hardware, Airtag)

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft safely landed empty in the New Mexico desert about eight weeks ago, marking a hollow end to the company's historic first human spaceflight. The vehicle's passengers during its upward flight to the International Space Station earlier this summer, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, remain in space, awaiting a ride home on SpaceX's Crew Dragon.

Boeing has been steadfastly silent about the fate of Starliner since then. Two senior officials, including Boeing's leader of human spaceflight, John Shannon, were originally due to attend a post-landing news conference at Johnson Space Center in Houston. However, just minutes before the news conference was to begin, two seats were removed—the Boeing officials were no-shows.

In lieu of speaking publicly, Boeing issued a terse statement early on the morning of September 8, attributing it to Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager of Boeing's commercial crew program. "We will review the data and determine the next steps for the program," Nappi said, in part.

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Google führt einen neuen Veröffentlichungsrhythmus für Android ein - die neuen Hauptversionen kommen ab 2025 bereits im zweiten Quartal. (Android, Google)

Welcome to Edition 7.18 of the Rocket Report! One of the most intriguing bits of news this week is the rolling of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket out to its launch complex in Florida. With two months remaining in 2024, will the company make owner Jeff Bezos' deadline for getting to orbit this year? We'll have to see, as the Rocket Report is not prepared to endorse any timelines at the moment.

As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.

ESA selects four companies for reusable launch. The European Space Agency announced this week the selection of Rocket Factory Augsburg, The Exploration Company, ArianeGroup, and Isar Aerospace to develop reusable rocket technology, European Spaceflight reports. The four awardees are divided into two initiatives focused on the development of reusable rocket technology: the Technologies for High-thrust Reusable Space Transportation (THRUST!) project and the Boosters for European Space Transportation (BEST!) project. The awarded companies will now begin contract negotiations with ESA to further develop and test their solutions.

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Voice over Wireless Fidelity (VoWiFi) schafft per WLAN mehr Reichweite für Schnurlostelefone. Wir stellen drei Modelle vor, mit denen das möglich ist. Eine Anleitung von Ingo Heinicke (Telekommunikation, WLAN)

Bei Amazon gibt es das Samsung Galaxy A15 mit 5G, AMOLED-Display und 50MP-Hauptkamera für kurze Zeit zum günstigen Aktionspreis. (Samsung Galaxy, Smartphone)