Month: February 2025

Es gibt eine Kampagne, derzeit Pre-Alpha: Electronic Arts hat erste Einblicke in das kommende Battlefield veröffentlicht - und lädt ein. (Battlefield, Electronic Arts)

Die Essenza Mini von Nespresso ist eine kompakte Kaffeemaschine für alle, die Kaffee schnell und unkompliziert zubereiten möchten. (Technik/Hardware, Haushaltsgeräte)

The Lenovo Thinkpad X9 14 Aura Edition is a thin and light laptop that measures just 0.7 inches thick and weighs just 2.74 pounds. But it packs a lot of features into that compact body including an OLED display, an Intel Lunar Lake processor, and support for up to 32GB of RAM, WiFi 7, and an […]

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Last month, Microsoft announced that it was increasing the prices for consumer Microsoft 365 plans for the first time since introducing them as Office 365 plans more than a decade ago. Microsoft is using new Copilot-branded generative AI features to justify the price increases, which amount to an extra $3 per month or $30 per year for both individual and family plans.

But Microsoft giveth (and chargeth more) and Microsoft taketh away; according to a support page, the company is also removing the "privacy protection" VPN feature from Microsoft 365's Microsoft Defender app for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Other Defender features, including identity theft protection and anti-malware protection, will continue to be available. Privacy protection will stop functioning on February 28.

Microsoft didn't say exactly why it was removing the feature, but the company implied that not enough people were using the service.

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ANNA, Ohio—Honda's Anna Engine Plant has changed a little since I last visited. As we wound our way past the four-cylinder production line, the green-painted scaffolding and overhead gantries gave way to a more open expanse of the cavernous building. Conveyor belts have been replaced by little robots that move pallets around, and bright LED lights illuminate the yellow-painted walls. In the middle of it all is a series of massive 6,000-ton presses, newly installed to cast the battery packs of Honda's next US-made electric vehicles.

A little more than an hour outside of Columbus, the Anna Engine Plant started building engines for the Goldwing motorcycle, something that would have been of deep interest to me and all the other schoolchildren who were obsessed with what seemed like the world's most excessive two-wheeler.

That was 40 years ago, and in the intervening years, the factory has expanded to encompass 2.8 million square feet (260,000 m2), where 3,000 people build four- and six-cylinder engines for the Hondas and Acuras people drive here in the US. Ars was last there in 2020, back then because it was hand-building the twin-turbo V6 engines for the Acura NSX, which was assembled just down the road.

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Mit einer spannenden Handlung und tollen Helden entführt uns Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 in ein fantastisches Abenteuer - und nervt mit Savegames. Ein Test von Peter Steinlechner (Kingdom Come Deliverance, Spieletest)

A new large-scale study of crevasses on the Greenland Ice Sheet shows that those cracks are widening faster as the climate warms, which is likely to speed ice loss and global sea level rise.

Crevasses are wedge-shaped fractures and cracks that open in glaciers where the ice begins to flow faster. They can grow to more than 300 feet wide, thousands of feet long, and hundreds of feet deep. Water from melting snow on the surface can flow through crevasses all the way to the base of the ice, joining with other hidden streams to form a vast drainage system that affects how fast glaciers and ice sheets flow.

The study found that crevasses are expanding more quickly than previously detected, and somewhere between 50 and 90 percent of the water flowing through the Greenland Ice Sheet goes through crevasses, which can warm deeply submerged portions of the glacier and increase lubrication between the base of the ice sheet and the bedrock it flows over. Both those mechanisms can accelerate the flow of the ice itself, said Thomas Chudley, a glaciologist at Durham University in the United Kingdom, who is lead author of the new study.

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Ein smartes Heizkörperthermostat mit App- und Sprachsteuerung zur Überwachung von Temperatur und Heizkosten ist bei Amazon reduziert. (Technik/Hardware, TP-Link)

Das Nothing Phone 2a soll mit leistungsstarker Hardware, langer Akkulaufzeit und nachhaltigen Materialien typische Handy-Probleme lösen. (Technik/Hardware, Smartphone)

Das Windows-Defender-VPN kann von Microsoft-365-Abonnenten kostenlos genutzt werden. Damit ist in Kürze Schluss. (Microsoft 365, Microsoft)