Month: April 2025

A rare spot of good news today: For the second year in a row, US roads got a little safer. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published its early estimate of road deaths in 2024; 39,345 people lost their lives, which is a 3.8 percent decrease from the 40,901 deaths that occurred on US roads in 2023.

The problem started with the pandemic; although road traffic dried up, the death rate leapt by 20 percent.

There's no single cause, and studies have identified multiple contributing factors: empty roads designed to practically encourage speeding, little to no enforcement of traffic laws by the police, a general sense of fatalism in the face of public health restrictions that few Americans had ever contemplated in recent times, and car companies making big trucks and SUVs with high hoods, which are much more deadly to pedestrians and other vulnerable road users in a crash.

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A rare spot of good news today: For the second year in a row, US roads got a little safer. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published its early estimate of road deaths in 2024; 39,345 people lost their lives, which is a 3.8 percent decrease from the 40,901 deaths that occurred on US roads in 2023.

The problem started with the pandemic; although road traffic dried up, the death rate leapt by 20 percent.

There's no single cause, and studies have identified multiple contributing factors: empty roads designed to practically encourage speeding, little to no enforcement of traffic laws by the police, a general sense of fatalism in the face of public health restrictions that few Americans had ever contemplated in recent times, and car companies making big trucks and SUVs with high hoods, which are much more deadly to pedestrians and other vulnerable road users in a crash.

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Bei Amazon gibt es derzeit ein Lötkolben-Set von Fanttik im Angebot. Mit einem Aktionscode kann man mit 20 Prozent Extra-Rabatt zuschlagen. (DIY - Do it yourself, Amazon)

Das niederländische Parlament erwägt einen Löschknopf, der alle Onlinespuren eines Benutzers aus dem Internet tilgt. Die Tücke liegt im Detail. (DSGVO, Datenschutz)

Das FreeDOS-Team hat das MS-DOS-artige Betriebssystem verbessert und optimiert. Es sollte auf Computern laufen, die nach dem Jahr 1978 gebaut wurden. (FreeDOS, Betriebssysteme)

Amazon hat einen universellen Reiseadapter von Tessan mit fünf USB-Anschlüssen und vier Steckern für EU, UK, USA, AUS und mehr im Angebot. (Technik/Hardware)

Ein Bundesministerium für Digitalisierung ist von der künftigen Bundesregierung beschlossen. Aber auch die Vorratsdatenspeicherung ist zurück. (Koalitionsvertrag, Vorratsdatenspeicherung)

Frontlicht plus 4K-Kamera: Die Dashcam Varia Vue StVZO soll gestochen scharfe Videos aufzeichnen - ist aber teurer also so manches Fahrrad. (Garmin, RTL)

As President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders Tuesday aimed at keeping coal power alive in the United States, he repeatedly blamed his predecessor, Democrats, and environmental regulations for the industry’s dramatic contraction over the past two decades.

But across the country, state and local officials and electric grid operators have been confronting a factor in coal’s demise that is not easily addressed with the stroke of a pen: its cost.

For example, Maryland’s only remaining coal generating station, Talen Energy’s 1.3-gigawatt Brandon Shores plant, will be staying open beyond its previously planned June 1 shutdown, under a deal that regional grid operator PJM brokered earlier this year with the company, state officials, and the Sierra Club.

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Den M4 von Apple gibt es auch im kompakten Format. Im Mac Mini steckt volle Apple-Power, die zurzeit besonders günstig erhältlich ist. (Mac Mini, Apple)