It’s the most important Google event of the year: the developer conference I/O. Google has built it into its largest product show in recent years. A wide range of innovations was also presented this time. After a long time there is again a tablet from Google, the first pixel clamshell phone was presented and Android becomes a tracker network with a warning about secret trackers. And Microsoft wants to obtain electricity from nuclear fusion from the start-up Helion Energy in five years – a brief overview of the most important reports.
It was high at Mitteoch Google’s developer conference I/O – with the Presentation of numerous new and revised products. With the Pixel Tablet, Google introduced another tablet several years after the Nexus. The highlight: The Pixel Tablet is Smart display and tablet in one device. With the Pixel 7a, Google’s new smartphone also made its debut at I/O. So far, a cheaper, slimmed-down version has usually followed a Pixel phone, but this year there is a surprise: The Pixel 7a hardly differs from its slightly older sibling. Next to it, Google is waiting with one another surprise The Pixel Fold is Google’s first clamshell phone. It is thinner than the competition and also does a few things differently with the software. In addition to the presentation of new products, a lot revolved around AI at the developer conference. The Pathway Language Model, PaLM, is coming in a second version out; the search becomes generative and colourful. Google’s bard, in turn, should multilingual und multimodal become. Also Google is revamping its “Find my Device” service. This should not only make it possible to find misplaced Android cell phones and tablets with an Internet connection, but many different devices, even if they are offline. To do this, the company switches more than one billion Android devices around the world to form a tracker network. Android becomes a tracker network with a warning about secret trackers
The US startup Helion Energy is working for well over a decade in nuclear fusion technology. The company has now announced that completed a power plant five years ago wanting to have in the Electricity from nuclear fusion is won. 2028 is the year of completion scheduled significantly earlier than has previously been normally forecast for this technology. According to Helion, the planned fusion power plant should have a electrical power of at least 50 MW delivery. First buyer wants to be the software company Microsoft, which has now reached an agreement with Helion. Microsoft wants to get power from nuclear fusion from Helion in five years
Since August circled top secret reusable spacecraft from China around the Earth. After 276 days in space it has now landed. This was announced by Chinese media and the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). In the message, the manufacturer speaks of one success and a major breakthrough in research into reusable space technology. With that would comfortable and affordable travel to space and back possible. The secrecy surrounding the secret mission this time it was bigger than usual common in China. That arouses speculation. 276 days in space: Mysterious reusable spacecraft from China has landed
It’s a little religious war: cash or card payment? Until the corona pandemic, cash was still the most popular means of payment for Germans. The pandemic then brought that Trend towards more card and less cash payments rolling. And according to a study there is also no trend back to cash. “After the extraordinary pandemic years the proportion shifts from cash to cards are normalizing. One Trend reversal back to more cash is not apparent,” says a representative of the EHI trading institute, which is responsible for the study. Girocard before cash: card payments dominate at the checkout
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