LONDON (AP) — The Princess of Wales has been hospitalized for planned abdominal surgery and will remain at The London Clinic for up to two weeks, Kensington Palace said Wednesday.
The former Kate Middleton is expected to return to public duties after Easter, the palace said.
“The Princess of Wales appreciates the interest this statement will generate,’' the palace said. “She hopes that the public will understand her desire to maintain as much normality for her children as possible; and her wish that her personal medical information remains private.’'
The palace said that Kate, the wife of Prince William, wished to apologize for postponing her upcoming engagements.
“She looks forward to reinstating as many as possible, as soon as possible,” the palace said.
Increasing talk of AI developing with potentially dangerous speed is hardly slowing things down. A year after OpenAI launched ChatGPT and triggered a new race to develop AI technology, Google today revealed an AI project intended to reestablish the search giant as the world leader in AI. From a report: Gemini, a new type of AI model that can work with text, images, and video, could be the most important algorithm in Google's history after PageRank, which vaulted the search engine into the public psyche and created a corporate giant.
An initial version of Gemini starts to roll out today inside Google's chatbot Bard for the English language setting. It will be available in more than 170 countries and territories. Google says Gemini will be made available to developers through Google Cloud's API from December 13. A more compact version of the model will from today power suggested messaging replies from the keyboard of Pixel 8 smartphones. Gemini will be introduced into other Google products including generative search, ads, and Chrome in "coming months," the company says. The most powerful Gemini version of all will debut in 2024, pending "extensive trust and safety checks," Google says.
"It's a big moment for us," Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, told WIRED ahead of today's announcement. "We're really excited by its performance, and we're also excited to see what people are going to do building on top of that." Gemini is described by Google as "natively multimodal," because it was trained on images, video, and audio rather than just text, as the large language models at the heart of the recent generative AI boom are. "It's our largest and most capable model; it's also our most general," Eli Collins, vice president of product for Google DeepMind, said at a press briefing announcing Gemini.
Das PISA-Debakel deutscher Schülerinnen und Schüler beschäftigt auch die Politik. "Besorgniserregend" seien die Ergebnisse, lässt Kanzler Scholz ausrichten. Doch was tun? Mehr Förderprogramme oder ein Sondergipfel werden diskutiert.[mehr]
Awdijiwka ist seit neun Jahren Frontstadt, und wieder versuchen russische Truppen, die Stadt einzunehmen - offenbar mit schweren Verlusten. Was sagen die Kämpfe über Russlands Kriegsführung aus? Von R. Barth.[mehr]
Alle Größen von 38.5 bis 52.5 vorhanden. (UPDATE 51.5 ausverkauft)
Klassiker sind immer in – genau wie der Nike Air Force 1 Low Retro. Diese Sneaker mit OG-Details sind ein echter Hingucker für Sport und Mode. Das langlebige Obermaterial mit genähten Leder-Overlays ist eine Hommage an die Air Force 1-Tradition und bietet ganztägige Leichtigkeit. Die charakteristische Air-Sole-Einheit sorgt für bequemen Tragekomfort. Erobere die Straßen im gefeierten Stil des Nike Air Force 1 Low Retro.
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Like a lot of chefs, Aaron Verzosa has been hustling the past three years to get Archipelago, his Filipino restaurant in Seattle, through the pandemic and its ripple effects. Getting a James Beard Award nomination was a validating moment.
“Being able to amplify and showcase stories about the Filipino American culture, the communities here, specifically in the Northwest, and really the immigrant story that my parents came with ... I was just very humbled to be able to have the opportunity to showcase what the sacrifice was and be able to represent the region in that way," said Verzosa, who is up for Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific.
In the culinary world, the awards are the equivalent of the Oscars. Three Filipino restaurants will be represented at the James Beard Foundation's annual awards ceremony, on June 5 in Chicago.
Abacá, in San Francisco, scored an Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker nod for Vince Bugtong. And Kasama, in Chicago, earned a joint Best Chef: Great Lakes nomination for husband and wife Tim Flores and Genie Kwon. Last year, Kasama was nominated for Best New Restaurant and also became the first Michelin-starred Filipino restaurant. Past Filipino American winners include Tom Cunanan, who snagged Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic in 2019 for his now closed Washington, D.C., restaurant, Bad Saint.
All this recognition is welcome praise for a cuisine that has historically been stifled by colonialism and a general lack of appreciation. These chefs are part of a younger generation giving voice to the Filipino American experience through the language of food.
Before joining Abacá in January, Bugtong said he was having an identity crisis as pastry chef for an Oakland cocktail bar. He wanted to do more Filipino-centric desserts, but at the same time felt he lacked authenticity. At Abacá, he said, chef and owner Francis Ang gave him the freedom to explore his culinary roots. He has since experimented with dishes from the Philippines' pre-Spanish days, like rice-based desserts, or kakanin in Tagalog.
“In the small amount of time that I’ve worked here, I definitely learned so much,” Bugtong said.
He enjoys playing around with ingredients from the Philippines. For example, he wants to make a granita with barako coffee, which is grown there, and pair it with muscovado jelly and leche flan ice cream. Leche flan is the Filipino version of creme caramel.
Bugtong doesn’t worry about whether something is unconventional and outside the usual traditions of Filipino culture.
“My thought process when I come up with stuff is, ’Do I like it?'” he said. “Does it represent me as a Filipino American? Then the second thing that I think about is, ‘Is this approachable to other people? Filipino or otherwise?’ And then I think of a composition that makes it aesthetically beautiful.”
In Seattle, Archipelago, named because the Philippines is comprised of 7,100 islands, has been dishing out a seasonal tasting menu since 2018. Verzosa and his wife, Amber Manuguid, wanted a “Pacific Northwest restaurant first and foremost.” But there's a “Filipino American-ness” intrinsic to the meals too.
For instance, Verzosa might swap out tamarind for wild lingonberries. He does his own take on Filipino banana ketchup with sweeter tubers or root vegetables.
With only 12 seats in the restaurant, Verzosa chats with every patron.
“When we have Filipinos coming from the Philippines and we have Filipinos that are here from the U.S. — whether they be first, second, all the way to fifth generation — there’s a really beautiful way to connect with them differently,” Verzosa said.
“I think the most important thing to realize is that there is absolutely — like anything — no one way to be Filipino."
Neither Verzosa nor Bugtong seriously considered a culinary career until after college. Verzosa grew up on a diet of PBS and Food Network cooking shows, as well as the cooking of his father, aunts and uncles.
“I would come home from school, be eating my dad’s food and watching these shows,” said Verzosa, who was originally headed to medical school. “At some point, he was like, ‘Hey, listen, Aaron, if you love eating as much as you do, you need to learn how to love to cook.'"
Bugtong dropped plans to become a teacher and enrolled in a Bay Area culinary school in 2014. As a child, he hadn't demonstrated any passion for making things from scratch.
“I did stuff with Betty Crocker and thought I was badass, like substituting milk instead of water,” Bugtong said, chuckling. “When I was a kid, I used to put egg wash on Chips Ahoy! and bake them. They came out very gooey inside and crispy on the outside.”
Filipinos have heard on and off for the last decade that their food is having a moment, about to be the next big thing in U.S. cuisine. Its staples include steamed rice, meat, fish, and notes of sweet, salty and sour. Dishes like adobo (a meat braised in vinegar, soy sauce and garlic), lumpia (spring rolls) and pancit (fried noodles) are already part of the zeitgeist.
Yet Filipino restaurants make up only 1% of U.S. restaurants serving Asian food, according to a Pew Research Center analysis released earlier this month.
There's no one explanation why other Asian cuisines like Chinese grabbed a bigger foothold in the restaurant industry.
One reason is the “funneling” of early Filipino immigrants into particular occupations, according to Martin Manalansan IV, an American Studies professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. In the 1920s and '30s, he said, they came to the U.S. for agricultural work. After 1965, they worked mostly in more technical fields like nursing and engineering.
Many young Filipino Americans were discouraged from becoming chefs "because that was seen as very lowly, especially if your parents are nurses, doctors, engineers, whatever," Manalansan said.
In addition, Filipino food was often dismissed as a fusion of Chinese, Spanish and a dash of American. That perception annoys Manalansan because it doesn't recognize the creativity of Filipino culture.
"The late ‘90s foodie revolution was really ... about being adventurous and being called a 'foodie,’ being into more ’exotic,' interesting cuisine,” Manalansan said. “The Filipino cuisine was seen as kind of homey, kind of blasé.”
Whether this year's James Beard love is a coincidence or not, Verzosa says it feels like there are more rising, accomplished Filipino chefs than ever.
“Over the last five, 10 years or so now, they’re finally coming through and developing their own voice, and wanting to showcase their own families, their own communities, their own regions,” Verzosa said.
“Having the craft and ability to make delicious food — obviously that needs to happen to tell those stories.”
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Terry Tang is a member of The Associated Press’ Race and Ethnicity team. Follow her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ttangAP
Der weltweite Markt für Tablets befindet sich im Sturzflug. Die Absatzzahlen für das Apple iPad sowie die Tablets von Amazon, Huawei, Lenovo und Samsung brechen ein. Nur Huawei schafft es dank guten Verkäufen in China, die Absatzverluste zu begrenzen.
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A children's book illustrator from Alaska known for drawing mother-baby animal pairs like sea otters and wolves was dropped by his publisher this week after authorities allege he posted transphobic notes threatening children.
Mitchell Thomas Watley, 47, will have a preliminary hearing April 11 in Juneau on a single count of terroristic threatening for allegedly placing notes in businesses that included an assault rifle superimposed over the transgender flag. The text on the notes read: “Feeling Cute Might Shoot Some Children.”
The notes were found during a period of heightened rhetoric and laws targeting transgender people across the country and came just days after a shooting at a Christian school in Nashville that left six dead. Social media accounts and other sources indicate that the shooter identified as a man; police said the shooter “was assigned female at birth” but used male pronouns on a social media profile.
After the Nashville shooting, a false and baseless online narrative emerged that claimed there's been a rise in transgender or nonbinary mass shooters in recent years. Some pundits and political influencers on social media went further, falsely suggesting that movements for trans rights are radicalizing activists into terrorists.
Court documents show that Watley referenced the Nashville shooting suspect after his arrest. Watley, who lives in the small coastal city of Juneau 575 miles (923 kilometers) southeast of Anchorage had his $10,000 bail paid by his wife, according to online records.
“Officers spoke to Mitchell, who said (in essence) that he was in fear of the recent transgender school shooter and took it upon himself to print out and distribute these leaflets,” the criminal complaint said.
Online records didn’t list an attorney for Watley. A man who didn’t identify himself answered the door at the couple’s home and said there would be no comment.
In Juneau, booksellers removed the books Watley illustrated for his wife, Sarah Asper-Smith. Their publisher, Sasquatch Books, owned by Penguin Random House, said Wednesday it has ended its publishing relationship with Watley and will discontinue selling their books.
Watley is best known as the illustrator for three children’s books written by his wife, including “I Would Tuck You In” and “You Are Home With Me.” The books for children ages 1 to 5 feature mother animals snuggling their young and trying to make them feel safe with loving, affirmative statements like “wherever you may be, you will always have a home with me.”
Juneau merchants began removing Asper-Smith’s books from their shelves this week, but only the ones with illustrations by her husband. She does not face charges.
Pat Race with Alaska Robotics Gallery, a downtown Juneau store, said the shop has hosted gallery shows and book releases for Watley and carried his artwork for years.
“Whatever the motivation, we feel Mitch’s actions were not consistent with our values or the values of our community," he said in a statement on social media. “In that light, we’ve decided to pull all of Mitch’s books and artwork from our shelves.”
Christy NaMee Eriksen, who owns Kindred Post, a store in downtown Juneau, has also removed the books.
Eriksen said in a social media post the actions that Watley is accused of are “terrifying and transphobic."
“We have little patience for acts of disrespect, and we have no tolerance for hatred against marginalized groups," Eriksen said. “Members of the trans community are our community.”
Tori Weaver, a co-owner of Rainy Retreat Books in downtown Juneau, said the retailer pulled Watley’s books, which she said were “incredibly” popular, particularly during the busy summer tourism months.
“We don’t want to alienate any of our customers,” she said.
The first of several notes was found in a grocery store Friday, which was International Day of Transgender Visibility. That discovery prompted Juneau schools to increase security, and some parents kept their children home. Another was found at the Alaska State Office Building. The last notes were found Sunday at a Costco, and police used the store's surveillance video to track the man who left the notes to his vehicle. Vehicle registration records led them to Watley, who was arrested Sunday, authorities said.
The incident also came as lawmakers across the country consider bills limiting the rights of transgender people, including in Alaska where a bill from Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy has garnered significant attention.
It would require parental permission before a student can use a different name or pronoun in school records; that sex ed classes require parental notice and permission and that schools must provide for locker rooms or restrooms based on “biological sex” or access to single-occupant facilities.
The bill remains in its first committee in the House. Senate leaders in a bipartisan majority of nine Democrats and eight Republicans have already indicated the bill isn’t expected to advance on their side.
“The anti-trans rhetoric around the country has had an effect on hate crimes or attempted hate crimes like this one,” said Caitlin Shortell, an Anchorage civil rights attorney and board member of Identity Inc., which offers community services and focused health care to the LGBTQ+ community.
She said transgender people rarely commit mass shootings and are more likely to be victims of violence.
“And we’ve seen nationwide, and in Alaska, initiatives to discriminate against trans people in the name of protecting children, and I link this to attempted crimes like the one that we averted in Juneau,” Shortell said.
An LGBTQ leader in Juneau said this situation is a direct consequence of a national environment that is being directed by political and media leaders to target and dehumanize trans people.
“The expected result is death,” said Emily Mesch, chair of SEAGLA, the Southeast Alaska LGBTQ Alliance.
“They’re expecting that violence will come upon the trans community and some of us will die, and in exchange, some of them will get a couple thousand more votes,” Mesch said. “And that’s the deal with the devil that’s being made, the environment and the dialogue that is happening on the national level.”
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Thiessen reported from Anchorage. AP Writer Claire Rush contributed from Portland, Oregon.
Gartner prognostiziert, das 2023 die Stunde der Wahrheit für batteriebetriebene Elektroautos schlägt. Die Autoindustrie wird 2023 mehr Turbulenzen erleben, als in den vorangegangenen Jahren. Bis 2026 werden mehr als 50 Prozent der weltweit verkauften E-Autos chinesische Marken sein.
Epic Games Ab dem 23. Februar um 17:00 erhaltet ihr eine Woche lang das Spiel Duskers für den PC kostenlos im Epic Games Store. Wie immer ist es kein Probespielen und ausreichend die Spiele zu "kaufen". Ein Download ist nicht nötig, um sie dauerhaft zu behalten.
Vor einer Woche ist Die Siedler: Neue Allianzen nach langer Irrfahrt endlich erschienen, zumindest auf dem PC. Und wer dachte, er könne gar nicht mehr negativ überrascht werden, wurde eines Besseren belehrt. Dabei hätte der Titel so viel Potenzial gehabt – aber er ist dem Spielspaß konsequent selbst im Weg.
One of the most unpleasant aspects of teaching is grading. Passing judgment on people is never fun, and it’s even less fun when you’ve spent months interacting with those people on a daily basis. Discovering that your students have tried to get a leg up by using an AI chatbot like ChatGPT has made the process even more unpleasant. From a teacher's perspective, it feels a bit like betrayal—I put in all this effort, and you respond by trying to do an end-run around the assessment.
Unfortunately, the bot-writing horse bolted long ago. The stable is not just empty; it's on fire.
So what is the right response to ChatGPT in education? Is there even a single correct response?
Last week, a company called B2U Storage Solutions announced that it had started operations at a 25 Megawatt-hour battery facility in California. On its own, that isn't really news, as California is adding a lot of battery power. But in this case, the source of the batteries was unusual: Many of them had spent an earlier life powering electric vehicles.
The idea of repurposing electric vehicle batteries has been around for a while. To work in a car, the batteries need to be able to meet certain standards in terms of capacity and rate of discharge, but that performance declines with use. Even after a battery no longer meets the needs of a car, however, it can still store enough energy to be useful on the electric grid. So it was suggested that grid storage might be an intermediate destination between vehicles and recycling.
But there are some significant technical and economic challenges to implementing the idea. So we talked with B2U's CEO, Freeman Hall, to find out why the company decided it was the right time to put the concept into action.
Teile der Bundesregierung und Opposition kritisieren den geplanten Teilverkauf des Hamburger Hafens an einen chinesischen Staatskonzern. Grünen-Chefin Lang warnt vor Abhängigkeiten, Hamburg verteidigt den Einstieg. mehr
Originally produced to satisfy homologation rules for FIA competition, the 911 GT3 has had an intrinsic connection to Porsche's racing efforts since the model debuted in 1999. With the introduction of the 992-generation GT3, the shared DNA is more evident than ever. Yet Porsche has somehow managed to strike a balance between capability and pragmatism, resulting in a performance machine that will mercilessly hunt down apices on a track while delivering an enjoyable driving experience outside a curated road course.
But don't think for a moment that the GT3 has gone soft. Developed alongside its racing counterparts by Porsche's GT division, the new car's sub-3,200 lb (1,451 kg) curb weight remains virtually unchanged from its predecessor despite the transition to the larger 992 platform thanks to a strong focus on reducing mass throughout the car. A new exhaust system saves 22 lbs (10 kg) here, a lithium iron phosphate battery shaves off a few pounds there—it all adds up. And that approach is a recurring theme in the 992 GT3.
New adjustable aerodynamic elements allow downforce to be increased by as much as 150 percent over the previous generation GT3 (known as the 991.2). And in a first for any road-going 911, the new GT3 adopts the 911 RSR racing car's double-wishbone front suspension configuration to enhance handling precision. According to GT division boss Andreas Preuninger, the design improves contact patch stability as the suspension absorbs bumps and other imperfections in the road surface, allowing Porsche engineers to stiffen the chassis while retaining ride compliance. New adaptive dampers, which can react to road conditions in roughly half the time, further aid that mission.
Der freundliche Hinweis an unsere Leser, die vielleicht noch das eine oder andere Spiel suchen, um sich ein wenig die Zeit zu vertreiben. Die Sommeraktion bei Steam ist gestartet. Bis zum 7.7. gibt’s da reduzierte Spiele zu kaufen. Wie immer wird mit bombastischen Rabatten geworben, die wirklichen Highlights muss man aber selbst suchen, logisch, dass Neueinsteiger da nicht gleich mit 75 % rabattiert sind.
Sony erweitert seine kabellosen Lautsprecher der X-Serie um drei neue Modelle: den SRS-XG300, den SRS-XE300 und den SRS-XE200. Alle drei Modelle versprechen dank X-Balanced-Lautsprechern und dualen Passivradiatoren druckvollen und hochwertigen Klang, auch bei hohen Lautstärken. Zudem sind sie alle leicht zu transportieren. Das Modell XG300 besitzt integrierte Hochtöner und eine „MEGA BASS“-Funktion, mit der sich Bässe „wie im Club“ erreichen lassen sollen.
Noch dazu lässt sich am Gerät eine Beleuchtung aktivieren, die dann je nach Musik und Stimmung ihre Farbe ändert. Der Line-Shape-Diffusor von Sony verteilt dabei den Klang gleichmäßig über eine große Fläche, so das Unternehmen in seiner Pressemail. Darum sollen auch die Modelle XE300 und XE200 besser vertikal aufgestellt werden. Sie können aber natürlich auch liegend genutzt und dann mit Stereosound genossen werden.
Das Modell XG300 verfügt über einen ausziehbaren Griff, die beiden anderen verfügen über einen Tragegurt. Alle drei Modelle sind gemäß Schutzklasse IP67 gegen Spritzwasser und Staub geschützt. XE300 und XE200 wurden von Sony außerdem diversen Stoßtests unterzogen, um sicherzugehen, dass die Geräte auch einem etwas herberen Umgang standhalten.
Alle drei Lautsprecher versprechen ordentliche Akkulaufzeiten – voll aufgeladen, ermöglicht der XG300 25 Stunden Musikwiedergabe, der XE300 24 Stunden und der XE200 16 Stunden. Hinzu kommt bei allen eine Schnellladefunktion, mit der sich in 10 Minuten Aufladezeit knapp 70 Minuten Abspielzeit herausholen lassen sollen. Eine Akkupflegefunktion verhindert bei allen drei Modellen ein Überladen. Beim XE300 und XE200 lässt sich diese Funktion über die App Sony Music Center aktivieren.
Der XE300 und der XE200 sind obendrein mit der Ambient Noise Sensing-Mikrofonerkennungstechnologie von Sony ausgerüstet, die Umgebungsgeräusche analysiert und hilft, den Akku zu schonen, wenn die Lautsprecher im Freien verwendet werden. Alle drei Modelle bieten eine Echounterdrückung, die Telefongespräche in guter Qualität ermöglichen soll. Die Modelle XE300 und XE200 lassen sich überdies mit einer MIC-Stummtaste schnell stummschalten.
Die Party-Connect-Funktion lässt alle drei Modelle per Bluetooth mit bis zu 100 kompatiblen Lautsprechern verbinden, um dann die Musik synchron auf allen Geräten abzuspielen. Mit Stereo-Pairing können zwei Lautsprecher kabellos miteinander verbunden werden, um Stereosound zu erzielen. Die drei Lautsprecher sind ab Juli 2022 verfügbar, in den Farben Schwarz und Hellgrau. Zusätzlich erscheinen der XE300 auch in Hellblau und der XE200 in Hellblau und Orange. Und das sind die Preise:
1.435,99€ - Alternate In dem gigantischen Alternate-Deal gibt es derzeit einige sehr starke Angebote. Darunter auch den P/L-Kracher von MSI, welcher in den letzten Monaten immer weiter gefallen ist und das mit Abstand günstigste RTX 3080 Notebook darstellt. Zwar gibt es gerade auch wieder einen parallelen Deal zum 1549€ Angebotspreis von Computeruniverse, aber hier wird dieser regelmäßige bisherige Bestpreis endlich mal deutlich unterschritten.
Besonderheit ist, dass das Teil trotz des günstigen Preises mit 8-Kerner und RTX 3080 im Alu-Body, RGB-Tastatur und großer 1TB SSD daherkommt, ziemlich kompakt ist und dabei dennoch 140W TGP bietet.
Großer Nachteil ist leider ganz klar ein gänzlich fehlender USB-C Port (ganz zu schweigen von TB4 etc.). Desweiteren haben wir hier nur die Full-HD Version, die aber immerhin mit ordentlichem 300nits 144Hz 100% sRGB Panel ausgestattet ist.
Vergleichspreis: 1554.95€ --> entspricht bereits ungefähr dem bisherigen Bestpreis
Zu Beginn des Jahres zeigte der eigentlich für Speicher bekannte Hersteller Adata eine Konzept-Maus mit einem Speicher für Spiele. Nun soll die XPG Alpha tatsächlich als kabelgebundene und funkende Variante erscheinen, aber vom Spielespeicher ist keine Rede mehr. Stattdessen gibt es Standardkost zu unbekannten Kosten.
80,95€ - Zalando Auf den Preis kommt Ihr mit dem Gutschein 10NOW Hab die Schuhe ansonsten nur noch direkt bei Adidas für 180€ (dürfte die UVP sein) gefunden. Ich denke 110€ ist ein fairer Vgp.
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Dieser Ultraboost Uncaged Laufschuh leistet seinen Beitrag zum Umweltschutz. Das nahtlose adidas Primeknit Obermaterial ist aus TENCEL™ und die Schnürsenkel sind aus Leinen. Die flexible Außensohle passt sich deinem Fuß perfekt an und gibt dir gleichzeitig die volle Power von Boost.
aktuell gibt es das Album "Mit K" von Kraftklub bei Amazon auf Vinyl zu einem guten Preis. Autorip ist mit dabei.
Beschreibung von Amazon: Kraftklub sind Söhne Chemnitz' (fka Karl-Marx-Stadt), sie sind Produkte der sich dahin schleppenden Vergangenheitsbewältigung und mit aller Inbrunst orientierungslos. Aus dem Unwillen heraus, einfach noch eine weitere deutsche Band zu sein, die unerträglich scheiße ist und in die Bedeutungslosigkeit gestreamlined wurde, entschlossen sie sich, einfach eine der wenigen Bands auf deutschem Boden zu sein, die geniale Ideen hat. Ideen von der Sorte, die man selbst gern hätte. In etwa so wie der Typ, der den Minirock erfunden hat. Kraftklub haben einfach aus zwei sich selbst zu Tode langweilenden zeitgenössischen Musikgenres - das sind IndieRock und DeutschRap - ein neues, aufregendes Genre gemacht. Sie sehen in ihren Collegejacken aus wie zwangsvermehrte The Hives, die bei Public Enemy die Codes of Cool studierten. Ja, sie haben sogar schon Philip Roth gelesen und sind damit das Feuilletonfutter von morgen. Heute sind sie das, wovon die Popkultur dieses Landes immer geträumt hat. Die aktuelle Tournee durch 38 Städte ist so gut wie ausverkauft. Nach den Hits "Zu jung", "Indiediesco" und der Reisewarnung "Ich will nicht nach Berlin" erscheint nun endlich das langerwartete Album.
Two researchers from Cornell University have created a wearable infrared smart camera that can detect voice commands even if the speaker isn't making a sound by measuring the neck and face from under the chin.
Erstmals seit Pandemiebeginn steigt die Sieben-Tage-Inzidenz in Deutschland auf mehr als 1100 an. Das RKI meldete 189.166 Neuinfektionen. Am höchsten sind die Werte in den Stadtstaaten Berlin und Hamburg. mehr
Wer hätte das gedacht: Das Comedy-Format „LOL: Last One Laughing“ mit Michael „Bully“ Herbig ist bei Amazon Prime Video in Deutschland zum beliebtesten Titel aller Zeiten geworden. Ob das nun eher Freude oder Besorgnis auslösen sollte, überlasse ich euch. Laut Amazon löst jedenfalls Staffel 2 die erste Staffel an der Spitze der meistgestreamten Titel in Deutschland ab.
Ich selbst habe in die Serie nicht hereingeschaut, da ich weder mit deutscher Comedy noch Stand-up viel anfangen kann. Aber Caschy und Benny sind wohl recht angetan. Sicherlich gibt es also auch unter den Lesern einige Fans. Da wundert es ja auch nicht, dass eine dritte Staffel bereits bestätigt worden ist.
Übrigens ist das Konzept der Sendung keine deutsche Entwicklung, sondern geht auf eine japanische Sendung aus dem dortigen Prime-Video-Angebot zurück. Adaptiert wurde das Ganze dann nicht nur für Deutschland, sondern auch für Australien, Frankreich, Italien, Spanien, Mexiko und Indien.
Das Power Armor 14 ist ein neues, besonders widerstandsfähiges Smartphone mit einem extrem großen Akku. Der Preis soll vergleichsweise gering sein - wie auch die bisherigen Geräte des Herstellers Ulefone.