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WebEx: German Officials Authenticate Recordings, Confirming Leakage of Highly Sensitive Military Discussions
In a recent development, senior German officials have corroborated the authenticity of recordings capturing military officers during an online conference held on the Cisco’s WebEx platform. According to reports from The Wall Street Journal, this confirmation sheds light on the usage of commercial, unencrypted platforms like Cisco’s WebEx within sensitive government departments, including the military. …
German health minister urges stepped-up COVID-19 measures
BERLIN — Germany’s health minister on Friday urged the country’s 16 states to consider stepping up their measures against the coronavirus amid a rise in new cases. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said he favors requiring mask-wearing indoors, a measure that has largely faded in Germany except on public transport, in medical facilities and care homes. …
Live updates l German leader calls pacifism ‘outdated’ – Boston 25 News
DUSSELDORF, Germany — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has pledged to continue to support Ukraine with money, aid and also weapons, saying a pacifist approach to the war is “outdated.” Speaking at a May Day rally in Dusseldorf, Scholz said: “I respect all pacifism, I respect all attitudes, but it must seem cynical to a citizen …
Myanmar: Could German technology soon help the military stifle dissent? | News and current affairs from Germany and around the world | DW
To quash all dissent, a regime needs total control of communications: when it can eavesdrop on phone calls and intercept emails and messages as they are being exchanged, it can more easily rout out activists and target opposition figures or guerilla forces operating in hiding. Then, in the words of the man on the grainy video call, …
The German Solution: Saving Books by Keeping Them Expensive
1.During a recent visit to Cologne, I avoided the city’s most magnetic tourist attraction – you’ve seen one Gothic cathedral, you’ve seen them all – and instead I explored the city’s bookshops. Large and small, general and specialized, spacious and cramped, there seemed to be no end to the variety. But they all had one …
Daimler to pay Nokia patent fees, ending German legal spat
Daimler (DAIGn.DE) has agreed to pay Nokia (NOKIA.HE) for using its patents, ending a row that highlighted a battle between tech and car companies over royalties for key technologies. Nokia, which makes 1.4 billion euros ($1.7 billion) in licensing revenues every year, and carmaker Daimler had sued each other in German courts in recent years, …
German ‘insurtech’ Wefox raises $650 mln at valuation of $3 bln
Digital insurance startup Wefox said on Tuesday it had raised $650 million from investors, in what it called a record-breaking round for a so-called “insurtech” company that valued the business at $3 billion. The funding means Berlin-based Wefox has grown in value threefold since tapping investors in 2019. The move follows big raises by local …
German Tennis Federation Approves Wingfield Smart Court Technology
Perch Weight Room Tech Added to More NFL, College Football Facilities By Zoe Strozewski May 10, 2021 The Jacksonville Jaguars, Seattle Seahawks, Ole Miss Rebels and Georgia Bulldogs are the newest professional and college football teams to equip their exercise facilities with Perch, an AI-backed weight training platform that tracks performance during workouts. Those teams …
Top German health official says need to break third COVID-19 wave now
FILE PHOTO: Lothar Wieler, the head of Germany’s Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for disease control speaks during a news conference on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Berlin, Germany March 26, 2021. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/Pool BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s top public health official urged policymakers on Thursday to take tough action urgently to try and contain …
Hillcrest Energy Technologies Ltd signs five-year technology collaboration agreement with German engineering leader Systematec GmbH
Teams on both continents will jointly manage engineering activities to leverage Hillcrest’s electric machine control software and develop high-value power electronics and electromechanical intellectual property and technology for commercialization Ltd () () (FRA:7HIA.F) has signed a five-year technology collaboration agreement with Systematec GmbH, a German specialist engineering innovator and component designer to Airbus, Audi, BMW, …
