Netflix on the upswing with growing user numbers
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Netflix has consistently increased its numbers over the past quarter. The streaming service had almost 6 million new subscribers from April to June. He now comes to around 240 million paying customers. That could be because Netflix has been cracking down on user account sharing for quite some time. Last but not least, the new, cheaper subscription models are likely to have attracted new customers. A year ago, Netflix had lost customers and recorded almost a million fewer paid subscriptions at the time.
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Longer and wider: Chinese manufacturers are standardizing the size of PV modules
Photovoltaic modules have been manufactured for the mass market for decades and yet there has never been a standard for their external dimensions – current modules in the 400 watt peak power class are around 1.70 m long and around 1.10 m wide. The exact dimensions depend on how much space the manufacturers leave between the cells and to the edge and how they construct the frame. If nine of the major Chinese manufacturers have their way, that should change now: The manufacturers Astronergy, Canadian Solar, DAS Solar, JA Solar, Jinko Solar, LONGi, Risen Energy, Trina Solar and TW Solar jointly declared that they have agreed on new external dimensions and want to set them as the standard: 2382 × 1134 mm. The distances for fastening holes on the long side should also be uniform: Seen from the center, a pair of holes at a distance of 400, 790 and 1400 millimeters. Modules of this size play in a performance class of over 500, sometimes over 600 watts peak.
Google tries return to office PC without internet
Office computers without Internet access: Google now wants to test this for security reasons. More than 2,500 employees now have to get by without the Internet. This field test is intended to show the advantages and disadvantages that this entails in everyday work. The intranet of the data company and certain in-house online services such as Gmail and Google Drive are not affected by the network block. This is reported by the news channel CNBC, which was able to read an internal announcement from Google. According to the report, Google wants to revoke at least the root rights of another group. This also serves the empirical safety study. Because on a computer without root option, not only legitimate users, but also any attackers have a hard time executing certain commands or software of their own.
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Blizzard brings its games to Steam
Blizzard will soon be offering games on Steam as well. The online shooter “Overwatch 2” will kick things off, Blizzard announced. Previously, the developer studio’s titles were only available on the in-house platform Battle.net. Blizzard announced that they wanted to connect as many players as possible to the Steam release. Parent company Activision’s “Call of Duty” games are already available on Steam. Blizzard has already set up a Steam page for “Overwatch 2”, so the shooter should be available there from August 10th.
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