from Helmut Martin-JungDigital associations, the EU, governments - they all agree on one thing: Digitization is indispensable if the climate goals are to be achieved. But is that actually true? Janna Axenbeck wanted to know exactly: In a study, the economist from the Center for European Economics in Darmstadt evaluated data from 16,000 German manufacturing companies in the period from 2009 to 2017. According to the International Energy Agency, this branch of industry is responsible for 26 percent of global...
from Helmut Martin-JungDigital associations, the EU, governments - they all agree on one thing: Digitization is indispensable if the climate goals are to be achieved. But is that actually true? Janna Axenbeck wanted to know exactly: In a study, the economist from the Center for European Economics in Darmstadt evaluated data from 16,000 German manufacturing companies in the period from 2009 to 2017. According to the International Energy Agency, this branch of industry is responsible for 26 percent of global...
The CNet website used to be an institution. This is where people went to get the latest opinion on computer issues. Which new gadget should one buy, which system promises the maximum gain in distinction? Because you thought you were at the forefront of the future anyway - and you can also save money - the editors began publishing texts written with the help of AI programs last fall. Rather bashfully, however, there was nothing more than a small hint...
Ms Pepper, to whom one would probably have to say "the robots", looks, nods and spreads her arms on the top floor of the district administration department (KVR). This is how the white artificial figure, a good one meter tall, greets the landlady Hanna Sammüller-Gradl, the IT officer Laura Dornheim (both Green) and Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD). Perhaps their sweeping gestures with their arms are so friendly because the three announce that they want to advance Pepper's digital world in...
The cabinet removes hurdles in the expansion of mobile communications, and certain masts should be able to be erected in the future without permission. Economics Minister Aiwanger reprimands the network operators that the "cosy course" is over.from John OselIn order to accelerate the expansion of mobile communications, the state government is removing hurdles in the Bavarian building code. In a pact for digital infrastructure, the Free State, mobile phone operators and municipal umbrella organizations had already agreed on measures last...
Dietmar Nietan speaks of the "worst worst case" scenario. Should the Federal Constitutional Court overturn the increase in party funding by 25 to 190 million euros this Tuesday and demand a repayment, then he sees major cuts in the Union and SPD in particular. Both parties are said to be in the tens of millions."It is very important in which form the Federal Constitutional Court judges," says the Treasurer of the SPD in an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Since...
Kashifu Abdullahi has the young people on his side. "The average age in Nigeria is 19," he says. "We have a demographic advantage." He wants to use it: "We can become the global IT talent factory." The 42-year-old is rather slender, he speaks softly, deliberately and in a structured manner. He is a well-known man in his native Nigeria. He has headed the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) since 2019. It aims to advance Nigeria's digital transformation.Abdullahi has big...
Because a lot of things now seem too smooth: the demand for photographic technology from the noughties has risen sharply. source site
One of the paradoxes of digital culture is that its forward-looking innovations are linked to pre-modern times. With the dating platforms and their proposed "matches", the finding of each other after 250 years of self-sufficient romantic love is again handed over to an external authority, as it was the church or the heads of the family until the middle of the 18th century. As Timon Beyes and Claus Pias have noted, the affirmative like culture of social media does not...
On Wednesday, Judith Gerlach (CSU) brought a few good resolutions for the new year to the start-up backdrop in Munich's Werksviertel. But how much time is left for their implementation is the question in a year that is politically "somewhat shortened" by the state elections in autumn, as the digital minister put it. "Digital home" is the name of the agenda for the remaining months in their house; After years of "digital participation" and the "digital market economy", 2023 should...
