G. Sulzberger on Sunday with
The prototypes that the Internet retailer Amazon presented last year fly like hobby drones with multiple rotors and are supposed to land to hand over the goods. According to previous information, they can carry around 2.5 kilos of cargo. Amazon only got permission from the US authorities to let the drones fly in demarcated test areas.
In „Project Wing“, the cargo is first lowered from the drone at a relatively high speed of ten meters per second, reported „The Atlantic“. Closer to the ground, the speed is then slowed down to two meters per second. The project is only just beginning, emphasized Roy. Power lines have been a problem so far.
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Two suspected fraudsters have been arrested in Hessen. According to the police, the men are said to have run a large-scale internet factory. The damage amounts to about ten million euros.
In the case of a fraud involving millions of people in an internet shop in Frankfurt am Main, investigators have caught two suspected masterminds. The two men, aged 54 and 48, were arrested on Tuesday when entering Frankfurt airport and in an apartment in Oberhausen, the police and public prosecutor in the Hessian metropolis said on Friday.
They are now in custody. The background to this is a large-scale fraud involving the K.K. Gregor Technik GmbH, which, according to investigators, offered technical equipment „at a very reasonable price“ between August and November last year. This only initially delivered the goods, not later. Buyers were left at their expense. The police have received around 6,000 reports.
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According to previous knowledge, the total damage amounts to up to ten million euros. In November, investigators searched the operator’s business and home addresses, but these suspects could not be found. In the course of their investigations, the officials said they also confiscated assets. An insolvency administrator will presumably decide on the distribution.
Sources used: AFP
A voice computer at home alone shouldn’t be a problem. But in Pinneberg near Hamburg a loud „eavesdropper“ now triggered a police operation. With expensive consequences for the owner. Amazon investigated the case and found the culprit.
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Alexa „celebrated her own party in my apartment on her own, without command and without being controlled via cell phone (Spotify or similar) at full volume,“ reports the owner.
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The loud music in the middle of the night called a neighbor on the scene, who called the police on Sunday night. This opened the door to the apartment and disconnected the roaring loudspeaker from the network.
Costs for key service and a new lock
The cylinder on his door lock had to be replaced. The Alexa owner has to pay the bill. When asked who pays the costs, according to Haberstroh, Alexa didn’t know the answer, only the standard sentence „Unfortunately I couldn’t find an answer to the question ‚“.
Amazon has now asked the owner to find a new home for his party Alexa. An answer is still pending.
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Update: Amazon has investigated the incident and found that three minutes after the customer left their apartment, the music was started from the app of a music streaming provider. „A short time later, the volume was turned up from 77 to 100 percent using this app,“ explained a spokesman. Apparently, Amazon still wants to pay the costs for the new door lock.
After Berlin and Hamburg, Amazon is also launching its online supermarket in Munich. The range is specially tailored to Bavaria. The company had previously conducted studies to investigate local taste.
Munich customers will be able to choose from more than 300,000 articles in the future. Similar to other cities, products from some local suppliers are also supplied via Fresh. In Munich, this includes the delicatessen specialist Dallmayr and some stalls from the Viktualienmarkt.
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Amazon started Fresh in Germany at the beginning of May in Berlin and Potsdam and then in Hamburg in mid-July. While the Hanseatic city is served from the Berlin warehouse, the group set up its own fresh depot for Munich.
The EU wants to close tax loopholes for online giants like Google with new laws. Companies based outside the EU should be able to be taxed.
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The EU Commission would like to allow its member states to tax online giants with headquarters or production sites outside the EU. The aim is to solve the problem that online companies operating around the world often have virtually no fixed branches in the EU countries and are therefore taxed too low.
Additional tax revenues in the billions
For some time now, the Brussels authority and a number of member states have been bothered by the fact that Internet giants in Europe are posting significant sales and profits – but only pay little taxes, as they have no taxable company headquarters in most countries. For example, Facebook has its international headquarters in Ireland.
The EU states would probably achieve an increase of up to 5 billion euros in tax revenue. However, according to the Brussels authority, fundamentally re-regulating the charges for Internet companies is so time-consuming that an interim solution seems sensible.
Some countries stand across
Should the European Parliament and all EU member states approve the legislative package, a tax will probably first be levied on sales from certain transactions such as the sale of digital advertisements. The EU Commission would first have to overcome resistance from some countries. Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands reject the proposal because they fear for the headquarters of the large Internet companies such as Facebook in their countries.
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On average, classic industrial companies pay around 23 percent taxes in the European Union, while digital companies only pay 9 percent. The alignment of corporate taxes could therefore cost US companies like Google dearly.
Sources used: Reuters, AFP
Donald Trump calls critical reporters „enemies of the people“, something that is otherwise known from authoritarian regimes. The editor of the „New York Times“ warns the US president at a meeting of the dangers of such rhetoric. Trump then followed up with a new tirade.
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According to the editor of the „New York Times“, US President Donald Trump endangers the safety of journalists with his verbal attacks on media representatives. He warned Trump that this inflammatory rhetoric „will contribute to an increase in threats against journalists and lead to violence,“ said editor A. G. Sulzberger on Sunday.
Critical reporting on his policies, such as those carried out by the award-winning „New York Times“, is what Trump calls „fake news“. He calls critical reporters „enemies of the people“.
The background to Sulzberger’s announcement is a conversation with Trump in the White House. Trump wrote on Twitter on Sunday that he had „a very good and interesting meeting“ with Sulzberger. The New York Times then announced that, at the request of the White House, the July 20th meeting should have remained confidential. After Trump himself made the conversation public, Sulzberger decided to make the content public.
Language choice „increasingly dangerous“
Sulzberger announced that he had told the president that he considered his language choice „not only polarizing, but increasingly dangerous“. This is particularly true abroad, where some governments use Trump’s rhetoric as an excuse to take action against journalists. „I warned that life is endangering, that it weakens our nation’s democratic ideals, and that it undermines one of our greatest exports: a commitment to freedom of expression and a free press,“ wrote Sulzberger.
Trump announced that he had spoken for a long time with Sulzberger about „the enormous amount of fake news that the media publish“ – and how this „fake news“ led to the term „enemy of the people“. „Sorry!“ He wrote on Twitter. Sulzberger said Trump is free to publicly criticize reporting on his government if he thinks it is unfair. The sweeping attacks against journalists are „harmful to our country“.
A few hours later, Trump attacked critical media again, naming the „failing“ „New York Times“ and the „Washington Post“. Both newspapers „do nothing but write bad stories of even very positive accomplishments – and they will never change!“ When the media reported on internal government deliberations, many people, not just journalists, were put at risk. „Very unpatriotic!“ It remained unclear what the US president was referring to in the allegation.
Trump went on to write in a series of Twitter messages: „Freedom of the press comes with a responsibility to get the news right. Ninety percent of media coverage of my administration is negative, despite the tremendous positive results we are getting.“ He added, „I will not allow our great country to be sold out by the anti-Trump haters in the dying newspaper industry.“
„Suspicious of bankruptcy and corrupt“
The 37-year-old Sulzberger took over the management of the traditional New York newspaper from his father on January 1st. Trump tweeted at the time that this was the newspaper’s „last chance“ to prove itself impartial. Since then, the „NYT“ has reported critically on the US President’s private and political affairs – and the latter has repeatedly described the newspaper as „very dishonest“ and „suspicious of bankruptcy and corrupt“.
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Trump is also at war with numerous other US media. Just a few days ago, the White House banned a journalist from CNN from taking part in the press conference with EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. The reason for this was „inappropriate“ questions that she asked at another press conference earlier in the day.
Sources used: dpa, afp
Modern Audio’s Airstream 10 is the perfect internet radio for design enthusiasts. The chic cover made of aluminum with real wood veneer is noble and should also delight real quality freaks. But noble parts also lie dormant under the hood: In addition to receiving radio programs and podcasts via the Internet, the Airstream 10 is also a powerful FM receiver – all with a decent sound.
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The Airstream 10 can either be connected to the Internet with a network cable or attached to the home network via WLAN. The stylish device then either receives your favorite Internet stations or subscribes to podcasts you have previously selected.
With the FM receiver you can also receive normal radio stations.
