Einflussreiche Senatoren wollen die Stores von Apple und Google per Gesetz öffnen. Unklar ist, was das für Playstation und Xbox bedeutet. (Apple App Store, Google)
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Die zweite Staffel von Star Trek: Lower Decks konzentriert sich mehr aufs Zwischenmenschliche – und zieht dabei wieder etliche Star-Trek-Klassiker durch den Kakao. Achtung, Spoiler! Eine Rezension von Tobias Költzsch (Star Trek, Amazon)
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Die Streaming-Suchmaschine Vodspy hat einen neuen Besitzer und soll demnächst neue Funktionen erhalten. (Streaming, Audio/Video)
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Anders als bei bisherigen Smartwatches von Samsung lassen sich die neuen Modelle nicht mehr mit einem iPhone verwenden. (Samsung, Apple)
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Jugendliche sind auch 2021 deutlich länger online als vor der Pandemie. Dabei ist das Smartphone der Spitzenreiter, selbst für Schulaufgaben. (Digitale Bildung, Post)
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Die aktuelle Version 91 des Thunderbird übernimmt zahlreiche Änderungen der Firefox-Grundlage und verbessert das UI und den Kalender. (Thunderbird, E-Mail)
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In this post we’ll explore how to monitor a Red Hat Virtualization environment so you can visualize performance, resources and trends.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has offered the ability to encrypt disks for many years, but the network bound disk encryption (NBDE) functionality, which can automatically unlock volumes by utilizing one or more network servers (referred to as Tang servers), can make implementing disk encryption easier. This post will cover how to get started with the NBDE Client and NBDE Server roles by walking through a simple implementation with a single Tang server.
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The global-wide interruptions of the coronavirus pandemic provided the opportunity for businesses to take a closer look at how we work, learn, live, and consume. With work stoppages and quarantine orders in place, carbon emissions and pollution levels saw significant reductions, highlighting how business and environmental sustainability are linked. As the world returns to work, businesses need to adjust to the new reality and make decisions that will ensure the continuing sustainability of our planet. Understanding the need for sustainabilityA recent Google-commissioned study by IDG, based on a global survey of more than 2,000 IT decision-makers, illustrated the importance of sustainability for organizations’ IT departments while also revealing that significant work is needed before businesses meet their sustainability goals. The good news is that ninety percent say that sustainability is a priority of their IT department and as more organizations consider the benefits of digital transformation and cloud migration, 75% report that sustainability is a “must-have” or “major consideration” when evaluating cloud providers.Related ArticleRead ArticleBusinesses face both internal and external pressures to reform their practices and processes to meet new targets around sustainability, and IT leaders have an important role to play in that effort. Specifically, 54% said sustainability initiatives were important to their companies because of corporate social responsibility, 46% said it was because of environmental regulations and mandates, and 40% said it was due to the climate change impacts.The research also examined the areas where IT leaders are looking to make positive changes for sustainability in their organizations. Not surprisingly, 62% said in their IT infrastructure and data centers, 53% their supply chain, and 46% in their facilities and building operations.Facing the obstacles to progressHowever, for many organizations, behaviors lag intent. Only 67% actually have environmental sustainability targets in place. The gap between behavior and intent widens when looking at digitally forward vs. digitally conservative organizations. For the purposes of the study, digitally forward companies were defined as either digital natives or those with a digital strategy and implementation in place. Digitally conservative organizations either have no strategy in place, or are in the process of considering or planning digital transformations, but haven’t reached the stage of implementation. The study revealed that digital natives embracing cloud solutions were more likely than more conservative organizations to demonstrate a commitment to sustainability. Twenty percent of digital natives are implementing IT initiatives to reduce emissions to become more environmentally sustainable, while only 10% of digitally conservative organizations have done so. When considering the effects of the COVID-10 pandemic, 20% of respondents from digital conservative organizations delayed or cancelled initiatives around reducing emissions to become more environmentally sustainable compared to only 12% for digitally forward respondents. Sustainability is in our DNASustainability has been a core value for Google since our inception. We were the first major company to become carbon neutral in 2007 and we were the first major company to match our energy use with 100 percent renewable energy in 2017 — and have continued to do so every year since. We are proud to operate the cleanest global cloud in the industry, and we’re the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy. It is this commitment that makes Google the leading choice for organizations with sustainability initiatives. To learn more about the IDG findings and how IT leaders are implementing sustainable solutions, download the full report.Interested in how Google Cloud’s commitment to providing sustainable solutions can help IT leaders and their organizations meet their own sustainability targets?Google is focused on enhancing our products to help billions of people take action to reduce their environmental footprint.Google creates tools and invests in technology that will foster a carbon-free future for everyone and reduce carbon footprints.Google Cloud is the only major cloud provider to purchase enough renewable energy to cover our entire operations, enabling us to operate the cleanest cloud in the industry.When running on Google Cloud, an organization’s usage is net carbon neutral, and the electricity used to power workloads is matched 100% with renewable energy.Looking for more? Check out our blog that introduces the Google Cloud Region Picker, which helps organizations choose a Google Cloud region based on carbon footprint, price, and latency.Related ArticleFaster, cheaper, greener? Pick the Google Cloud region that’s right for youNew Google Cloud region picker makes it easy for you to take advantage of our greenest data centers.Read Article
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The Opportunity for Streamed AR/VR Content What if you could get a high quality AR/VR experience without a dedicated physical computer—or even without a physical tether? In the past, interacting with VR required a dedicated, high-end workstation and, depending on the headset, wall-mounted sensors and a dedicated physical space. Complex tasks in VR can push the limits of sensor reach, cable-length, and spatial boundaries, entangling the artist and restricting their movement. This solution was not scalable beyond a handful of advanced use cases.Recently, tetherless VR headsets from manufacturers such as HTC and Oculus have emerged that free the user from these odious restrictions, enabling a new freedom to experience VR and AR from just about anywhere. The enhanced portability and reduced cost has led to substantially increased adoption among consumers and opened up many new exploratory use cases in enterprise.However, while these headsets are more accessible and portable, a tradeoff in compute power was required in order to achieve these goals. The limited on-device compute power of this new generation of Head Mounted Displays (HMDs) is acceptable for many consumer applications such as casual gaming. However, advanced enterprise workloads with heavy graphics, compute, or memory requirements can be difficult or even impossible to run on these lightweight devices.By combining NVIDIA CloudXR with their powerful GPUs running NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstations (vWS) in Google Cloud data centers, you can experience high-fidelity VR and AR applications from just about anywhere with a good internet connection. The heavy computations are performed in the cloud on a GPU-attached VM and the content streams to any CloudXR compatible headset. The combination of Google Cloud’s private fiber optic network — the same network we built for global delivery of YouTube content — and CloudXR’s QoS technologies provides the user with the highest possible quality of service. In fact, the streaming experience is comparable to that of a headset tethered to a powerful physical workstation, but without the friction of hardware and cables. This combination of power and portability sets the stage to unlock the potential of high-quality gaming and enterprise AR/VR experiences anywhere on Earth.Case Study: Creating a MasterpieceDigital character creation is a core skill for many 3D artists today. One of the preferred methods of 3D character creation is digital sculpting, which lets artists create both hard-surface and organic shapes with high levels of accuracy and control.Sculpting is one of the many tasks in the character designer’s skillset. Artists must also master the texturing, rigging, and posing of characters as part of the digital character creation pipeline. Mastering all these tasks can be challenging, and often, the technology gets in the way; working in multiple applications requires switching contexts and workflows, breaking the artist’s creative flow. The traditional user experience can also be unintuitive, forcing the creator to translate what they want to do with their hands and head into mouse movement and keyboard presses.Masterpiece Studio Pro revolutionizes this character creation workflow by giving artists the first fully immersive 3D creation pipeline. Artists work in VR, giving them a far more intuitive and seamless way to work which combines the best of the digital and physical worlds.In Masterpiece Studio Pro, the artist can work on the character or object at any scale, using familiar tools and hand gestures to sculpt a model, much as they would a real clay figure. Performing other tasks such as skeleton creation is simple, allowing the artist to work directly with the limbs of a character to place and adjust the joints.Bringing It All TogetherNVIDIA CloudXR streaming from the cloud provides tremendous opportunities for new creative use cases within gaming and across the enterprise. This solution joins Virtual Studio for Gaming as the latest in our series to help developers build better games.The Masterpiece Studio use case is a powerful demonstration of new modalities for content creation and collaboration. To try CloudXR with NVIDIA RTX vWS on Google Cloud for yourself, see this tutorial. Masterpiece Studio Pro also offers extensive learning materials and a free trial.Related ArticleNext-gen virtual automotive showrooms are here, thanks to Google Cloud, Unreal Engine, and NVIDIANext-gen virtual showrooms provide interactive 3D experiences, photorealistic materials and environments, and up to 4K cloud streaming on…Read Article
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