Programming competition "JacobsHack!"
The "JacobsHack!" hackathon starts on November 5 at Jacobs University Bremen. The competition is aimed at students from all over Germany and Europe.
read more...read more...The spectre of deindustrialization
Germany owes its prosperity to industry. But gas and electricity prices are causing SMEs in particular to fear for their existence. Is deindustrialization now looming?
read more...European Parliament votes in favor of a standard charging cable
Less electronic waste, lower costs for consumers and less environmental pollution - this is what standardized charging cables are supposed to deliver. MEPs from all political parties have agreed to the project. However, industry representatives are concerned.
read more...From pointer telegraph to digitizer
What began with an improved pointer telegraph is now digitizing industry. Siemens has shed its skin more than once since it was founded.
read more...Keep on smiling!
Colon, minus, parenthesis closed: How a computer scientist invented a digital symbol 40 years ago and how its successors shape today's communication via text messages.
read more...Google.com registered 25 years ago
A spelling mistake as godfather
Instead of "google", we could now also "backrub" or "whatbox" if other name ideas had prevailed. But in September 1997, Larry Page registered google.com as a domain name. A spelling mistake is said to have been the inspiration.
read more...Alexander Graham Bell died 100 years ago
With the very first telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, who died 100 years ago, ushered in a completely new era of communication - which has since led to the age of smartphones.
read more...KIT researcher sends voice message from the Titanic
Around 3800 meters below the surface of the sea, you can watch the Titanic disintegrate. How it rusts and how underwater creatures eat away at it. A computer scientist from Karlsruhe has now used a mission to the wreck for something completely different.
read more...More recycled plastics in electronics products
The Strategy for Plastics was adopted in 2018 as part of the EU Circular Economy Action Plan: Its aim is to increase the proportion of recycled plastics in new products. The Increace project has set about implementing it.
read more...Ubica wins European robotics award
Together with the University of Bremen and dmTech, the start-up Ubica Robotics in Rotterdam has received the euRobotics Technology Transfer Award 2022. The award recognizes the transfer of research results from European robotics research to industrial application.
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