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"Germany adds record 1 GWh of battery storage in March"
#Germany #Batteries #Energy

Germany adds record 1 GWh of battery storage in March
Germany could break the gigawatt-hour mark for the first time on a monthly basis. Around 45,000 new residential photovoltaic storage systems have been registered in the market master data register so far in March.

A woman named Lanna shared that she left the United States two-and-a-half years ago and is now living in Germany.
She recently got a job as a part-time barista to make some extra cash.
The experience, even before she has started the job, has “broken” her—but “in a good way.”
Per her residence permit, Lanna cannot work more than 20 hours per week.
Rather than a traditional interview, the employer had her come in for a “try-out day.”
At the end of it, she was surp…

An American got hired as a part-time barista in Germany. The job benefits blew her mind.
A young woman living in Germany shared that her part-time barista job came with over a month of paid vacation and healthcare benefits.

Psycho killer corp but make it EU®opean.
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-germany-want-to-develop-a-palantir-rival/

France, Germany vow to develop Palantir rival
A top NATO commander said recently there was no real European alternative.

Fascinating and frankly also a scary report. Especially for the Netherlands so closely connected to Germany.
China shock 2.0: The cost of Germany's complacency | Centre for European Reform https://www.cer.eu/publications/archive/policy-br…

China shock 2.0: The cost of Germany's complacency
Germany is ground zero of the second China shock, but Berlin is not fighting back, even as the shock erodes the country’s engineering sectors that are vital to its economic security.

An Almost Incomparable ‘Princely’ Tomb of Ancient Celtic Noble Found in Germany https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/an-almost-incomparable-princely-tomb-of-ancient-celtic-noble-found-in-germany/

Word for soda in various regions:
East coast: “soda”
Midwest: “pop”
South: “coke”
Germany: “Kohlensäurehaltiges Erfrischungsgetränk”

Curious how this will develop.
I think Schwarz Digits is on a great course, business-wise.
My hope is now for interesting custom processors to develop as part of its expansion.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-richest-man-big-tech-schwarz-digits/a-7789372…

Germany's richest man takes on Big Tech
Supermarket billionaire Dieter Schwarz is investing billions in his cloud company, Schwarz Digits, to rival Google, Microsoft and Amazon.

„Habecks Heiz-Hammer“

I'm obsessed with this account on X that just posts period photos of East Germany. I wish I could talk the guy into moving to the Fediverse. Such amazing photos!

A tiny hymenopteran - I think - extremely interested in sage plants on our balcony in Bochum, Germany. The size of a common fly and very hectic so the pics didn't come out too well, but perhaps good enough to ID this #Insect.

Temperatures in Spain and France are predicted to reach up to 45C, Northern Italy 40, Germany and Balkans mid-30s, this and next week. The heat dome is expected to hold for the whole month of June.
https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weath

Scorching Heat for the Summer Solstice: The Dangerous Longevity of Europe’s New June Heatwave
The heat dome is arriving, bringing scorching temperatures and an early-season heatwave across Europe. Temperatures will surpass 40 °C across Iberia and France.

Yankee go home!
USA taking back 5,000 soldiers from Poland and Germany.
La OTAN confirma que EEUU sacarš 5.000 soldados de Europa
https://www.eldiario.es/internacional/otan-confirma-eeuu-sacara-5-000-soldados-europa_1_13233565.…

La OTAN confirma que EEUU sacará 5.000 soldados de Europa
"A medida que el pilar europeo de la alianza se fortalece, esto permite a EE UU reducir su presencia en Europa y limitarse a proporcionar únicamente aquellas capacidades críticas que los aliados aún no pueden ofrecer", ha explicado el comandante supremo de la OTAN en Europa, el general estadouni...

A lot can be achieved 3 years. Famously the Empire State Building rose to its full 102 stories in less than 2 years; the Berlin Wall fell and Germany was officially reunified in less than three; and in a similar timeframe Wikipedia went from zero to a million articles.
Astonishingly, three years is about the time it takes a company to discover and replace its vulnerable cryptographic algorithms. Why?

Why post-quantum migration is harder than it looks
A lot can be achieved three years. Famously the Empire State Building rose to its full 102 stories in less than two years; the Berlin ...

Traveling to Deutsche Bahn Land again. Nominally a 6:38 h trip. I assume that it’ll take at least an hour longer, but I hope to arrive at my destination today (on my last two trips through Germany, DB failed to get me to my destination).

Traveling to Deutsche Bahn Land again. Nominally a 6:38 h trip. I assume that it’ll take at least an hour longer, but I hope to arrive at my destination today (on my last two trips through Germany, DB failed to get me to my destination).

Traveling to Deutsche Bahn Land again. Nominally a 6:38 h trip. I assume that it’ll take at least an hour longer, but I hope to arrive at my destination today (on my last two trips through Germany, DB failed to get me to my destination).

I'm officially on my way to SIGGRAPH!!

I'm doing Lufthansa Express Rail and so far it's going incredibly smooth. Germany, you can be such a well oiled machine when you want to. Looking forward to the bag check experience in Frankfurt. 🙏🏻
#SIGGRAPH #Germany

Zurich - Cape Town - McMurdo - Honolulu - Zurich
You can basically set your bearing to 173° and fly along a straight line to see Switzerland, South Africa, Antarctica and Hawaii.
https://www.greatcirclemap.com/?routes=ZRH-CPT-NZIR-HNL-ZRH

42% of EU citizens still see the US as a trustworthy partner. In Germany, that's already down to 27%.
https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/fileadmin/files/Projekte/eupinions/EZ_eupinions_Europe_s_Call_f…

RE: https://social.fediverse.events/@canvas/116944660840095127
squeee! The mouse, elephant and duck at the bottom of the frame are from one of Germany's most well-known (and beloved) children's TV show. It mixed how-they-made-it explainer vi…

"Germany installs 7.4 GW of PV in H1"
#Germany #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Germany installs 7.4 GW of PV in H1 - pv magazine Global
Germany added approximately 1.28 GW of new PV capacity in June, bringing cumulative installed solar power to around 125.2 GW at the end of the month.

The signature of the Treaty of Paris, 18 April 1951 reconciled France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. It created a solidarity of fact and common democratic management of the strategic materials of war, steel and energy, then primarily coal.
All five of the European institutions in operation today were born that day in Paris.
Over the following decades the peace process expanded.
The UK, Ireland and Denmark, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Finland a…

Why is Brussels ignoring EU’s 75-year anniversary?

Germany's Merz Says He Won't Advise His Children Work in US (Arne Delfs/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-15/germany-s-merz-says-he-wouldn-t-advise-his-children-work-in-us
http://www.memeorandum.com/260515/p35#a260515p35

Bishop William J. Barber, II and Rev. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove will travel to Berlin, Germany, at the end of June for meetings with church leaders and German citizens who are concerned about global authoritarian movements that are degrading the rules-based order put in place after the Holocaust.
Watch the event in person or on Zoom:

BMW is opening its bidirectional home charger and vehicle capabilities to further partners. Solarwatt will be able to integrate BMW EVs into its home energy management system, offering vehicle-to-home (V2H), solar energy and dynamic tariff optimisation.
Launch Q4 in Germany, Austria & Netherlands.

BMW and Solarwatt are expanding their partnership
BMW and Solarwatt are expanding their partnership: Neue Klasse vehicles are becoming a central component of the home energy ecosystem

Studies: Mira, an AI medical tool developed by researchers in Germany, and Google's Amie matched or surpassed doctors on diagnostic and treatment decisions (Michael Peel/Financial Times)

1/5
#MathsMonday
This week I will debunk several false claims made about brackets in #Mathematics on socials - there are several! Actually it's easy to just check for yourself, at

In New York social circles, he was known as the “Jewish James Bond”:
a refugee from Nazi Germany whose gratitude to his American hosts was such that he volunteered to join the US army and became the CIA’s first station chief in Berlin as a mere twentysomething,
filing early warnings about Soviet activity that have been credited with ringing in the cold war.
Like 007, Peter Sichel also appreciated a fine tipple, and after leaving the US foreign intelligence service it was h…

Newsmax is planning to expand to Germany, Italy, Greece, and other international markets this year through partnerships and licensing deals with other companies (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/06/newsmax-expands-germany-italy-other-countries/

SCOOP: Newsmax plots expansion to Germany, Italy and other countries
Newsmax says its international expansion effort, which includes broadcasting via partnerships and licensing deals, will generate $25 million in revenue by the end of the year.

The Nakba-denial in all western countries, especially Germany, must be studied for decades. The fact such a catastrophe could happen in front our very eyes, just as the genocide in Gaza is happening today, only for political pundits to deny or warp historical facts merely for geopolitical interests, is one of the most morally bankrupt things of our time.
I remember politics today, so I'll recognize intentional amnesia once it's history.

Attracting talent to your country is enormously important for economic success. Retaining that talent is too.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-migrants-skilled-workers-integration-labor-market-bureaucracy-language-housing/a…

Why migrants come to Germany for work and then leave again
Germany has long attracted skilled workers to its labor market. The country has been much less successful at retaining them. So what is Germany doing wrong?

🤔 Are #emojis a universal language? - No, for two reasons. 1) They are not a language, as they do not show the properties that human languages have: grammatical structure and free combinatorics, enabling us to express complex thoughts. 2) They are not really universal. While many emojis are interpreted similarly all over the world (I guess it's pretty clear what one could mean by 🍕 ), some emoji meanings are closely tied to cultural assumptions (e.g., some of the gestures 👍 , buildings ⛩️ , food), and others are very context-dependent and might follow different conventions in various groups, including linguistic or regional groups (e.g., 🙃 for which we found strong differences between populations in Norway/US vs. Germany/Bulgaria). #WorldEmojiDay #linguistics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116926257082059585
Pretty sure something exactly like this was said, with different nouns, in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.

Hat der #Nagelsmann sich eigentlich mit Charlie Sheen getroffen?
Ihr seht es doch auch oder?
#germany #gercuw

Weird #waves in #clouds over Bochum, Germany, at noon today - not sure how high and caused by what physics. There are #GravityWaves in the atmosphere, caused by air flowing over topography but usually invisible ... hmm.

@… I watched you spend 23 minutes talking about the Linotype’s introduction to Europe and especially Germany, and it was totally worth it.
Great talk!

@… I watched you spend 23 minutes talking about the Linotype’s introduction to Europe and especially Germany, and it was totally worth it.
Great talk!

Studies: Mira, an AI medical tool developed by researchers in Germany, and Google's Amie matched or surpassed doctors on diagnostic and treatment decisions (Michael Peel/Financial Times)

Came home late last night to find a hail storm had passed through our area seemingly just minutes before. The hailstones were the largest I've ever seen so far (~3 cm), but not as large as northern parts of Germany had last night (some tennis ball sized). Shredded tree branches, garden plants/veg destroyed, heaps of ice around the houses, roads steaming...
#Hail

Kopfhörer mit KI-Chip made in Germany: Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro ausprobiert
Musikkopfhörer, Headset, Aufnahmegerät und Schallblocker: Der Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro von Anker will alles sein. Dabei helfen soll ein KI-Chip aus Deutschland.

Kopfhörer mit KI-Chip made in Germany: Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro ausprobiert
Musikkopfhörer, Headset, Aufnahmegerät und Schallblocker: Der Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro von Anker will alles sein. Dabei helfen soll ein KI-Chip aus Deutschland.

Doh. This is the end of Germany. 🍩
(package seen today at a German supermarket)
#food #donuts #Simpsons #health #Germany

Plant Proteins Now Cheaper Than Processed Meat in Germany and UK https://vegconomist.com/studies-numbers/plant-proteins-now-cheaper-processed-meat-germany-uk/

Plant Proteins Now Cheaper Than Processed Meat in Germany and UK - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
New retail price data covering Germany, Spain, and the UK show a sustained widening of the price gap between conventional meat and plant-based proteins, with

Halfway the EU gas storage filling season, the Netherlands is lagging. Our storages are only at 31% now, way behind the EU average of 53%, and other major storage countries like France (52%), Germany (45%) and Italy (71%).
Based on security of supply advice by Gasunie, Dutch government had set a target of 80% by 1 November 2026. Our EU obligation is 74%. Both would practically seem out of reach by now, which is unfortunate in view of our dependence on LNG imports in an unstable world.

How on Earth does that happen? 😳
The nose gear of a Boeing 787 #Dreamliner from Lufthansa collapsed while the aircraft was parked. #Boeing787

Germany: Lufthansa plane suffers nose gear collapse
Several Lufthansa crew members were injured after the nose wheel of a plane collapsed at Frankfurt Airport.

German state Bavaria ditches Microsoft​ | Cybernews
#Microsoft #Foss #Bavaria

A few nights ago, around 4:30, I heard an owl calling several time out the open window, probably from within 100m. I know we've had (introduced ex Germany) Little Owls in the valley, but after listening to some calls on iNaturalist, I'm fairly certain
it was the other option, our native Aotearoa Ruru (Morepork)... very cool to have them in the 'hood!

The director-general of Germany's second largest public broadcaster has forbidden an artist to perform a song he was invited to for the 100th edition of a political comedy show, against the protest of the show runners.
The name of the song: Keine Angst (can mean both, don't be afraid and no fear) by Danger Dan
The song calls to stand up to fascism. The name of the director-general who forbid the recording? Himmler.

Artificial Vision 2026 - International Symposium on Visual Prosthetics, Aachen, Germany. Call for abstracts, deadline September 16, 2026 #BCI

"Heating up the headlines: How tabloid framing reshaped Germany's Buildings Energy Act"
In diesem Paper wird untersucht, wie die „BILD“ (Deutschlands größte Boulevardzeitung) die Reform des Gebäudeenergiegesetzes (GEG)
2023 zu einer der polarisierendsten politischen Kontroversen der jüngeren deutschen Geschichte gemacht hat:

In a data breach notification published on its Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany websites, the German discount supermarket chain Lidl said an IT security incident at one of its IT service providers affected some of the data stored by Lidl Online Shop customers.
https://www.

Lidl customers across Europe hit in suspected data breach - here's what we know
Customers in three countries have had some of their data stolen but so far, it hasn't surfaced anywhere.

Israel's song wasn't too bad, but nothing amazing. I wonder if they'll get nul points from everybody but Germany and Austria #eurovision2026 #eurovision

100 years ago #OTD the #planetarium in #Jena (Germany) opened to the public: it's the oldest one in the world srill operating in the same location! Scroll down on https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/07/18/die-leuchtenden-nachtwolken-sind-weiter-aktiv for some news coverage back then and the wider context.

#messi heading to his 3rd World Cup
Lionel Messi has played in three World Cup finals. Championship match in 2014 (against Germany) and 2022 (against France), and in 2026 (against Spain)
And #Ronaldo has never played in WC final.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Flashbacks:
🎵 Blissfull Lonesome
#Flashbacks
https://flashbacks-germany.bandcamp.com/track/blissfull-lonesome

Trump orders US to pull thousands of troops out of Germany after row with Merz | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-pulling-troops-germany-iran-war-eu-b2969237.html

Germany was long content to ignore space as a military frontier.
But now, the Merz government is investing 35 billion euros in an array of new systems.
The race for lucrative contracts has begun.
https://derspiegel.substack.com/p/germany-goes-big-in-the-milit…

Germany Goes Big in the Military Space Race
Berlin was long content to ignore space as a military frontier. But now, the Merz government is investing 35 billion euros in an array of new systems. The race for lucrative contracts has begun.

Love the reasons for the species name:
German museum to return rare Irritator dinosaur skull to Brazil
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/02/germany-brazil-irritator-dinosaur-skull-restitution?CMP=…

Love the reasons for the species name:
German museum to return rare Irritator dinosaur skull to Brazil
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/02/germany-brazil-irritator-dinosaur-skull-restitution?CMP=…

LeBron James biggest name to watch at start of NBA free agency; Paraguay stun Germany in World Cup

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/lebron-

Germany is making €1 billion available over the next four years for charging infrastructure for heavy-duty battery-electric vehicles.
The cost and availability of charging infrastructure remain a major hurdle to further scaling up and support for it can make or break electrification.

BMV fördert Ladeinfrastruktur für schweren Straßengüterverkehr
Schnieder: Wir investieren eine Milliarde Euro in die Ladeinfrastruktur für schwere Nutzfahrzeuge

I was interviewed by a British film student about political activism in Germany and why the German left youth is doing activism differently than in the UK or the USA!
🔗 https://youtu.be/AXTpoPwJHbk
Feel free to watch 🚩

"Germany breaks heat record again"
#Germany #Climate #ClimateChange

Another heat record broken in Germany
The heatwave weekend in Germany has produced yet another temperature record, the highest since measurements began in the 19th century, registered in Brandenburg.

No, Israel does not have ‘a right to exist.’ Quite the contrary, actually. – Mondoweiss
"... no one would today argue that Nazi Germany, or Apartheid South Africa, or Vichy France, or Khmer Rouge Kampuchea had a “right to exist.”
Author Craig Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer and former senior United Nations Official.

No, Israel does not have ‘a right to exist.’ Quite the contrary, actually.
Unlike the Zionist claim that “Israel has a right to exist,” my assertion is rooted in international law. Of course, given Israel’s propensity for violating such laws, it’s no surprise they’re still claiming a right that has no basis in reality.

RE: #OTD the first large #planetarium in the world opened in Wuppertal, Germany, also introducing the ant-shaped projector design which most would use for the following 3/4 century.

Munich-based Microagi, which collects factory and household data to train humanoid robots, raised $55M led by Hummingbird in Germany's largest ever seed round (Éanna Kelly/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/munich-robotics-startup-…

Munich robotics startup Microagi raises $55m, Germany’s largest ever seed round
The deal was led by VC firm Hummingbird, with participation from investors Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global and Redalpine.

Does anyone here have a https://wise.com account?
This is a bit embarassing, but how would I even pay using their "digital cards"?
Their website says "just like with your physical card!" but, well, cleary not. It's not in my pocket, to begin with.
How do you usually "take out&q…

Pentagon halts deployments to Poland and Germany to cut troop numbers in Europe, AP sources say (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/poland-us-troop-reduction-deployment-europe-34138e62c7afc0b83ab7c7cc8fa60071
http://www.memeorandum.com/260515/p71#a260515p71

Interesting.
#microsoft #bavaria

Germany's media regulator says Google's AI Overviews and Perplexity are subject to media law, after a court said Google may be liable for inaccurate AI content (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/g

"A review of nascent policy approaches in the UK, California, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, and the EU, indicates a fragmented landscape where most jurisdictions address only parts of the protocol stack and only some of the control layers. [..] The report presents a phased roadmap recommending global harmonisation of functional requirements rather than technology mandates."

Demand Flexibility Protocols - 4E Energy Efficient End-use Equipment
This report looks at the current landscape of communication protocols and suggests steps to take towards solving interoperability issues.

So much opulence they sell gold coins by the bags. In supermarkets. 😲
Like how historians say the markets of Hampi did at the peak of the Vijayanagara empire. 🪙
#trinkets #cheap #coins #humor #Germany #India #photography #amateur

#Kurzgesagt has a new video about how Germany is doomed because of low birth rate and a soon to be defunct retirement system. So far so good but it's a bit concerning that they beat the "taxes are too high so people don't have children" drum and underscore it with this graph. But the tax rate based on income is a curve! Using a bar graph with 4 income brackets of different wi…

Here in Aotearoa NZ, we need politicians familiar with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Iq6HubIAw France & Germany have been booting Microsoft out of their public service - and have found a) vastly better security, b) 40% cost reduction, and c) much less waste (no more planned obsolescen…

Finally some #NoctilucentClouds over Bochum, Germany, again Thursday evening: extended but pretty faint, so I had to crank up the contrast a lot here. See also webcam views at https://webcam.wetternetz-hagen.de/webcam/Sternwarte-ERT/#/2026/07/16/2308 and https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/ettelsberg/2026/07/16/2320 and https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/flensburg/2026/07/16/2320 (and forward the frames to enjoy more timesteps).

"Germany off track to deliver 2045 climate goal"
#Germany #Climate #ClimateChange

Germany off track to deliver 2045 climate goal
Germany looks set to overshoot its legally mandated climate targets for 2040 and beyond, with land use plans to create carbon sinks still expected to act as a source of emissions through to 2050.

93 % of battery-electric truck users in Germany are (very) satisfied with the vehicle, @… survey finds.
Favorable road toll, low energy costs for depot charging and high reliability are seen as biggest advantages.

93% of battery-electric truck users are highly satisfied - electrive.com
The German Oeko-Institut surveyed 57 transport companies in Germany that have been using heavy-duty electric trucks in daily operations for at least one year.

Gaza: Doctors under Attack wins the Bafta, despite the BBC refusing to air it. No Other Land wins the Oscar, despite being banned in many countries and being labeled antisemitic in Germany.
It seems public media institutions are in disagreement with reality.

Pentagon likely to cancel missile sale to Germany over fears of Russia (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/04/us-germany-tomahawks-missiles-cancel-00950284
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p89#a260604p89

The European Commission approves €659M in German state aid to support four first-of-a-kind chip facilities in Germany, saying they will strengthen EU autonomy (Kirsti Knolle/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/eu-approves-659-million-ger…

"The German town that prints its own money to cut emissions"
#Germany #Money #Emissions

German town prints its own cash to cut CO2 emissions
It started as a school project to promote local businesses in a remote Bavarian region. Now, the "Chiemgauer" currency helps to cut emissions.

Electric vehicles now account for a quarter of the new car market in Germany, France and the UK, with a further 12% for plug-in hybrids.
Other large car markets, such as Italy and Spain, are also seeing significant growth in the #EV share.

How Germany May Have Misjudged Trump's Anger on Iran (Jim Tankersley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/world/europe/germany-trump-merz-troops-withdrawal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p46#a260502p46

RE: #Sonderforschungsbereich on #exobiology will be set up while the one on #astroparticle physics gets an extension:

Munich-based defense tech startup Helsing raised a $1.8B Series E from Dragoneer, Iconiq, and others at an $18B valuation; Germany made a €270M order this year (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

It's Only 5,000 Troops, but America Will Come to Regret Its Rash Withdrawal From Germany (Linas Kojala/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/opinion/us-troops-germany-europe-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p52#a260502p52

Intel plans to invest €5B to expand chip manufacturing at its Leixlip facility in Ireland; in 2025, Intel canceled a planned €30B factory in Magdeburg, Germany (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8bcc19e1-2101-444c-bd2e-3a4b113becec

The Chinese ambassador in Berlin has been summoned for urgent talks about media reports that Russian soldiers were being trained in China, the German foreign ministry said on Friday.
These “deeply disturbing” reports point to support for Russia from Chinese state actors, in particular the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, it said.
“Anything that enables Russia to continue its war of aggression against Ukraine also represents a threat to our security,”
the ministry sa…

Ukraine war briefing: Germany calls reports Russian soldiers are being trained in China ‘deeply disturbing’
German foreign ministry says anything that enables Russia to continue its war of aggression against Ukraine represents a ‘threat’ to Germany’s security. What we know on day 1,592

"Germany 'insufficiently prepared’ for extreme heat as transport and roads closed by 41C temperatures"
#Germany #Heatwave #Climate

The space race Germany vs. Germany to launch a home-built rocket into orbit is heating up ... as reported in #RocketFactoryAugsburg could see its first launch attempt in #SaxaVord in August, #IsarAerospace doesn't say in https://isaraerospace.com/mission-updates-overview when it will try again in Norway but apparently came pretty close last month.

Trump administration to cut 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany (Jennifer Jacobs/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-germany-5000-troops/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260501/p91#a260501p91

Infineon plans to open a €5B chip factory in Germany backed by EU subsidies, its largest single investment, on July 2 as Europe seeks to boost chip production (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

While the former images of today's #insect visitor were taken with a cellphone, here are some later shots of the same or another specimen with a real camera and close-up lens - and I (and Google Lens :-) now think it's a species of the #Halictidae #bee genus #Lasioglossum (Schmalbienen in German). There are 1800 species known, though, some 90 of which exist in Germany ...

Trump's call to reduce US troops in Germany shocks Pentagon (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/30/trump-germany-troop-pullout-pentagon-shocked-00900619
http://www.memeorandum.com/260430/p135#a260430p135

"EU powerhouses like Germany ‘on track’ to miss 2030 emissions goal while Spain may smash its target"
#EU #Germany #Spain #Emissions

Sources: Germany and Spain are leading opposition to EU plans to ban Chinese suppliers like Huawei from telecom networks as part of new cybersecurity rules (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-27/germany-s…

Trump administration is pulling 5,000 troops from Germany (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-pulling-5000-troops-germany-rcna343147
http://www.memeorandum.com/260501/p96#a260501p96

German software giant SAP says it is encouraging workers to invent new, more valuable jobs aided by AI, in a bid to avoid layoffs; SAP cut ~10K staff in 2024 (Jim Tankersley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes…

Can Companies Embrace A.I. Without Layoffs? This One Says It Is Trying to.
The German software giant SAP says it is betting that employees can reinvent jobs instead of eliminating them. Experts are divided on whether it will work.

Trump says US considering reducing troops in Germany (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/29/trump-us-reducing-troops-germany-00899352
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p148#a260429p148

As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere's Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/cohere-aleph-alpha-germany-ai-euro…

Cohere to acquire German AI company Aleph Alpha as it looks to expand in Europe
Schwarz Group — a key backer of Aleph Alpha — plans to invest $600 million in Cohere's upcoming Series E round as part of the deal.

Sources: Germany's Neura Robotics, which builds AI-powered humanoid robots, raised $1.4B from Tether, Qualcomm, Amazon, Nvidia, and others at a ~$7B valuation (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/237f10c2-b2b2-490b-bec1-8864e0a22772