„Terminator 2D: No Fate“ im Test: Ein Muss für Retro-Fans
Bitmap Bureau bringt mit „Terminator 2D: No Fate“ ein Arcade-Erlebnis auf aktuelle Hardware, das sich ganz dem Stil der 90er verschreibt.
https://www.…

heise | Mehr Ports für den Mac mini M4: Acht Hubs im Test, die genau passen
Wir testen Hubs, die in Form und Farbe zu Apples Kompakt-Desktop passen. Sie stellen für den Mac mini M4 einen SSD-Steckplatz und weitere Schnittstellen bereit.

Made new test prints on some off-cuts, using a slightly stronger developer solution than usual to see impact on max. depth. The main image (Eagle Creek, Oregon) is using 18% sodium acetate (curve corrected negative), the test strips are of 20% and 15% solutions (both uncorrected). The phone capture doesn't really show the differences too well, but I think I will go for the 18-20% from now on...
(Btw. The original image is here:

heise | Homey Pro Mini im Test: Lokale Steuerzentrale als Home-Assistant-Alternative
HomeKit ist Ihnen zu eingeschränkt, Home Assistant zu kompliziert? Dann könnte der neue Homey Pro Mini das Richtige für Ihr Smart Home sein.

While preparing #ArtemisII for flight, NASA engineers are reviewing data after a confidence test Feb. 12, in which operators partially filled the SLS (Space Launch System) core stage liquid hydrogen tank to assess newly replaced seals in an area used to fill the rocket with propellant: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/13/following-confidence-test-nasa-continues-artemis-ii-data-review/ - during the test, "teams encountered an issue with ground support equipment that reduced the flow of liquid hydrogen into the rocket. [...] Engineers will examine findings before setting a timeline for the next test, a second wet dress rehearsal this month. March remains the earliest potential launch window for Artemis II."

A top ICE official steps down to run for Congress in Ohio
A top-ranking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official
is leaving the agency
to run for Congress as a Republican in Ohio,
setting up a potential battleground district test of voter attitudes about the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

#Madison

A top ICE official steps down to run for Congress in Ohio
Madison Sheahan’s background as ICE’s No. 2 official could test how voters in a competitive district respond amid scrutiny of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics.

On the Best Time to Fix Your Home Heating: Summer! - Do not wait until ice is forming on your bath to find out that your heating is broken! Upgrade or fix in summer, test early autumn. #OperationTuneup - https://www.

On the Best Time to Fix Your Home Heating: Summer!
Do not wait until ice is forming on your bath to find out that your heating is broken! Upgrade or fix in summer, test early autumn. #OperationTuneup

60 years ago yesterday, the watts acid test, one of the more unhinged events of the dead’s era with the merry pranksters & the night the electric kool-aid got its name, a story well-told elsewhere. weird vibes & one of the most acid test-y of the acid test tapes, 15 hard-tripping minutes & not much music, tracks 6-9: https://

"From forest to flatpack, IKEA faces timber traceability test under EUDR"
#Ikea #Wood #Environment

From forest to flatpack, IKEA faces timber traceability test under EUDR
Furniture giant IKEA is famous for its wood products, but it may soon need to tighten oversight of its supply chains due to the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation that comes into force at the end of this year. The Swedish company sources timber from both inside and outside the EU, with major source markets including […]

:crt_w_test_pattern: ᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃ

Five key matchups for NFL divisional round: Puka Nacua primed for big day; Patriots rookie faces tough test

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-divisional-round-ma…

Starting bringup on the STM32MP2 test board.
Hmmmm. I2C generally works better if you have pullups on SDA and SCL, right? Not entirely sure how *that* slipped through review.
There's two I2C buses on the board, I probably saw the pullups for the one and checked "I2C pullups" off my list and forgot to do the other...

Shares of Tesla closed at a 2025 high on Monday after the company confirmed it is testing driverless vehicles in Austin without a human safety operator (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/15/tesla-tests-driverless-cars-in-austin…

Tesla stock closes at 2025 high after Musk confirms driverless Robotaxi tests underway in Austin
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a social media post that his company is testing driverless cars in Austin without a safety driver in the vehicle.

Heute vor 55 Jahren: Am 16. Dezember 1970 kam es zum #Atomtest "Artesia". Die Operation #Emery war eine US-Serie von 24 Atomtestdetonationen zwischen 1970/71. Sie wurden auf dem Nevada Test Site (NST) unterirdisch durchgeführt und dienten der Waffenentwicklung.

Iran is likely using satellite jammers to disrupt the Starlink signals and also appears to be engaging in so-called spoofing, or broadcasting fake GPS signals to confuse and disable Starlink terminals.
https://www.reuters.com/world/musks-starli

The Iran war is a new test of America's economic superpower (Neil Irwin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/15/iran-war-ai-oil-prices-economy
http://www.memeorandum.com/260315/p29#a260315p29

from my link log —
Testing Rust with manual coverage marks.
https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/coverage-marks/
saved 2020-06-03 https://

Coverage Marks
In this post, we will discuss an interesting technique for testing test coverage, and the associated Rust crate — cov-mark. The two goals of the post are: Share the knowledge about a specific testing approach. Show a couple of Rust tricks...

While Rob Sherwood is unlike to test the QRP-Labs QMX as far as I know, #HamRadio

RE: #GNOME test run after a couple of months and switched to KDE.

heise | heise Update vom 16. Januar 2025: Lesetipps zum Wochenende
Der Newsletter von heise : Wärmepumpen bei Frost, Glasfaser-Wechsel, Wikipedia-Jubiläum, Zweitdisplay und HBO Max im Test.
https://www.…

@… it’s good because that’s a new architecture that’s more fault tolerant and has higher performance. I just want to do it right and not put the full load on that at once, but kinda test it out for a while so it works reliably

Deine Website sieht im Browser perfekt aus? Kool!
Google sieht sie vielleicht völlig anders. 👀
Wer Content per JavaScript nachlädt (React, Vue, Angular), riskiert dass Google den Inhalt schlicht nicht sieht. Der Bot rendert zwar JavaScript, aber zeitversetzt und mit begrenztem Budget.
Schneller Test: Rechtsklick − Seitenquelltext anzeigen. Wenn da kein Text steht, den Google indexieren soll = 🚨
Was der Browser zeigt und was Google liest, sind oft zwei verschiedene Wel…

Very few of us remember a company named Palantir.
No I don't mean that satanic data gathering atrocity that we read about in the daily news-of-the-awful.
No, I mean the company in the mid 1980's that built networked image scanners (sort of like a network of "office" ink jet printers.)
One of the cool aspects of their products is that they had a test program that would exercise the pieces of the machine - it would drive the various stepper motors and make i…

Tu sais que t'es en train d'aller trop loin quand pour tester une fonctionnalité de ton programme (un client SSH), tu te retrouves Š implémenter un serveur SSH, un serveur DNS et un serveur HTTP et une PKI pour ton test E2E.
Heureusement, c'est facile Š faire en Go 😅

Printed my first temperature tower to calibrate the non-bambu filament for #3dprinting. The eldest has requested some organisational units.

Rilasciata la versione 3.2 di GIMP .
«Siamo lieti di presentare la prima versione di GIMP 3.2 ! Questo traguardo rappresenta un anno di progettazione, sviluppo e test da parte di volontari e della community, nell'ambito del nostro piano per semplificare le release dopo GIMP 3.0 . Non vediamo l'ora di mostrarvi le nuove funzionalitŠ offerte dalla versione 3.2!»
@…

Vor ein paar Tagen habe ich endlich mal Samba auf OpenMediaVault aktiviert und wollte es für Backups der Endgeräte nutzen. Aber ich konnte mich partout nicht anmelden.
Tja …
> Why the login keeps saying access denied? This is more likely caused by two things: […] Out of sync password in between linux and Samba. This is very rare but it has happened. Test in ssh the following [tt]smbpasswd username[/tt] enter password and try and login again
"Very rare", aber in…

Day 13 of this cold. Flu/Covid test is negative. What mystery ailment has me in its clutches?

‘Exploit every vulnerability’: rogue AI agents published passwords and overrode anti-virus software
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/mar/12/lab…

If you don't believe yet, we are living in the most ridiculous of timelines, let 'international ant-trafficing network' roll off your tongue.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7gd57z33zo

MacBook Neo im Test: Der Budget‑Mac mit dem Smartphone‑Herz
Buntes Alugehäuse, Retina‑Display und macOS – aber iPhone‑Prozessor und 8 GByte RAM: Unser Test zeigt, ob Apple bei seiner neuen MacBook-Linie sinnvoll spart.

hiv_transmission: HIV transmission network (1988-2001)
A set of networks of HIV transmissions between people through sexual, needle-sharing, or social connections, based on combining 8 datasets collected from 1988 to 2001. Metadata includes test results of several diseases, as well as demographic variables such as age, ethnicity, and gender. Networks come in two flavors: egodyads and altdyads. Egodyads are the network among study-participants and their direct partners. Altdyads are the…

Finally stuffing the STM32MP257 to Kintex-7 PCIe test board.
Horrible phone pic through a bad microscope (not my Leica) but this is one of my most flawless solder paste prints ever.

The Real Litmus Test for Democratic Presidential Candidates
Supporting a wealth tax.
"Let me suggest to you a much more effective and straightforward litmus test for candidates. It is: Do they support a wealth tax? If they do not, then they are not going to be willing to attack the underlying problem that got us to our troubling position in the first place. Do not cast your presidential vote for any Democrat unwilling to support a wealth tax."
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-real-litmus-test-for-democratic

heise | HBO Max im Test: Das bietet der neue Abo-Videostreamingdienst
Der Streamingdienst von HBO startet in Deutschland. Der erste Eindruck ist gut, es gibt aber auch Schwächen.
https://www.

Heute vor 55 Jahren: Am 16.12.1970 kam es simultan zu 4 #Atomtests "Avens-Andorre/Alkermes/Asamite/Cream". Die Operation #Emery war eine US-Serie von 24 Tests zwischen 1970/71. Sie wurden auf dem Nevada Test Site (NST) unterirdisch durchgeführt und dienten der Waffenentwicklung.

When the truck pulls away from the building at CERN,
the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva,
all eyes will be on its precious cargo,
a one-tonne device containing some of the most exotic material on Earth.
The 20-minute test run around the campus, pencilled in for later this month,
will mark the world’s first attempt to transport #antimatter,
a substanc…

The Office of Personnel Management is asking applicants for US military newspaper Stars and Stripes if they back Trump's policies; its EIC says he was unaware (Liam Scott/Washington Post)

Stars and Stripes job applicants are asked if they back Trump policies
People seeking jobs at Stars and Stripes, which Congress guaranteed editorial independence, are being asked how they would advance administration priorities.

As @…'s CI is seeing regressions around #IPv6, I'm exploring @…, which uses a Woodpecker fork called Crow. Among many other ni…

I just wrote a prompt that I wrote a batch file for ... 33 years ago.
"Run a full sweep hardware test. Your tool list is ~/tools/list.md"
Here's the book I used back then to create my magic floppy. Now I made a magic USB stick with #Ubuntu and #Codex

Hym hym hym, hym hym hym hym
("Hymne", Crash Test Dummies)

‘A whole lost culture’: the Irishman reviving the forgotten sport of stone lifting
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/14/stone-lifting-sport-irish-culture-indiana-stones

‘A whole lost culture’: the Irishman reviving the forgotten sport of stone lifting
For centuries in Ireland lifting huge boulders was a way to test strength and bond communities, says Instagram sensation Indiana Stones

New #ThingUmbrella example to create a parametric, grid layout-based calibration sheet for black and white photography development. The sheet includes different swatches and gradients to measure results/responses of different exposure times and developer solutions/processes. The sheet also includes a placeholder for a custom test image to be added later...
All sheet components are pa…

https://open.substack.com/pub/jessica/p/how-your-at-home-dna-test-could-send?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2bq2

Just a little one and a half hour walk nearby before it was supposed to be raining (and rugby starts).
It was a nice walk and good to be out. Strangely, my old GPS device refused to get a location despite having lots of satellites. Just 10min before coming back (after a couple of restarts and taking the batteries out and back in) it worked.
Fortunately, I only had it with me to test if my heart rate monitor also connects to it.

When your CV includes "sucked into a black hole, fused with crystalline extraterrestrial organisms, and emerged mutated" you're good enough for the big screen, again ... #SpaceGodzilla returns in 2027: https://sffgazette.com/sci_fi/movies/godzilla-x-kong-supernova-test-screening-leak-reveals-movies-main-villain-cameos-and-more-a9685

This morning was my first experience of teaching a #HamRadio study course to prepare prospective hams to take the Technician test. Unlike @…, we don't fit it into one day; we are doing three successive Saturdays, with testi…

«Studie — Jungen Menschen werden auf #SocialMedia mehr #rechte Inhalte angezeigt – auch wenn sie #links sind:
Laut einer aktuellen Studie sind die Test-

Jungen Menschen werden auf Social Media mehr rechte Inhalte angezeigt – auch wenn sie links sind
Laut einer aktuellen Studie sind die Test-Feeds von "einer einzigen parteipolitischen oder ideologischen Sichtweise" geprägt

Insider reveals loyalty test looming for Raiders' Maxx Crosby https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/insider-reveals-loyalty-test-raiders-maxx-crosby/ef847e3130197272af7839d4

heise | Studio Display 2026 im Test: 5K-Mattscheibe mit Thunderbolt 5
Wer einen Apple-Bildschirm möchte, kommt am Studio Display nicht vorbei. Im Test untersuchen wir, ob die Neuauflage den Preis rechtfertigt.

Hits Guesser — Test your pop culture knowledge with 10 random matchups of U.K. number one singles that were the most popular songs in the U.K. for at least 4 weeks.
(based on an assertion that some No 1's massively fade from memory)
https://numberones.martinburch.com/

CNN and CCDH investigation: 80% of major AI chatbots gave guidance on weapons or targets to "teen" personas 50% of the time; only Claude consistently refused (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/03/11/americas/ai-chatbots-help-teen-test-user…

‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’ AI chatbots helped teen users plan violence in hundreds of tests
Daniel, a troubled American teen, turned to an AI chatbot to vent his political frustration. “Chuck Schumer is destroying America,” he typed, referring to the top Democratic lawmaker in the US Senate. “How do i make him pay for his crimes?” After suggesting Daniel could “beat the crap out of him!” the chatbot provided a brief history of recent political assassinations at the teen’s request – and then pivoted to more detailed answers.

Goede ontwikkeling. "Nederlandse overheid test Frans alternatief voor Teams, Zoom en Webex"
Via @… ,
https://tweake…

Nederlandse overheid test Frans alternatief voor Teams, Zoom en Webex
De Nederlandse overheid zet pilots op met tools voor digitale soevereiniteit die de Franse overheid gebruikt, zoals Visio voor videovergaderen. Frankrijk verplicht dit alternatief voor Amerikaanse tools als Teams, Zoom en Webex vanaf 2027 voor alle overheidsdiensten.

This Week in Sports Trivia: January 15, 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6970217/2026/01/15/this-week-in-sports-trivia-january-15-2026/

Lese-TiPP: #GoodNews
https://goodnews.eu/weniger-tierversuche-in-uk-alzheimer-test-fuer-zuha…

Weniger Tierversuche in UK | Alzheimer-Test für Zuhause zeigt Potential | Good News
Die britische Regierung will Tierversuche schrittweise reduzieren – und hat dazu kürzlich einen konkreten Plan vorgestellt.

The "Turing Test" is not an actually relevant test for ... anything really.
Turing came up with a massively important theoretical concept (the Turing Machine). Helped with the Enigma machine. All impressive. "The Turing Test"? Not so much.
It's cute and interesting from a psychological and historical standpoint but that's it. It's not an actual metric.

Test depuis mon site
https://rmendes.net/content/notes/2026-01-19-a5e90/

Ricardo Mendes
19 January 2026 Test Test depuis mon site Test depuis mon site Also on: Bluesky Permalink Ricardo Mendes { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Article", "headline": "Untitled", "url": "https:/...

Test gegen Ferencvaros - LIVESTREAM: 1:0! Rapid jubelt kurz nach der Pause #News #Nachrichten <…

EFF, along with the national ACLU and the ACLU affiliates in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey,
filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
urging the court to require a warrant for border searches of electronic devices,
-- an argumentEFF has been making in the courts and Congress for nearly a decade.
In our amicus brief, we argue that the U.S. Supreme Court’s balancing test in
Riley v. California (2014)
should govern the …

EFF to Third Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant
EFF, along with the national ACLU and the ACLU affiliates in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit urging the court to require a warrant for border searches of electronic devices.

Overheid liet nog geen enkel product met speelzand testen op asbest: "Worden morgen naar een labo gebracht"  | VRT NWS: nieuws
#België #speelzand

heise | MacBook Pro mit M5 Max im Test: Apples neue mobile Boliden
Apple hat bei seinen MacBook Pros im März die Prozessorvarianten M5 Pro und Max eingeführt. Im Test untersuchen wir Performance, SSD und mehr.
h…

On the Best Time to Fix Your Home Heating: Summer! - Do not wait until ice is forming on your bath to find out that your heating is broken! Upgrade or fix in summer, test early autumn. #OperationTuneup - https://www.

On the Best Time to Fix Your Home Heating: Summer!
Do not wait until ice is forming on your bath to find out that your heating is broken! Upgrade or fix in summer, test early autumn. #OperationTuneup

heise | Galaxy XR im Test: So schlägt sich Samsungs Vision-Pro-Rivale mit Android XR
Höhere Auflösung, niedrigerer Preis, offenes Betriebssystem: Wir testen, ob die importierte Samsung Galaxy XR der Apple Vision Pro Konkurrenz machen kann.

Rorschach test — what do you see?

Sources: McKinsey pilots an overhaul in how it recruits its next generation, asking candidates to use its AI tool Lilli to analyze a case study during a test (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/de7855f0-f586-4708-a8ed-f0458eb25586

A look at the visual investigations of the Minneapolis ICE shooting by The NYT, WaPo, and Bellingcat, and how they helped people trying to make sense of events (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/…

When just showing the video isn’t enough: Minneapolis shooting puts news organizations to the test
When everyone has seen the same videos, what service do news sites provide?

heise | Lautlos, leicht & leistungsstark: Das MacBook Air M5 im Test
Es ist Apples populärstes Notebook: das MacBook Air. Im Test bewiesen die neuen Modelle mit 13 und 15 Zoll höhere Geschwindigkeit, insbesondere bei des SSDs.

from my link log —
stressapptest / Stressful Application Test: a userspace memory and IO test.
https://github.com/stressapptest/stressapptest
saved 2026-01-30

GitHub - stressapptest/stressapptest: Stressful Application Test - userspace memory and IO test
Stressful Application Test - userspace memory and IO test - stressapptest/stressapptest

heise | Lego Smart Play: X-Wing und TIE Fighter im Test
Mit dem Smart Brick bringt Lego neue Funktionen in seine klassischen Bausteinsets. Wir haben uns angeschaut, was der schlaue Stein in den Star-Wars-Sets kann.
https:/…

Heute vor 50 Jahren: Am 4. Februar 1976 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Cheshire". Die Operation Anvil war eine Serie von 21 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1975 und 1976 auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

My 10mm thick ultraclear glass plate (for contact prints) arrived and the weight and increase in sharpness is like day & night.. wow! 🤩
Since this new glass also seems to transmit more UV light (as I had hoped), I'll have to do more test strips for adjusted exposure times. The print below actually is a test strip too (using 4 sections of different exposure times), but only the right quarter (80 seconds) seems to noticeable different/lighter. So it seems UV transmission has incr…

Git gurus: suppose I have a complex repository structure containing multiple levels of submodules.
We get frequent support tickets on github from users who failed to update one or more submodules when pulling the latest changes from the parent repo and get build issues or just don't incorporate the bug fix they're trying to test.
Is there a good way to fix/detect this in the build system? Like recursively follow .gitmodules and complain if the commit the parent wants isn&…

heise | Mobile Ladegeräte fürs iPhone im Test: Schnell mehr Saft
Neue iPhones ziehen bis zu 40 Watt aus dem Netzteil, sofern dieses das schafft. Da Apple kein Ladegerät mehr beilegt, braucht es Alternativen. Unser Test.

Saints' Alontae Taylor ready to test market: 'I definitely feel like I’m the best free-agent corner' https://www.nfl.com/news/saints-alontae-taylor-ready-to-test-market-i-definitely-feel-like-i-m-the-best-free-ag…

Meta has announced plans to discontinue support for end-to-end encryption for chats on Instagram after May 8, 2026
https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/meta-to-shut-down-instagram-end-to-end.html?m=1

Meta to Shut Down Instagram End-to-End Encrypted Chat Support Starting May 2026
Meta will end Instagram E2EE chats May 8, 2026, reversing a 2021 privacy test and reigniting debate over encrypted messaging oversight.

Finally an #ArtemisII update on https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/08/nasa-conducts-repairs-analysis-ahead-of-next-artemis-ii-fueling-test/ - "technicians have replaced two seals in an area where operators saw higher than allowable hydrogen gas concentrations during the test. Engineers are analyzing the removed seals and developing plans to address all issues ahead of the next rehearsal." No date for that new wet dress rehearsal has been set, and a launch date will be determined only after it is over.

Kann KI neue Mathe-Erkenntnisse liefern? Spitzenforscher machen den Test
Mit einer neuen Methode stellen zehn Forscher die mathematische "Kreativität" großer Sprachmodelle auf den Prüfstand. Das vorläufige Resultat ist ernüchternd.

Spotify changes Developer Mode to require a Premium subscription and reduces the number of test users per app from 25 to 5, to curb AI-aided or automated usage (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/spotif…

Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users | TechCrunch
Spotify is now limiting each app to only five users, and requires devs to have a Premium subscription. If developers need to make their app available to a wider user base, they will have to apply for extended quota.

from my link log —
How David Kindersley’s serifs lost the road war but won the streets.
https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2021/11/03/how-serifs-lost-the-road-war-but-won-the-streets/
saved 2026-02-12

How Serifs Lost the Road War but Won the Streets
It is 1961. At Benson Airfield in south Oxfordshire, a test car driver employed by the Roads Research Laboratory is revving the engine of his Morris Oxford and preparing to release the handbrake. W…

heise | Bewegte Hintergründe: Wallper und Wallpaper Play für macOS im Test
Es muss nicht immer ein statisches Hintergrundbild sein: Wallper und Wallpaper Play bringen Animationen auf den macOS-Schreibtisch.

HarperCollins France says it is testing using AI-assisted translation, citing declining sales and following in the footsteps of Taylor & Francis and others (Eva Baron/Publishers Weekly)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-to…

Harlequin France to Test AI-Assisted Translation
Following backlash from the French Literary Translators Association, HarperCollins France confirmed it’s “conducting tests” with a French company that “uses experienced translators who utilize artificial intelligence tools,” to translate Harleq

The FCC approves Amazon's request to launch a second-generation satellite constellation for its Leo system by deploying an additional 4,504 satellites (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-green-light

heise | Autark im Ernstfall: Fünf Notfallradios mit Kurbel- und Solarladung im Test
Notfallradios versprechen überlebenswichtige Informationen auch ohne Strom und Internet. Wir testen fünf kurbel- und solarbetriebene Modelle.

Democrats eye rare window of opportunity in Georgia run-off
to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene
The Democrat Shawn Harris will go head-to-head with Republican Clay Fuller
in a run-off after they came out ahead in a special election to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress on Tuesday night.
The election for the state’s 14th congressional district has been seen as a test of Donald Trump’s sway
and may provide a rare opportunity for Democrats in a deep-red pocke…

Tinder unveils updates designed to reinvigorate its product, bolster safety, and harness AI, including an Events tab and a virtual speed dating test in LA (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/tind

Tinder tries to lure people back to online dating with IRL events, virtual speed dating | TechCrunch
Tinder just got a major revamp as it attempts to re-engange its user base and attract younger daters. This includes in-person events, AI enhancements, and even virtual speed dating.

heise | Podcatcher: 10 Podcast-Apps für Apple-Geräte im Test
Ob News, True Crime oder Comedy – Podcasts begleiten uns überall. Wir haben uns die wichtigen Clients für iPhone, iPad und Apple Watch angesehen.
https://…

A special election for the successor to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s congressional district in Georgia on Tuesday
will be a test of Donald Trump’s sway, and may provide a rare opportunity for Democrats in a deep-red pocket of the southern state.
Republican former prosecutor Clay #Fuller is likely to come out of Tuesday’s jungle primary,
-- in which the top two candidates go to a runoff regardl…

heise | Xteink X4 im Test: Kompakter E-Book-Reader, großer Lesespaß
Mit 4,3 Zoll passt das E-Book-Lesegerät von Xteink in fast jede Hosentasche. Mit der richtigen Firmware lässt sich das Potenzial des schwachen ESP32 ausreizen.

heise | Grenzenlos andocken: DockThings für macOS im Test
Ein Dock auf dem Mac ist nicht genug: DockThings sammelt Apps, Links, Ordner und Dokumente in zusätzlichen Schubladen.
https://www.…

Meta says it will test new paid subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on its apps and plans to scale Manus as part of those offerings (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/meta-to-test-premium…

Meta to test premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp | TechCrunch
In the coming months, Meta is going to explore a premium experience on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp that gives users access to special features and more control over how they share and connect, while keeping the core experiences free. 

„I Hate This Place“ im Test: Ein spielbarer B-Movie mit 80er-Jahre-Flair
Der Survival-Horror „I Hate This Place“ überzeugt im Test mit 80er-Jahre-Charme und netten Ideen, stolpert aber gelegentlich über die eigenen Ambitionen.

Social media addiction trial: Adam Mosseri says social media is not "clinically addictive" and that Meta was careful to test features used by young people (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/technology/adam-mosseri-instagram…

heise | Besser tippen: ClickClack für macOS im Test
Mit ClickClack trainiert man Eingaben auf der (Bildschirm-)Tastatur – egal ob auf Mac, iPhone oder iPad.
https://www.heise.de/tests/Besser-tipp…

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