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The iPhone 15 should be a round thing again

January 24, 2023January 24, 2023 admin

The upcoming iPhones could resemble the 11 models with rounder sides. If a current rumour is true, all iPhones will receive a new design this year; among other things, there will be no more sharp edges. Even bigger changes will be reserved for the Pro models. It feels like Apple has just unveiled the iPhone 14 series, but the company will introduce the new models in about eight months. This means that the functions and design of the devices have already been determined, or possible options are now being weighed,…

65 million people affected: Long Covid is likely to be a lifetime sickness

January 24, 2023January 24, 2023 admin

Corona infection now seems like no big deal to many. But covid-19 is followed by long covid in about ten percent of all cases. A new study summarizes the current research state and comes to worrying conclusions. Around 65 million people worldwide are thought to suffer from the late effects of corona disease. This is the conclusion of an overview study published a few days ago in Nature Reviews Microbiology journal. Scientists from the Patient-Led Research Collaborative and the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, in the U.S. state…

New Corona variant is on the rise – these are the symptoms

January 24, 2023January 24, 2023 admin

The Corona situation in Austria remains stable, but numerous other viruses plague citizens. It got off to an incredibly fast start and was even named “super-variant.” Omicron derivative XBB.1.5. In the U.S., the highly contagious sublineage quickly accounted for a quarter of cases, and it is also on the rise in Austria. Although it has slowed down somewhat in the meantime, as molecular biologist Ulrich Elling shows in his graph, experts are currently unable to give a clear assessment of where XBB.1.5 will lead in Austria: “The current data are…

Winter will stay with Austria in the coming week.

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023 admin

The coming week will be pretty wintry in most of Austria, with daytime temperatures around plus four degrees. Geosphere Austria then forecasts more snow on Friday. Winter will remain with Austria for the most part in the coming days, even if it will initially become much milder in the east at the beginning of the week. In the south and southeast, there will be snow and rain at the beginning of the week. From Friday, it will be wintry again everywhere, according to the forecast of Geosphere Austria (formerly ZAMG).…

Inflation: The price spiral continues to turn

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023 admin

The standard and category rents were already adjusted by law in 2022. Another recommended rent increase is imminent in April as part of the inflation adjustment. Although the Ministry of Justice publishes the upcoming adjustment only in March, the Chamber of Labor has already calculated how much the rents will increase this time. “From April 1, the standard rents will increase by 8.6 percent. For a tenant or a tenant are the average additional costs of about 490 euros a year,” says Thomas Ritt, expert of the Chamber of Labor.…

Tips for driving in cold weather

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023 admin

Weak car batteries are one of winter’s most common causes of breakdowns. “The culprit is driving distances that are too short coupled with too many power consumers in the vehicle being turned on at the same time – this is usually true even with new batteries. A car’s alternator needs about 10 minutes of driving time to recover the amount of electricity consumed at the start,” explains ÖAMTC technician Steffan Kerbl. If other electricity consumers, such as the radio, fan or seat heater, are switched on on a cold winter’s…

A huge map of the Milky Way reveals more than 3.3 billion stars

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023 admin

Astronomers* have published the most detailed star map of a part of the Milky Way. Approximately 3.32 billion celestial objects are recorded in it. For this, 21,400 individual images and more than ten terabytes of data were collected. The map was created over two years using the Dark Energy Camera at NSF’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The entire DECaPS2 survey map is publicly available in high resolution (here). It shows the Galactic disk as seen from the Southern Hemisphere. This covers 6.5 percent of the night sky. Individual…

Easier access to red-white-red card planned

January 22, 2023January 22, 2023 admin

The Austrian labour market is to become more attractive for international workers with further facilitation. Thus, language skills in French, Spanish, Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian will be considered in the points system of the Red-White-Red Card in the future. Skilled workers with language skills in these languages from level B1 will receive five extra points and thus more accessible access to the Austrian labour market. On the one hand, this is intended to facilitate the historically grown influx of skilled workers from the Western Balkans. On the other hand, according…

Red warning level around Vienna – new snow masses expected

January 22, 2023January 22, 2023 admin

The onset of winter continues and intensifies. Fresh snow is expected throughout the East, hitting the Vienna Woods region especially hard. On Sunday, a low-pressure system passing to the northeast will bring fresh snow, especially in the East and north. Already out of the night, however, heavy snowfall will start in the East. Several centimetres of fresh snow can be expected up to the lowlands in the afternoon and evening and then widespread in the north of the country and Upper Austria. “Temporarily, it will also snow heavily, with the…