Category: General Interest

A low-cost covid-19 vaccine developed in a lead role by Austrian researchers working in New York is proving promising. Subjects in Thailand built up comparably high antibody levels in a clinical trial after administration of the new vector vaccine, “NDV-HXP-S,” as did people who received the Biontech-Pfizer vaccine. The analysis has now been presented in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Classic pathway for affordable vaccineThe team from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, led by Peter Palese, a native of Upper Austria, Austrian virologist Florian Krammer and Adolfo…

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Asteroid 2005 YY128 will come closer to Earth on Thursday night than in 400 years. At 1:46 a.m., it will fly past Earth at a distance of 4.5 million kilometres. There is no danger of an impact. The chunk of space is still considered potentially dangerous because of its size and orbit. The asteroid’s diameter is estimated by astronomers* between 580 meters and 1.3 kilometres. It was discovered in 2005, as its name indicates. The flyby will occur exactly ten years after a 20-meter meteorite exploded over the Russian city…

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With the end of April, the last mask obligation falls in Austria. But how does it look in the neighbouring countries? After three years of the coronavirus pandemic, the time has come: by June 30, 2023, all corona crisis measures will be ended in Austria. These include the FFP2 mask requirement in Vienna’s public transport and pharmacies, which is even to be dropped as early as the end of February. Those in hospitals, older adults’ homes and nursing homes, which apply throughout the country, will be history at the end…

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Less frequent loss of taste, more frequent sore throat: the symptoms of Corona patients have changed during the pandemic, according to an analysis by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). The so-called symptom profile has become increasingly “flu-like” in the omicron variant BA.5 and has approached that of other respiratory diseases, the authors write in the “Deutsches Ärzteblatt.” Therefore, it is becoming increasingly important for primary care physicians to test their patients for corona and influenza to treat them properly, he said. Across all variants, cough and cold were the most…

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If you turn it up, it (hopefully) gets warmer – so far, so good. But what temperature do the numbers on the thermostat stand for? Here’s a brief overview: Depending on the room, experts recommend a temperature bandwidth between 18 to 24 degrees Asterisk: around 5 degrees, protects the heater from frost.Level 1: around 12 degreesStage 2: around 16 degreesLevel 3: around 20 degreesStage 4: around 24 degreesLevel 5: around 28 degrees Sun: It stands for a basic setting at 20 degreesHalf moon: It stands for a night setback at…

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It’s a done deal, and the streaming provider is getting serious: “One Netflix account is meant for one household and members can choose from a range of subscription models.” 100 million customers Netflix wants to get to sign up for their subscription. That plan might have worked a few years ago when the streaming provider was on its own. In recent years, Netflix has enjoyed steadily increasing user numbers. More than 231 million people pay monthly for the service. For more than 20 years, Netflix was one of the most…

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Once again, a new scam is circulating, affecting Magenta customers. Press spokesman Traunwieser explains what to watch out for. An alleged e-mail from Deutsche Telekom with an invoice amount of almost 7,000 euros is currently making the rounds: it is a fixed network invoice for February, even though those affected do not have a fixed network. So how could such high costs have been incurred? However, the invoice amount and the layout of the e-mail are questionable and suggest a scam. Even if the e-mail raises some questions, Deutsche Telekom…

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Criminals have a new scam to take money out of Internet users’ pockets. Watchlist Internet warns against fraudulent invoices sent to supposed victims via a Paypal payment service. This is possible because merchants can send invoices or payment reminders via Paypal. All they need is an email address linked to a Paypal account. Criminals take advantage of this and use it to smuggle fraudulent invoices into the Paypal system. Customers are then reminded to pay the supposedly outstanding invoices via an email from the payment service. The invoices also appear…

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Attention, fraud! There are more cases of a rip-off: bank customers are tricked into releasing fraudulent transfers. Caution is advised here: Currently, fraud schemes such as calls, e-mails, text messages with the “hello mom” trick, or online scams on fake websites occur frequently. Fraudsters are increasingly succeeding in exploiting human “vulnerabilities” through phishing, social engineering and other pretexts. Especially customers of banking institutions are often coerced these days. Now two experts warn in a video about the currently most common fraud scenarios. “If money is demanded on the phone, it…

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