Easier access to red-white-red card planned

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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…

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Red warning level around Vienna – new snow masses expected

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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…

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Samsung shows a display that folds in both directions

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Samsung Unveils Flex In & Out Flexible Display That Can be Folded Twice Into an “S” Shape Samsung subsidiary Samsung Display has shown a new prototype of a foldable display at CES in Las Vegas. The “Flex In & Out” display folds in both directions – inward and outward. The display features a new hinge design where the fold is not as noticeable. The hinge is also called the “water drop hinge” because the display takes on a shape similar to a drop of water when folded inwards. This puts…

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Expert tips for more conscious smartphone use

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German molecular psychologist Christian Montag has been studying the side effects of digitalization for years. His latest book, “You belong to us! The psychological strategies of Facebook, Tiktok, Snapchat & Co.” (Blessing Verlag), explains the methods of the tech giants to keep users online as long as possible. “An alcoholic is not addicted to the bottle, but to the content. It’s the same with the smartphone. It’s about the apps that cause problematic consumption. This can be Instagram, but also the e-mail account. Here, a differentiated view should help to…

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Monk and nun left their religious communities – to get married

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Change your whole life to marry the great love? Sounds like a pretty daring move. But a nun and a monk from the UK add to it: they saw each other only once before they decided to leave the Order. There are enough unusual love stories. Sometimes you fall in love with your former nemesis; sometimes, you look for great love with a Lego reconstruction of getting to know each other; and other times, you give up everything to be with your great love. Mary Elizabeth and Robert also took…

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Snow hits Vienna as well

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Vienna’s city center woke up in a white winter dress on Saturday. During the night, a low-pressure area caused a decent snowfall. Low-pressure area “Khang,” in connection with a northerly flow, provides snowfall over the weekend, especially along the northern Alps. In the night to Saturday, even the previously snowless federal capital was affected; the Viennese awoke under a delicate winter dress. The reason for this is a pronounced low-pressure complex over Central and Southern Europe, which determines the weather in the Alpine region. In addition, a small-scale low pressure…

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Myth or truth: Better not to eat salad in the evening?

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Better not to eat salad in the evening? Experts say: In combination with fat and protein, salad can be eaten in the evening. In truth, the body digests salad in the evening just as it does during the day. However, some people tolerate raw vegetables worse than cooked vegetables. According to nutrition experts, this can be counteracted by eating salad with sufficient fat (for example, in the dressing) and protein (for instance, in nuts and feta cheese). The stomach prepares the food well for digestion by combining fat and protein…

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WhatsApp: New feature makes photos much better

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WhatsApp is used to send messages as well as heaps of photos. However, you must cut back on the quality if you want to send a snapshot with the app. This is to change in the future. WhatsApp reduces the size of photosWhatsApp will shrink the photos to save storage space if you want to share pictures with your contacts. An image with a size of a few megabytes then becomes one with a length of a few 100 kilobytes. This has the advantage that fewer data is used for…

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This app aims to make the waste separation even easier

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A new app for waste separation aims to make it easier to dispose of packaging and its various components properly. Too much packaging still ends up in residual waste. In addition, up to 18 percent of waste is still mistakenly put in the yellow garbage can or the yellow bag. This is now set to change. The “Digi-Cycle-App” of the company Saubermacher and Altstoff Recycling Austria (ARA) aims to better communicate the handling of waste separation to Austrians, according to a statement on Thursday. New collection of plastic waste since…

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