Winter will stay with Austria in the coming week.

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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).…

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Inflation: The price spiral continues to turn

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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.…

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Tips for driving in cold weather

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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…

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

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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…

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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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