Paper driver’s licenses are soon to go digital, too

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The digital driver’s license has been activated more than 300,000 times in Austria. Soon, it will no longer necessarily require a check card. State Secretary for Digitalization Florian Tursky and Finance Minister Magnus Brunner cited new data on digitalization in Austria on Sunday. So far, more than one million people have been identified as using ID Austria, and the digital driver’s license has now been activated 302,300 times. Now there is to be another innovation: Currently, the digital driver’s license can only be started by people with a check card…

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Heat alert! 30 degrees should fall next Monday

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Today, Monday, June 19, Austria could crack the 30-degree mark for the first time. But the forecast model is still quite uncertain. The 30-degree mark has not yet fallen this year. It should remain so for the coming week: “On Monday (June 12), up to 29 degrees are possible in Vorarlberg, but then it will be cooler again nationwide. Thus, with the highest probability, the 30s will not be cracked this week again,” explains Nikolas Zimmer of “Ubimet” on Saturday afternoon – all about it here. But ORF weather expert…

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125th Celebration f Philippine Independence commemorated in Vienna

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VIENNA, Austria – Hundreds of Filipinos based in Austria will participate in the festivities to mark the 125th Declaration of the Philippine Independence Day here. On June 10, 2023, the Filipino community in Austria, led by the Council of Filipino Associations in Austria in cooperation with the Philippine embassy, held the Independence Day ball at the Marriott Hotel, Vienna. The theme “Kalayaan. Kinabukasan. Kasaysayan.” focuses on the freedom our forebears struggled for in the future that they dreamed for the country and the history that we seek to remember and…

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Use account on multiple phones: Whatsapp announces update

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With the upcoming update, Whatsapp introduces a new feature that many users have been eagerly waiting for. You can now use your account on up to four different smartphones simultaneously. Setting it up is still awkward, but it should soon become more accessible. Many users have wanted to use a Whatsapp account on multiple smartphones for years. Until now, however, this was not possible because there was no secure solution. But now the time has come: Whatsapp has announced an update of its messenger in its blog, after which you…

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Public appointments cancelled: Pope continues on the road to recovery

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After Pope Francis had to undergo emergency surgery last week, doctors still advise him against getting out of bed. The 86-year-old is not appearing before the faithful for Sunday prayers. However, this is only a precautionary measure. According to the attending physician, Pope Francis continues to be on the road to recovery after his most recent surgery. The head of the Catholics is fever-free, and his heart and lungs are functioning normally, explained surgeon Sergio Alfieri of the Gemelli Hospital in Rome. For precautionary reasons, however, Francis does not appear…

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Powerful thunderstorms are on the horizon again Sunday

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Today, Sunday, locally strong thunderstorms are expected again from Carinthia to Burgenland. According to the Austrian Severe Weather Center experts, the humid and thunderstorm-prone air from the north will slowly be pushed away. However, and calm early summer weather will set in at the beginning of the week. Sunday will start cloudy in large parts of the country, and a few showers will fall in the southeast. In the day, especially from Vorarlberg over the Innviertel to the Weinviertel, the sun will appear more and more often, but otherwise, it…

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Weather in Austria: it remains rainy in the east

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The weekend will bring temperatures up to 28 degrees, especially in the west. In the east and south, heavy rain must continue to be expected. In the west, high-pressure influence with sunny weather will prevail from today, Friday. The low center in high layers will shift further eastward. Thus, it will remain very unsettled in the rest of Austria with an alternation of sun and clouds and an increasing shower and thunderstorm activity during the day. Friday, further local heavy rainThe focus of showers before the start of the weekend…

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Numerous households must now additionally pay monthly for the ORF.

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The GIS becomes the ORF fee: although it is supposed to be cheaper for citizens, the government is asking hundreds of thousands to pay even more. The so-called ORF fee is de facto a done deal, and its implementation in parliament is planned before the summer break. The media negotiators from the Greens and the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) are still discussing the final details and whether/which objections from the review of the law might still find their way into it. However, there should be no more significant changes. The…

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Airplane toilet: what happens to the wastewater during the flight?

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Thousands of times, the toilet is flushed on an average medium-haul flight. This legitimately raises the question: what happens to all that wastewater? The workings of an airplane pose numerous mysteries if only starting with the toilets and especially what happens to the wastewater. We’ll answer the question that has always been on your mind. Or maybe you’re interested in why we’re supposed to put our smartphones in flight mode during the flight. No, it doesn’t go straight into the air.Back then, people used a blue liquid sanitizer to carry…

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