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Deutsche Bahn wants to supply the entire network with fibre optic cable
Deutsche Bahn will equip the entire route network with glass fibre. A construction period of seven years is planned for this.
Cloud and Co. - Small businesses with a backlog in digitisation
For the first time, the German government has determined a digitization index according to which smaller companies in particular still have a lot of catching up to do.
Lidl and Kaufland launch 2021 Public Cloud
The Schwarz Group will open its open cloud for the first customers in January 2021.
Facebook, Amazon and Co - France launches digital tax
France has sent out the first notices for a new digital tax. Google, Amazon and Co. are affected.
Vodafone stops fibre optic offensive
Vodafone stops its fiber optic offensive, but still connects 150,000 households and 23,000 companies to the fast network.
400,000 cores - Giant processor faster than supercomputers
The Cerebras CS-1 computer with a single processor clearly surpasses the performance of modern supercomputer clusters.
Mobile communications - massive increase in network quality in Germany
In Germany, all three mobile network operators have significantly improved their quality. However, 5G data rates are still comparatively low.
Ministry of Justice wants Darknet law against criminal marketplaces
A new law is to punish the operators of illegal online marketplaces such as Silk Road more severely.
Conversational Search - Google wants to further improve search results
The new Conversational Search takes the lead time of several queries into account in order to understand the search intention even better.
Great interest in European cloud initiative Gaia-X
The Gaia-X cloud initiative is intended to provide a European alternative to AWS and Co. from 2021.