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Germany Could Fine Facebook €500,000 for Every Fake News Post

While Facebook wrings its hands over its fake news problem, Germany could force the social network to take real action to prevent lies and propaganda posing as fact from ...

December 29, 2016 at 8:00 pm by

“Star in a Jar” Fusion Reactor Could Deliver Limitless Energy

A team of German scientists successfully fired up a prototype nuclear fusion reactor earlier this year and, following months of tests, have determined that the technology’s ...

December 12, 2016 at 1:00 am by

Mirai Botnet Takes Down One Million German Routers

Mirai — the worm responsible for infecting tens of millions of IoT devices which were used as a botnet to DDoS managed DNS infrastructure provider Dyn in October — has ...

December 4, 2016 at 9:00 pm by

Adblock Plus Wins 6th Court Case Attempting to Shut it Down

Adblock Plus made by Eyeo GmbH has faced the lawsuit brought by Germany’s Spiegel Online head-on and won. The lawsuit is of course an effort to shut down the popular ...

November 30, 2016 at 4:40 pm by

Razer Blade Notebooks Now Available in Parts of Europe

Keyboards and anything containing keyboards often have one issue and that is localization. That’s especially the case for a lot of Razer products – but ...

October 21, 2016 at 11:42 am by

German Police Raid Hate Content Posters

The internet has many sides. The light side, where people post pictures requesting that people use Pokémon Go lures at hospitals to help those unable to walk around and play ...

July 18, 2016 at 11:00 am by

Joyriding Teens Survive Severe Tesla Model S Crash

Tesla is producing model after model of electric cars, with their Model S car being met with the affordable model 3 car offering everyday users a chance at an affordable ...

May 10, 2016 at 8:49 am by

Autonomous Cars to Rollout at Railway Stations in Germany

The autonomous vehicle trend is becoming more and more popular in several countries, and while some manufacturers have taken part in a self-driving Truck challenge, a German ...

May 7, 2016 at 12:49 pm by

Facebook Fined In German Intellectual Property Dispute

This is a story that dates back to four years ago when a German court found that Facebook’s terms and conditions did not address the circumstances in which users ...

March 2, 2016 at 8:50 am by

German Court Rules Facebook’s ‘Friends Finder’ Unlawful

The highest court in Germany has ruled that Facebook’s ‘Friends Finder’ function is unlawful on the grounds that it scrapes the e-mail contacts of users in order to ...

January 15, 2016 at 4:00 pm by

Microsoft to Host Data in Germany to Protect it From US Spying

Microsoft has announced that it is to open a number of data centres in Germany, in partnership with T-Mobile owner Deutsche Telekom AG, to offer cloud storage to European ...

November 11, 2015 at 11:58 pm by

Germany Promises 50Mbps Broadband

With a wide majority of the world using internet on a regular, if not every day, basis, we need to be aware of just how much we use the internet for. While most activities are ...

September 9, 2015 at 9:00 am by

Treason Investigation For Netzpolitik.org Paused In Germany

Secrecy and news. These things are against odds in recent years with the public being aware of just how much we do not know courtesy of the Snowden leaks. In Germany, there is ...

August 4, 2015 at 1:30 pm by

100% Electric Big Rig Hits German Roads

This week, Europe’s first 100% electric tractor-trailer truck took to the roads in Germany, courtesy of car giant BMW. The 40-ton lorry can travel up to 62 miles per charge ...

July 10, 2015 at 5:00 pm by

Internet Watershed For Saucy eBooks

Have you ever contemplated if governments, authorities, and anyone who debates, writes and passes laws around the world genuinely understands the notion of the Internet? Over ...

June 23, 2015 at 10:58 am by

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