Der größte Akkuhersteller der Welt hat seine Akkupacks weiter optimiert und stellt damit Teslas alte 4680-Technik in den Schatten. Eine Analyse von Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer (Elektromobilität, Elektroauto)
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Im April 2022 beherrschen Apples iPhone-13-Modelle den Markt, gefolgt von Samsung-Smartphones. Nur Xiaomi kommt noch in die Top 10. (Smartphone, Apple)
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Mit dem W600D bringt ZTE den laut eigener Aussage ersten Cloud-Laptop in den Handel. Darin stecken ein ARM-Chip und Android 11. (ZTE, Thin Clients)
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Mit enttäuschenden Umsätzen begründet der Streamingdienst einen erneuten Stellenabbau. Es könnte nicht der letzte sein. (Netflix, Streaming)
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Der Kupferschrottpreis ist gering, doch das hält Diebe nicht davon ab, Ladeinfrastruktur für Elektroautos zu zerstören und Kabel abzuschneiden. (Elektroauto, Technologie)
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Governments play a vital role in understanding and responding to climate change; however, they often lack the actionable insights they need to respond quickly. To help solve this problem, Google Cloud is introducing new offerings that help organizations utilize Earth observation data to better understand climate risks and provide insights to inform policies for adaptation strategies. With these data-driven insights, public sector agencies and researchers can improve their response time to climate disasters, make more accurate predictions, and implement disaster-response plans with greater confidence. These offerings — Climate Insights for natural resources and Climate Insights for infrastructure — are already having an impact in the public sector and can be used to inform a multitude of use cases, including land and infrastructure management, and city and regional planning.Introducing Climate InsightsClimate Insights leverages the scale and power of Google Earth Engine (GEE) running on Google Cloud and combines artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities with geospatial analysis using Google BigQuery and Vertex AI. Through GEE, climate researchers can access a multi-petabyte catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with planetary-scale analysis capabilities. Climate Insights can help Earth observation and remote-sensing scientists standardize and aggregate data from different sources, analyze them quickly, and easily visualize their outputs. Climate Insights for natural resources By unlocking geospatial data, Climate Insights for natural resources can help leaders manage the risks of extreme heat, wildfires, floods, droughts, which have dramatically impacted communities, and economies around the globe. It draws on GEE’s data catalog of more than 900 open datasets spanning 40 years, and leverages the expertise of Climate Engine to provide departments and agencies with an efficient way to ingest, process, and deliver pre-built Earth observation insights via API into decision-making contexts. For example, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has been using GEE to process satellite data to track environmental changes at scale. NRCan researcher Dr. Richard Fernandes has been using GEE to power his LEAF Toolbox, which creates customizable maps of foliage density in real time. Agriculture Canada is currently exploring using the LEAF toolbox to assess how crops are progressing, which impacts local economies and the global food supply. Furthermore, NRCan is currently piloting Climate Insights to provide scientists tools to accelerate their research.“Through a strategic partnership with Google Cloud, our scientists are leveraging cutting-edge cloud technologies to enhance the value of Earth observation science and data,” says Dr. Fernandes. “These types of next-generation geo-solutions allow massive volumes of Earth observation data to be converted into actionable insights supporting evidence-based decision-making that improve Canada’s economic and environmental performance.” Climate Insights for infrastructureUnderstanding and anticipating climate risk to the built environment is a challenge for any organization managing infrastructure. Not only is it necessary to have up-to-date insights regarding climate risks, but also current climate data needs to be combined with infrastructure data to assess risk and prioritize investments. Public sector organizations store large amounts of data in Geographic Information System (GIS) systems. Climate Insights for infrastructure helps make that data easy to access, analyze, and share through a unified solution. Building on top of GEE, Google Cloud, and CARTO, these insights enable planners, policy analysts, operations staff, and executives to access data for their decision making through an intuitive and easy to use location intelligence platform. The State of Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) manages 2,500 miles of highway, with 20% of roads facing risks due to erosion and sea-level rise. With Climate Insights for infrastructure, HDOT can assess risk and prioritize investment decisions based on multiple climate factors, asset conditions, and community impact. “Our goal is to have a common data-driven platform to collect and share information across agencies, counties, and cities,” says Ed Sniffen, deputy director of highways for HDOT. “This helps us collaborate within our department and engage with our communities so we can better serve the public.”All running on the cleanest cloud in the industryWe support our cloud customers by operating the cleanest cloud in the industry, helping them act today to decarbonize their digital applications and infrastructure, and achieve their most ambitious sustainability targets. And by 2030, Google aims to operate on 24/7 carbon-free energy at all of our campuses, cloud regions and offices around the world.To learn more about Climate Insights and Google’s solutions for the public sector, register for the Google Cloud Sustainability Summit or contact our team. Click here to learn more about Google Cloud sustainability.Related ArticleAdopting real-world sustainability solutions with Google Cloud’s ecosystemGoogle Cloud and its ecosystem of sustainability-focused partners provide data, insights, and intelligence to support customer sustainabi…Read Article
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Cloud SQL for SQL Server is a fully-managed database service that allows you to run SQL Server in the cloud and let Google take care of the toil. In the past year, we’ve launched features that help you get the most out of SQL Server, like support for Active Directory authentication, SQL Server 2019, and Cross Region Replicas. We’re happy to add another SQL Server security feature: database auditing. Database auditing allows you to monitor changes to your SQL Server databases, like database creations, data inserts, or table deletions. Cloud SQL writes audit logs generated by SQL Server to the local disk and to Google Cloud Storage. You can specify how long logs should be stored on the instance – for up to seven days – and use a SQL Server function to inspect logs. Cloud SQL will also automatically write all audit files to a Google Cloud Storage bucket that you manage, so you can decide how long to retain these records if you need them for longer than seven days, or consolidate them with audit files from other SQL Server instances. To enable database auditing, go to the Google Cloud console, select your Cloud SQL for SQL Server instance, and select Edit from the Overview page. You can also enable SQL Server Audit when you create a new Cloud SQL instance:Once you’ve enabled auditing for your Cloud SQL for SQL Server instance, you can create SQL Server audits and audit specifications, which determine what information will be tracked on your databases. You can capture granular information about operations performed on your databases, including, for example, every time a login succeeds or fails. If you want to capture different information for each of your databases, you can create different audit specifications for each database on your instance, or you can create server-level audit specifications to track changes across all databases. SQL Server auditing is now available for all Cloud SQL for SQL Server instances. Learn more about how to get started with this feature today!Related ArticleCloud SQL for SQL Server: Database administration best practicesCloud SQL for SQL Server is a fully-managed relational database service that makes it easy to set up, maintain, manage, and administer SQ…Read Article
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Business partnerships come in all shapes and forms: from affiliate and influencer marketing, to SaaS providers and strategic B2B alliances. For all parties to be successful and drive business growth through a partnership, they must have a way to manage, track, and measure the incremental value their partners provide throughout their relationship. That’s why impact.com has developed technology that makes it easy for businesses to create, manage, and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with the brands and communities that customers trust so that businesses can focus on building great relationships.The partnership management platform is currently helping thousands of brands, including Walmart and Shopify, to manage and optimize their partnerships’ ROI through its purpose-built platform. And impact.com has brought this vision to life with its software built on Google Cloud Platform. “We believe in the power of technology and partnerships to create transformational growth for our customers, our company, and ourselves,” says Lisa Riolo, VP Strategic Partnerships and Co-founder at impact.com. “This mindset has been integral to the success of impact.com, which grew from a five person startup to a company valued at $1.5 billion as of September 2021.”Fuelling business growth with the right partnerships and technologyimpact.com’s original vision was to significantly improve the technology available to performance marketers while empowering traditional media channels with the data and measurement systems available to digital marketers. But it’s always been clear that for the company to remain relevant it needs to constantly evolve to meet the needs of the next generation of marketers.“We designed our toolset to be future-proof, flexible, and to adapt to the changing global landscape. Our customers rely on impact.com to manage their strategic partnerships on a global level,” says Riolo. “This combined ability to be reliable and continually innovate is the sweet spot we look for when selecting the components of our technology setup, and that’s what we found in Google Cloud.”As a company that focuses on helping businesses grow through their partnerships, scalability has always been one key criteria behind impact.com’s technology. As it acquires multiple product-led technology companies throughout its growth, the importance of being scalable becomes more evident. New companies joining impact.com suddenly gain access to a multitude of businesses they could be working with, while their customer base tends to multiply due to the exposure they gain through these new partnerships. “From a strategic perspective, when you need something new you can build it, buy it, or partner with someone who has it. We do all three,” says Riolo. “Each time we welcome a new company, we bring them on board Google Cloud so they can lean on the same reliability and scalability as we do. Having the ability to accommodate our growth is a must, and scaling on a Google Cloud environment is seamless and efficient. Additionally, we are taking advantage of the global footprint of the platform to run our applications closer to customers with low latency.”Helping more businesses to grow in the cloudAs buyers increasingly turn to cloud marketplaces to fulfill their procurement needs, impact.com is launching its partnership management software on Google Cloud Marketplace. This means that companies of all sizes can find and quickly deploy impact.com’s software on Google Cloud without having to manually configure the software itself, its virtual machine instances, or its network settings. And by taking this step onto the cloud, they gain access to infrastructure that can keep up with their success.“Our commitment to our partners centers on how we best support and enable their growth. I believe, as customers grow, their need to be in the cloud is critical to their ability to scale up, no matter what type of business they are,” explains Riolo. “So being on Google Cloud Marketplace is important for impact.com to get more exposure, and also important for Google Cloud, because the growth-focused businesses we attract need more cloud capabilities. That’s how we grow together, and we’re very excited about what this means for the future of our relationships.”Related Article5 ways retailers can evolve beyond traditional segmentation methodsFive ways retailers can evolve beyond traditional customer segmentation methods to drive more personalized experiences in real time.Read Article
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The software development process requires complex, cross-functional collaboration while continuously improving products and services. Our customers who build software say that they value Google Workspace for its ability to drive innovation and collaboration throughout the entire software development life cycle. Developers can hold standups and scrums in Google Chat, Meet, and Spaces, create and collaborate on requirements documentation in Google Docs and Sheets, build team presentations in Google Slides, and manage their focus time and availability with Google Calendar. Development teams also use many other tools to get work done, like tracking issues and tasks in Atlassian’s Jira, managing workloads with Asana, and incident management in PagerDuty. One of the benefits of Google Workspace is that it’s an open platform tailored to improve the performance of your tools by seamlessly integrating them together. We’re constantly expanding our ecosystem and improving Google Workspace, giving you the power to push your software development even further.Make software development more agileGoogle Workspace gives you real-time visibility into project progress and decisions to help you ship quality code fast and stay connected with your stakeholders, all without switching tools and tabs. By leveraging applications from our partners, you can pull valuable information out of silos, making collaborating on requirements, code reviews, bug triage, deployment updates, and monitoring operations easy for the whole team. This allows your teams to stay focused on their priorities while keeping everyone aligned, ensuring collaborators are always in the loop.Plan and execute togetherWhen combined with integrations, Google Workspace makes the software development planning process more collaborative and efficient. For example, many organizations use Asana—a leading work management platform—to coordinate and manage everything from daily tasks to cross-functional strategic initiatives. To make the experience more seamless, Asana built integrations so users can always have access to their tasks and projects with Google Drive, Gmail, and Chat. With these integrations for Google Workspace, you can turn your conversations into action and create new tasks in Asana—all without leaving Google Workspace. “We’ve seen exceptional, heavy adoption of tasks being created from within the Gmail add-on. Our customers and community have also shown very strong interest in future development work, which is something we’ll continue to prioritize.” Strand Sylvester, Product Manager, Asana To date, users have installed the Asana for Gmail add-on over 2.5 million times, as well as over 3.8 million installs of the Asana for Google Workspace add-on for Google Drive.Turn your conversations into action with the Asana for Google Chat app.Start coding quicklyGoogle Workspace makes it easy for product managers, UX designers, and engineers to agree on what they’re building and why. By bringing all stakeholders, decisions, and requirements into one place—whether it’s a Gmail or Google Chat conversation, or a document in Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides—Google Workspace removes friction, helping your teams finalize product specifications and get started right away.Integrations like GitHub for Google Chat make the entire development process fit easily into a developer’s workflow. With this integration, teams can quickly push new commits, make pull requests, do code reviews, and provide real-time feedback that improves the quality of their code—all from Google Chat.Get updates on GitHub without leaving the conversation.Speed up testingIntegrations like Jira for Google Chat accelerate the entire QA process in the development workflow. The app acts as a team member in the conversation, sending new issues and contextual updates as they are reported to improve the quality of your code and keep everyone informed on your Jira projects.Quickly create a new Jira issue without ever leaving Google Chat.Ship code fasterDevelopers use Jenkins—a popular open-source continuous integration and continuous delivery tool—to build and test products continuously. Along with other cloud-native tools, Jenkins supports strong DevOps practices by letting you continuously integrate changes into the software build. With Jenkins for Google Chat, development and operations teams can connect into their Jenkins pipeline and stay up to date by receiving software build notifications directly in Google Chat.Jenkins for Google Chat helps DevOps teams stay up to date with build notifications.Proactively monitor your servicesImproving the customer experience requires capturing and monitoring data sources to improve application and infrastructure observability. Google Workspace supports DevOps teams and organizations by helping stakeholders collaborate and troubleshoot more effectively. When you integrate Datadog with Google Chat, monitoring data becomes part of your team’s discussion, and you can efficiently collaborate to resolve issues as soon as they arise. The integration makes it easy to start a discussion with all the relevant teams by sharing a snapshot of a graph in any of your Chat spaces. When an alert notification is triggered, it allows you to notify each Chat space independently, precisely targeting your communication to the right teams.Collaborate, share, and track performance with Datadog for Google Chat.Improve service reliabilityOrchestrating business-wide responses to interruptions is a cross-functional effort. When revenue and brand reputation depends on customer satisfaction, it’s important to proactively manage service-impacting events. Google Workspace supports response teams by ensuring that urgent alerts reach the right people by providing teams with a central space to discover incidents, find the root cause, and resolve them quickly. PagerDuty for Google Chat empowers developers, DevOps, IT operations, and business leaders to prevent and resolve business-impacting incidents for an exceptional customer experience—all from Google Chat. See and share details with link previews, and perform actions by creating or updating incidents. By keeping all conversations in a central space, new responders can get up to speed and solve issues faster without interrupting others.PagerDuty for Google Chat keeps the business up to date on service-impacting incidents.Accelerate developer productivityIntegrating your DevOps tools with Google Workspace allows your development teams to centralize their work, stay focused on what’s important—like managing their work—build code quickly, ship quality products, and communicate better during service impacting incidents. For more apps and solutions that help centralize your work so you and your teams can connect, create, and get things done, check out Google Workspace Marketplace, where you’ll find more than 5,300 public applications that integrate directly into Google Workspace.Related ArticleCan email still delight us? An interview with Gmail’s Product LeadInterview with Gmail’s Product Lead on how the team innovates and continues to deliver great user experiences.Read Article
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Taking prescription medication at the direction of anyone other than a trained physician is very risky—and the same could be said for selecting technology used to run a hospital, to manage a drug manufacturing facility and, increasingly, to treat a patient for a medical condition.To pick the right medication, physicians need to carefully consider its ingredients, the therapeutic value they collectively provide, and the patient’s condition. Healthcare cybersecurity leaders similarly need to know what goes into the technology their organization’s use to manage patient medical records, manufacture compound drugs, and treat patients in order to keep them safe from cybersecurity threats.Just like prescription medication, careful vetting and selection of the technology is required to ensure patient safety and establish visibility and awareness into the technology modern healthcare depends on to create a resilient healthcare system. In this and our next blog, we focus on two topics critical to building resilience – software bill of materials (SBOM) and Google’s Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) framework – and how to use them to make technology safe. Securing the software supply chain, or where the software we depend comes from, is a critical security priority for defenders and something Google is committed to helping organizations do.Diving deeper into the technology we rely onCybersecurity priorities for securing healthcare systems usually focus only on protecting sensitive healthcare information, like Protected Health Information (PHI). Maintaining the privacy of patient records is an important objective and securing data and systems plays a big role in this regard. Healthcare system leadership and other decision makers often depend on cybersecurity experts to select technologies and service providers that can meet regulatory rules for protecting data as a first (and sometimes only) priority. Trust is often placed on the reputations and compliance programs of the vendors who manufacture the technology they buy without much further inspection. Decision makers need to approach every key healthcare and life science technology or service provider choice as a high-risk, high-consequence decision, but few healthcare organizations have the skills, resources, and time to “go deep” in vetting the security built into the technology they buy before it enters a care setting. Vetting needs to include penetrating analysis of all aspects of software and hardware, their architecture and engineering quality, the provenance of all parts that they’re made of, and assessing each component for risk. Doing this can sometimes require deep technical skills and advanced knowledge of medical equipment threats that may not be easy to acquire. Instead of making additional investments to help secure their networks and systems, many organizations choose simpler paths.The failure to properly assess technological susceptibility to risk has exposed healthcare organizations and their patients to a variety of safety and security issues that may have been preventable. PTC (formerly Parametric Technology Corporation, which makes medical device software) disclosed seven vulnerabilities in March that impacted equipment used for robotic radiosurgery. In October 2019, the VxWorks Urgent 11 series of vulnerabilities was announced, affecting more than 1 billion connected devices, many used throughout healthcare and life sciences. More examples of medical devices and software found to have vulnerable components can be found on the FDAs cybersecurity website and in its recall database. How a physician understands, selects, and prescribes medication parallels how we address these concerns when selecting technology. Recent FDA guidance suggests manufacturers must soon provide increased levels of visibility into the technologies they market and sell in the healthcare industry. Here’s where the SBOM, a key visibility mechanism, comes in.What SBOMs do well, and how Google is helping make them betterThe National Telecommunications and Information Administration defines the SBOM as a “nested inventory for software, a list of ingredients that make up software components.”The concept of a SBOM appears to have found its start in enabling software makers back in the 1990s, although it originally stems from ideas popularized by visionary engineer and professor W. Edwards Deming. SBOM as a concept has advanced since then, with multiple standards for generating and sharing them now in use.Thanks to the continued focus on improving and using SBOMs, we expect it will be much easier for defenders to use SBOMs to track software and its components, where they come from, what security vulnerabilities they contain, and equip protectors with their ability to stop those vulnerabilities from being exploited, at scale, and before they impact patient care. “Software bills of materials help to bridge the knowledge gap created by running unknown, unpatched software and components as too many healthcare organizations currently do,” says Dan Walsh, chief information security officer at VillageMD, a tech-driven primary-care provider. “For security leaders, SBOM should be an extension of their asset inventory and management capability, regardless of whether that software was bought or built. At VillageMD, we are asking our vendors that store, transmit, receive or process PHI for an SBOM as part of our third-party vendor assessment program.”Today’s SBOMs are most often basic text files generated by a software developer when the creation of software is complete and a product is assembled (or application is created from source code.) The text file contains information about the product’s software components and subcomponents, where those components and subcomponents came from, and who owns them. But unlike a recipe used to make a pharmaceutical, for example, an SBOM also tracks the software versions of components and subcomponents. SBOMs often capture:Supplier NameComponent NameVersion of the ComponentOther Unique IdentifiersDependency RelationshipAuthor of SBOM DataTimestamp Here’s the format of a SBOM generated using the SPDX v2.2.1 standard:Technology producers, decision makers, and operators in any industry can use this information to deeply understand the risks the products pose to patients and the health system. An SBOM, for example, can show a reader if the software used on a medical device is merely out of date, or vulnerable to a cyber attack that could affect its safe use. Google sponsors a number of initiatives focused on securing the software supply chain, including how to use SBOMs, through our work with U.S. government agencies, the Open Source Security Foundation, and Linux Foundation, including a project focused on building and distributing SBOMs. Learn about the SPDX project and Cyclone DX, read the ISO/IEC 5962:2021 standard (for SPDX), ISO ISO/IEC 19770-2:2015 (for SWID; another artifact that provides a SBOM), and other training resources from the Linux Foundation.As an additional measure, healthcare organizations which use SBOM need to make sure they can trust that the SBOMs they rely on haven’t been changed since the manufacturer produced it. To defend against this, software makers can cryptographically sign their SBOMs making it easier to identify if a SBOM has been maliciously altered since it was first published. While U.S. Executive Order 14028 created a federal mandate for the SBOM, and although many organizations have begun to incorporate that mandate into their software production workflows, many issues and roadblocks remain unresolved. At Google, we think the use of SBOM will help organization’s gain important visibility into the technologies that are entering our healthcare facilities and enable defenders to more capably protect both patient safety and patient data privacy.Digging into the SLSAWe believe resilient organizations have resilient software supply chains. Sadly no single mechanism, like SBOM, can achieve this outcome. It’s why we created the SLSA framework, and services like Assured Open Source Software. SLSA was developed following Google’s own practices for securing its software supply chain. SLSA is guidance for securing software supply chains using a set of incremental, enforceable security guidelines that can automatically create auditable metadata. This metadata will then result in a “SLSA certification” to a particular package or build platform. It’s a verifiable way to assure consumers that the software they use hasn’t been tampered with, something which doesn’t exist broadly today. We’ve recently explained more about how the SLSA works in blog posts on SLSA basics and more in-depth SLSA details.Similarly, Assured Open Source Software gives organizations the ability to use the same regularly tested and secured software packages Google uses to build its software. Used in combination with a SBOM, technology makers can build reliable, safe, and verifiable products. Most technology buyers, such as those who run your local healthcare system, can use those same mechanisms to gain visibility into a technologies’ safety and fitness for use. Where do we go from here? Visibility into the components that make up the technology we use to care for patients is critically necessary. We can’t build a resilient healthcare system if our only priority is privacy of data. We must add resilience and safety to the list of our top priorities. Gaining deep visibility into the technology that decorates health system networks is a critical shift we must make. SBOM and SLSA help us make this shift. But remember, it’s not one or the other. As Dan Walsh from VillageMD says, the SBOM has a way to go:. “It won’t solve all of your problems,” he cautions, but adds that when used correctly, “SBOM will help you improve visibility into the software that runs on the critical systems that keep societies safe and we’re excited to see it get traction.”But when complemented with SLSA and topics we’ll cover next, such as a Vulnerability eXploitability Exchange (VEX), we are on a path to greater resilience.Related ArticleHow healthcare can strengthen its own cybersecurity resilienceBuilding resilience in healthcare cybersecurity may feel daunting, but lessons from exposure therapy and using core concepts can lead to …Read Article
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