And they wonder why nobody’s buying their cars…

Does the EU already have legislation demanding the age verification? I’ve so far only heard about the UK‘s Online Safety Act being effective since last week, but not about anything in the EU (yet).

Plus all the space debris (like hundreds of Starlink satellites) burning up in the atmosphere. Without searching for sources, I’m pretty confident that this isn’t good for the atmosphere either

If you get efficiency gains of around 50% (factor 1.5 from ~20% efficiency to ~30%) with the same deployment costs, this should nonetheless make it more cost-effective.

Is it only available in the US App Store? I can imagine that some people who could make good use of it don’t have a US Apple ID.

The EU must stop the digitalization of the deportation regime

Don’t look up!

Some websites still require you to type www. explicitly.

For example, my university… Try https://tu-darmstadt.de/ and then try https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/

I find that annoying because I’m lazy 😂

5 out of the 7 CDU cabinet members are lawyers.

I hope this article is well peer-reviewed. Otherwise this reads like some LLM came up with the idea

Move fast and leave things broken

Can we please call it EUtube?

Users can choose it, but it isn’t the default

The second generation of Spectrum will be larger and could potentially be reusable. As I understand this, the current version is simply too weak for all the extra components that reusability requires.

There are other companies tasked with the development of reusable rockets for ESA, though.

https://europeanspaceflight.com/esa-selects-four-companies-to-develop-reusable-rocket-technology/

Some background info on the company:

Isar Aerospace was founded by former students of the Technical University of Munich, who already participated in the WARR group which also won Elon Musk’s Hyperloop competition several times.

They received fundings from (among others) Airbus, NATO and a former SpaceX executive Bulent Altan (who studied at TUM as well).

Very impressive achievement already and a real hope for European space programs and independence!

I get what you’re saying and agree that high transaction fees keep merchants from offering it as a payment option.

However, in my rant I’m merely talking about P2P money transfers, nothing B2C. And since most people are lazy and scrimpers, a service needs to have a very good offer for people to start using it. That’s where Wero could improve, in my opinion.

Plus, having a large user base would help them in the long run with convincing merchants to offer Wero as a payment option, wouldn’t it?

I think it‘s inherently difficult to persuade thousands of banks in Europe (and potentially worldwide) to actively join Wero, or any other service for that matter.

In my opinion, Wero – to be a viable option for anyone – should make their service something that the people can and WANT to use. Maybe I’m naive but adding the option to connect a bank account via IBAN and SEPA mandate shouldn’t be too complicated, right?

I’m still waiting for the day that I can make a full backup of my chats and save it on an external hard drive so that I won’t lose all of my message history when I lose my phone.