Switzerland

Switzerland is starting to use a huge 'water battery' to store energy in water reservoirs. The so-called battery has a capacity that is equivalent to 20 GWh and should be able to supply about 900,000 households with power.A water battery…

Russian software developer Kaspersky does not agree with the advice of the German intelligence service BSI to replace Kaspersky Antivirus. According to the company, the decision is "based not on a technical assessment of its products, but…

AMD will provide its Adrenalin software for Radeon graphics cards with a feature called Privacy View. It works with head and eye tracking from the company Eyeware to darken the screen in places the user is not looking at.Privacy View is…

Proton, the privacy-oriented e-mail and VPN service from Switzerland, is going to update its Tor e-mail client. It should be 'on par with the web app' and should be available before the end of the year. The company also provides…

The previously announced Microsoft Flight Simulator update called Top Gun: Maverick will no longer be available this year. That should have happened in November, but that has now been postponed until May next year.The postponement is…

Microsoft is adding a competitive game mode to Flight Simulator this fall. Players get the opportunity to race against each other with stunt planes. Microsoft has entered into a partnership with the Reno Air Racing Association for…

EU Member States have backed decisions to avoid blocking data flows after Britain's departure from the EU. The UK safeguards to protect the data would be sufficient.The move means that companies and organizations can continue to transfer…

In Switzerland, the introduction of a national system for logging in online via electronic identification has been rejected. The people of the country could vote for or against this via a referendum. A majority was against.A Swiss…

DNS service Quad9 has moved its headquarters to Switzerland. As a result, all users are subject to the relatively strict privacy laws of that country, despite the fact that the servers are not located in that country.Quad9, which offers…

Plex has released version 1.21.1.3842 of Media Server. This version was previously available to holders of the paid PlexPass, but can now be downloaded by anyone. Plex Media Server is a media server for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, macOS…