Technische Universität München
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH NEWS RELEASE War-related disinformation most effective among conspiracy-minded people Impact of Russian social media campaigns less pronounced than often assumed • 19,000 people in Europe and America surveyed on Russian disinformation • Major differences between countries • Whether propaganda is believed does not primarily depend ...
Berlin (ots) - In a new report, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development found that Germany was a world-class environment for AI and pointed out room for further development and growth. The OECD study “Artificial Intelligence Review of Germany” praised Europe’s largest economy for showing “vision” and “leadership” in becoming one of the ...
Berlin (ots) - The German automotive industry association VDA says that 995,000 purely electric vehicles rolled off German assembly lines in 2023. All told, some 1.27 million purely electric (BEV) and hybrid (PHEV) vehicles were made in Germany in 2023, the second highest number in the world behind China. China dominates global EV production, but the vast majority of its cars are sold domestically. By contrast 76 percent ...
NTT DATA Business Solutions AG
Bielefeld, Germany – Hyderabad, India (ots) - NTT DATA Business Solutions AG, a company of NTT DATA and a leading global IT service provider focused on the mid-market and SAP, announces the acquisition of a majority stake in ProvenTech Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. ProvenTech is specialized in providing ...
Leipzig Tourismus und Marketing GmbH
Berlin (ots) - European largest economy generated and fed into the national grid 121.5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in the first quarter of 2024. Renewables accounted for 58.4 percent of all electricity produced in Germany in the first three months of this year. That is more than for any quarter since statistics of this sort began to be collected in 2018. The 121.5 billion kilowatt hours represented an annual ...
Hannover Marketing und Tourismus GmbH (HMTG)
LAUDA DR. R. WOBSER GMBH & CO. KG
London (ots/PRNewswire) - - 95% of shoppers have abandoned their cart - 63% of shoppers say delivery choice is the most important factor when shopping online - High delivery costs compel 62% of shoppers to abandon purchases With retailers' preparations for peak shopping season well underway, nShift, the world leader in delivery & experience management (DMXM) software, ...
Lowering the Voting Age Does Not Help against the Rise of Right-Wing Populist Parties Lowering the voting age to 16 is only an option but not a guarantee of support for democracy and democratic parties. This is the finding of a new study by political scientist Thomas König and his co-author Stefan Eschenwecker from the University of Mannheim. Can a lower voting age ...
Technische Universität München
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH NEWS RELEASE What mucins can do in medicine Multi-purpose mucus They are in our eyes, on our tongues, and in our stomachs: Protective layers of mucus, a slime consisting primarily of mucins. These are molecules which bind water to form a natural lubricant. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) use them to develop coatings for contact lenses and intubation tubes, healing ...
STADA reduces carbon emissions and increases its renewable energy supply on sustainability journey - Total carbon emissions by STADA reduced by 25% between 2020 and 2023 - Around 45% of STADA’s electricity consumption now comes from renewable ...
Cybersecurity: Self-attack is the best Defence Security expert: "Companies should regularly attack themselves to test their cyber resilience.” Rainer M. Richter: "Today's autonomous penetration testing solutions from the cloud are affordable for every medium-sized company." With the surge of cyber threats in 2023, European companies must seek proactive solutions to confront their system security challenges. Frankfurt ...
GfBk Gesellschaft für Börsenkommunikation mbH
Kulmbach (ots) - To clarify GfBk's position on the agenda items for the Annual General Meeting on June 4, 2024, we would like to make the following fundamental clarification: We support numerous agenda items set by the Executive Board. When we express a contrary opinion, it is from the perspective of a shareholder focusing on the overall well-being of the company and ...
Zentralrat Deutscher Sinti und Roma
Technische Universität München
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH NEWS RELEASE People don’t overestimate the frequency of dramatic causes of death Risk perception influenced less by media than previously thought For decades, researchers have assumed that people overestimate the risk of dramatic causes of death, such as road traffic accidents. The reason given for this was that such deaths are the subject of far greater media attention than more ...
Technische Universität München
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH PRESS RELEASE From skill sets to an overall concept GARMI care robot becomes a universal assistant - At the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2024) in Yokohama, Japan, geriatronics researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) will present four new research projects - including work on gripping objects and new safety functionalities. - For the first time, ...
Berlin (ots) - The volume of international business expansions to and in Europe’s largest economy increased by over 37 percent last year. Germany attracted 34.8 billion euros worth of international business projects in 2023 – that’s the result of Germany Trade & Invest’s (GTAI) annual FDI study. The figure includes both greenfields and expansions. It does not include any mergers or acquisitions. The comparable ...
Vancouver, Canada (ots) - Shareholders of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) are urging the company to assess whether it has lived up to its own commitments to respect workers’ rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining. Amazon’s upcoming annual general meeting (AGM) on May 22 comes amid ongoing unionization efforts at the company, including recent ...
