A technical failure paralyzed Swiss Air Traffic Control Skyguide for hours. Therefore, the airspace over Switzerland had to be closed. Flights to and from Zurich and Geneva were cancelled or diverted. On Wednesday, June 15, a technical failure occurred at Skyguide in the early morning hours. This had serious consequences: for security reasons, Swiss airspace had to be closed to …

Around 400 people in the city will be allowed to buy cannabis at selected pharmacies in Basel at the end of the summer. It had been coming for a while, but the bullet is now definitely through the church. The first experiment in Switzerland in which weed will be for sale for recreational purposes will start this summer in Basel …

Clothing chain H & M has opened a digital showroom to present new collections. The pilot will initially only run in Central Europe. Visitors can walk around, view 3D animated garments and talk to other guests (both via a chat and verbally). The showroom opened on April 5 and is currently open to media, influencers and stylists. It may also …

Europe is lagging behind in planning for 5G. In 2016, the European Commission instructed each member state to auction all 5G frequency bands by 2021. A vast majority did not meet the deadline. Ookla, Network analyst and developer of speedtest.net, examined the status of 5G in thirty European member states. Almost every member state is lagging behind the 5G Action …

According to research, released by online tutor provider GoStudent, it has been found that children in Europe prefer viewing and creating online content to hanging out with friends. The study, which has taken place among nearly 1,000 children aged 10-18, found that 53% of children prefer to turn on the TV or Netflix in their free time. Gaming (50%) and …

The word “startup” turns 45 this year. In 1976, Forbes magazine first used the word startup. Since then, the global investment market has experienced a full-fledged “startup panic” several times: when ordinary housewives unexpectedly woke up as millionaires, and billionaires unexpectedly woke up as millionaires. According to the founder of technology company Roosh and an IT investor Sergey Tokarev, Ukraine …

The US government officially opens an investigation into the gaming systems on board Tesla cars, and drivers would be able to play gaming fairly easily while driving. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) called Tesla on the question about the game system earlier this month. For a long time, it was only possible to play in a Tesla if …

The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble, is being postponed again. The telescope is now going into space on Christmas Day at the earliest, reports the American space agency NASA. Due to bad weather conditions at the launch site in French Guiana, it is too risky to launch on Friday. This is the second …

In Eastern Europe, where the coronavirus is currently spreading in several countries, the twenty millionth positive test was registered on Sunday, reports Reuters on the basis of its own data. At the same time, it’s only a matter of time before the five millionth coronavirus-related death is recorded worldwide, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. There are now more …

Google will no longer place ads on websites that show ‘disinformation’ about the climate. This new policy applies to both the search engine and the video platform YouTube, the company reports. The platform hopes to prevent people from making money with content that “misrepresents the causes of climate change”. Denying that global temperatures are rising, describing climate change as a …