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The Swedish startup Volta Trucks has introduced its first fully electric powered truck. The 16 tonnes weighing Volta Zero is expected to transport the goods up to 200 km with 200 kWh in domestic traffic. Neither does not exist in the 2019 company founded company, but Volta Trucks strives for its trucks to 2025 in 180.Save 000 tonnes of CO2.

At the moment the first prototype is built, he should be finished in the course of this year, promises Volta Trucks. First test drives Will Volta Trucks in the first quarter 2021. The development is the motorsport specialist Prodrive, which builds the prototype in the British Banbury, involved product designer astheimer and the manufacturer of electric drives MagTec.

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On top of that, the truck should be built with sustainable materials. Thus, the absorbents of the Zero are made of flax and biodegradable resins. For this purpose, Volta Trucks work together with the room ride agency ESA. Some body parts and interior panels should also consist of natural material. Overall, Volta Trucks wants to become a more sustainable manufacturer of commercial truck in this way.

An innovation from iOS 14 can lead to WLAN problems: The operating system automatically directs its own, random MAC address in networks for each connected Wi-Fi (or each SSID) in networks that use MAC addresses based on functions can thereby connect it come.

Changing MAC address ensures problems in company networks

This concerns – depending on the configuration – domestic WLANs, however, in particular, in large networks of companies or educational institutions, it is possible for problems, such as the network specialist Cisco warns: The Network Management Tool Identity Services Engine does not work properly and the affected advances A disruption of the compound – for example with iPhones, which the employee himself represents (BYOD) or even in interaction with Mobile Device Management (MDM).

As particularly problematic, in this context, it proves that when upgrading to iOS 14 also all the SSIDs already known to the device already known "Private WLAN address" be assigned. In it IOS 14 and iPados 14 of Android 10 differ, as Cisco notes. Even Google’s smartphone operating system now relies on random Mac addresses, but only for new Wi-Fi connections. The configuration already stored SSIDs is not changed by the operating system update.

If you use Hard Drives from Western Digital Series My Book Live or My Book Live Duo, you should disconnect it as soon as possible from the Internet. The network HDDs have an Ethernet connection to provide cloud functions. However, unknowns use the interface to reset the hard drives to the delivery state.

All data is lost so first. To what extent this can be saved, for example through the cloning of HDDs, is unclear. In the design surface, foreign passwords are also set up.

Data is therefore no longer safe as long as the HDDs are accessible from the outside. The problems appear to occur since the 24. June 2021 on how affected partners report in the forum of Western Digital. The manufacturer publishes an opinion where he recommends to separate the my-book live hard drives from the Internet until a solution is available.

The 13 largest online platforms in the world have increased rapidly last year. They set in 2020 were worth 2.9 trillion dollars (2.4 trillion euros), a plus of 20.5 percent, as the UN conference for trade and development (UNCTAD) reported on Monday in Geneva. The year before, the increase was 17.9 percent.

Shopify from Canada was therefore climber of the year: The company doubled her business according to these numbers practically to $ 120 billion.

Alibaba is world-grunt trading platform

The share of e-commerce on global retail sales increased from 16 to 19 percent after the Unctad estimates last year. The highest was the proportion in Sudkorea: 25.9 percent, followed by China (24.4) and Great Britain (23.3). In the US, he was 14 percent. For Germany, the UNCTAD had no data.