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Den tyske by Wiesbaden er hvert år centrum for præsentationen af de nye årgange af de bedste tyske vine. En årligt tilbagevendende begivenhed, der giver en fin mulighed for at bedømme årgangen og afgøre, hvor i landet de bedste vine kommer fra. I år var det årgangen 2020 for de hvide vine og 2019 for de røde. Intet er overladt til tilfældighederne, og smagningen afvikles med den typiske tyske effektivitet. Fra sin plads i den store sal kan man bestille vine fra et imponerende katalog med over 500 vine, hvilket giver en fantastisk mulighed for at få en god fornemmelse for, hvad årgangen kan i de forskellige områder i Tyskland. Igen i år dog med det tvist, at alt var væsentligt mere sterilt grundet covid-19. 2020 var generelt et hæderligt år i…

Nyt officielt vinområde i Rhône Endnu et vinområde er nu blevet godkendt i den sydlige del af Rhône. Det er Laudun, som ligger nordvest for Avignon, ikke langt fra Tavel og Lirac. Laudun har siden 1960’erne været en del af Cotes du Rhône Villages. Nu bliver Laudun en AOP på linje med Rasteau og Cairanne, som er de seneste selvstændige områder i Rhône. Laudun består af 561 hektarer, primært på en sandet jordbund, som ligger omkring landsbyerne Laudun samt Saint-Victor-la-Coste og Tresques. Laudun er kendt for at være den Cotes du Rhône Villages kommune med mest hvidvin, da godt en fjerdedel af vinen er hvid. Det er flere års arbejde og lobbyisme blandt vinbønderne, der nu betyder, at området af det franske landbrugsministerium INAO er blevet selvstændigt. De nye regler gælder fra…

Stellenbosch er måske den mest kendte vinproducerende region i Sydafrika. Byen er hjemsted for landets mest kendte vinmarker, og det er byen, som er karakteriseret som vinens hovedstad i Sydafrika. Stellenbosch ligger kun 40 km øst for Cape Town; og hvor Simonsberg-bjergene i nord adskiller det fra Paarl, er det Hottentot Hollands-bjergkæden på østsiden, som adskiller det fra Walker Bay. False Bay og havet ligger omtrent 20 km mod syd. Stellenbosch er Sydafrikas næstældste bosættelse efter Cape Town. Byen blev etableret på bredden af Eer-floden i 1679 og opkaldt efter den daværende guvernør, Simon van der Stel (der også er kendt for at have etableret Constantia-vinmarken i Cape Town). De franske huguenotter fandt vej til byen i 1690'erne og begyndte at plante vinstokke. I dag er Stellenbosch hjemsted for næsten en…

Man finder Ribera del Duero lidt nord for Madrid. Her produceres noget af den bedste vin i Spanien. Området er gennemskåret af floden Duero, og de fleste vinmarker ligger i 720-850 meters højde, men de senere år er flere producenter begyndt at plante endnu højere– helt op i 1.100 meters højde. Jordbunden er præget af en løs og sandholdig jord med en stor andel af kalksten. Klimaet er kontinentalt, dog med lidt indflydelse fra Atlanterhavet. Det betyder, at det er meget varmt om sommeren med hård frost om vinteren. Især kan frost om foråret have stor virkning på vinene, og en af grundene til, at man kigger mod de højere beliggende vinmarker, er, at risikoen for frost er mindre end længere nede. Der er generelt stor forskel på temperaturerne mellem dag…

Nede i Australien sidder en mand på 94 år og nyder sin anonymitet. Han var en gang konge af Kalundborg og de kulørte blade. Det sidste blev Arne Bybjerg dødsens træt af. Her er historien om en ualmindelig driftig bondedreng fra Svinninge, som i løbet af ganske få år stampede en verdenssucces op af en bar mark i Kalundborg og endte med at beskæftige 3.500 kvinder, der hver dag i busser blev kørt ind til hans fabrik fra det meste af Sjælland. Arne Bybjerg er virkelighedens Axel Byvang, skaberen af ”Carmen Curlers” og hovedpersonen i DRs nye storserie af samme navn. Han var ældste barn i en søskendeflok på otte på et lille statshusmandsbrug. Arne Bybjerg blev holdt til bogen af faderen, tog realeksamen og fik i 1945 en halv friplads på den på alle…

Bob’s recent book, Earth-Shattering (Little, Brown and Company, 2019), explores the greatest cataclysms that have shaken the universe. In 1969, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross introduced her five stages of grief experienced by people who are facing life’s tragedies. But those five now-famous stages — denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance — have been overlooked by backyard astronomers. Say you’re an observer in a typical suburban location. You’ve spent a small fortune on a telescope that looks so cool, you gaze at it like it’s a Rembrandt. Tonight, you’ve invited over an old friend you’d like to impress; you’ve heard she owns some mountaintop acreage, and you fantasize she’ll let you build an observatory there. So you aim your telescope at Saturn, arguably the universe’s greatest crowd-pleaser. But to your horror, it’s not there. In its…

Because of the Klipsch La Scala’s bulk—it weighs 201lb—I measured the speaker in AH’s apartment. I used DRA Labs’ MLSSA system and a calibrated DPA 4006 microphone to measure the La Scala’s behavior in the farfield, and an Earthworks QTC-40 mike for the nearfield and in-room responses. The loudspeakers were driven by the Manley Mahi Mahi amplifiers AH used for his auditioning. For the measurements, I left off the grille that covers the high-frequency and midrange horns, as AH preferred the sound without them. The La Scala’s sensitivity is specified as an extraordinarily high 105dB/2.83V/m, which is the same specification as the Klipschorn AK6 that the late Art Dudley reviewed in September 2019.1 As with the AK6, my B-weighted estimate was lower, at 101.3dB(B)/2.83V/m, but this is still the second-highest sensitivity…

FOLLOWING IN THE WAKE OF an unprecedented year, 2021 was certainly filled with ups and downs. The global COVID-19 pandemic continued to challenge the way we do science, even prompting some positive changes that may be here to stay. Astronomers lost a beloved workhorse observatory, but rescued another from the clutches of a computer glitch. The three robotic missions that launched to Mars in 2020 arrived at their destination, kicking off a flurry of exciting firsts. And now, space agencies have chosen another three missions to visit a different neighbor: Venus. Commercial spaceflight companies SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, and Blue Origin continued to turn heads, while China’s space program really picked up. And astronomers have finally laid eyes on several phenomena either long theorized or rarely glimpsed before, deepening our understanding of…

Windows 11 is here. As with every previous mega-update to the desktop operating system of record over the years, the new interface has been met with dissent. It’s no surprise that Twitter is full of outrage over the redesign—and, it must be admitted, some praise, too. The record will show that I’ve never been a hater of new Windows features. I even found things to like in the disastrous Windows 8 release. I was an avid Cortana user, at least while she could still do useful things, such as shut down the PC or control music. But a significant difference is that, at least with Windows 8, Microsoft was creating something original and new. I know that software and all other forms of art borrow from others’ recent work, but the…

Last year, we wrote that Windows 11 was, in a word, unnecessary. Have six months changed our opinion? No, though there are signs that Microsoft is fixing some of Windows 11’s most obvious flaws. Because virtually all of Microsoft’s development work now takes place on Windows 11, by necessity most of my work is done on Microsoft’s latest operating system. I’ve left most of my family’s PCs running Windows 10, however, in part because they’re simply used to the familiar Windows 10 environment. I still think that’s the right decision for most people. What follows isn’t a re-review of Windows 11. But it’s a good opportunity to think about whether the original review was influenced by first impressions, and what, if anything, Microsoft has accomplished in the intervening months. START, TASKBAR, THEMES AND…

We’ve all, at some point in our computing lives, dealt with browser tab overload. But instead of giving into that helpless feeling—and loading yet another version of a tab you’ve probably got open already—consider the alternatives. These days, there are lots of ways to quickly sift through your open or recently closed browser tabs, sparing you the tedium of having to click through each one to find what you’re looking for. Here are four tricks you can use in Chrome, Edge, and other Chromium-based browsers to instantly get back to what you’re looking for. 1. USE CHROME’S BUILT-IN TAB SEARCH Over the summer, Google added a nifty tab search tool to its browser, one that you can operate exclusively with keyboard shortcuts. Just press Ctrl+Shift-A, and you’ll see a list of open tabs…

Julen er for alvor skudt i gang i Tivoli midt i København. Det skete med en julefest for fuld musik i forbindelse med, at det store træ i Tivoli blev tændt. Et par ægte stjerner hjalp Julemanden med at kaste lys over den fine forlystelseshave midt i hovedstaden. Julemandens kendte hjælpere var i år Lisbet Dahl og James Price, Lisbet Dahl sørgede for magien med Julemandens grydeske, og vupti så var der julelys overalt. Det var sjovt at opleve det store “nøøøøj”, da Julemanden og hans kendte hjælpere trak i lyshåndtaget, og for Lisbet Dahl og James Price var det en kæmpe fornøjelse at optræde til det fine show som en fin optakt til det arbejde, der venter med den dynamiske duos revy i Glassalen i sommeren 2023. Efter mange sæsoner…

With a variety of free backup programs available, including those that ship with your operating system, R-Drive Image is a program I’d pay for. That’s about as great a compliment as I can offer to a piece of software. The reason is simple. In all the years I’ve been using the low-resource-consuming program (nearly 20), it’s never failed once at its primary task of creating images of partitions or disks. Nearly every other backup program I’ve used has hiccuped in one way or another. In fact, I use R-Drive Image for backing up my backups and failing hard drives, where you may not get more than one shot at it. With version 7, a revamped interface makes the program even friendlier; the addition of file and folder backup fills the last remaining…

Some of my favorite tech tools are the ones I don’t use on a daily basis. I don’t pry open my laptop too often, for instance, but I’m glad to have the right tools at hand when the need arises. The same goes with various adapters, extension cords, cables, and battery backups. In the same way you might have a toolbox for handiwork, you might consider keeping a tech toolkit for maintaining, fixing, or improving your gadgets. That way, you don’t have to run off to an electronics store or wait for an Amazon order to arrive in your time of need. Here are seven tech tools I’m always happy to have at my disposal. 1. GADGET REPAIR KIT For less than $20 on Amazon, you can buy a small screwdriver with dozens of…

Cloud storage is a big business, and it’s sold by the same corporations that make components of the laptops that are stocked on store shelves all over the world. So it makes sense that they’re giving away “free” cloud storage with the purchase of new PCs. But exercise a smidgen of caution before you load up a hundred gigs or so of cloud space with your essential documents or precious memories. Unlike the soupçon of free storage given away with new accounts at places like OneDrive, Dropbox, or Google Drive, the larger freebies that are associated with a new laptop purchase come with a time limit. This concept will be familiar if you’ve ever accepted a free trial for, say, Norton Antivirus after booting up a new laptop. After a year…

Even if you’ve been using Windows for decades, it’s big and complex enough that there might be features that can still surprise you. We’ve tracked down ten little-known Windows tools and tips that might just improve your efficiency, your comfort, or possibly even your fun while using your PC. Here they are, in no particular order. All of them should work on both Windows 10 and 11. If you’re looking to go even further down this rabbit hole, check out our roundup of 10 truly helpful Windows tools you might not know about and how to tune Windows for laser-focused productivity. 1. CURSOR HOVER WINDOW ACTIVATION Whenever I use a new PC, this is the very first feature I enable. Technically it’s part of the accessibility tools, but many users might find it…

Q HARRISON BENNETT, BIRMINGHAM Is there a laptop I can use in bright sunshine? A Al fresco working is the dream. Were GaGu’s grounds not overrun with weeds and (suspiciously) wolves since the disappearance of his gardener, he’d probably relocate out there more often. Problem is, most premium laptops are glossy little dudes most suited to furtive typing in darkened rooms. Take them to the great outdoors and you’ll need to employ some kind of dorky box arrangement to cut out the reflections – not great if you’re trying to get some work done outside a coffee shop while maintaining at least some shred of urban cool. The brighter the better, then – but that’s easier said than done. Dell used to include a 626-nit panel in the OLED version of the XPS…

1 BOSCH ATINO LINE LASER Tape measures seemingly require some sort of wizardry to operate correctly and achieving a straight line using a flappy piece of metal and a spirit level is soooo yesterday. The Bosch Atino combines a tape measure and a laser line unit in one, meaning you can stick the gizmo to a wall, achieve a perfect vertical or horizontal line, measure your distance and mark the point before drilling. £49.99, bosch-diy.com 2 KÄRCHER SC 3 EASYFIX STEAM CLEANER Mopping is one thing, but if you really want to fry every last germ on a hardwood or ceramic floor, the only thing to do is reach for the steam cleaner. This easy-towrangle model from Kärcher blasts steam at 3.5 bar of pressure for around 60 minutes from a single tank. Better…

Denne gang skal vi se nærmere på den mest kendte og måske værste af alle vinfejl: Vin, der ‘har prop’ eller ‘proppet’ vin. Prop står i gåseøjne, for det er faktisk ikke proppen, der er i sidste ende er den skyldige. De korkpropper, de fleste vinflasker stadig er lukket med, er nemlig kun et medie for stoffer som TCA og TBA, som er ansvarlige for den fæle lugt og smag i de vine, vi siger ‘har prop’. Propsyge vine lugter indelukket, muldet, muggent, som fugtig pap, gammel karklud eller kælder; og frugtsmagen er fladet ud, og vinen virker udtørrende. HOVEDSKURKEN: TCA Naturkork er i sig selv et vidunderligt produkt. Den er elastisk og har en fornuftigt ledningsevne for luft. Derfor har kork været den foretrukne lukningsmetode til vinflasker i århundreder. Men kork…

Siger man Californien og vin, vil man utvivlsomt som det første nævne Napa Valley. Dalen lidt nord for San Francisco, som er blevet synonym med de bedste vine fra Californien. Men tager man sydpå mod Los Angeles, finder man Santa Barbara, som i dén grad også kan være med i snakken om de bedste vine, omend de måske ikke er nær så kendt som området mod nord. Selvom det var tæt på. For i 2004 kom en film, som gav området ubetaleligt reklame. Mere om den senere. Man begyndte at lave vin i Santa Barbara helt tilbage i 1782. Men i 1920 ramte forbudstiden USA, og vinindustrien blev hårdt ramt. Mange måtte lukke og kun få overlevede ved at sælge druer eller levere altervin, som stadig var tilladt. Og da forbuddet…

It began with a bad outlet. Perhaps two weeks after my husband and visiting friend created several delightful holiday light displays in the living room, one of the living room outlets died. Every time I tried to plug in part of the light show, it, along with the living room sound system and reading lights, lost power. If the Grinch didn’t exactly steal Christmas, he sure tried to guarantee it would arrive silently under the cover of darkness. Evil Grinch proved no match for the visiting electrician. While our savior was here, I tapped his knowledge of the eccentricities of Port Townsend’s electrical grid. When queried about the underground wiring to our house from the transformer across the street, he said, “Given the age of your house [1992], I am more…

Microsoft’s Windows 10X has leaked, and it’s boring. Well, it’s designed to be boring. Simple, really—uncomplicated, straightforward, without the fuss and clutter of “traditional” Windows. We wrote last year that Windows 10X now appears to be the new Windows 10 S (Windows 10 in S Mode [go.pcworld.com/n10s]); after spending some hands-on time with the leaked build, we believe those impressions have been confirmed. We’d like to say that Windows 10X has been graphically overhauled with a variety of new features. However, the fact is that if you read our early Windows 10X coverage a year ago—when Microsoft was visualizing Windows 10X as the future of dual-screen devices—little has changed. (Here’s our original Windows 10X hands-on video for reference.) Well, there’s been one major tweak, of course: Windows 10X is now designed for…

Venus achieves its greatest brilliancy, dominating the predawn sky all month with its spectacular glow. Mars and Mercury join the dawn chorus of planets, and late in the month Saturn reappears from behind the Sun. With Jupiter heading for conjunction with our star, there are five major planets spanning less than 50° along the ecliptic by the end of February. Let’s start with Jupiter, briefly visible after sunset during these early winter evenings. On Feb. 1, you’ll find the bright planet hanging 10° high in the western sky an hour after sunset. At magnitude –2, it’s bright enough to remain easily visible through the first week of February, and becomes more difficult to spot as the second week progresses. Saturn’s conjunction with the Sun occurs Feb. 4. By the end of the…

Vi er virkeligt lige for foden af Alperne i Alto Piemonte: Europas næsthøjeste bjerg Monte Rosa knejser over det bakkerige, skovklædte landskab, og nebbiolos duft af roser og violer blomstrer for alvor heroppe. Farven er lysere, frugten friskere og tanninerne mildere. Det er vine, der er sælsomt saftige og tørre på samme tid. Nok har de mindre muskelkraft end Langhes, men de har mere nerve, og de bedste kan konkurrere på både dybde og kompleksitet. Alto Piemonte er fællesbetegnelsen for vinområderne i det nordlige Piemonte. Vi er midt mellem Torino og Lago Maggiore med vinmarker spredt ud over provinserne Biella, Novara, Vercelli og Verbania. Området omfatter ti mindre vinområder: DOCG’erne Gattinara og Ghemme og DOC’erne Boca, Bramaterra, Colline Novaresi, Coste della Sesia, Fara, Lessona, Sizzano og Valli Ossolane. FRA RUINER TIL RENÆSSANCE Det…

KELLEREI BOZEN Importør: Winepro Kellerei Bozen er det lokale kooperativ for vinbønderne, som har marker ved den flotte by midt i Alto Adige. Det blev startet tilbage i 1908, da 30 landmænd besluttede sig for at oprette et vinkooperativ i kurstedet Gries. På det tidspunkt var det udelukkende vine på de lokale sorter lagrein og vernatsch. 18 vinproducenter omkring St. Magdalena-bakken grundlagde så i 1930 et andelsselskab, og i 2001 besluttede man at fusionere de to til Kellerei Bozen. I dag består sammenslutningen af 224 familier. I 2018 blev et splinternyt vinhus indviet med en lysende terning som symbol. En topmoderne vingård, der opfylder kravene til energieffektivitet og bæredygtighed. I dag produceres omkring 3 millioner flasker årligt, hvoraf cirka en fjerdedel eksporteres. Der produceres mange forskellige vine, ganske stilrene og med især…

Den tyske by Wiesbaden er hvert år centrum for præsentationen af de nye årgange af de bedste tyske vine. En årligt tilbagevendende begivenhed, der giver en fin mulighed for at bedømme årgangen og afgøre, hvor i landet de bedste vine kommer fra. I år var det årgangen 2021 for de hvide vine og 2020 for de røde. Intet er overladt til tilfældighederne, og smagningen afvikles med den typiske tyske effektivitet. Fra sin plads i den store sal kan man bestille vine fra et imponerende katalog med over 500 vine, hvilket giver en fantastisk mulighed for at få en god fornemmelse for, hvad årgangen kan i de forskellige områder i Tyskland. 2021 var et udfordrende år. En mild og tør vinter, men med frost langt henne på foråret, en del regn gennem sommeren…

Den flotte og charmerende løjtnant Kiessling har både vundet Amandas og seernes hjerter i ”Badehotellet”, og det vækker stor glæde hos skuespilleren bag karakteren. Uwe Kiessling spilles af den 35-årige tyske stjerne Anton Rubtsov, som nu i tre sæsoner har været en del af den populære TV 2-serie. Anton fik sin debut i sæson 7, og nu kan han opleves i sæson 9. Scenerne med kollegaen Amalie Dollerup blev optaget i Risby Studierne i efteråret, og de to har et godt samarbejde. – Det var min tredje sæson og dermed tredje gang, jeg kom til Danmark. Jeg fik en følelse af at komme hjem og følte mig meget velkommen. Jeg er også altid spændt på at se Amalie. Vi har et professionelt forhold, men er venner på settet, fortæller Anton til BILLED-BLADET og…

Denne gang diskuterer jeg iltningens indvirkning på most og vin, kort og godt omtalt som oxidation. Det er dog et særdeles indviklet emne, især fordi oxidation sjældent optræder alene men ofte sammen med forhøjet volatil syre og andre skavanker. ILT PÅ GODT OG ONDT Ilts indvirkning på vin er en mangfoldig sag og ikke kun noget negativt. Gærceller har brug for ilt for at kunne dele sig, så ilt er slet og ret en forudsætning for gæringen. Ilt fungerer også som katalysator for dannelsen af stabile tanniner og polymeriseringen af fenoler, altså de processer, hvor molekyler lænkes sammen i lange kæder, som har indvirkning på vinens smag, struktur og tekstur. Endelig er ilt en forudsætning for modningen af vin, inklusiv udviklingen af aromatisk kompleksitet og afrunding af smagen. Men ilt kan selvfølgelig også…

Like many former users of LastPass, I was miffed when the company delivered an ultimatum to nonpaying customers last year. I’ve since switched to Bitwarden, and haven’t looked back. Without a $36 per year subscription, LastPass now limits users to one device type—mobile or computer—per account. That means free users must choose between accessing their passwords on either a laptop or a phone, which isn’t much of a choice for a lot of people. While I’m not fundamentally opposed to paying for useful services, I don’t like being forced to pay for something when a company can’t make its freemium business model work. With password managers in particular, there are plenty of other options, both free and paid, that work just as well as LastPass did. And so I took my years of…

SUPERNOVAE ARE THE most spectacular fireworks in the universe. Just one such explosion can briefly outshine the rest of the stars in a galaxy combined. Astronomers have become adept at spotting these events across the cosmos, with particular attention to a specific class called type Ia supernovae. Much of modern cosmology rests on these events. That’s because thanks to their intrinsic physics, these stellar blasts should always have the same intrinsic brightness. This property makes them excellent distance indicators, which allows astronomers to obtain their distance simply by observing how dim their light appears upon reaching Earth. Ultimately, the information gleaned by mapping type Ia supernovae across the cosmos has allowed astronomers to measure the expansion of the universe itself. And yet, perhaps the most incredible thing about these particular supernovae is…

There’s a good case to be made that the world’s greatest—and strangest—audiophile culture resides in Japan. Probably the most important notion the Japanese have introduced to our hobby is that home audio isn’t merely a way of heightening the musical art of others but can be an art in itself. This idea’s most flamboyant embodiment was the poet, journalist, chef, and amplifier builder Susumu Sakuma, better known as Sakuma-san. After having built many amplifiers as a young man, Sakumasan experienced an epiphany: Amplifiers that measured well often failed to make him feel deeply. He soon discovered that, for him, the most emotional sound came from mono systems powered by transformer-coupled amplifiers that used directly heated triode tubes. In 1968, somewhat improbably, Sakuma-san opened a restaurant in the quaint seaside town of Tateyama. The…

Like all digital pack rats, I’ve amassed a huge array of USB-C to USB-A cables over the years—but it wasn’t until recently that I realized how many of them were dangerous to my electronics and should be destroyed. Yours probably should, too. Why destroy a perfectly good USB-C to USB-A cable? Well, it all goes back to the introduction of USB-C in 2014. The reversible connector was a big break from previous USB designs and was so complicated that many cable makers didn’t know how to build a safe USB-C cable. In a nutshell, each cable is supposed to have a 56k ohm resistor in it. This lets your phone, tablet, or laptop know if the USB-C port is connected to an older square USB-A port. If the device senses the 56K…

This was my third boat delivery to Ireland, a 1986 Dehler 101 along with the new owner and his brother as my crew. We had reached Rosslare 12 hours ahead of the forecast bad weather, everything was going well. It had been a long night, a slow delivery and I was quite tired. It was early morning when I tried to contact the Rosslare Harbour team on the mobile phone and the radio, with no response. The harbour looks like a flat car park with the sea around it, and a shipping port. We were tied up next to some steel fishing boats and it seemed like the worst place to be in a storm – we would be smashed up. I said to my crew: ‘Look guys, we’ve got two choices, either stay…

Fransk vin og spiritus brager frem Nye eksporttal fra Exportateurs de Vins et Spiritueux de France (FEVS) viser, at aldrig er der blevet solgt så meget fransk vin og spiritus uden for Frankrig som nu. Mere end 115 milliarder kroner blev der eksporteret for i 2021, hvilket er en stigning på 28%. Største marked er USA, som står for over en fjerdedel. Især fjernelsen af den specielle skat indført af Donald Trump menes at have positiv effekt på, at eksporten til USA steg med 34%. Salget til Storbritannien har ikke lidt væsentligt under Brexit og steg med 20%. Også eksporten til Kina steg med 56%. Ikke overraskende er det især Champagne (26 milliarder kroner), som også er den største kategori. Herefter følger Bordeaux (17 milliarder), Bourgogne (9 milliarder), Rhône (4 milliarder)…

Windows 11 won’t just change the Windows operating system—it will change the way some Windows apps look and feel, too. Though Windows 11 will launch this fall, Microsoft has already been highlighting several Windows apps that it is updating for Windows 11. So far, Microsoft has shown off several Windows apps that it’s reworking, including what you might consider core Windows apps: Mail and Calendar, Paint, and even the lowly Clock app. Below, we’ll show you what to expect of these new apps within Windows 11. (Keep in mind that Windows 11 is officially in beta. Things may change between now and the final release.) 1. CLOCK (FOCUS SESSIONS) Perhaps the most unexpectedly interesting update to Windows 11’s suite of Windows apps is the lowly Clock app. Now, in addition to the usual…

The laptops hitting store shelves in 2022 will have a lot of cores. Intel’s 12th-gen Core processors for mobile, revealed at CES 2022 and starting to hit the streets now, pack up to 14 cores, and the desktop variants pack up to 16. This isn’t a record (AMD’s Threadripper desktop chip has up to 64 cores), but the new Intel Core line takes many-core processors mainstream. Intel’s 12th-gen Core also pairs two different types of cores in one processor: an efficiency core and a performance core. This throws a wrench into your next laptop purchase. Now, the type of cores used by a PC’s processor matters. GPU cores add another layer to this puzzle, as companies like Apple, AMD, and Intel are more aggressively advertising the power of integrated graphics. All this…

In what was either a revelation or a sign of getting older, I recently experienced a sudden urge to make my Windows 10 cursor bigger. Squinting at the teeny default cursor in Windows 10, I wondered why I was punishing myself. A quick trip to Windows settings, and I was in business with a larger pointer. Life’s too short to feel ashamed at making screen elements larger than the default. Making this switch got me thinking about all the other little tweaks I’ve done to make using Windows a little more pleasant. A short list is below: 1. CHANGE YOUR WINDOWS 10 CURSOR SIZE AND COLOR In Windows, you can make the cursor larger by heading to Settings > Ease of Access > Mouse Pointer, or by typing “mouse size” in the Start menu…

Major changes to the PC’s RAM subsystem typically occur once in a blue moon, but mere years after DDR4’s delayed rollout, that time is upon us yet again. With the imminent release of DDR5 support in Intel’s Alder Lake CPUs (see page 9) next month (and potentially AMD’s Zen 4 chips next year), we’ll soon be entering a junction where you’ll need to decide what memory is right for you—DDR4 or DDR5. How fast is DDR5? What will I need to run what? What even is DDR5? By the end of this guide, you’ll know everything you need to make the right decision. WHAT IS DDR5? DDR5 is the next evolution of PC main memory. This version is primarily focused on increasing the density and bandwidth of RAM while lowering its power consumption. HOW MUCH…

WHEN I WAS 6 YEARS OLD, my older brother helped me kick off my journey to becoming an amateur astronomer by taking me out to our backyard in southern Indiana and giving me tours of the night sky. Besides showing me the Moon, planets, and stars, he pointed out that the constellation Cassiopeia formed my initials: M and W. His passion for the cosmos is what first sparked my interest in astronomy and science in general. Later, when I was a teenager in 1961, I received my first telescope as a Christmas present from my mother: an Edmund Scientific 3-inch f/10 Newtonian reflector. The following year, I started taking photographs through that telescope using her roll-film box camera — remember those? Over the next several years, I continued taking occasional astrophotos…

Cars are becoming a niche commodity. Once the dominant form of family transportation, the “car” as we once knew it now toes the endangered segment list. Just 11 years ago we enjoyed our biggest MotorTrend Car of the Year field ever, at 35 entrants—triple the number of SUV contestants that year. Four years later, new SUVs outnumbered cars (by one), and now for 2023 they more than doubled our COTY field. And as cars get rarer, they’re also becoming rarified. The few remaining producers of mainstream econoboxes, compacts, and midsize sedans fielded no newcomers this year. In their place was a roster of mostly sporty or luxurious contestants. Among them, one outshone its own competitive set to a degree we don’t always see in our Of The Year contests: the…

1972 is widely praised as the most fertile year ever for rock albums, notching such classics as The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street, David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and Neil Young’s Harvest. But albums released in 1973 and currently celebrating their 50th anniversary may be even better: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, ZZ Top’s Tres Hombres, and Bruce Springsteen’s The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle, among others. But of all the enduring albums of ’73, the most exotic, audacious, and ultimately entertaining must be Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies. If first impressions are key, then the look alone of the Billion Dollar Babies LP made it an instant classic. A…

Warning: Dell’s XPS 17 9710 is no gaming laptop. If you just wrinkled your nose up in disapproval, that’s fine—from Dell’s point of view, anyway. That’s because the XPS 17 9710 is seemingly designed to appeal to content creators, not those focused only on gaming. You might have difficulty wrapping your head around the concept since gaming laptops with a higher-resolution screen typically pass as content creation laptops. We admit we thought that too, but over time, we’ve come to finally understand what Dell is doing here—very successfully too. Adobe users in particular will love this notebook. SPECS CPU: Intel 8-core 11th gen Core i7-11800H. GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop at 70 watts TGP. RAM: 32GB DDR4/3200 in dual-channel mode. Storage: 1TB Samsung P9A1 PCIe Gen 4 SSD (up to 2 M.2 drives). Battery: 97 watt-hour. Network:…

Visible to the naked eye Visible with binoculars Visible with a telescope The new year opens with a spectacular array of planets lined up in the western sky soon after sunset. Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn offer nightly fascination. A crescent Moon skips along this line of planets over a few nights early in the month. The inner pair of planets, Mercury and Venus, swaps places in the first week of January. Mercury remains in view through midmonth, while Jupiter and Saturn are visible all month. Uranus and Neptune can be spotted with binoculars, riding high in the southern sky after sunset. Only Mars is missing from the nightly lineup — it’s over in the morning sky, transiting the rich star clouds of the Milky Way. Four major planets crowd the evening twilight sky…

I Christian Bengtsons nordjyske drama ”Krysantemum”, der havde biografpremiere forleden, møder vi Morten Hee Andersen, Henrik Birch og Karen-Lise Mynster som henholdsvis den unge Anders, der i sin fritid bedriver salg af ulovligt fyrværkeri, hans far Thomas og hans mor Kamma. Som følge af en familietragedie er forældrene skilt, og Anders og Thomas har ikke været på talefod i årevis, men omstændighederne tvinger dem til at finde sammen. Familie Journal har i den forbindelse mødt Karen-Lise Mynster til en snak om filmen – og lidt om den kommende jul Hvordan har du forberedt dig til rollen som Kamma? – Det var vigtigt for instruktøren, at replikkerne havde en jysk sprogtone, så han spillede optagelser for os af hans familie, der snakkede sam men,så vi kunne opøve en anden tone og musik i…

Vinene fra det nordlige Rhône har altid været vine med en stor respekt om sig. Og vinene fra især Hermitage og Côte Rôtie har været blandt de klassiske og mest anerkendte vine i verden. Hvor Côte Rôtie udelukkende har været rødvine på primært syrah druen, er Hermitage også kendt for sine hvidvine på rousanne og marsanne. De senere år er også Cornas kommet pænt efter samt Saint Joseph og til dels Crozes-Hermitage. På hvidvinssiden er det især Condrieu, som har fået en position i markedet med deres hvidvine udelukkende på viognier. DinVinGuide var i april i det nordlige Rhône for at smage de nyeste årgange, som netop frigives, hvilket primært er 2019 og 2020. 2020 En mild og våd vinter betød, at vandreserverne blev pænt opbygget og ledte til en forholdsvist tidlig knopskydning.…

1 PHILIPS 9636 PREMIUM • £TBC, philips.co.uk Philips’ TV division has been growing fast in recent years. The company’s patented Ambilight tech allows it to offer something completely unique to the market, its partnership with Bowers & Wilkins adds solid audio offerings to its TV lineup, and there’s no shortage of exploration in the design department, which is something of a rarity in a sea of black rectangle TVs. Now Philips seems to be placing itself directly ahead of the curve: its latest LCD TV salvo, due in the summer alongside a raft of OLEDs, totes mini LED tech. Dropping at two sizes, really big (65-inch) and probably too big (75-inch), the top-end 9636 Premium (to be released alongside the same-sized but slightly downgraded 9506 Premium) certainly packs in the features, pairing the…

Ikke langt vest for Milano finder man Italiens måske bedste mousserede vine, nemlig vinene fra Franciacorta. Der er en række vinstile tilladt i Franciacorta. Den almindelige Franciacorta er på chardonnay og/eller pinot noir, og pinot bianco er tilladt op til 50%. Franciacorta Satèn er områdets svar på blanc de blancs, og her benyttes chardonnay (den mest anvendte) og pinot bianco igen op til 50% af vinen. Franciacorta Rosé er så roséudgaven. Franciacorta Vintage Millesimato betyder, at al vinen stammer fra samme årgang. Vintage-Franciacorta laves kun i de bedste år og udvikles yderligere ved en længere flaskelagring end cuvéerne. Den skal lagres mindst 37 måneder efter høst. Endeligt er der Franciacorta Riserva, hvor kun de absolut bedste årgange får betegnelsen. For tilmed at udtrykke deres storhed til perfektion, skal flaskerne lagres…

Det begyndte som et bekendtskab, så blev det til et venskab, der langsomt udviklede sig gennem årene. Og nu står de så sammen med armene om hinanden her på kirkegården ved Holger Juul Hansens grav. Lykkelige og forelskede. – Jeg synes næsten godt, man kan sige, at det er Holger, der har ført os sammen, siger Inge. – Jeg ved, det ville have glædet Holger at se mig så glad, fortsætter hun, mens hun fjerner et par blade fra graven, så man bedre kan se stenen, der er af granit og formet som en bog. – Holger elskede jo at læse. Jeg fandt den hos en stenhugger i Brønshøj. Der findes kun den ene, siger hun. Skuespilleren Holger Juul Hansen, som de fleste nok husker fra rollen som bankdirektør Varnæs i “Matador”, døde den…

IT ISN’T A SECRET THAT humanity and everything around us is made of star stuff. But not all stars create elements equally. Sure, regular stars can create the basic elements: helium, carbon, neon, oxygen, silicon, and iron. But it takes the collision of two neutron stars — incredibly dense stellar corpses — to create the heavier elements like silver, gold, and platinum. Neutron stars aren’t just notable for the valuable elements they create, though. They’re also a dream come true for physicists. From their crushing gravity to the universe’s strongest magnetic fields, extremes of physics are the norm for neutron stars. And, unlike black holes, these exotic objects are observable. “It’s hard to study black holes,” says Samar Safi-Harb, the Canada research chair in supernova remanent astrophysics at the University of…

Windows 11 is almost here, complete with a new look, a new location for your taskbar icons, and a new (and stringent) list of hardware requirements. But a fresh coat of paint is essentially mandatory with a new version of Windows. What we didn’t anticipate was the laundry list of features coming with the new operating system, many of them surprising. From Android apps to automatic HDR in games to the glorious return of widgets, here are 7 new Windows 11 features we didn’t expect. You’ll be able to try them out for yourself when the operating system launches on October 5 (see page 7). 1. ANDROID APPS ON YOUR WINDOWS 11 PC Microsoft chief product officer Panos Panay said that he was “pumped” to bring Android apps to the PC, and why…

Idet nordlige Italien, lige syd for alperne, finder man Gardasøen og vinområdet Veneto, som også er den provins i Italien, som producerer mest vin. Stilmæssigt spænder Venetos vine over et utroligt bredt spektrum, lige fra de lette Bardolino-vine til de superkraftige amarone-vine. Herudover laves der sprøde hvidvine i Soave. Mest kendt er dog Valpolicella, hvor langt det meste norditalienske vin, vi ser herhjemme, kommer fra. Det er udelukkende rødvine, og typisk er de lavet på corvina-druen tilsat en række andre druer såsom rondinella, corvinone og molinara. Valpolicella, mener man, betyder “dalen med de mange kældre” og hentyder til de over 2.200 små vingårde, som producerer druer. Mest prominent er dog amarone-vinen, som er blevet en af danskernes yndlingsvine. Vinen laves på delvist tørrede druer, men hvor sukkeret gæres ud, og vinen…

Two years ago, I did something I never thought I’d do. I wrote my first article about an iPhone, the XS Max, for this very magazine. I never thought I’d write such a thing because, truth be told, I’m a photo snob, and a proud snob, at that. I felt camera phones prior to the XS Max were crude toys reserved for those uninitiated into the craft of photography. Real photographers carried expensive heavy cameras, with lots of lenses, adapters and accessories and big costly tripods to hold it all up as we created high art. Smartphone cameras need not apply. But then I started printing from the iPhone XS Max’s files, and I printed those images large. My jaw dropped with each print, and I just felt compelled to…

Google may not be ready to hold an in-person developer conference quite yet, but Google I/O was full of new developments across Google’s products and services. One line of products was missing: hardware. If you were hoping for details on new Pixels, Chromecasts, Stadia consoles, or Nest smart home gear, you’ll have to wait. But Google did offer new details on the long-awaited Android 12; show off enhancements to its core Search, Photos, and Shopping experiences; and remind us over and over that, yes, it really cares about privacy. There was even a “one more thing” moment in Project Starline. Below is what you need to know about Google I/O 2021. ANDROID 12 One of the more hotly anticipated announcements of Google I/O 2021 was Android 12, the next iteration of Android for…

How did the Big Bang make you and me possible? Are we alone, and how close are the neighbors? The vast, unexplored cosmos is fertile ground for astronomers’ imaginations. And yet, almost every important discovery came as a surprise. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), set to launch as soon as November, will attempt to answer these questions — and the ones we don’t even know to ask yet. It will crack open the treasure chest of the magnificent infrared sky, invisible to human eyes. With its great golden 6.5-meter primary mirror and its suite of cameras and spectrometers, the Webb can sense light ranging from the middle of the visible spectrum to the mid-infrared. If there were a bumblebee hovering in space at the distance of the Moon, the Webb…

If you use Microsoft Edge, you may notice something new to the right of your browser as of late last week: a small vertical sidebar of icons. Some, specifically a collection of widgets called Tools, are actually worth using. Adding sidebars functionality isn’t new; other browsers, such as Vivaldi, have made it one of their centerpiece features. And Edge, too, has offered sidebar functionality for some time, with the ability to search for a term in a sidebar, so as to avoid the need to move to a new window or tab. But the new icons are essentially a control panel for many of the functions you’ll use in Windows. First, if you want to turn the Edge sidebar off, you can: there’s a small window-ish icon to the bottom. Click it,…

Lægerne opdagede sidste år, at Mellemøstkorrespondenten Steffen Jensen havde haft to blodpropper i hjernen. Flere andre kendisser har også gennemlevet det store chok. Reddet af konen Pludselig blev fodbold uendeligt ligegyldigt for 55-årige Jes Høgh, da han i 2007 blev ramt af en blodprop på et hotel i København. Som ved et lykketræf ringede hans daværende kone til ham i samme øjeblik, og gennem hans rallen i telefonen, forstod hun, at der var noget helt galt, og tilkaldte hjælp. – Karina reddede mit liv, har den tidligere landsholdsspiller sagt til naturli.dk. Beholdt livsglæden I 2011 blev Michael Bundesen ramt af to blodpropper, hvoraf den sidste gjorde ham lam i den ene side af kroppen, hvilket bandt ham til en kørestol. Han måtte derfor sige farvel til folkekære Shubi-dua, som han var med til at danne…

Adobe’s new Super Resolution technology is the best solution I’ve found for increasing the resolution of digital images. It doubles the linear resolution of your file, quadrupling the total pixel count while preserving fine detail. Super Resolution is available in both Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) and Lightroom and is accessed via the Enhance command. And because it’s built-in, it’s free for subscribers to the Creative Cloud Photography Plan. Super Resolution was developed by applying artificial intelligence to the task of resampling images. The software was fed millions of low-resolution images, which it up-sampled and compared to the original high-resolution images. Over time, Super Resolution learned how to preserve fine detail while interpolating the file. The benefits of Super Resolution are most obvious in large prints of highly detailed subjects. Think 30x40-inches and…

In February, Microsoft released Windows Insider Build 22557 for the Dev Channel, a massive update that fixed several things users didn’t like about Windows 11 while introducing new experiences, apps, and features to try out. The new build adds folders back to the Start menu, along with folder preview images to File Explorer, and reintroduces drag-and-drop functionality to the neutered Windows 11 taskbar—all criticisms levied at the original release of Windows 11. According to a Microsoft blog post, the new build also adds live captions for recorded video, adds new touch gestures, tweaks Snap functionality, Sleep settings, and applies the Windows 11 UI to Task Manager, as well. Since the release rolled out inside the Windows 11 Dev Channel as part of the Insider preview program, there’s no guarantee that the new…

It’s pretty amazing how far dash cams have come in just a few short years. Aukey’s DRS1 4K UHD offers great 4K UHD/WDR day and night video captures, is easy to use, is easy to install, and costs $120. Not long ago, a dash cam at that price would have delivered undersaturated day captures and weak night captures prone to headlight flare. Good riddance to the bad old days. DESIGN AND SPECS I used the optional GM-32 GPS module ($20 on Amazon) in my testing of the DRS1. I recommend GPS for a number of reasons, including instant proof that the accident occurred where you say it occurred. Let’s consider the whole deal a $140 camera. Or I will, at any rate. The DRS1’s external design is typical for the category. It’s a…

Microsoft’s Find My Device feature is so much more than a simple device locator that it’s like calling a “car” nothing more than just four tires and a steering wheel. The online service is a powerful PC manager in its own right, and it’s arguably more effective in that regard than Windows itself. We originally covered Find My Device when it debuted about six years ago as a service to, obviously, find a lost or stolen device. It has changed so little in the interim that you can still use the instructions in the original article to enable it. The feature made far more sense when Microsoft actually sold devices that could be lost—Windows phones. Once Microsoft discontinued Windows 10 Mobile, you might think much of that value went away. Over time,…

There’s a neat symmetry to the 10th anniversary of Intel’s NUC, which was first revealed to the world in 2012. In ten years the NUC group (which stands for Next Unit of Computing) has sold over 10 million of its unique miniature PCs. If that surprises you, brace yourself: Those devices are split across a jaw-dropping 600 configurations. The scope and selection of NUC flies under the radar of even PC enthusiasts, who know NUC best for its eye-catching but relatively modest line of pint-size powerhouses. “That’s just the tip of the iceberg,” said Brian McCarson, vice president and general manager of Intel’s NUC group. “We’re just getting warmed up.” FROM CONCEPT TO REVOLUTION The NUC began with a simple concept. What if a desktop computer was just…smaller? Like, really small? Small enough to…

I started drinking at the age of three. We were having a picnic on the banks of the river. My brother was drowning in the weir. My father was trying to rescue him. My mother was having hysterics. And there was this bottle of my mum’s damson wine. No one was looking, so I drank it. Delicious.’ I’m reworking, reshaping, rewriting, revising my book Oz Clarke on Wine (see p22). That’s the first paragraph of the book. It goes on: ‘That put me off drinking till I was 18.’ Well, it was 19, actually. But why is this relevant? Because the world I grew up in was a wine-less world. What happened during those 16 lost years? Nothing. Other people who end up in the wine industry may have had indulgent parents…

AI is already here—and it’s not just services like ChatGPT, Bing, or the upcoming Google Bard. Developers have already infused AI into products you use every day, with further improvements to come. That’s a scary concept to some. AI can make “dumb” devices smarter, but at the cost of knowing more about you and your daily lives. AI isn’t perfect, either—and our tolerance for its mistakes is evolving, just as the technology is. However, manufacturers across the board will continue to use AI in a bid to keep improving their products. Let’s throw some light on just where AI is already touching your daily life, and new services that can help you improve it further. 1. YOUR SMARTPHONE CAMERA’S PORTRAIT MODE Let’s start with one you already know. Traditional “dumb” SLR cameras can…

AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm: CES always ushers in a flood of chip news that sets the stage for the year to come, and CES 2022 has been no different. Two broad themes stand out: a concerted effort by AMD and Nvidia to develop low-end GPUs that (hopefully) will be widely available, and the introduction of next-gen CPU platforms by both AMD and Intel. Here’s all of PCWorld’s coverage, filed from our homes while CES limped on. AMD’S RX 6000S, RX6850M GPUS In my mind, one of the most impressive announcements of CES was the Acer Predator Triton 500 SE, precisely because of what it hoped to accomplish: a platform for both work and play. I couldn’t help but view AMD’s new mobile GPUs through the same lens: GPUs designed for ultraportable laptops that…

Tomorrow is going to be an interesting adventure with the weather,” cautioned Neil, making the final preparations the day before their Apprentice shoot. “I’m sure we will get some great images; the Dales look terrific with storm clouds moving across the peaks, but given that late afternoon is more than likely going to be lighting and rain photography, an early start would be best.” Meeting in the picturesque Yorkshire Dales village of Stainforth at the appointed time of 10am, the pair donned their wet-weather gear and walking boots, and set off on the short walk to their first location, the nearby Stainforth Force, a series of cascading waterfalls framed by an old packhorse bridge. The recent rain had followed a prolonged dry spell, so the water levels would be relatively low,…