The Federal Ministry of Justice is planning to revise the residential property and tenancy laws to make it easier for tenants and apartment owners to operate plug-in solar devices such as balcony power plants. Currently, those who want to install a balcony power plant need the consent of other apartment owners. However, a draft law is being voted on by government departments to include the generation of electricity by plug-in solar devices in the catalog of “privileged structural changes”. Once passed, individuals will no longer need to justify their project as before.
The federal government plans to create a “highly secure” cloud platform in 2021 and 2022 to store classified information up to the classification “secret”. The cloud service has been approved by the Federal Office for Information Security for this purpose, and the federal states are also “connectable”. The expansion of the platform should also open it up “for communication with partner countries and the economy, which is subject to confidentiality protection”.
Shopware, the e-commerce software provider, presented several AI functions for its platforms during the Shopware Community Day. The AI Copilot will enable an increase in efficiency, with customers receiving automatically generated summaries of product reviews, which can also be translated into other languages.
The Hubble and Gaia space telescopes may have discovered an intermediate-mass black hole closer than any other to our solar system. According to the European Space Agency ESA, a black hole with a mass of around 800 solar masses would be the most likely explanation for the movement of the stars in the globular cluster Messier 4, which is 6000 light-years away.
