What explains the popularity of terminals with 80×24 and 80×25 displays? A recent blog post "80x25" motivated me to investigate this. The source of 80-column lines is clearly punch cards, as commonly claimed. But why 24 or 25 lines? There are many theories, but I found a simple answer: IBM, in particular its dominance of the terminal market. In 1971, IBM introduced a terminal with an 80×24 display (the 3270) and it soon became the best-selling terminal, forcing competing terminals to match its 80×24 size. The display for the IBM PC added one more line to its screen, making the 80×25 size standard in the PC world. The impact of these systems remains decades later: 80-character lines are still a standard, along with both 80×24 and 80×25 terminal windows.

In a CNBC interview Thursday, Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp opined that AI will undermine the influence of “highly educated, often female voters” and empower working class men instead. And anyone who doesn’t realize this political reality, he added, belongs in an “insane asylum.”

From the guy who bragged that he chats with “real Nazis” and mused about how legalizing war crimes would be good for his bottom line comes another zinger that will have you yearn for the days when CEOs acted more like cautious bureaucrats than ‘roided out pro wrestlers.

Nach dem erfolgreichen Pilotprojekt bei den Wahlen 2024 wird die Stadt Salzburg heuer weiterentwickelte KI-Phone- und Chatbots für grundlegende Auskünfte per Telefon und Internet einsetzen. Künstliche Intelligenz wird als Amtshilfe eingesetzt, aber von Menschen programmiertIm Melde-, Pass- und Fremdenamt sowie im Gesundheitswesen ist der Einsatz bereits fix vorgesehen.

Mit dem Start der ID Austria vor mehr als zwei Jahren sollte der Alltag der Menschen eigentlich vereinfacht werden. Neben den technischen stehen Interessierten aber nach wie vor bürokratische Hürden im Weg. Für die Ausstellung des digitalen Identitätsnachweises müssen Personen bis zu vier Monate auf einen Termin warten.

Users cannot create a Wero account, but use their existing European bank account. If you want to use Wero, you need to have a current account with a European bank that supports Wero.

For merchants, the situation is similar. There’s no publicly documented Wero API for developers. Wero payments are exclusively made through the payment service providers that Wero partnered and integrated with. The implementations with Wero’s partners are currently relatively simple and are often just a hosted payment page. Your website, shop or app sends the user to a payment link within the browser. Native apps have to use the system’s in-app browser options as there’s currently no native SDK offered by any of Wero’s payment processing partners.