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The future is coming to your face soon

This content was published on Mar 21, 2014 Benoît Golay takes the lid off the square white box and passes me the futuristic metal-framed eyewear with a stamp-sized electronic screen on the side. “I agree, they look a bit Robocop,” smiles Golay, a business development manager at Icare Institute, a non-profit cantonal research centre in Sierre. I carefully slip them on and tap…

Microsoft agrees to ‘cloud’ changes for schools

This content was published on Mar 20, 2014 Cloud computing involves a large number of computers connected through a communication network, usually the internet. Privatim, the Swiss Association of Privacy Groups, reported that Microsoft had been convinced to adapt its contract details to enable Microsoft Office 365 to be used by Swiss schools. Responsibilities have been clearly defined with adequate control mechanisms,…

Swiss want review of Armenian genocide ruling

This content was published on Mar 11, 2014 The Federal Office of Justice said on Tuesday that it had decided to refer the verdict to the ECHR’s Grand Chamber for review in order to clarify the scope available to the Swiss authorities in applying Swiss criminal law to combat racism. The European Convention on Human Rights provides for referral to the Grand Chamber…

The cell that works in low light

This content was published on Mar 10, 2014

A place in the sun for Swiss solar power

This content was published on Mar 10, 2014 “Energy provided by the sun in the space of two or three hours would be enough to cover our entire power needs for a year,” said David Stickelberger. For the managing director of Swissolar, the Swiss solar industry association, there can be no doubt: the sun is rising on the Swiss energy horizon. By 2025,…

Photographing impermanence

This content was published on Mar 8, 2014 Flooding in Weesen, Switzerland. A country villa is partially submerged. The water level draws a line through a property that is the epitome of a nouveau riche ideal. Such buildings represent a life goal – and yet as the photo shows, such dreams can also be destroyed. Madörin focuses on public spaces like squares, football…

Remembering Switzerland’s forgotten heroines

This content was published on Mar 7, 2014 There are many such stories in Swiss history. But where such legendary figures as William Tell – who defied the wicked Austrian governor who made him shoot an apple off his son’s head – are well known to all Swiss, the tales of heroic Swiss women are on the whole less familiar outside their own…

Last stolen cultural objects returned to Italy

This content was published on Mar 6, 2014 Italian authorities had requested Swiss assistance in 2001 in connection with an investigation into an antiquarian and others who were eventually charged with membership in a criminal organisation, illicit transfer of cultural property, receiving stolen goods, and non-reporting of archaeological finds. The stolen objects were seized from a Basel art dealership. The Basel prosecutor’s office…

Pesticide ‘cocktail’ found in Swiss rivers

This content was published on Mar 5, 2014 Researchers from the Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology identified 104 different pesticides in water samples taken between March and July 2012 from medium-sized rivers that cross five cantons: Menthue (Vaud), Salmsacher Aach (St Gallen), Furtbach (Zurich), Surb (Aargau) and Limpach (Solothurn). The accumulated concentration of chemical substances exceeded one milligram per litre in…

On the road with a plug-in car

This content was published on Mar 4, 2014 Stop. Get out. Put the newspaper in the letterbox. Get back in. Accelerate…. The electric engine powers the Renault and takes it quickly and smoothly to the next letterbox. No need to re-start the engine, just tap the accelerator and the vehicles moves on. This saves times and makes the job easier. “This e-car is…

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