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Quarantine without protection

https://www.mpg.de/14888253/intimate-partner-violence

As would-be criminals heed stay-at-home orders, major cities across the globe have reported a significant drop in both property and violent crimes. The numbers of burglary, assault, murder, robbery, and grand larceny cases have dropped following the outbreak of the pandemic. This is due to the lack of opportunities, and the recognition that life is worth staying away from the public for. But for many, we are living in an utmost dreadful time, and it is still not over: victims of intimate partner violence are likely to suffer more under a constant threat when staying at home together with their aggressors.
with an automated dial-up feature, or a ‘Silent Call’ option was established for smartphones

Einstein@Home reveals true identity of mysterious gamma-ray source

https://www.mpg.de/15442953/einstein-home-reveals-true-identity-of-mysterious-gamma-ray-source

The distributed volunteer computing project Einstein@Home finds a rapidly neutron star in an exotic binary system using data from NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope. The neutron star is visible as a gamma-ray pulsar called PSR J2039-5617.
Einstein@Home is a distributed volunteer computing and connects computers and smartphones

Schutzlos in der Quarantäne

https://www.mpg.de/14882418/gewalt-in-partnerschaften

Die Ausgangssperren zur Eindämmung der Corona-Pandemie bedeuten für Opfer häuslicher Gewalt, dass sie ihren Aggressoren schutzlos ausgeliefert sind. Besonders dramatisch ist die Situation in autoritären Staaten, die ihren Bürgern Schutz vor Gewalt von außen suggerieren und dabei Gewalt in Familien verharmlosen und Organisationen behindern, die den Betroffenen Hilfe anbieten. Zwischen dem Vorgehen autoritärre Regierungen und dem Handeln von Tätern, die in der Partneschaft gewalttätig werden, lassen sich gewisse Parallelen ziehen.
automatische Einwahlfunktion erweitert oder es gibt eine „Silent Call“-Option für Smartphones

Feelings: a robot with a gentle touch

https://www.mpg.de/18512185/haptics-robots-touch

In order to support people in therapy or in everyday life in the future, machines will need to be able to feel their world and to be capable of gently touching their human counterparts. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker and her team at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart are currently developing the technology required for this objective and are already testing sensitive robots for initial applications.
Consequently, computers and even smartphones with touch screens are still unable