2024 Deutsche Telekom ventures into Bitcoin mining with renewable energy Europe’s biggest telecommunications provider plans to mine Bitcoin using surplus energy from renewable sources that would otherwise go unused News COINTELEGRAPH IN YOUR SOCIAL FEEDDeutsche Telekom plans to venture into Bitcoin mining in a positive sign of adoption for the world’s first cryptocurrency Deutsche Telekom, Europe’s largest telecommunications provider, announced a new Bitcoin (BTC) mining project using surplus energy from renewable sources that would otherwise remain unused called “Digital Monetary Photosynthesis,” is developed by Deutsche Telekom’s subsidiary MMS in collaboration with Bankhaus Metzler The Bitcoin mining rigs will be set up in Backnang, Germany, on the premises of metal and glass facades manufacturer Riva, with the rigs managed by Metis Solutions, Deutsche Telekom announced on Nov The telecommunications giant’s announcement comes a week after Bitcoin’s white paper turned 16 showcasing the utility and continued global adoption of the world’s first blockchain network Related: Coinbase hit with $300M token listing allegations by Sun and Cronje Deutsche Telekom’s pilot project arose from a growing amount of renewable energy sources The country’s growing energy supply from less predictable sources like wind turbines requires more infrastructure to regulate the grid head of digital trust and Web3 infrastructure at Deutsche Telekom MMS Bitcoin mining could be used to regulate the energy fluctuations of the country’s electrical grid Metzler will explore further possibilities of “financial services with digital assets” without disclosing further details Related: Stablecoins essential for US dollar’s future, says Paxos CEO The use cases of Bitcoin mining extend far beyond its economic benefits for miners In Finland, Bitcoin mining is warming an entire town of over 11,000 residents with recycled heat from the mining rigs Finland BTC mining pilot project. Source: Marathon Digital The town is heated by a two-megawatt pilot project located in the Satakunte region launched in June 2024 by Marathon Digital Holdings — the world’s largest Bitcoin mining firm Marathon’s facility uses a method called “district heating,” which centrally heats the water and distributes it through an underground network of pipes to heat houses This could be a future-proof method for heating homes since Bitcoin mining rigs produce significant excess heat Magazine: Microsoft set to vote on Bitcoin, Peter Todd hiding, and more: Hodler’s Digest, Oct. 20–26  Chelmsford welcomed ten civic guests from Backnang The official visit marks more than 30 years of links between Chelmsford Chelmsford twinned with Backnang in 1990 and with Annonay in 1999 and shares a close connection with the towns The relationship has been marked over the years with a variety of events Events to mark the 30-year anniversary in 2020 were delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic The visit follows an official trip to Backnang in 2021 by the then Mayor of Chelmsford The party arrived on Friday 21 October and received a tour of Beaulieu Development before being greeted at the Civic Centre by the Chief Executive In the afternoon they visited the Hylands Estate where they received a tour of the house. The Deputy Mayor, Cllr Sue Dobson, and Oberbürgermeister of Backnang, Maximilian Friedrich, also planted a Lime tree in support of The Queen’s Green Canopy initiative and to mark the continued links between Chelmsford guests attended the Morning Eucharist at Chelmsford Cathedral "It has been a privilege to welcome Backnang’s representatives as they so warmly welcomed Chelmsford officials to their town last year The visit has presented a wonderful opportunity to renew our city’s deep bond with the two towns of Backnang and Annonay Chelmsford remains committed to working in partnership with Backnang and Annonay and looks forward to continued cultural and personal exchanges in the coming years." © Copyright 2025 Chelmsford City Council football coach Ralf Rangnick will visit Kyiv at the invitation of the Ukrainian Association of Football to share his over 30 years of experience with Ukrainian coaches The renowned specialist will conduct a theoretical and practical seminar for the coaching staff of Ukraine's national teams The seminar will consist of two parts: a lecture and a practical session at the Bannikov Stadium We invite media representatives to join the second part of the seminar and get accredited for the press briefing which will take place before the training session at Bannikov Stadium The UAF press service will provide video and photo materials from the theoretical part of the seminar Filming during the practical part is allowed from the stadium stands without restrictions and the training session will begin at 14:00 Accreditation is available via the link 1983-1985 Victoria (Backnang) — Coach 2012-2015 RB Salzburg (Austria) — Sporting Director 2012-2019 RB Leipzig — Sporting Director 2019-2020 New York RB (USA) — Executive 2019-2020 Bragantino RB (Brazil) — Executive 2021-2022 Manchester United (England) — Coach Ulm — Champion of the Regional League "South" (1997/1998) Stuttgart — U-19 Bundesliga Champion (1990/1991) Hannover — Bundesliga II Champion (2001/2002) Schalke — German Cup Winner (2010/2011) RB Salzburg (Austria) — Austrian Champion (2014/2015 Swiss company deploying solar panels on defunct satellite antenna Swiss Teleport firm SignalHorn is to rebrand to Leuk Teleport & Data Centre The Metric Capital-backed company previously provided satellite and other telecommunications services from two teleports in Backnang said: “As we say goodbye to the Signalhorn brand we would like to thank all our customers and partners for trusting our company with their critical communications and we are committed to continuing to provide outstanding satellite and data connectivity solutions as LEUK evolves and grows into Europe’s first 100 percent green and secure teleport and data center We look forward to innovating with you for 50 more years and beyond.” the company said it plans to have a “renewed focus” on its flagship teleport in Leuk in the Valais canton serving customers in GEO with the capability to serve in LEO & MEO requirements In a blog on the company’s website the company said the Leuk site will be undergoing an “ambitious” solar project utilizing unoccupied space to generate large volumes of green energy As well as deploying panels on the roof of its main building the company has installed solar panels on its now-offline Leuk 2 antenna; Constructed in the 1970s the now-legacy C-Band antenna measures 32m (104 ft) in diameter equating to 3,216 sqm (34,600 sq ft) in surface area and is reportedly the first in the world to be converted this way The company says the site is powered by hydroelectric energy as well as on-site solar Constructed in 1972, the Leuk site has more than 50 antennas serving customers on C-Band, Ku & Ka-Band frequencies. Previous Signalhorn information said the data center provided white space up to 3,000 sqm (32,300 sq ft) totaling around 1,645 racks, however, a post on SpaceWatch suggests this has been expanded to 5,000 sqm (53,800 sq ft) The site was previously certified as Tier 3 by the World Teleport Association and recently joined the Swiss Data Center Association launched in 2001 and has 80 antennas supporting C and Ku-Band The new company website makes no mention of Backnang and it is unclear if the company has sold the site or has been formed into a separate company The Leuk site is home to a new ground station for the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites’ (EUMETSAT) new Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) weather satellite system The first MTG satellite will be launched into orbit in late 2022 The new system will see the launch of a total of six new geostationary satellites that will provide coverage of weather and climate activity across Europe and Africa Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. [email protected]DCD is a subsidiary of InfraXmedia on a training field near Ostfildern in the forested southeast of Stuttgart local sixth-tier side Viktoria Backnang played a friendly against Valeriy Lobanovskyi’s Dynamo Kiev Dynamo won easily and was much the better side Even allowing for the fact that Dynamo was a highly trained professional team he was startled by how it always seemed to have an extra man just to make sure it hadn’t actually sneaked on a 12th That was what extremely disciplined pressing could do that player-manager was named the interim manager of Manchester United through the end of the season Ralf Rangnick is 63 now and widely regarded as one of the most influential coaches of his generation His list of honors may be sparse—a second-flight title with Hannover a German Cup with Schalke 04—but he was one of the pioneers of pressing in Germany an inspiration for the school of coaches that now dominates European football German football was defined through the 1980s and early '90s by the idea that the game was about individual battles To believe that the most effective way to play was with zonal marking and pressing was to be a radical thanks to the likes of Wolfgang Frank and Volker Finke Rangnick was finally accepted as a visionary He did not relish the pressure of being a frontline coach and so he retreated into the background emerging again for two brief stints at RB Leipzig essentially keeping the seat warm for a younger coach His greatest success was as overall head of football development at Red Bull coordinating the philosophy across its range of clubs around the world he held a similar role at Lokomotiv Moscow the greatest significance of his appointment at Old Trafford is less what he does as coach between now and the end of the season and more what he is able to do as consultant in the two years after that “Ralf is one of the most respected coaches and innovators in European football reflecting the invaluable leadership and technical skills he will bring from almost four decades of experience in management and coaching," Man United director of football John Murtough said in a statement “Everyone at the club is looking forward to working with him during the season ahead and then for a further two years in his advisory role.” preferring to find an individual who could reanimate the club David Moyes was Ferguson’s anointed choice Louis van Gaal evoked memories of the '90s incarnation of Total Football but with little sense of the overhaul of the club and its academy that would probably have required José Mourinho was a short-term fix who made things worse Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was the ideal antidote to Mourinho he never seemed close to the required level Watch Premier League matches online all season long with fuboTV: Start with a 7-day free trial! by some alchemy of personality and smart signings the three managers under whom United has won the league But modern football is far more about processes than individuals far more about tactical nuances than motivation United didn’t even have a director of football until March the appointment of Rangnick marks a radical departure a belated attempt to build a structure that might bring consistent success rather than three isolated periods over a century Whether his hard-pressing philosophy will work with this United squad is another issue would seem like an awkward fit (and when he was Leipzig coach six years ago Rangnick said he would not sign Ronaldo—albeit that Leipzig then was a very different club to United now) It was at least intriguing that Ronaldo was left out of the starting lineup to face Chelsea on Sunday But at least the sense of drift that has characterized the past few years is over Man United has begun the process of becoming a modern football club More Soccer Coverage from Jonathan Wilson: Sports Illustrated may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website JONATHAN WILSONAn accomplished author of multiple books, Jonathan Wilson is one of the world’s preeminent minds on soccer tactics and history. 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The MDA AURORATM supply chain will help support product deliveries for anchor customer Telesat LEO satellite constellation Telesat Lightspeed advanced global network that will bring enterprise-class connectivity to customers worldwide TESAT began its collaboration with MDA Space more than 20 years ago and the company’s have been working closely together on several successful space programs since that time “We feel honored that we have been selected once again working in close cooperation with MDA Space for Telesat Lightspeed This program will result in the next level of advanced broadband networks We have been preparing for this kind of constellation orders by investing continuously in R&D to keep our pole position in optical communications technology already proven by in-orbit applications with more than 86,000 successful links and by investing in our new production facility in Backnang for serial production of OCTs The trust that MDA Space puts again in us now proves that we are well on track,” said Thomas Reinartz Cockpit of full flight simulator from Reiser Simulation and Training Additive manufacturing of oversized plastic components offers enormous advantages for mold-free small- and medium-size production runs The key to this is Q.BIG 3D’s VFGF (variable fused granulate fabrication) process commissioned Murtfeldt Additive Solutions (Murtfeldt AS) in Kusterdingen to produce a modular cockpit for a full-flight helicopter simulator The cockpit was made on a Queen 1 system from Q.BIG 3D at Murtfeldt Tool-free production with a 3D extrusion printer opens up short time-to-market strategies for users Eliminating tooling costs and utilizing new build strategies for component geometries combine with extremely short amortization periods for this system technology compared to alternative AM strategies such as FDM printers is the use of commercially available standard granulate without filaments in 3D printing © 2025 Quality Digest. Copyright on content held by Quality Digest or by individual authors. Contact Quality Digest for reprint information “Quality Digest" is a trademark owned by Quality Circle Institute Inc Today, Cimpress, the Dutch company behind Web-to-print company Vistaprint, announced its intention to acquire its Backnang, Germany-based rival, WIRmachenDRUCK for €132 million in cash and €8 million in Cimpress shares there's a potential earn-out of €40 million to be realised depending on financial performance targets for calendar years 2016 and 2017 which makes the total deal potentially worth €180 million Cimpress says the acquisition supports its strategy to build a "mass customization platform" that it brings to market via dedicated brands and complements similar investments Cimpress has made in other European countries. In the past, there have been similar acquisitions as well, including Vistaprint's takeover of People & Print Group in The Netherlands WIRmachenDRUCK will continue to sell under its German brand This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Around 45 minutes drive from Stuttgart is Backnang and a region best known for auto makers such as Mercedes Accordingly the area is populated by a lot of technical specialists My guide was Chief Marketing Officer David Claringbold and has moved with his wife and son to Stuttgart to work at d&b HQ where he is the sole non German on the site he was a Director at Sydney Opera House – a position that evolved from his previous roles there as Technical Director We first look at the woodwork factory which operates multiple shifts from 6am until midnight so that a sheet of 15mm Finnish birch ply goes on to the table and very quickly after that is transformed into parts of a speaker system Inside d&b HQ Backnang – Production At that stage the boxes are screwed together with a fast setting glue and the sections squeezed together in a press Then the first of four finishing runs are done filling and sanding again until the external surfaces are perfectly uniform Wheeled into a large electrostatic paint room several coats are applied and then the box emerges the other end d&b then have one guy do all the assembly Testing happens at several stations where the finished cabinet is powered up and a test tone sweep and pulse is measured and work around 35 hours a week with 6 weeks annual leave Across in another building all the electronic devices – amplifiers and processors – are made This facility has a soak test chamber where the devices are put through their paces before packaging Everything is then sent to the dispatch facility nearby d&b make between 600 and 900 speakers a week There is an additional building nearby that appears to be an expansion option R&D and management are all located here as well our famous AV industry magazine is free for download or pay for print our free weekly email with the latest industry news and jobs Sie sind angemeldet.Abmelden Sie sind angemeldet. Abmelden Ein 37 Jahre alter Mann verliert die Kontrolle über seinen Pagani-Sportwagen fährt eine Böschung hinab und prallt gegen einen Baum am Auto entsteht ein Schaden von mehreren Hunderttausend Euro Backnang - Die Fahrt in einem hochwertigen Pagani-Sportwagen endete für dessen 37-jährigen Fahrer am Freitagvormittag gegen 10.45 Uhr bei Backnang (Rems-Murr-Kreis) in einer Böschung Laut Polizei war der Mann mit dem PS-Boliden auf der K1905 unterwegs als er zwischen Burgstall und Birkhau an einer Baustellenampel anhalten musste Beim Anfahren war die Beschleunigung des Sportwagens offenbar so stark dass der Fahrer die Kontrolle verlor und mit dem Auto eine Böschung hinabfuhr Nach ersten Schätzungen beläuft sich der Schaden auf mehrere Hunderttausend Euro © 2025 Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation Essenzielle Cookies ermöglichen grundlegende Funktionen und sind für die einwandfreie Funktion der Website erforderlich Inhalte von Videoplattformen und Social-Media-Plattformen werden standardmäßig blockiert Wenn Cookies von externen Medien akzeptiert werden bedarf der Zugriff auf diese Inhalte keiner manuellen Einwilligung mehr Police are looking to speak to two men following a stabbing in Chelmsford on Saturday morning (19 August) The attack happened at around 2.20am on Springfield Road between Rosebery House and the old Argos building The victim was attacked by a group of five men but was able to get away with non-life threatening injuries CCTV images from Backnang Square in the city centre are being shared showing two men in the area around the time of the attack to contact them at Chelmsford CID or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 Ralf Rangnick is a German professional football coach and former player who has a net worth of $20 million Ralf Rangnick is currently the manager of the Austrian national team He began his coaching career in 1983 after ending his professional playing career at the age of 25 Some of the teams he has coached include Stuttgart Ralf enjoyed playing soccer from a young age and was able to play professionally beginning in 1976 with VfB Stuttgart II he primarily played in Germany but also had a short stint playing at English club Southwick while he was studying at the University of Sussex Rangnick developed a reputation for being very strategic and was soon tapped to join the coaching staff Rangnick was added as a player-coach while playing at his hometown club Viktoria Backnang in the 1980s He continued to play and coach at VfB Stuttgart II and TSV Lippoldsweiler Ralf remained there for two seasons before returning to VfB Stuttgart for four seasons to manage the Under 19 team he became the head coach at Reutlingen 05 and spent two seasons there Rangnick took control of VfB Stuttgart and became the first team coach at the club who had served as a player and coached at amateur and under-19 levels previously He remained in the position for two seasons before moving to Hannover 96 Ralf remained with the club until March 2004 He was then hired by Schalke 04 in September Rangnick stayed with the team until December 2005 Rangnick's next appointment as head coach was at TSG Hoffenheim for the 2006-2007 season the team was promoted into the coveted Bundesliga for the first time in their history He remained with Hoffenheim until January 2011 after one of his players had been sold to another team without his knowledge Rangnick was named as the replacement for Felix Magath as coach of Schalke 04 He led the team to their first UEFA Champions League semi-finals though they were defeated by Manchester United He stepped down from the team later that year (Photo by Alex Grimm/Bongarts/Getty Images) Rangnick announced he would be taking over as coach at RB Leipzig for the upcoming season He stayed with the team for one season before Ralph Hasenhuttl took over he again took over as coach for RB Leipzig the club ended in third place in the Bundesliga and qualified for the UEFA Champions League During the first few months of the 2021-2022 season Rangnick was shortlisted as a potential short-term manager by Manchester United He was appointed interim manager until the end of the season in November 2021 Ralf was slated to continue working with the team in a consultancy role for a further two years it was decided that Rangnick would not consult with the team due to the demands of his new job with the Austria national team Rangnick was appointed manager of the Austria national team on a two-year deal His first game with the team came in June and resulted in a 3-0 win over Croatia Rangnick has also had a long career as a manager he became the director of soccer for both Red Bull Salzburg and Red Bull Leipzig RB Leipzig saw promotion from a regional league to the Bundesliga They also reached the UEFA Champions League Ralf was promoted to head of sport and development for Red Bull Reb Bull clubs rose in market value from 120 million pounds to 1.2 billion pounds during his tenure as manager Rangnick signed a three-year contract as manager of sports and development for Russian Premier League club Lokomotiv Moscow he left the post to become the interim manager at Manchester United They got married and were together for over 40 years during which time they had two sons together Rangnick has otherwise been very private about his personal life Rangnick established the Ralf Rangnick Foundation which aims to support children in their development and enable their personalities to flourish © 2025 Celebrity Net Worth / All Rights Reserved