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Consumer protection organizations as well as the media and testers, security experts and government authorities will carefully examine the Xiaomi products. Can they withstand years of use? Can you trust the technology from China? How is Xiaomi doing with data protection? Xiaomi was still able to protect itself from negative reporting. But that could change quickly if the leap out of the niche is successful. In Germany in particular, criticism of tech companies is seldom spared. If you want to be named on a par with Apple, you have to be prepared for it.

Note: Xiaomi will cover the travel costs. This does not affect our reporting.

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Berlin (dpa / tmn) – Amazon has published an Alexa update in the Microsoft Store that makes the voice assistant run in the background on Windows 10 computers. In this way, Alexa can be woken up in the future on request in order to then receive commands or questions ("Hands-free mode").

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Amazon’s assistant has also been at home on Windows computers since the end of 2018, but previously had to be started with a click of the mouse. Those who prefer this routine can continue to use it.

With Alexa’s help, calendar appointments can be called up on the PC, to-do lists can be created and songs can be played. Internet searches are used to answer questions, read out messages or execute control commands for smart home devices.

Berlin (AP) – Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne can be seen in a new series from Amazon Prime from late summer. In "Carnival Row" is it about a "Fantasy world full of fairies, forest spirits and other mythological mythical creatures"as the streaming provider announced.

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"’Carnival Row’ is set in a Victorian fantasy world in which mythological creatures live who had to flee their exotic homelands as they were conquered by the human kingdoms", it was said. "The growing population suffers from coexistence alongside humans – because they are forbidden to live, love or fly freely."

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The fantasy drama with "Lord of the rings"-Star Bloom (42) and "Suicide Squad"-Actress Delevingne (26) in the leading roles can be streamed worldwide in the original English version via Amazon Prime from August 30th. The dubbed version follows later.

Los Angeles (AP) – The announced new US series around the popular "Star Trek"-Captain Jean-Luc Picard can be seen worldwide on Amazon Prime. This was announced by the streaming service and the US broadcaster CBS.

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The British actor Patrick Stewart (78) slips into his prime role again. Be it "exciting and invigorating"to explore a new dimension with this character, he tweeted last August.

The Shakespeare actor had in the TV series "Starship Enterprise – The Next Century" (1987 to 1994) and starred in several film adaptations, most recently in "Star Trek: Nemesis" (2002). The new episodes should be seen on Amazon Prime one day after the US broadcast. The start date has not yet been announced.

In addition to Stewart, Alison Pill ("The newsroom"), Harry Treadaway ("Penny Dreadful") and Isa Briones ("American Crime Story: Versace") on board.

The Xiaomi Mi 9 models are said to be among the fastest smartphones in their price range. Now the devices are coming to Germany. Sales are going well.

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The smartphone market used to be divided. There was Apple and Samsung and then nothing came up in the sales ranking for a long time. But competitors from China are fighting for their place in the market. Huawei is already number two after Samsung and even ahead of Apple. The Xiaomi brand is hoping for a similar success story and is now also entering the European market.

The devices are already seen more often in southern and eastern Europe. In Germany they are only available as an EU import. So these models are not tailored to the German market. That should change. Xiaomi starts direct sales in Germany. It starts with the new top model, the Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro.

And that immediately turned out to be a surprise hit. As several media report unanimously, the device became a top seller in the category at Amazon almost overnight "Smartphones". The reason is the good price-performance ratio. Amazon is offering the device for 449 euros, accompanied by a large advertising campaign.

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Amazon offers its customers a new payment method: From now on, users can pay for their purchases by monthly statement. Customers can collect all orders within a month and transfer the amount by the middle of the coming month. Amazon writes on its website.

To be able to use the new payment method, customers have to activate it. You can do this during the checkout process. To do this, select the option "Pay with monthly bill" and fill in the required fields. Amazon explains exactly how this works on its website.

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So far, the new payment method is only available for private customers. These must also have a valid billing address in Germany, Austria or Finland.

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Amazon also reserves the right to refuse monthly billing. According to the group, this happens, for example, when "we are unable to validate your personal information, we have an overdue amount outstanding on a previous monthly statement, or it is determined that you are not eligible for monthly statement". The new payment method can also be subsequently rejected by Amazon. New customers can also have their monthly billing orders sent to their billing address for the first 90 days.

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According to Amazon, gift vouchers, digital products and subscriptions have so far been excluded from the new payment method.

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Seattle (AP) – The Internet giant Amazon wants to retrain 100,000 of its employees in the USA because of the advancing technological change.

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Around 700 million US dollars (620 million euros) will be invested in the training programs, as Amazon announced in Seattle. They should run until 2025 and give employees from a number of areas access to jobs with a higher level of qualification.

Not only is the world of work developing rapidly due to tech and IT innovations, Amazon has also changed a lot itself.