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20 million tons of food are discarded every year in Germany because it does not meet standards or is past its sell-by date. Environmental activist Raphael Fellmer opened a supermarket for non-conforming food and food past its sell by date.
Auto manufacturers are offering cash incentives for scrapping diesels and buying new cars that pollute less. That sounds like it should be good for the environment, but what about all the natural resources that went into making the diesels?
A digital personal shopping assistant quickly learns to identify a person’s preferences. Exploring the many ways digitalization and innovation: how they're changing life in Germany?
DW style guru Gerhard Elfers recommends avoiding off-the-peg suits. His advice: Buy the good stuff cheaply when it’s on sale. But if that advice didn’t reach you in time, don’t despair! There are ways to make even a bad suit look better.
Lots of people work as freelancers for peanuts in start-ups and media firms in the hope their breakthrough is imminent. Many don't even make the minimum wage and their breakthrough never comes. Why this willingness to let themselves be exploited?
Germany has sophisticated IT technology but it’s having trouble going global. Google and the like are too powerful. Norbert Pohlmann of the Institute for Internet Security at the Westphalia University of Applied Sciences Gelsenkirchen shares his views.
Surveillance cameras are everywhere. Computers can identify us by our facial features, fingerprints or simply by the way we walk. DW investigates how a digitalized economy could serve the country’s security.
In Nice, Berlin, Barcelona and other cities, trucks have been used to carry out terror attacks. As a result, demand for bollards has risen. The Zabag security engineering company in eastern Germany specializes in products such as bollards.
Software that carries out tasks by itself sounds like sci-fi, but increasingly, it's part of everyday life – from self-driving cars to intelligent homes. For now, most smart technology is still designed in the US. Germany has some catching up to do.
Ricardo Ferrer Rivero is the founder of PEY, a blockchain mobile payments system. He's even had a microchip implanted in his hand to show how it could be used to make fast and easy payments.