An article has been published on the Hyperbola project's wiki, which discusses the problems of the Rust language in the context of software freedom, as well as the need for development independent of the trademark policies of the Mozilla Corporation (subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, annual income of about 0.5 billion dollars). One of the problems discussed in the article is the fact that, unlike C, Go, Haskell and […]
The Thunderbird 68.5.0 mail client is available, which, in addition to bug fixes and vulnerabilities, offers several new features: Added support for the IMAP/SMTP CLIENTID (Client Identity Service Extension) extension for client identification using a token; Added support for authenticating POP3 accounts using OAuth 2.0 (supported in GMail). Source: opennet.ru
The fighting game My Hero One's Justice 2, which has a month left before its release, has acquired system requirements. The relevant information was published by Bandai Namco on the game's Steam page. The minimum requirements are very modest: operating system: 64-bit Windows 7; processor: Intel Core i5-750 2,67 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 940 3,6 GHz; RAM: 4 GB; video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or […]
A new gameplay trailer for Paper Beast, a “VR odyssey” from Pixel Reef studio and Another World creator Eric Chahi, has appeared on the official PlayStation YouTube channel. The almost four-minute video is dedicated to the capabilities of the “Sandbox” mode, which the developers call “a place for experimentation and a playground for endless pastime.” Paper Beast takes place in an ecosystem born from the vast memory of a data server. […]
The Yandex development team announced the expansion of the functionality of the Alice voice assistant. Now, with its help, car owners can refuel and pay for fuel without leaving the car. The new function is available in Yandex.Navigator and works in conjunction with the Yandex.Refuelling service. Arriving at a gas station, the driver just needs to stop at the required pump and ask: “Alice, fill me up.” The voice assistant will clarify the number [...]
The website of the State Intellectual Property Administration of the People's Republic of China (CNIPA) has published information about a new OPPO smartphone with a very unusual design. The LetsGoDigital resource, in partnership with Concept Creator, presented conceptual renderings of the device, created on the basis of patent documentation. As you can see in the images, we are talking about a device with a removable electronic control pen. It will be fixed in the upper [...]
Bill Gates' interest in clean technology will now be highlighted by one of the most glaring symbols of his wealth. The former head of Microsoft has ordered the world's first hydrogen fuel cell superyacht, Aqua, designed by Sinot Yacht Design. The vessel, 370 feet long (about 112 meters) and costing approximately $644 million, has all the trappings of luxury, including […]
On February 13, we invite you to take part in an in-depth technical seminar, which is dedicated to preparing local server infrastructure for the implementation of hybrid solutions with the transfer of specific scenarios to the cloud. As part of the event, we will use a practical example to look at the migration of a large company in which Windows Server 2008 R2 is deployed both on physical servers and in a virtual environment with […]
Dmitry Kazakov, Data Analytics Team Lead at Kolesa Group, shares insights from the first Kazakhstan survey of data specialists. In the photo: Dmitry Kazakov Remember the popular phrase that Big Data is most reminiscent of teenage sex - everyone talks about it, but no one knows whether it really exists. The same […]
Among the variety of UPSs, the most common in entry-level server rooms are Smart UPS from APC (now Schneider Electric). Excellent reliability and low price on the secondary market contribute to the fact that system administrators, without much thought, stick UPS data into racks and try to extract maximum profit from 10-15 year old hardware by simply replacing batteries. Unfortunately, it is not always [...]
Hi all! I continue my review of news about free and open source software (and some hardware). This time I tried to take not only Russian sources, but also English-language ones, I hope it turned out more interesting. In addition, in addition to the news itself, a few links have been added to reviews and guides that were published over the past week related to FOSS and that I found interesting. In issue No. 2 for 3-9 […]
Prologue A video is now circulating on the Internet - how Tesla's autopilot sees the road. I’ve been itching for a long time to broadcast video enriched with a detector, and in real time. The problem is that I want to broadcast video from Raspberry, and the performance of the neural network detector on it leaves much to be desired. Intel Neural Computer Stick I considered different solutions. IN […]
