Studio Grounding Inc. announced the release date of Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash on her microblog! — VR re-release of the Sega music game from 1999. Space Channel 5 VR Version: Kinda Funky News Flash! for PlayStation VR will go on sale on February 25 in the US and the next day in Europe, Japan […]
Publisher THQ Nordic announced the establishment of another controlled studio - Nine Rocks Games. The newly formed company is located in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. Nine Rocks Games will be led by “industry veteran” David Durcak, and the team includes former developers of DayZ, Soldier of Fortune: Payback, Conan 2004 and Chaser. In a statement accompanying the announcement, THQ Nordic said […]
Yandex continues to expand the capabilities of Alice, its intelligent voice assistant, which “lives” inside various devices and is also included in a number of applications. This time, improvements have been made to the Alice camera, which is available in mobile applications with a voice assistant: Yandex, Browser and Launcher. Now, for example, the smart assistant is able to scan documents and read text on photographs aloud. […]
Faced with the threat of new restrictions on Chinese company Huawei, its main supplier of network equipment, German telecoms group Deutsche Telekom has decided to give Nokia another chance to strike a partnership, sources told Reuters. According to sources and according to available documents, Deutsche Telekom offered Nokia to improve its products and services in order to win the tender for the deployment of […]
The release of AMD graphics solutions with the second generation RDNA architecture this year has already been promised by the head of the company. They even left their mark on the new beta version of MacOS. In addition, Apple's operating system provides support for a range of AMD APUs. Since 2006, Apple has used Intel processors in its Mac line of personal computers. Last year, rumors persistently […]
The cost of launching a full payload using a Falcon 9 rocket reaches $60 million, which cuts off small companies from access to space. To make the launch of satellites into orbit accessible to a wider range of customers, SpaceX has reduced the cost of launch and made it possible to reserve a seat on the rocket using... ordering via the Internet! An interactive form has appeared on the SpaceX website [...]
The California Court of Appeal has ruled in a case between Open Source Security Inc. (develops the Grsecurity project) and Bruce Perens. The court rejected the appeal and affirmed the lower court's verdict, which dismissed all claims against Bruce Perens and ordered Open Source Security Inc to pay $259 in legal fees (Perens […]
Google has published a plan to add new protection mechanisms to Chrome against unsafe file downloads. In Chrome 86, which is scheduled for release on October 26, downloading all types of files via links from pages opened via HTTPS will only be possible if the files are served using the HTTPS protocol. It is noted that downloading files without encryption can be used to commit malicious […]
Mike Gabriel, who maintains the Qt and Mate packages on Debian, presented an initiative to package Unity 8 and Mir for Debian GNU/Linux and then integrate them into the distribution. The work is being carried out jointly with the UBports project, which took over the development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform and the Unity 8 desktop, after […]
Recently, Mike Gabriel, one of the Debian maintainers, agreed with the people from the UBports Foundation to package the Unity 8 desktop for Debian. Why do this? The main advantage of Unity 8 is convergence: a single code base for all platforms. It looks equally good on desktops, tablets and smartphones. On Debian there is currently no ready-made […]
Unbeknownst to everyone, the development team released CentOS 8.1, a completely free version of the commercial distribution from Red Hat. The innovations are similar to those of RHEL 8.1 (excluding some modified or removed utilities): The kpatch utility is available for “hot” (not requiring a reboot) kernel update. Added eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter) utility - a virtual machine for executing code in kernel space. Added support […]
In the mobile browser Firefox Preview, however, so far only in nightly builds, the long-awaited ability to connect add-ons based on the WebExtension API has appeared. A menu item “Add-ons Manager” has been added to the browser, where you can see add-ons available for installation. The Firefox Preview mobile browser is being developed to replace the current edition of Firefox for Android. The browser is based on the GeckoView engine and Mozilla Android libraries […]
