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Skul: The Hero Slayer is a platform game about saving the army of the demon king, which will be released on February 19.

Skul: The Hero Slayer, a pixelated 2D platformer with roguelike elements, will be released on Steam Early Access on February 19, publisher Neowiz announced. The release date for the full version has not yet been announced. Most likely, the release beyond Steam Early Access will take place towards the end of the year, simultaneously with the appearance of the game on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. “We will actively cooperate […]

Video: Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars "beta" received a lot of innovations and was released on Xbox One

Publisher Kalypso Media and developer Palindrome Interactive have released Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars on Xbox One as part of the Game Preview Early Access program. Xbox One owners, following PC players, will be able to evaluate the turn-based strategy before the full release in spring 2020 on PS4, Xbox One and PC. On this occasion, the developers presented a special trailer [...]

The Honor 20 Lite smartphone with a 48-megapixel camera is released in Russia at a price of 14 rubles

The Honor brand, owned by the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, introduced the Honor 20 Lite smartphone, a mid-level model, to the Russian market. The device is equipped with a 6,15-inch screen: an FHD+ panel is used. At the top of the display there is a small teardrop-shaped cutout for the front camera with a resolution of 24 million pixels. The main feature of the device is the main camera, consisting of [...]

Coronavirus overtook Tesla: Shanghai plant idle, shares swung down

Over the past two days, Tesla shares have staged an unprecedented rally - growing by leaps and bounds, leaving even seasoned Wall Street analysts in a state of extreme surprise. It would seem that they don’t even care about the Chinese coronavirus, but this turned out not to be the case. On Wednesday, the virus story caught up with Tesla and sent the company's stock price down. A little more […]

Toyota is developing a unified battery for electric vehicles and for home use

For electric vehicles, even a small percentage of battery wear is extremely unpleasant. A battery that has lost some of its capacity will result in a noticeable reduction in mileage and forced frequent stops to recharge. At the same time, a worn-out battery is good for other things, such as a home backup power source. We have already reported that Japanese companies have begun to establish contacts with electric vehicle manufacturers […]

Advanced hydrometeorological equipment created in Russia

The Rostec State Corporation reports that our country has developed advanced equipment for receiving data from hydrometeorological satellites for the Armed Forces. The platform was called “MF Plot”. This is a multifunctional base point designed for prompt reception, processing and analysis of hydrometeorological and geophysical information coming from spacecraft for hydrometeorological purposes. It is noted that the development of the system was carried out by specialists from the holding […]

Urban testing of the Cora flying taxi will take place in New Zealand

Wisk plans to test its Cora electric flying taxi in urban environments. It is known that the necessary agreements have been reached with the New Zealand authorities, but the location and timing of the tests have not yet been determined. For years, companies have talked about the promise of flying taxis. Now it looks like that might actually be true, as Wisk, a Boeing joint venture, […]

Fundamentals of Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is a search engine with json rest api, using Lucene and written in Java. A description of all the advantages of this engine is available on the official website. In what follows we will refer to Elasticsearch as ES. Similar engines are used for complex searches in a document database. For example, search taking into account the morphology of the language or search by geo coordinates. In this article I […]

Jabra Panacast 180° panoramic camera test (video)

The material was prepared by the editors of the Video+Conference website. We tested the famous 180-degree Jabra Panacast camera, and the results produced a short video. In a previous life it was developed by Altia Systems. The Danish manufacturer of audio solutions for offices and call centers, GN Audio, also the owner of the Jabra brand, became interested in the technology. In 2019, they bought the project to enter the hot market of huddle rooms - small meeting rooms. […]

How to set up Elasticsearch so that there are no leaks

Over the past year, there have been many leaks from Elasticsearch databases (here, here and here). In many cases, personal data was stored in the database. These leaks could have been avoided if, after deploying the database, the administrators had bothered to check a few simple settings. Today we’ll talk about them. Let’s immediately make a reservation that in our practice we use Elasticsearch for storing logs and analyzing […]

Kubernetes worker nodes: many small ones or a few large ones?

When creating a Kubernetes cluster, questions may arise: how many worker nodes to configure and what type? What is better for an on-premise cluster: buy several powerful servers or use a dozen old machines in your data center? Is it better to take eight single-core or two quad-core instances in the cloud? The answers to these questions are in the article by Daniel Weibel, a software engineer and educational […]