The Geeks WorldWide portal, citing its own sources, reported that the upcoming Batman game from Warner Bros. Games Montreal will be a soft restart of the Batman: Arkham series. According to Geeks WorldWide journalist James Sigfield, early in development the studio considered creating a sequel to Batman: Arkham Knight starring Bruce Wayne's son, but the project […]
Blizzard Entertainment has reiterated that it did not completely remake the Warcraft III cutscenes in Reforged because it would have affected the original game's story. “As we said last year at Blizzcon, we don't want the in-game scenes to stray too far from the original game,” community manager Kaivax wrote on the official forums. — At the show we [...]
Over the past decade, the automotive industry has experienced noticeable pressure from the authorities of many developed countries: politicians are demanding a reduction in harmful emissions, abandoning diesel engines, and actively supporting the production of electric vehicles. Manufacturers are massively switching to the use of low-volume turbo engines, which, coupled with programmed obsolescence, has a detrimental effect on the reliability of modern cars. Nowadays, a rare car can travel 200–300 thousand kilometers without […]
Toyota Motor Corp. introduced an emergency safety system that uses big data to prevent drivers from mistakenly pressing the accelerator pedal instead of the brake pedal. The new system is a response to an increasingly common cause of traffic accidents in aging Japan when drivers, often elderly, mistake the accelerator for the brake. According to a government report, about 15% of fatal accidents […]
This year, Intel plans to release its new, 12th generation Intel Xe graphics processors. And now the first records of testing of this graphics, both built into Tiger Lake processors and the discrete version, have begun to appear in the databases of various benchmarks. In the Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) benchmark database, three records of graphics testing were found […]
AT THE REQUESTS OF THE WORKERS! Taken from opennet. After 10 months of development, Godot 3.2, a free game engine suitable for creating 2D and 3D games, has been released. The engine supports an easy-to-learn language for specifying game logic, a graphical environment for game design, a one-click game deployment system, extensive animation and simulation capabilities for physical processes, a built-in debugger and […]
Below the cut is how the largest project in Russia for the collection and recycling of equipment is organized, plus a short excursion to a recycling plant where electronics and household appliances are recycled. The most interesting thing in the primary processing process is the work of separators, which separate the elements of the desired type from the ground crumbs of everything. And here, too, there is a place for AI. Near […]
I would like to share my experience of combining networks in three geographically distant apartments, each of which uses routers with OpenWRT as a gateway, into one common network. When choosing a method for combining networks between L3 with subnet routing and L2 with bridging, when all network nodes will be in the same subnet, the second method was preferred, more […]
The release of the Electron 8.0.0 platform has been prepared, which provides a self-sufficient framework for developing multi-platform user applications, using Chromium, V8 and Node.js components as a basis. The significant change in version number is due to an update to the Chromium 80 codebase, the Node.js 12.13 platform and the V8 8.0 JavaScript engine. Electron-specific API changes include: Added the ability to check spelling in forms […]
The team of the myTracker analytical platform, developed by Mail.ru Group, studied the behavior and habits of paying mobile gamers in Russia. Experts have compiled a portrait of a gamer and identified the relationship between GDP and ROI of gaming projects in different countries. The study is based on data from 92 gaming applications. Millennials are the core audience and are more willing to pay in games than others. However, older users pay […]
Mozilla developers have added support for add-ons to the code base of the Firefox Preview (Fenix) mobile browser, which is being developed to replace the Firefox edition for the Android platform. The new browser is based on the GeckoView engine and a set of Mozilla Android Components libraries. The ability to connect add-ons based on the WebExtension API is available for testing in nightly builds of Firefox Preview. The “Add-ons Manager” item appeared in the menu, [...]
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 […]
