The publishing house Annapurna Interactive announced on its microblog the imminent release on PC (Steam, GOG) and Nintendo Switch of the initially mobile novel Florence from the Australian studio Mountains. The adventure will appear on these platforms on February 13, that is, on Valentine's Day. This is quite symbolic, given that Florence is a story about love. “At 25 […]
Instagram isn't Facebook's biggest source of revenue, but it certainly plays an important role in the company's social media revenue. Bloomberg reported that the app generated $20 billion in advertising revenue last year, accounting for more than a quarter of Facebook's total 2019 revenue. Ads are displayed on Instagram between stories, in the feed, and on the tab. […]
Hellpoint, which is described by the authors as “an action-RPG with a creepy fantasy setting,” will go on sale on April 16. Publisher tinyBuild will release the game on PC (on Steam), PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. “Irid Novo Station, a magnificent monument to human achievement, is now abandoned, taken over by savage extra-dimensional monsters—and malevolent comic gods,” say the studio’s developers […]
In a conversation with IGN, Media Molecule confirmed that early access participants will receive the full version of the Dreams gaming toolkit before anyone else. The transformation of the pre-release edition of Dreams into the final edition is scheduled for February 11 at 15:00 Moscow time, that is, three days before the official premiere of the project on PlayStation 4. From the earlier version, the full-size Dreams […]
We have already reported that on February 7, the Soyuz launch vehicle will launch 34 British OneWeb satellites into orbit from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It seems that everything is moving according to the announced plans, because today the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with the Fregat-M upper stage and the mentioned satellites was taken out of the assembly and testing building and installed at the launch complex of site No. 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Specialists carried out work on [...]
MSI has expanded its range of monitors with the release of the Optix MAG322CQR, designed for use in gaming-grade desktop systems. The panel has a concave shape: the radius of curvature is 1500R. Size - 31,5 inches diagonally, resolution - 2560 × 1440 pixels, which corresponds to the WQHD format. The basis of the monitor is the Samsung VA matrix. Horizontal and vertical viewing angles reach 178 degrees. […]
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) have developed a “smart surface” called RFocus that “can act as a mirror or lens” to focus radio signals on desired devices. Currently, there is a certain problem with providing a stable wireless connection to miniature devices, inside of which there is practically no space to place antennas. A “smart surface” can fix this [...]
After six months of development, the GNU C Library (glibc) 2.31 system library has been released, which fully complies with the requirements of the ISO C11 and POSIX.1-2008 standards. The new release includes fixes from 58 developers. Some of the improvements implemented in Glibc 2.31 include: Added the _ISOC2X_SOURCE macro to include capabilities defined in the draft version of the future ISO C2X standard. These features […]
The release of the OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 distribution took place. The project is being developed by the community after Mandriva SA handed over the management of the project to the non-profit organization OpenMandriva Association. Available for download is a 2.6 GB Live build (x86_64), a “znver1” build optimized for AMD Ryzen, ThreadRipper and EPYC processors), as well as variants of these builds based on the kernel compiled by the Clang compiler. IN […]
Lukas Schauer, developer of dehydrated, a bash script for automating the receipt of SSL certificates through the Let's Encrypt service, accepted an offer to sell the project and finance its further work. The new owner of the project is the Austrian company Apilayer GmbH. The project has been moved to a new address github.com/dehydrated-io/dehydrated. The license remains the same (MIT). The completed transaction will help guarantee further development and support of the project - Lucas […]
On February 7-9, 2020, the fifteenth conference “Free Software in Higher Education” will be held in Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yaroslavl region. Free software is used in educational institutions around the world by teachers and students, technical specialists and scientists, administrators and other employees. The purpose of the conference is to create a unified information space that will allow users and open source software developers to get to know each other, share […]
The Document Foundation presented the release of the office suite LibreOffice 6.4. Ready-made installation packages are prepared for various distributions of Linux, Windows and macOS, as well as an edition for deploying the online version in Docker. In preparation for the release, 75% of the changes were made by employees of the companies supervising the project, such as Collabora, Red Hat and CIB, and 25% of the changes were added by independent enthusiasts. Key innovations: […]
