About a year after leaving BioWare, Dragon Age: Inquisition creative director Mike Laidlaw joined Ubisoft Quebec shortly after the team released Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Yesterday Laidlaw announced that he had left there too. “A huge thank you to the talented and hospitable people at Ubisoft Quebec for my time there,” Laidlaw wrote. - And now […]
Microsoft is testing a new feature for its Edge browser that will automatically block the downloading of unwanted and potentially dangerous applications. The blocking feature is already available in beta versions of the Microsoft Edge browser, which may mean it will soon appear in stable versions of the browser. According to reports, Edge will block applications that are not necessarily dangerous and malicious […]
According to online sources, a bug was discovered in the Android 9 (Pie) mobile operating system that leads to the deletion of user files when trying to move them from the “Downloads” folder to another location. The message also states that renaming the Downloads folder may delete files from your device's storage. The source says that this problem occurs on devices [...]
In recent years, YouTube has become a truly educational platform where you can find instructions and educational videos covering various topics and aspects of everyday life. However, Google developers decided not to stop there by launching a new Tangi application, with which you can share exclusively educational videos. Tangi is an experimental application created by the developers of Google Area 120. In […]
Resistive non-volatile memory is quietly penetrating life. The Japanese company Panasonic announced the start of production of microcontrollers with built-in ReRAM memory with 40 nm technology standards. But the presented chip is also interesting for many other reasons. As Panasonic's press release tells us, in February the company will begin shipping samples of a multifunctional microcontroller to protect Internet-connected things from numerous […]
The California Institute of Technology (CalTech) announced Wednesday it has won a lawsuit against Apple and Broadcom over their infringement of its Wi-Fi patents. According to the jury's verdict, Apple must pay CalTech $837,8 million and Broadcom $270,2 million. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Los Angeles in 2016, the Pasadena Institute of Technology […]
The revenues of Microsoft's main divisions are growing, and the gaming business is naturally declining on the eve of the launch of the next generation of consoles. Total revenues and earnings beat Wall Street forecasts. The cloud business is gaining momentum again: the company is closing the gap with Amazon. Analysts are pleased with the successful strategy of the head of Microsoft. Microsoft reported its financial results for its second quarter ended December 31. Revenues and profits […]
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 […]
We recently wrote that Platinum Games was hinting at a re-release of The Wonderful 101. However, the story may be more interesting. According to rumors from an anonymous source, the studio is planning to launch a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to port the game to PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and possibly Xbox One. The existence of an official Platinum Games profile on Kickstarter speaks in favor of the rumor. More […]
The release of the OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 distribution took place. The project is being developed by the community after Mandriva SA transferred project management 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 […]
Development of the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild may take longer than previously thought. And it's unlikely that the game will be released this year. This was revealed by a trusted Sabi insider. Last November, Spieltimes journalist and insider Sabi said that a sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was planned for release […]
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 2.30 include: Added the _ISOC2X_SOURCE macro to include capabilities defined in the draft version of the future ISO C2X standard. These features […]
