Chinese technology giant Huawei remains on the so-called US “blacklist”, making it difficult to do business with American companies. However, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei considers American sanctions ineffective and notes that the company will be able to survive without the United States. “We feel good without the US. US-China trade talks are not something I'm interested in. […]
Sberbank intends to implement a number of promising projects in the healthcare sector using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. As reported by RIA Novosti, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank Alexander Vedyakhin spoke about this. One of the initiatives involves creating a digital assistant for doctors. Such a system, using AI algorithms, will speed up the diagnosis of diseases and increase its accuracy. In addition, the assistant will be able to recommend the most […]
Panasonic has introduced the Lumix S Pro 16-35mm F4 lens, designed for full-frame mirrorless cameras equipped with an L-Mount bayonet mount. The announced product is a relatively compact wide-angle zoom lens. Its length is 100 mm, diameter - 85 mm. A high-speed and high-precision autofocus system based on a linear motor has been implemented. It is also possible to focus in manual mode. The design includes 12 […]
The non-profit organization lowRISC, with the participation of Google and other sponsors, presented the OpenTitan project on November 5, 2019, which it calls “the first open-source project to create an open, high-quality chip architecture with a root of trust (RoT) at the hardware level.” OpenTitan based on RISC-V architecture is a special-purpose chip for installation on servers in data centers and in any other equipment where […]
Vivo and Samsung, as promised, held a joint presentation dedicated to the release of high-performance smartphones from the Vivo X30 family. It has been officially announced that the devices will be based on the eight-core Samsung Exynos 980 processor. This chip contains a built-in dual-mode 5G modem with support for non-standalone (NSA) and standalone (SA) architectures. Data transfer speeds on a 5G network can reach 2,55 Gbps. Moreover, […]
Until recently, IBM Watson Visual Recognition was primarily used to recognize images as a whole. However, working with a picture as a single whole is far from the most correct approach. Now, thanks to the new object recognition function, IBM Watson users have the opportunity to train models on images with labeled objects for their subsequent recognition in any frame. […]
SAIPR is the genetic code of the unit” L.I. Volkov, Head of the 4th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense The title of the article combines the titles of two publications that appeared back in 1994 in the newspapers “Moscow Warrior” and “Red Star”. The basis of the publications was an interview that military correspondent Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Bezhko took from me. And these two publications caught my eye: The second publication has […]
Fault tolerance and high availability are big topics, so we'll devote separate articles to RabbitMQ and Kafka. This article is about RabbitMQ, and the next one is about Kafka, in comparison with RabbitMQ. This is a long article, so make yourself comfortable. Let's look at the fault tolerance, consistency, and high availability (HA) strategies and the tradeoffs that each strategy makes. RabbitMQ can run […]
This is the first part in a series of educational articles on creating smart contracts in Python on the Ontology blockchain network using the SmartX smart contract development tool. In this article, we will begin our acquaintance with the Ontology smart contract API. The Ontology smart contract API is divided into 7 modules: Blockchain & Block API, Runtime API, Storage API, Native API, Upgrade API, Execution Engine API and […]
The birth of this project can be considered a small idea that came to me somewhere at the end of 2007, which was destined to find its final form only 12 years later (at this point in time - of course, although the current implementation, according to the author, is very satisfactory) . It all started with the fact that, in the process of fulfilling his then official duties in the library […]
We propose to go down to a low level again and talk about the security of firmware for x86-compatible computer platforms. This time, the main ingredient of the study is Intel Boot Guard (not to be confused with Intel BIOS Guard!) - a hardware-supported trusted BIOS boot technology that the computer system vendor can permanently enable or disable at the production stage. Well, the research recipe is already familiar to us: [...]
From the author I composed this sketch some time ago as a kind of creative rethinking of the story that I presented here, as well as its possible further development with some free fantastic assumptions. Of course, all this is only partly inspired by the author’s real experience, making it possible to try to answer the question: “What if?..” There is also some plot connection to my […]
