A Chinese regulator has introduced a new set of restrictions for minors who enjoy playing video games. According to the South China Morning Post, the new rules include expanding the existing real name identification policy to all projects on all platforms. Users will be required to verify their age by registering in the game using their real name. The system will check the information and find out if there is [...]
Sony Interactive Entertainment will shut down SingStar's servers 15 years after the launch of the first game in the series. SingStar users will be able to play offline and use their downloaded content after January 31, 2020, but all online features will stop working on that date. Songs will no longer be sold on the PlayStation Store and all shared content on SingStar.com will be […]
PUBG Corporation's Brendan Greene called on gaming companies to attract more women to the industry. Speaking at the View Conference recently, the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds creator said recruiting guidelines in Amsterdam (where he currently works) have made it very difficult to increase the diversity of his team, the 25-person unit he leads as director. "It's really hard [...]
VimpelCom (Beeline brand) reported on work in the third quarter of this year: the mobile operator was faced with a decrease in revenue and an outflow of subscribers. Thus, income for the three-month period amounted to 74,7 billion rubles. This is 2,7% less than in the third quarter of last year. Service revenue in the mobile segment decreased by 1,9% to 58,3 billion […]
Microsoft demonstrated the capabilities of Project Silica by recording for the Warner Bros. film studio. the iconic 1978 Superman film on a 75 x 75 x 2 mm piece of glass that can store up to 75,6 GB of data (including error correction code). Microsoft Research's Project Silica concept leverages the latest discoveries in ultrafast laser optics and artificial intelligence […]
Post-apocalyptic shooter with roguelike elements Nuclear Throne and cyberpunk shooter Ruiner are now available for free on the Epic Games Store. Games can be added to the library until November 14th. The next free project was the action platformer The Messenger. In Nuclear Throne from Vlambeer, humanity has become extinct and the world now belongs to mutants and monsters. You have to travel through the wasteland, accumulate radiation [...]
The US government plans to fulfill President Donald Trump's promise in the next few weeks to provide a number of exceptions to the previous ban for US companies wishing to do business with Huawei. US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Sunday that licenses that allow US companies to sell components to Huawei could be approved "shortly". In an interview with the resource [...]
Today, November 5, Xiaomi officially introduced its first smart watch - the Mi Watch device. Meanwhile, according to online sources, the Chinese company is already designing the next “smart” chronometer. The gadget will allegedly be called Mi Watch Pro, that is, it will become a more advanced version of the current Mi Watch. The latter, we recall, are equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 processor, a rectangular 1,78-inch AMOLED display, […]
Low DNS latency is key to fast internet browsing. To minimize it, it is important to carefully select DNS servers and anonymous relays. But the first step is to get rid of useless queries. This is why DNS was originally designed as a highly cacheable protocol. Zone administrators set a time to live (TTL) for individual entries, and resolvers use this information when storing entries […]
In October of this year, the cloud gaming service GeForce Now began operating in Russia. Actually, it was available before, but to register you had to get a key, which not every player got. Now you can register and play. I’ve already written about this service before, now let’s find out a little more about it, plus compare it with two […]
Let's tell you a cool story about how "third parties" tried to interfere with the work of our clients, and how this problem was solved. How it all started It all started on the morning of October 31, the last day of the month, when many desperately need to have time to resolve urgent and important issues. One of the partners who keeps several virtual machines in our cloud […]
Modernity offers us two formats of education: classical and online. Both are popular, but not ideal. We tried to understand the pros and cons of each of them and derive a formula for effective training. 1(Classical training – two-hour lectures – deadlines, bound to place and time) + 2(online training – zero feedback) + 3(online presentation of material + individual mentoring + practice […]
