This article is a revised and expanded version of my story about an internship at Google. Hello, Habr! In this post I will tell you what an internship in a foreign company is and how to prepare for interviews in order to get an offer. Why should you listen to me? Should not. But over the past two years, I've had internships at Google, Nvidia, Lyft […]
Fast food, fast results, fast growth, fast internet, fast learning... Speed has become an integral part of our daily lives. We want everything to be easier, faster and better. The constant need for more time, speed and productivity is the driving force behind technology innovation. And Armenia is not the last place in this series. An example of this: no one wants to spend […]
KaOS is a Linux distribution that features the latest version of the KDE desktop environment, the Calligra office suite, and other applications using the Qt toolkit. KaOS uses the Pacman package manager, and the update model is “rolling-release”. The distribution is intended exclusively for 64-bit systems. The new version removed Python 2 packages and switched to KDE Plasma 5.17. Also among […]
A campaign to raise funds to pay legal fees to defend the GNOME project from a lawsuit by patent troll Rothschild Patent Imaging, LLC has been successfully completed. In total, more than 125 thousand dollars were collected, which is enough for legal protection at all stages of the trial. Earlier, the Open Invention Network, which brings together a large pool of patents […], announced support for the GNOME project.
Experimental support for two-factor authentication has been added to the OpenSSH codebase using devices that support the U2F protocol developed by the FIDO Alliance. U2F allows the creation of low-cost hardware tokens to verify the user's physical presence, interacting with them via USB, Bluetooth or NFC. Such devices are being promoted as a means of two-factor authentication on websites, are already supported by major browsers and are being released […]
Take-Two is ready for the next generation of consoles. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference, publisher Strauss Zelnick, the publisher's chief executive, told investors he doesn't think the launch of new systems from Sony and Microsoft next year will significantly increase the cost of game development. “We don't really expect material costs to change with the next generation, […]
Microsoft signed the Oracle Contributor Agreement, officially joined the OpenJDK project developing the Java reference implementation, and expressed its readiness to participate in joint development. It is noted that Microsoft actively uses Java in its products, for example, it provides the Java runtime in Microsoft Azure, and now wants to contribute to the common cause. In the first phase, the Microsoft Java team intends to […]
Goldman Sachs Bank, which is Apple's partner in issuing Apple Cards, reported on the work of the joint project launched in August. Since its launch on August 20, 2019, and as of September 30, Apple Card owners have been granted loans totaling $10 billion. However, it is not reported how many people use this card. Get Apple […]
Google has begun testing the third edition of the Chrome manifest, which breaks many add-ons for blocking inappropriate content and ensuring security. Support for a new manifest, which defines the capabilities and resources provided to add-ons, has been added to experimental builds of Chrome Canary. The new manifesto is part of an initiative to strengthen the security, privacy and performance of add-ons (the main goal is to make it easier to create secure and […]
In less than two weeks, the X019 Xbox event will take place in London. Fans can expect new announcements there. Head of Xbox Marketing Aaron Greenberg assured that the event will be filled with games alone. We will see what lies behind this soon. Aaron Greenberg was recently asked what the event's focus would be: new games or will they show gamepads again […]
Hinterland studio director Raphael van Lierop wants to release a sequel to The Long Dark, which has currently sold more than 3,3 million copies. Speaking at the Reboot Development Red conference, van Lierop discussed what direction the series could take in the future. “We can now state that Long Dark is a fairly well-established intellectual […]
The transport company Traft plans to complete work on the creation of a unified system for assessing and rating truck drivers in 2020. The electronic database of drivers and their cars will be presented in the form of a virtual passport, which will detail compliance with modern carrier requirements. Traft noted that the list of criteria will be quite extensive. Among them: compliance with deadlines for delivery of the car, [...]
