If you need to choose the most striking evidence of progress in computer technology, convincing not only in the eyes of specialists, but also for the general public, then this, without a doubt, will be a mobile gadget - a smartphone or tablet. At the same time, the more conservative class of devices - laptops - has come a long way: from an add-on to a desktop PC, with the limitations of which […]
Next month, Intel is due to release the next generation of HEDT processors, Cascade Lake-X. Also in November, reviews of new products will be published, but the Lab501 resource decided not to wait for the designated deadlines and published the results of its own tests of the flagship Core i9-10980XE processor. To begin with, it is worth recalling that the Core i9-10980XE processor has 18 cores and 36 threads, in fact, like the previous […]
Hi all! This is the second part of a series of articles from the IT team of the Ostrovok.ru hotel booking service about organizing online broadcasts of corporate presentations and events in one separate room. In the first article, we talked about how we solved the problem of poor broadcast sound using a mixing console and a wireless microphone system. And everything seemed to be fine, but after a while [...]
If you are a VDS hosting customer, have you ever thought about what comes with the standard operating system image? We decided to share how we prepare standard client virtual machines and show, using the example of our new Ultralight tariff for 120 rubles, how we created a standard image of Windows Server 2019 Core, and also tell you what’s in it […]
On October 29-30, that is, tomorrow, the DevOops 2019 conference will take place. These are two days of reports about CloudNative, cloud technologies, observability and monitoring, configuration management and security, and so on. Immediately following it, on October 31 - November 1, the C++ Russia 2019 Piter conference will take place. This is another two days of hardcore technical talks dedicated to C++: concurrency, performance, architecture, […]
Cleaversoft has announced that action-platformer EarthNight, already available on Apple Arcade, will be released on PC, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch on December 3. According to the plot of EarthNight, Stanley and Sydney are the last hope of humanity. Ever since the dragons took over the Earth, humans have been living in exile on space colonies that orbit the planet. Despite the incredibly difficult […]
Publisher Electronic Arts, together with developers from Respawn Entertainment, presented a very dynamic, although rather short, trailer for the upcoming launch of the action adventure film Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (in Russian localization - “Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order”). Despite the fact that the trailer lasts literally a minute, it is full of impressive scenes: there are bosses and light battles […]
Sunscorched Studios on its YouTube channel published several gameplay videos of Negative Atmosphere, a horror game with survival elements created according to the canons of the Dead Space series. In new sections of the gameplay, you can evaluate the shooting of different weapons, see the gloomy corridors of the space station and see how bodily injuries affect the state of the main character. The first video shows how the protagonist, using [...]
Ninja Theory is no stranger to games with mental health themes. The developer received recognition for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, which featured a warrior named Senua. The girl is struggling with psychosis, which she considers a curse. HellBlade: Senua's Sacrifice has won numerous awards, including five BAFTAs, three The Game Awards and a UK Royal College of Psychiatrists award. Since […]
The idea from Alphabet-owned Makani (acquired by Google in 2014) would be to send high-tech kites (tethered drones) hundreds of meters into the sky to generate electricity using constant winds. Thanks to such technologies, it is even possible to generate wind energy around the clock. However, the technology needed to fully implement this plan is still under development. Dozens of companies […]
I was preparing for the Google HashCode World Championship Finals 2017. This is the largest competition with algorithmic problems organized by Google. I started learning C++ from scratch in ninth grade. I knew nothing about programming, algorithms or data structures. At some point I wrote my first line of code. Seven months later, the programming competition loomed on the horizon. […]
The Open Invention Network is a community of patent owners dedicated to protecting Linux from patent lawsuits. Community members contribute patents to a common pool, allowing those patents to be used freely by all members. OIN has about two and a half thousand participants, including companies such as IBM, SUSE, Red Hat, Google. Today the company blog announced that Microsoft […]
