When I became the smallest boss at the newspaper, my then editor-in-chief, a lady who became a seasoned wolf of journalism back in Soviet times, told me: “Remember, since you have already begun to grow, managing any media project is akin to running through a minefield. Not because it is dangerous, but because it is unpredictable. We are dealing with information, and to calculate it [...]
Many foreign authors agree that the era of Big Data has come to an end. And in this case, the term Big Data refers to technologies based on Hadoop. Many authors can even confidently name the date when Big Data left this world and this date is 05.06.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX. What happened on this significant day? On this day, […]
There is a superstition in IT: “If it works, don’t touch it.” This can be said about our monitoring system. At Southbridge we use Zabbix - when we chose it, it was very cool. And, in fact, he had no alternatives. Over time, our ecosystem has acquired instructions, additional bindings, and integration with redmine has appeared. Zabbix has a powerful competitor […]
In 2014, Sony introduced the PlayStation Vue cloud service, which was intended to be a cheaper alternative to cable TV delivered over the Internet. The launch took place the following year, and even at the beta test level, agreements were signed with Fox, CBS, Viacom, Discovery Communications, NBCUniversal, Scripps Networks Interactive. But today, 5 years later, the company announced the forced closure […]
It is unlikely that anyone will be surprised to learn that the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei has recently filed the largest number of international patent applications. At the end of 2018, Huawei filed 5405 patent applications, which is approximately twice as many as Mitsubishi Electric and Intel, which are in second and third places. Despite this, specialists from the research company Patent […]
Over the past year, Realme has launched a number of attractively priced and specced smartphones across various segments. Most of the company's devices are direct competitors to popular solutions under the Redmi brand, and Realme seems to have managed to attract considerable attention from buyers. At the very least, there has been a huge increase in the company's smartphone shipments. Recently, analysts from Counterpoint Research reported that Realme has […]
A Michigan woman discovered a device near her farmhouse that she mistook for a space satellite. It bore the names of Samsung and South Dakota-based balloon manufacturer Raven Industries, whose employees had come to pick up the crashed balloon. As it turned out, it was a device of the Samsung SpaceSelfie project, launched by a South Korean company with a balloon into the stratosphere in honor of its […]
Why do you need mobile Internet, for example, 4G? To travel and be connected all the time. Far from big cities, where there is no usual free Wi-Fi, and life goes on as usual. And it is also needed to have access to the Network, visiting remote objects where they did not conduct, connect, pay or did not want to make centralized access to […]
The Open Invention Network (OIN), an organization dedicated to protecting the Linux ecosystem from patent claims, will take part in defending the GNOME project from an attack by the patent troll Rothschild Patent Imaging LLC. At the Open Source Summit Europe conference taking place these days, the director of OIN said that the organization has already assembled a team of lawyers who will search for evidence of earlier use of the […]
Focus Home Interactive and Deck13 Interactive have unveiled the season pass for the futuristic action RPG The Surge 2. The season pass is now available for purchase. Its content is scheduled until January 2020. In November, Season Pass holders will receive 13 weapons and the BORAX-I Quantum dual-use weapon. In December - 4 sets of equipment. And in January, those who bought a subscription […]
Publisher Headup Games planned to release the action-RPG Everreach: Project Eden in September this year. As you can see, it’s almost November, and still no game. The company calls “December of this year” as a new target. Let us remind you that the development is carried out by the Elder Games studio. What exactly caused the delay is not specified. It was announced that the game will be available for purchase on Xbox […]
Microsoft, as part of the Windows Insider preview early access program, presented updated DirectX 12 APIs and spoke in detail about the innovations. These features will be released next year and include three main features. The first possibility concerns ray tracing. DirectX 12 had it initially, but now it has been expanded. In particular, additional shaders were added to […]
