Samsung Electronics has introduced new semiconductor products designed for use in self-driving and electric vehicles. The solutions were demonstrated as part of the Samsung Foundry Forum (SFF) 2019 event in Munich (Germany). The new chips are designed for the automotive industry in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Samsung, in particular, showed innovative platforms that combine key technical […]
Football simulator FIFA 20 holds the first place in the British charts for the third week in a row. The Electronic Arts game had a weaker-than-usual launch (if only the boxed release is counted) but maintains its position despite sales falling 59% week over week. The tactical online shooter Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint also confidently holds on to second place. The success of the game […]
Publisher Electronic Arts and studio Respawn Entertainment recently announced an in-game event for team-based shooter Apex Legends called “Fight or Be Frightened” for Halloween. The event runs from October 15 to November 5, and at the beginning of the event, the creators of the project presented a special incendiary trailer: In it, the Pathfinder robot, under pressure from enemies, runs into the portal of its ally, the Wraith, but it turns out that […]
On the website of the South Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), according to network sources, Samsung's patent documentation for the next smartphone has been published. This time we are talking about a device in a classic monoblock case without a flexible display. A feature of the device should be a triple front camera. Judging by the patent illustrations, it will be located in an oblong hole in […]
A release of the PyPy 7.2 project has been formed, within the framework of which an implementation of the Python language written in Python is being developed (a statically typed subset of RPython, Restricted Python, is used). The release is prepared simultaneously for the PyPy2.7 and PyPy3.6 branches, providing support for Python 2.7 and Python 3.6 syntax. The release is available for Linux (x86, x86_64, PPC64, s390x, Aarch64, ARMv6 or ARMv7 with VFPv3), macOS (x86_64), […]
In the Sudo utility, used to organize the execution of commands on behalf of other users, a vulnerability (CVE-2019-14287) has been identified, which allows commands to be executed with root rights, if there are rules in the sudoers settings in which in the user ID check section after the allowing key The word “ALL” is followed by an explicit prohibition of running with root rights (“… (ALL, !root) ...”). In configurations according to [...]
Publisher PQube and developers Level 91 Entertainment have unveiled Inertial Drift, an arcade racing game with a unique movement model and dual-stick controls. It should hit the market in the spring of 2020 in versions for PC, as well as Sony PlayStation 4, Microsoft Xbox One and Nintendo Switch consoles. Along with the announcement, […]
Not long ago, Marvel's Avengers developers from Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal announced the appearance of Kamala Khan, also known under the pseudonym Ms. Marvel, in the game. This character is a fan of Captain Marvel, and the authors are still silent about the presence of the mentioned superhero in the project. Comicbook decided to ask Crystal Dynamics CEO Scott Amos about this, and […]
It became known that a vulnerability was discovered in the Sudo (super user do) command for Linux. Exploitation of this vulnerability allows unprivileged users or programs to execute commands with superuser rights. It is noted that the vulnerability affects systems with non-standard settings and does not affect most servers running Linux. The vulnerability occurs when Sudo configuration settings are used to allow […]
One of the co-owners of GoROBO is a graduate of the Department of Mechatronics at ITMO University. Two project employees are currently studying in our master's program. We’ll tell you why the founders of the startup became interested in the educational field, how they are developing the project, who they are looking for as students, and what they are ready to offer for them. Photo © from our story about the robotics laboratory of ITMO University Educational […]
Today we continue to talk about the teams that passed through our accelerator. There will be two of them in this habrapost. The first is the startup Labra, which is developing a solution for monitoring labor productivity. The second is O.VISION with a facial recognition system for turnstiles. Photo: Randall Bruder / Unsplash.com How Labra will increase labor productivity Labor productivity growth in Western markets has slowed. By […]
The most interesting innovations are: Assignment expression: The new operator := allows you to assign values to variables inside expressions. For example: if (n := len(a)) > 10: print(f"List is too long ({n} elements, expected <= 10)") Positional-only arguments: Now you can specify which function parameters can be passed through named argument syntax and which ones not. Example: def f(a, b, /, c, d, *, […]
