"Do not count your chickens before they are hatched". Guided by this principle, Intel this year began a large-scale release of the price list from outdated or limited-demand processors. The turn has reached the once mass-produced models of the Kaby Lake family, which is now dwindling almost entirely. The corporation did not disdain even a couple of surviving processors of the Skylake family: Core i7-6700 and Core i5-6500. About […]
Hello! It so happens that we are active users of one very well-known platform, and at the end of October its engineers will come to visit our team. Thinking that not only us might have questions for them, we decided to gather everyone, as well as a friendly podcast and industry acquaintances from Scalability Camp, on one site. So for [...]
Blockchain is an innovative technology that promises to improve many areas of human life. It transfers real processes and products into the digital space, ensures speed and reliability of financial transactions, reduces their cost, and also allows you to create modern DAPP applications using smart contracts in decentralized networks. Given the many benefits and diverse applications of blockchain, it may seem surprising that this […]
On October 11, Apple released iOS 13.2 beta 2, after installing which some owners of the 2018 iPad Pro found themselves with non-functional devices. Reportedly, after installation, the tablets did not boot, and sometimes they could not be restored even through flashing in DFU mode. Complaints have already appeared on the company's technical support forum, and the update has been blocked in Cupertino. Now with […]
Activision has filed a patent application to create bots based on analysis of the actions of real players. According to GameRant, the company plans to use the developments in multiplayer modes of its games. The document states that the new idea is a continuation of a patent that Activision registered in 2014. The company plans to study user behavior in detail, including weapon choice, map strategies, and even shooting levels. Journalists […]
As you know, some time ago at the annual Surface event, Microsoft announced the new Windows 10X. This system is optimized to work on dual-screen and foldable smartphones. However, we note that previously users have already launched a petition to make the Start menu in Windows 10 the same as in Windows 10X. And now the first leaks have appeared regarding [...]
The newly formed Australian Summerfall Studios has announced its first game, the “adventure musical” Chorus: An Adventure Musical. The Melbourne studio was announced in September, but co-founders Liam Esler and David Gaider have been working on the game concept for almost two years. Speaking to GamesIndustry at International Games Week, they revealed that it all started with Game […]
The release of the Mir 1.5 display server is available, the development of which continues by Canonical, despite the refusal to develop the Unity shell and the Ubuntu edition for smartphones. Mir remains in demand in Canonical projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). Mir can be used as a composite server for Wayland, allowing you to run […]
TL;DR DevOps Slurm will be held in Moscow on January 30 - February 1. Again we will analyze DevOps tools in practice. Details and program under the cut. SRE was removed from the program because together with Ivan Kruglov we are preparing a separate Slurm SRE. The announcement will come later. Thanks to Selectel, our sponsors since the first Slurm! About philosophy, skepticism and unexpected success I […]
When I first announced the HR Foundation here on the blog in April, the D Language Foundation team was in talks to hire one or more people to flesh out the specification and implementation of shared. This type of work requires very specific skills that only a few people in Circle D possess. So far, we have not been able to find any […]
Translation of an article by authors from IBM Research. An important breakthrough in physics will allow us to study the physical characteristics of semiconductors in much greater detail. This may help accelerate the development of next-generation semiconductor technology. Authors: Oki Gunawan - Staff Member, IBM Research Doug Bishop - Characterization Engineer, IBM Research Semiconductors are the fundamental building blocks of today's digital, electronic age, providing us […]
The Qt Group has announced a change in license for the Qt Wayland Compositor, Qt Application Manager and Qt PDF components, which, starting with the release of Qt 5.14, will begin to be supplied under the GPLv3 license instead of LGPLv3. In other words, linking to these components will now require opening the source code of the programs under GPLv3-compatible licenses or purchasing a commercial license (previously […]
