Publisher Reef Entertainment has announced the system requirements for the first-person shooter Terminator: Resistance, which will be released on November 15 on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The minimum configuration is designed for gaming with medium graphics settings, 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second: operating system: Windows 7, 8 or 10 (64-bit); processor: Intel Core i3-4160 3,6 GHz […]
The Pine64 community, known for the free Pinebook and Pinebook Pro laptops, announced the start of production of a new free smartphone based on Plasma Mobile - PinePhone. The first batch will be released at the end of 2019, but for now only for developers. Sales in stores will begin in March 2020. In addition to Plasma Mobile, images of Maemo Leste, UBPorts, PostmarketOS, LuneOS are offered. Moreover, the community works […]
The Pine64 community, which recently announced the production of the free PinePhone smartphone, presents its new project - the PineTime smart watch. Main features of the watch: Heart rate monitoring. Capacious battery that will last for several days. Desktop docking station for charging your watch. Housing made of zinc alloy and plastic. Availability of WiFi and Bluetooth. Nordic nRF52832 ARM Cortex-M4F chip (at 64MHz) supporting Bluetooth 5 technologies, […]
Benjamin Berg, one of the Red Hat engineers involved in the development of GNOME, summarized the work on transitioning GNOME to session management exclusively through systemd, without the use of the gnome-session process. To manage login to GNOME, systemd-logind has been used for quite some time, which monitors session states in relation to the user, manages session identifiers, is responsible for switching between active sessions, […]
Trade associations NCTA, CTIA and USTelecom, which defend the interests of Internet service providers, asked the US Congress to pay attention to the problem with the implementation of “DNS over HTTPS” (DoH, DNS over HTTPS) and request detailed information from Google about current and future plans for enable DoH in their products, and also obtain a commitment not to enable centralized processing by default […]
Against the backdrop of ongoing riots, an attempt was made to completely block access to the Internet in Iraq. Currently, connectivity with approximately 75% of Iraqi providers has been lost, including all major telecom operators. Access remains only in some cities in northern Iraq (for example, the Kurdish Autonomous Region), which have a separate network infrastructure and autonomous status. Initially, authorities tried to block access […]
Looking at the current diversity of educational robotics, you are glad that children have access to a huge number of construction kits, ready-made products, and that the bar for “entry” into the basics of programming has dropped quite low (down to kindergarten). There is a widespread trend of introducing first to modular-block programming and then moving on to more advanced languages. But this situation was not always the case. 2009-2010. Russia began massively [...]
A selection of events for the week of DevOps Conf September 30 (Monday) - October 01 (Tuesday) 1st Zachatievsky lane 4 from 19 rub. At the conference we will talk not only about “how?”, but also “why?”, bringing processes and technologies as close as possible. Among the organizers is the leader of the DevOps movement in Russia, Express 600. EdCrunch October 42 (Tuesday) – October 01 […]
September ends, and with it the calendar of “adventures” of the Extravaganza ends - a set of tasks developing on the border of the real world and others, virtual and imaginary. Below you will find the second part of my personal impressions related to the “passage” of these “quests”. The beginning of the “adventures” (events from September 1 to 8) and a brief introduction are described here. The global concept is described here Extravaganza. The story continues on September 9th. […]
A new version of the terminal multiplexer GNU screen 4.7.0 has been released. In the new version: mouse support using the SGR protocol (1006); OSC 11 support; Unicode table update to version 12.1.0; fixed cross-compilation support; many fixes in man. Source: linux.org.ru
For many years, scientists from all over the world have been doing two things - inventing and improving. And sometimes it’s not clear which is more difficult. Take, for example, ordinary LEDs, which seem so simple and ordinary to us that we don’t even pay attention to them. But if you add a few excitons, a pinch of polaritons and tungsten disulfide […]
German startup Volocopter said Singapore is one of the most likely locations to commercially launch an air taxi service using electric aircraft. He plans to launch an air taxi service here to deliver passengers over short distances at the price of a regular taxi ride. The company has now applied to the Singapore regulatory authorities to obtain permission to […]
