For the grand finale of the EVO 2019 event, Tekken 7 director Katsuhiro Harada presented a trailer announcing the third season for the game. The video showed that Zafina will return in Tekken 7. Endowed with superpowers and guarding the royal crypt since childhood, Zafina made her debut in Tekken 6. This fighter is proficient in the Indian martial art of kalaripayattu. After the attack on the crypt […]
Steam user with the nickname Syndroid has released a remake of the first episode of Duke Nukem 3D based on Serious Sam 3. The developer published the relevant information on the Steam blog. “The main idea behind the remake of the first episode of Duke Nukem 3D is to recreate the experience from the classic game. There are some expanded elements added here, such as redesigned levels, random enemy waves, and more. Also […]
Yesterday's quarterly report from Apple showed that the company not only received less than half of its total revenue from smartphone sales for the first time in seven years, but also reduced this part of its revenue by 12% year-on-year. Such dynamics have been observed for more than the first quarter in a row, so the company even stopped indicating in its statistics the number of smartphones sold during the period, everything is now […]
At the beginning of July, reports appeared on the Internet that Samsung was planning to release a Galaxy A series smartphone with support for fifth generation (5G) communications networks. Such a device could be the Galaxy A90 5G smartphone, which was spotted today on the Wi-Fi Alliance website with model number SM-A908. It is expected that this device will receive high-performance hardware. Besides […]
The developers of the OpenBSD project have released LibreSSL 3.0.0 portable edition, which develops a fork of OpenSSL aimed at providing a higher level of security. The LibreSSL project is focused on high-quality support for SSL / TLS protocols with the removal of unnecessary functionality, the addition of additional security features and a significant cleaning and reworking of the code base. The release of LibreSSL 3.0.0 is considered experimental, […]
Announced the open source of the BlazingSQL SQL engine, which uses GPUs to speed up data processing. BlazingSQL is not a full-fledged DBMS, but is positioned as an engine for analyzing and processing large data sets, comparable in its tasks to Apache Spark. The code is written in Python and is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. BlazingSQL is suitable for running single analytical queries over […]
The Russian translation of the second edition of the book “Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software” by Richard Stallman and Sam Williams has been completed. Before the final publication, the authors of the translation ask for help in thoroughly proofreading, as well as correcting remaining flaws in the design. The book is distributed under the GNU FDL license […]
Sberbank announced the launch of a new service that will give users the opportunity to pay for purchases using a smartphone in a new way - using a QR code. The system is called “Pay QR”. To work with it, it is enough to have a cellular device with the Sberbank Online application installed. An NFC module is not required. Payment using a QR code allows Sberbank clients to make non-cash payments [...]
NVIDIA has warned Windows users to update their GPU drivers as soon as possible as the latest versions fix five serious security vulnerabilities. At least five vulnerabilities were discovered in drivers for NVIDIA GeForce, NVS, Quadro and Tesla accelerators under Windows, three of which are high-risk and, if the update is not installed, […]
From August 12 to 25, the educational portal GeekBrains will organize GeekChange - 24 online meetings with experts in digital professions. Each webinar is a new topic about programming, management, design, marketing in the format of mini-lectures, interviews with experts and practical tasks for beginners. Participants will be able to participate in a drawing for budget places in any department of the GeekUniversity online university and win a MacBook. Participation is free, [...]
This is a completely useless, unnecessary in practical application, but funny little post about directories in *nix systems. It's Friday. During interviews, boring questions often arise about inodes, everything-is-files, which few people can answer sanely. But if you dig a little deeper, you can find interesting things. To understand the post, a few points: everything is a file. directory is also [...]
We talk a lot about how data centers can save energy through smart equipment placement, optimal air conditioning, and centralized power management. Today we will talk about how you can save energy in the office. Unlike data centers, electricity in offices is needed not only by technology, but also by people. Therefore, to obtain a PUE coefficient here at […]
