Contrary to expectations, the co-op first-person shooter Wolfenstein: Youngblood will be released without RTX technology. It will be added some time after the release. When support for the technology in the game was only announced (at the end of May at the Taipei Computex 2019 exhibition), Bethesda Softworks did not specify the timing. Since then, there has been no information regarding RTX in Wolfenstein: Youngblood, and […]
Google has agreed to pay $11 million to resolve a lawsuit in which it was accused of discriminating against older job applicants. In total, 227 plaintiffs will receive a little more than $35 each. In turn, the lawyers will receive $2,75 million. The story began with the lawsuit of Cheryl Fillekes, who tried to get a job at Google four times over the course of 7 years, […]
Publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment has presented a new video for its crossover fighting game Jump Force, which combines many famous characters from the Japanese magazine Weekly Shonen Jump over 50 years of its existence. Even before the game's release, the developers introduced the public to one of its key characters - the villain Kane. Those who played through the story campaign of Jump Force could see this […]
The Xiaomi-owned Youpin crowdfunding platform has presented a very unusual smartphone on the Android Go platform - a device called Qin 2. The device is equipped with a 5,05-inch diagonal touch display. Moreover, this panel has a non-standard resolution - 1440 × 576 pixels. Thus, the smartphone is very elongated vertically, and the screen aspect ratio is 22,5:9. About the type of processor used […]
The flagship smartphone Xiaomi Mi Mix 4 continues to be surrounded by rumors: this time information has appeared about the main camera of the upcoming device. As noted earlier, the new product will receive a main camera with an advanced image sensor, which will surpass the 64-megapixel Samsung ISOCELL Bright GW1 sensor in terms of performance. Now Xiaomi Product Director Wang Teng has announced that […]
To the roots... July 4, 2016 Irina Yarovaya gave an interview on the Rossiya 24 channel. Let me reprint a small fragment from it: “The law does not propose storing information. The law only gives the Government of the Russian Federation the right to decide within 2 years whether something needs to be stored or not. To what extent? In relation to what piece of information? Those. […]
On May 1, the law on the “sovereign Internet” was finally signed, but experts almost immediately dubbed it the isolation of the Russian segment of the Internet, so from what? (in simple language) The article pursues the goal of generally informing Internet users without immersing itself in unnecessary jungle and abstruse terminology. The article explains simple things for many, but for many it does not mean […]
I've been very unlucky in my life. All my life I have been surrounded by people who do something real. And I, as you might guess, am a representative of two of the most meaningless, far-fetched and unreal professions that you can think of - programmer and manager. My wife is a school teacher. Plus, of course, the class teacher. My sister is a doctor. Her husband, naturally, too. […]
Ubisoft has announced that it will join the Blender development fund as a Gold Member. Ubisoft will not only help fund the development of Blender, but will also provide Ubisoft Animation Studio developers to contribute to Blender projects. Source: linux.org.ru
There have been, are, and, unfortunately, will continue to have security problems in social networks and other databases. Banks, hotels, government facilities, and so on are under threat. But it seems that this time the situation has really gotten worse. The Bulgarian Personal Data Protection Commission reports that hackers hacked the tax office database and stole the information of 5 million people. Number […]
Toshiba Memory Holdings Corporation announced that it will officially change its name to Kioxia Holdings on October 1, 2019. Around the same time, the Kioxia (kee-ox-ee-uh) name will be included in the names of all Toshiba Memory companies. Kioxia is a combination of the Japanese word kioku, meaning "memory", and the Greek word axia, meaning "value". Combining “memory” with […]
Background It just so happened that I needed to store more than 1.5 TB of data somewhere, and also provide the ability for ordinary users to download it via a direct link. Since traditionally such amounts of memory go to VDS, the cost of renting which is not very much included in the project budget from the “nothing to do” category, and from the initial data I had […]
