A new video for the meditative project Paper Beast (literally “Paper Beast”) for the PlayStation VR virtual reality headset has appeared on the PlayStation channel. The development is being carried out by Pixel Reef studio, created by French game designer Eric Chahi, known for such games as Another World, The Time Travelers, Heart of Darkness and From Dust. If the last video showed more of a general […]
All website promotion specialists know that Google ranks pages on the Internet based on the number and quality of links pointing to them. The better the content, the stricter the rules are followed, the higher the site ranks in search results. And there is a real war going on for first places, and therefore it is quite logical that all sorts of methods are used in it. Including unethical and [...]
Microsoft has launched a preload of the Gears 5 game client for a technical test of multiplayer. According to GameSpot, the opening of the servers is scheduled for July 19, 20:00 Moscow time. The game can now be downloaded from the Xbox Store for PC and Xbox One. The game client size is 10,8 GB on Xbox One. Microsoft claims that the game will take about the same amount of time […]
Microsoft has announced its participation in Gamescom 2019, which will be held from August 20 to 24 in Cologne, Germany. At the Xbox booth, visitors will be able to try out the Horde mode in Gears 5, the role-playing game Minecraft Dungeons, and other projects from various developers. Before the exhibition begins, there will be a live broadcast of the Inside Xbox show from the Gloria Theater in Cologne – […]
Today, for many, removing an interfering element from a photograph is no longer a problem. Basic skills in Photoshop or today's fashionable neural networks can solve the problem. However, in the case of video, the situation becomes more complicated, because you need to process at least 24 frames per second of video. And now a utility has appeared on Github that automates these actions, allowing you to delete […]
There are often messages online about the fight for the environment and the development of alternative energy sources. Sometimes they even report on how a solar power plant was built in an abandoned village so that local residents could enjoy the benefits of civilization not 2-3 hours a day while the generator is running, but constantly. But this is all somehow far from our lives, so I decided to [...]
Witold Jaworski has published a free book in English on developing Python add-ons for Blender 2.80 under the CC-NC-ND 3.0 license. This is the second edition of the previously published book “PyDev Blender” (the first edition was focused on creating add-ons for Blender 2.5x-2.7x) PS: Witold has been involved in 3D modeling of aircraft in Blender (and creating add-ons for Blender) for many years [... ]
Kenneth Reitz, a renowned software engineer, international speaker, open source advocate, street photographer, and electronic music producer, invites free software developers to take on the burden of maintaining one of his Python library repositories: requests records requests-html setup. py legit responder Also, other little-known projects are available for obtaining maintainership and the right to become an “owner”. Kenneth […]
After 6 months of development, the release of the distribution kit for creating firewalls OPNsense 19.7 is presented, which is a fork from the pfSense project, created with the goal of forming a completely open distribution kit that could have functionality at the level of commercial solutions for deploying firewalls and network gateways. Unlike pfSense, the project is positioned as not controlled by one company, developed with direct […]
Eclypsium has identified two vulnerabilities in the firmware of the BMC controller included in Lenovo ThinkServer servers, allowing a local user to spoof the firmware or execute arbitrary code on the BMC chip side. Further analysis showed that these problems also affect the firmware of BMC controllers used in Gigabyte Enterprise Servers server platforms, which are also used in servers from companies such as Acer, AMAX, Bigtera, Ciara, […]
Today, many companies actively use not only computers, but also mobile devices and laptops in their work. This raises the challenge of managing these devices using a unified solution. Sophos Mobile successfully copes with this task and opens up great opportunities for the administrator: Managing mobile devices owned by the company; BYOD, containers for access to corporate data. In details […]
Video games are a unique art. It's all because of the way they create experiences. The player controls what happens and creates a level of immersion that cannot be compared to anything else. He doesn't just observe something, he participates in it. Creating these feelings is what game design is all about. Every twist or game mechanic helps create emotion. Most of them […]
