NVIDIA couldn't resist reworking its graphical demo of the Apollo 11 mission using real-time ray tracing for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. NVIDIA says that reworking the demo has made it possible to more accurately convey the moment when Buzz Aldrin followed Neil Armstrong and set foot on the surface of the Moon. Aldrin's comments were added to […]
The developers of the popular YouTube Music application have announced the introduction of a new feature that will allow you to switch from listening to music to watching video clips and vice versa without any pause. Owners of paid YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscriptions can already take advantage of the new feature. Switching between songs and music videos is implemented efficiently and will not cause any difficulties. When […]
Large Internet providers in Kazakhstan, including Kcell, Beeline, Tele2 and Altel, have added the ability to intercept HTTPS traffic to their systems and required users to install a “national security certificate” on all devices with access to the global Internet. This was done as part of the implementation of the new version of the Law “On Communications”. It is stated that the new certificate should protect users of the country from fraud […]
In this article we will talk a little about copyright, but mainly about choosing a free license for the IONDV RAD framework. Framework and for open source products based on it. We'll talk about the Apache 2.0 permissive license, what led us to it, and what decisions we encountered along the way. The process of choosing a license is quite labor-intensive [...]
Pedagogy has interested me for a very long time and, for many years, I, as a student, educated, but at the same time harassed and delayed by the existing organization of education, thought about how to improve it. Lately, I have been increasingly given the opportunity to test some of the ideas in practice. In particular, this spring I was given the opportunity to read […]
Hi all! A year ago I wrote an article about how I organized a university course on signal processing. Judging by the reviews, the article has many interesting ideas, but it is large and difficult to read. And I have long wanted to break it down into smaller ones and write them more clearly. But somehow it doesn’t work to write the same thing twice. In addition, […]
Presented is the release of the Deepin 15.11 distribution, based on the Debian package base, but developing its own Deepin Desktop Environment and about 30 user applications, including the DMusic music player, the DMovie video player, the DTalk messaging system, the installer and the Deepin Software Center. The project was founded by a group of developers from China, but has transformed into an international project. The distribution supports […]
The cross-platform open build script generator CMake 3.15 has been released, serving as an alternative to Autotools and used in projects such as KDE, LLVM/Clang, MySQL, MariaDB, ReactOS and Blender. The CMake code is written in C++ and distributed under the BSD license. CMake is notable for providing a simple scripting language, means of extending functionality through modules, a minimal number of dependencies (there is no […]
Modder Markiyan Mocherad has developed a custom map for Dota 2 in the style of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive called PolyStrike. For the game, he recreated Dust_2 in low poly. The developer released the first video in which he showed the gameplay. Users will aim at each other using lasers. The gameplay is consistent with CS:GO - you can throw grenades and change weapons. Costs […]
At the end of 2018, we published a material on our website entitled “Very nice, king: we are assembling a gaming PC with Core i9-9900K and GeForce RTX 2080 Ti,” in which we examined in detail the features and capabilities of extreme assembly - the most expensive system in the “Computer of the Month” section " More than six months have passed, but fundamentally (if we talk about performance in games) in this […]
Despite the fact that competition in the processor market has not been as intense as it is now for a very long time, Intel and AMD do not plan to slow down. The Taiwanese resource DigiTimes, citing motherboard manufacturers, reports that in October of this year both AMD and Intel will release new processors for desktop systems. Intel will most likely […]
The translation of the article was prepared for students of the Linux Administrator course. Previously, I talked about how to test and enable the use of Hugepages on Linux. This article will only be useful if you actually have a place to use Hugepages. I've met a lot of people who are fooled by the prospect that Hugepages will magically improve productivity. However, hugepaging is a complex topic, […]
