At E3 2019, a sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was announced. Many fans fear that it will be less fresh due to the presence of the same world. And series producer Eiji Aonuma told Kotaku that the team wanted to make a sequel precisely because there were a lot of ideas for DLC. In an interview with Kotaku Aonuma […]
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order gameplay was showcased at EA Play 2019. But the game is much more complex than the linear action game shown. Episode 212 of The Giant Beastcast podcast states that Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is not a clone of Uncharted or Horizon Zero Dawn, as it might seem. Structurally, the game is more like a metroidvania. You […]
Huawei and the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation will hold negotiations this summer on the possibility of using the Russian Aurora operating system in the devices of the Chinese manufacturer, RIA Novosti writes, citing Deputy Head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mamonov. Mamonov told reporters about this on the sidelines of the International Cybersecurity Congress (ICC), organized by Sberbank. Let us recall that on Thursday the head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, Konstantin Noskov, told the press […]
An experimental release of an open implementation of the Win32 API is available - Wine 4.11. Since the release of version 4.10, 17 bug reports have been closed and 370 changes have been made. The most important changes: Continued work on building the default DLL with the built-in msvcrt library (provided by the Wine project, not the Windows DLL) in PE (Portable Executable) format. Compared with […]
In the early 70s, American writer Michael Hart managed to gain unlimited access to a Xerox Sigma 5 computer installed at the University of Illinois. To make good use of the machine's resources, he decided to create the first electronic book, reprinting the US Declaration of Independence. Today, digital literature has become widespread, largely thanks to the development of portable devices (smartphones, e-readers, laptops). This […]
Earlier in the blog we wrote about how the DjVu and FB2 e-book formats appeared. The topic of today's article is EPUB. Image: Nathan Oakley / CC BY History of the format In the 90s, the e-book market was dominated by proprietary solutions. And many e-reader manufacturers had their own format. For example, NuvoMedia used files with the .rb extension. This […]
Animation in React applications is a popular and discussed topic. The fact is that there are a lot of ways to create it. Some developers use CSS by adding tags to HTML classes. An excellent method, worth using. But if you want to work with complex types of animations, it's worth taking the time to learn GreenSock, it's a popular and powerful platform. There is also […]
On June 22, the first corrective release of branch 0.19 of the popular free planetarium Stellarium was released, visualizing a realistic night sky, as if you were looking at it with the naked eye, or through binoculars or a telescope. In total, the list of changes from the previous version occupies almost 50 positions. Source: linux.org.ru
Damien Miller (djm@) has added an enhancement to OpenSSH that should help protect against various side channel attacks such as Specter, Meltdown, RowHammer and RAMBleed. The added protection is designed to prevent the recovery of a private key located in RAM using data leaks through third-party channels. The essence of the protection is that private keys, when not in use, […]
Documentation describing a Samsung smartphone with a new design has been published on the websites of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), according to the LetsGoDigital resource. We are talking about a device with two displays. In the front part there is a screen with narrow side frames. This panel does not have a cutout or hole for […]
On June 21, the Chinese company Huawei will officially present new Nova series smartphones. Not long ago, the top model of the Nova 5 Pro series was spotted in the Geekbench database, and today Huawei released an official image in order to stir up interest in the device. The said image shows the Nova 5 Pro in Coral Orange color and also reveals that the smartphone […]
The experience of the Ivy online cinema When at the beginning of 2017 we first thought about creating our own design-to-code delivery system, many people already talked about this and some even did it. However, little is known about the experience of building cross-platform design systems to this day, and clear and proven recipes that describe technologies and methods for such a transformation of the […]
