In the first part, I tried to tell hobby electronics engineers who have grown up from Arduino pants how and why they should read datasheets and other documentation for microcontrollers. The text turned out to be large, so I promised to show practical examples in a separate article. Well, I called myself a load... Today I will show you how to use datasheets to solve quite simple, but necessary for many projects […]
Or what you should keep in mind when developing a dark mode for an application or website. 2018 showed that dark modes are on the way. Now that we're halfway through 2019, we can say with confidence: they're here, and they're everywhere. An example of an old green-on-black monitor Let's start with the fact that dark mode is not a new concept at all. It is used […]
The results of the last fiscal quarter were not very successful for NVIDIA, and management at the reporting conference often referred to both the surplus of server components that formed last year and the low demand for its products in China, where according to the results of the previous year the company formed up to 24% of total revenue including Hong Kong. By the way, similar […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk believes that based on the results of the second quarter of 2019, the company can set a record for the production and sales of electric cars. He announced this at a meeting with shareholders, which took place in California. Mr. Musk said that the company is not experiencing any problems with demand, and sales in the second quarter exceeded […]
The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) reports that in our country access to a forum distributing personal data bases of 900 thousand clients of Russian banks has been blocked. We reported a few days ago about a major leak of information about clients of Russian financial organizations. Information about OTP clients has become publicly available […]
Many events can be predicted before they happen, for example, it is quite obvious that the character of a person playing the popular MOBA game Dota 2 will soon die if a stronger enemy hero approaches him from an area out of sight. But what is obvious to a person is not always easy for a computer, and a person is not always […]
Fujifilm has announced it is returning to the black-and-white film market after ceasing its production more than a year ago due to lack of demand. As stated in the press release, the new Neopan 100 Acros II film was developed taking into account feedback from millennials and GenZ - generations of people born after 1981 and 1996, respectively, whom the company calls the "new […]
At the recent E3 games exhibition, a demo panel with ATARI VCS was presented. ATARI VCS is a video game console developed by Atari, SA. Although the Atari VCS is primarily designed to run Atari 2600 games through emulation, the console runs a Linux-based operating system that will allow users to download and install other compatible […]
On June 6, 2019, after four years of development, Exaile 4.0.0 was released - an audio player with extensive music management capabilities, expandable with more than fifty plugins. Changes: The playback engine has been rewritten. The GUI has been rewritten using GTK+3. The processing speed of large music libraries has been increased. Fixed the placement of some buttons during rtl localization. The reaction to scrolling has been fixed in the tag editor […]
The Firefox 68 release, expected on July 9, has been approved to include by default a new add-ons manager (about:addons), completely rewritten using HTML/JavaScript and standard web technologies. A new interface for managing add-ons has been prepared as part of an initiative to rid the browser of XUL and XBL-based components. To evaluate how the new interface works, without waiting for Firefox 68 in about:config, you can […]
Bethesda Softworks' parent company, ZeniMax Media, has demanded that fan development of a remake of the original Doom be stopped. ModDB user vasyan777 restored the classic shooter with more modern technology and graphics. He called his project Doom Remake 4. But he had to abandon the idea after receiving a legal warning from the publisher. The letter released by the company reads: “Despite your affection and enthusiasm […]
Spain's LaLiga football league has been fined for violating privacy laws by the government's data protection agency. As it turned out, an application was created that formally tracked statistics. But at the same time, it spied on users, collecting data through a microphone and GPS module. This was necessary to find bars where they illegally broadcast football from “pirated” video streams. LaLiga is going […]
