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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Background Once, to reproduce a bug, I needed a backup of the production database. To my surprise, I encountered the following limitations: The database backup was made on a version of SQL Server 2016 and was not compatible with my SQL Server 2014. On my work computer, the OS was Windows 7, so I could not upgrade SQL Server to version [… ]
Hey Habr! Finally, before the summer holidays, we decided to please our dear subscribers with a series of meetups! There will be three of them next week! And not only in Moscow... June 19 at 18:00 (Moscow) at the IBM office meeting on Java technologies. We will have a Java Champion, Sebastian Dashner. We will discuss the use of Java in the new cloud realities. June 20 at 18:00 […]
DISCLAIMER Judging by the record high ratio of the number of silent dissatisfied to the number of commentators with something to object to, it is not obvious to many readers that: 1) This is a purely theoretical discussion article. There will be no practical advice here on choosing tools for mining cryptocurrency or assembling a multivibrator to flash two light bulbs. 2) This is not a popular science article. There will be no explanation for the teapot […]
Hello, Habr! After several months of waiting, we finally got it: ONYX BOOX has released its first e-reader for the 2019 model year, and it is a professional version of the Nova e-reader, which was a big success last year. The advantage of the new device is that it has an additional WACOM touch layer (paired with a stylus, of course) and an application for creating […]
