Developers from Phoenix Labs boasted the news that more than 10 million users have already played Dauntless. Now there are about four times more players than during the open beta testing on PC, and yet only three weeks have passed since the release on the Epic Games Store and on consoles. It is noteworthy that in May the project became the most popular shareware […]
At E3 2019, Ubisoft shared plans for the first year of support for the multiplayer action game Tom Clancy's The Division 2. During the first year of support, three free episodes will be released, which will become prequels to the main story. DLC will introduce story missions into the game that tell the story of where it all began. With each episode new territories will appear, [...]
Gmail is coming soon with a major update that will add something called "dynamic emails." This technology has already been tested among corporate G Suite users since the beginning of the year, and from July 2 it will be launched for everyone. Technically, this system relies on AMP, a web page compression technology from Google that is used on mobile devices. Her […]
Grasshopper Manufacture is working on No More Heroes III, the third serialized part of a series widely known in narrow circles, the development of which is led by game designer Suda51. The project will be exclusive to Nintendo Switch and will be released in 2020. The main character will once again be Travis Touchdown, and the events will unfold ten years after the end of the first No More Heroes. The character will return to his native [...]
The Shazam service has been around for a long time and is quite useful in the “what is that song playing on the radio” situation. However, until now the program has not been able to “listen” to music played through headphones. Instead, the sound had to be sent to the speakers, which was not always convenient. Now that has changed. Pop-up Shazam feature in the latest version of the app for […]
Not long ago, a new product became available - the flying camera AirSelfie 2. I got my hands on it - I suggest you look at a short report and conclusions on this gadget. So... This is a fairly new interesting gadget, which is a small quadcopter controlled via Wi-Fi from a smartphone. Its size is small (approximately 98x70 mm with a thickness of 13 mm), and the body […]
This article will be of interest to those who, like us, are faced with the problem of selecting a suitable specialist in the field of testing. Oddly enough, with the increase in the number of IT companies in our republic, only the number of worthy programmers increases, but not testers. Many people are eager to get into this profession, but not many understand its meaning. I can’t speak for everything [...]
The Debian project developers have announced their intention to release Debian 10 "Buster" on July 6th. Currently, 98 critical bugs blocking the release remain unfixed (a month ago there were 132, three months ago - 316, four months ago - 577). The remaining errors are scheduled to be closed by June 25th. Problems that cannot be resolved before this day will be flagged [...]
The release of the Linux distribution BackBox Linux 6 is available, based on Ubuntu 18.04 and supplied with a collection of tools for checking system security, testing exploits, reverse engineering, analyzing network traffic and wireless networks, studying malware, stress testing, and identifying hidden or lost data. The user environment is based on Xfce. The iso image size is 2.5 GB (i386, x86_64). The new version has updated the system […]
After a year of development, the release of the independent lightweight Linux distribution CRUX 3.5 has been prepared, developed since 2001 in accordance with the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) concept and aimed at experienced users. The goal of the project is to create a simple and transparent distribution for users, based on BSD-like initialization scripts, having the most simplified structure and containing a relatively small number of ready-made binary packages. […]
The fight for the customer is forcing contract semiconductor manufacturers to move closer to the designers. One option to allow customers from all over the world to benefit from certified EDA tools with all the latest changes is to deploy services in public clouds. Recently, the success of this approach was demonstrated by a service for checking the topology of chip design, deployed on the Microsoft Azure platform by TSMC. The decision is based […]
Efficient and Reliable Cluster Management at Scale with Tupperware Today at Systems @Scale we unveiled Tupperware, our cluster management system that orchestrates containers across millions of servers that run almost all of our services. We first deployed Tupperware in 2011, and since then our infrastructure has grown from 1 data center to as many as 15 geo-distributed data centers. […]
