The Xbox team announced the launch of several promotions in honor of the upcoming Electronic Entertainment Expo 2019. M.Video, Eldorado, DNS and the Xbox digital store are participating, and the offers apply to Xbox One, wireless gamepads and games. Until June 23, on the M.Video, Eldorado and DNS networks you can purchase an Xbox One X console in the basic configuration with a 10000 discount […]
Microsoft has deleted a huge facial recognition database containing about 10 million images involving about 100 people, according to a report published Thursday. This database was called Microsoft Celeb and was created in 2016. Her task was to save photos of celebrities around the world. Among them were journalists, musicians, various activists, politicians, […]
On the Reddit forum, a user under the nickname NOTSOHAPPYMEAL posted an image with box covers and the contents of the Cyberpunk 2077 Collector's Edition. The image was soon removed from the topic, but fans managed to spread it across the Internet. The quick reaction of the site moderators speaks in favor of the veracity of the leak. The image shows box art for Xbox One, PS4 and PC. And the Collector's Edition includes a steelbook […]
Dedicated to the 50th anniversary of EPFL On October 30, 2012, I had a one-way ticket to Geneva, and a great desire to obtain a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at one of the most prestigious universities in Europe, and perhaps the world. And on December 31, 2018, I spent my last day in the laboratory, to which I had already become attached. It's time to let […]
When visiting any country, it is important not to confuse tourism with emigration. Popular wisdom In previous articles (part 1, part 2, part 3) we touched on the professional topic of what awaits a young and still green university graduate upon admission, as well as during his studies in Switzerland. The next part, which logically follows from the previous three, is to show and talk about everyday […]
Continuous Deployment is a special approach in software development that is used to quickly, safely and efficiently implement various functions in software. The main idea is to create a reliable automated process that allows the developer to quickly deliver the finished product to the user. At the same time, constant changes are made to production - this is called a continuous delivery pipeline (CD Pipeline). Skillbox recommends: Practical […]
After seven months of development, the earlyoom 1.3 background process has been released, which periodically checks the amount of available memory (MemAvailable, SwapFree) and tries to respond at an early stage to memory shortages. If the amount of available memory is less than the specified value, then earlyoom will force (by sending SIGTERM or SIGKILL) the process that is consuming the most memory (having the highest /proc/*/oom_score) to terminate, […]
The release of the distributed source control system Git 2.22.0 has been announced. Git is one of the most popular, reliable and high-performance version control systems, providing flexible non-linear development tools based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of history and resistance to retroactive changes, implicit hashing of the entire previous history in each commit is used, and digital authentication is also possible […]
At WWDC Monday, Apple unveiled a cool new feature called Find My. Unlike the standard Find My iPhone, which relies on the cellular infrastructure and GPS of the lost device, Find Me can even find devices without a SIM card and GPS. For example, laptops, or even "stupid" location tags attached to any item (Apple […]
It seems that Homer with his poems is something distant, archaic, hard to read and naive. But it's not. We are all permeated with Homer, the ancient Greek culture from which all of Europe emerged: our language is replete with words and quotations from ancient Greek literature: take at least such expressions as “Homeric laughter”, “battle of the gods”, “Achilles heel”, “apple of discord” and our own: […]
Microsoft has officially unveiled a new Xbox One S bundle with Fortnite Battle Royale and a 1 TB hard drive included. The console in this set is made in a beautiful gradient purple color. The wireless gamepad is also purple. Included with the console, buyers will find a digital copy of one of the most popular multiplayer games of recent years - Fortnite […]
ADATA is actively expanding the range of products produced under the XPG gaming brand. We have already written that at the recent Computex 2019 exhibition, the first XPG Core Reactor power supplies in the company’s history were presented. However, in addition to them, the first XPG Invader and XPG Battlecruiser cases for ADATA, as well as the XPG Levante liquid cooling system, were also announced here. […]
