Cooler Master, as expected, presented the MM2019 mouse at Computex 831, designed for computer game lovers. The new product received a PixArt PMW-3360 optical sensor. Its resolution reaches 32 dots per inch (DPI). Of course, this value can be adjusted: the minimum value is 000 DPI. The manipulator connects to the computer via wireless communication. This may involve [...]
The Russian company CosmoCours, founded in 2014 as part of the Skolkovo Foundation, spoke about plans to launch the first tourist spaceship. “CosmoKurs”, let us remind you, is developing a complex of a reusable launch vehicle and a reusable spacecraft for tourist space travel. Clients will be offered an unforgettable flight for $200–$250 thousand. For this money, tourists will be able to spend 5–6 minutes in zero gravity and admire […]
Publisher Square Enix announced that it will present Dying Light 2 from the Polish studio Techland during its live broadcast at E3 2019. The company has become the distributor of the project in the USA, Canada and South America. The official Square Enix Twitter account posted a message: “We are excited to partner with the talented individuals at Techland to bring the highly anticipated Dying Light […]
Released 10 years ago, Ghostbusters: The Video Game returns in an updated version for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows (on the Epic Games Store). The launch date has not yet been announced, but the game will reach shelves before the end of this year. On the occasion of the announcement, a video was presented that promises at least support for high resolutions. The story, adapted by film writers Dan Aykroyd (Dan […]
Since the launch of Windows 8 and the Windows Store in 2012, Microsoft has been trying to bring Universal Workplace (UWP) apps to the market, but it hasn't been a success. The company has not yet announced a complete abandonment of this platform, but has unofficially admitted that developers and users are not particularly interested in it. To support the system, Microsoft announced […]
Xbox Live Gold subscribers can look forward to 4 new freebies from Microsoft in June. Xbox One owners will be able to become a hockey star in EA Sports NHL 19 and take part in large-scale battles in Rivals of Aether. On Xbox 360, and thanks to backwards compatibility, on Xbox One, players will solve interdimensional puzzles in […]
Shiro Games, the studio that released the action role-playing game Evoland, introduced the Northgard strategy based on Norse mythology back in 2016. For some time the project was in early access on Steam, and in March 2018 there was a full launch on PC. Now the developers are going to release their brainchild on modern consoles (Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch) and presented […]
Behind the AI revolution has grown an underclass of workers invisible to most of us: thousands of low-paid people in the US and around the world who carefully parse millions of pieces of data and images to help feed powerful AI algorithms. Critics call them "the new serfs." Why it's important: These workers are the people who mark up data so computers can understand […]
The post is dedicated to Children's Day. Any coincidence is not a coincidence. At the age of 10, I got my first computer and a disk with Visual Studio 6. Since then, I have been coming up with tasks for myself - automating things, putting together some kind of web service for three people, or writing a game that will then be removed from the play market due to old age. Of course, I lost the sources and […]
Google has announced stricter rules for adding add-ons to the Chrome Web Store. The first part of the changes is related to Project Strobe, which reviewed the methods used by third-party app and add-on developers to access services associated with a user's Google account or data on Android devices. In addition to the previously presented new […]
PyPI, a directory of packages for Python developers, has added support for two-factor authentication to protect your account in case your primary password is compromised. The opportunity is available to all registered users of the catalog. Of the two-factor authentication methods, only time-limited one-time passwords (TOTP), generated using a special mobile application, are currently supported. To generate one-time passwords, […]
The first test (milestone) release of the Tizen 5.5 mobile platform has been presented. The release is aimed at introducing developers to the new capabilities of the platform. The code is supplied under GPLv2, Apache 2.0 and BSD licenses. The assemblies are generated for the emulator, Raspberry Pi 3, odroid u3, odroid x u3, artik 710/530/533 boards and various mobile platforms based on armv7l and arm64 architectures. The project is being developed under [...]
