Qualcomm used illegal, anticompetitive practices to license modem patents used in mobile phones. This conclusion was reached by Judge Lucy Koh of the San Jose District Court during the trial in a case brought in connection with a lawsuit by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which accused the chipmaker of using a dominant position in the market to use anti-competitive [...]
Gradually, more and more details are being revealed about the new architecture of AMD Navi GPUs. As you know, it will become the next version of the long-used Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture, but at the same time, according to the latest data, it will receive very noticeable changes. In particular, the new architecture will correct one serious drawback inherent in previous versions of GCN. A conditional diagram was published on the Internet [...]
MSI has announced a new family of computer cases, the MPG Sekira 500, designed for building gaming-grade desktop systems. The series includes three models - Sekira 500X, Sekira 500G and Sekira 500P. All of them are made in a simple style, and the differences lie in the design and decorative elements. Thus, the Sekira 500X version received a transparent section in the front part, […]
Translator's Preface: After reading this article, you may be surprised or even angry. Yes, we were surprised too: the author supposedly had never heard about the hierarchy in the team, about setting tasks with the status “do it quickly and without reasoning.” Yes, that's right, this is a bit of a strange text. Indeed, the author suggests that the programmer take on the role of a system architect - why […]
We have already reported that the South Korean company Samsung may release a smart speaker Galaxy Home Mini with a voice assistant. Another confirmation of this appeared on the website of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC documentation provides insight into the appearance of the device. The gadget is made in the form of a small bowl with touch controls at the top. It is known that […]
The Open Mobile Platform (OMP) and Aquarius companies announced the porting of the Russian mobile operating system Aurora to Russian tablets manufactured by Aquarius. “Aurora” is the new name of the Sailfish Mobile OS Rus software platform. This operating system is designed for mobile devices, in particular smartphones and tablets. It is reported that the first Russian tablet based on Aurora was the Aquarius Cmp NS208 model. […]
Several sources immediately reported that the South Korean company Samsung may soon announce an “off-road” smartphone Galaxy Xcover 5. In particular, as noted, the new product has been submitted for certification by the Wi-Fi Alliance. The device appears under the code designation SM-G398F. For comparison: the Galaxy Xcover 4 model has the code SM-G389F. In addition, a Samsung smartphone with code SM-G398FN […]
GitHub has implemented a sponsorship system to provide financial support to open source projects. The new service provides a new form of participation in the development of projects - if the user is not able to help in development, then he can connect to projects of interest as a sponsor and help through funding specific developers, maintainers, designers, documentation authors, testers and other participants involved in the project. At […]
Analytical company NPD Group published a report on sales of video games and gaming devices in the United States for April. Consumers spent $824 million on games during the month, up 1 percent year over year. Annual sales of tracked consoles, games, accessories and gift cards fell 2% from 2018 to $4 billion. Nintendo Switch continues […]
Introduction We at Shopify have been deploying Istio as a service mesh. In principle, everything suits, except for one thing: it's expensive. The published benchmarks for Istio say: With Istio 1.1, the proxy consumes approximately 0,6 vCPUs (virtual cores) per 1000 requests per second. For the first region in the service mesh (2 proxies on each side of the connection), […]
A few years ago, an international team of scientists from the Universities of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Munich, Germany, conducted a study on the effectiveness of traditional proxies as an anti-censorship tool. As a result, scientists have proposed a new method for bypassing blocking based on game theory. We have prepared an adapted translation of the main points of this work. Introduction Popular lock traversal tools like Tor rely on […]
Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that God of War, released in April 2018, has surpassed 10 million copies sold. President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment Jim Ryan spoke about this at the presentation of Sony IR Day 2019. He provided sales data for the God of War series, Uncharted and the first The Last […]
