At the Yet Another Conference 2019 event, Yandex presented a number of new products and services: one of them was a smart home with the Alice voice assistant. Yandex's smart home involves the use of smart lighting fixtures, smart sockets and other household devices. “Alice” can be asked to turn on the lights, turn down the temperature on the air conditioner, or turn up the volume of the music. To control a smart home [...]
In 2018, there were 2263 public leaks of confidential information worldwide. Personal data and payment information were compromised in 86% of incidents - this is about 7,3 billion records of user data. Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck lost $534 million as a result of compromise of online wallets of its clients. This was the largest reported damage. What will be the statistics for 2019, […]
CD Projekt RED has published its financial report for 2018. It paid attention to sales of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the studio's main hit. It turns out that 44,5% of copies sold were on PC. The calculation took into account data for all years since the release. It’s interesting that in 2015, the most copies of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt were bought by PS4 users – […]
Network sources report Facebook's plans to launch its own cryptocurrency next year. It is reported that the new payment network, covering 12 countries, will be rolled out in the first quarter of 2020. It is also known that testing of a cryptocurrency called GlobalCoin will begin at the end of 2019. More details about Facebook's plans are expected to emerge […]
The international payment system Mastercard, according to RBC, may soon introduce in Russia a service for withdrawing cash through ATMs without a card. We are talking about the use of QR codes. To receive the new service, the user will need to install a special mobile application on their smartphone. The process of receiving funds without a bank card involves scanning a QR code from the ATM screen and confirming your identity […]
The Roscosmos State Corporation reports that it is planned to form a new rocket engine building structure in our country. We are talking about the Voronezh Rocket Propulsion Center (VTsRD). It is proposed to create it on the basis of the Chemical Automatics Design Bureau (KBHA) and the Voronezh Mechanical Plant. The planned implementation period of the project is 2019–2027. It is assumed that the formation of the structure will be carried out at the expense of the two named […]
Today, May 23, the Yac 2019 conference started, at which the Yandex company presented Yandex.Module. This is a media player with a built-in voice assistant “Alice”, capable of connecting to a TV. The new product, in fact, is a proprietary version of the set-top box. Yandex.Module allows you to watch movies from Kinopoisk on the big screen, broadcast videos from Yandex.Ether, listen to tracks using Yandex.Music, and so on. The new product is estimated at […]
In the fall of 2015, IBM's semiconductor manufacturing plants became the property of GlobalFoundries. For a young and actively developing Arab-American contract manufacturer, this was supposed to be a new point of growth with all the ensuing consequences. As we now know, nothing good came of this for GlobalFoundries, investors and the market. Last year, GlobalFoundries pulled out of the race […]
Happy Friday everyone! Friends, today we continue the series of publications dedicated to the DevOps Practices and Tools course, because classes in the new course group will start at the end of next week. So, let's begin! Monitoring is easy. This is a known fact. Get Nagios up, run NRPE on the remote system, configure Nagios on NRPE TCP port 5666 and you have […]
Despite the complexity of the topic, Princeton University professor Stephen Gubser offers a succinct, accessible, and entertaining introduction to one of the most debated areas of physics today. Black holes are real objects, not just a thought experiment! Black holes are extremely convenient from a theoretical point of view, since they are mathematically much simpler than most astrophysical objects, such as stars. […]
Google has published a study, How Effective is Basic Account Hygiene in Preventing Account Theft, on what an account owner can do to prevent an account from being stolen. We present to your attention the translation of this study. True, the most effective method used by Google itself was not included in the report. I had to write about this method myself at the end. […]
An interview with Supermassive Games studio head Pete Samuels appeared on the PlayStation blog. He shared details regarding plans to release parts of the anthology The Dark Pictures. The authors intend to stick to their plan and release two games a year. Now Supermassive Games is actively working on three projects in the series at once. Of these, the developers officially announced only Man […]
