I publish the original article on Habr, the translation of which is posted on the corporate blog. The need to do something asynchronously, without waiting for the result here and now, or to divide a lot of work between several units that perform it, existed before the advent of computers. With their appearance, this need has become very tangible. Now, in 2019, typing this article on an 8-core laptop […]
According to Reuters, Tencent and Riot Games are working together on a mobile version of the popular MOBA game League of Legends. According to anonymous sources, the project has been in development for more than a year, but is unlikely to see the light of day this year. One of the sources added that many years ago Tencent offered Riot to create a mobile LoL, but the developers refused. WITH […]
Paradox Interactive talked about the fourth vampire clan in the upcoming action role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, the Ventrue. This is the ruling class of bloodsuckers. The representatives of the Ventrue clan truly have the blood of rulers. Previously, it consisted of high priests and aristocrats, but now bankers and top managers are among its ranks. This elite society values ancestry and loyalty above all, [...]
From June 3 to 8, the educational portal GeekBrains will organize GeekChange - 12 online meetings with programming experts. Each webinar is a new topic about programming in the format of mini-lectures and practical tasks for beginners. The event is suitable for those who want to start their journey in IT, change their career vector, transform their business into digital, who are tired of their current job, who dream […]
On June 27-28, St. Petersburg will host the Conversations conference, the only event in Russia dedicated to conversational artificial intelligence technologies. How can developers make money from conversational AI? What are the pros, cons, and hidden capabilities of different conversational platforms and methodologies? How to repeat the success of other people's voice skills and chatbots with AI, but not repeat other people's epic failures? Over the course of two days, Conversations participants […]
On May 22, a new version of the openSUSE Leap 15.1 distribution was released. The new version has a completely updated graphics stack. Despite the fact that this release uses kernel version 4.12, support for graphics hardware that was relevant for kernel 4.19 has been backported (including improved support for the AMD Vega chipset). Starting with Leap 15.1, Network Manager will be used […]
ASUS has introduced a new model in the Eye Care monitor family, designated VL278H: the panel measures 27 inches diagonally. The device is suitable for everyday work and play. The resolution is 1920 × 1080 pixels, which corresponds to Full HD format. Brightness is 300 cd/m2, contrast is 1000:1 (dynamic contrast reaches 100:000). Viewing angles horizontally and vertically – 000 […]
Mushkin has released Helix-L series solid-state drives, the first information about which appeared during the January CES 2019 electronics exhibition. The products are made in the M.2 2280 format (22 × 80 mm). This allows them to be used in desktop and laptop computers, including ultrabooks. The drives belong to PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe 1.3 solutions. 3D TLC flash memory microchips are used […]
Huawei, Samsung and Qualcomm have already presented chipsets supporting 5G modems. Network sources say that MediaTek will soon follow suit. The Taiwanese company announced that a new single-chip system with 5G support will be presented in May 2019. This means that the manufacturer has only a few days left to present its development. […]
If you administer a virtual infrastructure based on VMware vSphere (or any other technology stack), you probably often hear complaints from users: “The virtual machine is slow!” In this series of articles I will analyze performance metrics and tell you what and why it slows down and how to make sure it doesn’t slow down. I will consider the following aspects of virtual machine performance: CPU, RAM, DISK, […]
A new series of vulnerabilities have been discovered in Windows that allow access to the system. A user under the pseudonym SandBoxEscaper presented exploits for three flaws at once. The first allows you to increase user privileges in the system using the task scheduler. For an authorized user, it is possible to increase rights to system rights. The second flaw affects the Windows error reporting service. This allows attackers to use it […]
In the near future, the Xbox Game Pass game library will be replenished with eight projects, some of which will appear on the service on release day. They will be the shooter Void Bastards and the space adventure Outer Wilds - some of the most interesting indie games of this year. Starting May 23, subscribers will be able to download Metal Gear Survive, a survival simulator and role-playing game with turn-based combat […]
