Samsung plans to add support for blockchain technology, as well as cryptocurrency transactions, to its budget phones. Currently, only the flagship Galaxy S10 smartphone boasts such functions. According to Business Korea, Chae Won-cheol, senior managing director of product strategy for Samsung's mobile division, said: "We will lower the barriers to new experiences by gradually expanding the number of […]
Most recently, Thanos from The Avengers visited the battle royale in Fortnite, and soon he will be able to meet John Wick from the film of the same name. Immediately after the release of the next update, skilled users decided to study the downloaded files and found a lot of interesting things there. It has become known that two costumes of the popular hero will go on sale in the Fortnite store: regular and […]
Ubisoft's pirate action adventure Skull & Bones still can't see the light of day. It was announced at E3 2017 and planned to be released before the end of 2018. It was then delayed until fiscal year 2019. And this week it became known that even more time will have to be spent on development. “We need to batten down the hatches and postpone the release of the game. […]
The fashion for dark themes in various programs, including browsers, continues to gain momentum. Earlier it became known that such a theme appeared in the Edge browser, but then it had to be turned on forcibly using flags. Now there is no need to do this. The latest build of Microsoft Edge Canary 76.0.160.0 added a feature similar to Chrome 74. It’s […]
Last August, for the launch of the World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth expansion, Blizzard Entertainment presented a story-driven short CG video called “The Old Soldier.” It was dedicated to the legendary Horde warrior Varok Saurfang, who was experiencing a moment of weakness due to endless bloodshed, the death of his son in the battle in the north against the Lich King and the destruction of the Tree of Life of Teldrassil by Sylvanas Windrunner. Despite the worries, [...]
The author of the article, the translation of which we are publishing today, says that her goal is to talk about the development of a Python web scraper using Selenium that searches for airfare prices. When searching for tickets, flexible dates are used (+- 3 days from the indicated dates). The scraper saves search results in an Excel file and sends an email to whoever launched it with […]
In the comments to my article Docker: bad advice, there were many requests to explain why the Dockerfile described in it was so terrible. Summary of the previous episode: two developers compose a Dockerfile under a tight deadline. In the process, Ops Igor Ivanovich comes to them. The resulting Dockerfile is so bad that the AI is on the verge of a heart attack. Now let’s figure out what’s wrong with this [...]
To some, the test described in this article may seem trivial. But it would still need to be done to be absolutely sure that the solution would work. Now we can safely say that we are not afraid of short-term interference in the L1 range. The first article will introduce you to the course. Briefly: not so long ago it became available, including to the general public, […]
Last year, Valve introduced the Steam Link app for mobile devices. The idea is to stream titles from Steam's own library on mobile devices. It works by capturing and streaming games from your home PC to your smartphone or tablet. The technology was a development of the Steam Link hardware micro-set-top box, introduced in 2015 […]
The creator of the social network VKontakte and the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov responded to information about a serious vulnerability in WhatsApp. He said that everything on users' smartphones, including photos, emails and texts, was accessible to attackers simply because of the use of the program. However, he noted that he was not surprised by this outcome. Last year, WhatsApp had to admit that they had […]
The Samsung Pay service appeared in 2015 and allowed owners of gadgets from the South Korean technology giant to make contactless payments using their mobile device as a kind of virtual wallet. Since then, there has been a continuous process of developing the service and expanding the user audience. Network sources say that the Samsung Pay service is currently regularly used by 14 million users from […]
General Director of VNIIEM Corporation JSC Leonid Makridenko spoke about the implementation of the Ionosonde project, which provides for the formation of a new satellite constellation. The initiative involves the launch of two pairs of Ionosphere-type devices and one Zond device. The Ionosphere satellites will be responsible for observing the Earth’s ionosphere and studying the processes and phenomena occurring in it. The Zond device will be engaged in observing the Sun: the satellite will be able to monitor solar activity, [...]
