Huawei has introduced the Y7 Prime (2019) Faux Leather Special Edition smartphone, which can be purchased at an estimated price of $220. The device is equipped with a 6,26-inch IPS display with HD+ resolution (1520 × 720 pixels). The back of the case is trimmed with brown faux leather. The device uses a Snapdragon 450 processor. The chip contains eight ARM computing cores […]
International Data Corporation (IDC) has published a forecast for the consumer information technology (IT) market for the coming years. We are talking about the supply of personal computers and various portable devices. In addition, mobile telecommunications services and developing areas are taken into consideration. The latter include virtual and augmented reality headsets, wearable gadgets, drones, robotic systems and devices for modern “smart” […]
Qualcomm last year introduced a reference design for a smart wireless headset (Qualcomm Smart Headset Platform) based on the previously announced energy-efficient QCC5100 single-chip audio system with Bluetooth support. The headset initially supported integration with the Amazon Alexa voice assistant. Now the company has announced a partnership with Google that will add support for Google Assistant and […]
Akasa has introduced an adapter called AK-PCCM2P-04, which allows you to connect up to two M.2 solid-state drives to the PCI Express connectors of the motherboard. The new product is made in the form of a compact expansion card with two PCI Express x4 connectors, one for each M.2 connector. One of them is located on the board itself, while the other is routed through a flexible cable […]
The release of the DXVK 1.2 layer has been published, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 10 and Direct3D 11, working through the translation of calls to the Vulkan API. DXVK requires drivers that support the Vulkan API, such as AMD RADV 18.3, AMDGPU PRO 18.50, NVIDIA 415.22, Intel ANV 19.0, and AMDVLK. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and […]
OpenBSD has added the sysupgrade utility, designed to automatically update the system to a new release or snapshot of the CURRENT branch. Sysupgrade downloads the files needed for the upgrade, verifies them using signify, copies bsd.rd (a special ramdisk running entirely from RAM, used for installation, upgrade and system recovery) to bsd.upgrade and initiates a system reboot. The bootloader, having detected the presence of bsd.upgrade, begins […]
I would like to share with you a few of the non-fiction books I have read in recent years. However, an unexpected selection problem arose when compiling the list. Books, as they say, are for a wide range of people. Which are easy to read even for a completely unprepared reader and can compete with fiction in terms of exciting storytelling. Books for more thoughtful reading, which require a little […]
As part of the Google I/O conference held last week, the American Internet giant presented a new beta version of the Android Q operating system, the final release of which will take place in the fall along with the announcement of the Pixel 4 smartphones. We spoke in detail about the key innovations in the updated software platform for mobile devices in a separate article, but, as it turned out, the developers of the tenth generation of Android […]
We have noted more than once that power supplies are becoming “our everything.” Mobile electronics, electric vehicles, the Internet of things, energy storage and much more bring the process of power supply and voltage conversion to the first most important positions in electronics. Technologies for the production of chips and discrete elements using materials such as nitride promise to significantly increase the efficiency of power supplies and, in particular, inverters.
Jonsbo has introduced a new air cooling system for processors, called the CR-1000. The new product is a classic tower-type cooler and stands out only for its pixel (addressable) RGB backlight. Jonsbo CR-1000 is built on four U-shaped copper heat pipes with a diameter of 6 mm, which are assembled in an aluminum base and can be in direct contact with the processor cover. It didn’t fit very well on the tubes [...]
The Wall Street Journal resource reported on a secret weapon developed in the United States designed to destroy terrorists without harming nearby civilians. According to WSJ sources, the new weapon has already proven its effectiveness in a number of operations in at least five countries. The R9X rocket, also known as the "ninja bomb" and the "flying Ginsu" (Ginsu is a brand of knives), is […]
The creation of the automatic interplanetary station “Luna-29” will be carried out within the framework of the Federal Target Program (FTP) for a super-heavy rocket. This was reported by the online publication RIA Novosti, citing information received from sources in the rocket and space industry. Luna-29 is part of a large-scale Russian program to explore and develop the natural satellite of our planet. As part of the Luna-29 mission, it is planned to launch an automatic station [...]
