Strategy Analytics released statistics on the global tablet PC market in the first quarter of this year. It is reported that shipments of these devices in the period from January to March inclusive amounted to approximately 36,7 million units. This is 5% less than last year's result, when shipments were 38,7 million units. Apple remains the global market leader. Moreover, this company was able to increase the supply of […]
One of the classic games that hitherto had neither official nor artisanal versions for modern systems (with the exception of an adaptation for the eduke32 engine, as well as a Java (sic!) port from the same Russian developer), remained Blood, a popular "shooter" from first person. And here's Nightdive Studios, known for "remastered" versions of many other old games, some of which […]
GitHub announced the launch of a new Package Registry service, within which developers are given the opportunity to publish and distribute packages with applications and libraries. It supports the creation of both private package repositories, available only to certain groups of developers, and public public repositories for the delivery of ready-made assemblies of their programs and libraries. The presented service allows you to organize a centralized process of delivering dependencies […]
In Germany, the eHighway was launched on Tuesday with a contact network for recharging electric trucks on the go. The length of the electrified section of the road, located south of Frankfurt, is 10 km. This technology has already been tested in Sweden and Los Angeles, but on much shorter stretches of road. A few years ago, as part of an initiative to reduce […]
This is a selection for professionals, engineering students and their junior colleagues. In this digest, we will talk about the upcoming thematic events (May, June and July). From the photo tour of the laboratory "Promising nanomaterials and optoelectronic devices" on Habré 1. Investment pitch session from iHarvest Angels and FT ITMO When: May 22 (application deadline May 13) What time: […]
SEGA Europe has announced the acquisition of Two Point, the developer behind the Two Point Hospital strategy. Since January 2017, SEGA Europe has been the publisher of Two Point Hospital under the Searchlight developer talent program. Therefore, the purchase of a studio is not at all surprising. Recall that Two Point Studios was founded in 2016 by natives of Lionhead (series Fable, Black & […]
Several previous articles on our blog were devoted to the security of personal information that is sent using instant messengers and social networks. Now it's time to talk about precautions regarding physical access to devices. How to quickly destroy information on a flash drive, HDD or SSD Often the easiest way to destroy information is if it is nearby. We are talking about the destruction of data from […]
Two years ago, self-driving technology company Waymo, a spin-off from Google, announced a partnership agreement with San Francisco-based taxi service Lyft. Waymo has shared new details of a partnership with Lyft that will see it provide the service with 10 self-driving cars over the next few months to provide […]
From December 31, 2019, that is, in just over seven months, the popular WhatsApp messenger, which celebrated its tenth anniversary this year, will stop working on smartphones with the Windows Phone operating system. The corresponding announcement appeared on the official blog of the application. Owners of older iPhones and Android devices are a little more fortunate - they will be able to continue chatting in WhatsApp on their […]
Crytek has revealed details of its recent demo of real-time ray tracing on the Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics card. Recall that in mid-March this year, the developer published a video in which he showed real-time ray tracing in CryEngine 5.5 using an AMD graphics card . At the time of publication of the video itself, Crytek did not […]
Previously, various manufacturers launched smartphones with an additional display based on E Ink electronic paper. The most famous such device was the YotaPhone model. Now the EeWrite team intends to present a gadget with such a design. True, this time we are not talking about a smartphone, but about a tablet computer. The device will receive a main 9,7-inch LCD touch screen with […]
Sony continues to reveal some details about its new generation gaming console. The main characteristics were revealed last month by the lead architect of the future system. Now, the Official PlayStation Magazine print edition was able to find out from one of the Sony representatives a little more details about the novelty's solid-state drive. Sony's statement reads: "A super-fast SSD is the key to […]
