Hello, friends. Before leaving for the second part of the May holidays, we share with you the material that we translated in anticipation of the launch of a new stream on the course “Relational DBMS”. Application developers spend a lot of time comparing multiple operational databases to select the one that best suits the intended workload. Needs may include simplified data modeling, […]
The Mojang team has released Minecraft Classic for browsers. To access the game, just go to a special site. Over the years, Minecraft has been a cultural sensation. It now has over 90 million active gamers every month, and Mojang is backing it with updates that add depth to the gameplay. But if you are tired of all these innovations and you need […]
On April 25, we held another Avito Student Talks meetup, this time it was dedicated to analytics: career path, Data Science and product analytics. After the meeting, we thought that her materials might be of interest to a wide audience and decided to share them. The post contains video recordings of reports, presentations from speakers, feedback from listeners and, of course, a photo report. Reports Career […]
Samsung sent out emails on Monday evening to users who pre-ordered the Galaxy Fold foldable smartphone. Apparently, the delivery of the new flagship model of the South Korean company, costing almost $2000, has been postponed indefinitely. Initially, the debut of the new product in the US was scheduled for April 26, but then the South Korean giant officially postponed it to a later date a few days […]
ASRock has issued an official press release about the upcoming release of new BIOS versions that will add support for future Ryzen 4 processors to older Socket AM3000 motherboards. The company is far from being the first to announce such support, but unlike other manufacturers, ASRock explains that some motherboards , for example, based on the A320 chipset, will not be able to work with all processors […]
As you know, about a month ago in Paris, the roof and accompanying structures of the 700-year-old Notre Dame Cathedral burned down in Paris. It is unlikely that anyone will argue that this is a blow to cultural and historical value on a global scale. The tragedy did not leave many people in the world indifferent, and not even necessarily those who consider themselves religious. Is it necessary to restore [...]
Ubisoft is sending notifications to European users of the Uplay Store. They report that from May 9, players will not be able to activate a 20% discount on new projects from the publisher, nor use it when placing a pre-order. Interestingly, the change will come into force on the same day as the announcement of a new game in the Ghost Recon franchise. Previously, users could accumulate […]
Gearbox Software has announced that shooter Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition has received 4K support on Xbox One X. Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition is an updated version of Bulletstorm for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. It not only features Duke Nukem as a guest character, but also improved graphics and performance. The game runs at 60 […]
Note trans.: Employees of the world-famous Tinder service recently shared some technical details of migrating their infrastructure to Kubernetes. The process took almost two years and resulted in the launch of a very large-scale platform on K8s, consisting of 200 services hosted on 48 thousand containers. What interesting difficulties did the Tinder engineers encounter and what results did they arrive at? Read […]
– These idiots placed a porcelain container with “jelly” in a special chamber, extremely isolated... That is, they thought that the chamber was extremely isolated, but when they opened the container with manipulators, the “jelly” went through the metal and plastic, like water through a blotter, and escaped outward, and everything he came into contact with again turned into “jelly.” Thirty-five people died, more […]
For what? Any hackathon known among a wide range of specialists usually has a specific and openly stated goal. Agree, no one will spend tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars on promotion, renting a huge premises and freshly squeezed carrot juices just for fun. Therefore, on their colorful and smartphone-adapted landing pages, the organizers always use beautiful and bold […]
The processes taking place in the market are forcing analysts to revise their forecasts for the state of the semiconductor industry. And the adjustments they make inspire, if not horror, then at least concern: expected sales volumes of silicon products for this year relative to initial forecasts are reduced by a double-digit number of percentage points. For example, according to a recent report from IHS Markit, the semiconductor market will shrink by 7,4% […]
