10 months after the last test release, GTK 3.96 is unveiled, a new experimental release of the upcoming stable release of GTK 4. The GTK 4 branch is being developed as part of a new development process that attempts to provide application developers with a stable and supported API for several years that can be used safely , that every six months you will have to redo the application due to API changes […]
At the Google I/O 2018 event, an interesting Duplex technology was presented, which aroused genuine delight from the public. The assembled audience was shown how the voice assistant independently arranges a meeting or makes a table reservation, and for added realism, the Assistant inserts interjections into the speech, reacting to the person’s words with words like: “uh-huh” or “yeah.” At the same time, Google Duplex warns the interlocutor that the conversation […]
More than two years ago, Microsoft canceled Scalebound, an action game from Platinum Games. Fans of the genre and Xbox One owners were very upset by this fact, because the game was created by Hideki Kamiya, writer and director of Bayonetta and Devil May Cry. Many blamed Microsoft for the cancellation, but in a recent interview, Platinum Games CEO Atsushi Inaba explained […]
During the Google I/O 2019 developer conference, the search giant made an announcement about the development of the Assistant personal assistant for car owners. The company already added Assistant support to Google Maps this year, and in the next few weeks, users will be able to get similar assistance through voice queries in the Waze navigation app. But this is just the beginning - the company […]
The hacker group Shadow Brokers acquired hacking tools in 2017, which led to a number of major incidents around the world, including a massive attack using the WannaCry ransomware. The group was reported to have stolen hacking tools from the US National Security Agency, but it was unclear how they managed to do this. Now it has become known that Symantec specialists […]
Over the past three years, the Google Assistant personal assistant has been actively developing. It is now available on over a billion devices, 30 languages in 80 countries, with over 30 unique connected home devices from over 000 brands. The search giant, judging by the announcements made at the Google I/O developer conference, aims to make the assistant the most […]
Throughout the year, Russians regularly go on holidays - New Year holidays, May and other shorter weekends. And this is the traditional time for serial marathons, spontaneous purchases and sales on Steam. In the pre-holiday period, retail and logistics companies experience an increased load: people order gifts in online stores, pay for their delivery, buy tickets for trips, communicate. Calendar peaks […]
The Akasa Turing PC small form factor desktop computer, an Intel NUC system powered by an eighth-generation Core processor, has gone on sale. The new product can be equipped with a Core i5-8259U or Core i7-8559U chip from the Coffee Lake family. These products contain four computing cores with the ability to simultaneously process up to eight instruction threads. The clock frequency in the first case is 2,3–3,8 GHz, in […]
At last year’s December event, Keenetic made several important announcements at once, but for the purposes of this review, we are only interested in two. Firstly, the company really continues to support older models, adding new features to the firmware. Secondly, among these new features in the release was finally a Wi-Fi system. Let’s get acquainted with it using the example of devices of different generations: 2015 models […]
With one of the industry's largest cash reserves, Apple buys a company every two to three weeks. Over the past six months alone, 20–25 companies of various sizes have been purchased, and Apple does not give such transactions much publicity. Only those assets that can provide benefits in strategic terms are purchased. CEO Tim Cook in […]
Hot on the heels, additional corrective releases of Firefox 66.0.5 and 60.6.3 ESR have been published, in which work continues to restore add-ons disabled due to an expired intermediate certificate. In particular, the problem with updating the intermediate certificate in the case of setting a master password, through which access to the database of saved accounts is controlled, has been resolved. Since replacing a certificate requires that a master password be entered, [...]
After the release of Windows 10 for ARM processors, enthusiasts began to experiment with running the OS on different mobile devices. Some launched it on the Nintendo Switch, others on smartphones running Windows Mobile and Android. And now there is a way to easily install the "tens" on the Lumia 950 XL. A group of LumiaWOA enthusiasts have released an OS build and a set of tools that […]
