Released in 2015, Agar.io was the progenitor of the new .io game genre, which has grown in popularity since then. I have personally experienced the rise in popularity of .io games: in the last three years I have created and sold two games in this genre.. In case you have never heard of such games before: these are free multiplayer web games […]
The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS), according to RBC, did not support the introduction of restrictions on the introduction of eSIM technology in our country. Recall that eSim, or embedded SIM, implies the presence of a special identification chip in the smartphone, which allows you to connect to a cellular operator without the need to install a physical SIM card. This opens up a number of new opportunities for market participants: for example, to connect […]
Network sources report that Apple is considering demonstrating the updated Mac Pro at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2019 (WWDC) event, which will be held in the United States in June. As a rule, the conference is devoted to software, but a demonstration of a device that Apple has been working on for more than two years also makes sense. Mac Pro is aimed at demanding users and developers. […]
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 InSight automatic apparatus, designed to study Mars, resumes drilling operations. This was reported by the online publication RIA Novosti, citing information disseminated by the German Aviation and Cosmonautics Center (DLR). Recall that the InSight probe arrived on the Red Planet at the end of November last year. This is a stationary device for which there is no possibility of movement. The objectives of the mission are to study the internal structure [...]
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 […]
