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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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% […]
The release of the WordPress 5.2 web content management system has been presented. The release is notable for the completion of a six-year saga to implement the ability to check updates and additions using a digital signature. Until now, when installing updates in WordPress, the main security factor was trust in the WordPress infrastructure and servers (after downloading, the hash was checked without verifying the source). If the project servers are compromised, attackers […]
Even during the preliminary announcement of the co-op story mission “Premonition of the Storm” in Overwatch, it was assumed that the new location, which debuted in the mission to capture the villain Maximilien, would become a map for standard competitive battles. Blizzard then announced that the Havana arena, based on the capital of Cuba, will indeed become a full-fledged map for the Capture Points mode. Now that the Overwatch Archives seasonal event has ended, […]
During the last reporting conference, Electronic Arts told investors about the past quarter and plans for the future. In particular, the publisher of Apex Legends happily spoke about the success of the online shooter and announced plans to transfer Apex Legends to more platforms, primarily to mobile ones, following the example of Fortnite and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Expansion into smartphones is quite [...]
Last year, Microsoft introduced artificial intelligence into PowerPoint. It was built into the Ideas tool to improve presentations. Now the company is adapting Ideas to Microsoft Word, offering ideas for improving texts. Unlike the traditional system for correcting typos and incorrect sentence construction, the Ideas system works differently. She will analyze the text, the words used, their length […]
Youth organizations under the State Duma and the Union of Lawyers of Russia published the results of an all-Russian online survey on the topic of threats from the Internet. It was held in 61 regions, and 1,2 thousand people took part. As RBC reports, these data will be used to develop recommendations from the Public Chamber at the end of this month. The initiative was proposed by the Youth Parliament, the Youth Union of Lawyers of Russia and a number of other […]
