Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that EA Access will be coming to PlayStation 4 this July. A month and a year of subscription will probably cost the same as on Xbox One - 399 rubles and 1799 rubles, respectively. EA Access provides access to Electronic Arts' catalog of games for a monthly fee. In addition, subscribers can count on a 10 percent […]
A Japanese aerospace startup successfully launched a small rocket into space on Saturday, making it the country's first model developed by a private company to do so. Interstellar Technology Inc. reported that the unmanned Momo-3 rocket launched from a test site in Hokkaido and reached an altitude of about 110 kilometers before falling into the Pacific Ocean. The flight time was 10 minutes. […]
Today, the Bitcoin rate has risen significantly again and even managed to overcome the psychologically important mark of $6000 for a while. The main cryptocurrency reached this price for the first time since November last year, continuing the trend of steady growth taken since the beginning of the year. At today's trading, the cost of one bitcoin reached $6012, which means a daily increase of 4,5% and […]
Bethesda Softworks has announced that QuakeCon will be held in Europe for the first time. The QuakeCon Europe festival will take place on July 26th and 27th in London at Printworks. The European event will take place simultaneously with the annual festival in Dallas, Texas. The entrance is free. This year's QuakeCon theme is Year of DOOM. Fans will be able to see [...]
Red Hat has published the release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 distribution. Installation assemblies are prepared for x86_64, s390x (IBM System z), ppc64le and Aarch64 architectures, but are available for download only to registered users of the Red Hat Customer Portal. The sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 rpm packages are distributed through the CentOS Git repository. The distribution will be supported until at least 2029. […]
Military-industrial company AerialX from Vancouver (Canada), specializing in the manufacture of unmanned aerial vehicles, has developed a kamikaze drone AerialX, which will help in preventing terrorist attacks using drones. AerialX CEO Noam Kenig describes the new product as “a hybrid of a rocket and a quadcopter.” It's essentially a kamikaze drone that looks like a miniature rocket but has the maneuverability of a quadcopter. With a take-off weight of 910 grams, this pocket […]
The medieval online slasher Mordhau attracted a large audience for independent games. Triternion studio said on the project’s official website that in just over a week, sales of the new product reached 500 thousand copies. The developers admitted that the launch did not go very smoothly - there were regular problems with the servers due to the large number of users. The authors continue to fix bugs and achieve stable operation of Mordhau […]
A Brief History of fio and etcd The performance of an etcd cluster is largely dependent on the performance of its storage. etcd exports some metrics to Prometheus to provide useful information about storage performance. For example, the wal_fsync_duration_seconds metric. The etcd documentation says that for storage to be considered fast enough, the 99th percentile of this metric must be less than 10ms. If you are planning to launch […]
A small digression: this lr is synthetic. Some of the tasks described here can be done much simpler, but since the task of l/r is to get acquainted with the functionality of raid, lvm, some operations are artificially complicated. Requirements for tools to perform LR: Virtualization tools, for example Virtualbox Linux installation image, for example Debian9 Internet access for downloading several packages Connection via ssh to […]
The release of the flagship Redmi smartphone, which will be based on the Snapdragon 855 hardware platform, is approaching. Brand President Lu Weibing spoke about the equipment of the device in a number of messages on Weibo. The new Redmi, we recall, should become one of the most affordable smartphones with a Snapdragon 855 processor. This chip contains eight Kryo 485 computing cores with a clock speed of […]
For a long time, the Waymo subsidiary, even when it was a single entity with the Google corporation, could not decide on the commercial application of its developments in the field of automatically controlled ground transport. Now the partnership with the Fiat Chrysler concern has reached serious proportions: several hundred specially equipped Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivans have already been produced, which are experimentally carrying out passenger transportation in the state […]
A few days ago, a teaser for a new game from Ubisoft was actively discussed on the Internet. The publisher has released a video dedicated to the fictional organization Skell Technology. It described the activities and products of the company. After speculation about the new part of Splinter Cell, Ubisoft dispelled all doubts. On Twitter, the publisher invited people to follow the announcement dedicated to the Ghost Recon franchise. It will take place on 9 […]
