The growth in demand for smartphone repairs in Russia at the end of April 2024 ranged from 26% to 30%, Kommersant reports. This dynamics is explained by rising prices for smartphones, an increase in the share of Chinese products, as well as the popularity of used devices - consumers actively bought them in 2023. Russians are increasingly turning to private repairmen for smartphone repairs, [...]
Oracle Corporation Japan has announced plans to invest more than $8 billion over the next ten years in cloud computing and AI infrastructure in Japan. As Media Newswire reports, thanks to the new investments, the presence of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in the country will be expanded, and additional measures will be taken to ensure the “digital sovereignty” of Japan required by the state. In particular, Oracle intends to significantly expand in Japan […]
Developers from Mozilla have announced the publication of official binary deb packages and installation tar archives that allow you to install nightly builds of Firefox in Linux distributions on systems with ARM64 architecture (AArch64). Packages can be obtained either through the traditional download page or from a specialized APT repository created for Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other Debian-like distributions. After the implementation of automated testing of ARM64 assemblies is completed […]
The developers of the Thunderbird email client announced the start of integration of components written in the Rust language into the code base. The next major release of Thunderbird, expected to be released in July of this year, will include code implementing the Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS) mail protocol, implemented in Rust. Support for accessing the Microsoft Exchange calendar and address book will be added at a later date. […]
In a situation where we hear more often about the strengthening of certain restrictions in international economic relations, the news that the Chinese authorities have taken a set of measures aimed at simplifying the attraction of foreign investment in national companies in the technology sector is unusual. On the other hand, such government steps are precisely a response to the actions of geopolitical opponents. Image source: SMIC Source: 3dnews.ru
Japan plans to launch a new maglev train in the next decade - the Chuo Shinkansen, a high-speed maglev train that will travel faster than a Formula 1 car, reaching speeds of up to 500 km/h. According to The Sun newspaper, the cost of the project to create a high-speed train, which will travel along the Tokyo-Nagoya route, will be £67 billion. Image source: Kyodo News Source: 3dnews.ru
While the press is actively discussing how much Tesla will delay the release of its mass-market electric car costing $25, and whether it will appear at all, the South Korean company Kia is preparing the announcement of a small electric car, the EV000, which some sources attribute an initial cost of less than $2 in the home market. The Kia EV15 prototype was recently spotted on the roads and caught on video. Kia EV000. Image source: […]
The results of the annual Debian project leader election have been announced. The victory was won by Andreas Tille, who was elected for the first time. This year, two participants competed for the position of leader. Jonathan Carter, who served as leader for the past four years, did not participate in the election. 362 developers took part in the voting, which is 36% of all participants with voting rights (formerly […]
An experimental release of an open implementation of the Win32 API - Wine 9.7 - took place. Since the release of 9.6, 18 bug reports have been closed and 123 changes have been made. The most important changes: Support for generating executable files in the ARM64X format, containing both code for the Arm64EC and ARM64 ABIs, has been added to the assembly system. Added "-marm64x" option to winebuild to generate hybrid libraries […]
While the Fallout games are enjoying increased attention thanks to the Amazon series, Starfield customers are sitting without significant updates. However, according to Todd Howard, there will soon be a holiday on their street. Image source: Steam (SinEx)Source: 3dnews.ru
Most recently, the long-awaited release of the streaming show Fallout took place. These are huge hopes and the same carriage of skepticism, because truly successful video game adaptations can be counted on one hand. We watched the series and are ready to call it the best transfer of game material to the screens. Why - read furtherSource: 3dnews.ru
French corporation Schneider Electric announced on Friday that it is in negotiations with infrastructure design software developer Bentley Systems Inc. from Exton (Pennsylvania, USA) about the possibility of its takeover, writes Bloomberg. The corporation explained that the negotiations are at an early stage, adding that their holding is due to its strategy to increase its capabilities in the field of industrial technologies. Company […]
