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Almost a man: Sberbank has an AI TV presenter Elena

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Sberbank presented a unique development - a virtual TV presenter Elena, capable of imitating the speech, emotions and manner of speaking of a real person (see video below). The system is based on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The development of a digital twin of the TV presenter is being carried out by specialists from the Robotics Laboratory of Sberbank and two Russian companies - TsRT and CGF Innovation. The first provides an experimental speech synthesis system based on artificial […]

Horror Daymare: 1998 will be released on PC this summer

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Developers from Invader Studios presented a story trailer for the third-person horror action game Daymare: 1998, and also announced the approximate release date for the game. It was announced that PC users (on Steam) will be the first to receive the horror game - this summer. Well, “a little later” the release will take place on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game will be published by All In! Games and Destructive […]

Microsoft refuses to provide police with facial recognition technology due to human rights violations

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Microsoft has rejected a request from California law enforcement to use facial recognition technology created by the company. Microsoft President Brad Smith, at a speech at Stanford University, expressed concern that the performance of facial recognition technology when processing data from women and representatives of different ethnic groups is significantly reduced. The thing is that in order to train systems [...]

The new project will allow you to run Android applications on Linux

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The new project “SPURV” will make it possible to run Android applications on desktop Linux. It is an experimental Android container framework that can run Android applications alongside regular Linux applications on the Wayland display server. In a certain sense, it can be compared to the Bluestacks emulator, which allows you to run Android applications under Windows in windowed mode. Similar to Bluestacks, "SPURV" creates an emulated device […]

Ubuntu 19.04 distribution release

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The release of the Ubuntu 19.04 “Disco Dingo” distribution is available. Ready-made test images were created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu and UbuntuKylin (Chinese edition). Key New Features: The desktop has been updated to GNOME 3.32 with restyled interface elements, desktop and icons, deprecated global menu support, and experimental support for fractional scaling. […]

Network load balancer architecture in Yandex.Cloud

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Hi, I'm Sergey Elantsev, I'm developing a network load balancer in Yandex.Cloud. Previously, I led the development of the L7 balancer for the Yandex portal - my colleagues joke that no matter what I do, it turns out to be a balancer. I will tell readers of Habr how to manage the load in a cloud platform, how we see the ideal tool to achieve this goal, and how we are moving towards building this tool. For […]

Fear and Loathing DevSecOps

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We had 2 code analyzers, 4 dynamic testing tools, our own crafts and 250 scripts. Not that all this is needed in the current process, but once you start implementing DevSecOps, you have to go to the end. Source. Character creators: Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon. What is SecDevOps? What about DevSecOps? What are the differences? Application Security - what is it about? Why doesn't the classic approach work anymore? Yuri Shabalin knows the answer to all these questions […]

Free antiviruses and firewalls (UTM, NGFW) from Sophos

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I would like to talk about free products from Sophos that can be used both at home and in the enterprise (details under the cut). Using TOP solutions from Gartner and NSS Labs will significantly increase your personal level of security. Free solutions include: Sophos UTM, XG Firewall (NGFW), Antivirus (Sophos Home with web filtering for Win/MAC; for Linux, Android) and removal tools […]

50 years since RFC-1 was published

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Exactly 50 years ago - on April 7, 1969 - Request for Comments was published: 1. RFC is a document containing technical specifications and standards widely used on the World Wide Web. Each RFC has its own unique number, which is used when referring to it. Currently, the primary publication of RFCs is handled by the IETF under the auspices of the open organization Society […]

DeadDBeeF 1.8.0 release

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Three years since the previous release, a new version of the DeaDBeeF audio player has been released. According to the developers, it has become quite mature, which was reflected in the version number. Changelog added Opus support added ReplayGain Scanner added correct tracks + cue support (in collaboration with wdlkmpx) added/improved MP4 tag reading and writing added embedded loading […]

Alexa and Siri competitor: Facebook will have its own voice assistant

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Facebook is working on its own intelligent voice assistant. This was reported by CNBC, citing information received from knowledgeable sources. It is noted that the social network has been developing a new project at least since the beginning of last year. Employees of the department responsible for augmented and virtual reality solutions are working on the “smart” voice assistant. On when Facebook plans to introduce its smart assistant, […]

Video: Shao Kahn crushes enemies with his hammer in Mortal Kombat 11

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During the announcement of Mortal Kombat 11, it was revealed that Outworld Emperor Shao Kahn was a bonus for pre-ordering the game. And only now NetherRealm Studios demonstrated the gameplay for this character. On the battlefield, he is a formidable opponent, actively using a war hammer. The Emperor is not very fast, but can close the distance with a dashing […]

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