According to a number of news agencies, including Reuters, a legislative framework may be prepared in China to ban the mining of cryptocurrencies. The Chinese regulator, the National Development and Reform Commission of China (NDRC), has published a draft listing of industries that require support, restrictions or bans. The previous such document was prepared 8 years ago. Discussion of the new list, which is currently [...]
The Information Satellite Systems company named after Academician M. F. Reshetnev (ISS), according to the online publication RIA Novosti, spoke about plans to create new communication spacecraft. It is noted that currently the Russian communications satellite constellation is fully operational. At the same time, work is already underway to create four advanced telecommunications satellites. This is about […]
Bethesda Softworks and Avalanche studio have published a trailer for the upcoming shooter RAGE 2 called “The Whole World Is Against Me.” The video focuses on the enemies and dangers of the world of RAGE 2. “The world is an arena where everyone is against me,” the trailer says. On the player’s path there will be “stupid robots, death machines, vile cliffs, prodigies, invisible samurai, all sorts of creeps, […]
Blackmagic Design continues to bring tons of innovation to its advanced video editing suite, DaVinci Resolve, which combines editing, visual effects and graphics, video color grading, and audio processing tools into one application. A year ago, the company introduced the largest update under version 15, and now, as part of NAB-2019, it presented a preliminary version of DaVinci Resolve 16. This […]
The TMT Consulting company summed up the results of the study of the Russian market of legal online video services in 2018: the industry is demonstrating rapid growth. We are talking about platforms operating on the OTT (Over the Top) model, that is, providing services via the Internet. It is reported that the volume of the corresponding segment last year reached 11,1 billion rubles. This is an impressive 45% more than in 2017, […]
Oculus VR, a division of Facebook, is gearing up to launch its self-contained Quest headset, which aims to deliver VR quality (minus graphics) on par with the flagship Rift without the need for an external PC. One of the device's exclusives will be Shadow Point, an adventure puzzle game published by Oculus Studios and developed by Coatsink Software. This is a story project in a virtual […]
The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of the Russian Federation found the Russian subsidiary of Samsung guilty of coordinating prices for mobile devices. Interfax reports this with reference to the department's press service. “The commission came to the conclusion that the actions of Samsung Electronics Rus Company were qualified under Part 5 of Art. 11 of the law (illegal coordination of economic activities in the markets of Samsung smartphones and tablets),” the […]
SpaceX has announced it will delay the first commercial launch of Falcon Heavy, the company's most powerful rocket, generating significant thrust from its 27-engine configuration. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk previously said that it took a lot of time, effort and money to develop the super-heavy Falcon Heavy. The Falcon Heavy launch was initially scheduled for Tuesday, 3:36 pm PT (Wednesday, 01:36 Moscow time), but […]
Meditative games are not uncommon these days. Developers from the French studio Pixel Reef decided to offer another such product, this time with an eye on virtual reality. Their game Paper Beast (literally “Paper Beast”) is created exclusively for the Sony PlayStation VR headset. A cute trailer was recently unveiled. According to the history of the Paper Beast world, somewhere deep in the vast […]
German publisher Alex Springer is preparing a lawsuit against Eyeo GmbH, which develops the popular Internet advertising blocker Adblock Plus, for copyright infringement. According to the company that owns Bild and Die Welt, ad blockers jeopardize digital journalism and illegally “change the programming code of websites.” There is no doubt that without advertising revenue, the Internet was […]
HAL Laboratory is gearing up for the launch of its puzzle platformer Boxboy! +Boxgirl! exclusively on Nintendo Switch. Luckily for fans of previous games in the series, Kyubby's redesign turned out to be just an April Fool's joke, and the monochrome hero will remain square. But this time he will be accompanied by Kyusi, a feminine box. Two characters mean more intricate puzzles and the ability to progress through levels […]
Google developers have introduced a new method of two-factor authentication, which involves using an Android smartphone as a physical security key. Many people have already encountered two-factor authentication, which involves not only entering a standard password, but also using some kind of second authentication tool. For example, some services, after entering a user password, send an SMS message […]
