School 42 is famous for its revolutionary education system: there are no teachers, students check each other's work, and there is no need to pay tuition fees. At the same time, the school manages to train the coolest programmers, who are torn off by the leading companies in the world. I was terribly curious to see these wonders with my own eyes, and as a GeekBrains employee (after all, our main […]
Qualcomm CFO George Davis has left the company to take a similar position at rival Intel, both companies said. Mr. Davis has been CFO of the mobile chip and telecommunications equipment manufacturer since 2013, and also served on the executive committee of the company's board of directors. Qualcomm said it is looking to replace George Davis […]
Apple made a pizza box? Yes, a long time ago, and her design was the subject of a new 3-minute Apple commercial that the company posted on YouTube called "Apple at Work - Outsiders." The video is not an April Fool's joke, but it's still one of the funniest commercials ever released by the Cupertino company. The video is dedicated to how products […]
Researchers at cybersecurity firm UpGuard say they have discovered millions of Facebook user posts unintentionally hosted on Amazon cloud servers. Similar incidents have occurred before, and last year there was a major scandal related to the Cambridge Analytica application, which, under the guise of a harmless quiz, collected user data. Experts believe that with [...]
Hello, my name is Dima Demchuk. I am a senior Java programmer at Scalors. Overall programming experience in the IT industry for more than 12 years. I grew from a programmer at a factory to the Senior level and managed to work in top IT companies in Ukraine. Of course, at that time programming was not yet mainstream, and there was not much competition among IT companies and among candidates […]
The DigiTimes resource has released a new piece of information about Apple's plans to release iPhone smartphones this year and next. It is reported that the information was received from Taiwanese suppliers of electronic components for cellular devices. In 2019, the Apple empire will allegedly announce two smartphones with a screen based on organic light-emitting diodes (OLED). We are talking about models with a 5,8-inch display [...]
This year, Japan Display Inc will begin supplying organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screens for Apple Watch smartwatches, sources told Reuters, requesting anonymity. This is a real breakthrough for the company experiencing financial difficulties, caused, among other things, by the belated transition to OLED technology. Japan Display's core business, based on the production of LCD panels, has ceased to bring significant […]
Hi all! I manage the DataLine cyber defense center. Customers come to us with the task of meeting the requirements of 152-FZ in the cloud or on a physical infrastructure. In almost every project, educational work has to be carried out to debunk the myths around this law. I have collected the most common misconceptions that can cost the budget and nervous system of a personal data operator dearly. Let me tell you straight away that […]
Modern CPUs have a lot of cores. For years, applications have been sending queries to databases in parallel. If it is a reporting query against multiple rows in a table, it is faster when it uses multiple CPUs, and PostgreSQL has been able to do this since version 9.6. It took 3 years to implement the parallel query feature - I had to rewrite the code at different stages of […]
As we recently reported, Samsung is preparing to release a mid-range smartphone Galaxy A20e. Information about this device appeared on the website of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The device appears under the code designation SM-A202F/DS. It is reported that the novelty will receive a display measuring 5,8 inches diagonally. The screen resolution has not been specified, but it will most likely be an HD+ format panel. […]
Ultrabook ASUS ZenBook 13 UX333FN is one of the smallest 13-inch laptops in the world: it weighs only 1,09 kg, and is only 16,9 mm thin. At the same time, the screen occupies 95 percent of the area of the top cover: this was achieved due to the ultra-thin frames. You can learn about all the features of the ultrabook from our video review. Source: 3dnews.ru
Developers from Firaxis Games and publisher 2K Games announced that the global turn-based strategy Sid Meier's Civilization VI now supports cross-platform saves between PC and Nintendo Switch. If you purchased the game on Steam and Nintendo Switch, you can now freely transfer saves between the two platforms. To do this, you will need to create a 2K account, link it […]
