NVIDIA has lost its longtime CMO and distinguished engineer Tom Petersen. The latter said on Friday that he had completed his last day at the company. Although the location of the new job has not yet been officially announced, HotHardware sources say that the head of Intel's visual computing division, Ari Rauch, successfully recruited Mr. Peterson to […]
The NVIDIA Shield TV was one of the first Android TV set-top boxes to hit the market and still remains one of the best. Until now, NVIDIA continues to release constant updates for the device, and it seems that another one is under development and it will not just be another firmware. The Shield TV set-top box is based on […]
More recently, publisher Bethesda Softworks stated that Fallout 76 will not switch to a shareware model. It seems that the reason for such statements was the low popularity of the game. The company's management decided that Fallout 76 did not deserve to be saved and announced the closure of the servers. In a week, the project will disappear from the digital shelves, and retail chains around the world have already taken […]
Man, as you know, is a lazy creature. And even more so when it comes to choosing a strong password. I think every administrator has ever faced the problem of using easy and standard passwords. This phenomenon is often found among the upper echelons of the company's management. Yes, yes, it is precisely among those who have access to classified or commercial information that it would be highly undesirable to eliminate the […]
Introduction to operating systems Hello, Habr! I would like to present to your attention a series of articles-translations of one literature that is interesting in my opinion - OSTEP. This material examines quite deeply the work of unix-like operating systems, namely, work with processes, various schedulers, memory and other similar components that make up a modern OS. You can see the original of all materials here. […]
The social network VKontakte announced the launch of the VK Coin service, with which users can earn internal VK currency. The new system is deployed on the VK Apps platform. It allows developers to create applications, the best of which are published in a catalog accessible to the entire social network audience. Services created on the platform do not require installation on the device and open directly on VKontakte. […]
The Yandex company announced the release of an updated mail application for mobile devices: the program has an improved dark theme. It is noted that now not only the interface, but also the letters themselves are painted in dark gray. “In this form, the mail harmoniously combines with other applications in a similar design, as well as with the night mode in the operating system,” says the Russian IT giant. Dark […]
Microids and OSome have announced that Asterix & Obelix XXL 3: The Crystal Menhir is coming to PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch in the fourth quarter of 2019. According to the plot of Asterix & Obelix XXL 3: The Crystal Menhir, Asterix, Obelix and Idefix must collect the Menhir crystal. They have to go […]
Perfect World Entertainment has announced that it will partner with Panic Button to release action-RPG Torchlight II on current-gen consoles this fall. Specific platforms were not named. Torchlight II was released on PC in September 2012. It's an action role-playing game with a procedurally generated world where you fight against hordes of enemies and look for treasures. On […]
Microsoft in 2020 will introduce a full-fledged artificial intelligence based on Cortana's proprietary assistant. As stated, the novelty will be cross-platform, will be able to maintain a live conversation, respond to fuzzy commands and learn, adapting to the user's habits. It is alleged that the novelty will be able to work on all current processor architectures - x86-64, ARM and even MIPS R6. As a software platform, […]
Investigator Gavin de Becker was hired by Jeff Bezos, the founder and owner of Amazon, to investigate how his personal correspondence got into the hands of journalists and was published in the American tabloid The National Enquirer, owned by American Media Inc (AMI). Writing for Saturday's edition of The Daily Beast, Becker stated that the hacking of his customer's phone was […]
Internet sources report that the high-performance smartphone Meizu 16s appeared in the AnTuTu benchmark, the announcement of which is expected in the current quarter. The test data indicates the use of the Snapdragon 855 processor. The chip contains eight Kryo 485 cores with a clock frequency of up to 2,84 GHz and an Adreno 640 graphics accelerator. The Snapdragon X4 LTE modem is responsible for supporting 24G networks. It's about [...]
