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CCP Games and Hadean Unveil EVE: Aether Wars Tech Demo Featuring Over 14000 Ships

At the Game Developers Conference 2019, CCP Games and British startup Hadean hosted a tech demo of EVE: Aether Wars featuring over 14 ships. EVE: Aether Wars is a major achievement by Hadean and CCP Games in researching the possibilities of creating massive multiplayer simulations for future projects. The fight was launched on the world's first cloud engine […]

Rumors: Xbox One S All-Digital without disc drive will go on sale May 7

Windows Central has provided the first images and an estimated launch date for the discless Xbox One model, Xbox One S All-Digital. According to insider information, the Xbox One S All-Digital will go on sale on May 7, 2019 worldwide. The design of the console is almost identical to the Xbox One S, but without the disc drive and eject button. The product shots also indicate […]

The whole history of Linux. Part I: where it all began

The Linux kernel turns 27 this year. OS based on it is used by many corporations, government, research institutions and data centers around the world. For more than a quarter of a century, many articles have been published (including on Habré) that tell about different segments of the history of Linux. In this series of materials, we decided to highlight the most significant and interesting facts […]

Trailers with rave press reviews about The Division 2

Role-playing co-op shooter Tom Clancy's The Division 2 was released March 15 on PC, Xbox One and PS4. Enough time has passed for Ubisoft to garner positive feedback from the press and make traditional trailers with a selection of delights accompanied by gameplay snippets. For example, DTF staff called the game gigantic, while Gameguru praised the abundance of post-story content, noting that it […]

Only one Glonass-K satellite will go into orbit in 2019

Plans for launching Glonass-K navigation satellites this year have been changed. This is reported by the RIA Novosti online publication, citing a source in the rocket and space industry. Glonass-K is a third-generation navigation apparatus (the first generation is Glonass, the second is Glonass-M). They differ from their predecessors in improved technical characteristics and an extended period of active existence. A special radio technical […]

56 million euros in fines - the results of the year with the GDPR

Published data on the total amount of fines for violations of the regulations. / photo Bankenverband PD Who published a report on the amount of fines The General Data Protection Regulation will turn one year only in May - however, European regulators have already summed up the interim results. In February 2019, a GDPR report was released by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), the […]

IETF approves ACME, the standard for working with SSL certificates

The IETF has approved the Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) standard to help automate the acquisition of SSL certificates. Let's tell you how it works. / Flickr / Cliff Johnson / CC BY-SA Why the Standard Was Needed On average, it can take an administrator one to three hours to set up an SSL certificate for a domain. If you make a mistake, you will have to wait until the application is rejected, only after […]

The IT giant introduced a service-defined firewall

It will find application in data centers and the cloud. / photo Christiaan Colen CC BY-SA What is this technology VMware has introduced a new firewall that protects the network at the application level. The infrastructure of modern companies is built on thousands of services united in a common network. This expands the vector of potential hacker attacks. Classical firewalls are able to protect against attacks from outside, but are powerless […]

Archos Play Tab: a giant tablet for games and entertainment

In the third quarter, Archos will begin European sales of its huge Play Tab desktop tablet, designed primarily for gaming and multimedia content. The device is equipped with a display with a diagonal of 21,5 inches. We are talking about the use of a Full HD panel, which means a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels. The novelty received an unnamed processor with eight processing cores. The chip functions in tandem […]

Scientists have turned DNA into logic gates: a step has been taken towards chemical computers

A group of scientists led by researchers from the California Institute of Technology was able to take a small but significant step in the development of arbitrarily programmable chemical computers. As basic computing elements in such systems, DNA sets are used, which, by their nature, have the ability to self-organize and grow. All that is needed for the operation of DNA-based computing systems is […]

Video: Epic Games boasts Unreal Engine features and games on the engine

At the State of Unreal presentation at GDC 2019, Epic Games showed off some impressive real-time featurettes. This includes the magical Troll with active use of ray tracing, and photorealistic Rebirth with the use of photogrammetry, and a tech demo showing the new Chaos physics and destruction engine. In addition, the company also showed general videos dedicated to its engine. IN […]

EK Water Blocks has released a full coverage water block for Radeon VII graphics card

EK Water Blocks has introduced a new water block called the EK-Vector Radeon VII, which, as you might guess, is designed for the AMD Radeon VII graphics card. More precisely, the novelty is intended for the reference version of the graphics accelerator, although there are no others on the market now, and it is not a fact that they will appear. The novelty will be available in versions with a “pure” copper base and […]