A small crowdfunded game became a huge success on Kickstarter thanks to the magic of Harry Potter and Google. Beawesome Games has launched a modest fundraising campaign for Day of Dragons on September 2. She asked for $12 thousand and received many times more. “Have you ever thought it would be cool to play as a dragon? How about online with other players, [...]
As you know, some time ago at the annual Surface event, Microsoft announced the new Windows 10X. This system is optimized to work on dual-screen and foldable smartphones. However, we note that previously users have already launched a petition to make the Start menu in Windows 10 the same as in Windows 10X. And now the first leaks have appeared regarding [...]
Riot Games has released a statement detailing its position on the issue of political statements during its League of Legends broadcasts. Ahead of the group stage of the League of Legends World Championship, global head of MOBA esports John Needham has gone on record as saying that Riot Games wants to avoid political, religious or other "sensitive issues" during […]
The newly formed Australian Summerfall Studios has announced its first game, the “adventure musical” Chorus: An Adventure Musical. The Melbourne studio was announced in September, but co-founders Liam Esler and David Gaider have been working on the game concept for almost two years. Speaking to GamesIndustry at International Games Week, they revealed that it all started with Game […]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it has filed a lawsuit and obtained a temporary injunction against two offshore companies selling the Gram cryptocurrency in the US and other countries. At the time of receiving the court decision, the defendants had managed to raise more than $1,7 billion in investor funds. According to the SEC complaint, Telegram Group Inc. and its subsidiary TON […]
While many details regarding Sony's next-gen console appear to be firmly in place, the PS5's backwards compatibility feature is still in development. PS5 will be released at the end of 2020, but already there are a lot of questions regarding the future Japanese gaming system. Of course, one of them is support for a backwards compatibility feature on PS5, which would allow games for the system […]
TL;DR DevOps Slurm will be held in Moscow on January 30 - February 1. Again we will analyze DevOps tools in practice. Details and program under the cut. SRE was removed from the program because together with Ivan Kruglov we are preparing a separate Slurm SRE. The announcement will come later. Thanks to Selectel, our sponsors since the first Slurm! About philosophy, skepticism and unexpected success I […]
Sony recently officially announced that its next-generation gaming console, PlayStation 5, will be released by the end of next year. Now, Mark Cerny, who is leading the development of Sony's next gaming console, has revealed some details regarding the PlayStation 5 hardware in an interview with Wired. Mark has officially confirmed that Sony's new gaming console will be able to handle ray tracing […]
On the territory of the Ile-Balkhash natural reserve in the Almaty region of Kazakhstan, another center has opened for inspectors and researchers of the protected area. The yurt-shaped building is constructed from rounded polystyrene foam blocks printed on a 3D printer. The new inspection center, named after the nearby Karamergen settlement (XNUMXth–XNUMXth centuries), was built with funds from the Russian branch of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF Russia), […]
Once, during an interview, I was asked, what will you do if you find a service not working due to the fact that the disk has run out of space? Of course, I replied that I would see what was occupied by this place and, if possible, I would clean the place. Then the interviewer asked, what if there is no free space on the partition, but also files that would take up all […]
Probably the most controversial smartphone of this year can be considered the Samsung Galaxy Fold. The South Korean tech giant's first flexible display smartphone is under intense scrutiny and is regularly criticized. Most often, the criticism is deserved, since users who spent $1800 or 159 rubles have the right to expect that the smartphone will be reliable and durable. Despite the high cost, Galaxy […]
"Do not count your chickens before they are hatched". Guided by this principle, Intel this year began a large-scale release of the price list from outdated or limited-demand processors. The turn has reached the once mass-produced models of the Kaby Lake family, which is now dwindling almost entirely. The corporation did not disdain even a couple of surviving processors of the Skylake family: Core i7-6700 and Core i5-6500. About […]
