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NVIDIA and SAFMAR Introduce GeForce Now Cloud Service in Russia

The GeForce Now Alliance is expanding game streaming technology around the world. The next stage was the launch of the GeForce Now service in Russia on the website GFN.ru under the appropriate brand by the industrial and financial group SAFMAR. This means that Russian players who have been waiting to access the GeForce Now beta will finally be able to experience the benefits of the streaming service. SAFMAR and NVIDIA reported this on […]

Türkiye fines Facebook $282 for violating personal data confidentiality

Turkish authorities have fined the social network Facebook 1,6 million Turkish liras ($282) for violating the data protection law, which affected almost 000 people, Reuters writes, citing a report by the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK). . On Thursday, KVKK said it had decided to fine Facebook after personal information was leaked […]

Creating a stateful skill for Alice on the serverless functions of Yandex.Cloud and Python

Let's start with the news. Yesterday Yandex.Cloud announced the launch of the serverless computing service Yandex Cloud Functions. This means: you only write the code for your service (for example, a web application or a chatbot), and the Cloud itself creates and maintains the virtual machines where it runs, and even replicates them if the load increases. You don’t need to think at all, it’s very convenient. And the payment is only for the time [...]

Instagram launches messenger to communicate with close friends

The social network Instagram has introduced Threads, an application for messaging close friends. With its help, you can quickly exchange text messages, photos and videos with users included in the list of “close friends”. It also features passive sharing of your location, status and other personal information, raising privacy concerns. In the application you can highlight [...]

Epic Games started giving away a "minute" adventure game Minit

The Epic Games Store has launched a free distribution of the indie adventure game about the duck Minit. The project can be picked up from the service until October 10. Minit is an indie game developed by Jan Willem Nijman. A distinctive feature of the project is the 60-second duration of each game session. The user plays as a duck who fights with a cursed sword. It is because of this that the levels are limited in duration. […]

Logitech G PRO X: mechanical keyboard with interchangeable switches

The Logitech G brand, owned by Logitech, has announced the PRO X, a compact keyboard designed specifically for computer gamers. The new product is of the mechanical type. Moreover, a design with replaceable switches has been implemented: users will be able to independently install the GX Blue Clicky, GX Red Linear or GX Brown Tactile modules. The keyboard does not have a block of numeric buttons on the right side. Dimensions are 361 × 153 × 34 mm. […]

Turning on two-factor authentication on your EA account can get you a free month of Origin Access

Electronic Arts has decided to take care of the safety of all users of its services. The publisher is giving away a month of free Origin Access if the player enables two-factor authentication on their EA account. To take part in the promotion, you must log in to the official Electronic Arts website. Then open the “Security” menu and find the “Username Confirmation” item there. To the specified email [...]

First time. The story of how we implemented Scratch as a robot programming language

Looking at the current diversity of educational robotics, you are glad that children have access to a huge number of construction kits, ready-made products, and that the bar for “entry” into the basics of programming has dropped quite low (down to kindergarten). There is a widespread trend of introducing first to modular-block programming and then moving on to more advanced languages. But this situation was not always the case. 2009-2010. Russia began massively [...]

From October 1, Toshiba Memory changed its name to Kioxia

Since October 1, Toshiba Memory Holdings Corporation has been operating under the new name Kioxia Holdings. “The official launch of the Kioxia brand is an important step in both our evolution as an independent company and our commitment to leading the industry into a new era of storage devices,” said Stacy J. Smith, executive chairman of Kioxia Holdings Corporation. […]

iOS 13 "banned" iPhone owners from entering the phrase "hot chocolate"

The iOS 13 operating system for Apple iPhone smartphones was announced back in the summer of this year. Among its widely publicized innovations was the ability to enter text on the built-in keyboard by swiping, that is, without taking your fingers off the screen. However, this function has problems with some phrases. According to a number of users on the Reddit forum, by swiping to the “native” […]

Digital events in Moscow from September 30 to October 06

A selection of events for the week of DevOps Conf September 30 (Monday) - October 01 (Tuesday) 1st Zachatievsky lane 4 from 19 rub. At the conference we will talk not only about “how?”, but also “why?”, bringing processes and technologies as close as possible. Among the organizers is the leader of the DevOps movement in Russia, Express 600. EdCrunch October 42 (Tuesday) – October 01 […]