Telecommunications equipment manufacturer Nokia, Japanese telecommunications operator NTT DoCoMo and industrial automation company Omron have agreed to test 5G technologies at their factories and production sites. The testing will test the ability to use 5G and artificial intelligence to provide instructions and monitor worker performance in real time. “Machine operators will be monitored by […]
The creation of the Smotr satellite system will begin no earlier than the end of 2023. TASS reports this, citing information received from Gazprom Space Systems (GKS). We are talking about the formation of a space system for remote sensing of the Earth (ERS). Data from such satellites will be in demand by a variety of government departments and commercial entities. Using information received from remote sensing satellites, for example, [...]
The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) reported on an inspection of Wi-Fi wireless access points in public places. Let us remind you that public hotspots in our country are required to identify users. The corresponding rules were adopted back in 2014. However, not all open Wi-Fi access points still verify subscribers. Roskomnadzor […]
Xiaomi has announced a new gadget - a device called Mi Pocket Photo Printer, which will go on sale in October this year. Xiaomi Mi Pocket Photo Printer is a pocket printer that is designed for printing photos from smartphones and tablet computers. It is noted that the device uses ZINK technology. Its essence comes down to the use of paper containing several layers [...]
The pgsentinel company has released the pgsentinel extension of the same name (github repository), which adds the pg_active_session_history view to PostgreSQL - the history of active sessions (similar to Oracle's v$active_session_history). Essentially, these are simply every second snapshots from pg_stat_activity, but there are important points: All accumulated information is stored only in RAM, and the amount of memory consumed is regulated by the number of last stored records. The queryid field is added - [...]
CodeWeavers, which sponsors the development of Wine, announced the death of its employee, Józef Kucia, the author of the vkd3d project (a Direct3D 12 implementation on top of the Vulkan API) and one of the key Wine developers, who also took part in the development of the Mesa and Debian projects. Josef made over 2500 changes to Wine and implemented most of the […]
Today, September 12, 2019, after almost 6 months of development, the latest version of the user desktop environment - GNOME 3.34 - was released. It added about 26 thousand changes, such as: “Visual” updates for a number of applications, including the “desktop” itself - for example, the settings for selecting the desktop background have become simpler, making it easier to change the standard wallpaper […]
RawTherapee 5.7 has been released, providing tools for editing photos and converting images in RAW format. The program supports a large number of RAW file formats, including cameras with Foveon- and X-Trans sensors, and can also work with the Adobe DNG standard and with JPEG, PNG and TIFF formats (up to 32 bits per channel). The project code is written in […]
About ten years after the last release, the next major version of the voice communication platform Mumble 1.3 was released. It is mainly focused on creating voice chats between players in online games and is designed to reduce delays and ensure high quality voice transmission. The platform is written in C++ and distributed under the BSD license. The platform consists of two modules - a client […]
A group of researchers from German universities published the results of an experiment during which 10 variants of a typical driver for 10 Gigabit Intel Ixgbe (X5xx) network cards were developed in different programming languages. The driver runs in user space and is implemented in C, Rust, Go, C#, Java, OCaml, Haskell, Swift, JavaScript, and Python. While writing the code, the focus was on achieving […]
The Avast blog published the results of a study of the permissions requested by applications presented in the Google Play catalog with the implementation of flashlights for the Android platform. In total, 937 flashlights were found in the catalogue, of which elements of malicious or unwanted activity were identified in seven, and the rest can be considered “clean”. 408 applications requested 10 or fewer credentials, and 262 applications required […]
Mail.ru Group launches a corporate messenger with a high level of security. The new MyTeam service will protect users from possible data leakage, as well as optimize business communication processes. With external communication, all users from client companies are verified. Only those employees who really need it for work have access to the internal data of the company. After dismissal, the service automatically closes former employees […]
