In today’s fourth (penultimate) part of the article about applications for e-books on the Android operating system, only one, but broad topic will be discussed: games. Brief summary of the previous three parts of the article. Part 1 discussed in detail the reasons why it was necessary to conduct massive testing of applications to determine their suitability for installation on e-readers, and also […]
On September 3, the development team of the operating system for Android mobile devices published the source code for version 10. New in this release: Support for changing the display size in applications for devices with a folding display when it is expanded or folded. Support for 5G networks and expansion of the corresponding API. Live Caption feature that converts speech to text in any application. Especially […]
Design of Complexity Until recently, everyday objects were shaped according to their technology. The design of the phone was essentially a body around a mechanism. The designers' job was to make technology beautiful. Engineers had to define the interfaces of these objects. Their main concern was the function of the machine, not its ease of use. We - the "users" - had to understand how these […]
Go programming language 1.13 released, major innovations Go language now supports a more unified and modernized set of numeric literal prefixes, including for binary, octal, hexadecimal and imaginary literals Compatible with Android 10 TLS 1.3 support is enabled by default in the crypto/tls package Error support wrapping Unicode 11.0 is now available from the Go Unicode package This is the latest […]
Michael Stapelberg, author of the mosaic window manager i3wm and a former active Debian developer (maintaining about 170 packages), is developing an experimental distri distribution and package manager of the same name. The project is positioned as an exploration of possible ways to increase the performance of package management systems and embodies some new ideas for building distributions. The package manager code is written in Go and distributed under […]
The Firefox 69 web browser was released, as well as the mobile version of Firefox 68.1 for the Android platform. In addition, updates to long-term support branches 60.9.0 and 68.1.0 have been generated (ESR branch 60.x will no longer be updated; a transition to branch 68.x is recommended). In the near future, the Firefox 70 branch will enter the beta testing stage, the release of which is scheduled for October 22. Key innovations: […]
Google has published the release of the open mobile platform Android 10. The source texts associated with the new release are posted in the project’s Git repository (branch android-10.0.0_r1). Firmware updates have already been prepared for 8 Pixel series devices, including the first Pixel model. Universal GSI (Generic System Images) assemblies have also been created, suitable for various devices based on ARM64 and x86_64 architectures. […]
Bandai Namco Entertainment has released a demo of the upcoming action role-playing game Code Vein for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. After downloading it, players will be able to create their own hero, also customizing equipment and skills; go through the introductory part of the game and dive into the first stage of the “Depths” - a dangerous dungeon that will be a real test of courage for any rebel. On this occasion, presented […]
Ubisoft today announced that its video game subscription service Uplay+ is now officially available for Windows PCs for RUB 999 per month. To celebrate the launch, the company is offering everyone a free trial period, which will last from September 3 to 30 and will give users unlimited access to more than a hundred games, including all DLC available for them […]
Borderlands 13 launches on September 3th on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. The publisher decided to announce in advance exactly what hour the path to Pandora and other planets will open for residents of various countries. For those who plan to play on a console, it will be easy to navigate: you can be among the first to go in search of the Vaults at exactly midnight in any […]
A World of Warcraft fan under the nickname Daniel L recreated the city of Stormwind using the Unreal Engine 4. He published a video demonstrating the updated location on his YouTube channel. Using UE4 made the game more visually realistic than Blizzard's version. The textures of buildings and other surrounding objects have received much more graphic detail. In addition, the enthusiast released a video about [...]
According to online sources, Skolkovo experts propose using big data to amend legislation, introduce regulation of the “digital footprint” of citizens and control over Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The proposal to analyze large amounts of data to make adjustments to the current legislation was set out in the “Concept for the comprehensive regulation of relations arising in connection with the development of the digital economy.” This document was developed […]
