The RBC publication, citing its sources, reports that the National Payment Card System (NSCP) is preparing to transfer processing processes that are carried out using contactless payment services Google Pay, Apple Pay and Samsung Pay to the territory of Russia. The technical aspects of the problem are currently being discussed. As noted, this initiative arose in 2014. First, the usual […]
Before the advent of Google Assistant, the Android mobile platform had a Voice Search feature that was tightly integrated with the main search engine. In recent years, all innovation has been centered around the virtual assistant, so the Google development team decided to completely replace the Voice Search feature on Android. Until recently, you could interact with Voice Search through the Google application, a special widget […]
Gavin Clayton has been working on porting The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall to the Unity engine since 2014. Now the production process has reached the alpha version stage, as the author announced on his Twitter. The remastered game will soon be made available to the public, as "the final designs are almost complete." I've moved jump formula & gravity refinement to Alpha cycle […]
Publisher 505 Games and studio Remedy have released a story trailer for the third-person action adventure Control. Not much is known about the history of the new Remedy project, which is written by Sam Lake. The trailer lifts some veils, but also raises new questions. We are shown the main character Jessie Faden, who after an incident in the secret Federal Bureau of Control becomes his […]
ABBYY has introduced a new product for developers - a set of Mobile Web Capture SDK libraries designed for creating online services with functions for intelligent recognition and data entry from mobile devices. Using the Mobile Web Capture library set, software developers can build automatic document image capture and OCR capabilities into their mobile web applications and then process the extracted data […]
In their desire to make video cards more compact, NVIDIA’s partners were able to move up the price hierarchy up to and including the GeForce RTX 2070, and the ZOTAC brand at the January CES 2019 exhibition promised to push even the GeForce RTX 2080 and GeForce RTX 2080 Ti into the mini-ITX form factor, but so far these plans were not put into practice. In any case, if [...]
As you know, Microsoft abandoned the development of its own mobile platform, Windows Phone, which could not withstand competition with Android devices. However, not all the reasons for the software giant’s fiasco in this market are known. A former Nokia engineer who worked on Windows Phone-based smartphones spoke about the reasons for the failure. Of course, this is not an official statement, but only a personal opinion, but [...]
The Android Enterprise website has information about the characteristics of the Lenovo K11 mid-range smartphone. In addition, this device has already been seen in the catalogs of some online retailers. It is reported that the new product is equipped with a 6,2-inch display, although its resolution has not yet been specified. The screen has a small drop-shaped cutout at the top - a selfie camera is installed here. The basis is the MediaTek MT6762 processor, which is more […]
US President Donald Trump said on Friday his administration would not give Apple any tariff breaks on components made in China for its Mac Pro computers. “Apple will not provide import duty relief or waivers for Mac Pro parts that are manufactured in China. Make them in the USA, (there won't be) any […]
The EK Water Blocks company has a wide range of water blocks for a wide variety of hardware and is constantly expanding it. Another new product from the Slovenian company is the EK-FC GV100 Pro full-coverage water block, which is designed for use with one of the most powerful professional GPU-based accelerators - NVIDIA Quadro GV100 and Tesla V100 based on the Volta GV100 GPU. Water block EK-FC […]
ASUS has published a series of rather entertaining marketing slides in which it compares its AMD X570 chipset-based motherboards with motherboards based on the same chipset from MSI and Gigabyte. But before we begin to analyze what ASUS presents in these slides, I would like to talk about what happened almost immediately after their publication. A […]
In previous parts (1, 2) we talked about globals as trees, in this one we will consider globals as sparse arrays. A sparse array is a type of array in which most of the values take the same value. In practice, sparse arrays are often so huge that there is no point in occupying memory with identical elements. Therefore, it makes sense to implement sparse arrays […]
