A recent update (2.3-3ubuntu9.4) in Ubuntu 18.04 breaks the normal operation of the DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) system used to build third-party kernel modules after updating the Linux kernel. A sign of a problem is the message “/usr/sbin/dkms: line### find_module: command not found” when manually installing modules, or suspiciously different sizes of initrd.*.dkms and the newly created initrd (this can be checked by unattended-upgrade users) . […]
Hello! My name is Alexey Svirido, I am a digital product designer at Alfa-Bank. Today I want to talk about how to become a product designer from an “ordinary designer.” Under the cut you will find answers to the following questions: Who is a product designer and what does he do? Is this specialty right for you? What to do to become a product designer? How to create your first product portfolio? […]
During the June E3 2019 exhibition, developers from the Polish studio Bloober Team, known for the Layers of Fear and Observer duology, presented the horror film Blair Witch. The project was created in the “Blair Witch Project” universe, which began with the 1999 low-budget horror film that was sensational in its time. Recently, Game Informer published a lengthy gameplay video, and […]
The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has finalized a draft law that should oblige manufacturers of smartphones, tablets and computers to pre-install Russian software on them. The new version says that now it depends on the feasibility and demand of the programs among users. That is, users can choose for themselves what will be preinstalled on the purchased smartphone or tablet. It is assumed that [...]
The All-Russian Center for Public Opinion Research (VTsIOM) published the results of a study on the implementation of electronic passports in our country. As we recently reported, a pilot project to issue the first electronic passports will start in July 2020 in Moscow, and the full transition of Russians to the new type of identity cards is planned to be completed by 2024. We are talking about issuing citizens a card with [...]
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 [...]
