Microsoft launched the Azure cloud region in Israel without much fanfare. The official announcement has been removed. The new region is said to include three Azure Availability Zones, which offer customers additional resiliency as the region is self-powered, networked, and cooled together to provide additional resiliency to data center failures. The Central Israel region is listed on the Azure Regions page as […]
Gaijin Entertainment, a former Russian computer game developer, has opened the source code of the Dagor Engine, which is used to create the multiplayer online game War Thunder. The source code is available on GitHub under a BSD 3-clause license. Currently, Windows is required to build the engine. This engine is also used as the basis for the announced open cross-platform engine Nau Engine, announced as an alternative to leading […]
A release of the free sound editor Audacity 3.4 has been published, providing tools for editing sound files (Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3 and WAV), recording and digitizing sound, changing sound file parameters, overlaying tracks and applying effects (for example, noise reduction, changing tempo and tone ). Audacity 3.4 was the fourth major release created after the project was taken over by Muse Group. Code […]
Google has published the release of the Chrome 119 web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which serves as the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium in the use of Google logos, the presence of a system for sending notifications in case of a crash, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), a system for automatically installing updates, permanently enabling Sandbox isolation, supplying keys to the Google API and transferring […]
At AMD's quarterly event, company management only explained that revenue from sales of Ryzen 7000 family processors has doubled sequentially. But the company decided to talk in more detail about the reasons for the 42% year-on-year revenue growth in the client segment only on the pages of Form 10-Q, which was published this morning. In particular, it turned out that Ryzen shipments jumped by more than […]
The French company Segula Technologies has installed ten hybrid solar-wind generators on the roof of a commercial building in the municipality of Angers-en-Santerre, which will supply and distribute energy to the structure all year round. One such installation includes a 1500-watt wind generator and two 800-watt solar modules, as well as individual batteries and a distribution system, making it smart. […]
Samsung announced at its quarterly reporting conference dedicated to the financial results of the third quarter that it plans to release a smartphone with built-in generative artificial intelligence (AI) next year, writes BusinessKorea. Image source: PixabaySource: 3dnews.ru
On November 1, Fossil SCM released version 2.23 of Fossil SCM, a simple and highly reliable distributed configuration management system written in C and using an SQLite database as storage. List of changes: added the ability to close forum topics for non-privileged users. By default, only administrators can close or reply to topics, but to add this ability to moderators, you can use [...]
The report on the development of the FreeBSD project from July to September 2023 presents a new driver with an implementation of the SquashFS file system, which can be used to improve the efficiency of boot images, Live builds and firmware based on FreeBSD. SquashFS operates in read-only mode and provides a very compact representation of metadata and compressed data storage. Driver […]
Cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of a new consumption model, EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML, designed for enterprises looking to reserve access to compute accelerators to handle short-lived AI workloads. Amazon's EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML solution allows customers to reserve access to "hundreds" of NVIDIA H100 accelerators on EC2 UltraClusters, which are designed to […]
Qualcomm's quarterly report became an example of a situation where the failures of the past reporting period fade into the background for investors if they see optimistic signals ahead. The current quarter guidance calls for revenue in the range of $9,1 billion to $9,9 billion, above market expectations, and sent the company's shares up 3,83% in after-hours trading. Image source: […]
Apple has always strived to be at the forefront of innovation, and the healthcare user space is no exception. Since the founding of the Avolonte Health project in 2011, the company has been exploring the possibilities of integrating medical technologies into its products. However, as time has shown, the transition from theory to practice turned out to be a more complex process due to a number of problems. One of the main problems is technological [...]
