Tough competition and slowing revenue growth are forcing Chinese electric vehicle makers to look at the European market, which until recently was not as closed to their products as the North American market. Dongfeng and Chery companies are considering the possibility of organizing the assembly of their electric vehicles in Europe for the local market. Image source: XinhuaSource: 3dnews.ru
Not long ago, the media wrote about the launch of a beta version of the digital content store AltStore PAL, which is an alternative to the App Store. Now it has been announced that the platform has been officially launched in the European Union and is available to residents of the region. Image source: AltStore PAL Source: 3dnews.ru
The Kommersant newspaper, citing a representative of the software developer for computer clubs Langame, reports that the Association for the Development of Cybersports Infrastructure (ARKI) has appeared in Russia. Image source: ESL GamingSource: 3dnews.ru
StringZilla – SIMD- and SWAR-optimized library for C++ (with bindings for C, JavaScript (Node.js module), Python, Rust and Swift) for fast string operations: search for substrings and character set (forward and reverse), sorting, Levenshtein distance, Hamming distance and others. However, the functionality is not the same for all languages. The project is distributed under the Apache-2.0 license. According to the author of the libraries, [...]
Google has published the release of the Chrome 124 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 […]
Linus Torvalds refused to accept into the kernel a change to replace the tab character with a space in the delimiter of the FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE parameter in the Kconfig kernel configuration. The change was proposed by the Fedora project developer with the note that using tabs causes the configuration parser to break. Instead of the proposed change, Linus included his own patch in the kernel, specifically adding tab characters to the definition of the PAGE_SHIFT setting, […]
GlobalFoundries, Intel, TSMC and Samsung have already received guarantees from the US authorities to provide subsidies and preferential loans for the construction of new enterprises in the country that will produce chips by the end of this decade. Micron Technology is now next in line, and Bloomberg reports that an announcement will be made next week. Image source: Micron Technology Source: 3dnews.ru
Lenovo is preparing to release the Yoga Slim 7 14 laptop based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor. Images of the new product were shared by one of the users of the social network X (formerly Twitter). Image source: X / WalkingCatSource: 3dnews.ru
The United States' closest northern neighbors intend to impose additional taxes on large American corporations operating in the Canadian market. From this year, it is proposed to tax them at the rate of 3% on revenue received from the provision of digital services. In particular, the activities of Alphabet and M**a Platforms in Canada will be subject to the terms of the new bill. Image source: Unspalsh, Olga DeLawrenceSource: 3dnews.ru
The open source video player MPV 0.38 was released in 2013, a fork from the code base of the MPlayer2 project. MPV focuses on developing new features without worrying about maintaining compatibility with MPlayer. The MPV code is licensed under LGPLv2.1+, some parts remain under GPLv2, but the transition to LGPL is almost complete and you can use […]
The European Commission said it would not investigate Microsoft's $13 billion investment in OpenAI because the latter does not report directly to Microsoft and is unlikely to be acquired by the Redmond company. In January, European antitrust regulators said they might launch an investigation into Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI. Image source: efes / pixabay.comSource: 3dnews.ru
The next generation of Stable Diffusion's text-based image-generating AI model has not yet been publicly launched, but is already available to some developers via an API and a new content creation and developer platform. To provide access to AI via API, Stability AI has teamed up with the Fireworks AI API platform. Image source: Stability AI Source: 3dnews.ru
