Publishing house Microids, together with developers from its Paris and Lyon studios, presented a story trailer for the upcoming sci-fi action platformer Flashback 2. Image source: Microids Source: 3dnews.ru
Jade Bird Display has announced the creation of a red MicroLED that provides brightness of more than 1 million cd/m². The company said this achievement is a record and will have great implications for the development of full-color AR headsets, smart glasses and micro-projectors. Image source: JBD Source: 3dnews.ru
With the release of the first generation RDNA graphics architecture, AMD decided to abandon one of the functions that at that time was still part of the Adrenalin Software graphics driver. It was called AMD Fluid Motion Video and was similar to the recently introduced AMD Fluid Motion Frames, but only for video content. As it turns out, Fluid Motion Frames can also […]
A major update to the free digital recording station Ardor has been released. Major changes: In MIDI tracks, the scroomer widget that controls the scale and visibility of the track contents has been completely rewritten. It now shows the notes (048 C, 049 C#, etc.), or the note names if they are defined in MIDNAM (for example, the names of different drums if a drum sampler plugin is loaded). Added a familiar interface for editing power […]
The release of the free sound editor Ardor 8.0 has been published, designed for multi-channel recording, processing and mixing of sound. Ardor provides a multi-track timeline, an unlimited level of rollback of changes throughout the entire process of working with a file (even after closing the program), and support for a variety of hardware interfaces. The program is positioned as a free analogue of professional tools ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix and Sequoia. The code is distributed under the license [...]
A new version of the multi-platform high-performance POP3/IMAP4 server Dovecot 2.3.21 has been published, supporting the POP3 and IMAP4rev1 protocols with popular extensions such as SORT, THREAD and IDLE, and authentication and encryption mechanisms (SASL, TLS, SCRAM). Dovecot remains fully compatible with classic mbox and Maildir, using external indexes to improve performance. Plugins can be used to expand functionality (for example, […]
The Chinese market remains one of the largest in the world, so the weakness of the local economy continues to worry manufacturers around the world. According to official statistics, over the eight months of this year, smartphone production volumes in China fell by 7,5% compared to the same period last year. At the same time, third-party analysts also talk about a decrease in sales volumes. Image source: Huawei TechnologiesSource: 3dnews.ru
Experiments on the use of hydrogen as a fuel in aviation are being conducted not only in the context of its direct combustion, but also as a source of electricity for fuel cells. The Japanese authorities are ready to allocate up to $200 million in government subsidies for the creation of environmentally friendly aviation, and hydrogen air transport is also fully covered by this initiative. Image source: BoeingSource: 3dnews.ru
Restrictions on the supply of American-origin computing accelerators to China, introduced a year ago, were aimed at curbing the country's technological development. The Chinese authorities do not hesitate to set ambitious goals for the national computing infrastructure, even in difficult conditions. In the technology sector, China expects to increase computing power by more than a third by 2025. Image source: NVIDIA Source: 3dnews.ru
The release of VLC media player 3.0.19 has been published, which for systems with Intel and NVIDIA GPUs supports Super Resolution technology, which uses spatial scaling and detail reconstruction algorithms to reduce the loss of image quality when upscaling and displaying at higher resolutions. Other changes include: Improved support for AV1 video. Improved HDR video processing […]
Jordan Petridis, a member of the GNOME QA and release teams, has posted a change request to remove systemd targets from the gnome-session package for running in X11 environments. It is noted that this is the first step towards abandoning support for the X11 protocol in GNOME. However, at the current stage, the remaining functionality required for […]
ASUS has quietly released a high-performance Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5 expansion card for PCIe 5.0 SSDs. This is a significant upgrade over the previous Hyper M.2 x16 Gen4 for PCIe 4.0 drives, potentially doubling throughput to 512 Gbps when using four drives in RAID mode. Image source: ASUS Source: […]
