The release of Elementary OS 7.1 has been announced, positioned as a fast, open and privacy-respecting alternative to Windows and macOS. The project focuses on quality design, aimed at creating an easy-to-use system that consumes minimal resources and provides high startup speed. Users are offered their own Pantheon desktop environment. Bootable iso images (3 GB) have been prepared for downloading and are available [...]
Periodically, developers create new software features that make a particular hardware form factor significantly more useful. One of these functions could be a two-screen translator mode, which will soon become available to owners of Google Pixel Fold folding smartphones. Image source: GoogleSource: 3dnews.ru
Google today introduced new AI-powered features Magic Editor and Best Take to enhance the photo editing experience on the new Pixel 8 series smartphones. There will also be Zoom Enhance for improved photo scaling and other new AI features. Image source: GoogleSource: 3dnews.ru
British publisher and developer Feral Interactive, with the support of Danish studio IO Interactive, has announced Hitman: Blood Money - Reprisal. This is an updated edition of the cult social stealth action game Hitman: Blood Money. Image source: Feral Interactive and IO InteractiveSource: 3dnews.ru
Richard Stallman has been diagnosed with a malignant tumor. Speaking at a conference dedicated to the 40th anniversary of GNU, Richard Stallman said that he had to deal with the worst of problems - he was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor. Stallman has a type of lymphoma that can be treated (Stallman mentioned “fortunately it can be treated”). Source: linux.org.ru
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the Raspberry Pi 5, which will be available in late October/early November 2023, priced at $60 for 4GB RAM and $80 for 8GB RAM. According to statements, the performance of the Raspberry Pi 5 board is 2-3 times higher than the Raspberry Pi 4. Raspberry Pi 4 was released in 2018. […]
Thanks to the automatic build environment Umvirt LFS Auto Builder, you can build a basic bootable disk image of Linux From Scratch 12.0-systemd with just one command. It is also possible to carry out phased assembly. It is assumed that after creating the image, it will be further customized and configured by the user at his discretion. In addition to its direct purpose, the build environment can be used for comparative testing of hardware performance. […]
The CNews portal, with reference to the documentation of Mobile Telesystems (MTS), reports how much the revaluation of the e-sports team Gambit Esports cost the Russian company. Image source: Gambit EsportsSource: 3dnews.ru
Seagate has released a series of Game Drive NVMe SSDs designed specifically for PlayStation 5 gaming consoles. These drives have been tested and officially certified for use with the latest generation of Sony consoles. The series includes models with a capacity of 1, 2 and 4 TB. Image source: SeagateSource: 3dnews.ru
A company called The Browser Company, responsible for developing the Arc browser, talked about introducing artificial intelligence functions into it. The developers fundamentally refused to do this like other projects, in which they are limited primarily to the ChatGPT button on the sidebar or something similar. Image source: The Browser Company Source: 3dnews.ru
LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 6 Faye has been released. LMDE is based on the Debian package base. LMDE is supplied only in the Cinnamon edition. What's new: LMDE is based on the Debian 12 package base Linux Kernel 6.1; Cinnamon 5.8; Python updated to version 3.11.2; Systemd 252; The GCC compiler has been updated to version 12.2; The Rust compiler has been updated to version 1.63; […]
Firefox 118 is available. A built-in web page translator has appeared on the Bergamot engine (developed by Mozilla in collaboration with European universities with financial support from the European Union). The translation is carried out by a neural network on the user’s side without sending the text to online services. Requires a processor with SSE4.1 support. Available languages are English, Bulgarian, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese and French (language models need to be installed […]
