In this article, I will talk about how we tried to build a decentralized scooter rental on smart contracts and why we still needed a centralized service. How it all began In November 2018, we took part in a hackathon dedicated to the Internet of Things and Blockchain. As an idea, our team chose scootersharing, as we had a scooter […]
The private Chinese space company Origin Space announced preparations for the launch of the first spacecraft in the history of this country to extract mineral resources beyond the Earth. A small robotic probe, called NEO-1, will be launched into low-Earth orbit in November this year. The company explains that NEO-1 is not a mining vehicle. Its weight is only 30 kilograms [...]
Back in June, Qualcomm introduced the new Snapdragon Wear 4100 chipset for wearable devices. This chipset can rightfully be considered the first significant update to the platform for Wear OS devices since its debut in 2014. Unlike previous processors based on Cortex-A7 cores, the new chip contains Cortex-A53 cores, which promises serious improvements. Now […]
Today, an advertising photo leaked onto the Internet, thanks to which it became known what the interface of the new Google Chromecast TV keychain with Google TV will look like, as well as the Pixel 5 smartphone in a green case. It's worth noting that an early version of the new Chromecast's interface was shown in June, but now we're probably seeing the final product. The image allows you to see the interface in detail [...]
Caliber 5.0 is now available, automating the basic operations of maintaining an e-book collection. Caliber offers interfaces for navigating the library, reading books, converting formats, synchronizing with portable reading devices, and viewing news about new products on popular web resources. It also includes a server implementation to provide access to the home collection from anywhere […]
Collabora has published the release of the CODE 6.4 (Collabora Online Development Edition) platform, which offers a specialized distribution kit for quickly deploying LibreOffice Online and organizing remote collaboration with the office suite via the Web to achieve functionality similar to Google Docs and Office 365. The distribution kit is designed as a preconfigured container for the Docker system and is also available as packages for […]
Initially, the program with the game “Fox Hunt” for calculators like MK-61 was published in the 12th issue of the journal “Science and Life” for 1985 (author A. Neschetny). Subsequently, a number of versions were released for various systems. Now this game is adapted for Linux. The edition is based on the version for ZX-Spectrum (you can run the emulator in the browser). The project is written in […]
A year after closing, Linux Journal is back under the leadership of Slashdot Media (which owns and operates the tech news site Slashdot and the open source developer portal SourceForge). The editors do not yet have plans to renew the subscription model for the publication; all new content will be published for free on LinuxJournal.com. The editors also ask you to contact them all [...]
I'll start without a hitch, once I had a revelation (well, not very powerful, to be honest) and the idea arose to print a program that transfers an image from a client to a server. Simple enough right? Well, for an experienced programmer, it will be so. The conditions are simple - do not use third-party libraries. In principle, a little more complicated, but given that you have to figure it out and […]
Fail by Aris-Dreamer Many people think that it is enough to transfer the application to Kubernetes (either using Helm or manually) - and there will be happiness. But not everything is so simple. The Mail.ru Cloud Solutions team translated an article by DevOps engineer Julian Gindy. He tells what pitfalls his company faced during the migration process so that you do not step on the same rake. […]
Classifying data based on content is an open task. Traditional data loss prevention (DLP) systems solve this problem by fingerprinting relevant data and monitoring endpoints for fingerprinting. Given the large number of ever-changing data resources on Facebook, this approach not only doesn't scale, it's also inefficient for determining where the data is. […]
Publishers All In! Games and 505 Games, along with studios One More Level, 3D Realms and Slipgate Ironworks, have announced that their cyberpunk first-person action game Ghostrunner will be coming to Nintendo Switch. Despite the delayed announcement, the Ghostrunner edition for the Nintendo hybrid console will go on sale simultaneously with the versions for other target platforms, that is, on October 27 […]
