<< Before: The Age of Fragmentation, Part 4: The Anarchists In 1990, John Quaterman, a networking consultant and UNIX expert, published a comprehensive overview of the state of computer networks at the time. In a short section on the future of computing, he predicted a single global network for “email, conferencing, file transfer, remote login—so […]
The range of Motorola smartphones, according to Internet sources, will soon be supplemented by a model codenamed Kiev: it will be a relatively inexpensive device with the ability to work in fifth-generation mobile networks (5G). It is known that the silicon “brain” of the device will be the Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 processor. The chip combines eight Kryo 560 cores with a clock frequency of up to 2,0 GHz, an Adreno 619L graphics accelerator […]
Sharp Corporation has expanded its range of smartphones by announcing a very interesting new product - the Aquos Zero 5G Basic model: this is one of the first commercial devices running the Android 11 operating system. The device is equipped with a 6,4-inch Full HD+ OLED display with a resolution of 2340 × 1080 pixels. The panel has the highest refresh rate of 240 Hz. A fingerprint scanner is built directly into the screen area. […]
The term Zoombombing has become widely known since the video conferencing app Zoom gained popularity amid the coronavirus pandemic. This concept refers to the malicious actions of individuals entering Zoom conferences through loopholes in the service’s security system. Despite numerous product improvements, such situations still occur. However, yesterday, September 10th, Zoom finally presented an effective solution to the problem. Now video conference administrators […]
Amazon has announced the final release of Bottlerocket, a specialized distribution for running containers and efficiently managing them. Bottlerocket (by the way, this is how small homemade black powder rockets are called) is not the first OS for containers, but it is likely that it will become widespread due to default integration with AWS services. While the system is focused on the Amazon cloud, the open source […]
VictoriaMetrics is a fast and scalable DBMS for storing and processing data in the form of a time series (a record forms a time and a set of values corresponding to this time, for example, obtained through a periodic polling of the status of sensors or collecting metrics). My name is Pavel Kolobaev. DevOps, SRE, LeroyMerlin, everything is like code - it's all about us: about me and about other […]
Once in one of the old and already abandoned articles, I wrote about how easily and naturally you can broadcast video from canvas via websockets. That article briefly talked about how to capture video from a camera and sound from a microphone using the MediaStream API, how to encode the resulting stream and send it via websockets to the server. However, in […]
Rumors that Apple plans to combine subscription services into a single package have been circulating for quite some time. Confirmation of these rumors was discovered by enthusiasts who decompiled the APK file of the Android version of the Apple Music application. In it, references to the Apple One service were found, which is expected to be officially presented at Apple’s online event on September 15. Last month, Bloomberg […]
Sharp Corporation presented mid-level smartphones Aquos Sense 4 Plus and Sense 4, equipped with proprietary IGZO displays, which are based on indium, gallium and zinc oxides. Panels of this type are characterized by good color rendering and low power consumption. The new products are based on the Snapdragon 720G processor, containing eight Kryo 465 computing cores with a clock frequency of up to 2,3 GHz, […]
Companies from China that achieve some degree of commercial success outside the country are often targets of US sanctions. Huawei Technologies, ByteDance with its TikTok service, and more recently SMIC - the list of examples can probably be continued. At the same time, experts believe that the United States at this stage is not ready to invest […]
Due to the winding down of the project, Google has published a complete set of source codes related to the Makani project. Over the course of 13 years, the project developed a fundamentally new wind energy technology, in which it was proposed to use a glider-shaped kite with wind generators to generate energy. The kite was launched into layers of the atmosphere with intense air flow, to a height of approximately 300 meters, […]
The first beta release of FreeBSD 12.2 is ready. FreeBSD 12.2-BETA1 release is available for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, sparc64 and armv6, armv7 and aarch64 architectures. Additionally, images have been prepared for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and Amazon EC2 cloud environments. FreeBSD 12.2 is scheduled for release on October 27th. The changelog release notes are limited to a blank template for now, but […]
