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The call recording feature in the Google Phone app has become available on Xiaomi smartphones

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The Google Phone app is very popular, but it is not available on all Android smartphones. However, developers are gradually expanding the list of supported devices and adding new features. This time, network sources reported that support for call recording has appeared in the Google Phone application on Xiaomi smartphones. Google started working on this feature quite a long time ago. The first mention of it [...]

C++20 standard approved

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The ISO Committee on Standardization of the C++ Language has approved the international standard "C++20". The features presented in the specification, with the exception of isolated cases, are supported in the GCC, Clang and Microsoft Visual C++ compilers. Standard libraries supporting C++20 are implemented as part of the Boost project. Over the next two months, the approved specification will be in the document preparation stage for publication, where work will be carried out […]

Release of libtorrent 2.0 with support for BitTorrent 2 protocol

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A major release of libtorrent 2.0 (also known as libtorrent-rasterbar) has been introduced, offering a memory- and CPU-efficient implementation of the BitTorrent protocol. The library is used in such torrent clients as Deluge, qBittorrent, Folx, Lince, Miro and Flush (not to be confused with the other libtorrent library, which is used in rTorrent). The libtorrent code is written in C++ and distributed […]

The many faces of Ubuntu in 2020

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Here is a biased, frivolous and non-technical overview of the Ubuntu Linux 20.04 operating system and its five official flavors. If you are interested in kernel versions, glibc, snapd, and the presence of an experimental wayland session, this is not the place for you. If you are hearing about Linux for the first time and you are interested in understanding how a person who has been running Ubuntu for eight years thinks about it, […]

Description of infrastructure in Terraform for the future. Anton Babenko (2018)

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Many people know and use Terraform in their daily work, but there are still no best practices for it. Each team has to invent its own approaches and methods. Your infrastructure almost certainly starts out simple: a few resources + a few developers. Over time, it grows in all directions. You find ways to group resources into Terraform modules, organize code into folders, and […]

Check Point Upgrade Procedure from R80.20/R80.30 to R80.40

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More than two years ago, we wrote that every Check Point administrator sooner or later faces the question of upgrading to a new version. This article described the upgrade from R77.30 to R80.10. By the way, in January 2020, R77.30 became a certified version of the FSTEC. However, a lot has changed at Check Point in 2 years. In the article […]

Inexpensive TCL 10 Tabmax and 10 Tabmid tablets are equipped with high-quality NxtVision displays

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TCL, as part of the IFA 2020 electronics exhibition, which takes place from September 3 to 5 in Berlin (the capital of Germany), announced tablet computers 10 Tabmax and 10 Tabmid, which will go on sale in the fourth quarter of this year. The gadgets received a display with NxtVision technology, which provides high brightness and contrast, as well as excellent color rendition when viewing […]

In some Moscow restaurants, you can now place an order using Alisa and pay for it with a voice command

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The international payment system Visa has launched payment for purchases using voice. This service is implemented using the Alice voice assistant from Yandex and is already available in 32 cafes and restaurants in the capital. Bartello, a food and drink ordering service, took part in the implementation of the project. Using the service developed on the Yandex.Dialogues platform, you can contactlessly order food and drinks, […]

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be improved for next-gen consoles and PC

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CD Projekt and CD Projekt RED have announced that an improved version of the action role-playing game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be released on next-generation consoles - PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. The next-generation version was developed taking into account the advantages of the upcoming consoles. The new edition will include a number of visual and technical improvements, including […]

The Gentoo project introduced the Portage 3.0 package management system

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The release of the Portage 3.0 package management system used in the Gentoo Linux distribution has been stabilized. The presented thread summarized the long-term work on the transition to Python 3 and the end of support for Python 2.7. In addition to the end of support for Python 2.7, another important change was the inclusion of optimizations that allowed for 50-60% faster calculations associated with determining dependencies. Interestingly, some developers suggested rewriting the code […]

Release of Hotspot 1.3.0, Linux performance analysis GUI

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The release of the Hotspot 1.3.0 application has been introduced, providing a graphical interface for visually examining reports in the process of profiling and performance analysis using the perf kernel subsystem. The program code is written in C++ using the Qt and KDE Frameworks 5 libraries, and is distributed under the GPL v2+ license. Hotspot can act as a transparent replacement for the "perf report" command when parsing files […]

The revival of the Free Heroes of Might and Magic II project

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As part of the Free Heroes of Might and Magic II (fheroes2) project, a group of enthusiasts tried to recreate the original game from scratch. This project existed for some time as an open source product, however, work on it was suspended many years ago. A year ago, a completely new team began to form, which continued the development of the project, with the goal of bringing it to its logical […]

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