Recently, due to a new package of US sanctions, Huawei lost the ability to place orders at TSMC facilities. Since then, various rumors have arisen about how the Chinese tech giant could find alternatives, and turning to MediaTek has been cited as a viable option. But now MediaTek has officially denied some of the claims that the company could help Huawei circumvent new […]
Taiwanese HTC, whose smartphones were once very popular, is forced to make further layoffs of employees. It is expected that this measure will help the company survive the pandemic and difficult economic environment. HTC's financial position continues to deteriorate. In January of this year, the company's revenue fell year-on-year by more than 50%, and in February - by about a third. In March […]
Today we are witnessing how scientists are trying to put into practice the wonderful properties of the relatively recently synthesized material graphene. A nitrogen-based material just synthesized in the laboratory, whose properties hint at the possibility of high conductivity or high energy density, holds similar promise. The discovery was made by an international group of scientists at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. According to […]
A selection of information about the software used in the Falcon 9 rocket has been published, based on fragmentary information mentioned by SpaceX employees in various discussions: The Falcon 9 on-board systems use stripped-down Linux and three redundant computers based on conventional dual-core x86 processors. The use of specialized chips with special radiation protection for Falcon 9 computers is not required, […]
Sylvestre Ledru published the result of rebuilding the Debian GNU/Linux package archive using the Clang 10 compiler instead of GCC. Of the 31014 packages, 1400 (4.5%) could not be built, but by applying an additional patch to the Debian toolkit, the number of unbuilt packages was reduced to 1110 (3.6%). For comparison, when building in Clang 8 and 9, the number of packages that failed […]
In the 118th episode of the SDCast podcast (mp3, 64 MB, ogg, 47 MB) there was an interview with Dmitry Marakasov, developer of the Repology project, which is engaged in aggregating information about packages from various repositories and forming a complete picture of support in distributions for each free project in order to simplify work and improve the interaction of package maintainers. The podcast discusses Open Source, packaged […]
In microservice architecture projects, CI/CD is moving from a nice opportunity to a must. Automated testing is an integral part of continuous integration, a competent approach to which can give the team many pleasant evenings with family and friends. Otherwise, the project runs the risk of never being completed. It is possible to cover the whole microservice code with unit tests […]
I am publishing the first chapter of lectures on the theory of automatic control, after which your life will never be the same. Lectures on the course "Management of Technical Systems", reads Kozlov Oleg Stepanovich at the Department of "Nuclear Reactors and Power Plants", Faculty of Power Engineering, Moscow State Technical University. N.E. Bauman. For which he is very grateful. These lectures are only being prepared for publication in book form, and […]
Last week, a new app codenamed "Mercury" was spotted by Xbox Insiders. It appeared on the Xbox One console by mistake, but it was impossible to use at that time. As it turns out, "Mercury" is the code name for the new Xbox Store, which features a modern design and uses a new architecture. Twitter user @WinCommunity managed to upload […]
A few days ago, SpaceX successfully delivered two astronauts to the ISS using the Crew Dragon manned spacecraft. Now it has become known that the onboard systems of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which was used to launch the ship with astronauts on board into space, are based on the Linux operating system. This event is significant for two reasons. Firstly, for the first time [...]
Google today announced the introduction of W3C WebAuth support for Google accounts on Apple devices running iOS 13.3 and above. This improves the usability of Google hardware encryption keys on iOS and allows you to use more types of security keys with Google accounts. Thanks to this innovation, iOS users are now able to use Google Titan Security […]
Sony has announced which projects will join the PlayStation Now library in June. As the DualShockers portal reports with reference to the original source, this month Metro Exodus, Dishonored 2 and Nascar Heat 4 will become available to subscribers of the service. The games will remain on PS Now until November 2020. Let us remind you that all projects on the site can be launched using streaming [...]
