On November 27, 1923, American radio amateurs John L. Reinartz (1QP) and Fred Schnell (Fred H. Schnell, 1MO) made two-way transatlantic radio communications with French amateur radio Leon Deloy (F8AB) at a wavelength of about 100 m. This event had a huge impact on the development of the world's amateur radio traffic and radio communications on short waves. One of […]
Let me explain the title of the article. It was originally planned to give good, reliable advice on speeding up the use of reflection on a simple but realistic example, however, during the benchmarking, it turned out that reflection is not as slow as I thought, LINQ is slower than I dreamed in nightmares. But in the end it turned out that I also made a mistake in measurements ... Details of this […]
David O'Brien recently launched his own company, Xirus (https://xirus.com.au), focusing on Microsoft's Azure Stack cloud products. They are designed to consistently build and run hybrid applications across data centers, edge locations, remote offices, and the cloud. David trains individuals and companies in everything related to Microsoft Azure and Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS) and […]
A YouTube user under the pseudonym Sgt Snoke Em published a video demonstrating correspondence between an interested gamer and the official account of the World War Z developers on one of the social networks. The player decided to ask when to expect the release of World War Z outside the Epic Games Store: a year has already passed since the release, and usually the period of exclusivity of the project in the Epic Games digital store […]
PlayStation Universe spoke about which games will join the PlayStation Now library in May 2020. This month, The Evil Within 2, Rainbow Six Siege and Get Even will be available to subscribers of the cloud service. The exact date for adding projects to the site has not been specified, but it is already known that they will remain in PS Now until August. The Evil […]
Yesterday Apple introduced an updated version of the MacBook Pro 13 based on the 7th generation Intel Core i10 processor. As the company states in the description of the laptop on the website, the device is capable of playing games with the highest graphics requirements. For example, Dota 2. “Play games with the highest graphics requirements, like Dota 2. You will be amazed by the responsiveness and level of detail,” says the official […]
The Edge browser has struggled to compete with Chrome in the past, but with Microsoft joining the Chromium community, Google's browser may receive additional improvements that will make it even more attractive to Windows users. The source says that the next major Windows 10 update will improve Chrome integration with the Action Center. Windows 10 Action Center is currently seeing […]
Last week, Electronic Arts announced it would no longer support two DICE games, Battlefield V and Star Wars Battlefront II. Those who were waiting for new content for the military shooter accused the publisher of not keeping promises, and one of the fans of the second game launched a petition asking them to continue releasing updates. To date, it has been signed by more than 12 thousand people. The petition addressed […]
The transition from silicon to semiconductors with a wide bandgap (gallium nitride, silicon carbide and others) can significantly increase operating frequencies and improve the efficiency of solutions. Therefore, one of the promising areas of application of wide-gap chips and transistors is communications and radars. Electronics based on GaN solutions “out of the blue” provide an increase in power and an extension of the range of radars, which was immediately taken advantage of […]
The COVID-19 pandemic caused global smartphone shipments to fall 2020% in the first quarter of 11,7 compared to the same period last year. During this time, manufacturers were able to supply 275,8 million devices to the market. This is the largest rate of decline in history, according to a preliminary report from research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). "Although […]
The Western Digital Corporation calendar has completed its third fiscal quarter. Revenue grew by 14%, to $4,2 billion. Drives for laptops were in predictably high demand, and the client segment saw record revenue from sales of SSDs. In the data center segment, revenue increased by 22%, in the client device segment by 13%. Until the end of the third quarter, […]
Virginia Tech proposed for discussion by Linux kernel developers a set of patches with the implementation of the Popcorn (Distributed Thread Execution) system, which allows organizing the execution of applications on several computers with distribution and transparent migration of threads between hosts. With Popcorn, applications can be launched on one host and then moved to another host without interruption. […]
