It was previously reported that Microsoft has lost about one percent of Windows users over the past month. However, the software giant denies the accuracy of this data, claiming that Windows usage is only growing and has increased by 75% compared to the same period last year. According to the company, the total time spent using Windows is four trillion minutes per month, or 7 […]
Nibel insider posted a video on his Twitter account featuring professional skateboarder Jason Dill. In the video, the athlete says that the new part of the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series will be released in 2020. According to the Wccftech resource, this is the second leak recently related to the mentioned franchise. Not long ago, in one of the German gaming […]
Microsoft's gaming division is set to livestream its Inside Xbox event on May 7th. It will talk about new games for the future Xbox Series X console. This event will be dedicated to games from third-party teams, and not internal studios Xbox Game Studios. It will definitely show game footage of the recently announced action game Assassin's Creed Valhalla from Ubisoft. Beginning with […]
Intel Corporation, according to Internet sources, is in negotiations to acquire Moovit, a company specializing in the development of solutions in the field of public transport and navigation. Israeli startup Moovit was formed in 2012. Initially, this company was named Tranzmate. The company has already raised more than $130 million for development; investors include Intel, BMW iVentures and Sequoia Capital. Moovit offers […]
On April 30, Intel officially unveiled its new mainstream LGA1200 platform supporting multi-core Comet Lake-S processors. The announcement of chips and logic sets was, as they say, on paper - the start of sales itself was postponed until the end of the month. It turns out that Comet Lake-S will appear on the shelves of domestic stores in the second half of June at best. But at what price? If you were planning […]
According to network sources, online crowdfunding platform Kickstarter may cut up to 45% of its employees in the near future. It seems that the coronavirus pandemic is literally destroying the business of the service, the income of which is generated by the commission collected from projects to attract investment. The source said the company confirmed plans to cut a significant portion of its workforce after the union representing workers announced […]
The Python Software Foundation, which oversees the development of the reference implementation of the Python programming language, has announced a plan to move the CPython bug tracking infrastructure from bugs.python.org to GitHub. The code repositories were moved to GitHub as the primary platform back in 2017. GitLab was also considered as an option, but the decision in favor of GitHub was motivated by the fact that this service is more […]
GitHub blocked the repository of the open source project Popcorn Time after receiving a complaint from the Motion Picture Association, Inc., which represents the interests of the largest US television studios and has exclusive rights to show many films and television shows. To block, a statement of violation of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was used. Popcorn program […]
MCST CJSC presented two new motherboards with integrated processors in the Mini-ITX form factor. The older model E8C-mITX is built on the basis of Elbrus-8C, manufactured using the 28 nm process technology. The board has two DDR3-1600 ECC slots (up to 32 GB), operating in dual-channel mode, four USB 2.0 ports, two SATA 3.0 ports and one Gigabit Ethernet with the ability to mount a second […]
A major update has been released for the free vector graphics editor Inkscape. Introducing Inkscape 1.0! After a little over three years in development, we're excited to launch this long-awaited version for Windows and Linux (and the macOS preview) https://twitter.com/inkscape/status/1257370588793974793 Among the innovations: the transition to GTK3 with support for HiDPI monitors, the ability to customize the theme; new, more convenient dialog for selecting dynamic contour effects […]
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 […]
