The Game Awards founder and presenter Geoff Keighley has announced Summer Game Fest 2020. The event is a season of digital events with "playable content, in-game events and more." It will last from May to August. Summer Game Fest 2020 will include news from the following publishers: 2K Games, Activision Blizzard, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Bethesda Softworks, […]
In the current quarter, demand for laptop computers on a global scale will increase sharply, reports the authoritative Taiwanese resource DigiTimes. The reason is the spread of the new coronavirus. The pandemic has led to many companies being forced to transfer employees to remote work. In addition, citizens around the world are in self-isolation. And this has created an increased demand for portable systems. Analysts […]
In connection with the coronavirus pandemic, online retailer Amazon purchased thermal imaging cameras to measure the temperature of its employees from the Chinese company Zhejiang Dahua Technology. Everything would be fine, but according to Reuters sources, this company was blacklisted by the US Department of Commerce. This month, Zhejiang Dahua Technology supplied Amazon with 1500 cameras worth about $10 million, […]
It seems that the “adventures” of the camera of the Galaxy S20 Ultra smartphone did not end with low ratings from DxOMark specialists and difficulties with autofocus. SamMobile resource reports dozens of complaints from device owners on the official Samsung forum about broken or cracked glass that protects the main camera module on the rear panel. The first complaints began to appear approximately two weeks after the start of sales [...]
A release of the desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 20.04, built on the TrueOS platform and offering the MATE user environment, is available. By default, GhostBSD uses the OpenRC init system and the ZFS file system. Both work in Live mode and installation on a hard drive are supported (using its own ginstall installer, written in Python). Boot images are created for x86_64 architecture (2.5 GB). […]
A release of the Parrot 4.9 distribution is available, based on the Debian Testing package base and including a selection of tools for checking the security of systems, conducting forensic analysis and reverse engineering. Several iso images with the MATE environment (full 3.9 GB and reduced 1.7 GB) and with the KDE desktop (2 GB) are offered for download. The Parrot distribution is positioned as a portable laboratory environment […]
CoronaLabs Inc. ceased its activities and transformed the developing game engine and framework for creating Corona mobile applications into a completely open project. Previously provided services from CoronaLabs, on which development was based, will be transferred to a simulator running on the user’s system, or replaced with free analogues available for open source software development (for example, GitHub). The Corona code has been translated […]
Quietly and imperceptibly, version 0.9 of the amateur system Visopsys (Visual Operating System) was released, which was written by one person (Andy McLaughlin). Among the innovations: Updated appearance Enhanced network capabilities and related programs Infrastructure for packaging / downloading / installing / uninstalling software with an online repository HTTP support, XML and HTML libraries, support for some C […]
When it comes to automating processes in the petrochemical industry, the stereotype is often triggered that production is complex, which means that everything that can be reached is automated there thanks to process control systems. Actually not quite like that. The petrochemical industry is indeed quite well automated, but this is true for the main technological process, where automation and minimization of the human factor are critical. All related processes […]
Hey Habr! The era of online events has come, and we do not stand aside, we also hold various webinars and online meetings. We think that the DevSecOps topic requires special attention. Why? It's simple: She is extremely popular now (who has not yet had time to participate in the holivar on the topic “How is a DevOps engineer different from a regular administrator?”). One way or another, DevSecOps just FORCES intimately […]
I suggest that you familiarize yourself with the transcript of the report of the beginning of 2016 by Vladimir Sitnikov "PostgreSQL and JDBC are squeezing all the juice" Good afternoon! My name is Vladimir Sitnikov. I have been working for NetCracker for 10 years. And I'm mainly into performance. Everything related to Java, everything related to SQL is what I love. And today I will tell [...]
Reuters has released a warning article that the Chinese giant Xiaomi is recording the personal data of millions of people about their online activities, as well as their device usage. “It’s a backdoor to the functionality of a phone,” said Gabi Cirlig, half-jokingly, about his new Xiaomi smartphone. This seasoned cybersecurity researcher spoke with Forbes after discovering […]
