InkyPen Comics and publisher Kodansha have teamed up to give Nintendo Switch owners the ability to read popular Japanese manga series directly on their handheld console. Fortunately, the device’s touch screen allows for this. Beyond its impressive library of games, the Nintendo Switch has little to offer users through its interface (there's not even a full web browser or Netflix). But the platform is rapidly growing its player base and […]
Due to closed cinemas and ongoing quarantine measures against the COVID-19 pandemic, film studios are forced to incur losses and postpone a number of their high-budget premieres, including those scheduled for 2021 and even 2022. In particular, Sony and Marvel Studios announced the postponement of the release of the next Spider-Man film from July 16, 2021 to November 5 […]
The Chinese company Huawei has officially introduced the flagship smartphones Nova 7 5G and Nova 7 Pro 5G, which, as reflected in the name, are capable of operating in fifth-generation mobile networks. The devices are equipped with a proprietary Kirin 985 5G processor. This chip contains one ARM Cortex-A76 core clocked at 2,58 GHz, three ARM Cortex-A76 cores at 2,4 GHz and […]
OWC has introduced a new version of the Aura P12 solid-state drive (SSD) with a capacity of 4 TB, which will enable the company to double the capacity of its external drives for Apple Macintosh computers and others. Thus, the flagship Accelsior 4M2 with a speed of more than 6 GB/s will receive 16 GB of NAND flash memory. OWC's products are aimed primarily at users of Apple computers […]
According to Tequila Works CEO Raul Rubio, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X will demonstrate an exponential leap in hardware capabilities compared to the current generation. He discussed this with the Spanish website Meristation. Raul Rubio commented on the hardware of the next generation consoles, highlighting that they have very similar hardware, but the difference in capabilities compared to […]
The Regolith project, which develops a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu, has published a new release of the desktop of the same name. Regolith is based on GNOME session management technologies and the i3 window manager. The project's developments are distributed under the GPLv3 license. Both a ready-made iso image of Ubuntu 20.04 with pre-installed Regolith, as well as PPA repositories for Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 have been prepared for download. The project is positioned as a modern environment [...]
Juan Romero Pardines, after breaking ties with the other Void Linux developers, transferred his offshoot of the XBPS (X Binary Package System) package manager to a 3-clause BSD license. Previously, the project used a 2-clause BSD license, similar to the MIT license. Other plans include the launch of a new project and the intention to rewrite xbps-src. The new version of the XBPS license adds […]
The release of the R 4.0 programming language and the associated software environment, aimed at solving problems of statistical processing, analysis and data visualization, is presented. More than 15000 extension packages are offered to solve specific problems. The basic implementation of the R language is developed under the GNU Project and is licensed under the GPL. The new release introduces several hundred improvements, including: Transition […]
Note. transl .: the original article was written by Josh Rosso, an architect from VMware, who previously worked at companies such as CoreOS and Heptio, and is also a co-author of Kubernetes alb-ingress-controller. The author shares a little recipe that can be very useful for "old school" operations engineers who prefer vim even in the era of the victorious cloud native. Writing YAML manifests for Kubernetes in vim? […]
Have you ever wondered how they print letters with fines from the traffic police or invoices from Rostelecom? To send a letter, you need to print it, buy an envelope and stamps, and spend time going to the post office. And if there are a hundred thousand such letters? And a million? For the mass production of shipments, there is a hybrid mail - here they print, pack and send correspondence that cannot be […]
This article is a loose translation of one of the DC++ developers' blog posts. With the permission of the author (and also for clarity and interest for the sake of it), I colored it with links and supplemented it with some personal research. Introduction At present, at least one user in a connecting pair must be in active mode. The NAT traversal mechanism will be useful in […]
Google has announced that it will host a Stadia Connect event for its streaming game service this coming Tuesday, April 28 at 20 p.m. BST. “It's time for a new Stadia Connect! Tune in this Tuesday on YouTube to hear from the team and see some new games coming to Stadia,” the company tweeted. First […]
