In early April, Sony postponed the release of The Last of Us Part II and Marvel's Iron Man VR indefinitely. The shift in the release date of Naughty Dog's upcoming creation has upset many fans. The developers, together with the publisher, are in no hurry to announce exactly when the continuation of the adventures of Joel and Ellie will arrive on store shelves. However, thanks to Amazon, there is reason to think […]
NVIDIA today released the latest version of GeForce Software 445.87 WHQL. The key purpose of the driver is to optimize for new games. We are talking about Minecraft with support for RTX ray tracing, a remake of the shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, a remaster of the action movie Saints Row: The Third and the off-road driving simulator MudRunner from Saber Interactive. Additionally, the driver brings support for three new […]
The Xiaomi Mi Box S Android TV set-top box was introduced back in the fourth quarter of 2018. The device received an updated design and a new remote control, although the internal filling remained the same as its predecessor. Now Xiaomi has updated the set-top box, originally launched with Android 8.1 TV, to Android 9 Pie. The update size is just over 600 MB and contains […]
The Gematsu portal, with reference to the original source, spoke about the games that will appear in the console version of the Xbox Game Pass subscription service in the second half of April. The list includes The Long Dark, Gato Roboto, Deliver Us The Moon, HyperDot and Levelhead. At the end of the month, The Banner Saga 2, Bomber Crew, Braid, Fallout 4, Full Metal Furies, […]
Power semiconductors take things up a notch. Instead of silicon, gallium nitride (GaN) is used. GaN inverters and power supplies operate at up to 99% efficiency, delivering the highest efficiency to energy systems from power plants to electricity storage and utilization systems. The leaders of the new market are companies from the USA, Europe and Japan. Now the first company has entered this field […]
The OPPO A92s smartphone appeared in the database of the Chinese Telecommunications Equipment Certification Authority (TENAA), thereby confirming rumors of an upcoming announcement. The unusual design of the main camera with four modules and an LED flash in the center was also confirmed. According to TENAA, the processor frequency is 2 GHz. It is highly likely that we are talking about the Mediatek chipset […]
Not long ago, we wrote that the Folding@Home distributed computing initiative now has a total computing power of 1,5 exaflops - this is more than the theoretical maximum of the El Capitan supercomputer, which will not be put into operation until 2023. Folding@Home is now joined by users with an additional 900 petaflops of computing power. Now the initiative is not only 15 times […]
The developers of the Zimbra collaboration and email suite, positioned as an alternative to MS Exchange, have changed their open source publishing policy. Starting with the release of Zimbra 9, the project will no longer publish binary assemblies of Zimbra Open Source Edition and will limit itself to releasing only the commercial version of Zimbra Network Edition. Moreover, the developers do not plan to release the Zimbra 9 source code to the community […]
A change planned for implementation in Fedora 33 will force the distribution to use systemd-resolved by default for resolving DNS queries. Glibc will be migrated to nss-resolve from the systemd project instead of the built-in NSS module nss-dns. Systemd-resolved performs functions such as maintaining settings in the resolv.conf file based on DHCP data and static DNS configuration for network interfaces, supporting DNSSEC and LLMNR (Link […]
The ZFS on Linux codebase, developed under the auspices of the OpenZFS project as a reference implementation of ZFS, has been amended to add support for the FreeBSD operating system. The code added to ZFS on Linux has been tested on the FreeBSD 11 and 12 branches. Thus, FreeBSD developers no longer need to maintain their own synchronized ZFS on Linux fork and development of all […]
For obvious reasons, the traditional Red Hat Summit will be held online this year. Therefore, there is no need to buy air tickets to San Francisco this time. To participate in the conference, a certain amount of time, a more or less stable Internet channel and knowledge of the English language are enough. The event program includes both classic reports and demonstrations, as well as interactive sessions and “stands” of projects […]
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are used in websites and applications primarily to speed up the loading of static elements. This happens due to the caching of files on CDN servers located in different geographical regions. By requesting data via CDN, the user receives it from the nearest server. The principle of operation and functionality of all content delivery networks is approximately the same. Upon receiving a download request […]
