The Semicon West 2019 conference, held under the aegis of Applied Materials, has already yielded interesting statements from AMD's Lisa Su. Although AMD has long since stopped producing processors on its own, this year it has outpaced its main competitor in the progressiveness of the technologies used. While GlobalFoundries has left AMD alone in the race for 7nm technology standards […]
Microsoft is diligently working to prepare the new Chromium-based Edge browser for release. So far, the main efforts are focused on the Canary and Dev builds, with no release dates announced. However, researcher Rafael Rivera has reported that the latest build of Windows 10 for Fast Ring insiders contains code indicating the company's plans […]
Clearly, Google is not willing to give up on the idea of its own social network. Just recently, Google+ was shut down, and now the "good corporation" has begun testing Shoelace. This is a new social interaction platform that differs from Facebook, "VKontakte," and others. The developers position it as a solution for offline. That is, through Shoelace, it is proposed to find friends and like-minded people in the real world. It is expected that […]
The release of the distributed DBMS TiDB 3.0 is now available, developed under the impression of Google Spanner and F1 technologies. TiDB falls under the category of hybrid HTAP (Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing) systems, capable of executing real-time transactions (OLTP) as well as performing analytical query processing. The project is written in Go and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Features of TiDB: Support for SQL […]
The release of the DXVK 1.3 layer has been formed, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 10, and Direct3D 11, operating through call translation to the Vulkan API. To use DXVK, drivers supporting the Vulkan API are required, such as AMD RADV 18.3, NVIDIA 415.22, Intel ANV 19.0, and AMDVLK. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and games on Linux […]
Hello, Habr! We continue the discussion on gamification mechanics. The last article talked about rankings, and in this one, we'll discuss skill trees (technology trees, skill tree). Let's consider how skill trees are used in games and how this mechanic can be applied in gamification. A skill tree is a specific case of a technology tree, a concept that first appeared in the tabletop game Civilization […]
Rating. What is it and how can it be used in gamification? The question seems simple, even rhetorical, but in reality, even such an obvious mechanic has many nuances, including those dictated by human evolution. This article is the first in my series on components, mechanics, and interesting examples of gamification. Therefore, I will provide brief definitions for some common terms. […]
Since the beginning of 2018, I have held the position of lead/developer lead/senior developer in the team – call it what you want, but the essence is that I am fully responsible for one of the modules and all developers working on it. This position provides me with a new perspective on the development process, as I am involved in more projects and actively […]
Translator's Introduction: Against the backdrop of the massive influx of various containers into our lives, it can be quite interesting and useful to learn about the technologies from which it all began. Some of them can still be applied effectively today, but not everyone remembers (or knows) about these methods if they weren't around during their rapid development. […]
On May 10, we launched a limited beta test of GitHub Package Registry, a package management service that allows for easy publishing of public or private packages alongside source code. The service currently supports familiar package management tools: JavaScript (npm), Java (Maven), Ruby (RubyGems), .NET (NuGet), Docker images, and much more. We are pleased to announce that we will be adding support for Swift packages in […]
The We Leak Info project reported the acquisition of a database of Livejournal.com users, captured as a result of a leak that occurred in 2014, affecting over 33.7 million accounts. The database includes information about usernames, emails, and passwords, with passwords presented in plain text without hashing. Users are invited to check the compromise of their accounts at weleakinfo.com. Details about the incident are still […]
The release of the Tesseract 4.1 optical character recognition system has been prepared, supporting UTF-8 character recognition and texts in over 100 languages, including Russian, Kazakh, Belarusian, and Ukrainian. The results can be saved as plain text or in formats such as HTML (hOCR), ALTO (XML), PDF, and TSV. The system was originally created between 1985-1995 in a laboratory at Hewlett Packard, in […]