The Chinese company Huawei presented its proprietary interface EMUI 10.1, which will become the software basis not only for the new flagship smartphones Huawei P40, but also for other current devices of the Chinese company. It combines technologies based on artificial intelligence, new MeeTime features, expanded capabilities for Multi-screen Collaboration, etc. UI improvements In the new interface, when scrolling the screen, you will notice […]
Corporations are faced with the need to transfer the maximum number of employees to remote work. This gives rise to a huge number of problems, both hardware and software. Employers do not want to lose control over the process, so they are trying to adopt utilities for remote monitoring. The coronavirus outbreak has shown that the most effective means of combating its spread is mutual isolation of people. Staff […]
Publisher Paradox Interactive has decided to make the city-planning simulator Cities: Skylines free for the coming days. Anyone can go to the project’s page on Steam right now, add it to their library and start playing. The promotion will last until March 30. Free weekend in Cities: Skylines coincides with the release of the Sunset Harbor expansion. In it, the developers from Colossal Order added […]
Apple has published the release of the Swift 5.2 programming language. Official builds have been prepared for Linux (Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04) and macOS (Xcode). The source code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. When preparing the new release, the main attention was paid to expanding the diagnostic tools in the compiler, increasing the reliability of debugging, improving dependency handling in the package manager and expanding support for the LSP (Language Server […]
AMD has taken advantage of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to remove leaked internal architecture information for Navi and Arden GPUs from GitHub. Two requests have been sent to GitHub to remove five repositories (copies of AMD-navi-GPU-HARDWARE-SOURCE) containing data that violates AMD's intellectual property. The statement states that the repositories do not contain […]
A compact distribution kit for creating firewalls and network gateways pfSense 2.4.5 has been released. The distribution is based on the FreeBSD code base using the developments of the m0n0wall project and the active use of pf and ALTQ. Several images for the amd64 architecture are available for download, ranging in size from 300 to 360 MB, including a LiveCD and an image for installation on a USB Flash. Distribution management […]
On March 26, 2020, the Apache Software Foundation and its volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators for 350 Open Source projects celebrate 21 years of leadership in open source software! In pursuit of its mission to provide software for the public good, the Apache Software Foundation's community of volunteers has grown from 21 members (developing the Apache HTTP server) to 765 individual members, 206 committees […]
On March 26, a new version of the graphic editor Krita 4.2.9 was released. Krita is a graphics editor based on Qt, formerly part of the KOffice package, now one of the most prominent representatives of free software and considered one of the most powerful graphics editors for artists. An extensive but not exhaustive list of fixes and improvements: The brush outline no longer flickers when hovering […]
A few months ago, we announced explain.tensor.ru, a public service for parsing and visualizing query plans for PostgreSQL. You've used it over 6000 times since then, but one handy feature that might have gone unnoticed is the structural cues that go something like this: Listen to them and your queries will "get silky smooth." 🙂 And […]
The classic question that a developer brings to his DBA, or a business owner brings to a PostgreSQL consultant, almost always sounds the same: “Why do queries take so long to execute on the database?” A traditional set of reasons: an ineffective algorithm when you decide to JOIN several CTEs over a couple of tens of thousands of records; irrelevant statistics if the actual distribution of data in the table is already very […]
Introducing Windows Terminal v0.10! As always, you can download it from the Microsoft Store, or from the releases page on GitHub. Below the cut we’ll take a closer look at the details of the update! Mouse input The terminal now supports mouse input in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) applications, as well as in Windows applications that use virtual terminal (VT) input. This […]
Sony published a statement on its official website regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, in which, among other things, it allowed for the possibility of postponing upcoming projects from its internal studios. “While no issues have arisen to date, Sony is carefully assessing the risk of delays in the production schedules of games from internal and third-party studios primarily located in Europe and the United States,” it warns […]
