Valve's high-budget virtual reality headset exclusive, Half-Life: Alyx, attracted 43 thousand concurrent players on the day of the project's launch on Steam. Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad released the data on Twitter, saying that the game was a success by VR standards and was already on par with Beat Saber in terms of concurrent players. But if you look at the game as […]
Plague Inc. - a strategy from the studio Ndemic Creations, in which you need to destroy the Earth's population using a variety of diseases. When the COVID-19 outbreak occurred in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the game exploded in popularity. However, now, during quarantine, the topic of fighting infection is becoming more and more relevant, so Ndemic is preparing to release it for Plague Inc. corresponding mode. A future update will add […]
The Russian company New Cloud Technologies, which develops the MyOffice office application platform, spoke about the results of its activities in 2019. According to the presented data, the company’s revenue increased 5,2 times and reached 773,5 million rubles (+621 million rubles by 2018). The number of software licenses sold increased 3,9 times. At the end of 2019, 244 […]
The other day, the author of the IT blog @evleaks Evan Blass presented renderings showing the front part of the flagship smartphones Huawei P40 and P40 Pro, which are being prepared for release. Now the Twitter account @evleaks has published new press images that fully reveal the design of these devices. The devices are shown in two color options - silver and black. On the Huawei P40 Pro model, the display bends [...]
Earlier this week, Apple introduced an updated version of its MacBook Air. According to the company, the new product has become twice as productive as its predecessor. Based on this, the WCCFTech resource decided to check how close the new product was to the basic modification of last year’s MacBook Pro 13, because the previous version of Air was significantly behind it. The basic version of the updated MacBook Air is built on a dual-core […]
Despite the explosive growth of the semiconductor industry in the Asia-Pacific region and, in particular, in China, American companies continue to hold more than half of the global market among semiconductor developers. And Americans do not experience any imbalance. They have everything about equally: both factoryless companies and developers with their own factories. Analysts from IC Insights shared their latest observation on the global semiconductor market. […]
A new release of ZombieTrackerGPS has been introduced, allowing you to view maps and satellite images, estimate your position based on GPS, plot travel routes and track your movement on the map. The program is positioned as a free analogue of Garmin BaseCamp, capable of running on Linux. The interface is written in Qt and supports integration with KDE and LXQt desktops. The code is written in […]
A new version of the Tor Browser 9.0.7 is available, focused on ensuring anonymity, security and privacy. The browser is focused on providing anonymity, security and privacy, all traffic is redirected only through the Tor network. It is impossible to contact directly through the standard network connection of the current system, which does not allow tracking the user’s real IP (if the browser is hacked, attackers can gain access to system […]
In the nightly builds of Firefox, on the basis of which the Firefox 5 release will be formed on May 76, an optional operating mode “HTTPS Only” has been added, when enabled, all requests made without encryption will be automatically redirected to secure versions of pages (“http://” is replaced by “ https://"). To enable the mode, the “dom.security.https_only_mode” setting has been added to about:config. The replacement will be carried out at the level of those loaded on [...]
LMDE 20 “Debbie” has been announced for release on March 4th. This release includes all the features of Linux Mint 19.3. LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) is a Linux Mint project to ensure that Linux Mint continues to run and how much effort it will cost if Ubuntu Linux ceases to exist. LMDE is also one of the purposes of builds to ensure compatibility of Linux Mint software outside […]
On March 20, a new version of DXVK 1.6 was released. DXVK is a Vulkan-based layer for DirectX 9/10/11 for running 3D applications under Wine. Changes and improvements: The libraries d3d10.dll and d3d10_1.dll for D3D10 are no longer installed by default, because to support D3D10, the d3d10core.dll and d3d11.dll libraries are sufficient; This opens up the possibility of using the D3D10 effects framework of the Wine implementation. Small […]
This article gave me the idea to make a pocket tool for analyzing WiFi networks. Thanks to them for the idea. I just had nothing to do. All work was done as part of a hobby for the purpose of having fun and expanding my knowledge in the field of network technologies. Slowly, 1..4 hours a week, since the beginning of this year. Applications […]
