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April 1st is not the best day to announce a new product, as many might think it's just another joke, but the Cloudflare team thinks differently. After all, this is a significant date for them since the address of their main mass product—a fast and anonymous DNS server—is 1.1.1.1 (4/1), which was also launched on April 1st last year. […]
Scythe has unveiled an updated version of its relatively small tower-type cooling system, named Byakko 2. It differs from its predecessor primarily with a new fan and a larger radiator. The Byakko 2 cooling system is built on three nickel-plated copper heat pipes with a diameter of 6 mm, which are gathered in a nickel-plated copper base. The pipes […]
I spoke with Dmitry Dumik, the CEO of the California-based chatbot startup Chatfuel and a resident of YCombinator. This is the sixth in a series of interviews with masters of their craft about product-driven approaches, behavioral psychology, and tech entrepreneurship. Let me share a story. I learned about you through a mutual friend in San Francisco as someone with some impressive remixes on Soundcloud. The mixes I […]
NVIDIA has lost its long-time director of technical marketing and outstanding engineer Tom Petersen. He announced last Friday that he finished his last day at the company. Although his new job has not been officially disclosed, sources at HotHardware claim that Intel's visual computing division leader Ari Rauch has successfully recruited Mr. Petersen to join the team working on […]
The NVIDIA Shield TV was one of the first media streaming devices for televisions based on Android to come to market, and it still remains one of the best. NVIDIA continues to release regular updates for the device, and it seems that another one is in the works, which will not just be another firmware update. The Shield TV is built on […]
Perfect World Entertainment has announced that it is partnering with Panic Button to release the action RPG Torchlight II for current-generation consoles this fall. Specific platforms have not been named. Torchlight II was released on PC in September 2012. It is an action RPG with a procedurally generated world where you fight hordes of enemies and search for treasures. On […]
Services that provide a temporary number for receiving SMS online emerged after many social networks, marketplaces, and other internet resources shifted from user identification at registration through email addresses to identification via a code sent to a phone number, often requiring both a code sent to the phone and confirmation via email. Who are these services for, […]
March 31 is celebrated worldwide as International Backup Day, and this year we are conducting our fifth survey dedicated to backups. You can find the results on our website. Interestingly, according to the research, 92.7% of consumers back up their data at least once a year — this is 24% more than the previous year. At the same time, 65% […]
A radical design change is coming to the Google Chrome browser. Reportedly, two major updates have been made to the layout in Chrome Canary 75. This includes support for a dark theme on the home page and the ability to set wallpapers on it. Currently, in the latest builds of Chrome 73, the home page only has instructions for new users. […]
For two years now, 3DNews has featured a “Computer of the Month” column, where we explore the optimal hardware configuration according to the customer's requests and wallet thickness. However, our site has been around since 1997, and back then, we hadn’t invented any “Computer of the Month” yet. What if we mentally transported ourselves to the distant past of the IT industry (though not to the very beginning […]
The founder of Opera Software, Jon von Tetzchner, is currently developing the Vivaldi browser, which is positioned as a modern replacement for the classic “Opera.” Recently, the developers released version 2.4, in which you can move icons throughout the interface and set up various user profiles. The latter should help if multiple users are working with the same browser. However, von Tetzchner revealed something else […]
An example of calculating the thermal potential for the street network of Nizhny Novgorod. The city area is a complex, heterogeneous system that is constantly changing. The territory can be described and assessed using spatial objects (factors). Factors that describe the territory vary in their influence (positive, negative) and geometric configuration (points, lines, polygons). Often, it is difficult to determine the degree of influence of each individual object […]