Rubric Internet news
Illustration by Anatoly Sazanov I decided to share with you four stories with "intriguing" titles: Augmented Reality Smart home AI Blockchain They are united (as you have already noticed) by the mention of different fashionable IT words. They are already shoved everywhere, so why can't I? A bit of unsteady (and not always scientific) and joyless science fiction under the cut. Augmented Reality Morning […]
Likbez: what are pre-assembled data center solutions, what are their advantages and why are they gaining popularity. Big data, cloud computing, the Internet of things have become familiar technologies. The need to constantly process huge amounts of information encourages more investment in the creation of data processing centers (DPCs) and expanding the range of services they provide. According to Synergy Research Group, in 2018 […]
A utility as old and popular as WinRAR was revealed last month to have been vulnerable to a bug for the past 19 years that could be easily exploited by hackers and malware distributors. Luckily, the software has been patched in the recent build 5.70. However, many users have not updated the program for a long time and generally do it rarely, so […]
Western Digital has announced the relatively inexpensive WD Blue SN500 NVMe SSDs suitable for desktop and laptop use. Products comply with the NVM Express (NVMe) specification, which describes access to SSDs using the PCI Express bus (in this case, PCIe Gen3 x2). Compared to SATA solutions, this provides faster read speeds and […]
I recently read an interesting book by Alan Pease, Answers in Questions. In addition to the main content about how to ask the right questions in order to get the answers you need, the book has an introduction in which Alan talks about his path to success. From the age of ten, he began selling rubber sponges, and at the age of eighteen he became the best […]
A long time ago, I wrote an article on Habr called "Intensity over thoroughness" about the fact that it is better to increase the number of attempts to do something than the duration of one attempt. Now I want to add to this idea. Key idea: Divide work into work sessions in such a way as to increase the number of attempts to solve the problem. Instead of working continuously for six hours, it is often preferable to […]
How would you describe 2018? Did it turn out the way you expected it to? We would rather answer this question in the negative. From particularly devastating natural disasters to a record number of women going to the polls, 2018 has been full of surprises. Looking back, we assess the world in a very different way than we saw it in the forecasts of a couple of […]