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Development of Visual Studio 2019 began last summer, and the first preview version was released in December 2018. Finally, Microsoft proudly announced that the final version of VS 2019 is available for download and use by everyone, including Windows, so for macOS. At the same time, Visual Studio 2019 for Mac hides behind a rebranded […]
On April XNUMX, many information resources dedicated to IT topics, including ours, publish both real and comic news. Such materials are of the most varied quality, from frank fantasies to quite believable. And sometimes come across very unusual "news", which would be quite justified to write about even after the first of April. For example, this year there was “news” about […]
All DNA sequences of life forms studied by scientists are stored in a database owned by the National Center for Biotechnology Information in the United States. And on April 1, a new entry appeared in the database: "Caulobacter ethensis-2.0". This is the world's first fully computer modeled and then synthesized synthetic genome of a living organism, developed by scientists from ETH Zurich (Swiss Institute of Technology Zurich). However […]
Launch Marathon Windows 10 The quest to get the OS working on a variety of devices continues. This time, Dutch enthusiast Bas Timmer, known by the nickname NTAuthority, managed to get the desktop OS running on a OnePlus 6T smartphone. Naturally, he's talking about the ARM-based edition. The specialist described his developments on Twitter, posting short messages with photos and videos. He noted that the system was successfully […]
Microsoft has been developing alternatives to traditional PCs for a long time. Now, the next step has been taken. A beta version was recently released. Windows Virtual Desktop, which is expected to lead to the death of regular computers. What's the point? Essentially, it's a kind of response to Chrome OS, which only offers the user a browser and web services. Windows Virtual Desktop works differently. The system virtualizes […]
Outside it poured like a bucket. On all channels, there is only talk about a superstorm gathering strength. He must pass a hundred kilometers to the north. We will have a typical storm with flooded streets, downed power lines and downed trees. I was doing the usual things. I worked in the morning, then all day I cut through the desert on a military drone. Shot down an enemy […]
Innovation has become commonplace. And we are not talking about such modern “innovations” as ray tracing technology on RTX graphics cards from Nvidia or 50x zoom in the new smartphone from Huawei. These things are more useful for marketers than for users. We are talking about real innovations that have significantly changed our approach and outlook on life. For 500 years, and especially […]
Carbon nanotubes have found another application. A few days ago, an article was published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, which for the first time considers the possibility of using multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) in magnetic recording on hard disks. These are various complex CNT-structures in the form of "matryoshka", "convolutions" and other structures. The task in all cases comes down to one thing - to stuff […]
The section dedicated to the Elbrus operating system has been updated on the JSC MCST website. This OS is based on the kernels Linux various versions with built-in information security tools. The page presents: Elbrus OPO - general software based on kernels Linux versions 2.6.14, 2.6.33 and 3.14; Elbrus OS - ported version Debian 8.11 based on the kernel Linux version 4.9; […]
According to online sources, Google has begun the process of shutting down its own social network, which involves deleting all user accounts. This means that the developer has abandoned attempts to impose competition on Facebook, Twitter, etc. The Google+ social network had a relatively low popularity among users. Several large data breaches are also known, as a result of which information about […]
User Cody Darr, aka Sonic Ether, has submitted a shader pack update for Minecraft in which he adds a rendering technology called path tracing. Outwardly, it looks almost like the currently fashionable ray tracing from Battlefield V and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, but it is implemented differently. Path tracing implies that the illumination is emitted by a virtual […]
Google representatives released their annual security and privacy report today. They noted that despite the increase in downloads of potentially dangerous apps, the overall state of the ecosystem is Android improved. The share of dangerous programs downloaded to Google Play in 2017 increased from 0,02% to 0,04% over the period under review. If we exclude information on cases […]