Rubric Internet news
For two years now, 3DNews has had a “Computer of the Month” column, in which we consider the optimal hardware configuration in accordance with the buyer’s needs and the thickness of his wallet. But our site has existed since 1997, and then we had not yet come up with any “computers of the month”. What if we mentally move into the distant past of the IT industry (even if not to the very beginning […]
The founder of Opera Software, Jon von Techner, is currently developing the Vivaldi browser, which is positioned as a modern replacement for the classic Opera. Recently, the developers released build 2.4, in which you can move icons around the interface and set up different user profiles. The latter should help if several users work with the same browser. However, von Techner said something else […]
An example of calculating the thermal potential for the street network of Nizhny Novgorod. The city territory is a complex, heterogeneous system that is in constant change. You can describe the territory and assess the urban environment using spatial objects (factors). Factors describing the territory differ in the nature of their influence (positive, negative) and geometric configuration (points, lines, polygons). Often, determining the degree of influence of each individual object [...]
This article was written specifically for Habr - the most advanced audience of techies in the Runet. The author of the sketch is the illustrator Yu.M. In the end, paper will endure everything. Need a cyborg girl? No problem! What do we have at the peak of popularity now? Sexy looks? Easily! Incomparable […]
There are already quite a few articles on Habré from juniors and for juniors. Some are striking in the degree of overzealousness of young professionals who, at the very beginning of their career path, are already ready to give advice to corporations. Some, on the contrary, surprise with a little puppyish enthusiasm: “Oh, I was hired by a company as a real programmer, now I am ready to work, albeit for free. And yesterday on me […]
Last December, Wave Computing, which took over MIPS Technologies designs and patents following the bankruptcy of Imagination Technologies, announced its intention to make the 32-bit and 64-bit MIPS instruction set, tools, and architecture open and royalty-free. Wave Computing promised to provide access to packages for developers during the first quarter of 2019. And they did it! […]
Google has made it easy to take photos of invoices and other documents with your smartphone. Building on last year's smart feature in Google Photos that offers automatic image processing, the company has introduced a new "Crop and Adjust" feature for snapshots of printed documents and text pages. The principle of operation is very similar to the implementation of the recommended actions in Google Photos. After photographing, the platform will determine the document […]
In 2006, at a major Russian conference, the Doctor of Technical Sciences made a presentation on the growing information space. In beautiful schemes and examples, the scientist talked about the fact that in 5-10 years in developed countries, information will come to each person in an amount that he cannot fully perceive. He talked about wireless networks, available at every turn […]
In our blog on Habré, we publish not only stories about the developments of the ITMO University community, but also photo tours - for example, in our robotics laboratory, laboratory of cyber-physical systems and Fablab DIY coworking. Today we've put together a selection of books that look at ways to improve work and study efficiency in terms of thought patterns. Photo: g_u / Flickr / CC […]
According to a number of sources inside Intel, this week the company laid off a significant number of IT workers in various divisions. The number of layoffs was in the hundreds, according to whistleblowers. Intel confirmed the layoffs, but declined to explain the reasons for the cuts or indicate the number of people who lost their jobs. “Changes in our workforce are driven by the needs and priorities of the business, which we constantly evaluate. We […]
Mozilla specialists presented the WASI (WebAssembly System Interface) project, which involves the development of an API for creating ordinary applications that run outside the browser. At the same time, we are initially talking about cross-platform and a high level of security for such applications. As noted, they run in a special "sandbox" and have access to files, the file system, network sockets, timers, and so on. Wherein […]
The ASUS security team has clearly not had a good March. New allegations of serious security breaches by company employees have surfaced, this time involving GitHub. The news comes in the wake of a scandal involving the spread of vulnerabilities through the official Live Update servers. A security analyst at SchizoDuckie has reached out to Techcrunch to share details on yet another […]