Habr Weekly #8 / Yandex sorcerers, a book about Prince of Persia, YouTube against hackers, the Pentagon’s “heart” laser

We discussed the difficult topic of competition using Yandex as an example, talked about the games of our childhood, discussed the boundaries of what is permitted when disseminating information, and had a hard time believing in the Pentagon laser. Find news topics and links to them inside the post.

Here's what we discussed in this episode:

• Avito, Ivi.ru and 2GIS Yandex is accused of unfair competition. Yandex thrown out.
• Creator of Prince of Persia announced the release of the book about its development.
• YouTube removes instructions on hacking.
• The Pentagon has a laser that can identify people from a distance - by heartbeat.

Where else can you listen:

1. Apple Podcasts
2. soundcloud
3. Yandex music
4. VC
5. Youtoub
6. Overcast
7. Pocketcast
8. Castbox
9. RSS

Participants

• Ivan Zvyagin, editor in chief
• Adel Mubarakshin, tester
• Daler Aliyorov, Product Manager

Prouduser

Lev Pikalev of Podcaster

Past releases:

• The neural network undresses people, luxury Airbnb, they will be allowed to google on the Unified State Examination, there are a lot of fakes on Google Play
• RuNet is ready to separate itself, Adobe is looking for traces of Photoshop, Vim vulnerability, geochats in the Telega and something else
• Dark themes are everywhere, Chinese factories in the Russian Federation, where bank bases have leaked, Pixel 4, ML pollute the atmosphere
• Computex, how do we get Apple betas, Durov is starving, BadComedian cat, why did the neural network look for porn actors
• Runet bypassed TV, ARM vs Intel, unification of state data, no smartphone in 2019, Soviet dreams of the future
• YaC 2019, donations on GitHub, how to animate paintings, radiation background of Moscow, to the Moon in 2030
• Media weight, how to learn new things, WhatsApp, Intel processors, audiobooks and Ivi new Netflix?

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Source: habr.com