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Corsair has announced an interesting computer accessory - iCUE LT100 Smart Lighting Tower LED towers, designed to fill the room with atmospheric multi-color lighting. The basic kit includes two modules with a height of 422 mm, each equipped with 46 RGB LEDs. Initially, 11 light profiles are available, which provide for the reproduction of various effects. You can control the operation of LED towers using proprietary software [...]
After more than a year of development, openSUSE Leap 15.2 has been released. The release is based on a core set of packages from the ongoing SUSE distribution. Linux Enterprise 15 SP2, which is topped with newer user application releases from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository. A universal 4GB DVD build is available for download, a stripped-down image for installation with package downloads […]
Vimeo has published a new release of the Psalm 3.12 static analyzer, which allows you to identify both obvious and subtle errors in PHP code, as well as automatically correct some types of errors. The system is suitable for identifying problems both in legacy code and in code that uses modern features introduced in new branches of PHP. The project code is written in […]
Apple recently announced its desire to switch to its own ARM processors in new Mac computers. Looks like she's not the only one. Microsoft is also looking to move at least some of its products to ARM chips, but at the expense of third-party processor makers. Data has appeared on the Internet about the model of the Surface Pro tablet computer, built on the Qualcomm chipset […]
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has declared Huawei and ZTE "national security threats", officially banning US corporations from using federal funds to purchase and install equipment from Chinese telecommunications giants. The chairman of the American independent government agency, Ajit Pai, said the decision was based on “substantial evidence.” Federal agencies and legislators […]
Apple, whose key business segments have been the target of several EU antitrust investigations, has rejected accusations of market dominance, saying it competes with Google, Samsung and others. This was stated at a speech at the Forum Europe conference by the head of the Apple App Store and Apple Media Services, Daniel Matray. “We compete with a variety of companies, such as […]
MIT has removed the Tiny Images dataset, which includes an annotated collection of 80 million small images at 32x32 resolution. The set was maintained by a group developing computer vision technologies and has been used since 2008 by various researchers to train and test object recognition in machine learning systems. The reason for removal was the identification of the use of racist and misogynistic terms in tags […]
The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), which is responsible for the development of Internet protocols and architecture, has finalized the RFC for the “DNS Push Notifications” mechanism and published the associated specification under the identifier RFC 8765. The RFC has received the status of a “Proposed Standard”, after which work will begin on giving RFC the status of a draft standard, which actually means complete stabilization of the protocol and taking into account all […]
PPSSPP is a PlayStation Portable (PSP) emulator that uses High Level Emulation (HLE) technology. The emulator runs on a wide range of platforms, including Windows, GNU/Linux, macOS и Android, and allows you to run a huge variety of PSP games. PPSSPP does not require the original PSP firmware (and is unable to run it). In version 1.10: Graphics and compatibility improvements Performance improvements […]
After two years of development, on June 29, a new version of the Lua programming language, 5.4, was quietly and quietly released. Lua is a simple, interpreted programming language that can be easily integrated into applications. Due to these qualities, Lua is widely used as a language for extending or describing the configuration of programs (in particular, computer games). Lua is distributed under the MIT license. The previous version (5.3.5) was released […]
Following the 55-inch Philips Momentum 558M1RY monitor for console games, the Momentum 278M1R model was released, built on a high-quality IPS matrix measuring 27 inches diagonally. It is noted that the 278M1R is the first Philips monitor designed exclusively with the wishes of esports athletes in mind. In particular, this panel is optimized for first-person shooters, fast-paced games and racing simulators. The new product corresponds […]
An emergency correction release of Firefox 78.0.1 has been published, which fixes a problem that appeared in Firefox 78 that led to the disappearance of installed search engines. After updating the browser, the list of quick access to search engines turned out to be empty for some users, auto-completion of input in the address bar was disrupted, and requests were no longer sent through the search field on the start page. The cause of the failure turned out to be the inclusion [...]