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The Japanese Smart Lander for Investigation Moon (SLIM) managed to survive the third lunar night and, after its completion, made contact again on April 23. This achievement is remarkable because the device was not originally designed to cope with the harsh conditions during a lunar night, when ambient temperatures drop to -170 C°. Image source: JAXA Source: 3dnews.ru
Chinese technology company Huawei has taken another step towards becoming a major player in the electric vehicle industry with the introduction of a new brand called Qiankun, under which it will produce software for intelligent driving. The new brand's name combines images of the sky and China's Kunlun Mountains - the company will sell autopilot systems, as well as audio and driver's seat controls, […]
In 2023, approximately 126 thousand servers were imported to Russia, which is 10–15% more than the previous year. Thus, as the Kommersant newspaper reports, citing statistics from the Federal Customs Service (FCS), purchases of equipment from abroad in this segment have returned to approximately the level observed in 2021. In particular, as noted, in [...]
Justin Murrill, AMD's director of corporate responsibility, said the company's decision to use chiplet architecture in EPYC processors has reduced global greenhouse gas emissions by tens of thousands of tons per year. AMD began introducing chiplets about seven years ago. The use of multi-chip architecture instead of monolithic products provides a number of advantages. In particular, greater flexibility is achieved in the design […]
After a 6-month trial period, official Xfce project communications are moving from IRC to Matrix. The old IRC channels will remain open for now, but the Matrix channels are now official. The change affects the following channels: #xfce on libera.chat → #xfce:matrix.org #xfce-dev on libera.chat → #xfce-dev:matrix.org – development discussion #xfce-commits on libera.chat → #xfce- commits:matrix.org – notable GitLab activity Previously, many IRC participants […]
According to the old English tradition, taxis in the USA and other English-speaking countries are usually called “cabs” (from the English cab), so Elon Musk did not complicate the task of naming the future Tesla robotic taxi, and at the quarterly conference he stated that it will be called "Cybercab". Image source: TeslaSource: 3dnews.ru
One of the world's largest manufacturers of memory chips, the South Korean company SK Hynix announced on Wednesday plans to invest 5,3 trillion won (about $3,86 billion) in the construction of a plant for the production of DRAM memory in South Korea, writes Reuters. The company noted that the new production facility will mainly focus on the production of HBM-class memory chips. Image source: […]
To power its data centers and colocation facilities, Apple used 2023 TWh of electricity in 2,344. Datacenter Dynamics reports that the company owns seven of its own data centers, as well as an unknown number of colocation sites around the world, the energy consumption of both of which is 100% offset by the purchase of PPA certificates. In the Environmental Progress Report, the company said the Mesa, Arizona facility was the largest […]
There has been a corrective release 0.9.2 of the console interpreter and embedded library of the Pluto language - an alternative implementation of the Lua 5.4 language with many changes and improvements in the syntax, standard library and interpreter. The project participants are also developing the Soup library. The projects are written in C++ and distributed under the MIT license. List of changes: fixed compilation error on aarch64 architecture; fixed method calls […]
After a year of development, RT-Thread 5.1, a real-time operating system (RTOS) for Internet of Things devices, is now available. The system has been developed since 2006 by a community of Chinese developers and has currently been ported to 154 boards, chips and microcontrollers based on x86, ARM, MIPS, C-SKY, Xtensa, ARC and RISC-V architectures. The minimalistic RT-Thread (Nano) build requires only 3 KB […]
nxs-data-anonymizer 1.4.0 has been published - a tool for anonymizing PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB/Percona database dumps. The utility supports data anonymization based on templates and functions of the Sprig library. Among other things, you can use the values of other columns for the same row to fill. It is possible to use the tool through unnamed pipes on the command line and redirect the dump from the source database directly to […]
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has faced charges of intellectual property infringement over its Pokemon Go-inspired app PicTree: Capture the Current. Image source: PicTree: Capture the Current Source: 3dnews.ru
