Category: internet news

The Sapsan-Bekas system disables drones at a distance of more than 6 km

The Avtomatika concern, part of the Rostec state corporation, presented at the Army-2019 International Military-Technical Forum the advanced Sapsan-Bekas complex, designed to counter unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). “Sapsan-Bekas” is a mobile system based on a compact van. The complex, as noted, is capable of disabling civilian and military drones. “Sapsan-Bekas” is capable of monitoring airspace around the clock and recognizing airborne objects […]

Trident 19.06 OS Release by TrueOS Project

The Trident 19.06 operating system was released, within which, based on FreeBSD technologies, the TrueOS project is developing a ready-to-use graphical user distribution reminiscent of the old releases of PC-BSD and TrueOS. The size of the installation iso image is 3 GB (AMD64). The Trident project is also now developing the Lumina graphical environment and all the graphical tools previously available in PC-BSD, such as […]

Number of Google Chrome downloads for Android The Play Store has surpassed 5 billion downloads.

According to online sources, the mobile version of the Google Chrome browser for the platform Android has been downloaded more than 5 billion times from the official Play Store. Few apps, typically those within the Google ecosystem, can boast such a statistic. YouTube, Gmail, and Google Maps previously surpassed the 5 billion download mark. It's worth noting that the Chrome browser, like […]

HongMeng OS official website turned out to be fake

Some time ago it became known that an official website dedicated to the Huawei HongMeng OS operating system had appeared on the Internet. It contained various information, including technical characteristics of the platform, news, etc. Initially, many thought that the site looked strange. It published outdated information, and the visual design was made in a rather informal […]

Hello from the programmers of the 80s

Modern programmers can be called darlings. They have powerful development environments and many programming languages ​​at their disposal. And just 30 years ago, single scientists and enthusiasts wrote programs even on calculators. Be careful, there are a lot of photos under the cut! In the mid-80s, the state made a lot of efforts to popularize information technology. Scientific articles were published, and entire sections devoted to IT topics appeared in magazines. For […]

Entropy protocol. Part 5 of 6. The Infinite Radiance of the Spotless Mind

Caution: the text contains scenes of smoking. Smoking can harm your health. (21+) Law on Advertising Leaves from the Tree of Knowledge In the morning, like a bayonet, at nine o’clock, I was at the entrance to the third, most mysterious snow-white ball, trying to make a favorable impression on Marat Ibrahimovich with my punctuality. So that the laboratory demonstration is not postponed indefinitely again. In the distance, I […]

We organize an effective workflow for web developers: Confluence, Airtable and other tools

I have been working as a front-end developer for about two years, and have participated in the creation of a wide variety of projects. One of the lessons I learned is that collaboration between different teams of developers who share the same goal but have different tasks and responsibilities is not easy. In consultation with other team members, designers and developers, I created a website creation cycle designed for small teams (5-15 people). IN […]

Microsoft has published a repository with its kernel modifications. Linux

Microsoft has published all changes and additions to the kernel Linux, used in the kernel shipped for the WSL 2 subsystem (Windows Subsystem for Linux v2). The second edition of WSL is distinguished by the delivery of a full-fledged kernel Linux, instead of an emulator that translates system calls on the fly Linux into system calls WindowsThe availability of source code allows enthusiasts to create their own kernel builds if desired. Linux [...]

San Francisco takes final step towards e-cigarette ban

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Wednesday unanimously approved an ordinance banning the sale of e-cigarettes within city limits. Once the new bill is signed into law, the city's health code will be amended to prohibit stores from selling vaping products and prohibiting online retailers from supplying them to addresses in San Francisco. This means that San Francisco will become the first city […]

AMD Unveils Radeon Driver 19.6.3 with F1 2019 Optimizations

AMD introduced the third June driver Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.6.3 for its video cards. The main innovation in it is optimization for the F1 2019 racing simulator from Codemasters, which was launched yesterday. In addition, the developers fixed a number of problems identified in previous versions: YouTube for Radeon ReLive did not connect to the user account; at […]

How I Organized Machine Learning Training at NSU

My name is Sasha and I love machine learning as well as teaching people. Now I supervise educational programs at the Computer Science Center and direct the bachelor's degree in data analysis at St. Petersburg State University. Before that, he worked as an analyst at Yandex, and even earlier as a scientist: he was engaged in mathematical modeling at the Institute of Computer Science of the SB RAS. In this post I want to tell you what came out of the idea [...]

AMA with Habr v.10. Latest* issue

* just kidding, of course - the last one was in June. But if you want to ask us a question, don’t delay! Hello, Habr! Well, here is the first “anniversary” issue of a series of questions and answers to Habr. We publish it every last Friday of the month, which means that for 10 months now you have been asking us questions, and we are trying to […]

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