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Keanu Reeves continues to advertise Cyberpunk 2077, because after E3 2019 he became the main star of the project. The actor arrived at the Tokyo Game Show 2019, which is currently taking place in the capital of Japan, and appeared at the booth of the upcoming creation of CD Projekt RED. The actor was photographed riding an exact copy of the motorcycle from Cyberpunk 2077, and also left his autograph […]
ESET has published the results of a study on the development of cyber threats to mobile devices running the Android operating system. The data presented covers the first half of the current year. Experts analyzed the activities of attackers and popular attack schemes. It is reported that the number of vulnerabilities in Android devices has decreased. In particular, the number of mobile threats decreased by 8% compared to the same period in 2018. At the same time […]
Studio OtherSide Entertainment continues to work on System Shock 3. The developers have published a new trailer for the continuation of the legendary franchise. In it, the audience was shown part of the compartments of the space station, on which the events of the game will take place, various enemies and the results of the action of Shodan, an out-of-control artificial intelligence. At the beginning of the trailer, the main antagonist states: "There is no evil here - only change." Then in […]
For many years, people have been able to use GIMP and MyPaint simultaneously from the official Arch repository. But recently everything changed. Now you have to choose one thing. Or assemble one of the packages yourself, making some changes. It all started when the archivist couldn’t build GIMP and complained about it to the Gimp developers. To which he was told that everyone [...]
Huawei continues to experience the consequences of the US-China trade war. The flagship smartphones of the Mate 30 series, as well as the flexible display smartphone Mate X, will be shipped without pre-installed Google services, which cannot but worry potential buyers. Despite this, users will be able to install Google services themselves thanks to the open architecture of Android. Commenting on this point, the founder […]
After more than a year of development, the LXLE 18.04.3 distribution has been released, developed for use on legacy systems. The LXLE distribution is based on the developments of Ubuntu MinimalCD and tries to provide the most lightweight solution that combines support for legacy hardware with a modern user environment. The need to create a separate branch is due to the desire to include additional drivers for older systems and redesign of the user environment. […]
Gamesindustry.biz spoke with Ubisoft publishing director Yves Guillemot. In the interview, we discussed the development of open-world games that the campaign is developing, touching on the cost of production of such projects and microtransactions. Journalists asked the director whether Ubisoft plans to return to creating smaller-scale works. Representatives of Gamesindustry.biz mentioned Assassin's Creed Unity, where […]
KDE developers have announced the implementation of fractional scaling support for Wayland-based Plasma desktop sessions. This feature allows you to select the optimal size of elements on screens with high pixel density (HiDPI), for example, you can increase the displayed interface elements not by 2 times, but by 1.5. The changes will be included in the next release of KDE Plasma 5.17, which is expected on 15 […]
The Gett company appealed to the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation with a request to prevent Yandex.Taxi from absorbing the Vezet group of companies. It includes taxi services “Vezyot”, “Leader”, Red Taxi and Fasten. The appeal states that the deal will lead to the dominance of Yandex.Taxi in the market and will limit natural competition. “We regard the deal as strictly negative for the market, creating insurmountable barriers to new investment […]
For FreeBSD, Netflix has prepared an implementation of the TCP (congestion control) BBR (Bottleneck Bandwidth and RTT) algorithm, which can significantly increase throughput and reduce data transfer delays. BBR uses link modeling techniques that predict available throughput through sequential checks and round-trip time (RTT) estimation, without bringing the link to the point of packet loss […]
IGN has shared an exclusive cinematic trailer for The Surge 2 from Deck 13 studio. It demonstrates the plot, the closed city in which the protagonist finds himself, battles and a huge monster. The beginning of the video shows the launch of a spaceship with people on board. The transport crashes due to a storm, and the main character, as the description says, comes to his senses in an abandoned […]
Apple has officially announced that starting November 1, a new service called Apple TV+ will be launched in more than 100 countries and regions around the world. The streaming service will be a subscription service, offering users completely original content, bringing together the world's leading screenwriters and filmmakers. As part of Apple TV+, users will have access to various films and series of high […]
