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Sony h.ear WH-H910N color on-ear headphones and new Walkman including anniversary

During IFA 2019, Sony decided to please music lovers and introduced new on-ear headphones h.ear WH-H910N, as well as the Walkman NW-A105 player. In addition to good sound, potential buyers should also like the vibrant colors of these devices. The WH-H910N headphones are said to effectively cancel noise thanks to Dual Noise Sensor technology. And the Adaptive Sound Control function allows you to automatically change sound settings [...]

To whom to entrust the design of technical re-equipment and reconstruction facilities

Of the ten projects on the Russian industrial market today, only two are new construction, and the rest are related to the reconstruction or modernization of existing production facilities. To carry out any design work, the customer chooses a contractor from among companies, which are quite difficult to compare linearly due to very subtle but significant differences in the structure and organization of internal processes. The two main competing forces […]

How to escape reality with a hackathon

Half a thousand people once gathered in an open field. In costumes so strange that only in an open field nothing could threaten them. Almost everyone had a bowler hat hanging from their belt and test tubes clanking in their bags - either with ink or with grandma’s compote. Having divided into groups, everyone took out test tubes and began to pour their contents into […]

Digital events in Moscow from 9 to 15 September

A selection of events for the week. The culture of idleness and the politics of inaction. Ruding group September 09 (Monday) Bersenevskaya embankment 14s5A free The evolution of β€œhome life” in architecture is associated with the growing culture of laziness and idleness. This inaction, in turn, develops in parallel with a culture of participation - a routine that exists according to a specific protocol and within a limited time frame. This is how users make […]

Sea Monkey 2.49.5

SeaMonkey 4 was released on September 2.49.5th. SeaMonkey is a set of integrated web applications that includes a browser, email client, RSS/Atom aggregator and WYSIWYG HTML page editor. Release 2.49.5 is in sync with the Firefox 52.9.0 ESR and Thunderbird 52.9.1 ESR codebase (see the respective release notes at the links). Features: Security fixes have been ported from the Mozilla Firefox codebase (even […]

Meeting for Java developers: we talk about the fight against technical debt and the analysis of the response time of Java services

DINS IT EVENING, an open platform bringing together technical specialists in the areas of Java, DevOps, QA and JS, will hold a meeting for Java developers on September 18 at 19:30 at Staro-Petergofsky Prospekt, 19 (St. Petersburg). Two reports will be presented at the meeting: β€œICE-powered starships. Survive the battle with technical debt" (Denis Repp, Wrike) - What to do if the warp drive is running on AI-95? […]

Google Releases Open Library for Differential Privacy

Google has released its differential privacy library under an open license on the company's GitHub page. The code is distributed under the Apache License 2.0. Developers will be able to use this library to build a data collection system without collecting personally identifiable information. β€œWhether you are a city planner, a small business owner or a developer […]

Purism starts shipping free LibreM smartphones

Purism announced the first pre-order deliveries of free Librem 5 smartphones. Shipment of the first batch will begin on September 24 this year. Librem 5 is a project to create a smartphone with completely open and free software and hardware that allows for user privacy. It comes with PureOS, a GNU/Linux distribution approved by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). One of the key […]

Vivaldi Android beta

The developers of the Vivaldi browser, based on the Blink engine and highly customizable (inspired by Opera from the Presto engine era), have released a beta version of the mobile version of their creation. Among the features they pay attention to: the ability to create notes; support for synchronizing favorites, passwords and notes between devices; creating screenshots, both of the visible area of ​​the page and of the page […]

GCC adopts backend for compiling to eBPF

The GCC compiler set includes code for compiling programs for the eBPF bytecode interpreter built into the Linux kernel. Thanks to the use of JIT compilation, the kernel bytecode is translated on the fly into machine instructions and executed with the performance of native code. Patches with eBPF support have been accepted into the branch on which the GCC 10 release is being developed. In addition to the backend for generating bytecode […]

Chrome includes support for blocking third-party cookies in incognito mode

Experimental builds of Chrome Canary for incognito mode include the ability to block all Cookies set by third-party sites, including advertising networks and web analytics systems. The mode is enabled via the flag β€œchrome://flags/#improved-cookie-controls” and also activates an advanced interface for controlling the installation of Cookies on sites. After activating the mode, a new icon appears in the address bar, when clicked on it […]

Release of Gthree 0.2.0, a 3D library based on GObject and GTK

Alexander Larsson, Flatpak developer and active member of the GNOME community, has published the second release of the Gthree project, which develops a port of the three.js 3D library for GObject and GTK, which can be used in practice to add 3D effects to GNOME applications. The Gthree API is almost identical to three.js, including the glTF (GL Transmission Format) loader and the ability to use […]