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PlayStation Plus in September: Darksiders III and Batman: Arkham Knight

Sony Interactive Entertainment has unveiled a couple of games next month for PlayStation Plus subscribers - Batman: Arkham Knight and Darksiders III. Batman: Arkham Knight is the latest Batman adventure from Rocksteady. In the final story, the hero faces Scarecrow, Harley Quinn, Killer Croc and many other opponents. This time our hero will have to administer justice in [...]

DiRT Rally for Steam Free to Claim in Humble Bundle

The Humble Bundle store regularly gives away games to visitors. Not long ago the service offered free Guacamelee! and Age of Wonders III, and now it’s DiRT Rally’s turn. The Codemasters project was initially released in Steam Early Access, and the full PC version went on sale on December 7, 2015. The rally simulator features a large fleet of vehicles, where […]

First screenshots and information about Star Ocean: First Departure R for PS4 and Nintendo Switch

Square Enix has presented a description and first screenshots of Star Ocean: First Departure R, announced in May. Star Ocean: First Departure R is an updated version of the 2007 remake of the original Star Ocean for the PlayStation Portable. In addition to the increased resolution, the game will be completely re-voiced by the same actors who took part in the work on the first Star Ocean. […]

Gears 5 will have 11 multiplayer maps at launch

The Coalition studio spoke about plans for the release of the shooter Gears 5. According to the developers, at launch the game will have 11 maps for three game modes - “Horde”, “Confrontation” and “Escape”. Players will be able to fight in the arenas Asylum, Bunker, District, Exhibit, Icebound, Training Grounds, Vasgar, as well as in four “hives” - The Hive, The Descent, The Mines […]

SpaceX Starhopper Prototype Successfully Jumps 150m

SpaceX announced the successful completion of the second test of the Starhopper rocket prototype, during which it soared to an altitude of 500 feet (152 m), then flew about 100 m to the side and made a controlled landing in the center of the launch pad. The tests took place on Tuesday evening at 18:00 CT (Wednesday, 2:00 Moscow time). Initially they were planned to be held [...]

New Article: ASUS at Gamescom 2019: First DisplayPort DSC Monitors, Cascade Lake-X Motherboards and More

The Gamescom exhibition, held in Cologne last week, brought a lot of news from the world of computer games, but the computers themselves were sparse this time, especially compared to last year, when NVIDIA introduced GeForce RTX series video cards. ASUS had to speak out for the entire PC components industry, and this is not at all surprising: few of the major […]

GlobalFoundries lawsuit against TSMC jeopardizes imports of Apple and NVIDIA products to the US and Germany

Conflicts between contract manufacturers of semiconductors are not such a frequent phenomenon, and previously we had to talk more about cooperation, but now the number of major players in the market for these services can be counted on the fingers of one hand, so competition is moving into a plane that involves the use of legal means of struggle. GlobalFoundries yesterday accused TSMC of misusing sixteen of its patents, […]

Testing of SpaceX Starhopper prototype rocket postponed at the last moment

A test of an early prototype of SpaceX's Starship rocket, called Starhopper, scheduled for Monday was canceled for unspecified reasons. After two hours of waiting, at 18:00 local time (2:00 Moscow time) the “Hang up” command was received. The next attempt will take place on Tuesday. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has hinted that the problem may be with the igniters of Raptor, […]

Good things don't come cheap. But it's free

In this article I want to talk about Rolling Scopes School, a free JavaScript/frontend course that I took and really enjoyed. I found out about this course by accident; in my opinion, there is little information about it on the Internet, but the course is excellent and deserves attention. I think this article will be useful to those who are trying to independently study [...]

Applications for e-books on the Android operating system (part 3)

In this (third) part of the article about applications for e-books on the Android operating system, the following two groups of applications will be considered: 1. Alternative dictionaries 2. Notes, diaries, planners Brief summary of the previous two parts of the article: In the 1st part, the reasons were discussed in detail , for which it turned out to be necessary to conduct massive testing of applications to determine their suitability for installation on […]

Swift programming language on Raspberry Pi

Raspberry PI 3 Model B+ In this tutorial we will go over the basics of using Swift on the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a small and inexpensive single-board computer whose potential is limited only by its computing resources. It is well known among tech geeks and DIY enthusiasts. This is a great device for those who need to experiment with an idea or test a certain concept in practice. He […]