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Google has announced that it will end the practice of assigning the names of sweets and desserts to Android platform releases in alphabetical order and will switch to regular digital numbering. The previous scheme was borrowed from the practice of naming internal branches used by Google engineers, but caused a lot of confusion among users and third-party developers. Thus, the currently developed release of Android Q is now officially [β¦]
At gamescom 2019, THQ Nordic brought a demo build of its new game Comanche. The Gamersyde resource managed to record 11 minutes of gameplay, which will certainly evoke nostalgic feelings among fans of old Comanche games (the last one, Comanche 4, was released back in 2001). For those who donβt know yet: the revived helicopter action movie, unfortunately, will not [β¦]
In August 1969, Ken Thompson and Denis Ritchie of the Bell Laboratory, dissatisfied with the size and complexity of the Multics OS, after one month of hard work, presented the first working prototype of the Unix operating system, created in assembly language for the PDP-7 minicomputer. Around this time, the high-level programming language Bee was developed, which a few years later evolved into [β¦]
Samsung's strategy of releasing smartphones in different price categories seems to be fully justified. Having released several models in the new Galaxy M and Galaxy A series, the South Korean company is beginning to prepare new versions of these devices. The Galaxy A10s smartphone was released this month, and the Galaxy M30s should be released soon. The device model SM-M307F, which will probably become [β¦]
Almost three years after the formation of the last significant branch, Apple introduced the release of the free printing system CUPS 2.3 (Common Unix Printing System), used in macOS and most Linux distributions. The development of CUPS is completely controlled by Apple, which in 2007 absorbed the company Easy Software Products, which created CUPS. Starting with this release, the license for the code has changed [...]
Western Digital announced new external drives for personal computers and game consoles at the gamescom 2019 exhibition in Cologne (Germany). Perhaps the most interesting device was the WD_Black P50 solid-state solution. It is said to be the industry's first SSD to feature a high-speed USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 interface that delivers throughput up to 20 Gbps. The new product is available in modifications [...]
Chipmaker Qualcomm announced on Tuesday a new five-year patent license agreement with LG Electronics to develop, manufacture and sell 3G, 4G and 5G smartphones. Back in June, LG stated that it could not resolve differences with Qualcomm and renew the licensing agreement regarding the use of chips. This year Qualcomm [β¦]
Several months have passed since the launch of our secure call to owner service. Currently, 325 people are registered on the service. A total of 332 objects of ownership are registered, of which 274 are cars. The rest is all real estate: doors, apartments, gates, entrances, etc. Frankly speaking, not very much. But during this time, some significant things have happened in our immediate world, [...]
Details of a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-14378) in the SLIRP handler, which is used by default in QEMU to establish a communication channel between the virtual network adapter in the guest system and the network backend on the QEMU side, have been disclosed. The problem also affects virtualization systems based on KVM (in Usermode) and Virtualbox, which use the slirp backend from QEMU, as well as applications using network [β¦]
The Document Liberation project, founded by LibreOffice developers to move tools for working with various file formats into separate libraries, presented two new releases of libraries for working with Microsoft Visio and AbiWord formats. Thanks to their separate delivery, the libraries developed by the project allow you to organize work with various formats not only in LibreOffice, but also in any third-party open project. For example, [β¦]
The Linux Foundation announced the founding of the Confidential Computing Consortium, aimed at developing open technologies and standards related to secure in-memory processing and confidential computing. The joint project has already been joined by companies such as Alibaba, Arm, Baidu, Google, IBM, Intel, Tencent and Microsoft, which intend to jointly develop technologies for data isolation [β¦]
LG Electronics (LG) announced the development of a new mobile application, ThinQ (formerly SmartThinQ), for interacting with smart home devices. The main feature of the program is support for voice commands in natural language. This system uses Google Assistant voice recognition technology. Using common phrases, users will be able to interact with any smart device connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi. [β¦]
