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Today, after 4 years and 5 months of work, we are pleased to announce the release of Xfce 4.14, a new stable version that replaces Xfce 4.12. In this release the main goal was to migrate all major components from Gtk2 to Gtk3, and from "D-Bus GLib" to GDBus. Most components also received support for GObject Introspection. Along the way we finished work on […]
The number of words “first” in the article is off the charts. First "Hello, World" program, first MUD game, first shooter, first deathmatch, first GUI, first desktop, first Ethernet, first three-button mouse, first ball mouse, first optical mouse, first full-page monitor -sized monitor), the first multiplayer game... the first personal computer. Year 1973 In the city of Palo Alto, in the legendary R&D laboratory […]
Recently, publisher 505 Games and developers from Remedy Entertainment began publishing a series of short videos designed to introduce the public to the upcoming action movie Control without spoilers. The first were videos dedicated to the environment, the background of what was happening in the Oldest House and some enemies. Now comes a trailer highlighting the combat system of this metroidvania adventure. While moving through the back streets of the twisted Old One […]
The latest AGESA microcode update (AM4 1.0.0.3 ABB), which AMD has already distributed to motherboard manufacturers, deprives all motherboards with Socket AM4.0 that are not built on the AMD X4 chipset from supporting the PCI Express 570 interface. Many motherboard manufacturers have independently implemented support for the new, faster interface on motherboards with system logic of the previous generation, that is […]
One step forward, two steps back. If you can only dream about a NAND flash cell with 16 bits written to each cell, then you can and should talk about writing five bits per cell. And they say. At the Flash Memory Summit 2019, Toshiba presented the idea of releasing a 5-bit NAND PLC cell as the next step after mastering the production of NAND QLC memory. […]
The resource Winfuture.de reports that the smartphone, previously listed under the name Motorola One Pro, will debut on the commercial market under the name Motorola One Zoom. The device will receive a quad rear camera. Its main component will be a 48-megapixel image sensor. It will be complemented by sensors with 12 million and 8 million pixels, as well as a sensor for determining the depth of the scene. Front 16 megapixel camera […]
First from left is Marvin Minsky, second from left is Alan Kay, then John Perry Barlow and Gloria Minsky. Question: How would you interpret Marvin Minsky's idea that “Computer Science already has a grammar. What she needs is literature.”? Alan Kay: The most interesting aspect of Ken's blog post (including the comments) is that nowhere […]
As in science, medicine, counseling and many other fields, I think there are issues of temperament as well as knowledge - there is a kind of "calling" here. And, I guess, a kind of “attitude.” A key part of engineering is the love of making things, especially making them right away and making […]
In short, I would advise reading a lot of books that are not related to computer science. It is important to understand what place the concept of “science” occupies in “Computer Science”, and what “engineering” means in “Software Engineering”. The modern concept of “science” can be formulated as follows: it is an attempt to translate phenomena into models that can be more or less easily explained and predicted. You can read about this topic [...]
Huawei and Yandex are negotiating the implementation of the Alice voice assistant in Chinese smartphones. President of Huawei Mobile Services and Vice President of Huawei CBG Alex Zhang told reporters about this. According to him, the discussion also concerns cooperation in a number of areas. For example, this is “Yandex.News”, “Yandex.Zen” and so on. Chang clarified that “cooperation with Yandex is […]
Avalanche Studios has published a trailer for the final expansion called Danger Rising. According to the video, the update will be released on September 5, 2019. The storyline of the add-on is dedicated to Rico's intentions to destroy the Agency organization. His colleague and friend Tom Sheldon will help him with this. In Danger Rising, users will receive several new weapons, including the Sequoia 370 Mag-Slug shotgun, the Yellowstone Auto Sniper […]
Beeline has developed a specialized neural network that will help in searching for missing people: the platform is called “Beeline AI - Search for People.” The solution is designed to simplify the work of the Lisa Alert search and rescue team. Since 2018, this team has been using unmanned aerial vehicles for search operations carried out in forests and industrial areas of cities. However, analyzing images obtained from drone cameras requires […]
