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Small aerospace company Rocket Lab has decided to follow in the footsteps of larger rival SpaceX, announcing plans to make its rockets reusable. At the Small Satellite Conference held in Logan, Utah, USA, the company announced that it had set a goal to increase the frequency of launches of its Electron rocket. By ensuring the rocket's safe return to Earth, the company will be able to […]
Samsung has not been shy about trolling its main competitor Apple for a long time to advertise its own smartphones, but, as often happens, everything changes over time and the old jokes no longer seem funny. With the release of the Galaxy Note 10, the South Korean company has actually repeated the iPhone feature that it once actively ridiculed, and now the company's marketers are actively removing the old video […]
At the beginning of the year at the MWC 2019 event, LG announced the flagship smartphone G8 ThinQ. As the LetsGoDigital resource now reports, the South Korean company will time the presentation of a more powerful G2019x ThinQ device to the upcoming IFA 8 exhibition. It is noted that the application for registration of the G8x trademark has already been sent to the South Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO). However, the smartphone will be released […]
Alan Kay is the Master Yoda for IT geeks. He was at the forefront of the creation of the first personal computer (Xerox Alto), the SmallTalk language and the concept of “object-oriented programming”. He has already spoken extensively about his views on Computer Science education and recommended books for those who want to deepen their knowledge: Alan Kay: How I Would Teach Computer Science 101 […]
The German company Alphacool is starting sales of a very unusual component for liquid cooling systems (LCS) - a reservoir called Eisball. The product has previously been demonstrated during various exhibitions and events. For example, it was displayed at the developer’s stand at Computex 2019. The main feature of Eisball is its original design. The reservoir is made in the form of a transparent sphere with a rim extending […]
Hi all! A year ago I wrote an article about how I organized a university course on signal processing. Judging by the reviews, the article has many interesting ideas, but it is large and difficult to read. And I have long wanted to break it down into smaller ones and write them more clearly. But somehow it doesn’t work to write the same thing twice. In addition, […]
“One of the reasons to actually go to university is to move beyond mere vocational training and instead grasp deeper ideas.” Let's think about this question a little. Several years ago, Computer Science departments invited me to give lectures at a number of universities. Almost by chance, I asked my first audience of undergrads […]
Many modern e-books run under the Android operating system, which allows, in addition to using the standard e-book software, to install additional software. This is one of the advantages of e-books running under the Android OS. But using it is not always easy and simple. Unfortunately, due to the tightening of Google's certification policies, e-reader manufacturers have stopped installing […]
Canonical has released an update to the Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS distribution, which has received a number of innovations to improve performance. The build includes updates to the Linux kernel, graphics stack, and several hundred packages. Errors in the installer and bootloader have also been fixed. Updates are available for all distributions: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS, Kubuntu 18.04.3 LTS, Ubuntu Budgie 18.04.3 LTS, Ubuntu MATE 18.04.3 LTS, […]
Man of Medan, the first chapter in Supermassive Games' horror anthology The Dark Pictures, will be available at the end of the month, but we were able to see the first quarter of the game at a special private press screening. The parts of the anthology are not connected in any way by plot, but will be united by a common theme of urban legends. The events of Man of Medan revolve around the ghost ship Ourang Medan, […]
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 […]
