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Toolbox for Researchers - Edition Two: A selection of 15 thematic databanks

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Data banks help share the results of experiments and measurements and play an important role in the formation of the academic environment and in the process of developing specialists. We will talk about both datasets obtained using expensive equipment (the sources of this data are often large international organizations and scientific programs, most often related to the natural sciences), and about government data banks. Toolbox for researchers […]

From critics to algorithms: the fading voice of the elites in the world of music

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Not so long ago, the music industry was a "closed club". It was hard to get into it, and public taste was controlled by a small group of "enlightened" experts. But every year the opinion of the elites becomes less and less valuable, and playlists and algorithms have replaced the critics. Let's tell how it happened. Photo by Sergei Solo / Unsplash The music industry until 19 […]

All iPhones and some Android smartphones were vulnerable to a sensor attack

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Recently, at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, a group of researchers from the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge spoke about a new vulnerability in smartphones that allowed and allows users to be monitored on the Internet. The discovered vulnerability turned out to be irreversible without the direct intervention of Apple and Google and was found in all iPhone models and only in a few […]

The intensity of mobile banking Trojan attacks has increased sharply

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Kaspersky Lab has published a report with the results of a study devoted to the analysis of the cybersecurity situation in the mobile sector in the first quarter of 2019. It is reported that in January–March the intensity of attacks by banking Trojans and ransomware on mobile devices increased sharply. This suggests that attackers are increasingly trying to steal the money of smartphone owners. In particular, it is noted that the number of mobile banking […]

VictoriaMetrics, a Prometheus-compatible time-series database engine, is open source

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The source texts of VictoriaMetrics, a fast and scalable DBMS for storing and processing data in the form of a time series, are open (a record forms a time and a set of values ​​corresponding to this time, for example, obtained through a periodic poll of the status of sensors or the collection of metrics). The project competes with solutions such as InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, Thanos, Cortex and Uber M3. The code is written in Go […]

Xiaomi Redmi 7A: budget smartphone with 5,45β€³ display and 4000 mAh battery

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As expected, the entry-level smartphone Xiaomi Redmi 7A was released, sales of which will begin in the very near future. The device is equipped with a 5,45-inch HD+ screen with a resolution of 1440 Γ— 720 pixels and an aspect ratio of 18:9. This panel has neither a cutout nor a hole: the front 5-megapixel camera has a classic location - above the display. The main camera is designed as a single [...]

Sugon releases workstations with Chinese Hygon Dhyana chips based on AMD Zen

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Chinese server and workstation OEM Sugon has begun selling systems based on Hygon Dhyana processors. These are the same Chinese x86-compatible processors that are built on the first generation Zen architecture and are released under license from AMD. Recall that back in 2016, AMD and the investment division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences THATIC founded a joint venture Hygon to […]

Engineer accused of falsifying 38 acts of checking the quality of parts for SpaceX rockets

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A massive scandal erupted in the US aerospace industry. James Smalley, Quality Assurance Engineer for PMI Industries of Rochester, New York, which manufactures various parts for the aerospace industry, has been charged with falsifying inspection reports and test certificates for parts used in SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets and Falcon Heavy. Smalley is also reported to have faked […]

The EEC documentation speaks of the preparation of eleven new modifications of the iPhone

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The website of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) has information about new Apple smartphones, the announcement of which is expected in September this year. In the fall, according to rumors, the Apple corporation will introduce three new models - the iPhone XS 2019, iPhone XS Max 2019 and iPhone XR 2019 models. The first two will allegedly be equipped with a triple camera, and the OLED screen size (organic light-emitting diodes) will […]

Lenovo does not intend to create its own chips and OS for smartphones yet

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Against the background of the United States sanctions against the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, reports have increasingly appeared on the Internet that other companies from China may suffer in this situation. Lenovo has outlined its position on this issue. Recall that after the announcement of the blacklisting of Huawei by the US authorities, they immediately refused to cooperate with […]

The solution for creation of 5G networks in Russia is provided

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The Avtomatika Concern of the Rostec State Corporation presented a comprehensive solution for the development of fifth generation mobile networks (5G) in our country during the IV conference "Digital Industry of Industrial Russia". It is noted that the creation of a nationwide 5G infrastructure is a national task. It is expected that fifth-generation networks will become the basic infrastructure for the implementation of the Digital Economy program, in particular, for the widespread […]

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