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Samsung introduces Samsung Money debit card with cashback

Samsung, in partnership with technology company SoFi, which develops programs for financial accounting, introduced a plastic Samsung Money debit card with a cashback function and support for contactless payment. The Samsung card is missing the number, issue date, CVV code and owner's signature. All bank card management is carried out through the Samsung Pay mobile application. Thus, if the owner loses the card or […]

Windows 10 2004 Installation Media Creator is already available for download, but it doesn't work

According to reports, the Windows 10 May update will be released tomorrow. As noted by a user hiding under the nickname Aggiornamenti Lumia, the tool for creating installation media for the new version of the OS is already available to users. You can download it from the official Microsoft website. It is reported that the official Media Creation Tool page has not been updated. However, the link to download the new version is already active. […]

Realme launches 10mAh power bank with fast charging

Today, Realme held a presentation during which it presented smart TVs, Buds Air Neo wireless headphones and the first smart watch in the manufacturer's portfolio, Realme Watch. In addition, the company showed an external battery Power Bank 2 with a capacity of 10 mAh with support for fast charging. The device is equipped with lithium-polymer batteries, which, according to the manufacturer, maintain excellent capacity even […]

Published photos and some details about Xiaomi Mi Band 5

At the beginning of the month, pictures of the alleged Xiaomi Mi Band 5 were circulating on the Internet, which, as it turned out later, turned out to be fake. Now new photos of the fitness tracker have appeared on Weibo, which inspire much more confidence. However, like the previous leak, they should be taken with a certain amount of skepticism. A total of two photos were published, one of which shows the device […]

UK builds 300km road to test autonomous vehicles

Midlands Future Mobility has launched a project to build a 300-kilometre route to test self-driving vehicles. The road will pass through urban and rural areas and will also affect the airport and railway station. All this is so that cars learn to navigate in any territory. The route will be laid between the British cities of Coventry and Birmingham. Fully […]

25 vulnerabilities in RTOS Zephyr, including those exploited via ICMP packet

Researchers from the NCC Group have published the results of an audit of the free Zephyr project, which is developing a real-time operating system (RTOS) aimed at equipping devices that comply with the Internet of Things concept (IoT). The audit identified 25 vulnerabilities in Zephyr and 1 vulnerability in MCUboot. Zephyr is being developed with the participation of Intel companies. In total, 6 […]

nginx 1.19.0 release

The first release of the new main branch of nginx 1.19 has been presented, within which the development of new features will continue. The parallel-maintained stable branch 1.18.x contains only changes related to the elimination of serious bugs and vulnerabilities. Next year, based on the main branch 1.19.x, a stable branch 1.20 will be formed. Main changes: Added the ability to verify client certificates using external […]

A new version of the D programming language has been released (2.091.0 )

Changes in the compiler: * The class deallocator has been permanently removed * Ability to report line numbers in GNU style * Added experimental generation of C++ headers from external (extern) C|C++ declarations: DMD can now write C++ header files containing bindings for declarations in existing D files , marked extern(C) or extern(C++). Changes in runtime: * Added missing in […]

Matrix receives another $8.5 million in funding

Matrix is ​​a free protocol for implementing a federated network based on a linear history of events within an acyclic graph (DAG). The protocol previously received $5 million from Status.im in 2017, which allowed the developers to stabilize the specification, client and server reference implementations, hire UI/UX professionals to work on a global redesign, significantly improve […]

Mozilla moves from IRC to Matrix

Previously, the company conducted testing, the last round of which included Mattermost, Matrix with the Riot client, Rocket.Chat and Slack. Other options were discarded due to complexity or inability to integrate with Mozilla single sign-on (IAM). As a result, Matrix was chosen and hosting from the protocol developer (New Vector) - Modular. The departure from IRC is due to the lack of necessary functionality and development […]

Blizzard cancels BlizzCon 2020 due to coronavirus

Blizzard Entertainment will not be hosting BlizzCon this year. The reason was the novel coronavirus pandemic. The company usually held the event in November. In early April of this year, Blizzard warned that the festival might not take place. Despite the official cancellation of the event, Blizzard is considering the possibility of holding a virtual event. β€œWe are now discussing how we could unite [...]

Facebook launches CatchUp, an app for organizing group audio chats

The latest experimental app from Facebook R&D is called CatchUp and is designed for organizing group voice calls. The user can use the status to indicate his readiness to accept the call and up to eight people will be able to join the conversation. The application allows you to create groups of your friends or family members so that, if necessary, […]