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Chinese cobalt-free battery will provide a range of up to 880 km on a single charge

Chinese companies are increasingly declaring themselves as developers and manufacturers of promising batteries. Foreign technologies are not simply copied, but improved and implemented into a commercial product. The successful work of Chinese companies leads to inevitable progress in battery characteristics, although we, of course, would like “everything at once.” But this does not happen, but the battery has more than […]

Without cash registers and sellers: the first store with computer vision has earned in Russia

Sberbank, the Azbuka Vkusa retail chain and the international payment system Visa have opened the first store in Russia in which there are no sales assistants or self-service cash registers. An intelligent system based on computer vision is responsible for selling goods. To use the new service, the buyer needs to download the Take&Go mobile application from Sberbank and register in it, linking a bank card to his account […]

Apple Glass will be able to offer vision correction, but at an additional cost

Front Page Tech host and tipster Jon Prosser shared a few expected details about the augmented reality glasses Apple is developing, including the marketing name Apple Glass, a starting price of $499, support for vision correction lenses, and more. So, the following details are reported: the device will go on the market under the name Apple Glass; prices will start at $499 […]

Release of dav1d 0.7, the AV1 decoder from the VideoLAN and FFmpeg projects

The VideoLAN and FFmpeg communities have published the release of the dav1d 0.7.0 library with the implementation of an alternative free decoder for the AV1 video encoding format. The project code is written in C (C99) with assembly inserts (NASM/GAS) and is distributed under the BSD license. Support for x86, x86_64, ARMv7 and ARMv8 architectures, and Linux, Windows, macOS, Android and iOS operating systems is implemented. The dav1d library supports all […]

Vulnerability in Apache Tomcat that allows remote code execution

A vulnerability (CVE-2020-9484) has been published in Apache Tomcat, an open source implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language, and Java WebSocket technologies. The problem allows you to achieve code execution on the server by sending a specially designed request. The vulnerability has been addressed in Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M5, 9.0.35, 8.5.55 and 7.0.104 releases. To successfully exploit a vulnerability, an attacker must be able to control the content and […]

Patent Litigation Against GNOME Dropped

The GNOME Foundation announced a successful settlement of a lawsuit brought by Rothschild Patent Imaging LLC, which accused the project of patent infringement. The parties reached a settlement in which the plaintiff dropped all charges against GNOME and agreed not to bring any further claims related to the infringement of any patents it owned. Moreover, Rothschild Patent Imaging has committed itself not to make […]

KDE project adds Matrix server for its contributors

The KDE community is expanding its official list of member communication tools by adding a new Matrix distributed network server. Existing Matrix rooms, IRC channels and Telegram chats will continue to exist. The main change is a dedicated server with room names like #kde:kde.org. Russian-language chat is available at #kde_ru:kde.org. >>> Web client Source: linux.org.ru

And now in the past: plot plot and brutal battles in the release trailer for Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath

NetherRealm Studios has released a release trailer for the large-scale Aftermath add-on to Mortal Kombat 11. In the video, the developers showed footage from the new story campaign, as well as battles involving three heroes who will join the list of fighters after the release of the expansion. The video begins with various characters discussing going back in time to steal Kronika's crown. Viewers can then see how […]

Take-Two: Mafia: Definitive Edition will have new game mechanics and re-recorded voice acting

Earlier this week, publisher 2K Games and studio Hangar 13 announced the release date for Mafia: Definitive Edition, a remake of the first part of the series. The developers also revealed certain details of the project and announced that its full presentation will take place as part of the PC Gaming Show event on June 6. And now we’ve managed to find out a new portion of the game’s details from the company’s financial report […]

Official: Action RPG Fairy Tail will not be released in June due to coronavirus

Publishing house Koei Tecmo on its microblog confirmed what was originally reported in the new issue of Weekly Famitsu magazine - the action role-playing game Fairy Tail from the studio Gust will not be released in June. As expected, the new delay will be only a month: Fairy Tail is now scheduled to premiere on July 30th. However, this date is only relevant for Europe [...]

Henry Cavill's 'White Wolf' Seen in Total War: Warhammer II's Latest DLC

Creative Assembly was so captivated by Henry Cavill's Geralt of Rivia that they included him in the latest expansion for Total War: Warhammer II. If you start the campaign as Guardian Eltharion Grimface, you will soon meet a Loremaster named Cavill. Cavill, a High Elf, has the White Wolf trait, which gives a +15 […]

Android 11 will be able to distinguish between types of 5G networks

The first stable build of Android 11 will likely be presented to the public soon. At the beginning of the month, Developer Preview 4 was released, and today Google updated the page describing innovations in the operating system, adding a lot of new information. Among other things, the company announced new capabilities for displaying the type of 5G network used. Android 11 will be able to distinguish between three types of networks […]