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– Dear, I received a letter from Google Cupid yesterday. He recommends that I divorce you and marry another man. According to the analysis from my and your “Amorous” bracelet, the history of website visits, correspondence in instant messengers, our compatibility dropped below thirty-one percent. This means that each of us receives less than necessary positive emotions from our marriage [...]

World's first: Vivo may release a smartphone with a quad front camera

The Chinese company Vivo is considering the possibility of releasing smartphones with a unique front camera system. Information about the developments, as reported by network sources, appeared in patent documentation. We are talking about devices with a quadruple front camera. Vivo offers several options for the multi-module system. For example, in one of the modifications, four camera blocks can be located in the corners of the body. This will allow us to implement various […]

Slurm: Habr, happy holiday...

In the IT world, free from politics and conventions, from restrictions and dogmas, sooner or later the Noon of the XNUMXnd century will emerge. The Slurm team congratulates Habr readers and Slurm participants - from Basic and Mega to DevOps and SRE. Thank you for being with us all this year. For your unexpected questions during intensive courses. For your criticism - [...]

ExtremeSwitching X465 switches. Universal gigabit and multigigabit

Extreme Networks' portfolio of switches has been expanded with the ExtremeSwitching X465 family, the line of which is represented by six models with copper ports (the release of "optics" is expected in the near future). In fact, ExtremeSwitching X465 is the third generation and logical continuation of the Summit X460 and Summit X460G2 switches. They are “universal” in the sense that they can be installed at any level of the network, like […]

Artur Khachuyan: "Real Big Data in advertising"

On March 14, 2017, Arthur Khachuyan, CEO of Social Data Hub, spoke at the BBDO lecture. Arthur spoke about intelligent monitoring, building behavioral models, recognizing photo and video content, as well as other Social Data Hub tools and research that allow you to target audiences using social networks and Big Data technologies. Arthur Khachuyan (hereinafter – AH): – Hello! […]

“Immediately After the Holidays”: Seminars, Master Classes and Technology Competitions at ITMO University

We decided to start the year with a selection of events that will be held with the support of ITMO University in the coming months. These will be conferences, Olympiads, hackathons and master classes on soft skills. Photo: Alex Kotliarskyi / Unsplash.com Yandex Scientific Prize named after Ilya Segalovich When: October 15 - January 13 Where: online Students, graduate students and researchers from […]

TT2020 is a free typewriter font by Fredric Brennan

On January 1, 2020, Fredrick Brennan introduced the free font TT2020, a multilingual typewriter font created using the FontForge font editor. Font features Realistic simulation of text printing defects typical of typewriters; Multilingual; 9 “defect” styles for each character in each of the 6 font styles; License: SIL OFLv1.1 (SIL Open Font License, version 1.1). […]

ProtonMail open source client for iOS. Android is next!

A little late, but an important event of 2019 that was not covered here. CERN recently opened the sources of the ProtonMail application for iOS. ProtonMail is a secure email with PGP elliptic curve encryption. Previously, CERN opened the sources of the web interface, OpenPGPjs and GopenPGP libraries, and also conducted an independent annual audit of the code for these libraries. In the near future, the main [...]

Termux stopped supporting Android 5.xx/6.xx

Termux is a free terminal emulator and Linux environment for the Android platform. Starting from version Termux v0.76, the application requires Android 7.xx and higher. Download Termux for Android 7.xx and higher (F-Droid) Download Termux for 5.xx/6.xx (F-Droid Archive) As previously stated, support for package repositories for Android platforms has also been discontinued since January 1, 2020 [ …]

Windows 10 (2004) has almost reached release candidate status

Microsoft is currently working on Windows 10 (2004) or 20H1. This build should be released this spring, and the main development phase has reportedly already been completed. Windows 10 Build 19041 is considered a release candidate for the new version, although this has not yet been officially confirmed. However, there is a preview watermark on the desktop in this build, which […]

Qubes 4.0.2 OS update using virtualization for application isolation

A year after the last release, an update to the Qubes 4.0.2 operating system was published, which implements the idea of ​​using a hypervisor to strictly isolate applications and OS components (each class of applications and system services runs in separate virtual machines). A 4.6 GB installation image has been prepared for download. Requires a system with 4 GB of RAM and a 64-bit Intel CPU or […]