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Contract semiconductor company TSMC achieved revenue growth of 2019% in 3,7, while revenues of other Taiwanese semiconductor companies United Microelectronics (UMC) and Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) fell by about 2% over the same period. TSMC reported that in 2019, consolidated revenue reached a record high of NT$1,07 trillion […]
The other day we talked about the ASRock Hyper Quad M.2 expansion card, which allows you to install four solid-state drives (SSD) in your desktop computer at once. As AnandTech now reports, ASUS is preparing a similar solution. The product, called ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 Gen 4, was demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show 2020 (CES 2020), held this week in […]
Is it not surprising that in a world mired in unreasonable hatred that threatens civilization itself, men and women, both old and young, partly or wholly separate themselves from the malevolent stream of everyday life to devote themselves to the cultivation of beauty, the dissemination of knowledge, the cure of diseases, the reduction suffering, as if at the same time there were no fanatics multiplying pain, ugliness and torment? […]
There is not enough snow in the central part of Russia this winter. It fell in some places, of course, but in January one could expect some more frosty and snowy weather. Dull grayness and unpleasant slush prevent you from feeling the joy of the usual winter fun. That's why Cloud4Y proposes to add a little snow into our lives by talking about... snowflakes. It is believed that there are only two snowflakes [...]
The development of mobile technologies has led to the fact that in access control systems, a smartphone with an NFC module is increasingly used not only as an identifier, but also as a recording device. Scope of application This solution is suitable for facilities where it is impossible or unprofitable to install a stationary registration terminal, but access control and employee accounting are needed. These could be mines, oil rigs, construction […]
The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications has approved the requirements for telecom operators and Internet services performing DNS functions. Such services will have to store information about users for a year and provide a response time of no more than 100 ms. The Ministry of Economic Development warns that these requirements will lead to costs of tens of billions. Original news: https://www.cnews.ru/news/top/2020-01-14_vlasti_utverdili_trebovaniya The comments of the Ministry of Economic Development are recommended for reading, as is the text of the order itself. Source: […]
The Solaris 11.4 SRU 17 (Support Repository Update) operating system update has been published, which offers a series of regular fixes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the fixes offered in the update, simply run the 'pkg update' command. In the new release: Problems in sudo, python 3.7, OpenSSH and sstored have been fixed; Updated versions of Mesa 18.1.9, accountsservice 0.6.43 and xkeyboard-config 2.24; […]
The maintainer of the Mercurial version control system has completed the project's migration from Python 2 to Python 3. Although the first porting attempts were made back in 2008, and the forced adaptation for Python 3 began in 2015, full Python 3 support was only implemented in the latest branch […]
Valve has published a new release of the Proton 4.11-12 project, which builds on the work of the Wine project and aims to run gaming applications created for Windows and presented in the Steam catalog on Linux. The developments of the project are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows you to directly run Windows-only game applications on the Steam Linux client. The package includes the implementation […]
There was a time when it seemed like 3D printing was on the verge of becoming a household staple, but time marches on, and we still haven't seen the widespread adoption of such technologies. However, this doesn't mean the industry is standing still. At CES 2020, many Chinese 3D printer developers showcased their latest professional and industrial-grade solutions. Today […]
Renowned Apple product analyst Guo Minghao has confirmed again that Apple will release five new iPhones this year. These devices will feature integrated 5G NR RF modules in the millimeter-wave and sub-6 GHz ranges. The prediction regarding the differences between the smartphones remains unchanged from last time: a 4,7-inch LCD model, a 5,4-inch model, a 6,1-inch model (with dual rear cameras), a 6,1-inch model […]
Huawei has announced the P30 Lite New Edition smartphone, an improved version of the P30 Lite, which debuted back in March last year. The device inherits its predecessor's 6,15-inch Full HD+ display with a resolution of 2312 × 1080 pixels. Inside beats the same Kirin 710 silicon heart (four Cortex-A73 cores with a clock speed of 2,2 GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores […]