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Red Faction shooter Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered Edition will be released on Nintendo Switch on July 2

The Martian revolution from the shooter Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered Edition will cover the Nintendo Switch this summer - THQ Nordic will release the game on the console on July 2. The project is a remaster of the third-person shooter Red Faction: Guerrilla, which debuted in 2009. The updated version has been available on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 since last July. The Nintendo version […]

Video: Workshop will appear in Overwatch - an advanced script editor

Blizzard continues to develop its team-based competitive shooter Overwatch. She recently presented a video in which game director Jeff Kaplan talked about the upcoming major update. It will bring a workshop for the match browser - a script editor that allows players to create unique game modes and even prototypes of their own Overwatch heroes. “I’ll briefly tell you how this idea came about: we […]

Overview: Six Ways to Use Residential Proxies for Corporate Needs

Masking an IP address may be required for various tasks - from accessing blocked content to bypassing anti-bot systems of search engines and other online resources. I found an interesting post about how this technology can be used to solve corporate problems, and prepared an adapted translation of it. There are several options for the implementation of proxies: Residential proxies - resident IP addresses are called, which Internet service providers issue […]

Getting ready for the hackathon: how to get the most out of yourself in 48 hours

How often do you go 48 hours without sleep? Do you wash down your pizza with a coffee cocktail with energy drinks? Are you staring at the monitor and tapping the keys with trembling fingers? This is often what hackathon participants look like. Of course, a two-day online hackathon, and even in a “boosting” state, is difficult. Therefore, we have prepared for you some tips that will help you […]

The authors of Oxenfree created a mobile game based on "Very strange things" with the money of Telltale Games

Telltale Games has shut down, and so has the Stranger Things project based on the Netflix series. But there was another game in the franchise - from the Night School studio, the authors of Oxenfree. The Oxenfree developer project was funded by Telltale Games along with its own game. Unfortunately, it is unlikely to ever be released, since the closure of the creators of The […]

In May, the first unmanned vehicle "Yandex" will appear on the streets of Moscow

According to Russian media reports, the first vehicle with an autonomous driving system to appear on public roads in Moscow will be a car created by Yandex engineers. This was announced by Yandex.Taxi CEO Tigran Khudaverdyan, adding that the unmanned vehicle will begin testing in May of this year. Representatives of NTI "Avtonet" explained that the car created at Yandex will be the first […]

Gaming laptop Razer Blade 15 received a screen with a refresh rate of 240 Hz

Razer has unveiled a new gaming-grade laptop, the Blade 15, which will be offered in a standard Base Model version and a more powerful Advanced Model version. Both models carry a ninth-generation Intel Core processor. We are talking about the Core i7-9750H chip, which contains six computing cores with multi-threading support. Clock speeds range from 2,6 GHz to […]

NVIDIA Unveils Mobile GeForce GTX 16 Series: Turing for Affordable Gaming Laptops

In addition to the desktop GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card, NVIDIA today also introduced the GeForce GTX 16 series mobile graphics accelerators. Currently, NVIDIA offers two discrete graphics cards for laptops on lower-end Turing GPUs without hardware ray tracing acceleration. The oldest of the new products is the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti video card, which differs from the desktop version only in […]

Big Data Analytics - Realities and Prospects in Russia and the World

Today only people who have no external connections with the outside world have not heard of big data. On Habré, the topic of Big Data analytics and related topics is popular. But for non-specialists who would like to devote themselves to the study of Big Data, it is not always clear what prospects this area has, where Big Data analytics can be used and what […]

10 Useful R Features You Might Not Know About

R is full of a variety of functions. Below I will give ten of the most interesting of them, which many might not know about. The article appeared after I discovered that my stories about some of the features of R that I use in my work were enthusiastically received by fellow programmers. If you already know everything about this, then I apologize for [...]

Named the most popular emoji among the inhabitants of Russia

Every fourth message sent by social network users contains emoji. This conclusion, based on their own research, was made by specialists from Noosphere Technologies, who studied popular social networks in the Russian segment. Analysts processed more than 250 million messages that were sent from 2016 to 2019. In their work, specialists used the Brand Analytics archival database, which […]

"Yandex" sharply increased revenue and net profit

Yandex published unaudited financial results for the first quarter of 2019: key performance indicators of the Russian IT giant showed significant growth. Thus, consolidated revenue increased year-on-year by 40%, reaching 37,3 billion rubles (576,0 million US dollars). Net profit jumped by 69% and amounted to 3,1 billion rubles (48,3 million US dollars). Yandex's share of […]