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Huawei Q39 Revenue Up XNUMX% Despite U.S. Pressure

Huawei's revenue growth for the quarter was 39% to almost $27 billion, while profits increased 8%. Smartphone shipments reached 49 million units over the three-month period. The company manages to conclude new contracts and increase supplies, despite the active opposition of the United States. In 2019, revenue is expected to double in three of Huawei's key business areas. Huawei Technologies […]

Tim Cook is sure: "Technology needs to be regulated"

Apple CEO, Timothy Donald Cook, in an interview at the TIME 100 summit in New York, called for increased government regulation of technology to protect the right to privacy and give people control over the information that technology collects about them. companies. β€œWe all need to be honest with ourselves and recognize that what […]

Realme C2 Dual Camera Smartphone with Helio P22 Chip Starts at $85

The budget smartphone Realme C2 (the brand belongs to OPPO) debuted, using the MediaTek hardware platform and the Color OS 6.0 operating system based on Android 9.0 (Pie). The Helio P22 (MT6762) processor was chosen as the basis for the new product. It contains eight ARM Cortex-A53 cores clocked at up to 2,0 GHz and an IMG PowerVR GE8320 graphics accelerator. The screen has […]

Russia to supply advanced instrument for European satellites

The Ruselectronics holding, part of the Rostec state corporation, has created a specialized device for satellites of the European Space Agency (ESA). We are talking about a matrix of high-speed switches with a control driver. This product is intended for use in space radars in Earth orbit. The instrument was designed at the request of the Italian supplier ESA. The matrix allows spacecraft to switch to either transmitting or receiving a signal. It is stated that […]

Server-side JavaScript Node.js 12.0 release

The release of Node.js 12.0.0, a platform for running high-performance network applications in JavaScript, is now available. Node.js 12.0 belongs to the long support branches, but this status will be assigned only in October, after stabilization. Updates for LTS branches are released for 3 years. Support for the previous Node.js 10.0 LTS branch will last until April 2021, and the 8.0 LTS […]

Release of the GNU Shepherd 0.6 init system

The GNU Shepherd 0.6 (formerly dmd) service manager is introduced and is being developed by the developers of the GuixSD GNU/Linux distribution as a dependency-aware alternative to the SysV-init init system. The Shepherd control daemon and utilities are written in the Guile language (one of the implementations of the Scheme language), which is also used to define settings and parameters for starting services. Shepherd is already used in the GuixSD GNU/Linux distribution and targets […]

A fan improved 15 Fallout: New Vegas textures and add-ons using neural networks

Fallout: New Vegas appeared more than eight years ago, but interest in it has not weakened even after the release of Fallout 4 (and we should not even talk about Fallout 76). Fans continue to release a variety of modifications for her - from large-scale plot to graphic. Among the latter, a high-resolution texture pack from the Canadian programmer DcCharge, created with the help of rapidly gaining popularity of neural […]

Fiction children's books about social engineering

Hello! Three years ago, I gave a lecture about social engineering in a children's camp, trolled the children and pissed off the counselors a little. As a result, the subjects were asked what to read. My standard answer about two books by Mitnick and two books by Cialdini seems to be convincing, but only for about an eighth grader and older. If you are younger, then you have to scratch your head a lot. In general, below […]

5 reasons for crypto hate. Why IT people dislike bitcoin

Any author planning to write something about Bitcoin on a popular platform inevitably encounters the phenomenon of crypto-hater. Some people downvote articles without reading them, leave comments like β€œyou’re all suckers, haha,” and this whole stream of negativity seems extremely irrational. However, behind any seemingly irrational behavior there are some objective and subjective reasons. In this text I […]

ECS SF110-A320: nettop with AMD Ryzen processor

ECS has expanded its range of small form factor computers by announcing the SF110-A320 system based on the AMD hardware platform. The nettop can be equipped with a Ryzen 3/5 processor with a maximum thermal energy dissipation of up to 35 W. There are two connectors for SO-DIMM DDR4-2666+ RAM modules with a total capacity of up to 32 GB. The computer can be equipped with an M.2 2280 solid-state module, as well as one […]

Realme 3 Pro Snapdragon 710 Smartphone with VOOC 3.0 Fast Charging

The Realme brand, owned by the Chinese company OPPO, has announced the mid-range smartphone Realme 3 Pro, running the ColorOS 6.0 operating system based on Android 9 Pie. The β€œheart” of the device is the Snapdragon 710 processor. This chip combines eight Kryo 360 cores with a clock speed of up to 2,2 GHz, the Adreno 616 graphics accelerator and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engine. Screen […]