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ASUS exited the Android tablet market

The Taiwanese company ASUS was one of the key players in the global Android tablet market, but, according to the cnBeta website, citing sources in distribution channels, it decided to leave this segment. According to their information, the manufacturer has already notified its partners that it no longer intends to produce new products. This is unofficial data for now, but if the information is confirmed, ZenPad 8 (ZN380KNL) will […]

Legislative framework for biometrics

Now at ATMs you can see an encouraging inscription that soon machines with money will recognize us by our faces. Recently wrote about it here. Great, you'll have to queue less. The iPhone again distinguished itself with a camera for taking biometric data. The Unified Biometric System (UBS) will serve as the foundation for making these milestones of the future a reality. The Central Bank rolled out a list of threats, from […]

In a β€œcouple of decades” the brain will be connected to the Internet

The brain/cloud interface will connect human brain cells to a vast internet cloud network. Scientists claim that future development of the interface could open up the possibility of connecting the central nervous system to a cloud network in real time. We live in an amazing time. Recently, a bionic prosthesis was made that allowed the disabled person to control a new limb with the power of thought, just like a normal hand. […]

The Science of Logic in Programming

This article is devoted to a comparative analysis of logical entities from the work of the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel "Science of Logic" with their analogues or their absence in programming. Essences from the Science of Logic are in italics so that there is no confusion with the generally accepted definitions of these words. Pure Being If you open up the definition of pure being in the book, you will see an interesting line β€œwithout […]

Honeywell HAQ Air Quality Monitor

Hey Habr! I decided to participate in the testing of products from the Dajet assortment again, and here you have a story about the Honeywell HAQ air quality monitor. The device package includes: a package, a box, instructions, the device itself, shock absorbers for transportation, a Micro USB cable (it’s not clear why it is, not Type-C, after all). First of all, my hands itched to drive the device through lsusb, […]

Russians will get a digital profile

After gaining "digital rights", Russia will have a digital profile for citizens and legal entities. A bill about this appeared on the federal portal. It will enter the Duma by mid-April and may be adopted before the end of June. What will be discussed? Draft on amendments to the Federal Law of July 27, 2006 No. 149-FZ β€œOn Information, Information Technologies […]

Undocumented Edge Feature Breaks Internet Explorer Security

Earlier, we wrote about a discovered zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer, which allows using a specially prepared MHT file to upload information from a user's computer to a remote server. Recently, this vulnerability, discovered by security specialist John Page, decided to check and study another well-known expert in this field - Mitya Kolsek, director of ACROS Security, an […]

Apple overtakes Samsung in US smartphone sales

For a long time, Samsung has been the world leader in the supply of smartphones. At the end of last year, the South Korean giant continues to maintain its position in this direction. On a global scale, the situation persists, but in the United States there are changes that the specialists of the company Consumer Intelligence Research Partners were able to identify. Their research showed that the first quarter was good for Apple, as the company was able to […]

Chieftec Core: Gold PSUs up to 700W

Chieftec has introduced a family of Core power supplies with 80 PLUS Gold certification: sales of new products should begin in the near future. The series includes three models - BBS-500S, BBS-600S and BBS-700S. Their power is reflected in the designation - 500 W, 600 W and 700 W, respectively. The new items boast relatively small dimensions of 140 Γ— 150 Γ— 86 mm. Thus, apply […]

AMD Ryzen 3000 (Picasso) Desktop APUs Close to Release

AMD's next generation Ryzen desktop APUs, called Picasso, seem to be pretty close to release. This is indirectly indicated by the fact that one of the users of the Chinese resource Chiphell forum published photographs of a sample of the Ryzen 3 3200G hybrid processor he had. Let us recall that in January of this year, AMD introduced a new generation of mobile hybrid processors, which were included in […]

Digital events in Moscow from 22 to 28 April

A selection of events for the week. Meet-up "Analytics in Marketing" April 22 (Monday) 1st Krasnogvardeisky pr 15 free of charge We invite you to a joint event of the RuMarTech community and ORANGE dedicated to working with big data and analytics. Topical topics, interesting practical speakers, heated discussions in the very center of business Moscow. TestUp & Demo Day April 23 (Tuesday) Deworkacy, Bersenevskaya nab. 6c3 […]

LibreSSL 2.9.1 Cryptographic Library Release

The developers of the OpenBSD project have released LibreSSL 2.9.1 portable edition, which develops a fork of OpenSSL aimed at providing a higher level of security. The LibreSSL project is focused on high-quality support for SSL / TLS protocols with the removal of unnecessary functionality, the addition of additional security features and a significant cleaning and reworking of the code base. The release of LibreSSL 2.9.1 is considered experimental, […]