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HP AMOLED laptops coming in April

HP will start selling portable computers with a high-quality AMOLED screen in April, according to AnandTech. AMOLED screens (active matrix based on organic light emitting diodes) will initially be equipped with two laptops. These are HP Specter x360 15 and Envy x360 15 models. These laptops are convertible devices. The display lid can be rotated 360 degrees, […]

LG proposes to embed a 5G antenna in the screen area of ​​smartphones

LG, a South Korean company, has reportedly developed a technology that will integrate a 5G antenna into the display area of ​​future smartphones. It is noted that antennas for operation in fifth generation mobile networks require more space inside mobile devices than 4G / LTE antennas. Therefore, developers will have to look for new ways to optimize the internal space of smartphones. One way to solve the problem, according to LG, […]

Valve unexpectedly introduced its own Index VR headset

To everyone's surprise, on Friday night, Valve launched a teaser page showing a brand new virtual reality headset called the Index. Apparently, the device is manufactured by Valve itself, and not by its longtime partner in the development of the VR market - the Taiwanese HTC. The site does not offer the public any information other than the date - May 2019. However, the image itself […]

EK Water Blocks used gold to create a water block for the Titan RTX

EK Water Blocks has introduced a new full-coverage water block, the EK-Vector RTX Titan, designed for the NVIDIA Titan RTX graphics card. The Slovenian manufacturer seems to have considered that the most expensive consumer video card of the Turing generation is worthy of an unusual water block, so it used real gold to create it. The base of the water block, as well as some other elements, are covered in gold. The base itself is made of purified [...]

In Belgium, they began to develop ultra-bright thin-film LEDs and lasers

Ultra-bright LEDs and lasers have become a part of our lives and are used both for conventional lighting and in various types of measuring electronics. Production technologies using thin-film structures could take these semiconductor devices to a new level. For example, thin-film transistors have made liquid crystal panel technology ubiquitous and affordable in a way that would not have been possible with […]

Smartphone Nokia X71 “lit up” in the benchmark with a Snapdragon 660 processor

Not so long ago, we reported that HMD Global had scheduled the announcement of the mid-range smartphone Nokia X71 for the first days of April, which will enter the global market under the name Nokia 8.1 Plus. Now this device has appeared in the Geekbench benchmark. The test results indicate the use of the Snapdragon 660 processor. This chip, developed by Qualcomm, combines eight Kryo […]

How to Build an SDN - Eight Open Source Tools

Today we have prepared for our readers a selection of SDN controllers that are actively supported by GitHub users and large open source foundations like the Linux Foundation. / Flickr / Johannes Weber / CC BY OpenDaylight OpenDaylight is an open, modular platform for automating large-scale SDN networks. Its first version appeared in 2013, which a little later became part of the Linux Foundation. In March of this […]

Video: full version of the impressive tech-demo of the Chaos physics and destruction system of the Unreal engine

Last week, as part of the Game Developers Conference, Epic Games held several technology demonstrations of the capabilities of new versions of the Unreal Engine. In addition to the short film Rebirth, which showed photorealistic graphics created using Megascans and the mesmerizingly beautiful Troll, which focused on ray tracing technology, a new physics and destruction system, Chaos, was presented, which will replace PhysX […]

Video: a giant crocodile in the new addition to the Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Publisher Square Enix and developers from the Eidos Montreal team continue to work on the action adventure film Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Following on from previous expansions, The Forge, The Pillar, The Nightmare, The Price of Survival and The Serpent's Heart have been released. the sixth is The Grand Caiman. In a new addition to […]

April Fools' event with funny armored cars has started in Crossout

Targem Games and Gaijin Entertainment announced the start of the event "Where is the car from, dude?" in the online action game Crossout. Until April 3, players will be able to take part in battles with funny cars. Each participant in the brawl will randomly receive 1 of 59 armored vehicles created by players and selected by developers at the Blueprint Exhibition. Examples include a giant crab armed with missiles, a crazy lawn mower, a fire-breathing […]

How to withstand increased loads on the system: we talk about large-scale preparations for Black Friday

Hey Habr! In 2017, during Black Friday, loads increased by almost one and a half times, and our servers were at the limit of their capabilities. Over the year, the number of clients has grown significantly, and it became clear that without careful preliminary preparation, the platform may simply not withstand the loads of 2018. The goal was the most ambitious possible: we wanted to be fully prepared […]