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For what? Any hackathon known among a wide range of specialists usually has a specific and openly stated goal. Agree, no one will spend tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars on promotion, renting a huge premises and freshly squeezed carrot juices just for fun. Therefore, on their colorful and smartphone-adapted landing pages, the organizers always use beautiful and bold […]
The processes taking place in the market are forcing analysts to revise their forecasts for the state of the semiconductor industry. And the adjustments they make inspire, if not horror, then at least concern: expected sales volumes of silicon products for this year relative to initial forecasts are reduced by a double-digit number of percentage points. For example, according to a recent report from IHS Markit, the semiconductor market will shrink by 7,4% […]
The release of the web content management system has been presented. WordPress 5.2. This release marks the completion of a six-year saga to implement the ability to verify updates and additions using a digital signature. Until now, when installing updates in WordPress The main factor in ensuring security was trust in the infrastructure and servers WordPress (After downloading, the hash was verified without verifying the source.) If the project's servers were compromised, the attackers […]
Even during the preliminary announcement of the co-op story mission “Premonition of the Storm” in Overwatch, it was assumed that the new location, which debuted in the mission to capture the villain Maximilien, would become a map for standard competitive battles. Blizzard then announced that the Havana arena, based on the capital of Cuba, will indeed become a full-fledged map for the Capture Points mode. Now that the Overwatch Archives seasonal event has ended, […]
During the last reporting conference, Electronic Arts told investors about the past quarter and plans for the future. In particular, the publisher of Apex Legends happily spoke about the success of the online shooter and announced plans to transfer Apex Legends to more platforms, primarily to mobile ones, following the example of Fortnite and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Expansion into smartphones is quite [...]
Last year, Microsoft introduced artificial intelligence into PowerPoint. It was built into the Ideas tool to improve presentations. Now the company is adapting Ideas to Microsoft Word, offering ideas for improving texts. Unlike the traditional system for correcting typos and incorrect sentence construction, the Ideas system works differently. She will analyze the text, the words used, their length […]
Youth organizations under the State Duma and the Union of Lawyers of Russia published the results of an all-Russian online survey on the topic of threats from the Internet. It was held in 61 regions, and 1,2 thousand people took part. As RBC reports, these data will be used to develop recommendations from the Public Chamber at the end of this month. The initiative was proposed by the Youth Parliament, the Youth Union of Lawyers of Russia and a number of other […]
Perfect World Entertainment and Gunfire Games studio have published a new trailer for Remnant: From the Ashes, in which they presented a location called Yaesha. A third-person shooter with survival elements takes place in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by monsters. Alone or in the company of one or two comrades, you will have to fight for the lost land. The trailer shows Yaisha […]
Released in 2015, Agar.io was the progenitor of the new .io game genre, which has grown in popularity since then. I have personally experienced the rise in popularity of .io games: in the last three years I have created and sold two games in this genre.. In case you have never heard of such games before: these are free multiplayer web games […]
The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS), according to RBC, did not support the introduction of restrictions on the introduction of eSIM technology in our country. Recall that eSim, or embedded SIM, implies the presence of a special identification chip in the smartphone, which allows you to connect to a cellular operator without the need to install a physical SIM card. This opens up a number of new opportunities for market participants: for example, to connect […]
Network sources report that Apple is considering demonstrating the updated Mac Pro at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2019 (WWDC) event, which will be held in the United States in June. As a rule, the conference is devoted to software, but a demonstration of a device that Apple has been working on for more than two years also makes sense. Mac Pro is aimed at demanding users and developers. […]
The InSight automatic apparatus, designed to study Mars, resumes drilling operations. This was reported by the online publication RIA Novosti, citing information disseminated by the German Aviation and Cosmonautics Center (DLR). Recall that the InSight probe arrived on the Red Planet at the end of November last year. This is a stationary device for which there is no possibility of movement. The objectives of the mission are to study the internal structure [...]