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Apple released and almost immediately withdrew the iOS 13.2 beta 2 update: it causes a crash

On October 11, Apple released iOS 13.2 beta 2, after installing which some owners of the 2018 iPad Pro found themselves with non-functional devices. Reportedly, after installation, the tablets did not boot, and sometimes they could not be restored even through flashing in DFU mode. Complaints have already appeared on the company's technical support forum, and the update has been blocked in Cupertino. Now with […]

Activision wants to create bots based on the analysis of player actions

Activision has filed a patent application to create bots based on analysis of the actions of real players. According to GameRant, the company plans to use the developments in multiplayer modes of its games. The document states that the new idea is a continuation of a patent that Activision registered in 2014. The company plans to study user behavior in detail, including weapon choice, map strategies, and even shooting levels. Journalists […]

This is what the new icons in Windows 10X might look like

As you know, some time ago at the annual Surface event, Microsoft announced the new Windows 10X. This system is optimized to work on dual-screen and foldable smartphones. However, we note that previously users have already launched a petition to make the Start menu in Windows 10 the same as in Windows 10X. And now the first leaks have appeared regarding [...]

Chorus: An Adventure Musical from Mass Effect Writer Intends to Refresh the Story Game Genre

The newly formed Australian Summerfall Studios has announced its first game, the β€œadventure musical” Chorus: An Adventure Musical. The Melbourne studio was announced in September, but co-founders Liam Esler and David Gaider have been working on the game concept for almost two years. Speaking to GamesIndustry at International Games Week, they revealed that it all started with Game […]

The American authorities suspended Pavel Durov's Telegram ICO

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it has filed a lawsuit and obtained a temporary injunction against two offshore companies selling the Gram cryptocurrency in the US and other countries. At the time of receiving the court decision, the defendants had managed to raise more than $1,7 billion in investor funds. According to the SEC complaint, Telegram Group Inc. and its subsidiary TON […]

PS5 will be backward compatible, but the question is still in development

While many details regarding Sony's next-gen console appear to be firmly in place, the PS5's backwards compatibility feature is still in development. PS5 will be released at the end of 2020, but already there are a lot of questions regarding the future Japanese gaming system. Of course, one of them is support for a backwards compatibility feature on PS5, which would allow games for the system […]

America's banks to shed 200 jobs in coming years

It's not just supermarkets that are trying to replace their employees with robots. Over the next decade, US banks, which are now investing more than $150 billion a year in technology, will use advanced automation to lay off at least 200 workers. This will be "the largest transition from labor to capital" in industrial history. This is stated in a report by analysts at Wells Fargo, one of the largest banking […]

New article: Yandex.Station Mini review: Jedi tricks

It all started a little over a year ago, in July 2018, when the first hardware device of the Yandex company was presented - the YNDX.Station smart speaker was released under the symbol YNDX-0001. But before we had time to be properly surprised, devices of the YNDX series, equipped with the proprietary Alice voice assistant (or oriented to work with it), fell like a cornucopia. And now for testing […]

Why corporate blogs sometimes turn sour: some observations and advice

If a corporate blog publishes 1-2 articles per month with 1-2 thousand views and only half a dozen pluses, this means that something is being done wrong. At the same time, practice shows that in most cases blogs can be made both interesting and useful. Perhaps now there will be many opponents of corporate blogs, and in some ways I agree with them. […]