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In order to collaborate on porting MATE applications to run on Wayland, the developers of the Mir display server and the MATE desktop teamed up. They have already prepared the mate-wayland snap package, which is a MATE environment based on Wayland. True, for its everyday use it is necessary to carry out work on porting end applications to Wayland. Another problem is that [...]
The Russian Space Systems (RSS) holding, part of the Roscosmos state corporation, has proposed a standard for satellite navigation systems in the Arctic. As reported by RIA Novosti, specialists from the Polar Initiative Scientific Information Center took part in developing the requirements. By the end of this year, the document is planned to be submitted to Rosstandart for approval. βThe new GOST defines technical requirements for geodetic equipment software, reliability characteristics, [β¦]
Microsoft spoke about which games have been added - or will soon be added - to the Xbox Game Pass catalog for PC. A total of four games have been announced: Bad North: Jotunn Edition, DiRT Rally 2.0, Cities: Skylines and Saints Row IV: Re-Elected. The first two are already available to Xbox Game Pass for PC subscribers. The rest can be downloaded later. Bad North is charming, but [β¦]
At the CppCon 2019 conference, Microsoft representatives announced the open source code of the C++ Standard Library (STL, C++ Standard Library), which is part of the MSVC toolkit and the Visual Studio development environment. This library represents the capabilities described in the C++14 and C++17 standards. In addition, it is evolving towards supporting the C++20 standard. Microsoft has opened the library code under the Apache 2.0 license [β¦]
According to the latest statistics, more than 33 million Russians use broadband Internet. Although the growth of the subscriber base is slowing down, the income of providers continues to grow, including through improving the quality of existing services and the emergence of new ones. Seamless Wi-Fi, IP television, smart home - to develop these areas, operators need to switch from DSL to higher speed technologies and update network equipment. In that [β¦]
It has been reported that the Libra Association, which plans to launch the Facebook-developed digital currency Libra next year, continues to negotiate with EU regulators even after Germany and France categorically spoke out in favor of banning the cryptocurrency. The director of the Libra Association, Bertrand Perez, spoke about this in a recent interview. Let us remind you that [β¦]
Microsoft has released a major version of the .NET Core runtime. The release includes many components, including: .NET Core 3.0 SDK and Runtime ASP.NET Core 3.0 EF Core 3.0 Developers note the following main advantages of the new version: Already tested on dot.net and bing.com; other teams at the company are preparing to move to .NET Core 3 soon [β¦]
Today we have an unusual material - a translation of an article about illegal automated calls in the USA. From time immemorial, there have been people who used technology not for good, but to fraudulently profit from gullible citizens. Modern telecommunications are no exception; spam or outright scams can overtake us via SMS, mail, or telephone. Phones have become even more fun, [...]
The Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei intends to launch its video service in Russia in the coming months. RBC reports this, citing information received from Jaime Gonzalo, vice president of mobile services for Huawei's consumer products division in Europe. We are talking about the Huawei Video platform. It became available in China approximately three years ago. Later, promotion of the service began on the European [β¦]
Purism has announced the readiness of the first batch of the Librem 5 smartphone, notable for the presence of software and hardware to block attempts to track and collect information about the user. The smartphone provides the user with full control over the device and is equipped only with free software, including drivers and firmware. Let us remind you that the Librem 5 smartphone comes with a completely free Linux distribution PureOS, using a package base [β¦]
You may have heard or read about the Call Screening feature that Google rolled out for its Pixel phones in the US. The idea is great - when you receive an incoming call, the virtual assistant begins to communicate, while you see this conversation in the form of a chat and at any time you can start speaking instead of the assistant. This is very useful in [...]
In August of this year, NVIDIA reported financial results for the quarter that exceeded expectations, but for the current quarter the company gave an ambiguous forecast, and this could alert analysts. Representatives of SunTrust, who are now being quoted by Barron's, were not included in their number. According to experts, NVIDIA has a strong position in the segment of server components, gaming video cards and [β¦]
