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From physicists to Data Science (From engines of science to office plankton). The third part

This picture, by Arthur Kuzin (n01z3), quite accurately summarizes the content of the blog post. As a result, the following narrative should be perceived more like a Friday story than as something extremely useful and technical. In addition, it is worth noting that the text is rich in English words. I don’t know how to translate some of them correctly, and I just don’t want to translate some of them. The first […]

Atlas robot from Boston Dynamics has learned to perform impressive tricks

The American company Boston Dynamics has long gained popularity thanks to its own robotic mechanisms. This time, the developers have published a new video on the Internet demonstrating how the humanoid robot Atlas does various tricks. In the new video, Atlas performs a short gymnastics routine that includes some somersaults, a handstand, a 360Β° jump, and […]

Stallman's departure from the presidency of the Free Software Foundation will not affect his leadership of the GNU project

Richard Stallman explained to the community that the decision to resign as president concerns only the Free Software Foundation and does not affect the GNU Project. The GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation are not the same thing. Stallman remains the head of the GNU project and has no plans to leave this post. Interestingly, the signature to Stallman's letters continues to mention his involvement with the SPO Foundation, […]

From rockets to robots and what does Python have to do with it. GeekBrains Graduate Story

Today we are publishing the story of Andrey Vukolov’s transition to IT. His childhood passion for space once led him to study rocket science at MSTU. The harsh reality made me forget about the dream, but everything turned out even more interesting. Studying C++ and Python allowed me to do equally exciting work: programming the logic of robot control systems. Beginning I was lucky to be raving about space all my childhood. So after school [...]

AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X September announcement wasn't derailed by capacity shortages

AMD was forced to announce last Friday that it would not be able to introduce the sixteen-core Ryzen 9 3950X processor in September, as previously planned, and would offer it to customers only in November of this year. A couple of months of pause were required to accumulate a sufficient number of commercial copies of the new flagship in the Socket AM4 version. Considering that the Ryzen 9 3900X remains […]

Games with Gold in October: Tembo the Badass Elephant, Friday the 13th, Disney Bolt and Ms. Splosion Man

Microsoft has announced next month's games for Xbox Live Gold subscribers. In October, Russian gamers will have the opportunity to add Tembo the Badass Elephant, Friday the 13th: The Game, Disney Bolt and Ms. to their library. Splosion Man. Tembo the Badass Elephant is an action game from the creators of the PokΓ©mon role-playing games, Game Freak. After the Phantom attack, Shell City found itself […]

Preparing to Port MATE Applications to Wayland

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 [...]

Russia proposes world's first standard for satellite navigation in the Arctic

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. β€œThe new GOST defines technical requirements for geodetic equipment software, reliability characteristics, […]

Xbox Game Pass for PC: Dirt Rally 2.0, Cities: Skylines, Bad North and Saints Row IV

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 […]

Microsoft has opened up the code for the C++ Standard Library that comes with Visual Studio

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 […]

"Router for pumping": tuning TP-Link equipment for Internet providers 

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 […]

The Libra Association keeps trying to get regulatory approval to launch Libra cryptocurrency in Europe

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 […]