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The cost of the Russian analogue of Wikipedia was estimated at almost 2 billion rubles

The amount that the creation of a domestic analogue of Wikipedia will cost the Russian budget has become known. According to the draft federal budget for 2020 and the next two years, it is planned to allocate almost 1,7 billion rubles to the open joint-stock company “Scientific Publishing House “Big Russian Encyclopedia” (BRE) for the creation of a national Internet portal, which will be an alternative to Wikipedia. In particular, in 2020, the creation and operation of […]

Roskomnadzor checked Sony and Huawei for compliance with the law on personal data

The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) reported on the completion of inspections of Mercedes-Benz, Sony and Huawei for compliance with laws on personal data. We are talking about the need to localize personal data of Russian users on servers in the Russian Federation. The relevant law came into force on September 1, 2015, but so far [...]

Samsung showed the latest modular screens The Wall Luxury

Samsung presented its advanced modular screens, The Wall Luxury, at Paris Fashion Week and the largest yacht exhibition Monaco Yacht Show. These panels are made using MicroLED technology. The devices use microscopic LEDs, the dimensions of which do not exceed several microns. MicroLED technology requires no color filters or additional backlighting but still delivers a stunning visual experience. […]

Digital events in Moscow from 23 to 29 September

A selection of events for the week Figma Moscow Meetup September 23 (Monday) Bersenevskaya embankment 6с3 free At the meetup, co-founder and head of Figma Dylan Field will speak, and representatives from the Yandex, Miro, Digital October and MTS teams will share their experience. Most of the reports will be in English - an excellent opportunity to improve your language skills at the same time. Big expedition September 24 (Tuesday) We invite owners […]

The Perforated Cooler Master MM710 weighs only 53 grams

Cooler Master has announced a new gaming-class computer mouse - the MM710 model, which will go on sale on the Russian market in November this year. The manipulator received a durable perforated housing in the form of a honeycomb. The device weighs only 53 grams (without connecting cable), which makes the new product the lightest mouse in the Cooler Master range. The PixArt PMW 3389 optical sensor is used […]

IoT, fog and clouds: let's talk about technology?

The development of technologies in the field of software and hardware, the emergence of new communication protocols have led to the expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT). The number of devices is growing day by day and they are generating a huge amount of data. Therefore, there is a need for a convenient system architecture capable of processing, storing and transmitting this data. Now cloud services are used for these purposes. However, the increasingly popular [...]

New article: ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo UX581GV review: the future of laptops or a failed experiment?

I knew that ASUS was preparing a laptop with two screens at the beginning of this year. In general, as a person who constantly monitors mobile technology, it has long been obvious to me that manufacturers are striving to expand the functionality of their products precisely by installing a second display. We are seeing attempts to integrate additional screens into smartphones. We see that by the same […]

Parrot 4.7 distribution release

On September 18, 2019, news appeared on the Parrot Project blog about the release of the Parrot 4.7 distribution. It is based on the Debian Testing package base. There are three iso image options available for download: two with the MATE desktop environment and one with the KDE desktop. New in Parrot 4.7: The menu structure of the security testing utilities has been redesigned; Added application launch mode in [...]

Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha 5G full specifications: 241 grams, 10,4 mm thickness and other details

Xiaomi surprised many by introducing the Mi Mix Alpha concept smartphone, which has a monstrous price of $2800. Even the curved Huawei Mate X and Samsung Galaxy Fold are put to shame at $2600 and $1980 respectively. In addition, for this price the user only gets a new 108-megapixel camera, no bezels or cutouts, no physical buttons, and a not particularly useful wraparound […]

curl 7.66.0: concurrency and HTTP/3

On September 11, a new version of curl was released - a simple CLI utility and library for receiving and sending data over the network. Innovations: Experimental support for HTTP3 (disabled by default, requires rebuilding with quiche or ngtcp2+nghttp3) Improvements to authorization via SASL Parallel data transfer (-Z switch) Processing of the Retry-After header Replacement of curl_multi_wait() with curl_multi_poll(), which should prevent freezing when waiting. Corrections […]

NASA allocates $2,7 billion to build three Orion spacecraft for lunar missions

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected a contractor to build spacecraft to carry out lunar missions as part of the Artemis program. The space agency awarded a contract for the production and operation of Orion spacecraft to Lockheed Martin. It is reported that the production of spacecraft for the Orion program under the leadership of NASA Space Center […]

Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 13 release

The company's official blog contains information about the next release of the Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 13 distribution. It contains a number of fixes and improvements for the Oracle Solaris 11.4 branch. So, among the changes, we can note: Inclusion of the Hotplug framework for hot removal of SR-IOV PCIe devices. To remove and replace devices, the “evacuate-io” and “restore-io” commands have been added to ldm; Oracle Explorer […]