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The modder improved the textures of the Dust 2 map from Counter-Strike 1.6 with the help of a neural network

Recently, fans often use neural networks to improve old cult projects. This includes Doom, Final Fantasy VII, and now a bit of Counter-Strike 1.6. The author of the YouTube channel 3kliksphilip used artificial intelligence to increase the resolution of the textures of the Dust 2 map, one of the most popular locations in the old competitive shooter from Valve. The modder recorded a video demonstrating the changes. […]

Video: 2×2 mode gameplay in COD: Modern Warfare with active ray tracing

For the gaming exhibition gamescom 2019 in Cologne, NVIDIA, together with the publishing house Activision and the Infinity Ward studio, prepared a video and comparative screenshots, which clearly showed the features of using ray tracing effects in the computer version of the military shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, announced in June. Now NVIDIA has presented a video on its channel with a recording of the actual gameplay […]

Corsair K57 RGB keyboard can connect to PC in three ways

Corsair has expanded its range of gaming-grade keyboards by announcing the full-size K57 RGB Wireless Gaming Keyboard. The new product can connect to a computer in three different ways. One of them is wired, via a USB interface. In addition, Bluetooth wireless communication is supported. Finally, the company's ultra-fast SlipStream wireless technology (2,4 GHz band) is implemented: it is claimed that in this mode the delay […]

gamescom 2019: 11 minutes of helicopter combat in Comanche

At gamescom 2019, THQ Nordic brought a demo build of its new game Comanche. The Gamersyde resource managed to record 11 minutes of gameplay, which will certainly evoke nostalgic feelings among fans of old Comanche games (the last one, Comanche 4, was released back in 2001). For those who don’t know yet: the revived helicopter action movie, unfortunately, will not […]

ASUS unveils ROG Strix Scope TKL Deluxe mechanical gaming keyboard

ASUS has introduced a new Strix Scope TKL Deluxe keyboard in the Republic of Gamers series, which is built on mechanical switches and is designed for use with gaming systems. ROG Strix Scope TKL Deluxe is a keyboard without a number pad, and in general, according to the manufacturer, has 60% less volume compared to full-size keyboards. IN […]

Smartphone Samsung Galaxy M30s will receive a powerful battery with a capacity of 6000 mAh

Samsung's strategy of releasing smartphones in different price categories seems to be fully justified. Having released several models in the new Galaxy M and Galaxy A series, the South Korean company is beginning to prepare new versions of these devices. The Galaxy A10s smartphone was released this month, and the Galaxy M30s should be released soon. The device model SM-M307F, which will probably become […]

NVIDIA adds ray tracing support to GeForce Now cloud gaming service

At gamescom 2019, NVIDIA announced that its streaming gaming service GeForce Now now includes servers that use graphics accelerators with hardware ray tracing acceleration. It turns out that NVIDIA has created the first streaming game service with support for real-time ray tracing. This means that anyone can now enjoy ray tracing […]

WD_Black P50: Industry's first USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 SSD

Western Digital announced new external drives for personal computers and game consoles at the gamescom 2019 exhibition in Cologne (Germany). Perhaps the most interesting device was the WD_Black P50 solid-state solution. It is said to be the industry's first SSD to feature a high-speed USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 interface that delivers throughput up to 20 Gbps. The new product is available in modifications [...]

You can now build Docker images in werf using a regular Dockerfile

Better late than never. Or how we almost made a serious mistake by not having support for regular Dockerfiles to build application images. We will talk about werf - a GitOps utility that integrates with any CI/CD system and provides management of the entire application lifecycle, allowing you to: collect and publish images, deploy applications in Kubernetes, delete unused images using special policies. […]

Qualcomm has signed a new licensing agreement with LG

Chipmaker Qualcomm announced on Tuesday a new five-year patent license agreement with LG Electronics to develop, manufacture and sell 3G, 4G and 5G smartphones. Back in June, LG stated that it could not resolve differences with Qualcomm and renew the licensing agreement regarding the use of chips. This year Qualcomm […]

Flow protocols as a tool for monitoring the security of an internal network

When it comes to monitoring the security of an internal corporate or departmental network, many associate it with controlling information leaks and implementing DLP solutions. And if you try to clarify the question and ask how you detect attacks on the internal network, then the answer will, as a rule, be a mention of intrusion detection systems (IDS). And what was the only […]

ShIoTiny: Nodes, Links, and Events or Features of Drawing Programs

Main points or what this article is about The topic of the article is visual programming of the ShIoTiny PLC for a smart home, described here: ShIoTiny: small automation, Internet of things or “six months before vacation.” Concepts such as nodes, connections, events, as well as the features of loading and executing a visual program on the ESP8266, which is the basis of the ShIoTiny PLC, are very briefly discussed. Introduction or […]