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Stormy Peters has taken over as director of Microsoft's Open Source Programs Office. Previously, Stormy led the community engagement team at Red Hat, and previously served as director of developer engagement at Mozilla, vice president of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, and chair of the GNOME Foundation. Stormi is also known as the creator of [β¦]
Antec has released the NX500 computer case, designed to create a gaming-grade desktop system. The new product has dimensions of 440 Γ 220 Γ 490 mm. A tempered glass panel is installed on the side: through it, the internal layout of the PC is clearly visible. The case received an original front part with a mesh section and multi-color lighting. The equipment includes a rear ARGB fan with a diameter of 120 mm. It is allowed to install motherboards [...]
Today, August 30, a new enrollment at Yandex.Lyceum has started: those wishing to undergo training will be able to submit applications until September 11. "Yandex.Lyceum" is an educational project of "Yandex" to teach programming to schoolchildren. Applications are accepted from eighth and ninth grade students. The curriculum lasts two years; Moreover, training is free. This year, the geography of the project has expanded by more than [...]
Realme has released the first official image of the high-end smartphone that will be launched next month. We are talking about the Realme XT device. Its feature will be a powerful rear camera containing a 64-megapixel Samsung ISOCELL Bright GW1 sensor. As you can see in the image, the main camera of Realme XT has a quad-module configuration. The optical blocks are arranged vertically in the upper left corner of the device. [β¦]
The Humble Bundle store regularly gives away games to visitors. Not long ago the service offered free Guacamelee! and Age of Wonders III, and now itβs DiRT Rallyβs turn. The Codemasters project was initially released in Steam Early Access, and the full PC version went on sale on December 7, 2015. The rally simulator features a large fleet of vehicles, where [β¦]
The spring confidence in the inevitability of the release of the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti video card for some could turn into disappointment, since there was a fairly noticeable gap between the GeForce GTX 1650 and GeForce GTX 1660 in terms of characteristics and performance. The most interesting thing is that the ASUS brand has even registered a decent variety of GeForce GTX 1650 Ti video cards in the EEC customs database, [β¦]
The Coalition studio spoke about plans for the release of the shooter Gears 5. According to the developers, at launch the game will have 11 maps for three game modes - βHordeβ, βConfrontationβ and βEscapeβ. Players will be able to fight in the arenas Asylum, Bunker, District, Exhibit, Icebound, Training Grounds, Vasgar, as well as in four βhivesβ - The Hive, The Descent, The Mines [β¦]
They say that everything in life is worth trying at least once. And if you are used to working with relational DBMSs, then it is worth getting acquainted with NoSQL in practice, first of all, at least for general development. Now, due to the rapid development of this technology, there are a lot of conflicting opinions and heated debates on this topic, which especially fuels interest. If you delve into [...]
SpaceX announced the successful completion of the second test of the Starhopper rocket prototype, during which it soared to an altitude of 500 feet (152 m), then flew about 100 m to the side and made a controlled landing in the center of the launch pad. The tests took place on Tuesday evening at 18:00 CT (Wednesday, 2:00 Moscow time). Initially they were planned to be held [...]
Our company is in the process of onboarding an SRE team. I came into this whole story from the development side. In the process, I came up with thoughts and insights that I want to share with other developers. In this reflection article I talk about what is happening, how it is happening, and how everyone can continue to live with it. Continuation of a series of articles written on [...]
be quiet! announced the Shadow Wings 2 White cooling fans, which, as reflected in the name, are made in white. The series includes models with a diameter of 120 mm and 140 mm. The rotation speed is controlled by pulse width modulation (PWM). In addition, modifications without PWM support will be offered to customers. The rotation speed of the 120mm cooler reaches 1100 rpm. Maybe [β¦]
The release of the composite manager Sway 1.2 has been prepared, built using the Wayland protocol and fully compatible with the i3 mosaic window manager and the i3bar panel. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. The project is aimed at use on Linux and FreeBSD. i3 compatibility is provided at the command, configuration file and IPC levels, allowing [β¦]
