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Video: Fighting Evil City Spirits in Colorful Concrete Genie Coming to PS4 in October

The unusual game Concrete Genie (in Russian localization - “City Spirits”), telling the story of a schoolboy who finds a magic brush, was first presented to the public in October 2017. In March of this year, publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment, together with developers from the PixelOpus studio, showed a story trailer. Now we are presented with a short video, the main purpose of which is to announce the release date of the project. […]

Russia and China will jointly develop satellite navigation

The Roscosmos State Corporation announces that Russia has approved the Federal Law “On the ratification of the agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the People's Republic of China on cooperation in the field of application of the global navigation satellite systems GLONASS and Beidou for peaceful purposes.” The Russian Federation and China will jointly implement projects in the field of satellite navigation. In particular, we are talking about [...]

After 13 years of development, The Hell 2 mod is released with a lot of new content for Diablo

A modder under the nickname The Mordor has been working on modifying The Hell 2 for the original Diablo for more than thirteen years. The project was released recently, and now anyone can download it from ModDB. The fan project adds a ton of new content to the 1996 game, providing the perfect excuse to return to the dungeons beneath Tristram. The Hell 2 includes 29 classes […]

Apple wants to bring its own 5G modems to market in 2021

Recently, Apple took an important step towards increasing the share of its own chips in smartphones: the company bought out most of Intel's modem business for $1 billion. In accordance with the agreement, 2200 Intel employees will move to Apple; the latter will also receive intellectual property, equipment and 17 patents for wireless technologies, ranging from cellular standards to […]

Zeiss CEO: Smartphone cameras will always be severely limited

“Over the years, smartphone cameras may have changed the way we take pictures, but there is a limit to what a phone camera can achieve,” says Zeiss Group President and CEO Dr. Michael Kaschke. This man knows what he’s talking about, because his company is one of the leading players in the optical systems segment and produces […]

How to compact up to 90% backup storage in object storage

Our Turkish clients asked us to properly configure backup for their data center. We are doing similar projects in Russia, but here the story was more about researching how best to do it. Given: there is local S3 storage, there is Veritas NetBackup, which has acquired new advanced functionality for moving data to object storage, now with support for deduplication, and there is a problem with […]

Mysterious Xiaomi 5G smartphone spotted on regulator website

Information about a mysterious Xiaomi smartphone has appeared on the website of the Chinese Telecommunications Equipment Certification Authority (TENAA). The device appears under the code name M1908F1XE. The technical characteristics of the device, unfortunately, are not disclosed. But it is said that the device will be able to function in fifth generation mobile networks (5G). Observers believe that the flagship smartphone Mi Mix 4 may be hidden under the specified code. This device is attributed […]

StealthWatch: deployment and configuration. Part 2

Hello colleagues! Having determined the minimum requirements for deploying StealthWatch in the last part, we can begin deploying the product. 1. Methods for deploying StealthWatch There are several ways to “touch” StealthWatch: dcloud – cloud service for laboratory work; Cloud Based: Stealthwatch Cloud Free Trial – here Netflow from your device will be sent to the cloud and StealthWatch software will be analyzed there; On-premise POV […]

Samsung comes up with a smartphone with two hidden displays

The LetsGoDigital resource has discovered Samsung patent documentation for a smartphone with a very unusual design: we are talking about a device with multiple displays. It is known that the patent application was sent to the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) about a year ago - in August 2018. As you can see in the images, Samsung offers to equip the smartphone with two […]

Parkinson's Law and how to break it

“Work fills the time allotted for it.” Parkinson's Law Unless you are a British official from 1958, you don't have to follow this law. No work has to take up all the time allotted for it. A few words about the law Cyril Northcote Parkinson is a British historian and brilliant satirist. An essay published by […]

Deploying your MTProxy Telegram with statistics

“I inherited this mess, starting with the unscrupulous Zello; LinkedIn and ending with “everyone else” on the Telegram platform in my world. And then, with a hiccup, the official hastily and loudly added: “But I will restore order (here in IT)” (...). Durov rightly believes that it is authoritarian states that should be afraid of him, the cypherpunk, and Roskomnadzor and golden shields with their DPI filters […]