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The flagship smartphone Xiaomi Mi Mix 4 continues to be surrounded by rumors: this time information has appeared about the main camera of the upcoming device. As noted earlier, the new product will receive a main camera with an advanced image sensor, which will surpass the 64-megapixel Samsung ISOCELL Bright GW1 sensor in terms of performance. Now Xiaomi Product Director Wang Teng has announced that […]
The popularity of the STALKER series in terms of the release of modifications can be compared with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The third part of the franchise, Call of Pripyat, was released almost ten years ago, and users continue to create content for it. Recently, the Infinite Art team presented their creation called Ray of Hope. This mod adds multiplayer to STALKER: Call of Pripyat, […]
The Slovenian company EK Water Blocks, a well-known developer of liquid cooling systems, has announced a water block for the powerful MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio graphics accelerator. The said video card was introduced last year. As standard, it is cooled by a massive Tri-Frozr cooler with five heat pipes and three Torx 3.0 fans of different diameters. EK Water Blocks offers […]
Russian researchers from Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov have developed a neural interface platform called E-Boi, designed for training cyber athletes. The proposed system uses a brain-computer interface. The creators say that the solution allows to increase the reaction speed of computer game lovers and increase the control accuracy. The platform application diagram is as follows. At the first stage, the eSports player is tested for speed and accuracy [...]
If we want to resist this destructive government trend of outlawing cryptography, one of the measures we can take is to use cryptography as much as we can while it is still legal to use. — F. Zimmerman Dear Community members! The Internet is seriously ill. Starting this Friday, we will publish weekly the most interesting notes about events […]
The Steam service constantly monitors statistics on the simultaneous number of users in all games. This factor shows the success of the project on the Valve digital platform. A user under the nickname sickgraphs created an animated graph showing changes in the leaderboard for the concurrent online parameter over the past ten years and posted his creation on Reddit. In July 2009, the first positions were occupied by Counter-Strike […]
In July, music streaming pioneers Spotify announced that it would be removing access to a feature that allowed creators to upload their own music to the service. Those who managed to take advantage of it during the nine months of beta testing will be forced to republish their tracks through a supported third-party channel. Otherwise they will be removed from the platform. Photo by Paulette Wooten / Unsplash What happened Previously, behind rare […]
Fewer and fewer users are selling their old iPhones to buy a new Apple model, according to data from BankMyCell, which operates a trade-in program for an old phone for a new one. To track Apple brand loyalty during the upgrade cycle, the company collected data from more than 38 people who upgraded their phones to new ones as part of the trading […]
I know I know. There are a lot of crypto projects, there are a lot of consensuses: based on labor and ownership, gold, oil, baked pies (there is one, yes, yes). What more do we need from one? This is what I propose to discuss after reading the translation of the “lightweight” technical documentation of the *Constellation project. Of course, this is not a complete description of the algorithm, but I’m interested in the opinion of the Habr community, whether there is a place for such a consensus […]
The Roscosmos State Corporation reports that today, July 18, the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the Soyuz MS-13 manned spacecraft was installed on the launch pad of pad No. 1 (Gagarin launch) of the Baikonur cosmodrome. The Soyuz MS-13 device will deliver the crew of the long-term expedition ISS-60/61 to the International Space Station (ISS). The core team includes Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano […]
Higher education in Russia is a totem, a fetish, a fad and a fixed idea. Since childhood, we have been taught that “going to college” is a jackpot: all roads are open, employers are lined up, salaries are on the line. This phenomenon has historical and social roots, but today, along with the popularity of universities, higher education has begun to depreciate, and […]
Toshiba Memory Holdings Corporation announced that it will officially change its name to Kioxia Holdings on October 1, 2019. Around the same time, the Kioxia (kee-ox-ee-uh) name will be included in the names of all Toshiba Memory companies. Kioxia is a combination of the Japanese word kioku, meaning "memory", and the Greek word axia, meaning "value". Combining “memory” with […]
