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It took Realme just over five years to produce 200 million smartphones

Relame, which along with Vivo and Oppo is owned by Chinese giant BBK Electronics, took just over five years from its founding to surpass the 200 million smartphone shipment mark. In the entire history of the smartphone market, only five companies managed to do this in a comparable time frame, and in total only 14 companies out of 250 […]

US sanctions forced China's second-largest server maker to cut executive salaries

The Chinese company H3C Technologies has decided to reduce the salary of middle and top managers by 10 to 20% from the beginning of December this year until the end of next year, if circumstances do not allow the compensation package to be returned to its previous level earlier. The second largest manufacturer of server systems in China is forced to take this step due to sanctions […]

Release of container management system Incus 0.3

The third release of the Incus project has been presented, within which the Linux Containers community is developing a fork of the LXD container management system, created by the old development team that once created LXD. The Incus code is written in Go and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. As a reminder, the Linux Containers community oversaw the development of LXD before Canonical decided to develop LXD separately as an enterprise […]

UK to invest another Β£500 million in AI computing and implement five new quantum projects

The British government intends to spend an additional Β£500 million (about $626 million) to give local scientists and research organizations the opportunity to engage in advanced AI developments. As Silicon Angle clarifies, an additional five new quantum projects will be implemented as part of the National Quantum Strategy with a budget of Β£2.5 billion (approximately $3,1 billion). Β£500 million will be spent on AI infrastructure over the next two years, and the total […]

New article: Xiaomi 13T Pro smartphone review: Xiaomi classic

While the real flagship, Xiaomi 14 Pro, is just planning to reach Russia (although this did not stop us from getting the Chinese version - a review is already being prepared), Xiaomi 13T Pro, released a month earlier, is already conquering the market. Has the next Xiaomi sub-flagship been as successful as the previous one? Let's figure it out Source: 3dnews.ru

Japanese HW Electro presented the Puzzle minivan with solar batteries

The Japanese company HW Electro has announced a miniature Puzzle van, which, in addition to its modest size, is distinguished by the fact that it runs on solar energy. The developer plans to launch mass production of new minivans in the future and bring them to the US market. Image source: HW ElectroSource: 3dnews.ru

Companies involved in the production of HDDs began to close factories

Chinese resources Economic Daily and Sanli News reported that a large Taiwanese supplier of HDD components has made numerous layoffs and is going to close the plant. According to Tom's Hardware, we are talking about Resonac, a large manufacturer of films used to cover the surface of HDD platters. Image source: IT-STUDIO/PixabaySource: 3dnews.ru

The world's first Linux gaming laptop, Tuxedo Sirius 16, has been announced - it is built on AMD components

Tuxedo Computers, a company specializing in creating portable computers based on Linux, announced its first gaming laptop. We are talking about the Sirius 16 Gen 1 model, the hardware basis of which is an 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS processor with a maximum operating frequency of 5,1 GHz and a Radeon RX 7600M XT graphics accelerator with 8 GB of GDDR6 video memory. Image source: TuxedoSource: 3dnews.ru

Libreoffice Viewer is back on Google Play

The Document Foundation has announced that it has synchronized the LibreOffice Viewer Android application with the current LibreOffice codebase and placed this application in the Google Play directory. LibreOffice Viewer is a lightweight version of LibreOffice for Android smartphones and tablets for viewing open document format (.odt, .ods, .odp) and Microsoft Office (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx) documents. LibreOffice Viewer also has experimental […]

PipeWire 1.0.0 released

Finally, the long-awaited first major version of PipeWire, a multimedia server and framework designed for real-time audio output and processing, has been released. There is API and ABI compatibility with ALSA, PulseAudio and JACK. There are not many changes, but they are significant (after all, this is the first release version). Main changes: Fixed a memory leak in memfd/dmabuf when unloading buffers when […]