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Gameforge has announced that Kingdom Under Fire 2, announced 11 years ago, will be released in Europe and North America this year. Kingdom Under Fire 2, like its 2004 predecessor, combines action RPG with elements of real-time strategy. In addition, the second part is an MMO. The project takes place after [...]
For the first time, a space tourism company will conduct an initial public offering (IPO). Owned by British billionaire Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic has announced plans to go public. Virgin Galactic intends to obtain the status of a public company through a merger with an investment firm. Its new partner, Social Capital Hedosophia (SCH), will invest $800 million in […]
Studio Friend & Foe Games announced that the adventure Vane will be released on Steam on July 23. The game has been available on PlayStation 4 since January 2019. Vane takes place in a mysterious desert. Players can transform from a child to a bird to solve mysteries and navigate a landscape filled with caves, mysterious mechanisms, and storms. The world is reacting to [...]
The scientific and production association NPO Automation, part of the state corporation Roscosmos, demonstrated a prototype of a tractor equipped with a self-control system. The unmanned vehicle was presented at the International Industrial Exhibition Innoprom-2019, which is currently taking place in Yekaterinburg. The tractor has neither a steering wheel nor pedals. Moreover, the car doesn’t even have a traditional cabin. Therefore, movement is carried out exclusively in automatic mode. The prototype is able to determine its own location […]
The Moscow Department of Information Technologies studied the interests of users of the city government services portal mos.ru and identified the 5 most popular electronic services among residents of the metropolis. The top five most popular services included checking a schoolchild’s electronic diary (over 133 million requests since the beginning of 2019), searching for and paying fines from the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, AMPP and MADI (38,4 million), receiving readings from water meters […]
The Dynabook brand, created based on the assets of Toshiba Client Solutions, introduced three new portable computers - the Portege X30, Portege A30 and Tecra X40. The first two laptops are equipped with a 13,3-inch display, the third - a 14-inch. In all cases, a Full HD panel with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels is used. Buyers will be able to choose between modifications with support for touch control [...]
Just the other day, we wrote about rumors that players who pre-order the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare reboot will have the opportunity to play Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 using the classic Captain Price skin. Now publisher Activision and developers from the studio Infinity Ward have officially confirmed this information and presented the corresponding video. In this trailer we […]
In light of the approaching barrier in chip production, which is the impossibility of further downscaling of technical processes, multi-chip packaging of crystals is coming to the fore. The performance of future processors will be measured by the complexity, or better yet, the complexity of the solutions. The more functions are assigned to a small processor chip, the more powerful and efficient the entire platform will be. In this case, the processor itself will be […]
The analytical company Strategy Analytics has published another forecast for the smartphone market, in which it predicted an increase in the number of devices used worldwide to 4 billion units in 2020. Thus, the global smartphone fleet will increase by 5% compared to 2019. Android will remain the most common mobile operating system by a wide margin, with second place, as it is now, […]
At PHDays 9, for the first time, a hackathon for developers took place as part of the cyber battle The Standoff. While defenders and attackers battled for two days for control of the city, developers had to update pre-written and deployed applications and ensure they ran smoothly in the face of a barrage of attacks. We'll tell you what came of it. Only […]
When I first started getting acquainted with Habr, my senior comrades strictly instructed me to watch for double spaces and errors in the texts. At the beginning, I didn’t attach much importance to this, but after a bunch of minuses in karma, my attitude towards this requirement suddenly changed. And just recently, my good friend from St. Petersburg, not exactly a geek, Yana […]
The release of SQLite 3.29.0, a lightweight DBMS designed as a plug-in library, has been published. The SQLite code is distributed as a public domain, i.e. may be used without restrictions and free of charge for any purpose. Financial support for SQLite developers is provided by a specially created consortium, which includes companies such as Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley and Bloomberg. Major changes: Added options to sqlite3_db_config() […]
