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Updated Firefox Preview released for Android

Developers from Mozilla have released the first public build of the updated Firefox Preview browser, which previously appeared under the name Fenix. The novelty will be released in the fall, but for now you can download the "pilot" version of the application. The novelty is positioned as a kind of replacement and development of Firefox Focus. The browser is based on the same GeckoView engine, but differs in other aspects. The novelty has become almost twice as fast, […]

Microsoft moves virtual assistant Cortana to standalone app in Windows Store

According to online sources, Microsoft's Cortana virtual assistant will be completely separated from Windows 10 and become a separate application. The beta version of Cortana has now appeared in the Windows Store app store, from where everyone can download it. This suggests that Microsoft will update the voice assistant separately from the software platform in the future. This approach will help [...]

LG W30 and W30 Pro: smartphones with a triple camera and a 4000 mAh battery

LG has announced the mid-range smartphones W30 and W30 Pro, which will go on sale in early July for an estimated price of $150. The W30 model is equipped with a 6,26-inch screen with a resolution of 1520 × 720 pixels and a MediaTek Helio P22 (MT6762) processor with eight processing cores (2,0 GHz). The amount of RAM is 3 GB, and the flash drive is designed […]

LG W10 Smartphone Equipped with HD+ Screen and Helio P22 Processor

LG has officially unveiled the W10 smartphone powered by Android 9.0 Pie, which will be available for an estimated price of $130. For the specified amount, the buyer will receive a device equipped with a 6,19-inch HD + Notch FullVision display. The panel resolution is 1512 × 720 pixels, the aspect ratio is 18,9:9. There is a notch at the top of the screen: here is a selfie camera based on an 8-megapixel […]

Samsung Galaxy Fold 5G Smartphone Passes FCC Certification

The first smartphone with a flexible display from Samsung was introduced earlier this year. Sales of the Galaxy Fold were supposed to begin in April, but due to problems that have arisen, sales have not yet started. Now network sources say that in addition to the standard version of the Galaxy Fold, the South Korean company plans to release a version with […]

The Sapsan-Bekas system disables drones at a distance of more than 6 km

The Avtomatika concern, part of the Rostec state corporation, presented at the Army-2019 International Military-Technical Forum the advanced Sapsan-Bekas complex, designed to counter unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). “Sapsan-Bekas” is a mobile system based on a compact van. The complex, as noted, is capable of disabling civilian and military drones. “Sapsan-Bekas” is capable of monitoring airspace around the clock and recognizing airborne objects […]

San Francisco takes final step towards e-cigarette ban

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Wednesday unanimously approved an ordinance banning the sale of e-cigarettes within city limits. Once the new bill is signed into law, the city's health code will be amended to prohibit stores from selling vaping products and prohibiting online retailers from supplying them to addresses in San Francisco. This means that San Francisco will become the first city […]

Virtualized Data Center Design

Introduction An information system from the user's point of view is well defined in GOST RV 51987 - “an automated system, the result of which is the presentation of output information for subsequent use.” If we consider the internal structure, then in essence any IS is a system of interconnected algorithms implemented in code. In a broad sense of the Turing-Church thesis, an algorithm (or an IS) transforms a set of input […]

Two-factor authentication on the site using a USB token. Now also for Linux

In one of our previous articles, we talked about the importance of two-factor authentication on corporate portals of companies. Last time we demonstrated how to set up secure authentication in the IIS web server. In the comments, we were asked to write instructions for the most common web servers for Linux - nginx and Apache. You asked - we wrote. What do you need to get started? Any modern […]

How to choose storage without shooting yourself in the foot

Introduction It's time to buy storage. Which one to take, who to listen to? Vendor A talks about vendor B, and then there is integrator C, who tells the opposite and advises vendor D. In such a situation, even an experienced storage architect will be dizzy, especially with all the new vendors and SDS and hyperconvergence that are fashionable today. So, how about […]

The book "Kafka Streams in action. Applications and microservices for real-time work"

Hello, Khabro residents! This book is suitable for any developer who wants to understand thread processing. Understanding distributed programming will help you better understand Kafka and Kafka Streams. It would be nice to know the Kafka framework itself, but this is not necessary: ​​I will tell you everything you need. Experienced Kafka developers and novices alike will learn how to create interesting applications […]

How we created cross-component teams in the conditions of trash architecture and lack of skills in Scrum

Hello! My name is Alexander, and I lead IT development at UBRD! In 2017, we at the UBRD Information Technology Services Development Center realized that the time had come for global changes, or rather, agile transformation. In conditions of intensive business development and rapid growth of competition in the financial market, two years is an impressive period. So it's time to take stock of the project. […]