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YouTube and Universal Music will update hundreds of music videos

Iconic music videos are true works of art that continue to influence people across generations. Like priceless paintings and sculptures kept in museums, music videos sometimes need updating. It has become known that as part of a joint project between YouTube and Universal Music Group, hundreds of iconic videos of all times will be remastered. This is done for [...]

Star Conflict celebrates the anniversary of the landing of a man on the moon

StarGem and Gaijin Entertainment have released update 1.6.3 “Moon Race” for the online space action game Star Conflict. With its release, an event of the same name began, timed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landing on the moon. For three months, Star Conflict will host the Moon Race event with rewards for pilots. The event will be divided into three […]

The new Microsoft Edge is available for Windows 7

Microsoft has expanded the reach of its Chromium-based Edge browser to Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 users. The developers have released preliminary builds of Canary for these OSes. Allegedly, the new products received almost the same functionality as the version for Windows 10, including compatibility mode with Internet Explorer. The latter should be of interest to business users who need […]

Ford deployed a single virtual space for car development

Ford has begun using a single virtual reality platform that allows company experts from around the world to collaborate on vehicle design. We are talking about the Co-Creation function, developed by Gravity Sketch together with Ford. To work on a 3D model of a car, virtual reality helmets are used. Instead of sketchbooks and tablets, designers use headsets and controllers that translate their gestures into […]

Roskomnadzor proposed rules for isolating the Russian Internet

On May 2019, XNUMX, the president signed the so-called “sovereign Internet” law, designed to ensure the stability of the Runet in any situation. It is assumed that preventive measures will help preserve the Russian segment in the event of attempts to limit its functioning from the outside. And yesterday, Roskomnadzor prepared a project “On approval of rules for routing telecommunication messages in the case of centralized management of a general […]

Intel has released a utility for automated overclocking of processors

Intel has introduced a new utility called Intel Performance Maximizer, which should help simplify overclocking of proprietary processors. The software reportedly analyzes individual CPU settings, then uses “hyper-intelligent automation” technology to allow flexible performance adjustments. Essentially, this is overclocking without having to configure the BIOS settings yourself. This solution is not entirely new. AMD offers a similar […]

New AMD EPYC Rome benchmarks show performance improvement

There is not much time left before the release of the first server processors based on the AMD Zen 2 architecture, codenamed Rome - they should appear in the third quarter of this year. In the meantime, information about new products is seeping into the public space drop by drop from various sources. Recently, on the Phoronix website, known for its database of real […]

Germany to support three battery alliances

Germany will back three company alliances with €1 billion in target funds for local battery production to reduce automakers' dependence on Asian suppliers, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier (pictured below) told Reuters. Among the more than 30 companies that contacted the German Ministry of Economic Affairs about government funding were car makers Volkswagen […]

Ansible: updates in key solutions for automating your world

The Ansible community is constantly delighting with new content - plugins and modules - and creating a lot of new work for those involved in maintaining Ansible, since new code needs to be integrated into the repositories as quickly as possible. Meeting deadlines is not always possible, and the launch of some products that are quite ready for release is postponed until the next official version of Ansible Engine. Until recently […]

CMC Magnetics buys Verbatim

The Taiwanese company CMC Magnetics has further strengthened its own position as a world leader in the production of optical disks for data storage. Recently, CMC Magnetics, together with the Japanese company Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC), issued a press release announcing an agreement reached to buy the Mitsubishi Chemical Media division - Verbatim. The transaction value is $32 million. Completion of the transaction and transfer […]

Sysadmin in a non-IT company. The unbearable burden of being?

Being a system administrator in a small non-IT company is an adventure. The manager considers you a parasite, employees in bad times - the deity of the network and hardware, in good times - a lover of beer and tanks, accounting - an application to 1C, and the whole company as a driver for the successful operation of printers. While you're dreaming of a good cisca, and […]