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Billionaire Elon Musk's Boring Company has officially awarded its first commercial contract for a $48,7 million project to build an underground transportation system near the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC). The project, called the Campus Wide People Mover (CWPM), aims to make it easier to move people around the convention center as it expands. […]
One of the largest aircraft manufacturing companies in the world, Airbus, has been working for several years on the Vahana project, the goal of which is to ultimately create a service of unmanned aerial vehicles for transporting passengers. Last February, Airbus' prototype flying taxi took to the skies for the first time, confirming the viability of the concept. And now the company has decided to share with users its […]
Google has published a study, How Effective is Basic Account Hygiene in Preventing Account Theft, on what an account owner can do to prevent an account from being stolen. We present to your attention the translation of this study. True, the most effective method used by Google itself was not included in the report. I had to write about this method myself at the end. […]
When we use something, we rarely think about how it works from the inside. You are driving in your cozy car and it’s unlikely that the thought of how the pistons move in the engine is spinning in your head, or you’re watching the next season of your favorite TV series and you definitely don’t imagine chroma key and an actor in sensors, who will then be turned into a dragon. With Habr […]
There is less and less time left before the official announcement of Ryzen 3000 processors and more and more leaks about them are appearing on the Internet. The source of the next piece of information was the database of the popular SiSoftware benchmark, where a record of testing the six-core Ryzen 3000 chip was found. Note that this is the first mention of the Ryzen 3000 with such a number of cores. According to the test data, the processor has 12 […]
LG Electronics (LG) announced that its 2019 smart TVs will come with support for the Amazon Alexa voice assistant. We are talking about ThinQ AI television panels with artificial intelligence. These are, in particular, devices from the UHD TV, NanoCell TV and OLED TV families. It is noted that thanks to the innovation, owners of compatible TVs will be able to contact the assistant [...]
An interview with Supermassive Games studio head Pete Samuels appeared on the PlayStation blog. He shared details regarding plans to release parts of the anthology The Dark Pictures. The authors intend to stick to their plan and release two games a year. Now Supermassive Games is actively working on three projects in the series at once. Of these, the developers officially announced only Man […]
The GitHub service now offers the opportunity to finance open-source projects. If the user does not have the opportunity to take part in the development, then he can finance the project he likes. A similar system works on Patreon. The system allows you to transfer fixed amounts monthly to those developers who have registered as participants. Sponsors are promised privileges such as priority bug fixes. However, GitHub will not […]
Cooler Master announced the availability of new V Gold series power supplies - the V650 Gold and V750 Gold models with a power of 650 W and 750 W, respectively. Products are 80 PLUS Gold certified. High-quality Japanese capacitors are used, and the manufacturer's warranty is 10 years. The cooling system uses a 135 mm fan with a rotation speed of about 1500 rpm […]
Photo - Pexels - CC BY According to PWC, the semiconductor technology market is growing - last year it reached $481 billion. But its growth rate has slowed down in recent years. Among the reasons for the decline are the complexity of device design processes and the lack of automation. A few years ago, engineers from Intel wrote that when creating a high-performance […]
The mobile operating system KaiOS quickly gained popularity because it allows you to implement some of the functions inherent in smartphones in inexpensive push-button phones. In the middle of last year, Google invested $22 million in the development of KaiOS. Now network sources report that the mobile platform has received new investments in the amount of $50 million. The next round of financing was led by Cathay […]
Yesterday, Facebook published another report on its enforcement of the social network's community standards. The company provides data and indicators for the period from January to March and pays special attention to the total volume of prohibited content that ends up on Facebook, as well as the percentage of it that the social network successfully removed at the publication stage or at least before […]
