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U.S. President Donald Trump said the Huawei settlement could be part of a U.S.-China trade deal, despite the telecommunications firm's equipment being labeled "very dangerous" by Washington. The economic and trade war between the US and China has escalated in recent weeks due to tariff hikes and threats of more action. One of the targets of the US attack was Huawei, which […]
Below the cut is a short poem about why computers and a sedentary lifestyle annoy me more and more. Who flies off to the world of toys? Who is left to wait quietly, resting against the fluffy pillows? To love, to hope, to dream that our real world will return to whose virtual world is the window? And the Persian with the shoulder of the night will break through the captivity of illusions into his husband’s house? So […]
Italian developers have created a four-legged robot, HyQReal, capable of winning heroic competitions. The video shows HyQReal dragging a 180-tonne Piaggio P.3 Avanti aircraft nearly 33 feet (10 m). The action took place last week at Genoa Cristoforo Columbus International Airport. The HyQReal robot, created by scientists from the research center in Genoa (Istituto Italiano […]
Experts on Wall Street, as reported by CNBC, are beginning to believe that the confrontation between the United States and China in the trade and economic sphere is becoming protracted, and sanctions against Huawei, as well as the accompanying increase in import duties on Chinese goods, are only the initial stages of a long “war” in economic sphere. The S&P 500 index lost 3,3%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 400 points. Experts […]
LG's attempt to troll Huawei, which was facing problems due to restrictions imposed by the United States, not only did not receive support from users, but also highlighted the problems of the South Korean company's own customers. After the United States banned Huawei from working with American companies, effectively depriving the Chinese manufacturer of the ability to use licensed versions of Android and Google applications, LG decided to take advantage of the situation […]
Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX launched a Falcon 40 rocket from Launch Complex SLC-9 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Thursday to carry the first batch of 60 satellites into Earth orbit for the future deployment of its Starlink Internet service. The Falcon 9 launch, which took place around 10:30 pm local time (04:30 Moscow time on Friday), […]
Soon, ordinary American consumers may feel the impact of the trade war between the United States and China. At the very least, the chief executive of Best Buy, the largest consumer electronics chain in the United States, Hubert Joly warned that consumers will likely suffer from higher prices as a result of tariffs being prepared by the Trump administration. “The introduction of 25 percent duties will lead to higher prices […]
Despite the fact that the Windows 10 May 2019 Update (version 1903) has been tested longer than usual, the new update has problems. It was previously reported that the update was blocked for some PCs with incompatible Intel drivers. Now a similar problem has been reported for devices based on AMD chips. The problem concerns AMD RAID drivers. In case the installation assistant […]
The wave of problems for Huawei, caused by Washington’s decision to add it to the “black” list, continues to grow. One of the last partners of the company to break ties with it was the SD Association. This in practice means that Huawei is no longer allowed to release products, including smartphones, with SD or microSD card slots. Like most other companies and organizations, [...]
Updating OpenSSL to version 1.1.1b in the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository has broken some libopenssl related applications using Russian or Ukrainian locales. The problem appeared after a change was made to the error message buffer handler (SYS_str_reasons) in OpenSSL. The buffer was defined as 4 kilobytes, but this was not enough for some unicode locales. The strerror_r output used to […]
GIGABYTE claims to have developed what is claimed to be the world's first ultra-fast M.2 solid-state drive (SSD) with PCIe 4.0 interface. Recall that the PCIe 4.0 specification was published at the end of 2017. Compared to PCIe 3.0, this standard provides doubling of throughput - from 8 to 16 GT/s (gigatransactions per second). Thus, the data transfer rate for […]
Intel has officially unveiled its new small form factor NUC computers, devices previously codenamed Islay Canyon. The nettops received the official name NUC 8 Mainstream-G Mini PCs. They are housed in a housing with dimensions of 117 × 112 × 51 mm. Intel processor of the Whiskey Lake generation is used. This could be a Core i5-8265U chip (four cores; eight threads; 1,6–3,9 GHz) or a Core […]
