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With the release of the new Ryzen 3000 processors built on the Zen 2 microarchitecture, AMD plans to carry out a comprehensive update to the ecosystem. Although the new CPUs will remain compatible with the Socket AM4 processor socket, the developers plan to introduce the PCI Express 4.0 bus, which will now be supported everywhere: not only by processors, but also by the system logic set. In other words, after the release […]
The Chinese technology giant Huawei intends to create a center for the development of telecommunications equipment, the base of which will be Novosibirsk State University. NSU Rector Mikhail Fedoruk reported this to the TASS news agency. He said that negotiations are currently underway with representatives of Huawei on the creation of a large joint center. It is worth noting that the Chinese manufacturer already has an official […]
Photonic integrated circuits, or optical chips, potentially offer many advantages over their electronic counterparts, such as reduced power consumption and reduced latency in computation. That's why many researchers believe that they can be extremely effective in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) tasks. Intel also sees great promise for the use of silicon photonics in […]
Barnes & Noble announced the upcoming start of sales of an updated version of the Nook Glowlight Plus reader. The Nook Glowlight Plus has the largest E-Ink screen of any Barnes & Noble reader, at 7,8 inches. For comparison, the Nook Glowlight 3 reader, released in 2017, has a 6-inch screen, although it costs much less - $120. The new device also received more […]
MSI has launched the GT76 Titan, a top-end portable computer designed specifically for demanding gaming enthusiasts. It is known that the laptop is equipped with a powerful Intel Core i9 processor. Observers believe that the Core i9-9900K chip of the Coffee Lake generation is used, which contains eight computing cores with the ability to simultaneously process up to 16 instruction threads. The nominal clock frequency is 3,6 GHz, […]
Data banks help share the results of experiments and measurements and play an important role in the formation of the academic environment and in the process of developing specialists. We will talk about both datasets obtained using expensive equipment (the sources of this data are often large international organizations and scientific programs, most often related to the natural sciences), and about government data banks. Toolbox for researchers […]
NAVITEL held a press conference in Moscow on May 23, dedicated to the release of new devices, as well as updating the model range of DVRs. The updated range of NAVITEL DVRs, meeting the modern needs of motorists, is represented by devices with more powerful processors and modern sensors with the Night Vision function. Some of the new products are also equipped with a GPS module, adding functions such as GPS information and a digital speedometer. Owners […]
Recently, at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, a group of researchers from the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge spoke about a new vulnerability in smartphones that allowed and allows users to be monitored on the Internet. The discovered vulnerability turned out to be irreversible without the direct intervention of Apple and Google and was found in all iPhone models and only in a few […]
Kaspersky Lab has published a report with the results of a study devoted to the analysis of the cybersecurity situation in the mobile sector in the first quarter of 2019. It is reported that in January–March the intensity of attacks by banking Trojans and ransomware on mobile devices increased sharply. This suggests that attackers are increasingly trying to steal the money of smartphone owners. In particular, it is noted that the number of mobile banking […]
Not so long ago, the music industry was a "closed club". It was hard to get into it, and public taste was controlled by a small group of "enlightened" experts. But every year the opinion of the elites becomes less and less valuable, and playlists and algorithms have replaced the critics. Let's tell how it happened. Photo by Sergei Solo / Unsplash The music industry until 19 […]
The Mutter window manager code, developed as part of the GNOME 3.34 development cycle, includes changes to automate the startup of XWayland when attempting to run an X11-based application in a Wayland-based GUI environment. The difference with the behavior of GNOME 3.32 and earlier releases is that until now the XWayland component ran continuously and required […]
As expected, the entry-level smartphone Xiaomi Redmi 7A was released, sales of which will begin in the very near future. The device is equipped with a 5,45-inch HD+ screen with a resolution of 1440 × 720 pixels and an aspect ratio of 18:9. This panel has neither a cutout nor a hole: the front 5-megapixel camera has a classic location - above the display. The main camera is designed as a single [...]
