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OnePlus today held a presentation of its new flagship device at simultaneous events in New York, London and Bangalore. Those interested could also watch live broadcasts on YouTube. The OnePlus 7 Pro aims to compete with the latest and greatest flagships from Samsung or Huawei. Of course, additional features and innovations will be offered at a higher price - the company is certainly [β¦]
This article discusses a case of speeding up a browser application by replacing JavaScript calculations with WebAssembly. WebAssembly - what is it? In short, this is a binary instruction format for a stacked virtual machine. Often Wasm (abbreviated name) is called a programming language, but it is not. The instruction format is executed in the browser along with JavaScript. Importantly, WebAssembly can [β¦]
A developer from Red Hat named Hans de Goede presented his project βWayland Itchesβ, which is aimed at stabilizing, correcting errors and shortcomings that arise when running Gnome on Wayland. The reason was the developer's desire to use Fedora as his main desktop distribution, but for now he is forced to constantly switch to Xorg due to many small problems. Among those described [β¦]
ASUS has announced the Dual GeForce GTX 1660 Ti EVO series graphics accelerators: the family includes three video cards that differ in the maximum core frequency. The new products use the TU116 chip based on NVIDIA Turing architecture. The configuration includes 1536 stream processors and 6 GB of GDDR6 memory with a 192-bit bus. For reference products, the base core frequency is 1500 MHz, the turbo frequency is 1770 [β¦]
The Samsung Pay service appeared in 2015 and allowed owners of gadgets from the South Korean technology giant to make contactless payments using their mobile device as a kind of virtual wallet. Since then, there has been a continuous process of developing the service and expanding the user audience. Network sources say that the Samsung Pay service is currently regularly used by 14 million users from [β¦]
Cooler Master has announced the launch of Case Mod World Series 2019 (CMWS19), the world's largest modding competition, celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. #CMWS19 will be held in two separate leagues: The Master League and The Apprentice League. The total prize fund of the competition is $24. The creator of the best project in the Tower category in the League of Masters will receive [β¦]
ASN.1 is a standard (ISO, ITU-T, GOST) for a language that describes structured information, as well as rules for encoding this information. For me, as a programmer, this is just another serialization and data presentation format, along with JSON, XML, XDR and others. It is extremely common in our everyday life, and many people face it: in cellular, telephone, VoIP communications (UMTS, [β¦]
The release of the web browser Min 1.10 has been published, offering a minimalistic interface built around manipulations with the address bar. The browser is created using the Electron platform, which allows you to create stand-alone applications based on the Chromium engine and the Node.js platform. The Min interface is written in JavaScript, CSS and HTML. The code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Builds are created for Linux, macOS and Windows. Min supports navigation [β¦]
Working as a programmer requires constant mandatory self-study. Self-learning involves, firstly, deepening knowledge in already familiar areas, and, secondly, gaining skills in unknown and overlooked areas. This all, of course, sounds nice on paper, but in fact we still have bouts of laziness, getting stuck in the technology stack and burnout from routine. New sensations help in the fight against [...]
The fashion for dark themes in various programs, including browsers, continues to gain momentum. Earlier it became known that such a theme appeared in the Edge browser, but then it had to be turned on forcibly using flags. Now there is no need to do this. The latest build of Microsoft Edge Canary 76.0.160.0 added a feature similar to Chrome 74. Itβs [β¦]
PCGamesN noticed that Valve Software has registered the DOTA Underlords trademark in the βvideo gamesβ category. The application was submitted on May 5 and has already been approved. The Internet began to wonder what exactly the studio was going to announce, because Valve representatives did not give official comments. Western journalists believe that DOTA Underlords will become a mobile game, a kind of simplified version of the popular MOBA for [β¦]
As we have repeatedly reported, mass production of 64-layer 3D NAND memory will begin in China towards the end of this year. Memory manufacturer Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) and its parent structure, Tsinghua Unigroup, have spoken about this more than once or twice. According to unofficial data, mass production of 64-layer 128-Gbit YMTC chips may begin in the third [β¦]
