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Another I/O is history! We worked in sandboxes, watched mind-blowing product demos, and listened to music created by artificial intelligence. Especially for you, we have compiled a list of 100 announcements that we made at I/O: Equipment New phone! Our smartphones - Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL will be available this week, combining all the main goodies from [β¦]
By approving the use of private microwave networks in the "over 890 solution," the FCC may have hoped that it could push all these private networks into its quiet corner of the market and forget about them. However, it quickly became clear that this was not possible. New individuals and organizations emerged pushing for changes to the existing regulatory platform. They offered many new [β¦]
In the previous part of the trilogy, I discussed several reasons to participate in hackathons. The motivation to learn a lot of new things and win valuable prizes attracts many, but often, due to mistakes by the organizers or sponsoring companies, the event ends unsuccessfully and the participants leave dissatisfied. To make such unpleasant incidents happen less often, I wrote this post. The second part of the trilogy is dedicated to the mistakes of the organizers. The post is organized by the following [β¦]
Epigraph: "When you have a hammer in your hands, everything around you seems like nails." Somehow, a long time ago, it seems - last Friday, while walking around the office, the accursed bosses became concerned that I was spending time in idleness and contemplating cats. - Why don't you download FIAS, my dear friend! - said the authorities. β For the process of downloading something is not [β¦]
Online sources have obtained a new piece of information about the flagship Galaxy Note 10 phablet, which Samsung is expected to announce in August or September of this year. The device will be released in two versions - standard and with the Pro prefix in the designation. Both will be available in versions with support for fourth (4G) and fifth (5G) generation mobile communications. So [β¦]
The new CEO of Foxconn, Apple's main contract partner, may be replaced by the head of the chip manufacturing division, Liu Young, instead of Terry Gou, who announced his intention to run for the presidency of Taiwan. This was reported by Reuters, citing sources in the company. Liu Yang, 63, is also a board member of Sharp Corp., a unit of Foxconn. Gou stated [β¦]
Zuckerberg's co-founder wrote a thoughtful article on why it's time for government regulators to force Facebook to split up. We have already discussed many of the arguments earlier, and the main one remains the same: now Zuckerberg alone decides what to do with communication and mass information for 2 billion people. This seems to many to be too much. NYTimes Ben Evans (a16z) discusses the article above in his [β¦]
Information has been disclosed about a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-3568) in the WhatsApp mobile application, which allows you to execute your code by sending a specially designed voice call. For a successful attack, a response to a malicious call is not required; a call is sufficient. However, such a call often does not appear in the call log and the attack may go unnoticed by the user. The vulnerability is not related to the Signal protocol, [β¦]
We are now accepting orders for the In Win 928 computer case in the Super Tower format, which was first demonstrated during the January CES 2019 exhibition. The βSuper Towerβ is designed for creating top-level systems. It is possible to use motherboards of EEB, E-ATX, ATX, Micro-ATX and Mini-ITX sizes, and the length of discrete graphics accelerators can reach 480 mm. The construction uses high-quality materials: it [β¦]
Almost all of us use the services of online stores, which means that sooner or later we run the risk of becoming a victim of JavaScript sniffers - special code that attackers implement on a website to steal bank card data, addresses, logins and passwords of users. Nearly 400 users of the British Airways website and mobile application have already been affected by sniffers, as well as visitors to the British sports website [β¦]
16 modems, 4 cellular carriers = Upload speed 933.45 Mbps Introduction Hello! This article is about how we wrote a new monitoring system for ourselves. It differs from the existing ones by the possibility of high-frequency synchronous obtaining of metrics and very low resource consumption. The polling rate can be as low as 0.1 milliseconds with a timing accuracy of 10 nanoseconds between metrics. All binaries take [β¦]
Recently, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk showed 60 mini-satellites that his company is going to launch into space one of these days. These will be the first of thousands of satellites in a space network that is designed to provide global Internet coverage. Mr. Musk tweeted a photo of the satellites packed tightly inside the nose cone of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle that will launch the ship into orbit. These [β¦]
