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Qualcomm last year introduced a reference design for a smart wireless headset (Qualcomm Smart Headset Platform) based on the previously announced energy-efficient QCC5100 single-chip audio system with Bluetooth support. The headset initially supported integration with the Amazon Alexa voice assistant. Now the company has announced a partnership with Google that will add support for Google Assistant and [β¦]
Hi all! As promised, we are publishing the results of a load test of a Russian-made data storage system - AERODISK ENGINE N2. In the last article, we broke the storage system (that is, we performed crash tests) and the crash test results were positive (that is, we did not break the storage system). Crash test results can be found HERE. In the comments to the previous article, wishes were expressed about [β¦]
Ubisoft recently unveiled Breakpoint, a new game in the Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon series, which will be the successor to the third-person tactical military shooter Ghost Recon Wildlands. The new project will also take place in the open world (this time on the Auroa archipelago), and the main enemies will be other Ghosts. In preparation for the launch, the French publisher decided to briefly recall the series [β¦]
Strategy Analytics has made a forecast for the global market for speakers with an intelligent voice assistant for the current year. It is estimated that approximately 86 million smart speakers with voice assistants were sold worldwide last year. The demand for such devices continues to grow steadily. This year, Strategy Analytics experts believe, global shipments of smart speakers will rise by [β¦]
Xiaomi Senior Vice President Wang Xiang posted a video on his Twitter account showing 8K video streaming on the Mi Mix 3 5G smartphone. At the same time, the device itself operates in a fifth-generation communication network. The fact that this smartphone is equipped with a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chip and [β¦]
As promised, the Sony team has released the documentary Kratos. Rebirth." This is a film about the five years that the developers spent on a gigantic work to completely rethink one of the most famous stories in the gaming industry as part of the God of War (2018) project. Faced with a choice, Sony Interactive Entertainment-owned studio Santa Monica [β¦]
A new version of the KWin-lowlatency composite manager for KDE Plasma has been released, which is supplemented with patches to increase the responsiveness of the interface. Changes in version 5.15.5: Added new settings (System Settings > Display and Monitor > Compositor) that allow you to choose a balance between responsiveness and functionality. Support for NVIDIA graphics cards. Disabled support for linear animation (can be returned in the settings). Using glXWaitVideoSync instead of DRM VBlank. [β¦]
On the website of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), according to the LetsGoDigital resource, information about a Samsung smartphone with a very unusual design has appeared. We are talking about a device in a folding case. In this case, three joints are provided at once, which allow the device to fold in the form of a parallelepiped. All facets of such a brick smartphone will be covered by a flexible display. When folded [β¦]
The Entertainment Software Association of America (ESA) has compiled a portrait of the average American gamer in a new annual report. He is 33 years old, prefers to play on his smartphone and spends a lot of money to acquire new content - 20% more than a year ago, and 85% more than in 2015. Nearly 65% ββof adults [β¦]
A few months before the official premiere, Volkswagen announced the start of accepting pre-orders for an all-electric compact car called the ID.3. It is reported that the electric car will be offered with a battery pack in three capacities - 45 kWh, 58 kWh and 77 kWh. The power reserve on one charge will be up to 330 km, 420 km and [β¦]
GDB 8.3 debugger released, supporting source-level debugging for a wide range of programming languages ββ(Ada, C, C++, Objective-C, Pascal, Go, etc.) on various hardware (i386, amd64, ARM, Power, Sparc , RISC-V, etc.) and software platforms (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Unix, Windows, macOS). Key improvements: The CLI and TUI interfaces now have the ability to define the style of the terminal [β¦]
Continuation of the story "Programmer Career". 2008 year. Global economic crisis. It would seem, what does a lone freelancer from a deep province have to do with it? It turned out that even small businesses and start-ups in the West were also impoverished. And these were my direct and potential clients. On top of that, I finally got my bachelor's degree from university and other things besides freelancing - [β¦]
