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Riot Games has announced a new turn-based mode for League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics (TFT). In Teamfight Tactics, eight players battle it out in 1v1 matches until the last one remains - the winner. In this mode, Riot Games aims to give casual and hardcore players a "deep" gameplay experience, but not as action-packed as other League of Legends modes. […]
The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook has enlisted the help of more than a dozen major companies to launch its own cryptocurrency, Libra, which is set to be officially unveiled next week and launched in 2020. The list of companies that have decided to support Libra includes such financial organizations as Visa and Mastercard, as well as large online platforms PayPal, Uber, Stripe […]
As you know, Microsoft is currently developing the Edge browser based on Chromium, trying to offer users and companies numerous tools, including compatibility mode with Internet Explorer. This is expected to help enterprise users use existing and legacy services in the new browser. However, the developers from Redmond do not intend to completely remove Internet Explorer from Windows […]
According to data from industrial sources in Taiwan, cited by the Internet resource DigiTimes, the Chinese memory manufacturer ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is in full swing preparing lines for the mass production of LPDDR4 memory. ChangXin, also known as Innotron Memory, is said to have developed its own DRAM production process using 19nm technology. For commercial release of memory on […]
The Japanese technology company Tokyo Electron, which ranks third in the world ranking of suppliers of equipment for the production of chips, will not cooperate with Chinese firms blacklisted by the United States. This was reported to Reuters by one of the company's top managers, who wished to remain anonymous. The decision shows that Washington's calls to ban technology sales to Chinese firms, including Huawei Technologies, have found adherents […]
According to the updated forecast of the analytical company Digitimes Research, supplies of all-in-one PCs in 2019 will decrease by 5% and amount to 12,8 million units of equipment. Experts' previous expectations were more optimistic: it was assumed that there would be zero growth in this market segment. The main reasons for lowering the forecast were the growing trade war between the United States and China, as well as the ongoing deficit […]
The philosophy of DevOps, when development is combined with software maintenance, is no surprise to anyone. A new trend is gaining momentum - DevOps 2.0 or BizDevOps. It already merges three components into a single whole: business, development and support. And just as in DevOps, engineering practices form the basis of the relationship between development and support, so in business devops, analytics […]
Background Once, to reproduce a bug, I needed a backup of the production database. To my surprise, I encountered the following limitations: The database backup was made on a version of SQL Server 2016 and was not compatible with my SQL Server 2014. On my work computer, the OS was Windows 7, so I could not upgrade SQL Server to version [… ]
Hey Habr! Finally, before the summer holidays, we decided to please our dear subscribers with a series of meetups! There will be three of them next week! And not only in Moscow... June 19 at 18:00 (Moscow) at the IBM office meeting on Java technologies. We will have a Java Champion, Sebastian Dashner. We will discuss the use of Java in the new cloud realities. June 20 at 18:00 […]
DISCLAIMER Judging by the record high ratio of the number of silent dissatisfied to the number of commentators with something to object to, it is not obvious to many readers that: 1) This is a purely theoretical discussion article. There will be no practical advice here on choosing tools for mining cryptocurrency or assembling a multivibrator to flash two light bulbs. 2) This is not a popular science article. There will be no explanation for the teapot […]
Hello, Habr! After several months of waiting, we finally got it: ONYX BOOX has released its first e-reader for the 2019 model year, and it is a professional version of the Nova e-reader, which was a big success last year. The advantage of the new device is that it has an additional WACOM touch layer (paired with a stylus, of course) and an application for creating […]
The idea of writing code without writing code (yes, writing is the present participle of the verb to write, live with it now) has come to the minds of both smart people and lazy people more than once. The dream of a graphical interface in which you can roll some dice onto another, draw mutual connections and select object properties from cute drop-down lists, and […]