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Not so long ago, we reported that HMD Global had scheduled the announcement of the mid-range smartphone Nokia X71 for the first days of April, which will enter the global market under the name Nokia 8.1 Plus. Now this device has appeared in the Geekbench benchmark. The test results indicate the use of the Snapdragon 660 processor. This chip, developed by Qualcomm, combines eight Kryo […]
Today we have prepared for our readers a selection of SDN controllers that are actively supported by GitHub users and large open source foundations like the Linux Foundation. / Flickr / Johannes Weber / CC BY OpenDaylight OpenDaylight is an open, modular platform for automating large-scale SDN networks. Its first version appeared in 2013, which a little later became part of the Linux Foundation. In March of this […]
Last week, as part of the Game Developers Conference, Epic Games held several technology demonstrations of the capabilities of new versions of the Unreal Engine. In addition to the short film Rebirth, which showed photorealistic graphics created using Megascans and the mesmerizingly beautiful Troll, which focused on ray tracing technology, a new physics and destruction system, Chaos, was presented, which will replace PhysX […]
The Chinese company Xiaomi has published a teaser image indicating that a major presentation will be held on April 1. It is reported that two dozen new products will debut as part of the event. Moreover, we are talking about both electronic devices and goods that are not related to the IT market. In particular, as can be seen in the image, the new Mi portable […]
Publisher Square Enix and developers from the Eidos Montreal team continue to work on the action adventure film Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Following on from previous expansions, The Forge, The Pillar, The Nightmare, The Price of Survival and The Serpent's Heart have been released. the sixth is The Grand Caiman. In a new addition to […]
To everyone's surprise, on Friday night, Valve launched a teaser page showing a brand new virtual reality headset called the Index. Apparently, the device is manufactured by Valve itself, and not by its longtime partner in the development of the VR market - the Taiwanese HTC. The site does not offer the public any information other than the date - May 2019. However, the image itself […]
EK Water Blocks has introduced a new full-coverage water block, the EK-Vector RTX Titan, designed for the NVIDIA Titan RTX graphics card. The Slovenian manufacturer seems to have considered that the most expensive consumer video card of the Turing generation is worthy of an unusual water block, so it used real gold to create it. The base of the water block, as well as some other elements, are covered in gold. The base itself is made of purified [...]
Ultra-bright LEDs and lasers have become a part of our lives and are used both for conventional lighting and in various types of measuring electronics. Production technologies using thin-film structures could take these semiconductor devices to a new level. For example, thin-film transistors have made liquid crystal panel technology ubiquitous and affordable in a way that would not have been possible with […]
HP will start selling portable computers with a high-quality AMOLED screen in April, according to AnandTech. AMOLED screens (active matrix based on organic light emitting diodes) will initially be equipped with two laptops. These are HP Specter x360 15 and Envy x360 15 models. These laptops are convertible devices. The display lid can be rotated 360 degrees, […]
LG, a South Korean company, has reportedly developed a technology that will integrate a 5G antenna into the display area of future smartphones. It is noted that antennas for operation in fifth generation mobile networks require more space inside mobile devices than 4G / LTE antennas. Therefore, developers will have to look for new ways to optimize the internal space of smartphones. One way to solve the problem, according to LG, […]
Roskomnadzor decided to block the page of one of the largest online libraries of Runet. We are talking about the Flibusta website, which they want to add to the list of banned ones at the suit of the Eksmo publishing house. He owns the rights to publish books by science fiction writer Ray Bradbury in Russia, which are publicly available on Flibust. Roskomnadzor spokesman Vadim Ampelonsky said that as soon as the site administration […]
ASUS announced the start of a spring promotion, as part of which prices for smartphones of the ZenFone Max family were reduced. Only until April 14 in the ASUS Shop brand store ZenFone Max (M2) in the 3/32 GB version will be offered for 10 rubles, version 990/64 GB - for 12 rubles. ZenFone Max (M990) is equipped with a frameless display with a diagonal […]