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Starting today, residents of Brazil can make money transfers directly within the WhatsApp application. The company's press release states that this feature is implemented on the Facebook Pay platform. Users can send money from WhatsApp business accounts. This function is primarily designed to facilitate payment acceptance for small businesses. WhatsApp reports that payments are completely secure, and for […]
The cumulative update KB4557957 for Windows 10, released last week, brought users not only fixes and system stability improvements but also problems. A few days ago, it was reported that due to the update, Microsoft Office applications may fail to launch, and now issues with document printing are being reported. Over the past few days […]
Nat Friedman, the head of GitHub, confirmed the company's intention to default to using 'main' instead of 'master' for primary branches in solidarity with those protesting against police violence and racism in the U.S. The new name will only be used for new repositories; existing projects will retain their 'master' branch name. However, there is discussion about the possibility […]
Google has added a change to the Chromium codebase, which will form the basis of Chrome 85, that by default disables the display of path elements and query parameters in the address bar. Only the domain of the site will remain visible, and the full URL will be displayed after clicking on the address bar. The change is planned to be gradually rolled out to users through experimental launches covering […]
This article will help two types of people: those who want to change jobs, can write simple code, and are familiar with constructions and drawings, not just by hearsay. Those studying at construction faculties and thinking about where to aim. BIM managers can earn 100,000 ₽. This is almost four times more than the salary of the typical Russian, which is 23,500 […]
Hello, Habrahabr. My name is Ilya, and I work in the platform team at Exness. We are developing and implementing the foundational infrastructure components that our product development teams use. In this article, I would like to share the experience of implementing encrypted SNI (ESNI) technology in the infrastructure of public websites. The use of this technology will enhance security when working with public websites and […]
The world of analog devices has practically disappeared, yet information carriers still remain. Today, I will talk about how I faced the necessity of digitizing and storing data from my home archive. I hope that my experience will help you choose the right devices for digitization and save money by doing the digitization yourself. "— And what is this? — Oh, this is really cool, Comrade Major! Look at this: this […]
Saudi scientists conducted a series of experiments with solar cells shaped like small spheres. The round shape of the photovoltaic converter allows for better capture of reflected and scattered sunlight. While this may not be a practical solution for industrial solar farms, circular solar cells could prove to be a real breakthrough for a variety of applications. A group of researchers from King Abdullah University […]
The release of 4MLinux 33.0 has been published, a minimalist user distribution that is not a fork of other projects and uses a graphical environment based on JWM. 4MLinux can be utilized not only as a live environment for media playback and user tasks, but also as a recovery system and a platform for running LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, and […]
Good day! I want to share my experience on this topic. RUTOKEN is a hardware and software solution in the field of authentication, information protection, and electronic signature. Essentially, it is a flash drive that can store authentication data that users use to log into the system. This example uses the RUTOKEN EDS 2.0. To work with this RUTOKEN […]
Parallels Product Manager Yevgeny Korepanov talked about the most interesting features of the application delivery solution and virtual desktop infrastructure Remote Application Server, as well as its key competitive advantages. Here’s the story in the first person. Enjoy! Parallels RAS enables remote delivery of everything that runs on Windows servers and desktops to client devices. This is the very reason our product exists. It doesn't matter, […]
A group of researchers from several American universities published the PIFu (Pixel-Aligned Implicit Function) project, which allows the application of machine learning methods to create a 3D model of a person from one or more two-dimensional images. The system can recreate complex clothing variants, such as pleated skirts and high-heeled shoes, as well as various hairstyles, autonomously restoring texture and shape in areas that are not visible in the projection, […]