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The text output of commands in the PowerShell interpreter window is merely a way to display information in a human-readable format. In reality, the environment is object-oriented: cmdlets and functions receive input and return output in the form of objects, and the variable types available in both interactive mode and scripts are based on .NET classes. In the fourth […]
Any cloud provider offers data storage services. These can include cold and hot storage, Ice-cold, etc. Storing information in the cloud is quite convenient. But how were data stored 10, 20, or 50 years ago? Cloud4Y has translated an interesting article that talks precisely about this. Data can be stored in various ways, as new methods keep emerging, […]
The last Samsung smartphone to receive an update to Android 10 is the entry-level Galaxy A10s. The new firmware includes the One UI 2.0 user interface. This fresh software is already available to users in Malaysia, and soon it will be provided to smartphone owners in other regions. The new firmware has the build number A107FXXU5BTCB. It integrates features from March […]
In the current situation regarding the spread of the coronavirus, many are forced to work from home. As a result, the ability to connect to remote resources using VPNs and proxy servers has become very important for many users. Unfortunately, this functionality has been performing poorly in Windows 10 lately. Now Microsoft has released an update to fix the issue […]
Tesla aims to boost electric vehicle sales in the U.S. with the Cybertruck by electrifying pickups — the largest segment of the country's automotive market. Pickups are highly popular in the U.S., but it turns out that other countries also show considerable interest in Tesla's new electric pickup. After announcing the Cybertruck, Tesla began accepting pre-orders with a deposit of […]
The developers of the Linux Mint distribution announced that the next major release, based on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS package base, will support only 64-bit systems. The creation of builds for 32-bit x86 systems will be discontinued. The release is expected in July or late June. The supported desktops include Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce. It is worth noting that Canonical has stopped creating 32-bit installation […]
On April 1, version 0.4.1 of the free, BSD-licensed real-time operating system for embedded systems, Embox, was released: functionality on Raspberry Pi has been restored. Support for the RISC-V architecture has been improved. Support for the i.MX 6 platform has been enhanced. EHCI support has been significantly improved, including for the i.MX 6 platform. The file subsystem has undergone extensive rework. Lua support has been added for STM32 microcontrollers. Network support has been added […]
Version 5.4 of the WordPress content management system, named 'Adderley' after jazz musician Nat Adderley, is now available. The main changes concern the block editor: the selection of blocks and their configuration options have been expanded. Other changes include increased performance; a simplified control panel interface; added privacy settings; and important changes for developers: menu parameter modifications that previously required editing are now accessible 'from […]
In most cases when working with responses received from an API, or with any other data that has a complex tree structure, you encounter JSON and XML formats. These formats have many advantages: they store data quite compactly and help avoid excessive information duplication. A downside of these formats is the complexity of processing and analysis. Unstructured data is impossible […]
The tidyr package is part of one of the most popular libraries in R — tidyverse. The main purpose of the package is to tidy up data. There is already a publication on Habr dedicated to this package, but it dates back to 2015. I want to discuss the most relevant changes announced a few days ago by its author, Hadley Wickham. […]
As the launch date for Intel Comet Lake-S desktop processors approaches, more preliminary information is emerging online that reveals details about their performance. One of the latest leaks was published by user Tum_Apisak, who found benchmarking results for the rumored Core i9-10900K in the Geekbench 5 database. The i9-10900K is expected to succeed the i9-9900K, from which […]
The CentOS and Fedora projects have announced their decision to create a collaborative development service called Git Forge, which will be built using the GitLab platform. GitLab will serve as the primary platform for interacting with Git repositories and for hosting projects related to the CentOS and Fedora distributions. The previously used Pagure service will continue to exist but will be handed over to the community interested in ongoing development. […]