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After four years of development, the team of enthusiasts The Floo Network has released their ambitious Harry Potter RPG. This game is based on Minecraft and is uploaded to the Mojang studio project as a separate map. Anyone can try out the authors’ creation by downloading it from this link from Planet Minecraft. The modification is compatible with game version 1.13.2. Release of your own RPG […]
Microsoft is starting to open beta testing of its xCloud gaming streaming service to European countries. The software giant initially launched xCloud Preview in September for the US, UK and South Korea. The service is now available in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden. Any user in these countries can now sign up to participate in testing […]
Director of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Masahiro Sakurai announced on his microblog that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he and his team are switching to remote work. According to the game designer, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a highly classified project, so “taking it home with you and working from there” is not as easy as it seems at first glance. […]
WhatsApp developers have announced the introduction of new restrictions on the mass forwarding of “viral” messages. Now some messages can only be forwarded to one person, rather than five, as was the case before. The developers took this step to reduce the spread of misinformation about the coronavirus. We are talking about “frequently forwarded” messages that were transmitted through a chain of five or more people. […]
VG247 spoke with Valve programmer and designer Robin Walker. In an interview, the developer revealed the main reason why Half-Life: Alyx decided to make a prequel to Half-Life 2. According to Walker, the team initially assembled a VR prototype based on materials from the sequel. It was a small area in City 17 that made a huge impression on testers. They experienced a strong feeling [...]
In connection with the coronavirus pandemic, Tesla began to terminate contracts with contract workers at factories in the United States. The electric vehicle maker is cutting the number of contract workers at both its vehicle assembly plant in Fremont, California, and GigaFactory 1, which produces lithium-ion batteries in Reno, Nevada, according to CNBC sources. The cuts affected [...]
The other day, Virgin Orbit announced that the Oita airport in Japan (Koshu Island) was chosen as a test site for the first launches of satellites into space from an airplane. This could be a disappointment for the UK government, which is investing in the project with the hope of creating a national satellite launch system based at Cornwall Airport. The airport in Oita was chosen by […]
New details about Huawei nova 7 series smartphones have appeared on the Internet, some of which have already been certified by regulatory organizations in China. According to one of the participants in the Weibo social network, Huawei nova 7 series smartphones will be presented on April 23. The series is expected to include nova 7, nova 7 SE and nova 7 Pro models. Two of them […]
The code for the FlowPrint toolkit has been published, which allows you to identify network mobile applications by analyzing the encrypted traffic generated during the operation of the application. It is possible to determine both typical programs for which statistics have been accumulated, and to identify the activity of new applications. The code is written in Python and is distributed under the MIT license. The program implements a statistical method that determines the characteristics of exchange […]
The famous Russian IT giant Mail.ru Group has launched a new messenger using the brand of the once popular ICQ messenger. Desktop versions of the client are available for Windows, Mac and Linux and mobile versions for Android and iOS. In addition, a web version is available. The Linux version is supplied as a snap package. The website states the following list of compatible distributions: Arch Linux CentOS Debian elementary OS […]
OpenTTD is a computer game whose goal is to create and develop a transport company to obtain maximum profits and ratings. OpenTTD is a real-time transport economic strategy created as a clone of the popular game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. OpenTTD version 1.10.0 is a major release. According to established tradition, major releases are released every year on April 1st. CHANGELOG: Corrections: [Script] Random […]
The article material is taken from my Zen channel. Introduction This article is the beginning of a series of articles about real-time media processing using the Mediastreamer2 engine. During the presentation, minimal skills in working in the Linux terminal and programming in the C language will be used. Mediastreamer2 is the VoIP engine that powers the popular open-source voip phone software project Linphone. Linphone Mediastreamer2 implements all the functions […]
