Google is preparing to launch a new feature for the desktop versions of the Google Chrome browser that will allow it to work faster. Last year, Google launched support for the back-forward cache page caching technology on Android, which provides instant page loading when users navigate using the back or...
AMD is preparing not only the Radeon RX 6600 and RX 6600 XT graphics cards based on the Navi 23 GPU, but also more affordable solutions, the heart of which will be the Navi 24 graphics core. In the Linux code, this GPU is codenamed Beige Goby, which became known...
Last month, Google released the first update to its proprietary Chrome browser for iOS since November 2020. However, it did not bring significant changes, as the company was waiting for the next major release to add new features. And so it happened: Chrome 90 became available for iPhone and iPad....
The ability to install Linux on new Macs with SoC M1 is getting closer. The new pre-release Linux 5.13-RC1 has already received support for some basic SoC M1 functionality. At the moment, the operating system can already boot on the new Apple platform, but many things still don’t work at...
IBASE Technology, an embedded systems company, has announced a 3.5-inch single-board computer, designated IB953. The base of the system, assembled on a 146 x 102 mm board, is an 11th generation Intel Core processor, codenamed Tiger Lake. According to the manufacturer, the IB953 is well suited for industrial automation, machine...
The main feature of Intel Alder Lake processors, which are due to debut in the fall, is the big.LITTLE principle, known from the Arm platforms. So, in Alder Lake there will be “large” cores Golden Cove (only they support multithreading) and “small” (Gracemont). And so, as it turned out, in...
Microsoft has been preparing for the release of its proprietary Chromium-based Edge browser for a long time in a version for the Linux operating system. And so, today Microsoft announced the launch of the beta version of Edge for Linux. This happened six months after the launch of the Dev...
The gaming service Steam published statistics on the use of hardware components in April, and almost simultaneously, the large German store Mindfactory released the April statistics of CPU sales. Both there, and there the data is about the same: AMD is increasing market share, and the top most popular CPUs...
The team of the increasingly popular alternative browser Vivaldi has announced the release of a major update to the Vivaldi 3.8 browser. According to the developers, Google’s “user-data-collecting” technology has been blocked in the browser and the proprietary Cookie Crumbler has been implemented to help avoid annoying cookie warnings. Google’s...
On the Linux kernel developer mailing list, one of the developers noticed that the support period for the latest long-term version 5.10 reduced from six to two years, and expressed bewilderment about this. Linux kernel maintainer Greg Croah-Hartman answered him that support “is not automatic, but requires commercial assistance.” Kernel...
Developer Lori Kasanen published Linux port for the Nintendo 64 console. According to the author, the project aims to simplify the porting of games and software. Laurie Kasenin is an open source software developer who has previously proven himself to be involved with the Mesa project and help with the...
Cyberpunk 2077 has firmly established itself in the tops of news resources, and tests and graphics comparisons in this project are definitely becoming mainstream, especially the war between console graphics and visuals on powerful PCs. It seems that this topic has exhausted all the news feeds and told even more...
Developer Hector Martin (Hector Martin) launched a fundraiser on the Patreon crowdfunding platform to adapt Linux for Mac on Apple Silicon M1 with ARM architecture. He has already collected (and in less than a day) the first part of the required funds – $ 4000 per month. This amount will...
One of the innovations of the major Windows 10 October 2020 Update (20H2), which actually came out as minor, like a regular Service Pack, is the built-in new Chromium-based Edge browser. Microsoft, as you know, is now very actively developing and promoting its new Edge. Along with the semi-annual Windows...
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has officially shipped the Linux 5.9 kernel for release. Among the most important changes are support for compressing the kernel image using the Zstd algorithm, support for the PRP (Parallel Redundancy Protocol) protocol, restricting the import of symbols from proprietary modules to the...
