The main thing for a week: there was Doom, Microsoft has sold the rests of Nokia, Google has presented Daydream
Over the past week, there have been a number of quite anticipated events and announcements, in particular - the Google I / O conference or the long-awaited release of the DOOM shooter shooter.
Microsoft sold the remains of Nokia
On the other hand, quite unexpectedly this week Nokia reminded of itself, although, in fact, nothing happened that could not be predicted in advance. The epic relationship between Nokia and Microsoft has come to an end. The latter with giblets (in particular, production facilities with 4,500 employees) sold everything that is connected with the button "phoning" Nokia companies FIH Mobile Ltd. (a subsidiary of Hon Hai / Foxconn Technology Group) and HMD Global, Oy. And Finnish HMD Global, Oy has already hastened to announce that over the next few years it will try to revive the Nokia brand, but the company's first smartphones and tablets will have to wait a little.
The most important thing with Google I / O
The annual Google I / O conference was held, which talked about the innovations of the future version of the OS, in particular, the native support for the Vulkan API, so that the games will become more beautiful, multi-windowed, general optimization, productivity, Android Instant Apps, their installation and future support for Android-applications on Chrome OS. The final version of the OS version was suggested to users (actually not). There is also an update for Android Wear under the number 2.0 with stand-alone applications and a whole bunch of others. A Daydream virtual reality platform with a special VR mode, an interface and an adapted version of the Google Play store on Android N was presented. The supported devices will have corresponding requirements. Platform support was confirmed by Unreal Engine and Unity, which in sum with Vulkan will bring games more interesting, CCP Games already announced the exclusive Gunjack Next. In addition, Assistant Google Assistant, Allo messenger and Duo video chat were introduced.
"Smart" Suitcase Xiaomi
It's been a long time since it's not a secret for anyone that the range of Xiaomi is not limited to smartphones and tablets: the company is constantly developing new areas of activity for itself, in particular, for the "Internet of things". This week she introduced a metal "smart" suitcase that can be opened and closed from a smartphone, and with regard to portable electronics, Xiaomi broke out to second place in the world and lagged behind only Fitbit.
The release of DOOM
A week ago, the long-awaited release of the DOOM shooter took place. He was warmly received by the public, especially for the good old, familiar gameplay with seas of blood and violence in a single campaign. Not too enthusiastic gamers are left from the multiplayer, in which DOOM can not offer anything new. In occasion of an output of game at us there was a material with history of all game series.
Announced line Moto G4
There were no ultra-loud announcements of devices, it is worth noting that the presentation of Lenovo in India, which was presented with a line of three new low-cost smartphones Moto G4. The venue was chosen not by chance: Moto smartphones are aimed at conquering the Indian and Latin American markets.
The world's first virtual online store
Could ignore the rather important and, in many ways, one of the key news in the field of virtual reality: the world's first virtual online store was launched. It was opened by eBay and Australian retailer Myer. Of course, so far only in Australia. Some time will pass and such shops will become a common thing. By the way, we have a useful article about how to make purchases on eBay.
Hype on Meizu M3 Note
The interesting situation was with the start of sales of the Meizu M3 Note smartphone in Ukraine: according to the Citrus network, the first batch of 3000 pieces, which is expected to arrive on May 27, will only be distributed among those who have pre-ordered, and in total more than 10,000 pre-orders were collected . Only a third party of these smartphones can reach the shelves. The smartphone has already visited us on the review and is recognized as the most interesting offer in the range of up to 5000 UAH.
Ukrainian hacker in the service of the FBI
For lovers of entertaining reading, we have Adaptation of the written blockbuster Wired about the Ukrainian hacker Maxim Popov in the US, who first worked for the FBI and helped the bureau to fight Eastern European hackers, but, as a result, went against his own employers.
Camera for digitizing masterpieces of painting
Google this week has distinguished itself not only in its direct specialization. The company introduced the robotic camera Art Camera, which is designed to digitize pictures of famous artists for future generations, because there is nothing eternal. It allows you to digitize pictures in gigapixel resolution and now more than 200 works in high quality are already available in the gallery of the art project .
Disconnection of the Internet in Iraq
It's no secret that with the development of mobile phones, smartphones and mobile Internet, writing off at exams has become much easier. Different schools try to deal with this problem in different ways. In Iraq, we approached the question radically: during the school examinations (on 14, 15 and 16 May from 8.00 to 11.00 local time), the Internet was completely disconnected throughout the country.
