Author: ProHoster

More than 400 volunteers join the search for a cure for coronavirus through the Folding@Home project

The distributed computing project Folding@Home, which uses the computing power of participating participants' computers to research the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and develop drugs against it, has attracted over 400 volunteers. Gregory Bowman, head of the Folding@Home initiative, spoke about this. “We had about 000 thousand users before the coronavirus pandemic. But in the last two weeks, 30 volunteers have joined Folding@Home,” […]

Mozilla Firefox browser will lose support for the FTP protocol

Developers from Mozilla have announced their intention to remove support for the FTP protocol from their Firefox browser. This means that in the future, users of the popular Internet browser will not be able to download files or view the content of any resources via FTP. “We do this for safety reasons. FTP is an insecure protocol and there is no reason to make it preferable for downloading […]

Android 11 may introduce new gesture control features

When Google released the first Android 11 Developer Preview last month, researchers discovered a set of new gesture control features codenamed Columbus. It was revealed that double tapping the back of the device allows you to launch Google Assistant, turn on the camera, etc. And with the release of Android 11 Developer Preview 2, the list of available […]

Xiaomi has reopened its 1800 stores across China and adheres to strict disinfection measures

Xiaomi, one of the leading consumer electronics companies in China, today announced that after temporarily closing due to the coronavirus outbreak, the company will reopen more than 1800 Xiaomi stores across the country. She also added that she will take strict measures to disinfect stores, introduce temperature checks and take several other steps. Xiaomi also urges customers to respect […]

Lockheed Martin's HELIOS laser weapon system prepares for field trials

The obvious advantages of laser weapons, well known to all fans of computer games, in real life have an equally impressive list of counterweights. Field tests of the Lockheed Martin HELIOS laser system will help you find a balance between what you want and what you actually do. Lockheed Martin recently announced in a press release that the company's HELIOS laser weapon system will take a decisive step this year towards […]

Realme will have a family of youth smartphones Narzo

The Chinese company Realme, whose smartphones are presented in many countries, including Russia, has published a number of teasers indicating the preparation of a new family of products. We are talking about Narzo series devices. It is said that smartphones aimed primarily at young users will be produced under this brand. In particular, one of the teasers mentions the so-called “Generation Z” (Gen Z). These are people born […]

Mozilla brings TLS 1.0/1.1 support back to Firefox

Mozilla has decided to temporarily return support for the TLS 1.0/1.1 protocols, which were disabled by default in Firefox 74. Support for TLS 1.0/1.1 will be returned without releasing a new version of Firefox through a system of experiments used to test the implementation of new features. The reason cited is that due to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic, people are forced to work from home and cannot […]

Audio Effects LSP Plugins 1.1.14 released

A new version of the LV2 effects package LSP PLugins has been released, designed for sound processing during mixing and mastering of audio recordings. The most significant changes: The collection of plugins has been replenished with multiband expanders (LSP Multiband Expander plugin series). The DSP code is significantly optimized for the use of SSE/AVX (i386, x86_64), NEON (ARM-32) and ASIMD (AArch64) instructions. The user interface integrates support for localization in various languages ​​with the ability to […]

Which language to choose for working with data - R or Python? Both! Migrating from pandas to tidyverse and data.table and back

By searching for R or Python on the Internet, you will find millions of articles and kilometers of discussions on the topic of which one is better, faster and more convenient for working with data. But unfortunately, all these articles and disputes are not particularly useful. The purpose of this article is to compare the basic data processing techniques in the most popular packages of both languages. AND […]

"Remote" with a Cisco router

Due to the latest news about the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus, many companies are closing their offices and transferring employees to remote work. Cisco understands the need and importance of this process and is ready to fully support our customers and partners. Organizing secure remote access The optimal solution for organizing secure remote access to corporate resources is to use [...]

Do-It-Yourself Bare-Metal Provisioning, or Automatic Server Provisioning from Scratch

Hello, I'm Denis and one of my areas of activity is the development of infrastructure solutions at X5. Today I would like to share with you how you can deploy an automatic server preparation system based on publicly available tools. In my opinion, this is an interesting, simple and flexible solution. By preparation we mean: making a new server out of the box, a fully configured server […]