Author: ProHoster

Google intends to bring accounts of users from the UK under US laws

Google plans to remove the accounts of its British users from the control of EU privacy regulators, placing them under US jurisdiction. This was reported by the Reuters news agency, citing its own sources. The report states that Google wants to force users to accept new terms due to the UK's exit from the European Union. This will make the sensitive user data of tens of millions of people less […]

A children's simulator for speech development appeared in the Yandex.Alice skills catalog

The Yandex development team announced the expansion of the functionality of the Alice voice assistant. Now, with its help, parents can correct or correct speech defects in children. The new Yandex.Alice skill is called “Easy to Say” and is a children's simulator for speech development, created with the participation of experienced speech therapists. With its help, children 5–7 years old can practice the correct pronunciation of six […]

Video: Hammer-wielding giants in fresh Serious Sam 4 gameplay footage

Publisher Devolver Digital continues to delight/torment fans of the Serious Sam series with bits of gameplay from the fourth part. The new demonstration turned out to be the longest - a full 13 seconds. “Our agent deep in the rear [studio] Croteam secretly published another fragment of Serious Sam 4. This one gives a look at a new enemy called Brute Zealot,” Devolver Digital described the situation. Brute Zealot […]

"The Party Gets More Fun": Devil May Cry 3 Released on Nintendo Switch

The official microblog of the Devil May Cry series announced the release of Devil May Cry 3 on Nintendo Switch. The announcement of the release was supported by a 30-second trailer for the edition for the hybrid console. In addition to the necessary information about the premiere, only a few frames of the game and a demonstration of the main features of the Switch version fit into such a modest timing. Capcom previously confirmed that Devil May Cry […]

Coronavirus outbreak could help Intel fight AMD

Intel's revenue last year was 28% dependent on the Chinese market, so the drop in demand due to the coronavirus outbreak poses more threats than opportunities for the company. And yet, if demand for processors of this brand from Chinese consumers decreases, on a global scale this will help Intel cope more easily with the shortage. Companies in the technology sector are already having to voice updated forecasts […]

CPU cooler be quiet! Shadow Rock 3 is ready to go on sale

Back in early January, the German brand be quiet! demonstrated the Shadow Rock 3 processor cooler, capable of dissipating up to 190 W of thermal energy. Now the new product is preparing to go on sale at a price of about $50, and the manufacturer is sharing detailed images of it. The company emphasizes that it has significantly revised the layout solutions compared to the Shadow Rock 2 cooler. At least from […]

A new world record for data transmission speed in fiber optics has been set

The Japanese National Institute of Information and Communications Technology NICT has long been engaged in improving communication systems and has repeatedly set records. For the first time, Japanese scientists managed to achieve a data transfer rate of 1 Pbit/s back in 2015. Four years passed from the creation of the first prototype to testing a working system with all the necessary hardware, and still […]

Solaris 11.4 SRU 18 Update

The Solaris 11.4 SRU 18 (Support Repository Update) operating system update has been published, which offers a series of regular fixes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the fixes proposed in the update, simply run the ‘pkg update’ command. In the new release: Added a new module mod_wsgi for Python 3.7; In ghostscript, the problem with the error in forming xref tables has been resolved; It is possible to disable network […]

Mozilla WebThings Gateway 0.11, gateway for smart home and IoT devices available

Mozilla has published a new release of WebThings Gateway 0.11, which, combined with the WebThings Framework libraries, forms the WebThings platform for providing access to various categories of consumer devices and using a universal Web Things API to interact with them. The project code is written in JavaScript using the Node.js server platform and is distributed under the MPL 2.0 license. […]

Firefox Update 73.0.1

A corrective update for Firefox 73.0.1 has been published, which offers 5 fixes: The problem with browser crashes in some Linux distributions when playing encrypted multimedia content has been resolved; Fixed a bug that led to premature termination when exiting preview mode before printing; Problems with connecting to the RBC Royal Bank website have been resolved; Fixed crashes on Windows systems that occur when [...]

Data Engineer or die: the story of one developer

At the beginning of December, I made a fatal mistake and made a turning point in my life as a developer and moved to the Data Engineering (DE) team within the company. In this article I will share some observations that I made during two months of working in the DE team. Why Data Engineering? My journey to DE began in the summer of 2019, when Xneg and I went […]

SQL Launch - Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Event

The best Microsoft experts will talk about the main new features in SQL Server 2019: SQL Server Big Data Clusters technology for working with big data and machine learning, Polybase technology for accessing data in external sources without copying it, support for containers, working on OS Linux and many others new products in MS SQL Server 2019! A separate report will be devoted […]