Author: ProHoster

British physicists come up with a universal memory ULTRARAM

The development of brain models is constrained by the lack of a suitable memory that is both fast, dense and non-volatile. For computers and smartphones there is also not enough memory with similar properties. The discovery of British physicists promises to bring closer the emergence of the necessary universal memory. The invention was made by physicists from Lancaster University (UK). Back in June last year, they published an article in the journal Nature in which they […]

Motorola Blackjack and Edge +: mysterious smartphones are being prepared for release

Internet sources report that information about a new Motorola smartphone codenamed Blackjack has appeared on the website of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The device has the code XT2055-2. It is known that it supports Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth LE wireless networks, as well as fourth-generation 4G/LTE cellular networks. The indicated dimensions of the front panel are 165 × 75 mm, [...]

Canalys: shipments of smart devices in 2023 will exceed 3 billion units

Canalys has presented a forecast for the global market for smart devices in the coming years: the demand for such products will continue to increase. The released data takes into account shipments of smartphones, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, various wearable gadgets, smart speakers and various types of headphones. It is estimated that approximately 2019 billion devices were sold globally in these categories in 2,4. In 2023 […]

Fujifilm Unveils Affordable Quality XC 35mm f/2 Lens

Along with the rather attractive retro-styled X-T200 mirrorless camera, Fujifilm has introduced the Fujinon XC 35mm f/2 lens. For those unfamiliar with Fujifilm's lens names, "XC" refers to the more affordable optics in the company's lineup. The XC 35mm f/2 should pair well with cheaper Fujifilm cameras like the X-T200 and X-T30. XC 35mm F2 […]

Matrox Switches to NVIDIA GPUs

More than five years ago, the Canadian company Matrox announced the transition to using AMD graphics processors for its specialized video cards. Now a new stage in the history of the brand begins: a collaboration with NVIDIA has been announced, within which Matrox will use custom Quadro options for the embedded segment. Founded in 1976, Matrox Graphics has long relied on graphics […]

6. Fortinet Getting Started v6.0. Web Filtering and Application Control

Greetings! Welcome to lesson six of the Fortinet Getting Started course. In the last lesson, we mastered the basics of working with NAT technology on FortiGate, and also released our test user onto the Internet. Now it's time to take care of the user's safety in his open spaces. In this tutorial we will look at the following security profiles: Web Filtering, Application Control, and HTTPS […]

5. Fortinet Getting Started v6.0. NAT

Greetings! Welcome to lesson five of the Fortinet Getting Started course. In the last lesson, we figured out how security policies work. Now it's time to release local users onto the Internet. To do this, in this lesson we will look at the operation of the NAT mechanism. In addition to releasing users to the Internet, we will also look at a method for publishing internal services. Below the cut is a brief theory from [...]

NeurIPS 2019: ML trends that will be with us for the next decade

NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) is the world's largest conference on machine learning and artificial intelligence and the main event in the world of deep learning. Will we, DS engineers, also master biology, linguistics, and psychology in the new decade? We'll tell you in our review. This year the conference brought together more than 13500 people from 80 countries in Vancouver, Canada. […]

Habr Competition: winners of the ideas competition

At the end of last year, we rebranded - all our projects became part of Habr. It’s impossible not to talk about such an event, so two people took on the post-announcement at once - me and Deniskin. In the end, we couldn’t decide whose post we would publish, so we posted both: one and two. According to a number of metrics, my post won (proof), but […]

Väterchen Frost or six sign for Habr

One dank and snowless December, somewhere far from Spartakovsky Lane, one Russian, but as if the German Grandfather Frost thought about going for a visit and checking the strength of international ties? After all, the end of the year is the best time to send out unexpected news and check the accuracy of addresses! 1. We jump into the “basement” of the desktop version of Habr, find “About […]

How to beat a soulless random in roguelike games

Dying in the game for the 30th time, you can’t help but wonder: has the game designer thought of everything and hasn’t he screwed up the balance? It is not always possible to adapt to unexpected changes, especially when they are created by procedural generation. The following is material that examines the role of chance in roguelike games and the genre as a whole - what the consequences of ill-conceived randomness systems are and what, in the author’s opinion, […]

How do I teach Python to kids?

My main work is related to data and programming in R, but in this article I want to talk about my hobby, which even brings in some income. I have always been interested in telling and explaining things to friends, classmates and fellow students. It’s also always been easy for me to find a common language with children, I don’t know why. In general, I believe that education [...]