Author: ProHoster

CES 2020: MSI Unveils Gaming Monitors with Unusual Features

MSI will present a number of quite interesting gaming monitors at CES 2020, which starts tomorrow in Las Vegas (Nevada, USA). The Optix MAG342CQR model has a rather strong matrix bending, the Optix MEG381CQR monitor is equipped with an additional HMI (Human Machine Interface) panel, and the Optix PS321QR model is a universal solution for both gamers and creators of various types of content. […]

Call of Duty 2020 won't have jetpacks for sure

Treyarch design director David Vonderhaar confirmed on Twitter that the next Call of Duty game will be without jetpacks. Jetpacks were introduced in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. According to Vonderhaar, he is still traumatized by how poorly players received this innovation. In the sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, […]

The new lithium-sulfur battery will allow the smartphone to work for five days without recharging

Information about lithium-sulfur batteries periodically appears in the news. As a rule, such power supplies have a significantly higher capacity compared to lithium-ion batteries, but have a significantly shorter life cycle. The solution to this could be the development of scientists from Monash University in Australia, who claim to have developed the most efficient lithium-sulfur battery created to date. According to available […]

3CX tech support replies: Upgrading to 3CX v16 from previous versions

Celebrate the new year with a new PBX! True, there is not always time or desire to understand the intricacies of the transition between versions, collecting information from different sources. In this article, we have collected all the information you need to easily and quickly upgrade to 3CX v16 Update 4 from older versions. There are many reasons to update - about all the features that appeared in […]

Windows 10 20H1 will get an improved algorithm for the search indexer

As you know, Windows 10 version 2004 (20H1) has almost reached release candidate status. This means freezing the codebase and fixing bugs. And one of the stages is to optimize the load on the processor and hard drive during search. Microsoft is said to have conducted extensive research over the past year to identify critical issues in Windows Search. The culprit turned out to be [...]

Web browsers qutebrowser 1.9.0 and Tor Browser 9.0.3 are available

The release of the web browser qutebrowser 1.9.0 has been published, providing a minimal graphical interface that does not distract from viewing the content, and a navigation system in the style of the Vim text editor, built entirely on keyboard shortcuts. The code is written in Python using PyQt5 and QtWebEngine. The source code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. There is no performance impact to using Python, since rendering and parsing […]

A look at the technology of the last decade

Note trans.: This article, which became a hit on Medium, is an overview of key (2010-2019) changes in the world of programming languages ​​and the associated technology ecosystem (with a special focus on Docker and Kubernetes). Its original author is Cindy Sridharan, who specializes in developer tools and distributed systems - in particular, she wrote the book "Distributed Systems Observability" […]

systemd expected to include Facebook's oomd out-of-memory handler

Commenting on the intention of the Fedora developers to enable the earlyoom background process by default to early respond to low memory in the system, Lennart Poettering spoke about plans to integrate another solution into systemd - oomd. The oomd handler is being developed by Facebook, whose employees are simultaneously developing the PSI (Pressure Stall Information) kernel subsystem, which allows the user space out-of-memory handler […]

Pyramid instead of a sphere: non-standard clustering of gold atoms

The world around us is the joint result of many phenomena and processes from a variety of sciences, it is virtually impossible to single out the most important one. Despite some degree of rivalry, many aspects of certain sciences have similar features. Let's take geometry as an example: everything we see has a certain shape, of which one of the most common in nature is […]

Whatsapp has a new virus

The WhatsApp messenger is once again the hero of the news, however, as it turns out, this is not due to another security breach. During the holidays, unknown individuals began sending large-scale messages containing links to web pages with viruses. As a result, users can, without wanting to do so, subscribe to paid services, leak personal data, including banking data, or simply […]