Author: ProHoster

What salaries were offered by employers to IT specialists in the second half of 2019

We continue to deepen our knowledge of the salary market in Russia. The end of 2019 is approaching, which means it’s time for an annual report on what salaries employers offered in their vacancies on “My Circle” in the past year. Just like last year, in this report we will compare the salaries offered by employers with the salaries from the salary calculator, where we […]

Adobe bought Oculus Medium: draw in virtual space

Adobe announced Friday that it has agreed to buy the Oculus Medium graphics suite. The Oculus Medium toolkit for the work of CG artists with immersion in virtual reality was developed in the Oculus division of Facebook in 2016. It was originally a package for creating 3D models and spatial textures for Oculus Rift VR headsets. Adobe intends to make Oculus Medium […]

Eat rice, pray Amitofo, love cats

Statistical data on how Chinese programmers live and fare Hello, hello, friends. Today, Russia is actively cooperating with China in the field of IT artificial intelligence, big data, and there are even plans to create a “Russian-Chinese digital valley.” This article is a small excursion into the Chinese IT vacancy market and the life of Chinese programmers and is a compilation of translations of Chinese articles with my micro-comments. […]

The Google Calculator app has been installed on Android devices over 500 million times

Google's proprietary calculator has surpassed 500 million installations, which is an impressive but not surprising result. Since the Google Calculator application is pre-installed on Android devices from various manufacturers and is publicly available in the company's digital content store Play Store, its high popularity figures are not surprising. In January 2018, Google's proprietary calculator was downloaded more than 100 million […]

Release of the Django 3.0 web framework

The release of the Django 3.0 web framework, written in Python and intended for developing web applications, took place. The Django 3.0 branch is classified as a regular support release and will continue to receive updates until April 2021. LTS branch 2.22 will be supported until April 2022, and branch 1.11 until April 2020. Support for branch 2.1 has been discontinued. Key improvements: Provided […]

Video: learn about the world and battles of Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore in the latest trailers for the game by the authors of Persona

Nintendo has published lengthy trailers for the re-release of the Japanese role-playing game Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE for Nintendo Switch, in which it talked about the world and battles. Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE was developed by the creators of the Persona series. This is a crossover of Atlus games and the Fire Emblem series. The project takes place in modern Tokyo, which was attacked by creatures from an otherworldly dimension. The project took gameplay […]

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is out on consoles

Private Division and Panache Digital Games have announced the release of the survival simulator Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey on Xbox One and PS4. You can make a purchase in the PlayStation Store digital store for 2849 rubles, and in the Microsoft Store for $39,99. Let us remind you that Ancestors was released on PC (Epic Games Store) on August 27 and received mixed reviews from the press and […]

Chromium-based Microsoft Edge improves search

Microsoft has released a fresh update to its new Chromium-based Edge browser in the Canary and Dev update channels. The patch in version 80.0.353.0 brings improvements to the InPrivate window, which now houses the Bing search bar. This allows you to directly enter your search queries into Bing, as is done with Google and other search engines, rather than going to bing.com first […]

Microsoft 365 Life consumer subscription will be available in spring 2020

Over the past few months, Microsoft has been preparing to introduce a consumer subscription to Office 365, called Microsoft 365 Life. It was originally reported that the subscription service would be introduced early this year. Now network sources say that this will happen only in the spring of next year. As far as we know, the new subscription will be a kind of rebranding of Office 365 Personal […]

WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger may be blocked in Germany

Blackberry has won a patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook. This could result in WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger apps becoming unavailable to users in Germany soon. Blackberry believes that some Facebook applications violate the company's patent rights. The preliminary court verdict was in favor of Blackberry. This means that Facebook […]

Google taught Chrome to create QR codes from any URL

Google recently introduced a feature to share URLs to other devices that connect to the main one through the Chrome browser and a shared account. Now there is an alternative. Chrome Canary build version 80.0.3987.0 added a new flag called “Allow page sharing via QR code.” Enabling it allows you to convert the address of any web page into this type of code, so that you can then scan […]

The developers of Battlefield V have published a trailer for a new map - "Wake Island"

DICE studio has published a trailer for the Wake Island map for Battlefield V. This is a location from the original Battlefield 1942 game, which the developers have modernized. The new version is twice the size of the original, but the studio said it has made adjustments to avoid the game using strictly sniper weapons. Supposedly there will be more places to sneak up on enemies or hide unnoticed. […]