Author: ProHoster

Video: A short story about the love of Final Fantasy VII in Japanese society

Square Enix has released a short film as a promotional video for Final Fantasy VII Remake. The publisher recalls that the game is especially beloved among fans of the series and the JRPG genre. The ad aired over the weekend during a 27-hour annual programming block hosted by comedian Beat Takeshi. The video is a mini-drama that revolves around a hired worker who finds a copy of Final […]

Rumors: a multiplayer shooter in the Alien universe will be released in 2020

Journalists from GameWatcher drew attention to the description of the new official book on the Aliens universe. It says that the work will be a prequel to the multiplayer shooter about xenomorphs from Cold Iron Studios. The novel's plot summary reads: "Dr. Timothy Hoenikker has arrived at Pala Station, which is owned by the Weyland-Yutani Company." The scientist expected to see alien artifacts, but was faced with [...]

LG G Pad 5 10.1: FHD+ tablet with Snapdragon 821

LG has officially unveiled the G Pad 5 10.1 tablet, which combines the Qualcomm hardware platform and the Android 9.0 Pie operating system. The device has a 10,1-inch FHD+ IPS display with a resolution of 1920 × 1200 pixels and a viewing angle of 178 degrees. There is a 5-megapixel camera on the front and an 8-megapixel camera on the back. The electronic “brain” of the new product is the Snapdragon 821 processor, which is equipped with four Kryo […]

Four suitcases and one game: Sony puzzled bloggers before the release of Death Stranding

In anticipation of the release of Death Stranding, four selected people each received a locked suitcase with a combination lock from Sony. Bloggers are expected to work together to figure out the contents of cases. Participants of the action Photos with mysterious cases were published on their social networks by the participants of the action themselves: former IGN employee Alanah Pearce; actress Janina Gavankar, who played in that […]

Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro details confirmed: NFC, infrared transmitter and more

We recently reported detailed characteristics of a very interesting Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro device with a penta-camera (including a 108-megapixel sensor), which will be announced on November 5 (and, apparently, will be released on the international market on the 15th under the name Mi Note 10). The company has already revealed details about camera sensors, dual optical stabilization system, Snapdragon 730G chip, 5260 mAh battery with […]

Facebook mistakenly provided user data to software developers

Facebook announced that about 100 software developers may have mistakenly accessed some data about user groups on the social network of the same name. The message mentions that the developers had access to the profiles of people in some groups, as well as user activity data. Facebook recently discovered that some third-party developers have access to […]

Dell sees a bright future in China

Recently, the next annual summit of Dell Technologies was held in Beijing, reports the China Daily website. The opening speech was made by the founder and head of the company, Michael Dell. He said Dell works in China and for China, being a “witness, participant and beneficiary” of reform and opening up in the country. Despite trade tensions between the US and China, Dell sees […]

In Win 925: aluminum and glass chassis with support for graphics cards up to 420mm long

The In Win company officially presented a computer case with index 925, samples of which were demonstrated at Computex 2019. The device is a Full Tower product. The design uses 4mm brushed aluminum, which is carefully cut and curved, giving the case an original shape. Tempered glass panels are installed on the sides. The In Win logo is equipped with multi-color ARGB lighting. It's about [...]

Yandex.Alisa spoke Turkish. True, only in the localized version of Yandex.Navigator

The Yandex development team announced further improvements to the Alice voice assistant and the inclusion of Turkish language support in the AI ​​service. This is the first release of the Yandex voice assistant in another language, which is currently presented only in the localized version of Yandex.Navigator. It is reported that in the navigation program for the Turkish market, “Alice” can do almost everything that […]

RIA Novosti: Roscosmos terminated the contract for the production of the Angara rocket

Roscosmos terminated the contract with the State Research and Production Space Center named after M.V. Khrunichev for the production of the Angara-1.2 launch vehicle, RIA Novosti reported with reference to available materials. According to the terms of the contract worth more than two billion rubles, signed on July 25, the Angara-1.2 rocket was supposed to be ready by October 15, 2021. It was assumed that with its help satellites would be delivered into orbit [...]

Plugin development for Grafana: the history of stuffed cones

Hi all! A few months ago, we launched our new open-source project into production - a Grafana plugin for monitoring kubernetes, which we called DevOpsProdigy KubeGraf. The plugin source code is available in a public repository on GitHub. And in this article we want to share with you the story of how we created the plugin, what tools we used and what pitfalls […]

Pulp body sports car unveiled in Japan

If from time to time Japanese cars are jokingly called plastic, then they may soon receive the nickname paper - thanks to body elements produced using plant cellulose nanofibers. The body material, made from resins reinforced with cellulose nanofibers, is being developed by a consortium of 22 Japanese institutions, including a team of researchers from Kyoto University. The project is being carried out under the auspices of the Japanese Ministry of Environment [...]