Author: ProHoster

Smart home camera market is growing rapidly

Strategy Analytics has made a forecast for the global camera market for modern smart homes for the current and subsequent years. The published data takes into account the supply of devices of various types. These are, in particular, “smart” cameras intended for use indoors and outdoors, doorbells with video communication, etc. So, it is reported that this year the total volume of this market will be […]

DeepPavlov for Developers: #1 NLP Tools and Chatbot Creation

Hi all! We are opening a series of articles devoted to solving practical problems related to natural language processing (Natural Language Processing or simply NLP) and the creation of dialog agents (chatbots) using the open-source DeepPavlov library, which is being developed by our team at the Neural Systems and Deep Learning Laboratory MIPT. The main goal of the series is to introduce a wide range of developers to DeepPavlov and show how […]

Overview of cheap VPS servers

Instead of a preface or how it happened that this article appeared, which tells why and why this testing was carried out. It is useful to have a small VPS server on hand, on which it will be convenient to test some things. Usually it is required that it is also available around the clock. To do this, you need uninterrupted operation of the equipment and a white IP address. At home, sometimes […]

Why traditional antiviruses are not suitable for public clouds. And what to do?

More and more users are bringing their entire IT infrastructure to the public cloud. However, if anti-virus control is insufficient in the customer’s infrastructure, serious cyber risks arise. Practice shows that up to 80% of existing viruses live perfectly in a virtual environment. In this post we will talk about how to protect IT resources in the public cloud and why traditional antiviruses are not entirely suitable for these […]

Google Camera 7.2 brings astrophotography and Super Res Zoom modes to older Pixel smartphones

The new Pixel 4 smartphones were recently introduced, and the Google Camera app is already getting some interesting new features that were not available before. It is noteworthy that the new features will be available even to owners of previous versions of Pixel. The most interesting mode is astrophotography, which is designed for shooting stars and various types of space activity using a smartphone. Using this mode, users can make night […]

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne PC Release Date Set for January 9, 2020

Capcom has announced that the massive expansion Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One from September 6, will release on PC on January 9 next year. “The PC version of Iceborne will receive the following improvements: a set of high-resolution textures, graphics settings, DirectX 12 support, and the keyboard and mouse controls will be completely updated to […]

Panzer Dragoon: Remake will be released on PC

The remake of Panzer Dragoon will be released not only on Nintendo Switch, but also on PC (on Steam), Forever Entertainment announced. The game is being revived by MegaPixel studio. The project already has its own page in the mentioned digital store, although we don’t know the release date yet. The estimated release date is this winter. “Meet the new redesigned version of the game Panzer Dragoon - [...]

Starbreeze has started working on Payday 2 updates again

Starbreeze has announced that it has resumed work on updates for Payday 2. According to the studio's statement on Steam, users can expect paid and free additions. “At the end of 2018, Starbreeze found itself in a difficult financial situation. It was a difficult period, but thanks to the hard work and dedication of our employees, we were able to stay afloat and get things in order. Now we […]

Closing of the Russian Fedora Remix project

The official Telegram channel of the Russian Fedora community announced the cessation of release of localized builds of the distribution previously released under the name Russian Fedora (RFR). I quote: Dear users of RFRemix, as well as the Russian Fedora repositories! We inform you that the development of the RFRemix distribution, as well as support for the Russian Fedora repositories, has officially been discontinued. RFRemix 31 will not be released. The project fulfilled its task 100%: [...]

Second beta release of VirtualBox 6.1

Oracle has introduced the second beta release of the VirtualBox 6.1 virtualization system. Compared to the first beta release, the following changes have been made: Improved support for nested hardware virtualization on Intel CPUs, added the ability to run Windows on an external VM; Recompiler support has been discontinued; running virtual machines now requires support for hardware virtualization in the CPU; Runtime is adapted to work on hosts with large […]

MPV 0.30 video player release

After a year of development, the open source video player MPV 0.30 is now available, a fork from the codebase of the MPlayer2 project several years ago. MPV focuses on developing new features and ensuring that new features are continually backported from the MPlayer repositories, without worrying about maintaining compatibility with MPlayer. The MPV code is licensed under LGPLv2.1+, some parts remain under GPLv2, but the migration process […]