Author: ProHoster

XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT THICC III Ultra: one of the fastest accelerators in the series

The XFX company, according to the VideoCardz.com resource, has prepared for release the Radeon RX 5700 XT THICC III Ultra graphics accelerator for gaming desktop computers. Let us recall the key characteristics of the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT series solutions. These are 2560 stream processors and 8 GB of GDDR6 memory with a 256-bit bus. For reference products, the base frequency is 1605 MHz, the boost frequency is […]

Project Gem: Essential creates an unusual smartphone with an elongated body

The Essential company, whose founder is one of the creators of the Android operating system Andy Rubin, has declassified a very unusual smartphone. The device is reportedly being developed as part of the Project Gem initiative. As you can see in the photographs, the device is enclosed in a vertically elongated body and is equipped with a correspondingly shaped display. The developers are talking about a “radically different form factor” for which a new […]

New details about Intel Xe: ray tracing and games in Full HD at 60 fps

It's no secret that Intel is currently working on a new graphics processor architecture - Intel Xe - which will be used in both integrated and discrete graphics. And now, at the Tokyo Intel Developer Conference 2019, new details have been revealed about the performance of some of Intel's upcoming solutions, as well as what they can […]

Installing Zimbra OSE 8.8.15 and Zextras Suite Pro on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

With the latest patch, Zimbra Collaboration Suite Open-Source Edition 8.8.15 LTS has added full support for the long-term release of the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS operating system. Thanks to this, system administrators can create server infrastructures with Zimbra OSE that will be supported and receive security updates until the end of 2022. The opportunity to implement a collaboration system at your enterprise that will […]

Astra Linux "Eagle" Common Edition: is there life after Windows

We received a detailed review from one of our OS users that we would like to share with you. Astra Linux is a Debian derivative that was created as part of the Russian initiative to switch to open source software. There are several versions of Astra Linux, one of which is intended for general, everyday use - Astra Linux "Eagle" Common Edition. Russian operating system for everyone - [...]

Xbox Corporate Vice President Mike Ybarra leaves Microsoft after 20 years

Microsoft and Xbox corporate vice president Mike Ybarra announced that the latter is leaving the corporation after 20 years of service. "After 20 years at Microsoft, it's time for my next adventure," Ibarra tweeted. “It's been a great ride with Xbox and the future is bright.” Thank you to everyone on the Xbox team, I'm incredibly proud to […]

Windows 10 (1909) will be ready in October, but released in November

Microsoft is expected to release Windows 10 update number 1909 soon. But it looks like we'll have to be patient. Windows 10 Build 19H2 or 1909 was expected to release in October, but that appears to have changed. Observer Zac Bowden claims that the finished version will be built and tested this month, and the release update will begin […]

An operating system that will survive the apocalypse is presented

The theme of post-apocalypse has long been firmly established in all spheres of culture and art. Books, games, films, Internet projects - all this has long been firmly established in our lives. There are even particularly paranoid and fairly wealthy people who seriously build shelters and buy cartridges and stewed meat in reserve, hoping to wait out the dark times. However, few people thought about […]

The first payment based on facial recognition technology was made in Russia

Rostelecom and Russian Standard Bank presented a service for paying for purchases in stores, which involves the use of biometric technologies to recognize customers. We are talking about identifying users by face. Reference images for personal recognition will be downloaded from the Unified Biometric System. In other words, individuals will be able to make biometric payments after registering a digital image. To do this, the potential buyer needs to submit biometric […]

FIFA 20 already has 10 million players

Electronic Arts announced that the FIFA 20 audience has reached 10 million players. FIFA 20 is available through subscription services EA Access and Origin Access, so 10 million players does not mean 10 million copies sold. Still, it's an impressive milestone that the project was able to achieve in less than two weeks since its release. Electronic Arts […]

20 years since the beginning of Gentoo development

The Gentoo Linux distribution is 20 years old. On October 4, 1999, Daniel Robbins registered the gentoo.org domain and began developing a new distribution, into which, together with Bob Mutch, he tried to transfer some ideas from the FreeBSD project, combining them with the Enoch Linux distribution that had been developing for about a year , in which experiments were conducted on building a distribution compiled from […]

Hedgewars 1.0

A new version of the turn-based strategy Hedgewars has been released (similar games: Worms, Warmux, Artillery, Scorched Earth). In this release: Campaigns take into account the settings of the playing team. Single-player missions can now be completed by any team with progress saved. The sizes of hand-drawn maps can be adjusted using the slider. Quick game mode provides a greater range of parameters. The bee can be used as a secondary weapon. […]