Author: ProHoster

Characteristics of the flagship Huawei Mate 30 Pro revealed before the announcement

The Chinese company Huawei will present the flagship smartphones of the Mate 30 series on September 19 in Munich. A few days before the official announcement, detailed technical specifications of the Mate 30 Pro appeared on the Internet, which were published by an insider on Twitter. According to available data, the smartphone will have a Waterfall display with highly curved sides. Without taking into account the curved sides, the display diagonal is 6,6 […]

The Spektr-RG observatory discovered a new X-ray source in the Milky Way galaxy

The Russian ART-XC telescope aboard the Spektr-RG space observatory has begun its early science program. During the first scan of the central “bulge” of the Milky Way galaxy, a new X-ray source was detected, called SRGA J174956-34086. Over the entire period of observations, humanity has discovered about a million sources of X-ray radiation, and only dozens of them have their own names. In most cases, their […]

How to explain to your grandmother the difference between SQL and NoSQL

One of the most important decisions a developer makes is which database to use. For many years, options were limited to various relational database options that supported Structured Query Language (SQL). These include MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2 and many others. Over the past 15 years, many new […]

Cross replication between PostgreSQL and MySQL

I'll outline cross-replication between PostgreSQL and MySQL, as well as methods for setting up cross-replication between the two database servers. Typically, cross-replicated databases are called homogeneous, and it is a convenient method of moving from one RDBMS server to another. PostgreSQL and MySQL databases are considered relational, but […]

Project to add support for parallel compilation process to GCC

The Parallel GCC research project has begun work on adding a feature to GCC that allows the compilation process to be split into multiple parallel threads. Currently, to improve build speed on multi-core systems, the make utility uses the launch of separate compiler processes, each of which builds a separate code file. A new project is experimenting with providing […]

Large overview trailer for the already released mecha action movie Daemon X Machina for Switch

In early September, Marvelous Studios shared a trailer for the launch of its whirlwind anime-style action film Daemon X Machina. On September 13, the project, led by game designer Kenichiro Tsukuda, famous for the Armored Core series, was launched. To remind you of this event, the developers shared a new overview trailer, where in almost 4 minutes they talked about the main features […]

Borderlands 3's simultaneous player count doubled that of Borderlands 2 on launch day

Gearbox Software CEO Randy Pitchford boasted about the success of the launch of Borderlands 3. He said that at launch the number of concurrent players of the shooter on PC was double that of the previous part. Pitchford did not provide specific numbers, and the Epic Games Store does not provide public user statistics. According to SteamCharts, Borderlands 2 peaked at 123,5 thousand players at launch. Thus, […]

Adobe Premiere will have a function to automatically adjust the width and height of the video for different formats

To adjust the video to different aspect ratios, you will have to work hard. Simply changing the project settings from widescreen to square will not give the desired result: therefore, you will have to manually move the frames, if necessary, center them, so that the visual effects and the picture as a whole are displayed correctly in the new screen aspect ratios. Such manipulations can take several hours. However, in the near future […]

Windows 10 now shows smartphone battery and syncs wallpapers

Microsoft has once again updated the Your Phone application for Windows 10. Now this program shows the battery level of the connected smartphone and also synchronizes wallpaper with the mobile device. Microsoft manager Vishnu Nath, who oversees the development of the application, announced this on Twitter. This feature can be useful if several smartphones are connected to the PC in this way. […]

Varlink - kernel interface

Varlink is a kernel interface and protocol that is readable by both humans and machines. The Varlink interface combines classic UNIX command line options, STDIN/OUT/ERROR text formats, man pages, service metadata and is equivalent to the FD3 file descriptor. Varlink is accessible from any programming environment. The Varlink interface defines which methods will be implemented and how. Every […]

A new version of the exFAT driver has been proposed for the Linux kernel

Korean developer Park Ju Hyung, specializing in porting Android firmware for various devices, presented a new edition of the driver for the exFAT file system - exfat-linux, which is a branch of the “sdFAT” driver developed by Samsung. Currently, the exFAT driver from Samsung has already been added to the staging branch of the Linux kernel, but it is based on the code base of the old driver branch (1.2.9). […]

NX Bootcamp launches in October

We are launching a new project for IT students from St. Petersburg - NX Bootcamp! Are you a 3rd or 4th year student? Do you want to work in a large IT company, but lack the skills and experience? Then NX Bootcamp is for you! We know what market leaders want from Juniors, and have developed a program for preparing students to work in large projects. Over the coming months, experts […]