Author: ProHoster

Ewan McGregor to return as Obi-Wan in Star Wars series for Disney+

Disney intends to push its subscription service Disney+ very aggressively and will bet on universes like Marvel comics and Star Wars. The company spoke about its plans for the latter at the D23 Expo event: the final season of the animated series “Clonic Wars” will be released in February, future seasons of the fresh animated series “Star Wars Resistance” will also be exclusively released on this service, […]

Computer Vision Summer Camp - Intel Summer School on Computer Vision

From July 3 to July 16 at the Nizhny Novgorod State University. N.I. Lobachevsky hosted the Intel Interuniversity Summer School on Computer Vision - Computer Vision Summer Camp, in which more than 100 students took part. The school was aimed at technical students from Nizhny Novgorod universities who are interested in computer vision, deep learning, neural networks, Intel OpenVINO, OpenCV. In this article we […]

Digital events in Moscow from August 25 to September 1

A selection of events for the week. Yandex.Inside: Search and Alice August 28 (Wednesday) L Tolstoy 16 free Thanks to the work of product teams making small technological breakthroughs every day, even such monoliths as Search are changing dynamically. At the meetup we will show this dynamics using the example of the work of several teams that step by step improve the user experience in Search and Alice. Yandex.Tracker morning 29 […]

Projects that didn't take off

Cloud4Y has already talked about interesting projects developed in the USSR. Continuing the topic, let's remember what other projects had good prospects, but for a number of reasons did not receive wide recognition or were shelved altogether. Gas station During preparations for the 80 Olympics, it was decided to demonstrate to everyone (and primarily to capital countries) the modernity of the USSR. And gas stations became one [...]

low-memory-monitor: announcement of a new low-memory userspace handler

Bastien Nocera has announced a new low-memory handler for the Gnome desktop. Written in C. Licensed under GPL3. The daemon requires kernel 5.2 or later to run. The daemon checks memory pressure via /proc/pressure/memory and, if the threshold is exceeded, sends a proposal via dbus to processes about the need to moderate their appetites. The daemon can also try to keep the system responsive by writing to /proc/sysrq-trigger. […]

Samsung is thinking about a smartphone that bends in opposite directions

The LetsGoDigital resource reports that Samsung is patenting a flexible smartphone with a very interesting design that allows for a variety of folding options. As you can see in the renderings presented, the device will have a vertically elongated display with a frameless design. At the top of the rear panel there is a multi-module camera, at the bottom there is a speaker for a high-quality audio system. In the central area of ​​the body there is a special […]

The Vivo iQOO Pro 4G smartphone has passed certification: the same flagship, but without 5G

While iQOO, a sub-brand of Vivo, is preparing to release the iQOO Pro 5G smartphone in the Chinese market, the Telecommunications Equipment Certification Authority of China (TENAA) has published details and photos of another smartphone of the same brand - Vivo iQOO Pro 4G. This is an improved variant of the high-end gaming smartphone Vivo iQOO, launched in the first quarter of the year. The phone is expected to hit the market tomorrow […]

Tools for developers of applications that run on Kubernetes

A modern approach to operations solves many pressing business problems. Containers and orchestrators make it easy to scale projects of any complexity, simplify the release of new versions, make them more reliable, but at the same time they create additional problems for developers. A programmer is primarily concerned with his code—architecture, quality, performance, elegance—and not how it will […]

Medium Weekly Digest #6 (16 – 23 Aug 2019)

Believe me, today's world is much more unpredictable and dangerous than the one Orwell described. — Edward Snowden On the agenda: Decentralized Internet provider “Medium” refuses to use SSL in favor of native encryption Yggdrasil Email and social network appeared inside the Yggdrasil network Remind me - what is “Medium”? Medium (eng. Medium - “intermediary”, original slogan - Don't […]

Disney+ subscribers will get 4 streams at the same time and 4K is much cheaper

According to CNET, the Disney+ streaming service will launch on November 12 and will offer four simultaneous streams and 6,99K support for a base price of $4 per month. Subscribers will be able to create and configure up to seven profiles on one account. This will make the service highly competitive with Netflix, which raised prices at the beginning of the year and set stricter […]