Author: ProHoster

Valve will change the method of calculating the rating in Dota Underlords for the "Lords of the White Spire"

Valve will rework the rating calculation system in Dota 2 Underlords at the rank of “Lords of the White Spire”. The developers will add an Elo rating system to the game, thanks to which users will receive a number of points depending on the level of opponents. Thus, in case you receive a large reward when fighting with players whose rating is significantly higher and vice versa. Company […]

Steam has added a feature to hide unwanted games

Valve has allowed Steam users to hide uninteresting projects at their discretion. An employee of the company, Alden Kroll, spoke about this. The developers did this so that players could additionally filter the platform’s recommendations. There are currently two hiding options available in the service: “default” and “run on another platform.” The latter will tell the Steam creators that the player has purchased the project […]

The next part of Metro is already in development, Dmitry Glukhovsky is responsible for the script

Yesterday, THQ Nordic published a financial report in which it separately noted the success of Metro Exodus. The game managed to increase the overall sales figures of the publisher Deep Silver by 10%. Simultaneously with the appearance of the document, THQ Nordic CEO Lars Wingefors held a meeting with investors, where he stated that the next part of Metro was in development. He continues to work on the series [...]

Overview of cloud services for mobile app backend development

Backend development is a complex and expensive process. When developing mobile applications, it is often given unreasonably more attention. Unjustified, because every time you have to implement typical scenarios for mobile applications: send a push notification, find out how many users are interested in the promotion and place an order, etc. I want a solution that will allow me to focus on things that are important for the application without losing quality and details […]

NVIDIA accelerators will receive a direct channel of interaction with NVMe drives

NVIDIA has introduced GPUDirect Storage, a new capability that allows GPUs to interface directly with NVMe storage. The technology uses RDMA GPUDirect to transfer data to local GPU memory without the need to use the CPU and system memory. The move is part of the company's strategy to expand its reach into data analytics and machine learning applications. Previously, NVIDIA released […]

DUMP Kazan - Tatarstan Developers Conference: CFP and tickets at the starting price

On November 8, Kazan will host the Tatarstan developer conference - DUMP What will happen: 4 streams: Backend, Frontend, DevOps, Management Master classes and discussions Speakers of top IT conferences: HolyJS, HighLoad, DevOops, PyCon Russia, etc. 400+ participants Entertainment from conference partners and after-party Conference reports are designed for middle/middle+ level of developers Applications for reports are accepted until September 15 Until 1 […]

GCC will be removed from the FreeBSD core

The FreeBSD developers have presented a plan to remove GCC 4.2.1 from the FreeBSD base system source code. GCC components will be removed before the FreeBSD 13 branch is forked, which will only include the Clang compiler. GCC can, if desired, be delivered from ports that offer GCC 9, 7 and 8, as well as already deprecated GCC releases […]

Oracle intends to redesign DTrace for Linux using eBPF

Oracle has announced work to push DTrace-related changes upstream and plans to implement DTrace dynamic debugging technology on top of the native Linux kernel infrastructure, namely using subsystems such as eBPF. Initially, the main problem with using DTrace on Linux was incompatibility at the license level, but in 2018 Oracle relicensed the code […]

The online store revealed the characteristics of the smartphone Sony Xperia 20

The new mid-range smartphone Sony Xperia 20 has not yet been officially presented. It is expected that the device will be announced at the annual IFA 2019 exhibition, which will be held in September. Despite this, the main characteristics of the new product were revealed by one of the online stores. According to published data, the Sony Xperia 20 smartphone is equipped with a 6-inch display with an aspect ratio of 21:9 and […]

Samsung and Xiaomi unveil the world's first 108MP mobile sensor

On August 7, at the Future Image Technology Communication Meeting in Beijing, Xiaomi not only promised to release a 64-megapixel smartphone this year, but also unexpectedly announced that it was working on a 100-megapixel device with a Samsung sensor. It is not clear when such a smartphone will be presented, but the sensor itself already exists: as expected, the Korean manufacturer announced this. Samsung […]

Cisco Training 200-125 CCNA v3.0. Day 16. Networking in a small office

Today I will tell you how to organize a network in a small company office. We have reached a certain stage in the training dedicated to switches - today we will have the last video, concluding the topic of Cisco switches. Of course, we will return to switches, and in the next video tutorial I will show you the road map so that everyone understands in which direction we are moving and what part […]