Author: ProHoster

Huawei and Yandex are discussing adding Alice to the Chinese company's smartphones

Huawei and Yandex are negotiating the implementation of the Alice voice assistant in Chinese smartphones. President of Huawei Mobile Services and Vice President of Huawei CBG Alex Zhang told reporters about this. According to him, the discussion also concerns cooperation in a number of areas. For example, this is “Yandex.News”, “Yandex.Zen” and so on. Chang clarified that “cooperation with Yandex is […]

Just Cause 4 Danger Rising DLC ​​Coming Early September

Avalanche Studios has published a trailer for the final expansion called Danger Rising. According to the video, the update will be released on September 5, 2019. The storyline of the add-on is dedicated to Rico's intentions to destroy the Agency organization. His colleague and friend Tom Sheldon will help him with this. In Danger Rising, users will receive several new weapons, including the Sequoia 370 Mag-Slug shotgun, the Yellowstone Auto Sniper […]

The neural network "Beeline AI - People Search" will help to find the missing

Beeline has developed a specialized neural network that will help in searching for missing people: the platform is called “Beeline AI - Search for People.” The solution is designed to simplify the work of the Lisa Alert search and rescue team. Since 2018, this team has been using unmanned aerial vehicles for search operations carried out in forests and industrial areas of cities. However, analyzing images obtained from drone cameras requires […]

System76 Adder WS: Linux based mobile workstation

System76 has announced the Adder WS portable computer, aimed at content creators and researchers, as well as gaming enthusiasts. The mobile workstation is equipped with a 15,6-inch 4K OLED display with a resolution of 3840 × 2160 pixels. Graphics processing is carried out by the discrete NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 accelerator. The maximum configuration includes an Intel Core i9-9980HK processor, which contains eight computing cores with […]

The second Xiaomi smartphone with 5G support may be the model of the Mi 9 series

Fifth generation (5G) communication networks are systematically developing around the world, and manufacturers are striving to produce more devices capable of operating in 5G networks. As for the Chinese company Xiaomi, its arsenal already has one smartphone with 5G support. We are talking about the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 5G device. Previously, there were rumors that the manufacturer’s next 5G smartphone would be […]

OnePlus smart TVs are one step closer to release

It's no secret that OnePlus is planning to enter the smart TV market soon. The company's executive director, Pete Law, spoke about this at the beginning of last fall. And now some information has appeared about the characteristics of future panels. Several models of OnePlus smart TVs have been submitted to the Bluetooth SIG organization for certification. They appear under the following codes, [...]

Hacks when working with a large number of small files

The idea for the article was born spontaneously from a discussion in the comments to the article “Something about inode”. The fact is that the internal specificity of our services is the storage of a huge number of small files. At the moment we have about hundreds of terabytes of such data. And we came across some obvious and not so obvious rakes and successfully navigated them. That's why I'm sharing [...]

RAVIS and DAB at a low start. DRM is offended. The strange future of RF digital radio

On July 25, 2019, without warning, the State Commission on Radio Frequencies (SCRF) gave the domestic RAVIS standard the ranges 65,8–74 MHz and 87,5–108 MHz for organizing digital radio broadcasting. Now a third has been added to the choice of two not very good standards. In the Russian Federation there is a special body responsible for distributing the available radio spectrum among those wishing to use it. His decisions largely [...]

Test infrastructure as code with Pulumi. Part 1

Good afternoon friends. On the eve of the start of a new stream of the “DevOps practices and tools” course, we are sharing with you a new translation. Go. Using Pulumi and general-purpose programming languages ​​for infrastructure code (Infrastructure as Code) provides many advantages: the availability of skills and knowledge, elimination of boilerplate in the code through abstraction, tools familiar to your team, such as IDEs and linters. […]

Xiaomi may have a smartphone with a “leaky” screen and a triple camera

According to the LetsGoDigital resource, information about a Xiaomi smartphone with a new design has appeared on the website of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). As you can see in the images, the Chinese company is designing a device with a “holey” screen. In this case, there are three options for the design of the hole for the front camera: it can be located on the left, in the center or on the right in the top […]

Super Mario Maker 2 has a working calculator

The editor in Super Mario Maker 2 allows you to create small levels in any of the presented styles, and over the summer players submitted several million of their creations to the public. But a user under the nickname Helgefan decided to go a different route - instead of the platform level, he created a working calculator. At the very beginning you are asked to choose two numbers from 0 […]