Author: ProHoster

New iPhones May Get Apple Pencil Support

Specialists from Citi Research conducted a study based on which conclusions were made regarding what features users should expect in the new iPhone. Despite the fact that analysts' forecasts largely coincide with the expectations of the majority, the company suggested that the 2019 iPhones will receive one unusual feature. We are talking about support for Apple's proprietary stylus [...]

New NVIDIA driver 430.40 (2019.07.29)

Added support for new GPUs: GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Quadro RTX 3000 with Max-Q Design And most importantly, bugs regarding kernel configurations with the CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU option have been fixed. Also added support for systems that only have support for the ncurses widechar ABI. Source: linux.org.ru

Release of content management system Plone 5.2

At the end of July, the developers published the long-awaited release of one of the best content management systems - Plone. Plone is a CMS written in Python that uses the Zope application server. Unfortunately, little known in the vast post-Soviet space, but widely used in educational, government and scientific circles around the world. This is the first fully Python 3 compatible release, working on […]

Halo series premiere pushed back to 2021

Showtime's Halo series won't begin production until later this year, with actors including Natascha McElhone and Bokeem Woodbine attached. While expanding the main cast and setting a production date is a step forward for the film adaptation, there is some bad news: the release has been pushed back from 2020 to the first quarter […]

Trailer for ANNO: Mutationem, a cyberpunk action RPG from China with a mixture of pixel art and 3D

While brothers Tim Soret and Adrien Soret are still working on their cyberpunk 2,5D platformer The Last Night and facing new challenges, a spiritual successor to the game is already being prepared in China. At the ChinaJoy 2019 event, Beijing-based ThinkingStars presented a new trailer for its action role-playing game ANNO: Mutationem for PlayStation 4 (the project debuted […]

An unopened copy of the NES game sold at auction for $9.

An unknown fan of the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) console purchased a rare unopened cartridge of the Kid Icarus game for $9 thousand. It was sold by a certain Scott Amos from the city of Reno (USA). As Amos told Hypebeast, he found the game in the attic of his parents' house along with the receipt. After discovering the game, Amos sent it to Wata Games, a company specializing in […]

Excursion in light green tones

The most important transport problem in St. Petersburg is bridges. At night, because of them, you have to run away from the tavern without finishing your beer. Well, or pay twice as much for a taxi as usual. In the morning, carefully calculate the time so that as soon as the bridge is closed, you make it to the station like a nimble mongoose. We don’t […]

Digital events in Moscow from 05 to 11 August

A selection of events for the week. ok.tech: Data Talk #2 August 07 (Wednesday) Leningradsky pr 39str79 free On August 7, ok.tech: Data Talk #2 will take place at the Moscow office of Odnoklassniki. This time the event will be dedicated to education in Data Science. Now there is such a hype around working with data that only the lazy have not thought about getting an education in the field of Data Science. […]

13 facts about venture craft for founders

A list of interesting statistical facts based on posts from my Telegram channel Groks. The results of various studies described below once changed my understanding of venture capital investments and the startup environment. I hope you find these observations useful too. For you who look at the field of capital from the side of the founders. 1. The startup industry is disappearing amid globalization Young companies less than […]

Alexey Savvateev: Jean Tirol Nobel Prize for the analysis of imperfect markets (2014) and collective reputation

If I were giving the Nobel Prize to Jean Tirole, I would give it for his game-theoretic analysis of reputation, or at least include it in the formulation. It seems to me that this is a case where our intuition fits the model well, although it is difficult to test this model. This is from a series of those models that are difficult or impossible to verify and falsify. But the idea seems completely […]

Is Kafka on Kubernetes good?

Greetings, Habr! At one time, we were the first to introduce the Kafka topic to the Russian market and continue to monitor its development. In particular, we found the topic of interaction between Kafka and Kubernetes interesting. A review (and rather cautious) article on this topic was published on the Confluent blog back in October last year, authored by Gwen Shapira. Today we […]