Author: ProHoster

Samsung is designing a smartphone with a rear display

Documentation describing a Samsung smartphone with a new design has been published on the websites of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), according to the LetsGoDigital resource. We are talking about a device with two displays. In the front part there is a screen with narrow side frames. This panel does not have a cutout or hole for […]

The official image of Huawei Nova 5 Pro shows the smartphone in coral orange

On June 21, the Chinese company Huawei will officially present new Nova series smartphones. Not long ago, the top model of the Nova 5 Pro series was spotted in the Geekbench database, and today Huawei released an official image in order to stir up interest in the device. The said image shows the Nova 5 Pro in Coral Orange color and also reveals that the smartphone […]

From UI-kit to design system

The experience of the Ivy online cinema When at the beginning of 2017 we first thought about creating our own design-to-code delivery system, many people already talked about this and some even did it. However, little is known about the experience of building cross-platform design systems to this day, and clear and proven recipes that describe technologies and methods for such a transformation of the […]

Why is the Internet still online?

The Internet seems to be a strong, independent and indestructible structure. In theory, the strength of the network is enough to survive a nuclear explosion. In reality, the Internet can drop one small router. All due to the fact that the Internet is a pile of contradictions, vulnerabilities, mistakes and videos about cats. The basis of the Internet - the BGP protocol - contains a lot of problems. It's amazing he's still breathing. In addition to errors on the Internet itself, it is also broken by everyone […]

Overconfident NAS

The fairy tale was quickly told, but the deed was done for a long time. More than a year and a half ago, I wanted to build my own NAS, and the beginning, for collecting NAS, was putting things in order in the server room. When dismantling cables, cases, as well as moving a 24-inch lamp monitor from HP to a landfill, and other things, a cooler from Noctua was found. From which, through incredible efforts, […]

Dark theme coming to Gmail for Android

This year, mobile operating system developers are making more and more changes to their solutions. Official dark themes will be available to owners of Android and iOS devices. It is worth noting that enabling night mode will affect the entire OS, and not individual sections or menus. Moreover, Google, Apple, as well as many third-party mobile content developers are actively […]

Video: BioShock, AC: Brotherhood and other games look new thanks to ray tracing

Zetman's YouTube channel has posted several videos showcasing Alien: Isolation, Bioshock Remastered, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Nier: Automata and Dragon Age Origins using graphics programmer Pascal Gilcher's Reshade mod. This mod allows you to add real-time ray tracing effects to older games using post-processing. It is worth understanding that this [...]

For Mass Effect 2, a modification has been released that adds a first-person view

User interest in the Mass Effect trilogy does not subside even after many years. Modders continue to delight the community with their work, and recently another interesting creation has appeared. A user under the nickname LordEmil1 posted a modification on Nexus Mods that adds a first-person view to Mass Effect 2. The file is freely available, anyone can download it after registering on the site. […]

Video: retro arcade racing game Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled released

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, a racing retro arcade game from Beenox studio, has been released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. We are talking about a remake of Crash Team Racing for modern consoles, which received updated graphics, characters, tracks and arenas. Fans will now be able to see the clashes and expressions on the faces of the characters in full detail. The interest of the players and the success of the […]

HP EliteBook 700 G6 Business Notebooks Powered by AMD Ryzen Pro Chip

In the coming weeks, HP will begin selling the new EliteBook 700 G6 portable computers, which are aimed primarily at business users. Announced laptops EliteBook 735 G6 and EliteBook 745 G6, equipped with a display with a diagonal of 13,3 inches and 14 inches, respectively. A Full HD panel with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels has been applied. The basis of the laptops is the AMD Ryzen Pro processor. TO […]

E-books and their formats: FB2 and FB3 - history, pros, cons and principles of work

In the last article, we talked about the features of the DjVu format. Today we decided to focus on the FictionBook2 format, better known as FB2, and its "successor" FB3. / Flickr / Judit Klein / CC The appearance of the format In the mid-90s, enthusiasts began to digitize Soviet books. They translated and preserved literature in a wide variety of formats. One of the first libraries […]

Work has begun on the transfer of GNOME Mutter to multi-threaded rendering

The Mutter window manager code, being developed as part of the GNOME 3.34 development cycle, includes initial support for the new transactional (atomic) KMS (Atomic Kernel Mode Setting) API for switching video modes, allowing you to check the correctness of the parameters before actually changing the hardware state at once and, if necessary, roll back the change. On the practical side, supporting the new API is the first step in moving Mutter to […]