Author: ProHoster

Cable TV networks for the little ones. Part 7: Optical Receivers

The boundary between the optical medium and the coaxial cable is the optical receiver. In this article we will look at their design and settings. Contents of the series of articles Part 1: General architecture of a CATV network Part 2: Composition and signal shape Part 3: Analog component of the signal Part 4: Digital component of the signal Part 5: Coaxial distribution network Part 6: RF signal amplifiers Part 7: Optical […]

Digital events in Moscow from 3 to 9 June

Selection of events for the week Russian Retail Week 2019 June 03 (Monday) - June 08 (Saturday) Krasnopresnenskaya embankment 12 free Russian Retail Week is an annual, key and large-scale industry event with the participation of business and the state. The event at which the main directions for the development of the retail trade sector are formed, the state’s approaches to the development of multi-format retail are determined, and the problems of the industry are solved. Callday.Agency […]

Motorola One Action smartphone will carry Exynos 9609 processor on board

Online sources report that the Motorola One Action smartphone will debut soon: the other day the device appeared in a benchmark. It is reported that the “heart” of the device is the Exynos 9609 processor developed by Samsung. This chip contains four Cortex-A73 cores clocked at up to 2,2 GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at up to 1,6 GHz. The graphics accelerator is busy […]

Intel wants more openness: the company is going to return to the IDF

Intel is going to resume the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), a series of thematic conferences for developers, IT specialists and the industry press, at which company employees shared current information about advanced technologies and developments. According to the Fudzilla website, the once popular event could return this year. Let us recall that in 2017 Intel refused to hold IDF conferences, which […]

TeamCity Plugin Developer Contest

Hey Habr! We recently launched the TeamCity Plugin Developer Contest, and you can still enter it. The rules are simple: participants send us plugins by June 24th, and in return receive a one-year subscription to any JetBrains IDE of their choice. After the collection of applications is completed, we are the TeamCity development team and three independent judges […]

BlackBerry Messenger has officially shut down

On May 31, 2019, the Indonesian company Emtek Group officially closed the BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) messaging service and application for it. Note that this company has owned the rights to the system since 2016 and tried to revive it, but to no avail. “We have poured our hearts into making this [BBM] a reality and we are proud of what we have created to date […]

New Article: BQ Magic Smartphone Review: Affordable Beauty

Creating a high-quality budget smartphone is a noble and at the same time difficult task. There’s not much room to rattle the saber of innovation here, you can’t play with OLED screens and tetra cameras, and the competition in this segment is enormous, and the user wants to get a normal-level gadget for little money. BQ plays exclusively on this field and has become quite skilled in her role. Usually we are talking about the “cheap […]

Apache Storm 2.0 distributed computing system available

A significant release of the distributed event processing system Apache Storm 2.0 was released, notable for the transition to a new architecture implemented in the Java language, instead of the previously used Clojure language. The project allows you to organize guaranteed processing of various events in real time. For example, Storm can be used to analyze data streams in real time, run machine learning tasks, organize continuous […]

Apple Watch will lose support for Pokémon Go

If you're used to playing Pokémon Go using your Apple Watch, you'll soon have to change your habits. The fact is that from July 1, Niantic will stop supporting the Apple Watch. In addition, the developers will block the ability to connect smart watches to the game. The company said it wanted to focus on the project within a single device rather than […]

The new Microsoft Edge learned to work correctly with YouTube and received a grammar check

A few days ago, users of an early version of the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser complained that they were unable to access the new and improved YouTube interface. Instead, the website redirected them to an older version of the service. This affected the Edge Dev and Edge Canary branches. It is reported that the crash was indeed an issue that Google has already acknowledged and fixed. In company […]

Google Cloud crashes - they are reflected in YouTube and Gmail

There was a failure in the Google Cloud cloud service, which affected the operation of a number of popular network services. These included YouTube, Snapchat, Gmail, Nest, Discord, and so on. Users complain about unstable operation of systems. And although this mainly concerns the United States, reports of failures have already begun to arrive from Europe. Judging by Google data, the failure occurred yesterday, June 2. […]

Telegram update: increased privacy, comments and seamless authorization

A few days ago, Telegram developers released a fresh update that added a number of features in terms of privacy and ease of use of the messenger. One of them was the function of hiding a mobile number for certain groups and chats. Now the user himself chooses in which groups to show the number. This will allow you to hide data in personal chats and, conversely, show it in work chats. Also […]