Author: ProHoster

New NAVITEL products will help the car enthusiast to make the trip safer and more comfortable

NAVITEL held a press conference in Moscow on May 23, dedicated to the release of new devices, as well as updating the model range of DVRs. The updated range of NAVITEL DVRs, meeting the modern needs of motorists, is represented by devices with more powerful processors and modern sensors with the Night Vision function. Some of the new products are also equipped with a GPS module, adding functions such as GPS information and a digital speedometer. Owners […]

From critics to algorithms: the fading voice of the elites in the world of music

Not so long ago, the music industry was a "closed club". It was hard to get into it, and public taste was controlled by a small group of "enlightened" experts. But every year the opinion of the elites becomes less and less valuable, and playlists and algorithms have replaced the critics. Let's tell how it happened. Photo by Sergei Solo / Unsplash The music industry until 19 […]

VictoriaMetrics, a Prometheus-compatible time-series database engine, is open source

The source texts of VictoriaMetrics, a fast and scalable DBMS for storing and processing data in the form of a time series, are open (a record forms a time and a set of values ​​corresponding to this time, for example, obtained through a periodic poll of the status of sensors or the collection of metrics). The project competes with solutions such as InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, Thanos, Cortex and Uber M3. The code is written in Go […]

A bug in OpenSSL broke some openSUSE Tumbleweed applications after an update

Updating OpenSSL to version 1.1.1b in the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository has broken some libopenssl related applications using Russian or Ukrainian locales. The problem appeared after a change was made to the error message buffer handler (SYS_str_reasons) in OpenSSL. The buffer was defined as 4 kilobytes, but this was not enough for some unicode locales. The strerror_r output used to […]

IBM plans to commercialize quantum computers in 3-5 years

IBM intends to begin commercial use of quantum computers in the next 3-5 years. This will happen when the quantum computers being developed by the American company will surpass the supercomputers that currently exist in terms of computing power. Norishige Morimoto, director of IBM Research in Tokyo and vice president of the company, Norishige Morimoto, made the announcement at the recent IBM think Summit Taipei. Costs […]

LG's first large-format OLED factory opens in China

LG Display aims to become a major player in the large format OLED TV panel market. Obviously, premium TVs need to get the best screens available, which OLED fits perfectly. This is especially important for the market in China, where factories for the production of LCD and OLED panels are springing up like mushrooms after rain. For the sake of leap forward LG […]

Galax GeForce RTX 2070 Mini: one of the smallest RTX 2070

Galaxy Microsystems has introduced two new versions of the GeForce RTX 2070 graphics card in China, which are distinguished by a rather unusual blue color. One of the new products is called the GeForce RTX 2070 Mini and it is quite compact in size, while the other is called the GeForce RTX 2070 Metal Master (literal translation from Chinese) and is a full-size model. Interestingly, earlier Galax had already […]

How I wrote my monitoring

Decided to share my story. Maybe even someone will need such a budget solution to a well-known problem. When I was young and hot and didn’t know what to do with my energy, I decided to freelance a little. I managed to quickly gain a rating and found a couple of regular customers who asked me to support their servers on an ongoing basis. The first thing I thought was [...]

Google Stadia devs to announce launch date, pricing, and game list soon

For gamers who follow the Google Stadia project, very interesting information has appeared. The official twitter of the service posted a note that the subscription price, the list of games and launch data will be published this summer. Recall: Google Stadia is a streaming service that will allow you to play video games regardless of the client device. In other words, you can […]

Trump says Huawei could be part of US-China trade deal

U.S. President Donald Trump said the Huawei settlement could be part of a U.S.-China trade deal, despite the telecommunications firm's equipment being labeled "very dangerous" by Washington. The economic and trade war between the US and China has escalated in recent weeks due to tariff hikes and threats of more action. One of the targets of the US attack was Huawei, which […]

USA vs China: it will only get worse

Experts on Wall Street, as reported by CNBC, are beginning to believe that the confrontation between the United States and China in the trade and economic sphere is becoming protracted, and sanctions against Huawei, as well as the accompanying increase in import duties on Chinese goods, are only the initial stages of a long “war” in economic sphere. The S&P 500 index lost 3,3%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 400 points. Experts […]

Best Buy CEO warns consumers about price hikes due to tariffs

Soon, ordinary American consumers may feel the impact of the trade war between the United States and China. At the very least, the chief executive of Best Buy, the largest consumer electronics chain in the United States, Hubert Joly warned that consumers will likely suffer from higher prices as a result of tariffs being prepared by the Trump administration. “The introduction of 25 percent duties will lead to higher prices […]