Author: ProHoster

Galaxy 2.0 is a new client for GOG users that will bring all platforms and stores together

The digital distribution service GOG, developed by the Polish company CD Projekt, has introduced Galaxy 2.0, a new version of the client, which this time is designed to unite all the games and friends of the user, regardless of the platform. The fact is that more and more projects are released on different platforms and services, and separate clients are needed to access them. As a result, game libraries […]

Appetite comes with eating: Yandex will deploy a network of cloud restaurants

The Yandex company, in addition to a platform for a smart home and a number of gadgets, presented a project of a so-called network of cloud restaurants at the Yet Another Conference 2019 event. The idea is to deploy a new food delivery system. The service will allow users to get their favorite and healthy food for relatively little money, even if the restaurants closest to them do not specialize in it. “The recipe for our […]

Perl 5.30.0 released

A year after the release of Perl 5.28.0, Perl 5.30.0 was released. Important changes: Added support for Unicode versions 11, 12 and draft 12.1; The upper limit "n" given in the regular expression quantifier of the form "{m, n}" has been doubled to 65534; Metacharacters in Unicode property value specifications are now partially supported; Added support for qr'N{name}'; Now you can compile Perl to […]

Intel's next phase of expansion in Ireland approved

Several years ago, Intel already received permission from the Irish authorities to build a new production building in Leixlip, where the company's oldest plant outside the United States is located. Then it was understood that Intel would spend about $4 billion on the construction of a new building, but this year the company turned to local authorities with a new application, which provided not only for an increase […]

ARM also ends cooperation with Huawei [updated]

Companies not only from the United States, but also from some other countries may stop cooperating with Huawei. According to the BBC, the British company ARM distributed a memo to its employees, which states the need to suspend doing business with Huawei. ARM management reportedly instructed staff to suspend work with Huawei and its subsidiaries for “all […]

UMIDIGI A5 Pro smartphone with triple camera - only today, priced at $89

Chinese electronics manufacturer UMIDIGI presented the UMIDIGI A5 Pro smartphone at the annual brand sale - the UMIDIGI Fan Festival - “UMIDIGI Fan Festival”, held at the AliExpress site. During the sale, which will last only 24 hours, the new product can be purchased at a significant discount for $89,37 (with a $6 coupon). UMIDIGI A5 Pro is equipped with a 6,3-inch display manufactured using […]

IoT, AI systems and network technologies at VMware EMPOWER 2019 - we continue broadcasting from the scene

We are talking about the new products presented at the VMware EMPOWER 2019 conference in Lisbon (we are also broadcasting on our Telegram channel). Revolutionary network solutions One of the main topics of the second day of the conference was intelligent traffic routing. Wide Area Networks (WANs) are quite unstable. Users often connect to corporate IT infrastructure from mobile devices through public hotspots, which entails certain […]

.NET: Tools for working with multithreading and asynchrony. Part 1

I publish the original article on Habr, the translation of which is posted on the corporate blog. The need to do something asynchronously, without waiting for the result here and now, or to divide a lot of work between several units that perform it, existed before the advent of computers. With their appearance, this need has become very tangible. Now, in 2019, typing this article on an 8-core laptop […]

Rumors: Riot and Tencent are working on a mobile version of League of Legends

According to Reuters, Tencent and Riot Games are working together on a mobile version of the popular MOBA game League of Legends. According to anonymous sources, the project has been in development for more than a year, but is unlikely to see the light of day this year. One of the sources added that many years ago Tencent offered Riot to create a mobile LoL, but the developers refused. WITH […]

Ventrue - a clan of vampire nobles Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2

Paradox Interactive talked about the fourth vampire clan in the upcoming action role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, the Ventrue. This is the ruling class of bloodsuckers. The representatives of the Ventrue clan truly have the blood of rulers. Previously, it consisted of high priests and aristocrats, but now bankers and top managers are among its ranks. This elite society values ​​ancestry and loyalty above all, [...]

GeekBrains to Host 12 Free Online Meetings with Programming Experts

From June 3 to 8, the educational portal GeekBrains will organize GeekChange - 12 online meetings with programming experts. Each webinar is a new topic about programming in the format of mini-lectures and practical tasks for beginners. The event is suitable for those who want to start their journey in IT, change their career vector, transform their business into digital, who are tired of their current job, who dream […]

Conference Conversations'19: conversational AI for those who still have doubts and who are already acting

On June 27-28, St. Petersburg will host the Conversations conference, the only event in Russia dedicated to conversational artificial intelligence technologies. How can developers make money from conversational AI? What are the pros, cons, and hidden capabilities of different conversational platforms and methodologies? How to repeat the success of other people's voice skills and chatbots with AI, but not repeat other people's epic failures? Over the course of two days, Conversations participants […]