Author: ProHoster

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 […]

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 […]

.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 […]

openSUSE Leap 15.1 release

On May 22, a new version of the openSUSE Leap 15.1 distribution was released. The new version has a completely updated graphics stack. Despite the fact that this release uses kernel version 4.12, support for graphics hardware that was relevant for kernel 4.19 has been backported (including improved support for the AMD Vega chipset). Starting with Leap 15.1, Network Manager will be used […]

ASUS VL278H Eye Care Monitor with Edgeless Design

ASUS has introduced a new model in the Eye Care monitor family, designated VL278H: the panel measures 27 inches diagonally. The device is suitable for everyday work and play. The resolution is 1920 × 1080 pixels, which corresponds to Full HD format. Brightness is 300 cd/m2, contrast is 1000:1 (dynamic contrast reaches 100:000). Viewing angles horizontally and vertically – 000 […]

Mushkin Helix-L: NVMe SSDs up to 1TB

Mushkin has released Helix-L series solid-state drives, the first information about which appeared during the January CES 2019 electronics exhibition. The products are made in the M.2 2280 format (22 × 80 mm). This allows them to be used in desktop and laptop computers, including ultrabooks. The drives belong to PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe 1.3 solutions. 3D TLC flash memory microchips are used […]