Author: ProHoster

Rumors: the new game of the authors of Souls is being created with the participation of George Martin and will be announced at E3

Rumors about the participation of American science fiction writer George RR Martin in the development of a new game from From Software were partially confirmed by the writer himself. In a blog entry dedicated to the end of the Game of Thrones television series, the author of A Song of Fire and Ice mentioned that he advised the creators of a certain Japanese video game. The Gematsu resource revealed additional details about […]

SMPP - Peer-to-Peer Short Message Protocol

Hello! Although instant messengers and social networks are replacing traditional methods of communication every day, this does not detract from the popularity of SMS. Verification on a popular site, or a transaction notification repeats they live and will live. Have you thought about how it all works? Very often, the SMPP protocol is used to send bulk messages, which will be discussed under the cut. On Habré […]

Linux Install Fest Side View

A few days ago, Nizhny Novgorod hosted a classic event of the "limited Internet" era - Linux Install Fest 05.19. This format has been supported for a long time (~2005) by NNLUG (Linux Regional Users Group). Today it is no longer customary to copy “from screw to screw” and distribute blanks with fresh distributions. The Internet is available to everyone and shines literally from every kettle. IN […]

Presented "smart" glasses for business Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 at a price of $999

Developers from Google presented a new version of smart glasses called Glass Enterprise Edition 2. Compared to the previous model, the new product has more powerful hardware, as well as an updated software platform. The product operates on the basis of Qualcomm Snapdragon XR1, which is positioned by the developer as the world's first Extended Reality platform. Due to this, it was possible not only [...]

Residents of the UK lost $34 million in a year due to cryptocurrency scams

British investors lost £27 million ($34,38 million) due to cryptocurrency scams in the last financial year, UK regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said. According to the FCA, between April 1, 2018 and April 1, 2019, every UK citizen who became a victim of cryptocurrency scammers lost an average of £14 ($600 […]

What we should arrange for DDoS: the intensity of attacks has increased dramatically

A study conducted by Kaspersky Lab suggests that the intensity of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks increased sharply in the first quarter of this year. In particular, the number of DDoS attacks in January–March increased by 84% compared to the last quarter of 2018. Moreover, such attacks have become much longer: the average duration has increased by 4,21 times. Experts also note [...]

Noise canceling and rich bass: $900 Sony XB250N wireless headphones

Sony Corporation has announced the XB900N on-ear headphones that use a wireless connection to a signal source. The new product is equipped with 40 mm emitters with neodymium magnets. Extra Bass technology is implemented, providing rich low frequencies. The XB900N model is equipped with a microphone. This makes it possible to make telephone conversations; Additionally, users can interact with an intelligent voice assistant on a smartphone. The device supports Bluetooth 4.2 wireless communication. […]

Transformation or profanation: how to "digitize" telecom operators

“Digital” goes to telecom, and telecom goes to “digital”. The world is on the verge of the fourth industrial revolution, and the Russian government is carrying out large-scale digitalization of the country. Telecom is forced to survive in the face of radical changes in the work and interests of customers and partners. Competition from representatives of new technologies is growing. We invite you to look at the vector of digital transformation and pay attention to internal resources [...]

China uses facial recognition technology to identify pandas

China has found a new use for facial recognition technology. It will now be used to identify pandas. Giant pandas can be immediately identified by sight, but their uniform black and white coloring makes them indistinguishable to the human eye. But not for artificial intelligence. Chinese researchers have developed an AI-based facial recognition app that can identify specific pandas. Visitors to the research […]

Firefox 67 released for all platforms: speed up work and protect against mining

Mozilla has officially released Firefox 67 browser update for Windows, Linux, Mac and Android. This build came out a week later than expected and received numerous performance improvements and new features. It is reported that Mozilla has made several internal changes, including freezing unused tabs, reducing the priority of the setTimeout function while loading web pages, and so on […]

World War Z trailer: 2 million copies sold and press hype

Publisher Focus Home Interactive and developers from Saber Interactive said that their cooperative action movie World War Z, based on the Paramount Pictures film of the same name (“World War Z” with Brad Pitt), sold almost 2 million copies worldwide in a month. to the world. On this occasion, a trailer is presented showing excerpts of gameplay and […]

3CX integration with Office 365 via Azure API

PBX 3CX v16 of the Pro and Enterprise editions offers full integration with Office 365 applications. In particular, it has been implemented: Synchronization of Office 365 users and 3CX extensions (users). Synchronization of personal contacts of Office users and personal address book 3CX. Synchronization of the statuses (busy) of the Office 365 user calendar and the status of the 3CX extension. To make outgoing calls from the web […]