Author: ProHoster

Leading US companies freeze vital supplies to Huawei

The situation with the US trade war against China continues to develop and becomes increasingly alarming. Major U.S. corporations, from chip makers to Google, have suspended shipments of critical software and hardware components to Huawei, complying with tough demands from the administration of President Trump, who is threatening to completely cut off cooperation with China's largest technology company. Citing its anonymous informants, Bloomberg reported […]

Exclusive deal with Epic Games saves solo developer's game

The drama surrounding the Epic Games Store continues. Recently, successful indie studio Re-Logic promised not to “sell its soul” to Epic Games. Another developer claims that this opinion is not so popular. The latter’s project, for example, was completely saved by the company with its deal for an exclusive release on the Epic Games Store. Indie developer Gwen Frey is working on a puzzle game called Kine herself […]

How do they do it? Overview of Cryptocurrency Anonymization Technologies

Surely you, as a user of bitcoin, ether or any other cryptocurrency, were concerned that anyone could see how many coins you have in your wallet, to whom you transferred them and from whom you received them. There is a lot of controversy surrounding anonymous cryptocurrencies, but one cannot disagree on one thing - as Monero project manager Riccardo Spagni said […]

Google Stadia graphics will rely on first generation AMD Vega

When Google announced its own ambitions in the field of game streaming and announced the development of the Stadia service, many questions arose about the equipment that the search giant plans to use in its new cloud platform. The fact is that Google itself gave an extremely vague description of the hardware configuration, especially its graphical part: in fact, it was only promised that systems that broadcast […]

Gigabyte Adds PCI Express 4.0 Support to Select Socket AM4 Motherboards

Recently, many motherboard manufacturers have released BIOS updates for their products with the Socket AM4 processor socket, which provide support for the new Ryzen 3000 processors. Gigabyte was no exception, but its updates have one very interesting feature - they provide some motherboards with support for the new PCI interface Express 4.0. This feature was discovered by one of [...]

HiSilicon intends to accelerate the production of chips with an integrated 5G modem

Network sources report that HiSilicon, a chip manufacturing company wholly owned by Huawei, intends to intensify the development of mobile chipsets with an integrated 5G modem. Additionally, the company plans to use millimeter wave (mmWave) technology once the new 5G smartphone chipset is unveiled in late 2019. Previously, messages appeared on the Internet [...]

Rage of Dragons in the TES Online: Elsweyr Expansion Trailer for PC

Bethesda Softworks has presented another trailer dedicated to the Elsweyr expansion for The Elder Scrolls Online, the main feature of which is the return of dragons to Tamriel. These creatures have been absent from The Elder Scrolls Online until now, as, according to legend, they completely disappeared from the face of Tamriel for many centuries before reappearing only in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. […]

Forecast and discussion: hybrid storage systems will give way to all-flash

According to analysts from IHS Markit, hybrid storage systems (SHD) based on HDD and SSD will begin to enjoy less demand this year. We discuss the current situation. Photo - Jyrki Huusko - CC BY In 2018, flash arrays accounted for 29% of the storage market. For hybrid solutions - 38%. IHS Markit are convinced that this […]

Landing station "Luna-27" can become a serial device

The Lavochkin Research and Production Association (“NPO Lavochkin”) intends to mass-produce the Luna-27 automatic station: the production time for each copy will be less than one year. This was reported by the online publication RIA Novosti, citing information received from sources in the rocket and space industry. Luna-27 (Luna-Resurs-1 PA) is a heavy landing vehicle. The main task of the mission will be to extract from the depths and analyze samples of lunar […]

Not a bug, but a feature: players mistook World of Warcraft Classic features for bugs and started complaining

World Of Warcraft has changed a lot since its original release back in 2004. The project has improved over time, and users have become accustomed to its current state. The announcement of the original version of the MMORPG, World of Warcraft Classic, attracted a lot of attention, and open beta testing recently began. It turns out that not all users were ready for such World of Warcraft. […]

5G – where and who needs it?

Even without particularly understanding the generations of mobile communication standards, anyone will probably answer that 5G is cooler than 4G/LTE. In reality, everything is not so simple. Let's figure out why 5G is better/worse and which cases of its use are the most promising, taking into account the current state. So, what does 5G technology promise us? Increasing speed in […]

Digital events in Moscow from May 21 to 26

A selection of events for the week Apache Ignite Meetup #6 May 21 (Tuesday) Novoslobodskaya 16 free We invite you to the next Apache Ignite meeting in Moscow. Let's look at the Native Persistence component in detail. In particular, we will discuss how to configure a “large topology” product for use on small amounts of data. We will also talk about the Apache Ignite machine learning module and its integrations. Seminar: “Online-to-offline […]