Author: ProHoster

Weekly Habr. Meet the pilot release of the Habrapodcast

We've been wanting to try making a podcast for a long time. We have about 30 different podcast formats that we would be interested in recording: motivating and demotivating; interviews with hackers; thriller podcasts about how Winlocker infects your network of 6000 computers with XP on board; about emigration to and from Russia. There are a lot of ideas, and we want to understand which of all this will be interesting to you. We decided to look into the process. Meet the first episode of the Habr Weekly podcast. Once […]

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. […]

Gameplay video of two new Operators in Rainbow Six Siege

Despite the passing years, Ubisoft continues to develop its popular tactical shooter Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege. As expected, on May 19, the second season of the 4th year of support for the game started. The update is called Operation Phantom Sight, and its main change is two new operators, one each for Defenders and Stormtroopers respectively. A new video shows these fighters […]

Online cinemas will be required to transmit data on the number of viewers

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, according to the Vedomosti newspaper, has prepared amendments to the law on supporting cinematography. We are talking about obliging online cinemas and Internet services that show films to transmit data on the number of spectators to the unified state system for recording cinema tickets (UAIS). Currently, only regular cinemas transmit information to the UAIS. The producers tried for quite some time to reach an agreement [...]

Who are data engineers and how do they become one?

Hello again! The title of the article speaks for itself. On the eve of the start of the "Data Engineer" course, we propose to figure out who data engineers are. The article has a lot of useful links. Happy reading. A simple guide on how to catch the wave of Data Engineering and not let it drag you into the abyss. One gets the impression that nowadays every […]

Huawei 8K TV with AI features expected to debut in September

A new piece of information has appeared on the Internet about the possible entry of the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei into the smart TV market. According to rumors, Huawei will initially offer smart panels with a diagonal of 55 and 65 inches. The Chinese company BOE Technology will allegedly supply displays for the first model, and Huaxing Optoelectronics (a subsidiary of BOE) for the second. As noted, the younger of the two named […]

Smart Speaker Market Grows Rapidly: China Leads the World

Canalys has released statistics on the global market for speakers with an intelligent voice assistant for the first quarter of this year. It is reported that approximately 20,7 million smart speakers were sold globally between January and March. This is an impressive 131% increase compared to the first quarter of 2018, when sales were 9,0 million units. The biggest player is Amazon with […]

Russian contactless device will help you fall asleep faster

Researchers from the Center for Neurotechnologies of Sleep and Wakefulness and the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, according to RIA Novosti, have developed an innovative device to combat insomnia. It is noted that the device is called EcoSleep. It is designed for people who have difficulty falling asleep, often wake up at night and have difficulty getting up in the morning. The operating principle of the compact gadget is to generate [...]

Pain Reception: Google will ban Huawei from Android

The trade war between the US and China appears to be reaching a new level. Google is suspending cooperation with Huawei due to the fact that the US government recently added the latter to the Entity List. As a result, Huawei may lose the ability to use Android and Google services in its smartphones, reports Reuters news agency, citing its own source familiar with […]

New article: Group testing of 36 video cards in Apex Legends

After ongoing tests of video cards with real-time ray tracing, which seemingly deprived all previous-generation GPUs of a chance for a happy old age, it’s nice to remember that there are popular games with very affordable system requirements. Projects entirely focused on online battles place game mechanics at the forefront and often compare favorably with single-player blockbusters with modest […]

The first builds of the cooperative modification Skyrim Together are available to everyone

There have been a lot of scandals around the cooperative modification Skyrim Together for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim lately. First, the authors were caught stealing code, and later information appeared that the developers might never release their creation. At the same time, they receive $30 thousand every month thanks to subscribers on Patreon. To clear their reputation, the creators of Skyrim Together posted […]