Author: ProHoster

The analyst called the start date of sales and the cost of the PlayStation 5

Japanese analyst Hideki Yasuda, who works in the research division of Ace Securities, shared his own opinion on when Sony's next-generation gaming console will be launched and how much it will cost initially. He believes that the PlayStation 5 will hit the market in November 2020, and the price of the console will be around $500. This […]

Corsair Vengeance 5185: Core i7-9700K Gaming PC with GeForce RTX 2080

Corsair has released the powerful Vengeance 5185 desktop computer, designed specifically for users who spend a lot of time playing games. The new product is housed in a spectacular case with glass panels. A Micro-ATX motherboard based on the Intel Z390 chipset is used. The dimensions of the PC are 395 × 280 × 355 mm, weight is approximately 13,3 kg. The “heart” of the new product is the Intel Core i7-9700K processor (ninth generation Core […]

Inexpensive Realme X smartphone offers pop-up camera, SD710 and 48MP sensor

Realme presented the inexpensive and functional smartphone Realme X, expected by many, which the company classifies as a flagship. This is by far the most powerful and advanced device to come out of the Oppo-owned brand, which is focusing on aggressive pricing to capture the Indian market. Of course, Realme X cannot be called a truly high-end phone, but it is still quite powerful thanks to its single-chip system […]

Volvo EV battery suppliers to be LG Chem and CATL

Volvo announced on Wednesday that it had signed long-term battery supply agreements with two Asian manufacturers: South Korea's LG Chem and China's Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL). Volvo, owned by Chinese auto giant Geely, produces electric cars under its own brand as well as under the Polestar brand. Its main competitors in the rapidly expanding electric vehicle market in […]

Realme X Lite 6,3″ Full HD+ Smartphone Debuts in Three Versions

The Realme brand, owned by the Chinese company OPPO, has announced the Realme X Lite (or Realme X Youth Edition) smartphone, which will be offered at a price of $175. The new product is based on the Realme 3 Pro model, which debuted last month. The Full HD+ format screen (2340 × 1080 pixels) measures 6,3 inches diagonally. In a small cutout at the top [...]

Video: OnePlus 7 Pro retractable camera lifts 22kg concrete block

Yesterday there was a presentation of the flagship smartphone OnePlus 7 Pro, which received a solid display, devoid of any notches or cutouts for the front camera. The usual solution has been replaced by a special block with a camera, which extends from the upper end of the body. To prove the strength of this design, the developers filmed a video showing a smartphone lifting a 49,2 lb (approximately 22,3 kg) block attached […]

OnePlus 7 Pro coming in 5G variant for EE in the UK and Elisa in Finland

As expected, OnePlus presented not just one smartphone, but a whole family represented by the “cheap flagship” OnePlus 7, the powerful OnePlus 7 Pro and the most advanced model OnePlus 7 Pro 5G. The company demonstrated a prototype of a smartphone with 2019G support at MWC 5, so such an announcement was expected. Unfortunately, this version of the device will be available (by [...]

Smartphones will help soldiers detect enemy shooters by the sound of gunshots

It's no secret that battlefields produce a lot of loud sounds. That's why soldiers these days often wear in-ear headphones that protect their hearing with smart noise-canceling technology. However, this system also does not help to determine where a potential enemy is firing at you, and doing this even without headphones and distracting sounds is not always so easy. […]

Google agrees to pay owners of defective Pixel phones up to $500

Google has offered to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by owners of Google Pixel smartphones in February 2018, which alleges that the company knowingly sold devices with faulty microphones. Google has agreed to pay up to $500 to some Pixel smartphone owners. According to preliminary calculations, the total amount of payments will be $7,25 million. Defective Pixel and Pixel XL models, […]

ObjectRepository - .NET in-memory repository pattern for your home projects

Why store all the data in memory? To store website or backend data, the first desire of most sane people will be to choose a SQL database. But sometimes the thought comes to mind that the data model is not suitable for SQL: for example, when building a search or social graph, you need to search for complex relationships between objects. The worst situation is when you work in a team […]

Shit happens. Yandex removed some of the virtual machines in its cloud

Shot from the film Avengers: Infinity War According to user dobrovolskiy on May 15, 2019, as a result of human error, Yandex deleted some of the virtual machines in its cloud. The user received a letter from Yandex technical support with the following text: Today we carried out technical work in Yandex.Cloud. Unfortunately, due to a human factor, user virtual machines in the ru-central1-c zone were deleted, […]

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications suspended the distribution of Tele2 eSIM cards

The Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Communications), according to the Vedomosti newspaper, asked the Tele2 operator to suspend the distribution of eSim cards, or embedded SIM (built-in SIM card). Let us recall that Tele2 was the first of the Big Four to introduce eSIM on its network. The launch of the system was announced only about two weeks ago - on April 29. "Solution […]