Author: ProHoster

The Moscow Metro will begin testing fares with facial recognition technology

Online sources report that the Moscow Metro will begin testing a fare payment system using facial recognition technology by the end of 2019. The project is being implemented jointly with Visionlabs and other developers. The message also states that Visionlabs is just one of several participants in the project, which will test a new payment system […]

Faraday Future raises funds for its FF91 electric car

Chinese electric vehicle developer Faraday Future announced Monday it is ready to move forward with plans to release its premium electric car, the FF91. The past two years have not been easy for Faraday Future, which has struggled to survive. However, the latest round of investment, coupled with a major restructuring, has allowed the company to announce that it has resumed work on getting the FF91 into production. Who is […]

Driver support for legacy AMD and Intel GPUs is better on Linux than on Windows

With the major release of the 3D modeling system Blender 2.80, expected in July, the developers expected to work with GPUs released in the last 10 years and having working OpenGL 3.3 drivers. But during the preparation of the new release, it turned out that many OpenGL drivers for older GPUs had critical errors that did not allow them to provide high-quality support for all planned equipment. It is noted […]

Windows 10 May 2019 Update will keep pre-installed apps

Microsoft will continue to pre-install a standard package of applications and, in particular, games. This applies, at a minimum, to the future build of Windows 10 May 2019 Update (1903). Previously, there were rumors that the corporation would abandon presets, but it seems that not this time. It is reported that Candy Crush Friends Saga, Microsoft Solitaire Collection, Candy Crush Saga, March of Empires, Gardenscapes […]

Unisoc Tiger T310 Chip Designed for Budget 4G Smartphones

Unisoc (formerly Spreadtrum) introduced a new processor for mobile devices: the product was designated Tiger T310. It is known that the chip includes four computing cores in the dynamIQ configuration. This is one high-performance ARM Cortex-A75 core clocked at up to 2,0 GHz and three energy-efficient ARM Cortex-A53 cores clocked at up to 1,8 GHz. Graphics node configuration […]

Facebook has announced a major update to Messenger: speed and protection

Facebook developers have announced a major update to Facebook Messenger, which is said to make the program faster and more convenient. As stated, the current 2019 will be a period of dramatic changes for the program. The company said the new version will focus on data privacy. It is noted that if a social network were created today, they would start with a messaging system. […]

Study: which fitness trackers are deceiving their owners

Ahead of the famous London Marathon, held annually since 1981, Which? published a list of fitness trackers that least accurately determine the distance traveled. The leader in the anti-rating was Garmin Vivosmart 4, whose error was 41,5%. The Garmin Vivosmart 4 was caught significantly underestimating a runner's performance. While he had actually traveled 37 miles, the gadget showed […]

Samsung quarterly results: sharp drop in profits and good sales of the Galaxy S10

The Galaxy S10 is selling well, but demand for last year's flagships has decreased more than before due to the popularity of the new mid-range Galaxy smartphones. The main problems are caused by a drop in demand for memory. Conclusions from the financial results of other divisions. The Galaxy Fold's release date will be announced in a few weeks, likely in the second half of the year. Some predictions for the future Previously, Samsung […]

Beeline will double the speed of mobile Internet access

VimpelCom (Beeline brand) announced the start of testing in Russia LTE TDD technology, the use of which will double the data transfer speed in fourth generation (4G) networks. It is reported that LTE TDD (Time Division Duplex) technology, which provides for time division of channels, has been launched in the 2600 MHz frequency band. The system combines the spectrum previously allocated separately for reception and […]

GitLab Shell Runner. Competitively launch testable services with Docker Compose

This article will be of interest to both testers and developers, but is intended more for automators who are faced with the problem of setting up GitLab CI / CD for integration testing in the face of insufficient infrastructure resources and / or the absence of a container orchestration platform. I'll show you how to deploy test environments using docker compose on a single GitLab shell runner and […]

The number of registered accounts on Steam has reached a billion

Quietly and unnoticed by the community of players, the billionth account was registered on Steam. Steam ID Finder shows that the account was created on April 28, receiving a Steam ID with a lot of zeros, but without any fanfare or fireworks. Valve did not react to this event in any way, perhaps because this number does not mean as much to the company as the number of daily […]

The most terrible poisons

Hi %username% Yes, I know the title is hackneyed and there are over 9000 links on google that describe scary poisons and tell horror stories. But I don't want to list the same. I do not want to measure LD50 doses and claim originality. I want to write about the poisons that you, %username%, are at great risk of encountering every […]