Author: ProHoster

MGTS will allocate several billion rubles to develop a platform for controlling drone flights over cities

The Moscow operator MGTS, which is 94,7% owned by MTS, intends to finance the development of a platform for unmanned traffic management (UTM) for organizing drone flights, taking into account existing legislation and regulatory regulations. Already at the first stage, the operator is ready to allocate “several billion rubles” to the implementation of the project. The system being created will include a radar detection and tracking network […]

Curved 4K monitor Samsung UR59C came out in Russia at a price of 34 rubles

Samsung Electronics has announced the start of Russian sales of the curved monitor UR59C, the first information about which appeared at the beginning of this year during the CES 2019 electronics exhibition. The device is made on a VA matrix measuring 31,5 inches diagonally. The 1500R curvature means that the lens of the eye will not change its curvature when moving the gaze from the center to the periphery of the screen, […]

Team Group Vulcan SSD: 2,5" drives up to 1TB

Team Group has released Vulcan SSDs, designed for use in desktop and laptop computers. The new items are made in a 2,5-inch form factor. They are suitable for upgrading systems equipped with traditional hard drives. The Serial ATA 3.0 interface is used for connection. The drives are based on 3D NAND flash memory. Support for TRIM commands and SMART monitoring tools has been implemented. Dimensions are 100 × 69,9 × 7 […]

Team Group T-Force T4 and Vulcan Z DDR1 Memory Designed for Gaming PCs

Team Group has announced T-Force T1 and Vulcan Z DDR4 RAM modules and kits for desktop computers. T-Force T1 products are designed for entry-level gaming systems. The family includes modules with capacities of 4 GB and 8 GB, as well as kits with a total capacity of 8 GB (2 × 4 GB) and 16 GB (2 × 8 GB). T-Force T1 memory […]

Expert Comments on Intel's 10nm Latency: All Is Not Lost

Yesterday's publication based on Dell's presentation revealing Intel's processor plans attracted public attention. What has long been talked about at the level of rumors has been confirmed at least in some official documents. However, we will probably hear comments from Intel representatives regarding the pace of development of 10nm technology tomorrow at the quarterly reporting conference, but they are unlikely to be much different from […]

ASRock A320TM-ITX Rare Thin Mini-ITX Motherboard for AMD Processors

ASRock has introduced a very unusual motherboard called A320TM-ITX, which is made in the not very common Thin Mini-ITX form factor. The uniqueness of the new product lies in the fact that previously there were simply no such motherboards for AMD processors in the Socket AM4 version. Thin Mini-ITX motherboards are distinguished not only by their small length and width (170 × 170 mm), […]

Photo tour: what is being done in the laboratory of quantum materials at ITMO University

Previously, we showed our fab lab and laboratory of cyber-physical systems. Today you can look at the optical laboratory of the Faculty of Physics and Technology at ITMO University. Photo: XNUMXD nanolithograph The Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Materials belongs to the Research Center for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials (MetaLab) at the Faculty of Physics and Technology. Its employees are studying the properties of quasiparticles: plasmons, excitons and polaritons. These studies will make it possible to create […]

The screen of the OPPO A9 smartphone occupies more than 90% of the front surface area

The Chinese company OPPO has officially unveiled the A9 mid-range smartphone, preliminary information about which leaked to the Internet a few days ago. Contrary to expectations, the novelty did not receive a 48-megapixel camera. Instead, the dual main module combines 16M and 2M pixel sensors. The front 16-megapixel camera is located in a small cutout in the screen. The display measures 6,53 inches diagonally […]

Microsoft joins $1 trillion club

Microsoft has joined an elite club whose only membership requirement is a market capitalization of $1 trillion or more, and in doing so, the company has earned the title of the most valuable private company in the US and the world. The software giant broke through the barrier recently as its shares jumped more than 4% on expected earnings and profits. In third […]

Google is preparing its OS for feature phones. And it's not Android

There have long been rumors that Google is working on an operating system for feature phones. In March of this year, references to a special mode that allows you to control the OS using buttons were found in the Ghromium Gerrit repository, and now new information has appeared. The Gizchina resource published a screenshot of the main page of the Chrome browser, which was adapted for push-button phones. This […]

Tesla quarterly report: Model Y promises to surpass all brand electric vehicles in popularity

The day before yesterday, Tesla regaled investors with stories about a bright future, but the latter probably understood deep down that the next quarterly report would again bring losses. Last year, when Tesla broke even for the first time, Elon Musk categorically promised that from now on the company would operate without losses on an ongoing basis. But Tesla wouldn't be itself if […]

It has become possible to make free calls from payphones to any city in Russia

In January 2019, Rostelecom abolished fees for calls from street payphones within one constituent entity of the Russian Federation. This was the second step to increase the availability of communication services: the first was taken a year earlier, when local calls became free. And now the third stage of the program has been announced, within the framework of which, starting from June, PJSC Rostelecom will make […]