Author: ProHoster

GeForce GTX 1650 received a previous generation video encoder

After yesterday's release of the GeForce GTX 1650 video card, it turned out that its Turing TU117 graphics processor differs from its older “brothers” of the Turing generation not only in the smaller number of CUDA cores, but also in a different NVENC hardware video encoder. As NVIDIA itself notes, the graphics processor of the GeForce GTX 1650 video card has all the advantages of the Turing architecture. This means that the user will receive […]

SoftBank to Invest $125M in Alphabet Subsidiary to Launch Cellular Antennas into the Sky

HAPSMobile, which is backed by the SoftBank conglomerate and is exploring ways to provide remote regions with high-speed Internet by placing network equipment at high altitudes, announced its intention to invest $125 million in Loon, an Alphabet subsidiary working on solving the same problem. The only difference between the companies is that Loon strives to deploy Internet coverage to remote and hard-to-reach areas […]

Google Easter Egg Makes Everyone Feel Like Thanos

Without a doubt, the number one premiere for the whole world today is the release of the film “Avengers: Endgame”. Google also decided not to miss such an event: the company dedicated another doodle to it - a bell-shaped “Easter egg” on the search page. If you enter the queries “Thanos”, “Infinity Gauntlet” and so on in the Google search bar in Russian, English and, obviously, […]

The Yandex.Taxi service introduced a device for monitoring the attention and condition of drivers

Developers from Yandex.Taxi have created a special system that allows you to control the attention of drivers. In the future, the presented technology will be used to turn off drivers who are tired or distracted from the road. The mentioned system was presented by the operating director of Yandex.Taxi Daniil Shuleiko at the conference in Skolkovo, which took place on April 24. The use of new technology implies the need to install a special device in the car […]

In Russia, the large-format gaming monitor HP OMEN X Emperium 65 went on sale at a price of 300 thousand rubles

HP has announced the start of sales in Russia of the OMEN X Emperium 65 monitor, which is a 65-inch BFGD (Big Format Gaming Display) panel optimized specifically for games with a 4-inch diagonal and 144K HDR resolution. The device screen is surrounded by ultra-thin frames. The monitor received support for NVIDIA G-SYNC HDR technology, a maximum screen refresh rate of 1000 Hz (peak brightness - 2 cd/mXNUMX) […]

The growth in the average selling price of AMD processors should stop

A lot of research has been devoted to the impact of Ryzen processors on AMD’s financial performance and its market share. In the German market, for example, AMD processors after the release of models with the first generation Zen architecture were able to occupy at least 50–60% of the market, if we are guided by statistics from the popular online store Mindfactory.de. This fact was once even mentioned in AMD’s official presentation, and […]

All Intel Inside: New Aorus 15 Gaming Laptop Gets Coffee Lake-H Refresh Chip

The new Aorus 15 laptop (brand owned by GIGABYTE) debuted with a 15,6-inch Full HD (1920 × 1080 pixels) display. Depending on the modification, a screen with a refresh rate of 240 Hz or 144 Hz is used. For the graphics subsystem, you can choose from NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 (8 GB), GeForce RTX 2060 (6 GB) and GeForce GTX discrete accelerators […]

New article: ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XI GENE review: Micro-ATX hard boiled

Our site is one of the few online resources in the Russian-speaking segment that still pays due attention to motherboards and tests modern devices from all manufacturers present on our market. However, when we go to the Motherboards section of 3DNews, we see that the last review of a mATX form factor motherboard that can be used to build a truly powerful gaming PC was […]

XMage 1.4.35 Release - Alternatives to Magic The Gathering Online

The next release of XMage 1.4.35 has taken place - a free client and server for playing Magic: The Gathering both online and against a computer (AI). MTG is the world's first fantasy collectible card game, the ancestor of all modern CCGs like Hearthstone and Eternal. XMage is a multi-platform client-server application written in Java using […]

The NetBeans project became a Top-Level project in the Apache Foundation

After three releases in the Apache Incubator, the Netbeans project became a Top-Level project in the Apache Software Foundation. In 2016, Oracle transferred the NetBeans project under the wing of ASF. According to the accepted procedure, all projects transferred to Apache first go to the Apache Incubator. During the time spent in the incubator, projects are brought into compliance with ASF standards. A license check is also carried out [...]

GeForce and Ryzen: the debut of new laptops ASUS TUF Gaming

ASUS presented gaming laptops FX505 and FX705 under the TUF Gaming brand, in which an AMD processor is adjacent to an NVIDIA video card. The TUF Gaming FX505DD/DT/DU and TUF Gaming FX705DD/DT/DU laptops debuted with screen sizes of 15,6 and 17,3 inches diagonally, respectively. In the first case, the refresh rate is 120 Hz or 60 Hz, in the second – 60 […]

Made in Russia: ERA-GLONASS terminal in a new design

The Ruselectronics holding, part of the Rostec state corporation, for the first time presented the ERA-GLONASS terminal in a new version. Let us recall that the main task of the ERA-GLONASS system is to promptly inform emergency services about accidents and other incidents on highways in the Russian Federation. To do this, a special module is installed in cars for the Russian market, which in the event of an accident automatically detects and […]