Author: ProHoster

Biostar A68N-5600E board equipped with AMD A4 hybrid processor

Biostar has announced the A68N-5600E motherboard, designed to become the basis of a compact and relatively inexpensive computer on the AMD hardware platform. The new product corresponds to the Mini ITX format: dimensions are 170 × 170 mm. The AMD A76M logic set is used, and the equipment initially includes an AMD A4-3350B hybrid processor with four computing cores (2,0–2,4 GHz) and integrated AMD Radeon R4 graphics. There are two slots […]

By the power of thought: the release of the Russian communication system "NeuroChat" has begun

Serial production of the Russian communication device “NeuroChat” has begun. According to the online publication RIA Novosti, Natalya Galkina, general director and leader of the project, spoke about this. NeuroChat is a special wireless headset with electrodes that allows you to communicate literally with the power of thought. The device is mounted on the head, allowing you to type on a computer screen without using speech or movement. To do this, the user […]

NVIDIA officially unveiled GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card for $149

The NVIDIA GTX 1650 is the first Turing-based graphics card to cost under $200. It is the successor to the GTX 1050 with a 12nm TU117 GPU and 896 CUDA cores, 4GB of GDDR5 memory and a 128-bit bus. NVIDIA does not plan to release a Founders Edition for the GTX 1650, leaving the implementation of the final design of the video card entirely to its partners. The specification does not [...]

Video: the premiere trailer for the card RPG SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech

Image & Form Games has published the premiere trailer for SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech. SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech is Image & Form Games' first RPG. In it you will take part in card battles with a squad of heroes in a colorful, hand-drawn world. In total, the game has more than a hundred unique cards that can be created and improved. “Open […]

Impressive port of Super Mario Bros. for Commodore 64 removed from the Network at the request of Nintendo

In recent years, Nintendo has closed not only several large sites with images of games for its old consoles, but also dozens of fan projects. And she's not going to stop: she recently tried to remove a unique version of Super Mario Bros. for the Commodore 64, which programmer ZeroPaige worked on for seven years. He received a letter demanding that the game be removed from public access. Port […]

Kingdom Hearts III Challenges Players With New Critical Mode Difficulty

Square Enix has released a free update for Kingdom Hearts III that adds a Critical Mode difficulty mode. In Critical Mode, the main character, Sora, has his health and mana reduced by half, and the frequency of situational commands and magic that the protagonist and his team can use has also been reduced. The update also brought new abilities including Critical Counter, Critical Recharge and […]

DUMP conference | grep 'backend|devops'

Last week I went to the DUMP IT conference (https://dump-ekb.ru/) in Yekaterinburg and I want to tell you what was discussed in the Backend and Devops sections, and whether regional IT conferences are worth attention. Nikolai Sverchkov from Evil Martians about Serverless What was there anyway? In total, the conference had 8 sections: Backend, Frontend, Mobile, Testing and QA, Devops, […]

The Windows 10 May 2019 Update will not install when ... USB drives and memory cards are connected to the PC

Techpom from Microsoft warns that there may be problems installing the big May update - Windows 10 May 2019 Update. Reason: blocking the ability to update the system on devices with an external hard drive or flash drive connected (via the USB connector), as well as with an inserted memory card in the card reader, if there is one on the PC laptop. If an update is launched on a computer with external media connected, […]

Rambus production activity continues to generate losses

Three and a half years ago, “the most legal company in Silicon Valley,” as Rambus is known behind the scenes, decided to work on a new image. Around that time, the company changed its director, who promised to turn Rambus into a factoryless developer of various interesting solutions. The company's first products were buffers for registered and regular DDR4 memory for server use. The company does not disclose details, but only […]

In the footsteps of the hackathon in Nizhny Novgorod

Hello! At the end of March, together with our partners from the AI ​​Community, we held a hackathon in Nizhny Novgorod dedicated to data analysis. Front-enders and back-enders, data scientists, engineers and architects, product owners and Scrum masters could try their hand at solving real production problems - it was from representatives of these specialties that the teams vying for victory were formed. It's time to take stock […]

Vulnerability in Qualcomm chips that allows extracting private keys from TrustZone storage

Researchers from NCC Group have disclosed details of a vulnerability (CVE-2018-11976) in Qualcomm chips that allows them to determine the contents of private encryption keys located in an isolated Qualcomm QSEE (Qualcomm Secure Execution Environment) enclave based on ARM TrustZone technology. The problem manifests itself in most Snapdragon SoCs that have become widespread in smartphones based on the Android platform. Fixes to resolve the issue are already included in the April update […]