Author: ProHoster

FAS found Samsung subsidiary guilty of coordinating prices for gadgets in Russia

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia announced on Monday that it found Samsung's Russian subsidiary, Samsung Electronics Rus, guilty of coordinating prices for gadgets in Russia. The regulator’s message indicates that, through its Russian division, the South Korean manufacturer coordinated pricing for its devices in a number of enterprises, including VimpelCom PJSC, RTK JSC, Svyaznoy Logistics JSC, […]

Tablet from the Kremlin demon

The topic of satellite navigation radio interference has recently become so hot that the situation resembles a war. Indeed, if you yourself “get under fire” or read about people's problems, there is a feeling of helplessness before the elements of this “First Civil Radio-Electronic War”. She spares neither the elderly, nor women, nor children (just kidding, of course). But there was a light of hope - now somehow civilian […]

LG launches K12+ smartphone with Hi-Fi audio chip

LG Electronics has announced the X4 smartphone in Korea, which is a copy of the K12+ introduced a few weeks earlier. The only difference between the models is that the X4 (2019) has an advanced audio subsystem based on the Hi-Fi Quad DAC chip. The rest of the specifications of the novelty remained unchanged. They include an octa-core MediaTek Helio P22 (MT6762) processor with a maximum clock speed of 2 […]

ELSA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti ST is 266mm long

ELSA has announced the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti ST graphics accelerator for gaming desktops: sales of new items will begin before the end of April. The video card uses the Turing generation NVIDIA TU102 graphics chip. The configuration includes 4352 stream processors and 11 GB of GDDR6 memory with a 352-bit bus. The base core frequency is 1350 MHz, the boost frequency is 1545 MHz. The memory frequency is […]

New HyperX Predator DDR4 memory kits run at up to 4600 MHz

The HyperX brand, owned by Kingston Technology, has announced new sets of Predator DDR4 RAM designed for gaming desktop computers. Kits with a frequency of 4266 MHz and 4600 MHz are presented. The supply voltage is 1,4–1,5 V. The declared operating temperature range extends from 0 to plus 85 degrees Celsius. The kits include two modules with a capacity of 8 GB each. Thus, […]

Former Mozilla chief executive says Google has sabotaged Firefox for years

A former senior Mozilla executive accused Google of deliberately and systematically sabotaging Firefox over the past decade in order to speed up the transition to Chrome. This isn't the first time Google has been accused of this, but it's the first time that Google has been said to have a coordinated plan to introduce small bugs on its sites that will only show up to […]

CERN will help create the Russian collider "Super S-tau Fabrika"

Russia and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have entered into a new agreement on scientific and technical cooperation. The agreement, which became an expanded version of the 1993 agreement, provides for the participation of the Russian Federation in CERN experiments, and also defines the area of ​​​​interest of the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Russian projects. In particular, as reported, CERN specialists will help in creating the “Super S-tau Factory” collider (Novosibirsk) […]

GeForce GTX 1650 images from ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI and Zotac leak ahead of announcement

Tomorrow, NVIDIA should officially introduce the youngest video card of the Turing generation - the GeForce GTX 1650. As is the case with other GeForce GTX 16-series video cards, NVIDIA will not release the reference version of the new product, and only models from AIB partners will appear on the market. And they, according to VideoCardz, have prepared quite a few different versions of their own GeForce GTX […]

Control of solar electricity consumption by computer/server

Solar plant owners may be faced with the need to manage the power consumption of end devices, as reducing consumption can extend battery life in the evening and during cloudy weather, as well as avoid data loss in the event of a hard shutdown. Most modern computers allow you to adjust the frequency of the processor, which leads, on the one hand, to a decrease in performance, on the other hand, to […]

Six cameras and 5G support: what could be a smartphone Honor Magic 3

The Igeekphone.com resource has published renderings and estimated specifications of the powerful Huawei Honor Magic 3 smartphone, which is expected to be announced towards the end of this year. Earlier it was reported that the device can get a dual selfie camera in the form of a retractable periscope module. But now it is said that the novelty will be made in the “slider” format with a triple front camera. It will allegedly combine a sensor for 20 million […]

Samsung Display is developing a double-folding smartphone screen

Samsung Display is developing two new foldable display options for the South Korean manufacturer's smartphones, according to sources within Samsung's supplier network. One of them is 8 inches diagonal and folds in half. Note that according to previous rumors, the new Samsung foldable smartphone will have a display that folds outward. The second 13-inch display has a more traditional design […]

Huawei has created the industry's first 5G module for connected cars

Huawei has announced what it claims is the industry's first module to bring fifth-generation (5G) mobile connectivity to connected vehicles. The product received the designation MH5000. It is based on the advanced modem Huawei Balong 5000, which allows data transmission in cellular networks of all generations - 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G. In the range below 6 GHz, the chip […]