Author: ProHoster

Soviet ships appeared in World of Warships, which exist only on blueprints

Wargaming has announced that update 0.8.3 will be released in World of Warships today. It will provide early access to the Soviet battleship branch. Starting today, players can take part in the daily Victory competition. By accepting one of the sides (“Honor” or “Glory”), when defeating the enemy, users receive allowance tokens that can be exchanged for the Soviet premium cruiser VII […]

Photo of the day: star agglomeration

The Hubble Space Telescope, celebrating the 24th anniversary of its launch on April 29, sent back to Earth another beautiful image of the vastness of the Universe. This image shows the globular cluster Messier 75, or M 75. This stellar agglomeration is located in the constellation Sagittarius at a distance of approximately 67 light years from us. Globular clusters contain a large number of stars. Such […]

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, […]

Urban robot battles in Battletech: Urban Warfare will begin on June 4

Publisher Paradox Interactive and developers Harebrained Schemes have revealed the details of the Urban Warfare add-on to Battletech turn-based tactics, and also announced the release date. The DLC will go on sale on June 4th, and you can pre-order it now on the Steam and GOG digital stores. On both sites, the price is 435 rubles. You can buy the add-on […]

Volkswagen bets on blockchain to track supply of lead for batteries

German automaker Volkswagen is launching a blockchain-based pilot project to track the movement of lead from mining to production lines in the battery supply chain. Announcing the launch of the pilot project, Marco Philippi, purchasing strategy at the Volkswagen Group, said: “Digitalization provides important technological tools that allow us to track the path of minerals and raw materials in even greater detail […]

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 […]

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 […]