Author: ProHoster

New Hackathon at Tinkoff.ru

Hello! My name is Andrew. At Tinkoff.ru I am responsible for decision-making and business process management systems. I decided to radically reconsider the stack of systems and technologies in my project; I really needed fresh ideas. And so, not so long ago we held an internal hackathon at Tinkoff.ru on the topic of decision making. HR took over the entire organizational part, and […]

LaCie Rugged RAID Shuttle: Portable Drive with RAID 0/1 Support

LaCie, a premium brand of Seagate Technology, has announced a new portable storage device - the Rugged RAID Shuttle, made in a rugged housing. The new product uses two 2,5-inch hard drives with a total capacity of 8 TB. It is possible to organize RAID 0 and RAID 1 arrays, depending on the user’s needs. The drive is made in accordance with the IP54 standard, which means protection […]

LaCie 2big RAID desktop storage holds up to 16TB of data

LaCie, a division of Seagate Technology, has introduced 2big RAID external storage, which will be available for order in the very near future. The new product includes two enterprise-class IronWolf Pro hard drives, which ensures increased reliability. The drives can be configured as RAID 0, RAID 1 or JBOD. To connect to a computer, use the USB 3.1 interface […]

ZTE is thinking about a truly bezel-less smartphone

The LetsGoDigital resource reports that ZTE is designing an interesting smartphone, the screen of which is completely devoid of frames and cutouts, and the design does not provide connectors. Information about the new product appeared in the database of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The patent application was filed last year and the document was published this month. How […]

The new Microsoft Edge is now available on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1

Microsoft previously introduced the updated Chromium-based Edge browser as a preview version for Windows 10. The new product is available in Developer and Canary versions. In the coming months, the developers promised to release more versions, including for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. That said, while preview builds are only available for Windows 10, they can be installed […]

Space battles in the debut gameplay trailer for Starpoint Gemini 3

Developers from the Little Green Men Games studio presented the first gameplay trailer for the space role-playing game Starpoint Gemini 3. The video is very short (lasts less than one and a half minutes), but during this time we will be shown several locations, the main character’s fighter, space stations, various starships, as well as the battle with many enemy ships. It will be possible to destroy enemies both from a third person and [...]

SIP from Megafon at home tariff

Many modern smartphones have a problem: a combined SIM2 slot with a memory card slot. That is, either a SIM card or a flash drive... My main number is on TELE2. But there is also a Megafon number linked to all sorts of services such as bank clients. I planned to transfer these services to a Tele2 number and throw out Megafon. But Megafon did […]

Destiny 2 Spring Event will drop unique exotic weapons

From April 16 to May 7, Destiny 2 will host another seasonal event called The Revelry. All owners of the shooter will be able to take part in it; you do not need to buy the Forsaken add-on for this. Players will have access to the Verdant Forest location, which is reminiscent of the Enchanted Forest that opened during Festival of the Lost last year. However, since then […]

Red Dead Online Update Released With New PvP Mode

Rockstar Games continues to fill the Red Dead Online beta with content. A recent update added the “Robbery” mode to the game, designed for confrontation between two teams. It also affected cosmetic items and added several new clothing designs and horse varieties. In the above mode, users are divided into two groups and appear in a specially prepared location. Approximately in the center of the territory lie […]

Anatomy of the "Space Data Center". Sky-high server: look under the hood

Tomorrow we will send our server into the stratosphere. During the flight, the stratospheric balloon will distribute the Internet, shoot and transmit video and telemetry data to the ground. We wrote several times that we would talk about the technical side of our project “Space Data Center” (previously it was called “Server in the Clouds 2.0”). We promised - we deliver! Under the cut there is a handful of pieces of hardware and code. Web server […]

Hi SaaS | Russian SaaS 2018 - results

Traditional post about what happened in Russian SaaS over the past year - numbers, events, newcomers. Analytics from J'son & Partners Consulting presents the main results of a study of the Russian SaaS application market for 2014-17 with a perspective until 2022. We were surprised by the penetration level of only 3%, with an average annual market growth of 30% in users. 36% of SaaS users from […]

Yandex presented the first Ilya Segalovich Prizes to young scientists and supervisors

Yesterday, April 10, at the Moscow office of Yandex, the first laureates of the Ilya Segalovich Prize, created this year to support young researchers and the scientific community of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, were awarded. In the three months since the launch of the award, 262 applications have been received from young specialists and scientific supervisors, who could be nominated by their students and graduate students. The Prize Council chose [...]