Author: ProHoster

Who is implementing IPv6 and what is hindering its development

Last time we talked about IPv4 depletion - who owns the small share of remaining addresses and why this happened. Today we are discussing an alternative - the IPv6 protocol and the reasons for its slow spread - some say that the high cost of migration is to blame, while others say that the technology is already outdated. / CC BY-SA / Frerk Meyer Who implements […]

NVIDIA boasted new DLSS methods in Control and technology prospects

NVIDIA DLSS, a machine learning-based full-screen anti-aliasing technology using the tensor cores of GeForce RTX graphics cards, has improved significantly over time. Initially, when using DLSS, there was often noticeable blurring of the image. However, in the new sci-fi action movie Control from Remedy Entertainment, you can certainly see the best implementation of DLSS to date. NVIDIA recently detailed how the DLSS algorithm was created […]

Dqlite 1.0 is available, Canonical's distributed version of SQLite

Canonical has published a major release of the Dqlite 1.0 (Distributed SQLite) project, which develops a SQLite-compatible embedded SQL engine that supports data replication, automatic failure recovery and fault tolerance by distributing handlers across multiple nodes. The DBMS is implemented in the form of a C library attached to applications and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license (the original SQLite is supplied as public domain). Bindings available for […]

Star Citizen's Squadron 42 single-player beta has been delayed by three months

Cloud Imperium Games has announced that Staggered Development will affect both Star Citizen and Squadron 42. However, due to the transition to this development model, the Squadron 42 beta start date has been delayed by 12 weeks. Staggered Development involves spreading multiple development teams between different release dates. This allows you to enter into such a rhythm when […]

11-minute gameplay footage of co-op arcade shooter Contra: Rogue Corps

During the June E3 2019 exhibition, Konami announced the release of the arcade action game Contra: Rogue Corps with a third-person view and support for cooperative play, scheduled for September 24. Now, IGN has shared an 11-minute gameplay video that also gives a glimpse of 4-player co-op on a shared screen. The director behind this project is […]

4MLinux 30.0 distribution release

The release of 4MLinux 30.0 is available, a minimalistic user distribution that is not a fork from other projects and uses a JWM-based graphical environment. 4MLinux can be used not only as a Live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user tasks, but also as a system for disaster recovery and a platform for running LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MariaDB and […]

The first level 60 player appeared in World of Warcraft Classic - 347 thousand people watched his progress

The launch of World of Warcraft Classic was a significant event and attracted many players. Although the start did not go entirely smoothly, people stood in queues for a long time on the servers, but among them the first user of level 60 had already appeared. The streamer under the nickname Jokerd managed to reach the maximum level. 347 thousand people watched his progress live. Congratulations to […]

Windows 10 can now be reinstalled from the cloud. But with reservations

It seems that the technology of restoring Windows 10 from physical media will soon be a thing of the past. In any case, there is hope for this. Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18970 introduces the ability to reinstall the OS over the Web from the cloud. This feature is called Reset this PC, and the description says that some users prefer to use a high-speed internet […]

Regional prices for all Total War games have increased on Steam - fans are outraged

Publisher SEGA, without prior announcements, has increased the regional price for Total War series strategies. The price increase affected the main projects of the franchise, the Saga line and all additions. Fans from Russia did not like this, and they began to bombard these games with negative reviews. For example, the price of two parts of Total War: Warhammer was 1999 rubles, and now it’s 2489. The same increase in price affected […]

Facebook will train AI in Minecraft

The Minecraft game is widely known and very popular in the world. Moreover, its popularity is facilitated by weak security, which allows the creation of unofficial servers. However, what is much more important is that the game provides almost unlimited possibilities for the formation of virtual worlds, creativity, and so on. And therefore, experts from Facebook intend to use the game to train artificial intelligence. At the moment, artificial intelligence [...]

EPUB support removed from classic Microsoft Edge

As we know, the new Chromium-based version of Microsoft Edge will not support the EPUB document format. But the company has disabled support for this format in Edge classic. Now, when trying to read a document of the appropriate format, the message “Download the .epub application to continue reading” is displayed. Therefore, the system will no longer support e-books that use the .epub file extension. The company offers to download [...]