Author: ProHoster

3-minute gameplay trailer for Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem action RPG powered by CryEngine

The Wolcen studio has released a new trailer showing a cut of the actual gameplay of Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem with a total duration of three minutes. This action role-playing game is created on the CryEngine engine from Crytek and has been available on Steam Early Access since March 2016. At the last gaming exhibition gamescom 2019, the studio presented a new mode, Wrath of Sarisel. It will be very difficult [...]

Reviews on Gears 5 will be allowed to publish from September 4

The Metacritic portal has revealed the date the embargo on publishing reviews of Gears 5 will be lifted. According to the resource, journalists will be allowed to publish opinions about the shooter online on September 4 from 16:00 Moscow time. Therefore, everyone will be able to get acquainted with the opinion of publications about the game almost a week before the release. A day after the first reviews were published, Ultimate edition buyers and Xbox subscribers […]

The contract for maintaining the operation of the ISS-module "Zarya" has been extended

GKNPTs im. M.V. Khrunicheva and Boeing extended the contract to maintain the operation of the Zarya functional cargo block of the International Space Station (ISS). This was announced at the International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019. The Zarya module was launched on a Proton-K launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on November 20, 1998. It was this block that became the first module of the orbital complex. Initially calculated […]

Unmanned electric train "Lastochka" made a test trip

JSC Russian Railways (RZD) reports testing of the first Russian electric train equipped with a self-control system. We are talking about a specially modified version of the “Swallow”. The vehicle received equipment for train positioning, communication with the control center and detection of obstacles on the track. "Swallow" in unmanned mode can follow a schedule, and when an obstacle is detected on the way, it can automatically brake. Test ride […]

Over 3 million Honor 9X smartphones sold in less than a month

At the end of last month, two new mid-range smartphones Honor 9X and Honor 9X Pro appeared on the Chinese market. Now, the manufacturer has announced that in just 29 days since the start of sales, more than 3 million smartphones of the Honor 9X series have been sold. Both devices have a front camera installed in a movable module that […]

LG HU70L projector: 4K/UHD and HDR10 support

On the eve of IFA 2019, LG Electronics (LG) announced the HU70L projector on the European market, intended for use in home theater systems. The new product allows you to create an image measuring from 60 to 140 inches diagonally. The 4K/UHD format is supported: the picture resolution is 3840 × 2160 pixels. The device claims to support HDR10. Brightness reaches 1500 ANSI lumens, contrast ratio is 150:000. […]

OPPO Reno 2: a smartphone with a pop-up front camera Shark Fin

The Chinese company OPPO, as promised, announced a productive smartphone Reno 2, running the ColorOS 6.0 operating system based on Android 9.0 (Pie). The novelty received a frameless Full HD + display (2400 × 1080 pixels) measuring 6,55 inches diagonally. This screen has no notch or hole. The front camera based on a 16-megapixel sensor is made in the form of […]

China may become the first country in the world to regularly transport passengers by unmanned drones

As we know, several young companies and veterans of the aviation industry are intensively working on unmanned drones for passenger transportation of people. It is expected that such services will be in wide demand in cities with congested ground traffic flows. Among the newcomers, the Chinese company Ehang stands out, the development of which could form the basis of the world's first unmanned scheduled passenger routes on drones. Chapter […]

New generation billing architecture: transformation with the transition to Tarantool

Why does a corporation like MegaFon need Tarantool in billing? From the outside it seems that the vendor usually comes, brings some kind of large box, plugs the plug into the socket - and that’s billing! This was once the case, but now it is archaic, and such dinosaurs have already become extinct or are becoming extinct. Initially, billing is a system for issuing invoices - a counting machine or calculator. In modern telecom, it is a system for automating the entire life cycle of interaction with a subscriber […]

Unit tests in a DBMS - how we do it in Sportmaster, part two

The first part is here. Imagine the situation. You are faced with the task of developing new functionality. You have developments from your predecessors. If we assume that you have no moral obligations, what would you do? Most often, all the old developments are forgotten and everything starts all over again. Nobody likes to dig into someone else’s code, and if there is [...]

Tarantool Cartridge: Lua backend sharding in three lines

At Mail.ru Group we have Tarantool - this is an application server in Lua, which also doubles as a database (or vice versa?). It's fast and cool, but the capabilities of one server are still not unlimited. Vertical scaling is also not a panacea, so Tarantool has tools for horizontal scaling - the vshard module [1]. It allows you to shard […]