Author: ProHoster

Players will be able to ride alien creatures in the No Man's Sky Beyond expansion

Hello Games studio has released a release trailer for the Beyond add-on to No Man's Sky. In it, the authors demonstrated new capabilities. In the update, users will be able to ride alien beasts to get around. The video showed rides on giant crabs and unknown creatures resembling dinosaurs. In addition, the developers have improved the multiplayer, in which players will meet other users, and added support […]

Taxi prices in Russia may rise by 20% due to Yandex

The Russian company Yandex is seeking to monopolize its share of the market for online taxi ordering services. The last major transaction in the direction of consolidation was the purchase of the Vezet company. The head of rival operator Gett, Maxim Zhavoronkov, believes that such aspirations could lead to an increase in the price of taxi services by 20%. This point of view was expressed by the CEO of Gett at the International Eurasian Forum “Taxi”. Zhavoronkov notes that […]

In a year, WhatsApp has not fixed two vulnerabilities out of three.

WhatsApp messenger is used by about 1,5 billion users around the world. Therefore, the fact that attackers can use the platform to manipulate or falsify chat messages is quite alarming. The problem was discovered by the Israeli company Checkpoint Research, speaking about it at the Black Hat 2019 security conference in Las Vegas. As it turns out, the flaw allows you to control the quoting function by changing words, [...]

Apple Offers Up to $1M Rewards for Finding Vulnerabilities in iPhone

Apple is offering cybersecurity researchers up to $1 million to identify vulnerabilities in iPhones. The amount of promised security remuneration is a record for the company. Unlike other technology companies, Apple previously rewarded only hired employees who searched for vulnerabilities in iPhones and cloud backups. As part of the annual security conference […]

DRAMeXchange: contract prices for NAND memory will continue to decline in QXNUMX

July has ended - the first month of the third quarter of 2019 - and analysts from the DRAMeXchange division of the TrendForce trading platform are in a hurry to share observations and forecasts about the price movement of NAND memory in the near future. This time it turned out to be difficult to make a forecast. In June, there was an emergency production shutdown at the Toshiba plant (shared with Western Digital), and the company […]

Twitch Starts Beta Testing of Live Streaming App

Currently, most game streamers use Twitch (perhaps this will start to change with Ninja moving to Mixer). However, many people use third-party applications like OBS Studio or XSplit to set up broadcasts. Such applications help streamers change the stream and broadcast interface. However, today Twitch announced the start of beta testing of its own broadcast app: Twitch […]

Getting promoted: Will Lisa Su be able to leave AMD for a position at IBM?

This morning there were no signs of trouble. AMD announced in a laconic press release that after many years of absence, Rick Bergman, who saw the “best times” of the AMD graphics division immediately after purchasing the assets of ATI Technologies, is returning to the ranks of management. As a reminder, Bergman's responsibilities as AMD's executive vice president of Computing and Graphics will include overall management of the […]

On the Meteor-M satellite No. 2, the operability of one of the key systems was restored

The functionality of the Russian Earth remote sensing satellite “Meteor-M” No. 2 has been restored. This was reported by the online publication RIA Novosti, citing information received from Roscosmos. At the end of July, we reported that some of the instruments on the Meteor-M apparatus No. 2 failed. Thus, the module for temperature and humidity sensing of the atmosphere (microwave radiometer) failed. In addition, the radar stopped working […]

Seamless MongoDB to Kubernetes Migration

This article continues our recent material about RabbitMQ migration and is dedicated to MongoDB. Since we maintain many Kubernetes and MongoDB clusters, we came to the natural need to migrate data from one installation to another and do it without downtime. The main scenarios are the same: moving MongoDB from a virtual/hardware server to Kubernetes or moving MongoDB within the same Kubernetes cluster […]

Canon designs wireless charging system for cameras

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Canon a patent for an interesting development in the field of digital photographic equipment. The document talks about a wireless charging system for cameras. To do this, it is proposed to use a special platform with built-in components for transmitting energy wirelessly. It is noted that an NFC module will be integrated into the site. It will allow you to automatically identify the installed [...]