Author: ProHoster

Big bang sparks

This article was also translated into English and published on Medium. When summer comes to Chicago, the Lake Michigan shoreline turns into a postcard picture. Miles of volleyball nets, bike paths, baseball fields and sandy beaches. Snow-white clouds in the high sky. The blue of the lake, decorated with white lines of boats of all types and sizes, with colorful lights, cheerful music and happy […]

Firefox 67 released for all platforms: speed up work and protect against mining

Mozilla has officially released Firefox 67 browser update for Windows, Linux, Mac and Android. This build came out a week later than expected and received numerous performance improvements and new features. It is reported that Mozilla has made several internal changes, including freezing unused tabs, reducing the priority of the setTimeout function while loading web pages, and so on […]

Huawei founder: US underestimated the power of the company

The founder of the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, Ren Zhengfei (pictured below), said that the provision of a temporary license, allowing the US government to defer restrictions for 90 days, was not particularly significant for the company, since it was prepared for such an eventuality. “By its actions, the US government is currently underestimating our capabilities,” Ren said in an interview […]

ID-Cooling DK-03 RGB PWM: Low Profile Illuminated CPU Cooler

ID-Cooling has introduced the DK-03 RGB PWM processor cooling system, designed for use in computers with limited internal space. The new product includes a radial radiator and a fan with a diameter of 120 mm. The rotation speed of the latter is controlled by pulse width modulation (PWM) in the range from 800 to 1600 rpm. The air flow reaches 100 cubic meters per hour, [...]

Continuous Monitoring - automation of software quality checks in the CI / CD Pipeline

Now the topic of DevOps is on the hype. The pipeline of continuous integration and delivery of CI / CD is implemented by everyone and sundry. But most do not always pay due attention to ensuring the reliability of information systems at various stages of the CI / CD Pipeline. In this article, I would like to talk about my experience in automating software quality checks and implementing possible scenarios for its “self-healing”. Source […]

“I am inevitability itself”: how ecosystems appear and what to expect from them

“Standalone mobile apps will disappear in five years,” “We are facing a cold war between the ecosystems of tech giants”—when writing about ecosystems, it’s hard to choose just one from the many half-inspiring, half-threatening authoritative quotes. Today, almost all opinion leaders agree that ecosystems are the trend of the future, a new model of interaction with consumers, which is rapidly replacing the standard “business […]

I received a check from Knut for 0x$3,00

Donald Knuth is a computer scientist who cares so much about the accuracy of his books that he offers one hex dollar ($2,56, 0x$1,00) for any "error" found, where an error is anything that is "technically, historically, typographically" or politically incorrect." I really wanted to get a check from Knuth, so I decided to look for errors in his magnum opus, The Art of Programming (TAOCP). We managed to find [...]

World War Z trailer: 2 million copies sold and press hype

Publisher Focus Home Interactive and developers from Saber Interactive said that their cooperative action movie World War Z, based on the Paramount Pictures film of the same name (“World War Z” with Brad Pitt), sold almost 2 million copies worldwide in a month. to the world. On this occasion, a trailer is presented showing excerpts of gameplay and […]

ASRock has prepared the X570 Taichi motherboard for new AMD processors

Computex 2019 will begin next week, during which AMD will present Ryzen processors, and along with them, motherboards based on the new AMD X570 chipset will be announced. ASRock will also present its new products, in particular, the top-level X570 Taichi motherboard, the existence of which was confirmed by the latest leak. One of the users of the LinusTechTips forum discovered a photo […]

Photo of the day: an unusual look at the galaxy Messier 90

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) continues to publish stunning images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The next such image shows the object Messier 90. This is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo, located approximately 60 million light years away from us. The released photo clearly shows the structure of Messier […]

Release of Elisa 0.4 music player developed by the KDE community

The Elisa 0.4 music player, built on KDE technologies and distributed under the LGPLv3 license, has been published. The application developers are trying to implement the visual design guidelines for media players developed by the KDE VDG working group. When developing a project, the main focus is on ensuring stability, and only then increasing functionality. Binary assemblies will soon be prepared for Linux […]

Space adventure Outer Wilds will be released before the end of May

Publisher Annapurna Interactive has published a new trailer for the upcoming sci-fi adventure Outer Wilds. The project, which received the main prize at the IGF 2015 independent games festival, will be released on May 30. As the developers say, this is a detective adventure in an open world, in the universe of which “an unknown solar system is stuck in an endless time loop.” As a new recruit to the Outer Wilds Ventures space program, the player will explore […]