Author: ProHoster

How does Data Science sell ads to you? Interview with a Unity engineer

A week ago, Nikita Aleksandrov, a Data Scientist, spoke on our social networks in Unity Ads, where he improves conversion algorithms. Nikita now lives in Finland, and among other things, he spoke about IT life in the country. We share with you the transcript and recording of the interview My name is Nikita Alexandrov, I grew up in Tatarstan and graduated from high school there, participated in Olympiads […]

Background Tasks on Faust, Part I: An Introduction

How did I get to this life? Not so long ago, I had to work on the backend of a highly loaded project, in which it was necessary to organize the regular execution of a large number of background tasks with complex calculations and requests for third-party services. The project is asynchronous and before I came in, it had a simple mechanism for cron-running tasks: a loop with checking the current […]

5G is a bad joke right now

Thinking about buying a new high-speed 5G phone? Do yourself a favor: don't do it. Who doesn't want fast internet and big bandwidth? Everybody wants. Ideally, everyone wants gigabit fiber optic cable to reach their home or office. Maybe someday it will. What's not going to happen is gigabit speeds per second […]

The Russian retailer apologized for the lack of GeForce RTX 3080 on sale and promised an improvement in the situation by November

The start of sales of the new GeForce RTX 3080 video cards, which took place on September 17, turned into a real torment for buyers around the world. In the official NVIDIA online store, the Founders Edition sold out in a matter of seconds. And to purchase non-standard options, some buyers had to stand in front of offline retail stores for several hours, as if looking for some new iPhone. But cards in any […]

First independent tests GeForce RTX 3090: only 10% faster than GeForce RTX 3080

This week, the first video cards of the Ampere family, the GeForce RTX 3080, went on sale, and at the same time their reviews came out. Next week, September 24, sales of the flagship GeForce RTX 3090 will start, and the results of its testing should appear then. But the Chinese resource TecLab decided not to wait for the deadlines indicated by NVIDIA, and presented a review of GeForce […]

Yandex will test an unmanned tram in Moscow

The Moscow City Hall and Yandex will jointly test the capital's unmanned tram. This is stated in the department’s Telegram channel. The plans were announced after the visit of the head of the capital’s transport department, Maxim Liksutov, to the company’s office. “We believe that unmanned urban transport is the future. We continue to support new technologies, and soon the Moscow Government, together with the Yandex company […]

Precursor platform for creating free mobile devices introduced

Andrew Huang, a well-known free hardware activist and winner of the 2012 EFF Pioneer Award, introduced Precursor, an open platform for creating concepts for new mobile devices. Similar to how the Raspberry Pi and Arduino allow you to create devices for the Internet of Things, Precursor aims to provide the ability to design and build various mobile […]

Seagate releases 18TB HDD

Seagate has launched a new model of the Exos X18 hard drive family. Enterprise-class HDD capacity - 18 TB. You can buy the disc for $561,75. In addition, the Exos Application Platform (AP) 2U12 and the new controller for AP 4U100 systems are introduced. Capacious storage and computing resources are combined in one platform. AP also offers built-in […]

Russian storage system on domestic Elbrus processors: everything you wanted, but were afraid to ask

BITBLAZE Sirius 8022LH Not so long ago, we published the news that a domestic company has developed a data storage system on Elbrus with a localization level of> 90%. We are talking about the Omsk company Promobit, which managed to achieve the inclusion of its Bitblaze Sirius 8000 series storage system in the Unified Register of Russian Radio-Electronic Products under the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The material caused a discussion in the comments. Readers were interested […]

A domestic company has developed a Russian storage system on Elbrus with a localization level of 97%

The Omsk company Promobit was able to achieve the inclusion of its storage system on Elbrus in the Unified Register of Russian Radio-Electronic Products under the Ministry of Industry and Trade. We are talking about the Bitblaze Sirius 8000 series storage system. The registry includes three models of this series. The main difference between models from each other is a set of hard drives. The company can now supply its storage system for municipal and state needs. […]

Deathloop turns out to be a temporary PlayStation 5 console exclusive

One of the most anticipated games for the PlayStation 5 turned out to be a temporary console exclusive. We are talking about the adventure shooter Deathloop from the creators of the Dishonored series, Arkane studio. This became known from the Bethesda Softworks blog. At the recent PlayStation 5 presentation, Bethesda Softworks and Arkane studio presented a new Deathloop trailer and told more about the game. About this you […]

Rumors: Marvel's Spider-Man PS4 Owners Won't Get Free PS5 Upgrade

Marvel Games Development Director Eric Monacelli, in a conversation with a concerned fan, commented on the situation surrounding the availability of the Marvel's Spider-Man remaster for PS5. Let us remind you that at the moment the only officially announced option for obtaining Marvel's Spider-Man: Remastered is as part of the complete edition of Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales worth 5499 rubles. Apparently, there are no exceptions to this rule: [...]