Author: ProHoster

CRM systems don't exist?

Hey Habr! On April 22 this year, I wrote an article on Habr about discounts on CRM systems. Then it seemed to me that the price is the most important selection criterion, and I can easily solve everything else with my brains and experience as a system administrator. The boss expected imminent miracles from me, the employees sat down to do nothing to work from home, covid went around the planet, I chose the […]

Cross swords with Darth Vader: action movie Vader Immortal released on PS VR and received a fresh trailer

Lucasfilm-owned ILMxLAB announced back in May that last year's exclusive for Facebook Oculus VR headsets, the action movie Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series, would be released in the summer on PlayStation VR. This promise was kept, albeit at the very end of the summer: the game became available on the Sony platform and sells for $29,99. At the same time, a rich video was presented. Each of […]

The Oculus Connect VR event has been renamed to Facebook Connect. It will be held on September 16 in an online format.

Facebook's annual Oculus Connect conference, dedicated to new developments in virtual and augmented reality, is scheduled for September 16. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the event will be held online. Interestingly, the company decided to rename the event. From now on it will be called Facebook Connect. “Connect has become more than just an event about new Oculus technologies. You can expect the latest news about [...]

Scientists from Harvard and Sony have created an accurate surgical robot the size of a tennis ball

Researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Sony have created a mini-RCM surgical robot that is much smaller than similar devices. When creating it, scientists were inspired by origami (the Japanese art of folding paper figures). The robot is about the size of a tennis ball and weighs about the same as a penny. Wyss Associate Professor Robert Wood and Engineer […]

Chrome Release 85

Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome 85 web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which serves as the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser is distinguished by the use of Google logos, the presence of a system for sending notifications in case of a crash, the ability to download a Flash module on request, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), a system for automatically installing updates, and transmitting RLZ parameters when searching. The next release of Chrome 86 […]

Fedora 33 Test Week - Btrfs

The Fedora project has announced a “Test Week”. The event will last from August 31 to September 07, 2020. As part of Test Week, everyone is invited to test the next release of Fedora 33 and send the results to the distribution developers. To test, you need to install the system and perform several standard operations. Then you need to report the results using a special form. According to wiki […]

TeX studio 3.0.0

After eight months of development, a new version 3.0.0 of the advanced editor for LaTeX documents, TeXstudio, has become available. Among the innovations, the following can be noted: document parsing has been accelerated, which should reduce the time for opening them; spell checking is now performed asynchronously; custom syntax highlighting for mathematical and verbatim environments was abandoned in favor of a cwl-based approach; improved support for dark mode; […]

[Selection] 6 no-code tools to quickly launch products and automate processes

Image: Designmodo Until a few years ago, starting any online business was associated with a number of difficulties. It was necessary to find developers to launch the site - if even a step away from the functionality of conventional constructors was required. In the case when it was also required to create a mobile application or a chat bot, things got even worse, and the budget just to […]

Own hardware or cloud: we consider TCO

More recently, Cloud4Y hosted a webinar on TCO, that is, total ownership of equipment. We received a lot of questions on this topic, and this shows the desire of the audience to understand it. If you are hearing about TCO for the first time or want to understand how to correctly evaluate the benefits of using your own or cloud infrastructure, then you should look under cat. When […]

How we built a virtual infrastructure for cyber-exercise of industrial enterprises

This year, we launched a large project to create a cyber training ground, a platform for cyber exercises for companies from various industries. To do this, it is necessary to create virtual infrastructures that are "identical to natural ones" - so that they repeat the typical internal structure of a bank, an energy company, etc., and not only in the corporate network segment. A little later we will talk about the banking and other infrastructures of the cyberpolygon, and […]

iRobot Robot Vacuum Cleaners Get Much Smarter with New Advanced AI Software

iRobot has unveiled the biggest software update for its robot vacuum cleaners since the company was founded 30 years ago: a new artificial intelligence platform known as iRobot Genius Home Intelligence. Or, as iRobot CEO Colin Angle describes it: "It's a lobotomy and replacing the intelligence in all our robots." The platform is part of the new […]