Author: ProHoster

Video calls from Mail.ru - what is it, why and how does it work?

Back in April, Habré published the news that Mail.ru Group had launched a service for video and audio calls. It is positioned as a universal service that allows you to conduct online lessons, meetings, webinars or just talk with family and friends. I couldn’t find any special details about it, so I tried to evaluate the performance and practicality of Video Calls on my own. I often […]

Fight for 5G: redistribution of zones of influence, or a game of thimbles?

Faster, higher, stronger is the Olympic motto, which is very relevant for the IT infrastructure being created today. Each new introduced radio standard more and more increases the amount of transmitted information, reduces network latency, and also introduces many useful innovations that are far from always clear to the end user of the service. Today, as practice shows, jumps in the quality parameters of cellular […]

Google launches Keen, a potential competitor to Pinterest

A team of developers from Area 120, a division of Google that develops experimental services and applications, has quietly launched a new social service, Keen. It is an analogue of the popular Pinterest service and is positioned as its potential competitor. One of the distinctive features of the new service is that it relies on machine learning technologies in the content search process. […]

In search of parents: a beautiful action adventure Legends of Ethernal will be released on all platforms in the fall

Natsume and Lucid Dreams have announced that the 4D action-adventure Legends of Eternal will be released on PC, PlayStation XNUMX, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch this fall. The demo version of the game is already available to Steam users. According to the plot of Legends of Ethernal, the boy returned to find his home in ruins. The parents are missing. Armed with courage and driven by the pain of loss, […]

Apple has already rejected the Facebook Gaming app for iOS at least 5 times

Apple continues to reject the Facebook Gaming app, saying it violates App Store policies. According to the New York Times, Apple recently once again rejected the app's placement in the store, marking at least the fifth time Facebook Gaming has been rejected. The app was announced in April and is already available on the Google Play Store for Android. But […]

Choosing a gadget for the summer with 3DNews partners: BQ 4302B TV is your guide to the world of bright and exciting images

At the end of 2019, BQ successfully entered the TV market in Russia and has now already taken a strong position in this segment. The brand’s assortment includes both standard models and those with support for Smart-TV technology, which turns the TV into a real multimedia center capable of playing content from the largest video resources on the Internet, as well as installing additional […]

The first photo of the electric crossover GM Buick Velite 7

General Motors (GM) has released the first image of the Buick Velite 7 compact electric crossover being prepared for the Chinese market. Based on a variant of the BEV2 platform that debuted in the Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicle in 2016, the Buick Velite 7 electric crossover includes a powerful battery pack capable of providing a range of up to 500 km (XNUMX km) on a single charge (NEDC). IN […]

Russia stands for the adoption of a resolution on the prevention of an arms race in space

The Roscosmos State Corporation outlined the position of the Russian Federation on the implementation of initiatives in the field of defense strategy in outer space. “We consistently advocate at all possible and accessible negotiating platforms, which include, in particular, the Conference on Disarmament, in favor of adopting a resolution on preventing an arms race in outer space. We perceive with extreme caution statements that [...]

Assessing the performance impact of popular Chrome add-ons

The results of a study of the impact on browser performance of thousands of the most popular additions to Chrome have been published. It has been shown that some add-ons can have a significant impact on performance and create a large load on the system, as well as significantly increase memory consumption. The testing assessed the load on the CPU in active and background modes, memory consumption and the impact on display speed […]

Free Pascal 3.2 compiler release

After five years since the formation of the 3.0 branch, the release of the open cross-platform compiler Free Pascal 3.2.0, compatible with Borland Pascal 7, Delphi, Think Pascal and Metrowerks Pascal, has been presented. In parallel, the Lazarus integrated development environment is being developed, based on the Free Pascal compiler and performing tasks similar to Delphi. The new release adds a large portion of innovations and changes in the implementation […]

What is interesting about Wi-Fi 6 by Huawei

We bring to your attention Huawei's view of Wi-Fi 6 - the technology itself and related innovations, primarily in relation to access points: what's new in them, where they will find the most suitable and useful application in 2020, what technological solutions give them the main competitive advantages and how the AirEngine line is generally organized. What's going on in […]