Author: ProHoster

"Groundhog Day" on a dangerous planet: the authors of Resogun presented an ambitious roguelike Returnal for PS5

During the Future of Gaming presentation, which took place on Friday night, Sony presented not only big-budget, but also smaller-scale exclusives. Among them was Returnal, a roguelike shooter from the Finnish studio Housemarque, which developed Resogun, Dead Nation and Nex Machina. In Returnal, players take on the role of a female astronaut whose ship crashes on a dangerous exotic planet. Soon the heroine realizes […]

Control Coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X - Details Coming 'Later'

Finnish studio Remedy Entertainment announced on its microblog that its sci-fi action game Control will go beyond the current generation of game consoles. In particular, the developers have confirmed versions of the project for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. In what form and when exactly Control will reach the new consoles from Sony and Microsoft, the authors do not specify, but promise to share details […]

Adobe releases mobile AI Photoshop Camera for iOS and Android

Last November, Adobe announced a mobile camera, Photoshop Camera, with AI capabilities at the Max conference. Now, finally, this free application has become available in the App Store and Google Play and will allow everyone to improve their self-portraits and photos for Instagram and other social networks. The application brings interesting effects and filters, as well as a number of features to […]

Google Pay is not working on Android 11 beta

After several months of testing preliminary builds of Android 11, Google has released the first beta version of the platform. As a rule, beta versions are more stable than preliminary builds, but they are not without drawbacks, and therefore are not recommended for installation by ordinary users. According to online sources, Google Pay does not work in the first beta version of Android 11, so it is better to refrain from installing the OS if […]

Video: Original Demon's Souls compared to Bluepoint's remake, and the latter turned out to be less dark

At the last Future of Gaming broadcast, Sony and Bluepoint Games announced a remake of Demon's Souls, a cult role-playing action game from the Japanese studio FromSoftware. The re-release was presented with a trailer, on the basis of which enthusiasts compared the updated version with the original released in 2009. As it turned out, the remake will be less dark, but much more detailed and beautiful in terms of style. Author of the YouTube channel ElAnalistaDeBits […]

The OpenZFS project, due to political correctness, got rid of the mention of the word “slave” in the code

Matthew Ahrens, one of the two original authors of the ZFS file system, cleaned the OpenZFS (ZFS on Linux) source code of the use of the word “slave”, which is now perceived as politically incorrect. According to Matthew, the consequences of human slavery continue to affect society and in modern realities the term “slave” in computer programs is an additional reference to an unpleasant human experience. […]

The Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 smartphone will receive a 120-Hz flexible screen with a diagonal of 7,7 inches

Online sources have published information about the characteristics of the flexible display of the Galaxy Fold 2 smartphone, which Samsung is expected to announce on August 5 along with the Galaxy Note 20 family of devices. The first generation Galaxy Fold smartphone (in images), a detailed review of which can be found in our material, equipped with a 7,3-inch flexible Dynamic AMOLED screen with a resolution of 2152 × 1536 pixels, as well as an external […]

Published photo of electric car BMW iX3: mass production starts at the end of summer

Bavarian automaker BMW is preparing in full swing for the start of mass production of the iX3 electric crossover, scheduled for the end of summer. Official photos of the new product have appeared on the Internet. According to the Top Gear resource, the homologation process (confirming the compliance of the characteristics of an electric vehicle with the standards and requirements of the consumer country) in Europe and China, which included 340 hours of testing, during which […]

Samsung is not satisfied with the quality of Chinese BOE OLED displays for flagship smartphones

Samsung usually equips its flagship Galaxy series devices with OLED screens of its own production. They are being developed by the Samsung Display division. However, earlier there were rumors that for the new series of flagships the company might resort to using screens from the Chinese manufacturer BOE. But it looks like this won't happen. As South Korean publication DDaily points out, OLED panels supplied by BOE have failed quality testing […]

Zephyr 2.3.0

The release of RTOS Zephyr 2.3.0 has been presented. Zephyr is based on a compact kernel designed for use in resource-constrained and embedded systems. Distributed under the Apache 2.0 license and maintained by the Linux Foundation. The Zephyr core supports multiple architectures, including ARM, Intel x86/x86-64, ARC, NIOS II, Tensilica Xtensa, RISC-V 32. Major improvements in this release: New Zephyr CMake package, […]

A deep dive into how Wi-Fi 6 works: OFDMA and MU-MIMO

In its developments, Huawei relies on Wi-Fi 6. And questions from colleagues and customers about the new generation of the standard prompted us to write a post about the theoretical foundations and physical principles embedded in it. Let's move on from history to physics, let's take a closer look at why OFDMA and MU-MIMO technologies are needed. We will also talk about how the fundamentally redesigned […]