Author: ProHoster

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 […]

OpenShift virtualization: containers, KVM and virtual machines

OpenShift virtualization (upstream project - Kubernetes: KubeVirt, see here and here), nee Container-native Virtualization, was introduced as a functionality of the OpenShift platform, which is designed to deploy and manage virtual machines (VMs) as the basic Kubernetes entities. This kind of task is technically challenging due to fundamental differences in technology. In order to achieve this goal, the familiar […]

Webinar. Microsoft: Microsoft Teams Security

The webinar focuses on the security architecture and information protection tools in the Microsoft Teams collaboration service. We will discuss in detail: Architecture of the Microsoft Teams service Architecture of differentiation of powers within the service Differentiation of access (roles, groups, users) By attending the event, you will learn how to: Control access to the service and its components Work with auditing the actions of administrators and users Investigate […]

Resident Evil is the first Capcom franchise to break 100 million copies sold

Publisher Capcom announced on its website that total sales and shipments of all games in the Resident Evil franchise since its inception in 1996 have exceeded 100 million copies. Let us remember that just a month ago the series’ result was 2 million copies more modest, and as of the end of 2019, sales of “Resident Evil” were estimated at 95 million copies. […]

Huge animal robots destroyed by the Golden Gate and Aloy underwater in Horizon Forbidden West screenshots

Studio Guerrilla Games published in its microblog a selection of screenshots of Horizon Forbidden West, the sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn, which was announced at yesterday's Future of Gaming online show. The images show huge robotic animals, Aloy exploring the underwater world, and gorgeous landscapes. One of the pictures shows members of the tribe using large mechanical elephants in battle. Apparently, with them the players will have to […]