Author: ProHoster

Google Home smart speaker discontinued four years after release

The Google Home smart speaker was introduced in 2016. By modern standards, this is a fairly old device. And now, a few weeks after the price of the speaker was temporarily reduced to the absolute minimum, which was $29, information appeared in the official Google online store that the device was no longer available. Despite its advanced age, Google Home enjoyed […]

Raspberry Pi 4 board available with 8GB RAM

The Raspberry Pi Project has announced an enhanced version of the Raspberry Pi 4 board, shipping with 8GB of RAM. The cost of the new board option is $75. For comparison, boards with 2 and 4 GB of RAM sell for $35 and $55, respectively. The BCM2711 chip used in the board allows you to address up to 16 GB of memory, but at the time of development of the board […]

How we survived the x10 workload increase remotely and what conclusions did we draw

Hey Habr! The last couple of months we have lived in a very interesting situation, and I would like to share our story of infrastructure scaling. During this time, SberMarket has quadrupled in orders and launched the service in 4 new cities. The explosive growth in demand for grocery delivery has required us to scale our infrastructure. Read about the most interesting and useful conclusions […]

Webinar. Technopolis: Remote work of users. Administrator everyday life

At the webinar, you will see practical scenarios for remote work of company employees. Learn how to protect yourself from common cyber threats: malicious and phishing emails, ransomware. How to protect important documents and share them securely with your partners and customers. June 2, 2020, 10.00-11.30 The webinar will be useful for IT and information security administrators, architects. By visiting this webcast, you will learn about […]

Workshops from IBM: Quarkus (ultra-fast Java for microservices), Jakarta EE and OpenShift

Hi all! We are also tired of webinars, their number over the past couple of months has exceeded all possible limits. Therefore, for habr we try to select the most interesting and useful for you). At the beginning of June (hopefully, summer will still come) we have planned several practical sessions, which, we are sure, will be of interest to developers. First, let's talk about serverless and the latest ultra-fast quarkus […]

Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge will take players on a virtual journey previously only available at Disney parks

Disney's Galaxy's Edge remains an unforgettable experience for Star Wars fans. ILMxLAB is bringing it to players' homes this year. Virtual reality studio Lucasfilm has announced that it is working on Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge in collaboration with the Facebook-owned Oculus Studios team. The virtual reality adventure takes place during […]

The frivolous bully simulator Sludge Life was released on the Epic Games Store and turned out to be free, but only for a year

Devolver Digital kept its promise and, three days before the end of spring, finally released the comedy hooligan simulator Sludge Life. The release happened without warning, but that's not even the most interesting thing. Today Sludge Life is released only on PC (Epic Games Store), where it will be available absolutely free for exactly 12 months. To take ownership of the game forever, all you have to do is [...]

Sea of ​​Thieves has a major Lost Treasures update with treasures, quests and rewards

Xbox Game Studios and Rare have announced the release of a major update to the online pirate action game Sea of ​​Thieves called Lost Treasures. Tall Tales story stories have returned to the game, which will tell about past events on the islands and at sea, and numerous improvements have also appeared. Tall Tales stories are quests that introduce you to characters from the […]

macOS users will no longer be able to ignore operating system updates

With the release of macOS Catalina 10.15.5 and the latest security updates for Mojave and High Sierra earlier this week, Apple has made it much more difficult for users to ignore available updates to the software and the operating system itself. The changelog for macOS Catalina 10.15.5 includes the following item: "New macOS releases are no longer hidden when using the softwareupdate (8) command with the --ignore flag" […]

Google Chrome will let users launch Progressive Web Apps when Windows boots

With each update, Google tries to improve the performance of Progressive Web Apps in the company's Chrome browser. Last month, the company replaced some Android apps for Chrome OS users with PWA versions. Now Google has released a new build of the Chrome Canary browser, which allows you to launch PWAs when Windows boots. This feature was first discovered by specialists from the Internet resource Techdows, and is currently hidden. To […]

Moto G Pro launched in Europe for €329 with pen control

The mid-level Moto G Pro smartphone, created using the Android One program, debuted on the European market. The device is based on the Moto G Stylus, released in the United States in February of this year. Like its progenitor, the presented device supports pen control. The 6,4-inch Max Vision screen has a FHD+ resolution (2300 × 1080 pixels). In the upper left corner […]

According to the precepts of Huawei: OPPO expects to develop its own processors

The Chinese company Huawei Technologies came under attack from American sanctions precisely in the production of its own HiSilicon processors. The competitor's sad example doesn't scare OPPO, as the smartphone maker is building up its capabilities to develop its own mobile processors. Many sources attribute to OPPO the status of one of the main beneficiaries of the Huawei crisis caused by US sanctions. In China, OPPO is the second largest […]