Author: ProHoster

The Chinese auto industry will begin to develop "graphene" batteries before the end of the year

The unusual properties of graphene promise to improve a lot of technical characteristics of batteries. The most expected of them - due to the better conductivity of electrons in graphene - is the fast charging of batteries. Without significant breakthroughs in this direction, electric vehicles will remain less comfortable during regular use than cars with internal combustion engines. The Chinese promise to change the situation in this area soon. How […]

Amazon urges US authorities to pass a law against overpricing in a national crisis

Representatives of the Amazon trading platform have asked the US Congress to issue a law prohibiting inflating prices on goods during a national crisis. The decision was made against the backdrop of rising prices for such vitally important goods in modern realities as hand sanitizers and protective masks. Amazon Vice President of Public Policy Brian Huseman published an open […]

Xiaomi Mi AirDots 2 SE wireless earbuds cost about $25

The Chinese company Xiaomi has released fully wireless in-immersible headphones Mi AirDots 2 SE, which can be used with smartphones running Android and iOS operating systems. The delivery set includes in-ear modules for the left and right ears, as well as a charging case. The declared battery life on a single battery charge reaches five hours. The case allows you to enlarge this [...]

Mozilla disables secondary authentication for systems without a master password

Mozilla developers, without creating a new release, through a system of experiments, distributed an update to users of Firefox 76 and Firefox 77-beta that disables the new mechanism for confirming access to saved passwords, used on systems without a master password. Let us remind you that in Firefox 76, for Windows and macOS users without a master password set, an OS authentication dialog began to be displayed to view the passwords saved in the browser, […]

SuperTux 0.6.2 free game release

The release of the classic platform game SuperTux 0.6.2, reminiscent of Super Mario in style, has been prepared. The game is distributed under the GPLv3 license and is available in builds for Linux (AppImage), Windows and macOS. The new release features a new world map for Revenge In Redmond, celebrating the project's 20th anniversary and featuring new sprites and new enemies. Improvements have been made to many game levels in the worlds […]

Release of new stable branch Tor 0.4.3

The release of the Tor 0.4.3.5 toolkit, used to organize the operation of the anonymous Tor network, has been presented. Tor 0.4.3.5 is recognized as the first stable release of the 0.4.3 branch, which has been in development for the past five months. The 0.4.3 branch will be maintained as part of the regular maintenance cycle - updates will be discontinued after 9 months or 3 months after the release of the 0.4.4.x branch. Long Time Support (LTS) is provided […]

Cool 3D shooters on an ancient laptop: a test of the cloud gaming platform GFN.RU

We asked Sergey Epishin, senior at the M.Game gaming club, whether it is possible to play remotely, being hundreds of kilometers from Moscow, how much traffic will go, what about the quality of the picture, how playable it all is and whether it makes economic sense. However, the latter is already decided by everyone for himself. And this is what he answered… Given the current situation, even the World […]

Useful post: 4 activities for solving problems of the second day in OpenShift and creating operators

Okay, we are an innovative IT company, which means we have developers - and these are good developers who are passionate about their work. They also do live streaming, and collectively it's called DevNation. Below are just useful links to live events, videos, meetups and technical talks. They are very useful and will help pass the time while waiting for our next post from […]

Netflix returns to high speed streaming in Europe

The streaming video service Netflix has begun to expand data channels in some European countries. Let us recall that at the request of European Commissioner Thierry Breton, the online cinema reduced the quality of streaming in mid-March with the introduction of quarantine measures in Europe. The EU feared that transmitting high-quality video would overload the infrastructure of telecom operators during the general self-isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic. […]

In April, Twitch viewers watched 334 million hours of Valorant streams

COVID-19 is undoubtedly a disaster, but for streaming platforms it has provided a huge boost in viewership. Twitch attracted a lot of viewers during April, and this is especially noticeable in the broadcasts of beta testing of the multiplayer shooter Valorant. The number of stream views increased by 99% compared to last year, and in total viewers watched the game 1,5 billion hours. For comparison, […]

Microsoft is having trouble porting Win32 apps to Windows 10X

Microsoft has long been pursuing the concept of a single operating system for all devices, but none of its attempts to implement this have been successful to date. However, the company is now closer than ever to realizing this idea thanks to the upcoming release of Windows 10X. However, work on the revolutionary OS is not going as smoothly as we would like. According to sources, […]