Author: ProHoster

The eighth experimental Steam feature "What to play?" help to clear the game blockages

Valve is testing another feature on Steam. "Experiment 008: What to play?" offers you purchased games to complete using your habits and machine learning. Perhaps this will motivate someone to finally launch a project acquired years ago. Section “What to play?” should remind you what you haven't launched yet and decide what to play next. The function is especially […]

Chrome browser for Android will get an updated dark mode

The system-wide dark mode introduced in Android 10 has influenced the design of many applications for this software platform. Most Google branded Android apps have their own dark mode, but developers continue to improve this feature, making it more popular. For example, the Chrome browser can synchronize dark mode for the toolbar and settings menu, but when using the search engine, users are forced to interact […]

EU statistics: if you want to be more digitally savvy, have kids

Recently, Eurostat published the results of a survey of citizens of member countries of the union regarding their “digital” skills. The survey was conducted in 2019 before the whole coronavirus pandemic. But this does not diminish its value, because it is better to prepare for troubles in advance and, as European officials have found, the presence of children in the family has increased the digital skills of adults. So, in [...]

New Prison Architect expansion lets you build your own Alcatraz

Paradox Interactive and Double Eleven have announced an expansion of the prison escape simulator Prison Architect called Island Bound. It will be released on PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch on June 11. Prison Architect was released in 2015. Over the past time, the indie game has been able to attract more than four million gamers. The project was initially developed by Introversion Software, but in 2019 […]

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 […]