Author: ProHoster

The new episode of State of Play will be held on May 14 and will be entirely dedicated to Ghost of Tsushima

Sony Interactive Entertainment announced a new episode of its State of Play news program on the official PlayStation blog website. Unlike previous broadcasts, the upcoming one will be dedicated to only one game. The main and only theme of the upcoming State of Play will be the samurai action game Ghost of Tsushima from Sucker Punch Productions. The broadcast will begin on May 14 at 23:00 Moscow […]

Telegram abandons TON blockchain platform due to US court decision

Popular messaging app Telegram announced on Tuesday that it is abandoning its blockchain platform Telegram Open Network (TON). This decision followed a lengthy legal battle with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). “Today is a sad day for us here at Telegram. We are announcing the closure of our blockchain project,” the founder and chief […]

Apple has added a lot of new features to Logic Pro X, and most importantly - Live Loops

Apple today officially announced the release of Logic Pro X, version 10.5 of its professional music software. The new product has the long-awaited Live Loops feature, previously available in GarageBand for iPhone and iPad, a completely redesigned sampling process, new rhythm creation tools and other new features. Live Loops allows users to organize loops, samples and recordings into a new musical grid. From there the tracks […]

Marvel's Iron Man VR gets a new release date - July 3rd

Sony Interactive Entertainment announced on its microblog a new release date for its superhero action game Marvel's Iron Man VR - the game will be available for PlayStation VR on July 3 this year. In a corresponding post on Twitter, the Japanese platform holder also promised to share additional details about Marvel's Iron Man VR in the "coming weeks." “Thank you to our amazing, understanding fans […]

Huawei is preparing a laptop with an AMD Ryzen 7 4800H processor

Internet sources report that the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei will soon announce a new laptop computer based on the AMD hardware platform. It is reported that the upcoming laptop could debut under sister brand Honor, joining the MagicBook family of devices. However, the commercial designation of the device has not yet been disclosed. It is known that the new product will be based on the Ryzen 7 4800H processor. This product contains eight […]

Russia was called the most littering country in space

There are thousands of particles, pieces and debris of space debris of various sizes and shapes in orbit around our planet, posing a potential danger to orbiting satellites and the International Space Station. But who does it belong to? Which country litters the most space? The answer to this question was provided by the British company RS Components, which named the top five most littering countries. Criteria for classifying waste as […]

Chinese OLED will be produced from American materials

One of the oldest and original developers of OLED technology, the American company Universal Display Corporation (UDC), has entered into a multi-year agreement to supply raw materials to a Chinese display manufacturer. The Americans will supply raw materials for OLED production to China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology from Wuhan. It is the second largest panel manufacturer in China. With American supplies, he is ready to move mountains. Details of the agreement are not […]

Horizon EDA 1.1 is available

The release of the system for automating the design of electronic devices Horizon EDA 1.1 (EDA - Electronic Design Automation), optimized for creating electrical circuits and printed circuit boards. The ideas included in the project have been developing since 2016, and the first experimental releases were proposed last fall. The reason cited for creating Horizon was to provide greater connectivity between library management […]

Release of monitoring system Zabbix 5.0 LTS

A new version of the open source monitoring system Zabbix 5.0 LTS has been presented with many innovations. The released release includes significant improvements to monitoring security, support for single sign-on, support for historical data compression when using TimescaleDB, integration with message delivery systems and support services, and much more. Zabbix consists of three basic components: a server for coordinating the execution of checks, [...]

Fundraising for a laptop with open MNT Reform hardware is open

MNT Research has begun raising funds to produce a series of laptops with open hardware. Among other things, the laptop offers replaceable 18650 batteries, a mechanical keyboard, open graphics drivers, 4 GB RAM and an NXP/Freescale i.MX8MQ (1.5 GHz) processor. The laptop will be supplied without a webcam and microphone, its weight will be ~1.9 kilograms, the folded dimensions will be 29 x 20.5 […]

Microservices in C++. Fiction or reality?

In this article, I will talk about how I created a template (cookiecutter) and set up an environment for writing a REST API service in C ++ using docker / docker-compose and the conan package manager. During the next hackathon, in which I participated as a back-end developer, the question arose of how to write the next microservice. Everything that has been written so far, […]

About hydrogen peroxide and the rocket beetle

The topic of this note has been brewing for a long time. And although, at the request of the readers of the LAB-66 channel, I just wanted to write about safe work with hydrogen peroxide, but in the end, for reasons I don’t understand (yes!) To me, another longread was formed. A mixture of popsci, rocket fuel, "coronavirus disinfection" and permanganometric titration. How to properly store hydrogen peroxide, what protective equipment to use when working […]