Author: ProHoster

Codemasters first showed the gameplay of F1 2020 and unveiled the covers of various publications

The British studio Codemasters continues to prepare for the release of the next edition of its annual Formula 1 simulator - F1 2020 has received its first gameplay trailer. The two-minute video shows a lap around the Dutch Zandvoort circuit performed by local Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen behind the wheel of a Red Bull Racing car. “The team did a fantastic job of recreating every aspect of the track. Players will especially like [...]

Epic "Breathe" music video for the launch of Legends of Runeterra

Legends of Runeterra, Riot Games' new trading card game, has officially launched after a period of open beta testing. To mark the occasion, the developers released an epic trailer featuring two of League of Legends' most popular champions: Darius and Zed. Since we're talking about a card game, the trailer doesn't just showcase these two characters. The video is enlivened by the appearance, as if from a deck, […]

Redis 6.0 release

The release of the Redis 6.0 DBMS, which belongs to the class of NoSQL systems, has been prepared. Redis provides Memcached-like functions for storing key/value data, enhanced by support for structured data formats such as lists, hashes, and sets, and the ability to run server-side Lua handler scripts. The project code is supplied under the BSD license. Additional modules that offer advanced […]

Release of music player Qmmp 1.4.0

The release of the minimalistic audio player Qmmp 1.4.0 has been published. The program is equipped with an interface based on the Qt library, similar to Winamp or XMMS, and supports connecting covers from these players. Qmmp is independent of Gstreamer and offers support for various audio output systems to get the best sound. Including supported output via OSS4 (FreeBSD), ALSA (Linux), Pulse Audio, JACK, QtMultimedia, […]

Microsoft has opened its implementation of the QUIC protocol used in HTTP / 3

Microsoft has announced the open source of the MsQuic library, which implements the QUIC network protocol. The code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. The library is cross-platform and can be used not only on Windows, but also on Linux using Schannel or OpenSSL for TLS 1.3. In the future, it is planned to support other platforms. The library is based on the code […]

Updated version of Snoop Project V1.1.9 released

Snoop Project is a forensic OSINT tool that searches for usernames in public data. Snoop is a fork of Sherlock, with some improvements and changes: Snoop's database is several times larger than the combined Sherlock + Spiderfoot + Namechk databases. Snoop has fewer false positives than Sherlock, which all similar tools have (example comparison Websites: Ebay; […]

We invite you to speak at Pycon Russia 2020

The eighth PyConRu will be held on September 3-4, 12 km from Moscow. Format: a two-day outdoor conference with Russian and foreign speakers, master classes, Lightning Talks and after-parties. We are looking for topics of interest to the community and people who have something to say. If you want to give a report or master class, write to us: https://pycon.ru/cfp We accept applications until June 1. Some topics […]

A gift to all paying ProtonMail users

Due to difficult times and the transition of a large number of people to remote work, as well as as a sign of support for our beloved community, the ProtonMail service gives all users of paid plans additional storage space! + 5 GB for Plus plan. + 5 GB and + 5 users for the Professional tariff. + 10 GB for Visionary tariff. All existing […]

There will be a lot of it: how 5G technology will change the advertising market

The amount of advertising around us can grow tens and even hundreds of times. Alexey Chigadaev, head of international digital projects at iMARS China, spoke about how 5G technology can contribute to this. So far, 5G networks have been put into commercial operation in only a few countries around the world. In China, this happened on June 6, 2019, when the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology officially issued the first […]

When will everyone drive electric cars?

On January 11, 1914, the New York Times published a statement by Henry Ford: “I hope that in a year we will begin the production of an electric car. I don't like to talk about things a year ahead, but I want to tell you something about my plans. The fact is that Mr. Edison and I have been working for several years on the creation of cheap and practical electric vehicles. […]

The Tiger Claws gang from Cyberpunk 2077 is presented - the ruthless and cruel Japanese

CD Projekt RED studio has already talked about many criminal gangs from Cyberpunk 2077. For example, not so long ago the developers talked about “Valentinos” and “Animals”, and now it’s time for the “Tiger Claws” gang. It consists of cruel Japanese, capable of frightening with just their appearance. A post on the official Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account reads: ““Tiger […]

On May 7, Microsoft will show games for the Xbox Series X for the first time

Microsoft announced that on May 7 at 18:00 Moscow time it will show games for the next generation console Xbox Series X as part of a special edition of Inside Xbox. The event will showcase games from Xbox Game Studios and partner developers from around the world. For example, Ubisoft has already announced that the first […]