Author: ProHoster

How Quarkus combines MicroProfile and Spring

Hello everyone, and here is the third post from the series about Quarkus! When developing Java microservices, Eclipse MicroProfile and Spring Boot are often considered separate and independent APIs. By default, programmers tend to use the APIs they are already used to, as learning new frameworks and runtime components is time consuming. Today we […]

Wireless Access Point vs Router: What's the Difference?

9:00 am: You are videoconferencing in the office via a laptop. 9:00 pm: You are watching a live broadcast on your mobile phone at home. Wait a minute, have you ever wondered what kind of wireless devices are running on your unhindered network? Of course, you have heard people around you talk about the router from time to time. What about wireless access points (access points)? […]

Sony finds culprit in The Last of Us Part II gameplay leaks

After a series of leaks of The Last of Us Part II gameplay, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that it had identified the person responsible for them. According to the company, the individual is not affiliated with the publisher or Naughty Dog. This contradicts rumors that indicated the leaks were orchestrated by a disgruntled studio employee. Sony Interactive Entertainment told GamesIndustry about this. However […]

Crime action Mafia III became temporarily free on Steam

2K Games has announced free days for Mafia III on Steam. You can play the studio's crime action game Hangar 13 for free until May 7. In addition, Mafia III is currently on sale with a 75% discount for 499 rubles. Mafia III was released on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in October 2016. The game was not particularly distinguished [...]

Astronauts adopt Mozilla's speech recognition technology to control lunar robots

This week, Mozilla, the creator of the Firefox web browser, announced a joint project with the German aerospace center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft - und Raumfahrt (DLR) that will integrate Mozilla's DeepSpeech speech recognition technology into lunar robotics. Robots are often used in space programs to assist astronauts with maintenance, repair, photographic lighting, and […]

Explosive growth expected in the global notebook market

In the current quarter, demand for laptop computers on a global scale will increase sharply, reports the authoritative Taiwanese resource DigiTimes. The reason is the spread of the new coronavirus. The pandemic has led to many companies being forced to transfer employees to remote work. In addition, citizens around the world are in self-isolation. And this has created an increased demand for portable systems. Analysts […]

Amazon buys thermal imaging cameras from blacklisted Chinese company

In connection with the coronavirus pandemic, online retailer Amazon purchased thermal imaging cameras to measure the temperature of its employees from the Chinese company Zhejiang Dahua Technology. Everything would be fine, but according to Reuters sources, this company was blacklisted by the US Department of Commerce. This month, Zhejiang Dahua Technology supplied Amazon with 1500 cameras worth about $10 million, […]

Galaxy S20 Ultra owners complain about spontaneous cracks on the camera glass

It seems that the “adventures” of the camera of the Galaxy S20 Ultra smartphone did not end with low ratings from DxOMark specialists and difficulties with autofocus. SamMobile resource reports dozens of complaints from device owners on the official Samsung forum about broken or cracked glass that protects the main camera module on the rear panel. The first complaints began to appear approximately two weeks after the start of sales [...]

Release of GhostBSD 20.04

A release of the desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 20.04, built on the TrueOS platform and offering the MATE user environment, is available. By default, GhostBSD uses the OpenRC init system and the ZFS file system. Both work in Live mode and installation on a hard drive are supported (using its own ginstall installer, written in Python). Boot images are created for x86_64 architecture (2.5 GB). […]

Parrot 4.9 distribution release with a selection of security checkers

A release of the Parrot 4.9 distribution is available, based on the Debian Testing package base and including a selection of tools for checking the security of systems, conducting forensic analysis and reverse engineering. Several iso images with the MATE environment (full 3.9 GB and reduced 1.7 GB) and with the KDE desktop (2 GB) are offered for download. The Parrot distribution is positioned as a portable laboratory environment […]