Author: ProHoster

Polestar 2 Electric Car Coming to US for $59 This Summer

A year after Polestar introduced the Polestar 2 electric car, prices and when the model will appear in showrooms have been announced. In the US, this car will cost $59, and it will go on sale this summer. Those interested can already place an order online. If all goes according to plan, Polestar's first American retail showrooms will […]

qBittorrent 4.2.5 release

The release of the torrent client qBittorrent 4.2.5 is available, written using the Qt toolkit and developed as an open alternative to µTorrent, close to it in interface and functionality. Among the features of qBittorrent: an integrated search engine, the ability to subscribe to RSS, support for many BEP extensions, remote management via a web interface, sequential download mode in a given order, advanced settings for torrents, peers and trackers, a bandwidth scheduler […]

KDE Applications Release 20.04

The April consolidated update of applications (20.04) developed by the KDE project has been presented. In total, as part of the April update, releases of more than 217 programs, libraries and plugins were published. Information about the availability of Live builds with new application releases can be found on this page. The most notable innovations: The Dolphin file manager has improved interaction with external file systems accessible via cloud storage, SMB or SSH. […]

Wine 5.7 release

An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 5.7 - took place. Since the release of version 5.6, 38 bug reports have been closed and 415 changes have been made. The most important changes: The Mono engine has been updated to release 5.0.0 with support for WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation); The development of the WineD3D backend based on the Vulkan graphics API continued; Added initial implementation of USB device driver; Implemented […]

The best IT comedies. Top 3 series

Hello Habr! I'm back! Many have very warmly received my previous article about the series "Mr.Robot". Thank you so much for this! As I promised, I have prepared a continuation of the cycle and I hope you will also like the new article. Today we will talk about three, in my opinion, the main comedy series in the field of IT. Many are now in quarantine, many […]

Why Mr. Robot is the best series about the IT industry

Good day, dear Habr readers! On December 23, 2019, the final episode of one of the most popular series about IT, Mr. Robot, was released. After watching the series to the end, I firmly decided to write an article about the series on Habré. The release of this article is timed to coincide with my anniversary on the portal. My first article appeared exactly 2 years ago. […]

Google has added a simplified paste from the clipboard to Gboard

After testing the Google logo on the Gboard keyboard for Android, which caused dissatisfaction among many users, the search giant has moved on to testing a much more useful feature. Some Gboard users are already getting the option to use more convenient one-tap pasting. One of 9to5Google's journalists' devices also has this new Gboard feature. Above the main keyboard buttons in the tooltip line after [...]

Bipedal Robots and Funny Hats: Co-op Puzzle Biped Coming to Nintendo Switch May 21st

NEXT Studios will release the adventure Biped on Nintendo Switch on May 21st. The puzzle has already been released on PC and PlayStation 4 - on March 27 and April 8, respectively. Biped is a co-op action-adventure game with a heavy emphasis on cooperation between two players. Two little two-legged robots named Shark and Strength will go on a cute journey around the planet to […]

Android's new call recording feature may be limited to certain regions

In January this year, APK analysis revealed that Google was working on a call recording feature for the Phone app. This week, XDA Developers reported that support for this feature has already appeared on some Nokia phones in India. Now Google itself has published details on how to use the Phone app to record calls. After some time the page was […]

Microsoft Surface Earbuds to go on sale in May

Microsoft announced its Surface Earbuds series of completely wireless headphones back in October last year. They were supposed to be released before the end of 2019, but the company delayed their launch until spring 2020. According to information received from various European retailers, Microsoft will release the device in a couple of weeks. It is also reported that Microsoft is planning to release another Surface Headphones, but […]