Author: ProHoster

Stretching and tracking: Riot Games introduced one of the heroes of Valorant - the catcher of Cypher

Riot Games continues to introduce the characters of the shooter Valorant. This time the developer introduced gamers to Cypher, an information collector. Cypher is a Moroccan catcher. The hero's main ability is stretching with an invisible wire. When enemy players activate it, their location is revealed to Cypher. In addition, the trap stuns enemies for a while. Creating walls is quite common among Valorant heroes […]

Epic Pictures will release a collection of interactive trailers inspired by Kojima's PT

Independent film studio Epic Pictures plans to launch a new platform for distributing game “teasers” created by indie developers. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Dread X Collection will feature ten interactive trailers highlighting creations from developers affected by COVID-19. The teams from Snowrunner Games, Mayelyk, Lovely Hellplace, Torple Dook, Strange Scaffold, Oddbreeze and the creator of Dusk […]

Over 50 million people have played CoD: Warzone

Activision reported on the number of players in Call of Duty: Warzone. According to the company, the battle royale audience exceeded 50 million people within a month. This was reported on the official Call of Duty Twitter. Call of Duty: Warzone was released on March 10th. Within 20 hours, the audience of the battle royale exceeded six million users, and by March 30 it reached XNUMX million people. Current […]

Facebook will have a function of rest from the social network

It has become known that Facebook will soon have a feature that will help users take a break from the social network. We are talking about the Quiet Mode for mobile applications of the social network, after activating which the user will stop receiving almost all notifications from Facebook. According to reports, Quiet Mode will allow you to set a schedule when the user wants to receive notifications from the social network. […]

EIZO ColorEdge CS2740-X: a monitor for video processing professionals

EIZO has announced the ColorEdge CS2740-X professional monitor, designed primarily for professionals in the field of high-quality video processing. The panel complies with the 4K format: the resolution is 3840 × 2160 pixels. It talks about HDR support. Claims 91 percent coverage of the DCI-P3 color space and 99 percent coverage of the Adobe RGB color space. An optional calibration sensor is available for the monitor. Accurate color rendering can be adjusted in one and a half [...]

Rocket Lab has rehearsed the capture of the return of the first stage of the launch vehicle by helicopter

The race for space is turning into a competition to recover launch vehicle stages. Last August, Rocket Lab joined the pioneers in this field, SpaceX and Blue Origin. A beginner will not complicate the return system before landing the first stage on the engines. Instead, the first stages of the Electron rocket are planned to be either picked up in the air by helicopter or lowered […]

Updates to Jitsi Meet Electron, OpenVidu and BigBlueButton video conferencing systems

New releases of several open platforms for organizing video conferencing have been published: Release of the client for video conferencing Jitsi Meet Electron 2.0, which is a version of Jitsi Meet packaged in a separate application. Features of the application include local storage of video conferencing settings, a built-in update delivery system, remote control tools, and a pinning mode on top of other windows. Among the innovations of version 2.0, the ability to provide [...]

Release of FreeRDP 2.0, a free implementation of the RDP protocol

After seven years of development, the FreeRDP 2.0 project was released, offering a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) developed based on Microsoft specifications. The project provides a library for integrating RDP support into third-party applications and a client that can be used to remotely connect to the Windows desktop. The project code is distributed under the Apache license […]

Nim programming language release 1.2.0

The release of the system programming language Nim 1.2 has been presented. The Nim language uses static typing and was created with an eye on Pascal, C++, Python and Lisp. Nim source code is compiled into a C, C++, or JavaScript representation. Subsequently, the resulting C/C++ code is compiled into an executable file using any available compiler (clang, gcc, icc, Visual C++), which […]

FreeRDP 2.0.0 release

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license, and is a fork of rdesktop. The most significant changes in release 2.0.0: Numerous security fixes. Switch to using sha256 instead of sha1 for certificate thumbprint. The first version of RDP proxy has been added. The smartcard code has been refactored, including improved input data validation. There is a new […]

Core Features of LXD - Linux Container Systems

LXD is a next-generation system container manager, according to the source. It offers a user interface similar to virtual machines, but uses Linux containers instead. The LXD core is a privileged daemon (a service running as root) that provides a REST API over a local unix socket, as well as over the network if configured accordingly. Clients such as […]

Exploring the Mediastreamer2 VoIP engine. Part 6

The article material is taken from my Zen channel. Transmitting an audio signal via an RTP stream In the last article, we assembled a remote control circuit from a tone signal generator and detector that operate within one program. In this article, we will learn how to use the RTP protocol (RFC 3550 - RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications) to receive/transmit an audio signal over an Ethernet network. Protocol […]