Author: ProHoster

Utility for non-admin human shadow connection to RDP user sessions in WinServer 2012R2

The problem during the quarantine period of the enterprise became the following: it is really necessary to minimize the number of visits to offices by specialists servicing and consulting on application software, and frankly speaking, users often abuse the help of specialists without wanting to delve into the issue itself, they say “they will come - they will help - they will do it, but I’ll smoke/drink coffee, etc.” Telephone consultation with shared access [...]

Google search results will show ads of medical organizations offering online consultations

It has become known that Google plans to make changes to the operation of its search engine. According to a message published on the developers' blog, advertisements for medical organizations offering online consultations will appear in search results. This change will make it easier to find telehealth services, the demand for which has increased significantly amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical organizations offering […]

Lovecraft's Witchcraft: The Sinking City sold well, Frogwares is working on the next detective

Last year, Frogwares studio released the detective adventure The Sinking City. The game tells a Lovecraftian story about dark cosmic secrets in a small town. And it looks like it was a hit for the studio. In the past, Frogwares has created games based on Sherlock Holmes. The Sinking City takes a lot from there, but also has its own twist. The project was also helped by the involvement of history [...]

Samsung will stop supporting S Voice this June

Samsung has announced that it will soon end support for its S Voice assistant. According to the notice sent out by the South Korean manufacturer, all services related to the old voice assistant will stop working on June 1, 2020. The S Voice voice assistant should be familiar to people who have been using Samsung devices for a long time. It was launched in 2012, but was eventually […]

European authorities are trying to direct surveillance of citizens in a pandemic in a single direction

In many countries, the fight against the spread of coronavirus requires the most drastic measures from the authorities, and the dissatisfaction of defenders of individual freedom is becoming less and less common. On the contrary, the experience of China shows that only total monitoring of the movement of citizens is one of the keys to success in this fight. As Heise Online notes, European authorities want to develop a set of rules for the application of […]

IBM and Open Mainframe Project work on free COBOL training courses

The sharp increase in applications for unemployment benefits in the United States, which occurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has literally collapsed the work of government social security services in the country. The problem is that there are practically no specialists left with knowledge of the ancient programming language COBOL, in which civil service programs are written. To quickly train coders in the mysteries of COBOL, IBM and its support team began creating free […]

Three-quarters of SMBs hit by coronavirus

The eWeek resource published the results of a study by SMB Group, which examined the impact of the spread of the new coronavirus on the small and medium-sized business sector. The majority of representatives of the companies surveyed said that the pandemic had harmed their businesses, which, however, was not surprising. Due to the spread of coronavirus, many small companies are forced to suspend operations and temporarily close their offices and service centers. Of course, this [...]

In Win B1: an unusual case for a compact computer

The In Win company has announced an original computer case with the laconic name B1: the solution will allow you to create a compact desktop system or home media center with a spectacular appearance. The appearance of the new product can be judged from the presented images. The body is made in black, and one of the panels is made of tinted tempered glass. The lateral ribbed surface of In Win B1 performs the functions of ventilation […]

General Motors and Philips to supply 73 ventilators

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Wednesday awarded contracts worth about $1,1 billion to General Motors (GM) and Philips to create ventilators needed to treat critically ill patients with coronavirus infection. According to the contract between HHS and GM, the automaker must supply 30 thousand ventilators worth $489 million. In turn, the company […]

Google releases data and machine learning model for splitting sounds

Google has published an annotated database of reference mixed sounds that can be used in machine learning systems used to separate arbitrary mixed sounds into their individual components. A generic deep machine learning model (TDCN++) has also been published that can be used in Tensorflow to separate sounds. Data prepared based on the freesound.org collection and published under a CC BY license […]

ReactOS 0.4.13 operating system release

After six months of development, the release of the ReactOS 0.4.13 operating system was presented, aimed at ensuring compatibility with Microsoft Windows programs and drivers. The operating system is at the “alpha” stage of development. An installation ISO image (126 MB) and a Live build (in a zip archive of 95 MB) have been prepared for downloading. The project code is distributed under GPLv2 and LGPLv2 licenses. Key changes: A lot of work has been done to eliminate errors and [...]

Wine 5.6 and Wine Staging 5.6 Release

An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 5.6 - took place. Since the release of version 5.5, 38 bug reports have been closed and 458 changes have been made. The most important changes: New calls to the Media Foundation framework have been implemented; Active Directory support has been improved, problems with wldap32 compilation on systems without LDAP support installed have been resolved; Conversion of modules to PE format continued; Improved […]