Category: Blog

Xinhua and TASS showcased the world's first Russian-speaking virtual presenter

The Chinese state news agency "Xinhua" and TASS, during the 23rd St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, introduced to the public the world's first Russian-speaking virtual TV presenter with artificial intelligence. This was developed by Sogou, with the prototype being a TASS employee named Lisa. It is reported that her voice, facial expressions, and lip movements were used to train the deep neural network. After that, […]

What's new in Veeam Availability Console 2.0 Update 1?

As you may remember, at the end of 2017, a new free solution for service providers, Veeam Availability Console, was launched, which we talked about on our blog. With this console, service providers can remotely manage and monitor the security of virtual, physical, and cloud user infrastructures where Veeam solutions operate. The innovation quickly gained recognition, leading to the release of a second version.

Release of PrusaSlicer 2.0.0 (formerly known as Slic3r Prusa Edition/Slic3r PE)

PrusaSlicer is a slicer, which is a program that takes a 3D model in the form of a mesh made of regular triangles and converts it into a special command program for a 3D printer. For example, in the form of G-code for FFF printers, which contains detailed instructions on how to move the print head (extruder) in space and how much hot plastic to extrude through it.

What can an applied linguist contribute?

"What's the matter? It is many a glorious path." N.A. Nekrasov Hello everyone! My name is Karina, and I am a "dual-tasker" — balancing my master's studies and working as a technical writer at Veeam Software. I want to share how I managed this. Additionally, some may find out how to enter this profession and what opportunities I see for myself.

Performance of Linux network applications. Introduction.

Web applications are now used everywhere, and HTTP accounts for a large portion of all transport protocols. When studying the nuances of web application development, most pay very little attention to the operating system where these applications actually run. The separation of development (Dev) and operations (Ops) only worsened the situation. However, with the rise of DevOps culture, developers are beginning to take responsibility for launching their applications in the cloud, which means for […]

How We Moderate Ads

Every service whose users can create their own content (UGC — User-generated content) is forced not only to address business challenges but also to maintain order in UGC. Poor or low-quality content moderation can ultimately diminish the service’s attractiveness to users, potentially even leading to its discontinuation. Today we will discuss the synergy between Yula and Odnoklassniki, which helps us effectively manage this.

VPN on Beeline Router for Bypassing Restrictions

Beeline is actively implementing IPoE technology in its home networks. This approach allows customers to be authenticated by the MAC address of their equipment without the use of VPN. When transitioning the network to IPoE, the router's VPN client becomes inactive and continues to insistently try to connect to the disabled provider's VPN server. We just have to reconfigure the router's VPN client to a VPN server in a country where internet blocking is not practiced, and all […]

Release Scala 2.13.0

Scala is a quite complex language, but this complexity allows for high performance and unconventional solutions at the intersection of functional and object-oriented programming. Two major web frameworks have been created on it: Play and Lift. Play leverages the platforms Coursera and Gilt. The projects of the Apache Foundation, Apache Spark, Apache Ignite (the open-source version of the main product by GridGain), and Apache Kafka are primarily written in […]

Mozilla plans to launch a paid service, Firefox Premium.

Chris Beard, the CEO of Mozilla Corporation, shared in an interview with the German publication T3N about plans to launch a premium service, Firefox Premium (premium.firefox.com), this October, which will provide enhanced services through a paid subscription. Details are not yet disclosed, but examples include services related to the use of VPN and online storage of user data. […]

19 heads of the hydra. A comprehensive overview of the program.

On July 11-12, the Hydra conference will take place in St. Petersburg, focusing on the development of parallel and distributed systems. The highlight of Hydra is that it brings together top scholars (typically found only at foreign scientific conferences) and well-known practicing engineers into one large program at the intersection of science and practice. Hydra is one of our most important conferences in recent […]

Bitrix24: "What rises quickly is not considered to have fallen"

Currently, the Bitrix24 service does not have hundreds of gigabits of traffic and lacks a vast server park (though there are certainly many existing). However, for many clients, it is the primary tool for work in the company, a truly business-critical application. Therefore, it cannot afford to go down. But what if it does experience a failure, yet the service 'resurrects' so quickly that no one even […]

The wonders of accounting methodology: depreciation fund.

I love programming — it creates miracles. However, you know much more about programming than I do. Yet, miracles can be found not only in programming but even in such a dull and stagnant field as accounting. Yes, in accounting itself, to which I have ambivalent feelings: a sincere and deep sympathy (after all, it is my original […]

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