Category: Blog

Cable Television Networks for the Little Ones. Part 1: General Architecture of the CATV Network

Regardless of how enlightened the community criticizes television for its negative impact on consciousness, television signals are nonetheless present in almost all residential (and many non-residential) spaces. In large cities, it is almost always cable television, even if everyone around habitually refers to it as an 'antenna.' And while the system for receiving broadcast television is quite straightforward (although it can also be […]

Video: Journey through the Mysterious Island in the Story Campaign of Sea of Thieves

Rare studio has presented the debut trailer for the Tall Tales – Shores of Gold expansion for Sea of Thieves. Its main feature is the first chapter of a full-fledged story campaign. Users will embark on a mysterious island and attempt to uncover all of its secrets. The trailer showcases characters from the story as well as the exploration process of the island. A voiceover notes that this land lies beyond the […]

Chrome 74 has been released: a controversial dark theme and security optimizations

Google has released Chrome 74 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, and Android users. The main new feature in this version is the introduction of Dark Mode support for Windows users. A similar function has been available on macOS since the release of Chrome 73. Interestingly, there is no toggle for themes within the browser itself. To activate the dark theme, it is necessary to […]

Announcing Wi-Fi 6: What You Need to Know About the New Standard

At the beginning of October, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced a new version of the Wi-Fi standard – Wi-Fi 6. Its release is scheduled for the end of 2019. The developers changed their naming approach — replacing familiar constructs like 802.11ax with single digits. Let's take a look at what else is new. / Wikimedia / yonolatengo / CC Why the name change According to the developers of the standard, the new approach to […]

AX200 — Wi-Fi 6 from Intel

The Wi-Fi technology has definitely benefited from the Wi-Fi Alliance consortium's decision last year to replace the traditional 802.11xx standard names with simple and understandable generation numbers — 4, 5, 6, and so on. This is mainly because the long-stagnant topic of Wi-Fi has suddenly surged to the top of popularity: news, reviews, and opinions can be found everywhere, in […]

Release of QEMU 4.0 emulator

The QEMU 4.0 project release has been created. As an emulator, QEMU allows you to run a program compiled for one hardware platform on a system with a completely different architecture, for example, executing an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. In virtualization mode, QEMU's code execution performance in an isolated environment is close to that of a native system by directly executing instructions on the CPU and utilizing […]

The story of a young service Daida (subscription-based art)

Hello! We are starting the publication of reports from QIWI Kitchen, and the first one will be Absamat's presentation about his subscription art service. Over to the speaker. My name is Absamat, I am a partner at the service design agency Useful, and I am also simultaneously creating the DaiDa service, which allows people to rent art objects, namely — paintings from various artists. In this post, I will share […]

I'm selling onions online

More specifically, the Vidalia onion. This variety of onion is considered sweet: thanks to its mild flavor and aroma, people eat it just like apples. At least, that's what most of my customers do. During a phone order — in the 2018 season, if I remember correctly — one of them shared a story with me about how […]

How the cloud gaming platform is structured for B2B and B2C clients. Solutions for excellent visuals and last-mile challenges.

Cloud gaming is referred to as one of the key technologies to watch right now. In six years, this market is expected to grow tenfold – from $45 million in 2018 to $450 million by 2024. Tech giants are already rushing to conquer this niche: Google and Nvidia have launched beta versions of their cloud gaming services, with others preparing to enter the arena […]

Microsoft updated the processor requirements page ahead of the release of Windows 10 May 2019 Update

Before the release of the fresh Windows 10 May 2019 Update, Microsoft traditionally updated the page with processor requirements. Now it features Windows 10 1903, also known as the May update. In terms of hardware, nothing has changed. The operating system still supports Intel processors up to the ninth generation, Intel Xeon E-21xx, Atom J4xxx/J5xxx, Atom N4xxx/N5xxx, Celeron, Pentium, processors […]

How HPE SimpliVity 380 for VDI will work: rigorous load testing.

The client wanted VDI. They were very interested in the SimpliVity + Citrix Virtual Desktop combination. For all operators, office employees across the cities, and so on. There are five thousand users just in the first wave of migration, so they insisted on load testing. VDI can start to lag or could run smoothly — and this doesn't always happen due to problems with […]

Zombie projects continue to leak user data even after their demise.

I'm back to talking about data leaks, but this time I'll share a bit about the afterlife of IT projects through two recent discoveries. During database security audits, it's often the case that you find servers (I wrote about how to search for databases in my blog) belonging to projects that have long (or not so long) left our world. Such projects even continue to mimic […]

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