Andrii Rusanov

News editor

After graduating from Odesa Polytechnic National University (bachelor's degree in Nuclear Power Plants and Installations in 1999) and Sevastopol National University of Nuclear Energy and Industry in 2006 (specialist degree in Nuclear Power Engineering), Andrii worked as an engineer for more than 10 years (2001-2013) and then changed his life dramatically. Since childhood, Andrii has been fond of computers, games, and the Internet — since 2013, he has worked as a content manager for online stores, a copywriter, and a writer of news and articles in various projects.

In August 2022, Andrii joined the ITC.ua team as a news writer, and since July 2023, he has continued to write news and articles as a freelance writer. He also creates text content for Focus.ua, Andro-news.com

In addition to computers and other smart devices, he is interested in music and consumer audio equipment, TVs and set-top boxes, science fiction, history, politics, philosophy, scientific areas and achievements, movies, and cats.

NVIDIA quietly curtails RTX 5090D orders and sales

News Technologies 05-07-2025 comment
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090D is the Chinese version of the RTX 5090 with the same capabilities, but with limited AI performance. In fact, the company is winding down their sales.

Apple has released iOS 18.5 Release Candidate — what's new?

News Software 05-07-2025 comment
This week, Apple rolled out the Release Candidate (RC) build of iOS 18.5. There are relatively few new features.

Asus ROG Ally 2 console leaked on the Internet — redesigned design, Ryzen Z2 Extreme chip, up to 64 GB LPDDR5X

News Devices 05-07-2025 comment
Records about the Asus ROG Ally 2 portable console were found in the Indonesian Certification Bureau and the US FCC. There are also several photos.

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT is now in the store and has 16 GB of memory

News Devices 05-07-2025 comment
A Brazilian store has published a page for the unreleased AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT. It has 16 GB, unlike the main competitors.

NVIDIA RTX 5060 graphics cards will be released on May 19, — officially

News Devices 05-06-2025 comment
The launch of the most affordable NVIDIA Blackwell graphics cards for desktops and laptops will take place on May 19. The company has officially announced the date and time of the RTX 5060 release.

Instagram co-founder says AI chatbots «are geared» towards engagement, not useful results

News Technologies 05-06-2025 comment
One of Instagram’s founders, Kevin Systrom, believes that AI companies are primarily concerned with increasing chatbot activity rather than the usefulness of answers.

More than 1000 Xiaomi employees are developing their own Xring processor — it could be released this month

News Technologies 05-06-2025 comment
According to a new report, Xiaomi has created a completely separate company to develop the chip. The functionality of the existing prototype is identical to the final product.

Google goes Hollywood — the company has created a film and TV division 100 Zeros

News IT business 05-06-2025 comment
Google signs a multi-year partnership agreement with Range Media Partners and launches 100 Zeros, a film and TV production division.

OpenAI officially remains a non-profit — the company reconsidered the decision to change its status

News IT business 05-06-2025 comment
OpenAI has actually canceled decision to transform into a commercial company after extensive consultations with the public and lawyers.

Former Google employee and fact-checking specialist: «Generative AI is being imposed on us... They created a self-confident liar»

News Technologies 05-05-2025 comment
Alexios Mantzarlis spent five years at Google, where he worked on generative artificial intelligence and factual accuracy in Search. He’s gone, accuracy and usefulness are no longer the main thing.

Leading Microsoft executive considers Apple macOS better than Windows 11

News Software 05-05-2025 comment
«If Ballmer was CEO, I would have been fired for this tweet», — jokes Merrill Fernando, senior product manager at Microsoft. His April post went viral.

The first NVIDIA RTX 50 graphics card for less than $300 is now in stores

News Technologies 05-05-2025 comment
BestBuy has published the product page for the PNY GeForce RTX 5060 graphics card. It is the first NVIDIA RTX 50 to be offered by a retailer for less than $300.

NVIDIA RTX 4060 laptop tops Steam, AMD processors break a historical record

News Games 05-05-2025 comment
For the first time in three years, laptops with NVIDIA graphics cards have become the most popular gaming devices on Steam. At the same time, AMD chips have the largest share of users ever.

Thin Apple iPhone 17 Air gets a thick case with a battery — not enough charge for a day

News Devices 05-05-2025 comment
What is the best way to discredit the idea of an ultra-thin smartphone? Put it in a thick case. According to unofficial reports, this is what Apple will offer for the iPhone 17 Air.

Gigabyte's NVIDIA RTX 50 thermal pads expose memory — possible overheating over time

News Devices 05-05-2025 comment
The story of Gigabyte’s NVIDIA RTX 50 thermal interface slowly leaking under the influence of temperature has received a potentially dangerous continuation.

Scientists solve the mystery of the sound of opening a beer bottle

News Science and space 04-04-2025 comment
Max Koch, a researcher at the German University of Göttingen and a connoisseur of homebrew, has experimentally worked on a scientific problem that has long been of interest to mankind.

Intel and TSMC set up joint venture to produce chips in the US, — insiders

News Technologies 04-04-2025 comment
Unofficial sources report that Intel and TSMC have reached a preliminary agreement to establish a joint venture to manage Intel’s factories in the United States

Bill Gates showed «the coolest code» he created for Microsoft

News Technologies 04-04-2025 comment
On the eve of Microsoft’s 50th anniversary, Bill Gates published the code that eventually led to the company’s success. The full sample is available for study.

Google DeepMind describes in detail how artificial intelligence can destroy the world

News Technologies 04-04-2025 comment
Google DeepMind researchers have been working on the security problem of general artificial intelligence (AGI) and released a document that explains the risks and principles of safe development.

AMD is preparing a Radeon RX 9070 GRE graphics card, — rumors

News Technologies 04-04-2025 comment
A few days ago, the first rumors surfaced that AMD was considering releasing a Radeon RX 9070 GRE graphics card. Now the first reports about the characteristics have appeared

You can exhale: Trump's tariffs do not apply to semiconductors... for now

News IT business 04-03-2025 comment
Everyone was frightened by Trump’s new duties, but according to the US State Department, they will not affect the semiconductor industry. At least not yet.

Steam in March 2025: Windows 11 and English are the leaders again, Ukrainian overtakes Italian, AMD increases its share

News Games 04-03-2025 comment
Following the radical changes to Steam’s statistics in February, which can be explained «by the Chinese invasion» (or some kind of mistake), the numbers returned to previous trends.

Trump's duties: Apple is getting cheaper, iPhones will become more expensive

News IT business 04-03-2025 comment
When Trump imposed tariffs on China in his first term as president, Apple began to move production of iPads and AirPods to Vietnam and iPhones to India. This won’t help now.

Russian engineer on trial for stealing secrets of ASML, TSMC and NXP — collected data to build a semiconductor factory

News Technologies 04-03-2025 comment
Engineer German A. is accused of secretly supplying confidential technical information from ASML, NXP and TSMC to Russia and receiving illegal income for this.

AMD responds to Ryzen 7 9800X3D and other processors with 3D V-Cache failures

News Technologies 04-03-2025 comment
It seems that AMD’s announcement does not take into account all the problems with Ryzen 9xx0X3D processors.

Laptops with NVIDIA RTX 5090 are only 10% faster and 72% more expensive than models with 5080, — comparison test

News Technologies 04-02-2025 comment
Laptops with an NVIDIA RTX 5090 graphics card are almost twice as expensive as those equipped with an RTX 5080, but do not demonstrate the same level of performance.

This one is definitely burnt out: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D crashed while gaming

News Technologies 04-02-2025 comment
The new case of «death» AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor is difficult to attribute to memory incompatibility or dirt in the socket. The chip shows clear signs of internal damage.

The Motorola Edge 60 Fusion — smartphone with DC Dimming and wet-finger touch costs from € 230

News Technologies 04-02-2025 comment
The first phone in the Motorola Edge 60 series with Moto AI «out of the box» has been released. The phone is already available in stores in Europe.

ChatGPT Reaches 20 Million Paid Users, OpenAI's Revenue Increases by 30% in Three Months

News IT business 04-02-2025 comment
OpenAI is growing its ChatGPT subscriber base at an extremely fast pace. Since the beginning of the year, it has added 4.5 million users. The growth can be compared to a rocket.

About 1 million documents of Ukrainian car owners were unprotected for years, — cybersecurity expert

News Auto 04-02-2025 comment
For three years after the problem was discovered, some car owners’ documents were stored in an unsecured storage facility for about four years.

Cowboys in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 — GSC showed a mysterious video from the game that western fans will recognize

News Games 04-01-2025 comment
The developers of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl have posted something interesting in X for April 1. Moviegoers will immediately remember a familiar scene.

OLX: interest in gaming PCs in Ukraine has increased by 800%, the number of ads has increased 5 times since June 2024

Ukraine IT business 04-01-2025 comment
Components for gaming PCs are extremely expensive in stores, so gamers are looking for something more affordable. OLX reports a radical growth of this niche in the last few months.

Vivo Y300 Pro+ and Y300t introduced — 7300 mAh battery and 5000 nits brightness for $250

News Devices 04-01-2025 comment
Probably, the huge battery capacity of the Vivo Y300 Pro+ can adequately support the ultra-bright screen. Vivo Y300t also has a large battery, but costs even less.

April Fools' Day «joke» Google has 2.5 billion users and 10 billion downloads after 21 years

News Software 04-01-2025 comment
When Google introduced Gmail on April 1, 2004, many people thought it was a joke. Now almost everyone uses this service.

Windows 11 will get «green screen of death» — Microsoft makes mistakes attractive

News Technologies 03-31-2025 comment
If you can’t beat the bugs, change the way you perceive them. This seems to be the logic behind Microsoft’s introduction of GSOD in Windows 11.

Laptops with NVIDIA RTX 5080 and 5090 are available in stores from $2499 and $4299

News Technologies 03-31-2025 comment
It seems that NVIDIA has formally fulfilled its promise of launching RTX 50 laptops in the first quarter. In many stores, pre-orders appeared on March 31, but «prices bite».

A «plague» for AMD processors continues: more than 100 Ryzen 7 9800X3D and the first 9950X3D

News Technologies 03-31-2025 comment
On the ASRock channel in Reddit has already collected 107 reports of AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processors failing. There has also been a report of the affected Ryzen 9 9950X3D.

Ukrainians have created a YouTube viewer — AI provides video design after analyzing the scenario and audience

News Technologies 03-31-2025 comment
Two Ukrainians have created Thumbnailed it, an artificial intelligence-based tool for improving YouTube views. The startup is attracting investment and planning to expand.

Apple MacBook Pro with M6 chip to get redesigned and its own modem in 2026, — Mark Gurman

News Technologies 03-31-2025 comment
The MacBook Pro with Apple’s M5 processor will be released this year and won’t bring any radical changes, while the M6 model will be a significant upgrade.

Brad Pitt and David Fincher are back together, the movie will be a sequel, but not the director's film, — rumors

News Movie 03-30-2025 comment
Together, David Fincher and Brad Pitt have created such masterpieces as «Seven», «Fight Club» and «The mysterious story of Benjamin Button». The new movie will be for Netflix.

The smartest AI Google Gemini 2.5 Pro suddenly became free for everyone

News Technologies 03-30-2025 comment
Google unexpectedly announced on Saturday, releasing the latest Geminі 2.5 Pro (experimental) model to all users — including free users.

Tesla Takedown — On March 29, protests against Elon Musk took place in the United States, Canada and Europe

News WTF 03-30-2025 comment
Today, hundreds of Tesla dealerships around the world were visited by protesters as part of the global Tesla Takedown campaign. People protested against the actions of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 developers increased staff by 27% in six months — the best result in Ukrainian game development

News Games 03-30-2025 comment
GSC Game World, the studio that created S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, is actively expanding. Over the past few months, its staff has increased by 50 people.

Why Elon Musk sold X (Twitter) to himself for $33 billion

News IT business 03-29-2025 comment
On Friday, March 28, Elon Musk announced about the acquisition of social network X (formerly Twitter) by his own company xAI. The reason for the deal may lie on the surface.

Intel's new CEO told when to expect new processors and did not mention video cards at all

News IT business 03-28-2025 comment
Intel’s annual report to shareholders includes a letter from new general director Lip Bu Tan, in which he outlined his immediate plans and reaffirmed previous commitments.

First laptop tests with NVIDIA RTX 5090 — minimal difference from 4090

News Technologies 03-28-2025 comment
Through three months after the announcement and a month after the start of orders, NVIDIA RTX 5090 notebook graphics cards have been tested.

Asus unveils TUF GAMING B850-BTF — first motherboard with hidden connections, 600W GPU socket and new PCIe retainer

News Technologies 03-28-2025 comment
BTF (Back to the Future) is a family of Asus motherboards with rear-mounted connectors. TUF GAMING B850-BTF WIFI W is designed for AMD AM5 chips.

Patch 1.3.1 for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 fixes quest and technical bugs

News Games 03-27-2025 comment
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl has received update 1.3.1, which continues to fix quest locks in various situations and numerous bugs.

Asus ROG Ally X beats Steam Deck with SteamOS 3.8 and the same TDP

News Technologies 03-27-2025 comment
With the new official SteamOS 3.8 third-party portable consoles are able to demonstrate their true power Asus ROG Ally with this OS beat Steam Deck in most games.

NVIDIA wants to produce chips on Intel 18A and is close to a deal, — analyst

News Technologies 03-27-2025 comment
NVIDIA is allegedly looking at Intel as a manufacturer of its GPUs. Broadcom is also likely to join Intel’s «queue.

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