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But Logitech has also shaved off support for lefties to keep weight to just 69 grams. In the din of AMD's RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 launch today, Logitech G announced a brand new ultralight Pro X gaming mouse—or should I say Superlight? At under 63g, the Superlight is significantly lighter than the existing Logitech G Pro Wireless, a mouse very close to my heart (and my hand, I'm actually using it right now). The Logitech G Pro X Superlight is up for preorder over on the Logitech G website for $150, which is a touch more than the G Pro Wireless at $130—a significant sum for a gaming mouse, no less. But if you're after lightweight wireless performance, the Superlight certainly sounds like it has you covered. Our experience with the Hero sensor found within the Pro X Superlight has been very positive so far, and with the Superlight we're seeing it cranked up to 25,400 DPI—in line with many of Logi's sensors that received updates up to 25k earlier this year. Like the G Pro Wireless, the Superlight is Powerplay compatible with the Powerplay mat and kit. Unlike the G Pro Wireless, however, this design is not ambidextrous (sorry, lefties). Where the G Pro Wireless had removable thumb buttons on either side of the mouse, the Superlight ditches the right-side buttons—all in the name of shaving weight, we can only assume. The DPI switch on the underside of the G Pro Wireless (one of my favourite features) has also been removed from the Superlight. Otherwise this gaming mouse bears a lot of similarities to the G Pro Wireless. Same shape, same compact wireless dongle, similar interior skeleton support structure, and slightly different PTFE feet design, just quite a bit lighter. There's also the option for a lighter colourway right out of the gate, too, with either a black or white version available at launch. It's certainly a little more tame in design than the Madcatz Mojo M1 that Paul spotted earlier today. There's something for everyone in ultra lightweight gaming mice today, from the Glorious Model O to Razer's Deathadder V2 Mini. And it's good to see at least a couple of designs that don't head down the perforated exterior route, like the Pro X Superlight, Pro Wireless, and Roccat Kone Pure Ultra. Logitech G Pro X Superlight orders go live on December 3, although you can pre-order today if you so wish.

PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds' latest patch has arrived, bringing with it a new vehicle, the long-requested ability for players to shoot while driving, and something called the Bride Battle Pass. The most anticipated aspect of this is undoubtedly the ability to fire sidearms while driving. This works with every vehicle apart from boats and the BRDM. The only real drawback seems to be slightly reduced vehicle response while reloading, but this is easily offset by a slew of buffs: both driver and passenger aiming cameras have been "heavily stabilised," and "all sidearms across the board have received improvements to damage multipliers, aiming, ADS movement speed, and more." The notes go on to add that "the goal is to make all secondary weapons more viable throughout the game, not just in vehicles" and the full list of changes can be seen here. The Dirt Bike is a new vehicle that can hit 130km/h, and is super-maneuverable and particularly good, as you might expect, on off-road terrain. It only seats one rider, spawns on all maps except for Karakin, and will replace 50% of the existing bikes out there. Finally, the piece de resistance... the Bride Battle Pass. Who else did a double-take the first time they read that? This is, of course, what happens when you try to retroactively create lore for a game like PUBG: you end up with "a young woman who slaughtered her enemies mercilessly to gain battle royale victory all while wearing the remains of a wedding gown." A quite revealing wedding gown, naturally, with military straps resembling suspenders. The character is called Sadiya, and this pass is all about unlocking her outfits. It's a surprisingly slight offering, with no missions associated with it: you buy it, then have 28 days to 'earn' outfits by going through 15 XP levels. It does not replace the Survivor Pass. I suppose, if players are gonna take PUBG's story seriously, they deserve what they get.

The 2021 Yamaha Tracer 9 and Tracer 9 GT announced with revised styling, more power, and less weight than before THE 2021 new model onslaught continues today, as the new Yamaha Tracer 9 and Tracer 9 GT are revealed. The bikes are totally revised compared to the previous models and feature a new engine, frame, swingarm, R1-derived six-axis IMU, and all-new styling and design. Yamaha TRACER 9 GT For 2021, the Euro5 mill sitting in the Tracer 9 and GT has been significantly updated and now boasts 890cc. The increase in capacity has one eye on emissions and one on increasing performance, with the new engine increasing torque by 4% and taking power from 113bhp to 117bhp. The increase in cc has been attained by creating a new long-stroke version of the CP3, stretching the stroke by 3mm and gifting the unit an extra 43cc. Cleverly the latest generation CP3 engine is lighter than the previous item, that’s despite making more power, torque and carrying the extra capacity! Yamaha TRACER 9 Chassis Lighter and stronger CF die-cast aluminium Deltabox chassis Overall 2kg weight reduction for increased agility New lightweight aluminium swingarm Fully-adjustable KYB 41mm USD forks with optimized settings Adjustable KYB rear shock with revised settings and new linkage The chassis of the new bike is an area that been massively updated for this year and is claimed to be lighter and more compact than before. The engine is also mounted in the frame at an increased angle, something that Yamaha is claiming will improve the new machines handling dynamics. Complimenting the new frame is a redesigned swingarm that features new swingarm mounting pivots. To aid the bike’s high-speed stability, the swingarm of the Tracer 900 is 60mm longer than the MT-09 and gives the bikes a wheelbase of 1,500mm. Yamaha TRACER 9 Equipment Full LED lighting with hidden headlights and TRACER signature tail light Renewed A&S clutch Light and compact new 6-axis IMU – first time on a Yamaha Sport Touring Lean-sensitive rider aids: TCS, SCS, and LIFt with three intervention modes ABS and Brake Control system (BC) D-MODE switchable engine running modes New ultra-light SpinForged 17-inch 10-spoke wheels Another feature of the machine to undergo a very thorough overhaul is the electronics of the 2021 model. Like the MT-09 and SP announced last week, the new Tracer 9 gains an R1-derived six-axis IMU control system. It governs the ABS and traction control and allows the rider to manage a host of new and updated assistance systems including traction control, slide control, wheelie control, and brake control – cornering ABS. The bike features four riding modes to suit most applications from wet weather to sports riding. Both versions of the new Tracer 9 now come equipped with a cruise control system, previously you had to stump for the GT variant to get it as standard. The system can only be engaged at 40mph and in gears four and above. Once engaged, the speed of the bike can be adjusted in 2kph increments. Like the MT-09, the new Tracer 9 features spin formed wheels, where the rim is forged between rollers at high pressure. Yamaha has confirmed the rims are the lightest ever on one of its production bikes, with some areas of the rim being just 2mm thick. Yamaha TRACER 9 GT Styling Twin full colour 3.5-inch TFT instruments with a remote handlebar switch Next-generation styling The most noticeable change for the bike is the completely redesigned styling. It’s maybe not as radical a makeover as the MT-07 and MT-09 and bears a much clearer resemblance to the previous model than the smaller bikes in the range do. Pretty much every panel has been redesigned, with the new sleek fairing being the main element of change. One very interesting element of the bike is the design of the TFT dash. It’s created with two 3.5” TFTs mounted in the cockpit, one on either side of the other. It’s a retro-looking setup, and personally, I think it’s nice to see a manufacturer trying something new. The left screen shows the rider key information about the bike, speed, gear, riding modes, and so on. The righthand screen is divided into four sections and can show the rider a range of information selected by them. Yamaha TRACER 9 GT 2021 Yamaha Tracer 9 GT revealed At the top of the Tracer range is the new GT model that is now the highest spec machine in the Yamaha sports touring line up. It features all the updates as the stock bike, with a host of touring specific additions to make long-distance riding substantially more comfortable. Hard cases come as standard on the model, each able to take a full-face helmet and have a free-floating design to aid aerodynamics. The top-spec model also gains KYB semi-active electronic suspension that is controlled by the already updated IMU system. Yamaha TRACER 9 GT An up and down quickshifter is also included on the GT variant, along with LED cornering lights, heated grips, and dedicated paint schemes. The new Tracer 9 and Tracer 9 GT is set to land in dealerships from March 2021 onwards. Pricing as yet is TBC.

The coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech appears to protect 94% of adults over 65 years old. More data released from their continuing phase three trial suggests it works equally well in people of all ages and ethnicities. The companies say they will now apply for authorisation for emergency use of the jab in the US. The trial involved 41,000 people worldwide. Half were given the vaccine, and half a placebo. Last week, Pfizer and BioNTech published preliminary data suggesting the vaccine offered 90% protection against Covid-19 and said there were no safety concerns. This was followed by data on a vaccine made by US company Moderna suggesting nearly 95% protection and similarly promising results from trials of another developed in Russia, called Sputnik. 'Reassuring' Wednesday's data from Pfizer and BioNTech, which builds on last week's data, suggests the vaccine is 95% effective based on 170 cases of Covid-19 developing in volunteers. Just eight were in the group given the vaccine, suggesting it offers good protection. The rest of the cases were in the placebo group given a dummy jab. In older adults, who are most at risk from the virus and have weaker immune systems, the vaccine worked as well as it did in younger people. Scientists said the data was further encouraging news, with Prof Trudie Lang from the University of Oxford describing it as "a remarkable and very reassuring situation". "To go from identifying a new virus to having several vaccines at the point of applying for regulatory approval is an incredible milestone for science," she said. Will there be more than one coronavirus vaccine? Is the vaccine safe to take? And other questions Although the full trial data has yet to be published, the companies say there have been no serious safety concerns. But they did notice headaches and fatigue in about 2% of volunteers given the vaccine, although older people seemed to experience minimal side effects. There is also evidence that the vaccine protects against severe Covid - but this is based on only 10 cases. It's still unclear how long protection from the vaccine lasts and if it stops people transmitting the virus. In the trial, 42% of all participants are from diverse ethnic backgrounds and 41% are aged between 56 and 85 years old. Analysis by Naomi Grimley, health correspondent More vaccine good news is what we've all been waiting for. This time it's really encouraging to know the Pfizer vaccine seems to work on older people as effectively as in younger ones. But this vaccine is still a long way off widespread use. First, regulators need to be absolutely sure in their own minds that it's safe - not least because Moderna and Pfizer both use an experimental technology that's never been approved before. That process could still take a few weeks. Then there's the massive issue of availability. Pfizer is promising 50 million doses by the end of the year. But remember: it's a two-shot vaccine. Perhaps one of the biggest problems is that wealthy countries have already swooped in to buy up the first batches that will be ready. That's good news for a country such as the UK, but not such good news for developing countries which haven't got the money to place bids. That's why so much hinges on other vaccines such as the Oxford AstraZeneca one, as they may be more scalable, and there are more advanced plans to get it to low- and middle-income countries through a UN-backed project called Covax. The trial, which is testing people at 150 sites in the US, Germany, Turkey, South Africa, Brazil and Argentina, will collect data on the safety and efficacy of the vaccine for another two years. The companies behind it expect to produce up to 50 million doses of the vaccine this year and up to 1.3 billion doses by the end of 2021. The UK has pre-ordered 40 million doses and should get 10 million by the end of the year. It has also ordered 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which is planning to release data from its phase three trial soon. Vaccine development There are hundreds of vaccines in development around the world, and about a dozen in the final stages of testing, known as phase three. The first two to show any results - made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna - both use an experimental approach, called mRNA, which involves injecting part of the virus's genetic code into the body to train the immune system. Antibodies and T-cells are then made by the body to fight the coronavirus. The Sputnik vaccine, developed in Russia, has also released early data from phase three based on a smaller number of volunteers and Covid cases. There are some logistical challenges with mRNA vaccines, namely the need to store them at cold temperatures. The Pfizer vaccine must be stored at about minus 80C, although it can be kept in a fridge for five days. Moderna's vaccine needs to be stored at minus 20C for up to six months and kept in a standard fridge for up to a month. Prof Stephen Evans, professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said the full data would have to be submitted to bodies like the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency for approval. "We can expect both agencies to conduct a very careful evaluation and we can rely on their conclusions," he said. This process could take several weeks.

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Game information What is it? An indie spin on hex based wargaming Expect to pay £15.49/$20 Developer Zachtronics Publisher Zachtronics Reviewed on Intel i5, 16gb RAM, Nvidia GTX 1660 Multiplayer? No Linkhttp://www.zachtronics.com/Möbius-front/ Developer Zachtronics is known for its intricate puzzle games, but in Möbius Front '83 it's served up something very different: a modernised take on the niche genre of hardcore hex-based wargames. Even more intriguingly, Möbius Front pits the United States against its most dastardly enemy yet: the United States. No, this isn’t a fifth column uprising but a sci-fi tale of the US being invaded by an alternate reality version of itself. At least, that’s the elevator pitch. Unfortunately, Möbius Front takes its sweet time to engage with this novel premise, with hours passing before it even acknowledges that this alternate universe exists. The first thing you’ll notice is that the opening chapter is achingly slow, doling out miserly scraps of story in the form of an interrogation of an alt-USA prisoner, alongside fun banter between low level grunts with delightful names like Private Nathan Trucks and Sergeant Benjamin Dancer. Things get more interesting in subsequent chapters as more overt sci-fi elements are introduced, but that whole first chapter is several hours long, and I can imagine a lot of players are going to drop out before things get truly interesting. Other between-mission activities involve cribbage solitaire with plane spotter cards, reading old Cold War-era military manuals (that are real pdfs you read outside the game) and a puzzle game based around signalling that’s a little closer to Zachtronics’ usual fare. None are especially deep distractions, and I only really dipped a toe into each one before pushing forward, hoping to progress the story. It's all just a light sprinkling of salt, then, over the meat of the tactical combat. Think of Möbius Front as an attempt to make a modernised, more mainstream version of niche hex-based wargames like Panzer Corps. So there’s no base building here, with units instead selected from a pool and deployed in waves of reinforcements. One mission might start you out with a small troop of infantry, who have to hold out long enough for a tank column to relieve them. Another might give you a big force up front, but no backup. It adds some much needed variety to battles, especially as the maps they take place on are near identical forests—at least until things get weirder in the later chapters. You might be fighting off enemies from a mirror universe, but you're not fielding identical units. Your options are different, so the alt-USA will get to play with attack helicopters for several missions before you, for instance. Let’s talk about those units. Fans of WW2 wargames might expect their tanks to be mobile fortresses, but Möbius Front is set in the '80s, a period when the proliferation of anti-tank weaponry made armour far more vulnerable. Even the basic squad has a rocket launcher capable of taking out most vehicles in a single lucky shot, and you’ll soon learn just how quickly your tanks can go down when ambushed by some troops hiding out in the woods. By introducing a symmetrical conflict that the real '80s never had, Möbius Front gently guides players down this realisation, and towards the power of cheap anti-tank weapons like the fearsome long range TOW Jeep or Dragon anti-tank guided missile. Eventually attack helicopters arrive on the scene and quickly establish themselves as the kings of the battlefield: fast, long ranged and capable of attacking tanks and infantry with equal ease, but vulnerable to dedicated anti-air units. Despite its streamlined approach, Möbius Front does a great job depicting the transition from WW2-style mass warfare to a more modern kind of war. Tanks still have a use, not because of their toughness but because of their mobility. They can both shoot and move, which gives them a huge advantage. Units that can’t do this, which is most of them, risk accidentally revealing an enemy that shoots them to pieces before they get their own turn. In contrast, infantry are slow moving, short ranged and surprisingly durable, especially when they hide in a forest, meaning that only adjacent units can attack them. Some of my greatest victories came from high risk helicopter insertions, dropping an infantry squad off in hostile territory, forcing the enemy to take several turns clearing them out while a tank column desperately dashed forward to relieve them. Most missions involve capturing control points or destroying a specific objective, simply destroying the enemy force is never required, so mobility really is key. What’s impressive is just how approachable all this is—everything I’ve described here is incredibly easy to grasp. There’s no complicated action points system, every unit can either shoot or move, and the most complicated thing is remembering the handful of vehicles that can do both. Almost everything you need to know is spelled out when you click on a unit, including which weapons need a turn to set up (usually powerful long range anti-tank weapons) and which vehicles can transport infantry squads (most of them, but your tank won’t be able to shoot while soldiers ride on top of it). Zachtronics has managed to eliminate most of the potential lows, but Möbius Front also lacks many highs. There’s plenty of challenge, but no moments where you get to feel like you've outwitted a cunning enemy or made a desperate comeback. Most battles play out more or less as you’d expect. I can’t think of a single anecdote where a heroic unit won me the day, or a lucky shot that turned things around—the bread and butter of strategy games. The emphasis on grinding out wins, coupled with the generic and disposable nature of the units, makes missions feel interchangeable. Along with the sluggish pace, this makes for a game that can please, but never truly excites, eventually dampening the urge to plough through.

Aston Martin will provide the safety and medical cars at more than half of the Formula 1 races next season. The agreement, which is yet to be formally announced but which has been confirmed by Racefans.net, will result in Aston Martin taking over the duties from part-shareholder Mercedes at 12 of the planned 23 races next season. In a statement, the British firm said: "It's Aston Martin's policy not to comment on speculation. As a manufacturer, we're extremely excited and focused on our imminent return to Formula 1 as a full works team, for the first time in more than 60 years, in 2021." It's understood that the decision on which manufacturer will operate at which race will be dictated by how active Aston Martin is in the particular market. It's expected to pick countries where it has a larger market share, although Mercedes may hold sway at some of the races where both have significant interests, such as in the US and China. While it's not clear which road car from Aston Martin’s portfolio will act as safety car, a race-derived Vantage is said to be currently favourite for the role. The medical car will be a DBX, which uses the same 4.0-litre V8 engine as the current AMG GT R cars that act as safety and medical cars. Daimler, which owns Mercedes, recently took a 20% shareholding in Aston Martin.

The government is exploring the potential for fans to return to sports venues in some parts of England as early as next month. According to sources, Prime Minister Boris Johnson privately indicated to MPs on Monday that re-opening turnstiles as soon as possible was "a personal priority". The Department of Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS) is now working on allowing fans into stadia in areas where rates of infections are deemed sufficiently low - possibly before Christmas. Sports had previously been told to brace themselves for the threat of having no crowds until April. On Tuesday, the government said it had held "constructive" talks with football leaders on the return of fans, along with issues such as governance reforms, financial sustainability, and greater diversity. Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, who hosted a 90-minute 'virtual future of football' summit, said: "I want to work together with football to make progress on important issues for the game's long-term future. "Discussions to continue as we start our fan-led review of governance." Football must address dementia scandal, says Stiles family Any proposals to link access to sports grounds with the tier-system that was in place before the second national lockdown came into force earlier this month, are yet to be finalised or approved by the Cabinet Office. But officials are known to be increasingly keen to come up with a plan that would enable a phased return of fans in Tier One and possibly Tier Two areas of the country, if the lockdown is lifted, as hoped, in early December. In a devastating blow to cash-strapped sports bodies, plans for a partial return of spectators from 1 October were scrapped amid a rise in coronavirus cases. Turnstiles have been closed since March, despite sports insisting that pilot events with socially-distanced crowds have been achieved safely. There has been further controversy because some arts venues, such as the O2 and Royal Albert Hall, will be allowed to host audiences of up to 5,000 people next month, leading to accusations of inconsistency and favouritism from the sports industry. Last week during a parliamentary debate on the issue, the government refused to say when it expects spectators to be allowed back inside sports venues in England. Almost 200,000 people have signed petitions calling for fans to be able to return. However, there are fears that opening stadia could lead to a greater risk of transmission. "Everyone's saying, 'can I get back to my stadium?'" Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston said last week. "You times that by multiple levels, leagues and sports, and all of a sudden we've got a whole scale far beyond what is acceptable at this moment in time." But, in what will come as a major boost to sport, there now seems to have been a shift in approach. Report The Premier League's failure to reach a financial bail-out agreement with the EFL was also discussed at the summit, with ministers known to be increasingly frustrated at the deadlock. Reform to the system of parachute payments for relegated clubs was mooted at a meeting designed to get the sport's authorities to work together after recent tensions over the potential rescue package and the emergence of radical restructure proposals.

A powerful hurricane has brought torrential rains and strong winds to Nicaragua's Caribbean coast, two weeks after another devastating storm hit. Iota made landfall as a category four storm near the town of Puerto Cabezas, where patients had to be evacuated from a makeshift hospital after its roof was ripped off. Residents are in shelters, and there are fears of food shortages. The storm has weakened and Honduras is expected to be hit later on Tuesday. The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Iota was now a category two storm, but warned it could bring life-threatening storm surges, catastrophic winds, flash flooding and landslides. Number of named Atlantic storms breaks records Why do storms have names? Hurricanes: A guide to the world's deadliest storms Iota struck Nicaragua on Monday evening with sustained winds of nearly 155mph (250km/h), the NHC said. It strengthened at sea to a category five storm but it weakened as it made landfall. In Puerto Cabezas, also known as Bilwi, the storm damaged wooden homes, flooded streets and cut off electricity. Residents said the wind ripped away the roofs of houses "like they were made of cardboard". "I haven't eaten. I don't know where I'm going to sleep here," 80-year-old Prinsila Glaso told AFP news agency. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Nicaraguan officials said around 40,000 people had been evacuated from areas in the storm's path. "[Iota] is the strongest hurricane that has touched Nicaraguan soil since records began," said Marcio Baca, director of the Nicaraguan Institute of Earth Studies. The hurricane is forecast to move inland across the country before hitting southern Honduras. The effect of the rains could be particularly devastating in areas already drenched by Hurricane Eta. Iota made landfall just 15 miles (24km) south of where Eta hit on 3 November. In Honduras, officials said at least 50,000 people had been removed from high-risk areas. Speaking at a news conference on Monday, President Juan Orlando Hernández warned: "What's drawing closer is a bomb." Before reaching Central America the storm moved past the Colombian island of Providencia in the Caribbean, cutting off electricity and killing at least one person, officials said. Colombian President Iván Duque said 98% of the infrastructure in Providencia, home to around 5,000 people, had been damaged. lota is the strongest Atlantic hurricane of the year and only the second November hurricane to reach category five - the last was in 1932. This year's Atlantic hurricane season has broken the record for the number of named storms. For only the second time on record officials have had to start using the letters of the Greek alphabet to start storm names after running out of names on its traditional alphabetical list. Eta left at least 200 people dead. The worst-hit area was Guatemala's central Alta Verapaz region, where mudslides buried dozens of homes in the village of Quejá, with some 100 people feared dead. At least 50 deaths were reported elsewhere in Guatemala.

Leave the pen and paper at home with one of the best note-taking app choices around The best note-taking apps for the iPad Pro make it easy to create and manage documents for use on the go. Although Apple provides its own Notes app with iPadOS, this is only intended to provide a simple and basic functionality. Luckily, there are other notepad applications developed specifically for use on the iPad Pro which further develop and improve on this functionality - and here are a few of the best note-taking app for iPad devices around today. This is not least because the iPad Pro has long been promoted as a useful business tool in itself, so third-party software can extend its use and application for a specific range of business purposes, which coincidentally can also provide value and purpose for general consumers. A particular track that the best note-taking apps take is to harness the strong multimedia features that the iPad can offer, so you don't just have to work with text but can also add in images, video, and audio. Of course, all these apps work across the range of iPads as well - so here's or pick of the best note-taking apps for the iPad. Shop the best iPad Pro deals and sales available right now Want your company or services to be considered for this buyer’s guide? Please email your request to desire.athow@futurenet.com with the URL of the buying guide in the subject line. Also take a look at the best free iPad apps Best note-taking app for iPad Pro - at a glance Notability Evernote GoodNotes Nebo Whink Notepad+ 1. Notability The Swiss army knife of note-taking apps Annotate PDFs Work with multiple input formats Share notes via the cloud Higher cost Notability from Ginger Labs, is an excellent, general purpose note-taking app for the iOS platform. It has won multiple awards over the last several years. This app allows the user to combine multiple inputs, including typing, sketching, handwriting and photos, in a single place. It also supports annotating PDFs. Notes can be shared via email, and cloud-based services including AirDrop, Google Drive and Dropbox. 2. Evernote Note-taking app with cross-platform support Free version Lots of features Also supports Android Need premium version for collaboration For those looking for a note-taking platform that works with their iPad Pro, but also Android devices, Evernote straddles the two mobile platforms with ease. Evernote is a great app to collect multiple inputs, including images, text notes, recorded messages, and clippings of web pages - all in one file for storage and collaboration. They can then be accessed via the iPad Pro, Android, or a PC though the web browser interface for ease of workflow. Also, a further boon is that the notes are searchable. The iOS app is free, and offers in-app purchases. However, the free product is restricted to syncing only two devices, and uploads are limited to just 60MB per month. Step up to the Premium tier to sync all your devices, gain a more generous 10GB of uploads in a month, as well as the additional features of live chat support, and offline access to your notes. Alternatively, for collaborations, there's a business plan with increased limits and additional features. 3. GoodNotes The note app that focuses on handwriting Flexible digital note-taking Handwriting to text conversion Searchable handwritten notes No free tier Those who want to use their iPad Pro to easily take handwritten notes should check out GoodNotes . With the focus on handwriting, this app makes it easy to enter complex mathematics and chemical formulas that can border on the impossible via a traditional keyboard. The GoodNotes approach can also be used to annotate PDFs, plus you can search handwritten notes and convert handwriting into text. The notes are also synced via iCloud, and can be backed up to your choice of cloud providers, including Dropbox, Google Drive, or Box. 4. Nebo The advanced note-taking app Affordable price Handles more complex documents Exports to multiple formats Requires an official Apple Pencil For note-takers with needs that go beyond the basic, Nebo can handle the challenge. While plenty of note-taking apps allow text to be entered, Nebo can also easily structure notes, allowing you to add paragraphs, titles and bullet lists for organization. It also handles ‘rich content,’ such as diagrams, sketches (with different colors and pen widths), flow charts, and formulas, letting you integrate them into the document. Once completed, documents can be exported in a variety of formats, including Word, PDF, and even HTML. Nebo is available for multiple platforms, including Windows 10, Android, and of course iOS. 5. Whink The gel ink pen approach to notes Mimics a gel pen on paper Perfect geometric shapes Affordable No cloud integration Whink is an iOS app that is equally at home taking notes via handwriting, as it is with text. Whether you prefer to write with a stylus, type text, or draw with a finger, Whink makes the process as simple as using real paper. Other media can be added and incorporated including photos, diagrams with colors and “perfect geometric shapes”. Documents can also be marked up, and it supports multi-tasking so notes can be taken while reading another document (we have witnessed folks walking around with two tablets to accomplish this feat when it is not supported). 6. Notepad+ Type or use handwriting Color and image options Works with multiple file formats Notepad+ provides a digital notepad for you to do pretty much anything you'd like to that you would in a normal blank notepad. There's the ability to type notes, of course, as well as make lists, but you can also use it for sketching as well as adding images. There are also additional features, not least for annotating other files, such as PDF files, as well as files from Excel, Keynote, and Numbers. A drag-and-drop function allows images from other apps to be copied into your notes, regardless of the file format used. There are a wide range of formatting options that take Notepad+ away from standard note-taking software, with the ability to use different fonts, colors, and highlighting, as well as support for handwriting. Icons and smileys can also be added to notes, and you can add text next to them. A zoom feature allows you to change perspective if you need to move in closer or further away, which can be especially useful when using images. Notepad+ is available in 12 different languages. Also consider these note-taking apps The success of the iPad and iPad Pro mean there are a lot of apps available for similar functions, and note taking is no different. Different apps focus on different areas, such as just text, rich text editing, including images, sketching images, and even integration with other platforms. We'll consider additional options which take the simple idea of making notes and expand on it: Notes Plus allows you to make handwritten notes and then convert them into text files which you can then export to other file formats, such as PDF. Alternatively, you can import PDF and .doc files. Integration options include Dropbox, Google Drive, and Evernote. Zoho Notebook is a powerful app for taking notes, editing text documents (such as Word or PDF files), adding images or creating sketches, spreadsheets, and even including audio recordings - all in the same note file. This makes it particularly versatile, and all saved files are synced your devices in the cloud. Even better it's free, and there are no ads. OneNote may be a Microsoft production, but it's a full-featured digital notepad for the iPad Pro and other iOS devices. Aside from the fact that it has a lot of functionality - and it's free - it also integrates with Microsoft Office, which could be a big plus for a lot of people. PDF Expert isn't anywhere near as comprehensive as the above programs for working with text. Instead, it's focused only on working with PDF files, not least annotating, highlighting, or signing them. It's only a simple feature-set, but PDF Expert does it well. It's frequently cited as the best app for working specifically with PDF files.

Back at the announcement of RDNA, AMD made it clear that it was at a fork in the road for its sole graphics architecture at the time, GCN. On the one hand, it had gaming requirements to meet. On the other, datacentre suits demanding big number crunching. To placate both parties, Radeon created two different architectures: RDNA and CDNA. What we're seeing today is the first graphics card to use the latter: the Instinct MI100. The MI100 is a serious number crunching GPU, and is intended to be placed amongst the mess of cables found in any good datacentre. Or lack of mess at the really good ones. The card itself offers no graphics output—or any fixed-function graphics blocks whatsoever—meaning you couldn't connect this card up to your monitor for a little back of the warehouse gaming if you wanted to. Sorry. It's a shame, too, because the MI100 houses 120 Compute Units. For comparison (rough comparison, mind) the so-called 'Big Navi' GPU found within the RX 6900 XT comes with 80 CUs. They're completely different architectures, after all, but that doesn't make the MI100 any less of a GPU monster. That chip is designed to accelerate HPC and AI workloads like no other, and AMD says it's one of the best around. By its own numbers, it puts the MI100 ahead of Nvidia's A100 by a significant amount thanks to a new 'Matrix Core' (HPC gets all the cool named stuff) that accelerates certain workloads. That Matrix acceleration helps take the cards standard 23.1 TFLOPS of FP32 performance to 46.1 TFLOPs when using MFMA instructions, a new family of wavefront-level instruction from AMD. As such, the performance uplift won't be immediate for all workloads. The fun doesn't stop there for some lucky datacentre engineer, though. The MI100 comes with 32GB of HBM2 memory (for a whopping 1.23TB/s memory bandwidth), PCIe 4.0 support, and all at a 300W TDP—the same as the upcoming RX 6800 XT and RX 6900 XT. One reason for that easy-going TDP, at least for a chip of this size, is the fact that so much of the graphics-specific silicon has been ripped from the chip to make way for more number-crunching kit. Waste not, want not. There's not long to wait before we get to blow the lid off the second-generation RDNA 2 graphics cards (only two more days!), but in the meantime the datacentre world is getting its own taste of AMD's red-tinted version of the good life. Oh and Nvidia also happened to release an 80GB A100 today, too. That's not due to some clever tactic by either side: All of these announcements were made at SC20, or Supercomputing 2020, a HPC conference taking place today.

Forget the Stealth Boy and shadowed armor. A crummy corrugated container is all you need. Sometimes the best answer to a high-tech problem is a low-tech solution. Solid Snake showed us that when it comes to stealth, a simple cardboard box is all you need to bamboozle enemy guards, and now you can use a cunning corrugated container in Fallout 4. The Metal Gear Solid Cardboard Box mod gives you a comically large box to hide in as you scuttle your way across The Commonwealth. Equip it with your Pipboy as an apparel item and say goodbye to shadowed armor and Stealth Boys. It's time to get old-school, Snake-level sneaky. There are three different versions of the box contained in the mod, and you can only have one version installed at a time. The most basic version is quite simply just a box—there are no stealth benefits at all, it's literally just a giant box you can wear as a costume. The second version, Solid Box, will let you avoid detection while you're wearing the box and sneaking or remaining perfectly still. If you scuttle too quickly in view of enemies, however, they'll spot you. The third version (Big Boss Box) basically renders you invisible, allowing you to creep around right in front of your enemies, who will only detect you if they walk right into you or you do something stupid, like try and fail to pick their pockets. If you're detected, the box vanishes and you can't equip it again until you're hidden. With the mod installed, you'll find your new disguise just outside Vault 111, sitting in the blue trailer by the billboard. You can also craft the "Big Boss" version of the box at a chem station. You can grab Metal Gear Solid Cardboard Box mod here at Nexus Mods.

Gareth Southgate's side had plenty of possession against the world's top-ranked side but were toothless in attack and ultimately undone by two early goals. Leicester City's Youri Tielemans opened the scoring after 10 minutes when his 20-yard shot took a deflection off Tyrone Mings, and Dries Mertens doubled their advantage 13 minutes later with a superb free-kick after Declan Rice was harshly adjudged to have fouled Kevin de Bruyne. Belgium's second came after Romelu Lukaku had headed off the line brilliantly from Harry Kane, and while England spent much of the second half in their opponents' half, they were unable to fashion the opportunities to work their way back into contention. Defeat means England will not reach the finals after finishing third in 2019, when the inaugural showpiece was held in Portugal. In the other match in group A2, Christian Eriksen scored twice to give Denmark a 2-1 victory over Iceland. Meanwhile, Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson was replaced at half-time as a precaution, while Chelsea left-back Ben Chilwell limped off on 38 minutes with an apparent back injury. Grealish makes his mark Grealish was making his first competitive start for England England were without the injured Raheem Sterling, giving Aston Villa's Jack Grealish the opportunity to build on the fine early impression he has made at international level. He emerged as England's outstanding performer and driving force, drawing a succession of fouls from Belgium. Irrespective of the result, Grealish can feel highly satisfied with his own individual display, which followed his impressive performances in the friendlies against Wales and the Republic of Ireland. It also gives Southgate a pleasant problem. It has often seemed as if Grealish has had to convince Southgate of his pedigree at this level, and while the manager may still prefer a front three of Kane, Sterling and Marcus Rashford if all are fit and in form, he now has other options. Victory for Belgium sent them two points clear at the top of the table heading into the final game Is England's system too negative? Southgate again went with a system of five at the back - and once again it looked like the formation left England short of pace and creativity. For all the possession England enjoyed, Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois was hardly worked in any serious fashion. Southgate can point out, with justification, that England were without the thrust of Sterling and Rashford, but there is still a balance to be struck and on the evidence so far this has not yet been achieved. Belgium did not seem unduly concerned - almost allowing England to have possession in the second half - and comfortably exacted a measure of revenge for their defeat at Wembley in October. 'Grealish had an outstanding game' - manager reaction Belgium manager Roberto Martinez: "It was a really good game of football, two strong teams who know each other very well and played each other four times since the 2018 World Cup. "We got the early lead then we had to suffer and see the press and risk that England took. We could not utilise that in our advantage and we defended really well and showed a good focus. That pleases me a lot. You need to give credit to England, they did very well in the second half and pushed us high up." England manager Gareth Southgate: "We don't like losing but enormous credit to the team. All the way through they created problems and defended resiliently. I thought we were excellent. I couldn't have enough praise for the players. "We had a different profile of players but in those positions, I thought Jack Grealish had an absolutely outstanding game. Losing Raheem Sterling and Marcus Rashford, we lose a lot of speed. But I can't fault the attacking play until the last chance." The best of the stats England have lost back-to-back competitive internationals for the first time since losing three in a row from July to September 2018, a run that also included a defeat by Belgium. This was Roberto Martínez's 50th match in charge of Belgium and their 39th win under him, losing just four (D7). This was England's 10th defeat in 48 matches under Gareth Southgate, making him the first manager to lose 10 matches with the Three Lions since Sven-Goran Eriksson, who lost 10 of his 67 games in charge. Belgium have won each of their last 11 competitive home internationals, scoring 48 goals and conceding just four in this spell. England conceded two goals from outside box in a single game for the first time since June 2017 against Scotland, and were two goals behind at half-time in any international for the first time since August 2009 in a friendly against the Netherlands. Tielemans scored his third goal in 33 senior internationals for Belgium; he has three goals in his last five appearances for club and country, as many as his previous 46 combined before this. Lukaku has been directly involved in 19 goals in last 13 appearances for Belgium (15 goals, 4 assists). Kane became the first player to make 50 England caps while playing for Tottenham Hotspur, and the first outfield player to make his first 50 England appearances all while at the same club since John Terry with Chelsea.

The US faces a huge task in reversing a culture of "crazy conspiracy theories" that have exacerbated divides in the country, Barack Obama says. In a BBC interview, the former president says the US is more sharply split than even four years ago, when Donald Trump won the presidency. And Mr Obama suggests Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 US election is just the start of repairing those divisions. "It'll take more than one election to reverse those trends," he says. Tackling a polarised nation, he argues, cannot be left only to the decisions of politicians, but also requires both structural change and people listening to one another - agreeing on a "common set of facts" before arguing what to do about them. However he says he sees "great hope" in the "sophisticated" attitudes of the next generation, urging young people to "cultivate that cautious optimism that the world can change" and "to be a part of that change". Why Donald Trump lost US election results in maps and charts The great dividing line of this year's election How has division been fuelled in America? Anger and resentment between rural and urban America, immigration, injustices like inequality and "the kinds of crazy conspiracy theories - what some have called truth decay" have been amplified by some US media outlets and "turbocharged by social media", Mr Obama tells historian David Olusoga, in an interview for BBC Arts to promote his new memoir. "We are very divided right now, certainly more than we were when I first ran for office in 2007 and won the presidency in 2008," the former president says. He suggests that this is, in part, attributable to Mr Trump's willingness to "fan division because it was good for his politics". Something else that has contributed hugely to the issue, Mr Obama says, is the spread of misinformation online, where "facts don't matter". "There are millions of people who subscribed to the notion that Joe Biden is a socialist, who subscribed to the notion that Hillary Clinton was part of an evil cabal that was involved in paedophile rings," he says. The example he uses here with Ms Clinton relates to a fake theory alleging that Democratic politicians were running a paedophile ring out of a Washington pizza restaurant. "I think at some point it's going to require a combination of regulation and standards within industries to get us back to the point where we at least recognise a common set of facts before we start arguing about what we should do about those facts." image captionMr Obama has said that Joe Biden, who he is greeting here with a socially distant "air elbow", has "all the qualities we need in a president right now" Mr Obama says that while many conventional mainstream media outlets have embraced fact-checking in recent years in an effort to tackle the spread of misinformation online, it is often not enough because "falsehoods had already circled the globe by the time truth got out of the gates". He says division is also a result of socioeconomic factors such as increasing inequality and disparities between rural and urban America. Such issues, he adds, are "paralleled in the UK and around the world" with "people feeling as if they're losing a grip on the ladder of economic advancement and so react and can be persuaded that it's this group's fault or that group's fault". The problem with misinformation is it's po[CENSORED]r By Marianna Spring, Specialist disinformation reporter Viral conspiracy theories have been a staple feature of this year's US election - and a more mainstream school of thought during the Trump presidency. That's because online disinformation with conspiratorial undertones is no longer limited to the dark corners of the internet. It's promoted by prominent figures, with huge followings - like those in charge across the world, including in the White House. The polarised world of the internet - where everything is a matter of opinion rather than fact, and we choose our tribe - has created a fertile breeding ground for conspiracies and misinformation. An increasing number of people who use social media to do their own research come to misleading conclusions - these can be exacerbated by one-sided coverage of stories by partisan media. As Barack Obama points out, these falsehoods or misleading claims - especially when amplified by the media or public figures - prove to be much more po[CENSORED]r than any debunk. The solution may not reside in just presenting the facts - as important as that remains. It's also about understanding why people turn to conspiracies online and how they were exposed to them repeatedly. I frequently speak to victims of online conspiracy theories about the damage they bring, and the divisions they cause. That has revealed how difficult and complex this damage is to undo. What about Black Lives Matter and race? Mr Obama, who made history as America's first black president, says the issue of race has been "one of the central fault lines in American history - our original sin". The events that unfolded over the summer, including the death of George Floyd - a black man who died in police custody - and the response to his death from communities not just in the US but around the world, created moments of both despair and optimism, he says. "Despair that the chronic lingering role of race and bias in our criminal justice system continues in such a blatant form... enormous optimism that you saw an outpouring of protest activism and interest that far exceeded anything we had seen previously - and was peaceful." How BLM went from Facebook post to global movement It was important that the protests were multi-racial, he says, adding that the response was different to that of the killing in 2012 of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Florida teenager who was shot dead by neighbourhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. Mr Zimmerman was later cleared of the 17-year-old's murder in a high-profile criminal case. Mr Obama also mentions the fatal shooting in 2014 of 18-year-old unarmed black man Michael Brown, who was shot six times by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. He says that while those incidents inflamed passions across America, stirring up debate over race and justice, there still appeared to be "resistance among large portions of the white community to push back against the notion that this was more than just one incident or a case of bad apples". "What you saw this summer was some communities that had a very negligible black po[CENSORED]tion, folks going out there and saying Black Lives Matter and embracing the notion that real change has to come." Mr Obama was speaking ahead of the release of his new memoir, A Promised Land, which charts his rise to the US Senate and first term as president. Due for release on 17 November, it is the first of two books covering his time in the White House. You can see the full interview in a special programme, Barack Obama talks to David Olusoga, this Wednesday on BBC One in the UK at 1930 GMT or internationally from Saturday 21 November on BBC World News.

The stunning MV Agusta Superveloce gets a patritoic tricolore refresh for 2021 with the 75 limited edition models to be sold over 75 hours The MV Agusta Superveloce may already be one of the most evocative motorcycles on the market right now but that doesn’t mean the iconic Italian marque isn’t capable of making it just that bit more special when the time suits. Feast your eyes on the MV Agusta Superveloce 75 Anniversario, which has been launched to celebrate, as you’d expect, 75 years of the Varese manufacturer and its ‘Motorcycle Art’ methodology. Coinciding with the launch of a new look website, which in turn heralds a broader target to increase sales and dealership networks across Europe, this is certainly a ‘soft opening’ for MV Agusta’s much vaunted new era. Based on the running gear of the MV Agusta F3 800, the Superveloce packs 148hp @ 13,000rpm from its three-cylinder engine, with a maximum speed topping out at 240km/h (150mph). However, the Superveloce predominantly wears its heart on its silky sleeve with that porthole single circular headlamp fronting a funnelling frontal fascia, an appearance imitated towards the striking rear end. To celebrate those 75 years, the Superveloce 75 is decked out in patriotic Italian tricolore red, green and white colours, with gold detailing. With an Arrow three-exit exhaust system (for track use only), a control unit with a dedicated map and numbered steering head aluminium plate and painted tail-cover, the Superveloce is destined to look and sound fabulous. The make the occasion particularly special, only 75 will be produced and they will be sold over a period of 75 hours starting at midnight on November 15, Reservations cost 100euros and full prices start at 25,000euros. Who wants one? MV Agusta Superveloce 75 Anniversaro

Lewis Hamilton clinched a seventh World Championship and became the most successful racing driver ever with a masterful victory in the Turkish Grand Prix on Sunday. The Mercedes driver equalled Michael Schumacher's achievement in terms of titles, after already surpassing the German's number of race wins last month. Victory at a treacherously wet and slippery Istanbul Park track in a topsy-turvy race was the 94th of the 35-year-old Briton's career. As he received the congratulations of his team, Hamilton was almost overcome with emotion in the car after the race, saying: "To all the kids out there, dream the impossible." Once out of the car, he added: "Seven is just unimaginable but when you work with such a great group of people and you really trust each other, there is just no end to what can do together. "I feel like I'm only just getting started, it's really weird." Hamilton, who does not yet have a contract for next year, added that he would "love to stay" in F1 and wanted to continue to campaign for change when it comes to human rights, diversity and environmentalism. How Hamilton won it in style It was a drive befitting the monumental nature of Hamilton's achievement. Hamilton trod carefully in the opening stages of the race and even made a couple of small mistakes as the drivers fought for grip in the wet conditions. By five laps in he was in sixth place well over 20 seconds off the lead, held by Racing Point's Lance Stroll, ahead of team-mate Sergio Perez. After all the leaders made an early stop for fresh intermediate tyres, Hamilton was stuck behind Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, faster but unable to pass because of the lack of grip off line. But the race opened up for Hamilton at around half-distance as he once again made decisive strategy calls on tyres from the cockpit and drove with the skill and class that has enabled him to put himself in this position. Stroll and Perez began to be caught by those behind. Red Bull's Max Verstappen was the first to pressure them, but fell out of contention when he lost control and spun behind Perez on lap 18, destroying his tyres and needing to stop again. "I know I often say it is beyond my wildest dreams, but my whole life secretly I have dreamt as high as this," Hamilton said after his title win Then, Red Bull's Alex Albon was running third, ahead of Vettel's Ferrari and Hamilton. Ferrari pitted Vettel for fresh tyres on lap 33, having seen how quickly team-mate Charles Leclerc was going on his fresh intermediates, and then Albon spun at Turn Four. That gave Hamilton a clean run to attack the Racing Points and he told his team: "Don't box [pit] me, man." Despite Stroll saying he did not want to change tyres, Racing Point did pit the Canadian on lap 36, removing him from the lead and, shortly afterwards, Hamilton took the lead from Perez and never looked back. Hamilton and Perez stayed out on worn tyres, as the Mercedes driver pulled away in the lead, his only concern being whether his worn intermediate tyres would last. And Hamilton's excellence was put into stark perspective by his team-mate Valtteri Bottas. The Finn went into the race knowing he had to out-score Hamilton by at least eight points to keep the championship alive. But he had a dreadful day, spinning at least five times and finishing 14th, lapped by Hamilton. When told there were four laps left late in the race, a downcast Bottas said: "I wish it was less." Report What happened to Stroll? It was a heartbreaking day for Stroll, who confidently led for the first 36 laps after the first pole position of his career, only to see his race unravel after he made his stop for fresh tyres. But while the Canadian could not make the new tyres work on his car, and slumped to ninth at the end, a second pit stop mid-race worked well for both Ferrari drivers. Perez hung on to second, after briefly losing the place to Leclerc on the final lap, only for the Monegasque to slide wide at the final chicane, allowing team-mate Vettel through into the final podium position, his first of the season. Red Bull's Max Verstappen pushed Perez hard early on, but a spin at the kink on the back straight ended his hopes. Driver of the day Who else? Hamilton was in a class of his own, cautious when necessary, reading the race and pouncing when it mattered - before taking control. Driver of his generation What happens next? Hamilton has clinched the title with three races still to go, two in Bahrain starting in two weeks' time and then a finale in Abu Dhabi in mid-December. What they said Hamilton: "It felt so far fetched. I remember watching Michael win those world championships. To get one or two or even three is so hard. Seven is unimaginable. There is no end to what we can do together, me and this team. We dreamed of this when I was young. It is so important for kids to see this and don't listen to anyone who says you can't achieve something. Dream the impossible. You have got to chase it and never give up." Perez: "I told my team on the radio: 'One more lap on those tyres, I think they will have exploded.' The vibrations were really bad towards the end. But I think it also made our race. Looking after them towards the beginning and towards the end, with drying conditions, I think the team did a fantastic job with the strategy in the race." Vettel: "It was quite intense but good fun. I had a really good opening lap, I found myself already in P4. It is a bit of a surprise to snatch the podium but I am certainly very happy."

A vaccine which can prevent nine out of 10 people getting Covid-19 is set to be put forward for emergency approval. Its developers, Pfizer and BioNTech, said it had been tested on 43,500 people, with no safety concerns raised. What is the new vaccine and how effective is it? The vaccine trains the immune system to fight coronavirus. It is a new type of vaccine called an RNA vaccine and uses a tiny fragment of the virus' genetic code. This starts making part of the virus inside the body, which the immune system recognises as foreign and starts to attack. It is given in two doses - three weeks apart - and early data suggests it protects more than 90% of people from developing Covid symptoms. Has this type of vaccine ever been used before? There are no RNA vaccines that have been approved for use in humans. The concept has been researched before and people have been given them in clinical trials for other diseases. The vaccine will be considered by regulatory agencies around the world, and they will decide whether the jab can be approved for use. Who will get it first and how soon can I have it? It depends how old you are, as age is the biggest risk factor for severe Covid-19. In the UK, older care home residents and care home staff are top of the preliminary priority list. They are followed by health workers such as hospital staff and the over 80s. People are then ranked by age, with people under 50 at the bottom of the list. The first jabs may take place before Christmas if everything goes smoothly. The vaccine will be delivered through care homes, GPs and pharmacists as well as "go-to" vaccination centres set up in venues such as sports halls. However, there are logistical challenges to overcome - such as the need to keep the vaccine at minus 80C during transportation from the manufacturing lab to vaccination venues. The jab must be thawed before it is given to a patient and can be stored in a normal fridge for a few days before being administered. First 'milestone' vaccine offers 90% protection Have we finally got a coronavirus vaccine? Who would get the vaccine first? Will it offer lasting protection? It is impossible to know and we will find the answer only by waiting. If immunity does not last then it may be necessary to have a vaccine every year, in the same way as for flu. The data did not show whether protection from Covid-19 was the same in all age groups. However, earlier studies did suggest young and old people could produce an immune response. There will also be some people - such as those with a weak immune system - who will not be able to have the vaccine. Could the vaccine have long-term health effects? Nothing in medicine is 100% safe - even something we take without thinking, like paracetamol, poses risks. The data so far is reassuring - trials on 43,500 people discovered no safety concerns, although mild side effects have been reported. If there were highly dangerous and common consequences of this vaccination, they should have become apparent. However, rarer side effects may emerge as millions of people are immunised. Will it mean we don't need lockdown? Hopefully yes, but not for some time. If enough people are immune then the virus would stop spreading and we would not need other measures for controlling the virus. The challenge, however, is getting from now to that point. There is still the monumental challenge of manufacturing enough vaccine and actually getting it into people. It is all going to take time and we need something to control the virus until then. So, testing, lockdowns, social distancing, and mask wearing are going to be a feature of our lives for a while yet. What if the virus mutates? Viruses mutate all the time, it's what they do. The question is, will they mutate in a way that changes their behaviour? So far there is no sign of that happening, but it is possible that in the future the virus may change so the vaccine becomes less effective. If that happens, then a new coronavirus vaccine may need to be designed. This is not unusual. A new flu vaccine is developed each year to try to match the strains of flu that are doing the rounds. And the RNA vaccine technology is very easy to tweak so this should not be a major problem. Why can it only be made by Pfizer? The vaccine has been designed and developed by Pfizer and BioNtech, and they own the intellectual property. They already have the manufacturing capacity to produce 1.3 billion doses by the end of next year, but could partner with others to increase capacity even further. What do we still need to know about the vaccine? The announcement gave us the headline, but there is a still lack of fine detail. We do not know if the vaccine stops you catching and spreading the virus or just stops you from getting ill. We also don't know how protective the vaccine is in different age groups. These will be crucial for understanding how it will be used. What does this mean for other vaccines? It is good news. It shows that a coronavirus vaccine is possible, which we didn't know a couple of days ago. As many of the vaccines are targeting the same part of the virus - what's known as the spike protein - it raises hopes they will work too. There are about a dozen vaccines in the final stages of clinical development. No vaccine has gone from the drawing board to being proven highly effective in such a short period of time. We are still waiting for the full data, but these results are even better than people were hoping for. A good flu vaccine protects around half of people, so 90% at the first attempt is a triumph.

iOS 14.3 will prompt some users to install selected third-party applications during setup, in what is likely an attempt to stifle any allegations of anticompetitive behaviour from regulators. The feature, which is buried deep within the beta version of the upcoming iOS release and was first spotted by 9to5Mac, is believed to be activated depending on the location of the user, and states: “In compliance with regional legal requirements, continue to view available apps to download.” Although iOS is not the most widely installed mobile operating system (that particular crown belongs to Android), it is unique insofar as the control exerted by Apple on the ecosystem, famously dubbed the Walled Garden. This limits where users can download third-party software - exclusively the App Store - and forces developers to use Apple’s payment processing methods, which take a 30 per cent cut of all transactions. Moreover, until recently, users were unable to select third-party products for their default browser and email apps. This has prompted antitrust investigations in several jurisdictions, including the US, Japan, and the EU, often prompted by the complaints of competitors, such as Spotify and Rakuten. This is in addition to the legal action taken by Epic Games, which has claimed Apple deliberately tries to disadvantage third-party developers through its app store policies. Apple isn’t the only phone manufacturer to incorporate third-party downloads into the setup process — Huawei and OPPO both recommend specific apps upon setup. Although these tend to be separate from the core phone experience, and are usually marketing outreach efforts designed to raise the profile of a particular app. More likely, one can draw parallels between the “browser choice” feature Microsoft was forced to foist upon users by the European Commission, in order to chip away at the then-dominant posture of Internet Explorer. Separately, the Commission forced Google to allow Android users to select their preferred search engine, in order to assuage antitrust concerns.

Nvidia's broken down AMD's Smart Access Memory feature, and is making it available to Intel-based systems too. Just don't get too excited about the fps gains... AMD announced a few key features for its upcoming Big Navi graphics cards ahead of launch, one of which has now been picked apart by Nvidia in what can only be described as a very AMD way. Where AMD's Smart Access Memory is a proprietary system, only to be available to members of the super elite Ryzen 5000 and Radeon RX 6800 club, Nvidia is offering a version that is potentially open for all. How times have changed. As the only company to be able to offer both its own graphics cards and CPUs—at least for now—AMD made a lot of noise about the potential performance boost it could offer when pairing the new Ryzen 5000-series processors with the Radeon RX 6800-series GPUs. On their own each should be a great standalone slice of silicon, but the idea is that they come together to form a gaming PC that's greater than the sum of its parts. The AMD Smart Access Memory (SAM) feature promises up to 11% higher gaming performance across select titles by utilising both the company's new CPUs and GPUs working in unison. The basic theory is that currently the way gaming PCs are set up means that in Windows-based systems the processor can only gain access to a small part of the graphics card's memory at any given moment, which has the potential to limit gaming performance. AMD is widening that channel to allow its Ryzen 5000-series chips to be able to access far more memory at once, "to harness the full potential of GPU memory, utilizing the bandwidth of PCI Express to remove the bottlenecks and increase performance." That will only happen with AMD's 500-series motherboards running PCIe 4.0, and with the aforementioned new Ryzen and Radeon silicon. It also needs the latest motherboard BIOS as well as the latest GPU drivers, but if you're not keeping those updated with your new chips then you deserve all you get. The effect is that you get up to 11 percent higher gaming performance. In Forza Horizon 4. In other games you're looking at more like 5-6 percent, and in others less than that. So, hardly transformative on its own. But that hasn't stopped Nvidia from digging into it and fashioning its own response. In a statement sent around the tech press yesterday it essentially explained how AMD had opened the access floodgates. “The capability for resizable / larger BAR is part of the PCI Express specification," the statement reads. "NVIDIA hardware supports this functionality and will enable it on Ampere GPUs through future software updates. We have it working internally and are seeing similar performance results. Stay tuned.” So, by similar results, Nvidia tells us it is seeing the same sub-10 percent gains on most games, which isn't exactly going to set the world alight in frame rate terms. The Resizable BAR Support feature Nvidia is referencing was implemented in the PCIe specification a few years ago, and has historically been used in enterprise and workstation environments where access to large pools of graphics memory is more important than it has been in gaming. Where it was limited to 256MB before that was expanded to operate instead in terms of gigabytes. The important part of this is that if all AMD is doing with SAM is taking advantage of the Resizable BAR feature then it's not something that really needs to be limited to AMD's own hardware, and especially not only the latest goodies. Though there may be more to it than just hitting that feature in the PCIe spec. Speaking with Nvidia, however, it wants to widen its own version out to Intel hardware, and specifically to PCIe 3.0 systems too. It has the feature working in the labs right now, but Nvidia hasn't given us a final date for when it's going live. Though I'd be surprised to see the RTX 3080 getting support for the feature before the start of 2021. What that's going to look like, as with AMD's own Smart Access Memory, is going to be a compatible version of Nvidia's graphics driver, but it's also going to need a compatible BIOS update for whichever motherboard you're running. As such Nvidia is going to have to be working with both AMD and Intel to get this going; chatting up Intel surely won't be an issue, but I'd love to be a fly on the wall as Nvidia talks to AMD about it. But why now? Presumably it's because the green team saw the feature in the AMD presentation, has been trying to figure out what it was doing, and has now got to the stage of having its own Ampere cards running, on a platform agnostic level, in the labs. While Nvidia has been at pains to get the existence (whether planned or reactionary) of its own take on Smart Access Memory out into the public consciousness recently, it does bear repeating that it's not going to make a massive difference to the performance of your system. It's great that both companies are taking aim at potential bottlenecks, and it's also great that AMD has taken the lead and is encouraging Nvidia to make an equivalent feature part of its own new graphics card stack. But still, the idea that AMD is the one sticking to proprietary performance-boosting features, while Nvidia is the one trying to make it much more platform agnostic, feels like the world has turned on its head. How very 2020.

Cyberpunk 2077 is, without a single doubt, this year’s most anticipated title. It’s developer CD Projekt Red’s follow-up to the Witcher franchise, which has had more trailers and reveals than most AAA games out there, and has Keanu-freaking-Reeves in it. It’s almost like this game’s marketing campaign has marketing campaigns at this point, and next week we’re getting treated to another peek inside of Night City. Episode five the Cyberpunk 2077 Night City Wire is going live next week, and instead of focusing on the vehicles of the world, viewers will learn more about its music and the mysterious rocker boy Johnny Silverhand. For the folks who don’t know him yet, Johnny Silverhand is Keanu Reeves’ character in Cyberpunk 2077. The slick-haired, leather jacket-rocking bad boy somehow ends up living in the head of the game’s protagonist, V. It’s not clear what his goal is in the game, but from his line at the end of 2019’s cinematic trailer for the game, “We have a city to burn,” certainly doesn’t mean bringing everyone puppies and kittens. The life and tunes of Johnny Silverhand In the world of Cyberpunk 2077, Silverhand and his music are pivotal to the game’s story. Originally born as Robert John Under, Silverhand was a military veteran in the fictional 2000s, but came back from the Central American Conflict as a deserter and found refuge in Night City. He ended up changing his name to the one we know today and formed the band Samurai. After the band’s fall from grace, Silverhand found himself fighting yet again, this time in the Fourth Corporate War. He led a fateful charge on Arasaka’s headquarters in Night City, and legend says he died that night at the hands of Adam Smasher, a man turned killing machine. Somehow, Silverhand ends up in the mind of V, and it’s safe to say Arasaka is still on his hit list. As for the music of Cyberpunk 2077, much of is has been unexplored. CD Projekt Red has already revealed that parts of the score for the game will be completely original and span across genres, all while staying accurate to the game’s dystopian, futuristic setting. To tune in and learn more about the legendary rockerboy and his tunes in Cyberpunk 2077, catch the next Night City Wire as it airs on Thursday, November 19 at 6PM CET or noon ET. Pending yet another delay, Cyberpunk 2077 is due to launch on December 10. The game can be pre-ordered on the Epic Games Store or Steam.

The next-generation Kia Sportage SUV has been spotted testing in Europe for the first time, ahead of a likely unveiling in late 2021. In its current form, the Sportage is Kia's best-selling model in the UK, coming second to the smaller Niro this year only in September. It's available in four trim levels with a choice of three engines: naturally aspirated and turbocharged versions of a 1.6-litre petrol and a newly introduced 1.6-litre mild-hybrid diesel. It's unclear at this early stage whether all three engine options will be carried over to the fifth-generation Sportage when it goes on sale in 2022, but diesel still plays an important role in Kia's European line-up, so it's likely to continue. Any petrol options will likely be electrified, too, but there's no word on whether the Sportage will follow the larger Sorento in gaining a plug-in hybrid powertrain. This test mule has an electrified powertrain of some sort, as revealed by the legally mandated yellow sticker at the rear. Earlier this year, Kia detailed its strategy to launch 11 new electric vehicles by the end of 2025, among which will be a new crossover with performance-inspired styling and a range of more than 310 miles. That's unlikely to bear the Sportage badge, however, being geared more towards offering an engaging and premium driving experience. Despite the camouflage, this prototype hints at a radical styling evolution for the Sportage, comparable with the dramatic difference between the second- and third-generation models. A new design for the leading edge of the bonnet suggests heavy influence from the new Sorento, which wears the latest iteration of Kia's 'tiger nose' grille, while the headlights appear to sit lower and the front splitter to protrude further than before. Revisions to the side and rear will be equally extensive, with a reshaped roofline curving down towards a completely new boot lid design, topped by a prominent spoiler. Camouflage covers most of the rear-light design, so it's unclear whether the Sportage will adopt the Telluride-inspired vertical design seen on the Sorento or retain its wraparound light bar.

Sierra Leone fought back from 4-0 down away to Nigeria to draw 4-4 in their 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier after a spectacular comeback in Benin City. It was one of six qualifying group fixtures on Friday for the finals which will now take place in Cameroon in 2022. In other matches, Chelsea's Hakim Ziyech struck twice for Morocco as they secured a home victory along with Tunisia, Mali, Niger, and South Africa. Nigeria 4 Sierra Leone 4 The Super Eagles were coasting towards a third win from three in Group L after racing to a 4-0 lead inside the first half hour of their match at home to Sierra Leone. Everton forward Alex Iwobi scored twice, with his first goal coming in the fourth minute. Napoli's Victor Osimhen found the net after 21 minutes on his return to Nigeria's team. Osimhen then set up Iwobi who got his second goal six minutes later and Villareal's Samuel Chukwueze added a fourth, with another assist from Osimhen. Sierra Leone began their stunning fightback just before half-time when Kwame Quee grabbed what looked to be a consolation goal. Alhaji Kamara began to stamp his mark on the match. He added a second for the visitors after 72 minutes to make it 4-2. Mustapha Bundu then added a third for Sierra Leone to make it 4-3 with 10 minutes remaining. Nigeria were left stunned as Alhaji Kamara completed an astonishing performance by his team with an equaliser four minutes from time. Nigeria remain top of their group on seven points - with Sierra Leone third, five points adrift. Second placed Benin play bottom side Lesotho on Saturday. Morocco 4 Central African Republic 1 Chelsea's Hakim Ziyech scored two goals in Morocco's win over Central African Republic. Hakim Ziyech scored twice for Morocco as they beat Central African Republic 4-1 to go back on top of Group E. Ziyech set up Morocco's opener for Achraf Hakimi in the 10th minute with CAR's Louis Mafouta responding with a 25th minute equaliser. Ziyech then added his name to the scoresheet, putting the Atlas Lions back in control with two quick goals. He hit a penalty in the 31st minute and got his second - Morocco's third - just two minutes later. Debutant Zakaria Aboukhlal scored in the second half to put the result beyond doubt, giving Morocco a comfortable win. Morocco are two points ahead of Mauritania at the top of the group. Africa Cup of Nations: Algeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast all win on Thursday As it happened: Wednesday's African Nations Cup qualifiers South Africa needed a spot kick to help them avoid embarrassment against Sao Tome e Principe, a country with a po[CENSORED]tion of just 200,000 and ranked 182nd in world football. Percy Tau converted a penalty after 55 minutes in the Group C game, with Bongani Zungu adding a second with a header from a corner in the last minute to ensure a 2-0 victory in Durban. Penalties also proved decisive in Friday's other Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. Tunisia have nine points from three games in Group J after captain Youssef Msakni's first half penalty brought them a narrow win over Tanzania in Tunis. Mali joined Guinea at the top of Group A after their 1-0 home win over Namibia in Bamako, with teenager El Bilal Toure netting from the spot in the 38th-minute. Also on Friday, Niger beat Ethiopia 1-0 in Niamey thanks to a second half Youssef Oumarou penalty. Niger and Ethiopia are both on three points in Group K behind the top two, Ivory Coast and Madagascar, who are both on six points.

Iran has denied a report that a leader of terrorist group al-Qaeda was killed in its capital Tehran in August. The New York Times newspaper reported that Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, al-Qaeda's second-in-command, was shot dead in the street by Israeli agents following a request from the US. Iran said it had no al-Qaeda "terrorists" living in its country. Abdullah is accused of planning the deadly attacks on American embassies in Africa in 1998. Abdullah, who is more commonly known by his alias Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was gunned down along with his daughter by two assassins on a motorbike on 7 August, the New York Times reports, citing anonymous US intelligence officials. The report claimed that Iran had initially sought to cover up al-Masri's death, with Iranian and Lebanese media reports describing the victims of the 7 August shooting as a Lebanese history professor and his daughter. However, Iran's foreign ministry denied the report on Saturday, saying: "From time to time, Washington and Tel Aviv try to tie Iran to such groups by lying and leaking false information to the media in order to avoid responsibility for the criminal activities of this group and other terrorist groups in the region." There was no immediate comment from either US or Israeli officials. What's happened to al-Qaeda? Africa's Sahel becomes latest al-Qaeda battleground Al-Masri was one of the founding members of the jihadist group which has wreaked devastation across the Middle East and parts of Africa and carried out the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US. He was accused of being behind the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 224 people in 1998. He had been in Iran since 2003, initially under house arrest but later living freely, American intelligence officials quoted in the New York Times said. Any link between Iran and al-Qaeda would be highly unusual - the two sides have fought each other in conflicts, and represent the two main and sometimes opposing groups of Islam - Iran is largely Shia Muslim, while al-Qaeda is a Sunni jihadist group. Al-Masri still appears on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list, where a $10 million reward is offered for information leading to his arrest.

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