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The Canadian government should renew funding for a soon-to-end Arctic climate and atmospheric research program, a group of more than 250 international climate scientists is arguing in an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “There is a crisis looming for Canadian climate and atmospheric research that will be felt far beyond Canada’s borders,” the letter states. Extending funding for the 6-year-old Climate Change and Atmospheric Research (CCAR) program, which is set to end this year, would help maintain the country’s scientific and political leadership in the field, the authors say. CCAR, launched in 2012, provides CA$7 million per year for seven research networks studying the physical processes underlying climate and atmospheric behavior. Among other activities, the networks monitor and model tiny particles known as aerosols, biogeochemical trace elements in the Arctic Ocean, and atmospheric temperatures in the high Arctic. So far, the Trudeau government has been mostly silent on CCAR’s future, frustrating scientists concerned about the program’s fate. It has given one part of the program a temporary reprieve; In November 2017, the government announced CA$1.6 million in funding for the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory, located on the remote Ellesmere Island in Canada, to keep it running until 2019. CCAR is an important program not just for Canadian researchers, but for those around the world, says Benjamin Santer, a climate scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, who signed the letter. “I have a rich history of collaboration with scientists in Canada. Anything that jeopardizes … that work is a concern to me,” he says. (Santer spoke in a personal capacity, not representing his employer.) CCAR is one of the only sources of public funding for this kind of science in Canada, says Dan Weaver, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Toronto in Canada and a member of the scientific campaign group Evidence for Democracy. Given the Trudeau government’s public commitments to climate action, the pending end of the program comes as something of a surprise. “To lose this under this government is unexpected, and will be very damaging,” Weaver says. “If we don’t act, we’re going to start losing people, facilities, and data sets.” Santer says international climate researchers are looking to Canada to provide leadership as climate science is sidelined in the United States. “The scientific understanding of the nature and causes of climate change are under concerted attack [in the United States], and our work is being dismissed as a hoax and conspiracy,” he says. “So we look to other countries like Canada for leadership—both political leadership, which Trudeau has said he will provide in this leadership vacuum, and scientific leadership.” Canada recently opened a new Arctic research lab, the Canadian High Arctic Research Station, in Cambridge Bay. But it is not equipped for atmospheric research, Weaver says, and despite its name is not located far enough north to replicate the work of the CCAR networks. Any announcement of new CCAR funding will likely have to wait until the federal government releases its next budget in March. Canadian researchers have been lobbying hard for an increase in basic research funding, and say they have had a positive reception from government ministers. Matt Jeneroux, a member of Parliament and the Shadow Minister for Science of the opposition Conservative Party, reacted to today’s letter with a statement affirming his party’s support for continuing CCAR. The Conservative administration of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper “created this fund in the 2011 budget,” he noted. “This government has had over two years in power, and plenty of advanced warning, to come up with a solution when CCAR sunsets this year.” The Trudeau government’s silence on the issue, he added, “is disappointing from a government that claims to put a high value on both science and climate change.”

Secure messaging apps have become somewhat commonplace on smartphones but few services exist across all major platforms. To that end, Skype is rolling out end-to-end encryption within Private Conversations using Signal Protocol. Signal is an open source project currently found in WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Google Allo. Invites to secure chats must be accepted within seven days before an invitation expires. A lock icon will appear next to a contact's name to show that a conversation is encrypted. In order to further protect privacy, Private Conversations will not be shown in Chats or in any form of notification. Editing of messages is prohibited and forwarding of files is also disabled. Full encryption covers audio messages, text chat and files but is not implemented for standard audio and video calling. Encrypted conversations are locked to the device they are started on. A separate invite must be sent to switch over to another device. Skype already has encryption for voice, file transfers and instant messaging but not end-to-end encryption. Many common Skype activities expose data that is not encrypted at various points between two users. Most notably, local storage is not encrypted at all for standard conversations. Currently, only Skype Insiders are able to try out Private Conversations for themselves. Matching build versions between users is required to try out the feature. If and when Signal integration is brought to a final release, it is expected that all users above the initial release version will be able to securely interact. Additional protection of communication may not be seen as important to everyone but could be enough to get more users to consider Skype as their preferred means of contact.

We know that demand from cryptocurrency miners is a huge factor behind the incredibly high graphics card prices we see right now. In an attempt to combat this phenomenon, Nvidia is asking its retail partners to limit the maximum number of GPU sales to two per person. In our feature ‘Why building a gaming PC right now is a bad idea, Part 2: Insane graphics card prices,’ we explain that the surging profitability of cryptocurrencies, which are still being mined in record numbers despite the recent crash, is likely the biggest contributing factor to the sudden hike in GPU pricing. Many cards are currenly on sale at more than double their MSRP. The GTX 1060 6GB, for example, has an average asking price of $530, up from $250, while the GTX 1070 is a whopping $890, almost two and half times more than its $380 MSRP. Moreover, some online retailers are trying to take advantage of the mining craze by selling graphics card bundles—again, at a much higher MSRP. Newegg is selling six GTX 1080 Founders Edition cards for $6699. MSRP April 2017 Nov 2017 Current (1/15/18) GeForce GTX 1050 Ti $140 $150 $160 $190 GeForce GTX 1060 3GB $200 $220 $235 $410 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB $250 $280 $310 $530 GeForce GTX 1070 $380 $420 $470 $890 GeForce GTX 1080 $500 $560 $590 $940 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti $700 $755 $740 $1200 Radeon RX 560 $100 N/A $130 $140 Radeon RX 570 $170 $190 $250 $540 Radeon RX 580 8GB $230 $260 $310 $660 Radeon RX Vega 56 $400 N/A $450 $670** Radeon RX Vega 64 $500 N/A $505 $800** In a comment to German-language site ComputerBase.de, Nvidia stressed that it isn’t happy about the situation, and that the company values its target market of gamers above all others. For NVIDIA, gamers come first. All activities related to our GeForce product line are targeted at our main audience. To ensure that GeForce gamers continue to have good GeForce graphics card availability in the current situation, we recommend that our trading partners make the appropriate arrangements to meet gamers’ needs as usual. Selling no more than two graphics cards per order isn’t something that Nvidia can force on retailers; it’s only a suggestion. But the company is also trying to prioritize gamers by selling GPUs directly from its website. While selling the cards higher than the suggested retail price might sound like good business for Nvidia, it knows that gamers are its core market—and a loyal one at that. Remember, Nvidia and AMD don’t own the semiconductor manufacturing plants that produce their GPUs, which are running at near or total capacity as it is, and they can’t just ramp up production in the short term. Exactly how much of an effect Nvidia’s actions will have on GPU prices remains to be seen, as it will be down to the retailers to implement the changes. Still, at least it’s trying to do something.

Lenovo at IFA Berlin shared the successor to its po[CENSORED]r Yoga 910 2-in-1. The aptly-named Lenovo Yoga 920 features a 13.9-inch convertible IPS touchscreen with an optional 4K panel upgrade. It’s one of two new Lenovo laptops equipped with Intel’s 8th generation processors (your choice of a Core i5 or Core i7) and can be configured with up to 16GB of DDR4 memory and 1TB of solid-state drive storage. The system features a far-field microphone array so you can interact with Microsoft’s Cortana from up to four meters (more than 13 feet) away. You can apparently even use this feature when the laptop is powered off (meaning Cortana is always listening). It also comes with Lenovo’s Active Pen 2 stylus, JBL speakers, Dolby Atmos headphone technology, dual USB Type-C (Thunderbolt 3) ports and a standard USB 3.0 port. Battery life is reportedly rated at 10.5 hours with the 4K screen (or 15.5 hours if you opt for the 1080p panel). The Yoga 920 will start at €1,599.99 (around $1,900) when it launches later this month. Lenovo is even planning two limited edition Star Wars options, one with an Empire-inspired lid and the other with a Rebel-themed lid (both also include custom wallpaper). Expect those to start at €1,899, or roughly $2,250, when they arrive in December.

AMD has released its third and cheapest Ryzen Threadripper CPU. For those who can’t or won’t pay $1000 for the 16-core/32-thread 1950X flagship model, the 1900X offers 8 cores and 16 threads for almost half the price – around $549. The newest release is also quite a bit cheaper than the other Threadripper CPU - the 12-core/24-thread 1920X, which costs around $800. As we reported back in July, Threadripper 1900X is essentially a Ryzen 7 CPU for the X399 platform that comes with a few upgrades. It operates at a base clock speed of 3.8 GHz, which is slightly faster than a Ryzen 7 1800X, and features a 4 GHz boost speed along with a XFR boost to 4.2GHz. The Ryzen 7 1800X chip, which also boasts 8 cores and 16 theads, sells for around $50 cheaper than the Threadripper 1900X and offers similar gaming performance, but AMD claims that Threadripper allows for better overclocking compared to Ryzen 7. Another advantage of the 1900X is that, like the rest of the Threadripper lineup, it comes with quad channel memory support (Ryzen 7 has two channels) and 64 PCIe lanes. And when AMD updates its X399 chipset later this month, it will add support for booting from NVMe drives configured in RAID. Compared to Intel’s similar offering - the Core i7-7820X – AMD’s 1900X chip has the same number of cores and threads and the same quad-channel memory support. Threadripper does, however, feature 5 percent more cache, more than double the PCIe lanes, and is slightly cheaper.

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Today Google launched a preview version of its new augmented reality software development kit (SDK) called ARCore. The SDK gives developers a framework, APIs and a robust set of tools to use in creating AR experiences. More importantly, ARCore is geared to work on any Android phone, not just Tango-equipped devices. You might recall Project Tango which Google began in 2014. At that time, the developers were focusing on creating a phone with extra sensors to implement augmented reality. The direct fruits of that project were the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro and the Asus ZenFone AR. An indirect product of the Tango research is ARCore. "We've been developing the fundamental technologies that power mobile AR over the last three years with Tango, and ARCore is built on that work," said Dave Burke, vice president of Android Engineering in a blog post. "It works without any additional hardware, which means it can scale across the Android ecosystem." While ARCore currently only works on Google’s Pixel and Samsung’s Galaxy S8 running Android 7.0 Nougat or higher, the aim is to bring it to all newer Android phones. The team hopes to have it running on 100 million devices by the end of the preview period. In addition to Samsung, Google is reaching out to Huawei, LG, Asus and others with information and guidance on how to make their future phones compatible with ARCore. While the platform does not require additional hardware, Google does want to ensure devices can run the AR engine. In developing the platform, Google focused on three key components of the system: environmental understanding, motion tracking and light estimation. Judging from the demo video above, the results are pretty impressive. Environmental understanding within ARCore is capable of detecting horizontal surfaces and responds with a map for placing objects. The motion tracking is accurate and keeps the 3D models in place on the map despite any movement or tilting of the camera. Light estimation is an intriguing feature in which the system monitors ambient lighting conditions so that developers can implement real-time lighting effects within their applications. A couple of other features that Mountain View is working on within the scope of ARCore is a Visual Positioning Service (VPS) and a custom web browser specifically designed for AR. The VPS will make it so that developers can create lifelike, full-scale AR experiences within the world. The custom browsers, rumored to also be compatible with Apple's ARKit, are currently in prototype but will allow augmented reality content to be created and viewed on a website. Google has a whole page of “AR experiments” that show off the capabilities of ARCore. Most of them are silly with little apparent value other than the novelty factor. However, the demos do give you a sense of the possibilities were a serious developer to put its resources behind an ARCore project. Source: CSBD.

Berlin's IFA often sees some high-end gaming tech revealed at the event, and this year is no exception. After unveiling its curved, 21-inch Acer Predator 21 X laptop (price: $8999) at IFA 2016, the company has just revealed more products from its gaming-focused Predator series, including an 18-core desktop beast. Acer claims the Predator Orion 9000 is the most powerful gaming desktop to date. Maxing out the specs means an 18-core/36-thread Intel Core i9 7980XE, three M.2 SSD slots, and DDR4 quad-channel memory that goes up to 128GB. As for graphics cards, you get the choice of two GTX 1080 Ti GPUs in SLI, or four Radeon RX Vega cards in CrossFire. Keeping all that high-end hardware cool is a closed-loop CPU liquid-cooling solution and the company’s patented IceTunnel 2.0 airflow management tech, which “separates the system into several thermal zones, each with an individual airflow tunnel to expel heat.” There’s also space for up to five 120mm fans that create a positive pressure air channel. The Predator Orion 9000 sports customizable RGB lighting down the sides of the front bezel, and users can choose RGB fans if they wish. To make the PC more portable, it comes with a pair of handles and a set of wheels. The Orion 9000 line will launch in December, with prices starting at $2000. If you’ve got your eye on the highest 7980XE option, expect to pay for the privilege – Intel’s most expensive Core i9 chip costs $1999 alone. If you’re going to pay an eye-watering amount of money for a PC, you may as well get a snazzy monitor that can take advantage of all that power. Luckily, Acer has you covered with its Predator X35 display. The curved, 35-inch ultrawide boasts a 3440 x 1440 resolution and ticks virtually every box when it comes to features: 200Hz refresh rate, 4ms response time, HDR support, G-Sync, and 1000 nits brightness. It’s set to launch during the first quarter of 2018. No word yet on the (doubtlessly high) price. Other Acer products on show included the $300 Predator Galea 500 gaming headset, which features Acer’s TrueHarmony 3D Soundscape technology. There’s also the $80 Predator Cestus 500 gaming mouse, which has a “dual switch” design that enables users to switch between light and heavier click resistance. Source: CSBD.

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Valve did not say anything about it. If you have this problem but try to take these steps If you're talking about ingame name. Go to options and then name. Change it to "MEOW" or "meow" (w.e you prefer) If it automatically changes, then go to console (|) and write name "Meow" That should fix it temporially. It might be the server try different servers or try re-installing your config/files. I hope this helps you.

Ancient Rome’s lead plumbing was an architectural marvel, connecting the expansive republic and its vast po[CENSORED]tion to a steady water supply brought in through aqueducts and flushing waste out through cavernous sewers (like the Cloaca Maxima, above). Written records for the construction of this plumbing system are sparse, but a new study suggests sediment layers near the pipes’ outflow are contaminated with history. Researchers drilled out 177 core samples from the port of an ancient Roman harbor town called Ostia, southwest of the main city. They used radiocarbon dating to gauge each sediment layer’s age, then analyzed the layers for their chemical content. They found a large spike in the concentration of lead around 200 B.C.E., indicating the lead pipes were installed around this time, the researchers report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. That’s about 150 years older than the earliest known archaeological evidence for lead plumbing in ancient Rome. A hundred years later in the sedimentary record, the scientists noted a drop in lead levels, implying a breakdown in the system. The timeline aligns with Roman civil wars throughout the first century B.C.E. that would have led to neglect. Previous studies have suggested these pipes might have contributed to lead poisoning in the ancient world. This new study raises the possibility that outflow from the pipes might have contaminated the harbor water with lead, as well, potentially poisoning fish and other sea life.

Valve has released updates for all games on the GoldSrc engine, including Half-Life, Counter-Strike 1.6 and Team Fortress Classic. The updates did not affect the game mechanics, but corrected the errors, because of which the games flew. For all games on the GoldSrc engine: Fixed several bugs that caused the games to crash. Ounter-Strike 1.6: The bug has been fixed, due to which in some cases it was impossible to raise the main weapon; The information in the account table is updated in a timely manner when the card is changed; In the observer mode, player nicknames are correctly displayed; Custom graffiti is updated in a timely manner; Other minor changes regarding the user interface. The original Half-Life came out almost 19 years ago - November 8, 1998. As a separate game Counter-Strike appeared on November 8, 2000, and version 1.6 together with the Steam platform was released on September 12, 2003. Source: CsblackDevil.

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Following the high-profile suicides of musicians Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington, more people are openly discussing the dangers of depression and why the symptoms shouldn’t be ignored. To try and help those in the US who may be suffering from the illness, Google is offering a screening questionnaire for clinical depression to those who search for the condition on their smartphones. The company has partnered with the US National Alliance on Mental Illness (Nami) for the project, which will offer those who conduct mobile Google searches for “depression” the chance to check if they’re clinically depressed. The PHQ-9 questionnaire is anonymous and clinically validated to test a person’s likely level of depression, though Nami warns it’s “not meant to act as a singular tool for diagnosis.” It could, however, encourage people to seek help. While episodes of clinic depression affect around one in five people in the US during their lifetimes, only 50 percent of Americans who suffer from it receive treatment. And most people who do show signs such as anxiety and fatigue wait an average of six to eight years before receiving help. Google and Nami want to raise awareness of the issue and hope the questionnaires' results will see people “have a more informed conversation” with their doctors. With Google now being the first place many people turn when investigating their illnesses and symptoms, the diagnostic tool’s nine questions could be enough to convince sufferers they need to see a professional.

Known for gaming peripherals, Razer has added a new controller for Xbox One and PC that may be the most customizable controller ever released. The Razer Wolverine Ultimate includes two interchangeable D-Pads, several thumbsticks to choose from, and six buttons and triggers that can be mapped for any desired action. Integrating with Razer Synapse software, full RGB lighting is controllable with a variety of preset styles that range from solid colors to more advanced color cycling and breathing effects. The Wolverine Ultimate also supports the Razer Chroma SDK for Xbox One which will allow developers to make use of lighting effects on the controller to match gameplay. Besides an array of customizable buttons and triggers, the controller also includes a 5mm audio jack for stereo audio output and microphone input. A detachable 10-foot Micro-USB braided cable with quick release is included for charging the controller. Weighing in at just over half a pound, the controller should have a solid feel without being too heavy for prolonged use. A carrying case is also included with the controller should you feel the need to travel with it or just have a protective covering for storage of an expensive peripheral. The Razer Wolverine Ultimate will be available beginning in September 2017 will carry an MSRP of $159.99. A standard one year warranty is included. Source: CsblackDevil.com

Prerequisites and Warnings This tutorial focuses on using GParted, or Gnome Partition Editor, a free and open source partition editor. To use GParted, you must first download the CD Image file (.iso file) of GParted Live for this program. Instructions on where to find and how to burn the GParted ISO file are covered in the Preparation step. In this tutorial we will be using Microsoft Windows XP for certain steps. If you use a different version of Windows, some of these steps and screens may be a bit different. This tutorial outlines the process of changing the volume structure of your hard drives and therefore has the potential of damaging the data stored on them. With this said, the actions and methods described in this tutorial can be potentially dangerous. While this tutorial endeavors to instruct you on how to safely resize your partitions with no data loss, it is important to read and follow all instructions carefully. This tutorial also assumes that you, the reader, have a basic understanding of computers and are comfortable with using system management tools. Also, a basic understanding of the terminology is required. For those who need a primer on this material, an introduction to Hard Disk Partitions can be found in the Understanding Hard Disk Partitions tutorial. Introduction When you purchase a computer it is not uncommon for the computer's partitions to be setup in a way that you have a small C: drive and a large D: drive. Over time you will quickly find that you do not have any free space on your C: drive, but your D: drive has plenty of space available. As most programs, by default, are installed in the C drive and because you need space on your C: drive for certain Windows functions, like printing, you find that your lack of space has become a problem. What is frustrating is that you have all of this space on your other partition, but can't use it. Thankfully, this is not true. In fact, it is possible to resize partitions so that you can take space away from one partition that has a lot of free space and add it to another that does not. This tutorial will walk you through resizing your computer's partitions using the GParted program. GParted, or Gnome Partition Editor, is an open source partition editor that allows you to mani[CENSORED]te a computer's partition tables, including resizing them, and can be used on almost all partitions created by Windows or Linux. In this tutorial we will use the GParted Live CD, which allows you to create a bootable CD that contains the GParted programs. As already stated, this tutorial should only be used by advanced users who understand the technology behind volumes, partitions, file systems, and bootable CDs. If you feel comfortable with this material, please continue. Preparing your computer to use the GParted Live CD The first step is to download the latest version of GParted Live. GParted is distributed as a CD image, or ISO, file that needs to be burned onto a CD. For information about ISO files and how to write them to a CD please read the How to write a CD/DVD image or ISO tutorial. The latest version of GParted as of this writing is 0.4.1-2 and can be downloaded from the following link: GParted Live Download Link Once the file is downloaded please burn the image to a CD and then store the CD in a safe place. We first need to perform some basic maintenance on the hard drive before we use GParted. These steps will make the entire process safer, smoother, and faster. The first maintenance task is to run chkdsk or fsck to repair any errors that may currently be present in the file system. Even under ordinary use your average file system gets errors. Normally, operating systems such as Windows or Linux are able to either correct these errors silently, or ignore them altogether. When this is not the case, though, chkdsk for Windows or or fsck for Linux will be forced to run at boot time in order to attempt to repair these errors. Another important reasons to do a disk check before we run GParted is that GParted will usually refuse to do anything to a partition whose file system has errors or is damaged. To perform a full disk check in Windows 2000/XP do the following: Open My Computer Right-click on the drive you want to perform the check on. Select Properties from the menu In the Drive Properties window, click on the the Tools tab On the Tools tab, click on the Check Now button. In the window that pops up, put a checkmark in both of the checkboxes and the click on the Start button. You should get a message that the check could not be done because the disk is in use. It will then ask if you wish to perform a boot-time check. You should allow this to happen. Repeat steps 2 through 7 for each drive you would like to perform a check on. When you have performed these steps on each of the drive letters, restart your computer to initiate the check. Depending on the size of you disk, this can take a while. Go get a cup of tea and relax until it completes. Figure 1. Setting Up The Disk Check " Figure 2: Windows XP performing Check Disk on the C: Drive When the operating system finishes perform the disk check it will continue booting like normal. Therefore, when you are at your desktop or login prompt, you know the disk check has been completed. If you would like to know what was found during the CHKDSK, you can open the Event Viewer to see a log of the activity. To access the event viewer, open your Control Panel, and then double-click on the Administrative Tools folder. In this folder you will find the Event Viewer program. Double-click on that program to start it, and when it opens, click on the Applications category. In the panel on the right click on the latest entry that has a source of Winlogon. This will open up the log for the latest Chkdsk scan. The next step is to defragment the partitions that we will be resizing. Defragmenting will reduce the time required to resize significantly. For more information on defragmenting and why you should do it, you can read The Importance of Disk Defragmentation tutorial. To start the Defragmenter utility in Windows 2000/XP, do the following: Open My Computer Right-click on the drive you want to defragment. Select Properties from the menu In the Drive Properties window, click the Tools tab. On the Tools tab, click on the Defragment Now button The Disk Defragmenter utility will launch. Click the Defragment button to initiate the degragmentation process. Figure3: Defragmenting Under Windows XP When it has finished you can close the Disk Defragmenter program and continue with the rest of the tutorial. Using the GParted Live CD to resize your partitions By now you should have defragmented and run checkdisk on the hard drives you want to resize. You should now insert the GParted Live CD you created in the previous steps into your CD/DVD drive and restart your computer. Note: You may need to change the boot sequence in you BIOS to boot from the CD drive. Once you boot from the CD, you'll see the GParted boot menu, as shown in the Figure below. Figure 4: GParted Boot Menu For most computers, you can simply press the Enter key here to accept the defaults. From here GParted gets to work on creating a mini-Linux setup that runs entirely in memory and from the CD itself. You'll be asked about two things during this period: your keymap and language. The default settings for these are a standard QWERTY keyboard and US English respectively. To use these, simple press Enter when asked (see Figures 5 and 6.) Figure 5. Selecting the keymap Next, it will ask you for your language. Figure 6: Select Language After selecting your keymap and language preferences, wait for GParted to finish booting. When it's finished, you should see a screen similar to Figure 7 below. Figure 7: GParted is ready This is the main screen of GParted. Note the green-edged box. This represents the Primary Master hard drive (hda) and all the partitions currently on it. At this point, there is only one partition on our example drive. Your drive may have more. Note: If you are going to be working on a disk other than the Primary Master, you should select the appropriate drive from the drop-down menu on the upper right as shown designated by the red arrow. On a standard system with two drives connected to the Primary IDE channel, the drives should be labeled hda (master) and hdb (slave). For more information on determining which drive is which, see here. Now that you have selected the drive you want to work on, it's time to get to work. Unless your hard drive is brand new, your hard drive likely already has one or more partitions on it. In order to add a partition, or enlarge an existing one, you must first shrink one to create some free space. Right-click on the partition you want to shrink, as shown in figure 8 below, and select Resize/Move. Figure 8: Right-click menu This will open a smaller window with another box which represents your hard drive as seen in the figure below. Figure 9: GParted's Representation of Your Hard Drive At this screen there are two ways in which you can change the size of the existing partition. The first is by by clicking and dragging either of the black arrows to make the partition smaller or larger, or by manually entering the new size of the partition. in the New Size (MiB) field. These methods are shown in Figure 10 below. Figure 10: Resizing When you have finished adjusting the size, click the Resize/Move button. This will close the Resizing window and bring you back to the main window. At this point, no changes have been made. In order to make these changes effective you must first click on the Apply button. Notice, in the example above we are shrinking the existing partition from 4,793 MB to 3,614 MB. When it has completed, this will give us an additional 1,179 MB to use as we see fit. Figure 11: last chance! Once you click the Apply button, GParted will start resizing your partition as shown in Figure 12. Figure 12: GParted doing its thing. The resize process can take a while depending on how big your drive is and how much the partition's size was changed. So, you may want to go and get a nice cup of tea and relax. Now that there is some free space on the drive we can either make another partition larger, or we can add a new partition to it. Using the GParted Live CD to resize your partitions In this tutorial we are going to take the free space we just created and allocate it towards a new partition. To do this, right-click on the Unallocated part of the drive and click New as shown in Figure 13. Figure 13: Creating a New Partition in the Unallocated Space This will open the Create new Partition window as shown in Figure 14 below. Figure 14: The New Partition Window Using the black arrows, or by entering a number in the New Size (MiB) box, you can adjust the size of the new partition. By default, the new partition will use all available contiguous space. Once you are happy with the size of your new partition, you need to select the file system it will use. GParted supports many different file systems, as shown in Figure 15 Figure 15: Selecting a File System Unless you have a reason not to, for example if you needed to create a logical volume within an extended partition, you can leave the Partition type alone. After selecting your file system, click the Add button. As before, nothing is done until you click the Apply button as shown in Figure 16. Figure 16: Ready to go Creating the new partition should go much faster than resizing the original one, so no time for tea I'm afraid. Figure 17: All Done! You now have two partitions where once was one. Simply click the Exit button to reboot your computer. Conclusion Now that you see how easy it is to resize your computer's partitions, you should never have to worry about have not enough space in one partition and too much in another. Using the GParted Live CD allows you to easily resize, create, move, and delete partitions on your computer. If you need help with resizing tutorials, please post your question in the forum.

We've touched on cryptocurrency mining in the past as well run some benchmarks, but one thing we haven't really covered is dedicated mining hardware. The most important part of any mining setup are the graphics cards since they perform the actual computations. With traditional hardware, you need a separate motherboard, CPU, hard drive, and RAM for every 4-6 graphics cards. This can get expensive and is really a waste of good hardware since mining with many GPUs doesn't come close to bottlenecking a modern system. But what if you could plug a bunch of graphics cards into the same motherboard and you only needed a single CPU to power all of them? That is the problem Asus' B250 Mining Expert motherboard is trying to solve. Rather than the standard 7 PCIe slots on a typical ATX motherboard, they have gone all out with nearly triple that number. The new board has support for up to nineteen (19) graphics cards on one motherboard. There is a single 16x slot and 18 additional 1x slots. Crazy stuff. In order to fit all of these, you'll need an open air case with rails to mount your graphics cards to. You'll also need a few dozen PCIe extension cables, preferably the USB variety, to connect your bounty of GPUs. To power this monster setup, the B250 Mining Expert comes with triple 24-pin ATX power connections as well as three additional Molex power inputs near the graphics cards. Other specs rounding up the B250 Mining Expert include an LGA1151 socket, two DDR4 slots, voltage stabilization capacitors at each PCIe slot, and a specially tuned BIOS for mining. For the time being, users will only be able to utilize up to 16 GPUs at once due to a driver limitation. For users that want the full 16 cards, they will need to use 8 from AMD and 8 from Nvidia. However AMD is scheduled to launch a new driver later this year that would allow all 19 GPUs.

The wait is over (and so is the solar eclipse)! Google on Monday confirmed during the astrological event that Android 8.0 will indeed be known by the nickname Oreo. Best yet, you should be able to get your hands on the new OS fairly soon -- if you have the right device, of course. Android Oreo isn’t ripe with groundbreaking features although there are a handful of noteworthy improvements including picture-in-picture, notification dots and Autofill to go along with the usual security enhancements and overall speed bumps. There’s also a redesigned emoji set with more than 60 new graphics and improvements to reduce battery consumption. Oreo represents only the second time that Google has gone with a commercial nickname for Android. In 2013, Google partnered with Nestle / Hershey for the launch of Android KitKat. Google said it is pushing Android Oreo to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) today. Builds for its own Pixel and Nexus 5X / 6P smartphones have entered carrier testing and should be rolling out in phases soon. Updates for the Pixel C and Nexus Player are also on the way. Devices enrolled in the Android Beta Program will also receive the final version of Oreo soon, we’re told. The search giant further notes that hardware makers including Essential, General Mobile, HMD Global, Huawei, HTC, Kyocera, LG, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp and Sony are scheduled to launch or upgrade devices to Android 8.0 Oreo by the end of the year.

Google late last month released the fourth and final Android O developer preview, nudging the mobile operating system one step closer to its commercial release. We still don’t know exactly when that’ll happen but we should find out soon. Google has launched an eclipse-themed countdown on its Android website. According to the site, Android O will be “touching down” at 2:40 p.m. Eastern on Monday – live from New York City. Why Google thinks people would prefer to watch an OS reveal instead of a rare solar eclipse is beyond me but eh, there you have it. It’s worth noting that Google isn’t explicitly saying Android O will launch on Monday. “Touching down” could mean a launch or it could just mean a reveal. We will have to wait and see. Google says livestream viewers will “meet the next release of Android and all of its super (sweet) new powers” on Monday. While it hasn’t been confirmed, I suspect we will also learn the nickname of Android O on this date and probably get a launch date as well. Then again, it’s entirely possible that Google could push Android O to general availability on the same day. Looking back to last summer, we see that Google dropped Android Nougat on August 22. As for that nickname, evidence continues to mount suggesting it’ll indeed be called Android Oreo (Google set precedent for such commercial branding in 2013 with the launch of Android KitKat). The tie-in with the eclipse could also be intentional as some would argue that an Oreo could resemble the sun being blocked out by the moon (or maybe that's just wishful thinking).