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A day of mourning is under way in Poland ahead of the funeral of Pawel Adamowicz, the mayor of Gdansk fatally stabbed at a charity event last Sunday. Large screens have been set up around St Mary's Church in the city to broadcast Saturday's funeral service. Mr Adamowicz, a liberal critic of Poland's ruling party, had served as the mayor of Gdansk for 20 years. President Andrzej Duda and European Council President Donald Tusk are among those expected to attend the ceremony. Late on Friday, a funeral procession was attended by thousands of people who followed Mr Adamowicz's coffin, which was covered in white flowers and the city's red flag, as it was driven through the city's streets. Adam Easton in Gdansk says that more than 3,000 people will be attending the funeral Mass in the city's 14th Century St Mary's Church, one of the largest brick churches in the world. People queued for hours, our correspondent adds, in order to secure a place inside the church. Psychologists have been made available to assist any mourners in need Vigils have been taking place in Polish cities all week, with people expressing shock at the death of the po[CENSORED]r city leader. What happened to Mr Adamowicz? Mr Adamowicz, 53, was attacked on stage in front of hundreds of people while attending the Great Orchestra of Christmas charity - an annual event where volunteers raise money for medical equipment in hospitals. Paramedics tried to resuscitate Mr Adamowicz at the scene, before transferring him to a local hospital with stab injuries, where he underwent five hours of surgery. His death was confirmed by Poland's health minister on Monday. President Duda described the attack as an "evil hard to imagine". A 27-year-old suspect has been arrested over the attack. Who was the mayor? Mr Adamowicz was a po[CENSORED]r figure - known best for his liberal political views and long tenure as mayor. The father-of-two was from Gdansk and first came to power in 1998. He has been re-elected four times since, most recently in November. After news of the severity of his condition broke, local residents queued at the hospital to donate blood.

When I visited Thermaltake at CES and they asked if I wanted to check out their WaterRam I wasn’t quite expecting what they showed us. I had honestly expected to see some version of last years ADATA Jellyfish Memory with those tubes of water in the RGB diffuser. But instead what we got was legitimate water cooled memory. The DIMMS were solid with a nice heatspreader on them so you could easily use them under air cooling conditions as you prepare your system for full water. The blocks attach to the tops of the memory heatspreaders through allen keyed screws. These screw holes were spaced out and slotted so that they can accommodate many motherboard configurations, Thermaltake claimed they had not found a motherboard where the waterblock had not been able to be installed. This is a concern as some boards place their memory at different spacing. Something else that was discussed was the idea of shipping in 4 DIMM packs regardless of capacity. So much like what AORUS started and others have started following with the idea of Dummy DIMMS. For some reason the term Cosmetic DIMMS just sounds less cheesy to me. Either way we’ve included what the company had to say about their WaterRam including the specs they’ve laid out so far. Let us know what you think about a kit like this one the market now, too much hassle or welcome it to the party? WaterRam RGB offers ultimate flexibility for cooling options, the included RAM water block is designed with CNC machined copper base, PMMA cover and anti-corrosive nickel plating to allow high water flow to efficiently cool up to four DDR4 memory modules, and the 2mm thick aluminum heatsinks with high efficiency thermal pads offers superior heatsinks convection. In addition to two-way cooling options, WaterRam RGB incorporates the latest RAM technology in the market to support high intensity gaming or other high speeds required activities. Comes in 32G/16G, The RAMs are built with tightly screened ICs, 3200MHz high speed that supports Intel XMP 2.0 one-click overclocking technology with low CL16 latencies and were tested on the latest Intel DDR4 motherboards to ensure optimal DDR4 performance. While WaterRam RGB ensures peak performance, it is also gorgeous, built with 12 high lumens addressable LEDs of 16.8 million colors that can be controlled by TT RGB PLUS Ecosystem and sync with ASUS Aura Sync, GIGABYTE RGB, MSI Mystic Light Sync and AsRock Polychrome. WaterRam RGB Liquid Cooling Memory was crafted for excellence and takes your system to a whole new level!

Google has announced that it is raising the prices of its G Suite Basic and G Suite Business productivity suites for the first time since they were released. The price for G Suite Basic will be raised from $5 per user per month to $6 while G Suite Business will see a similar increase from $10 per user per month to $12. The enterprise edition of Google's productivity suite, G Suite Enterprise will not be affected by the price increase and will remain priced at $25 per user per month. G Suite is the company's direct competitor to Microsoft's Office 365 which follows a similar pricing model. Microsoft's Office 365 Business Essentials is $5 per user per month with a yearly subscription while Office 365 Business is $8.25 a month and Office 365 Business Premium costs $12.50 a month. Google's G Suite prices will increase worldwide and the change will go into effect on April 2. G Suite price increase The company defended the price increase by arguing that it has tripled the value of its product by adding artificial intelligence (AI), new tools and apps as well as other additional features. It is worth noting that customers on annual contracts will see their prices go up when G Suite renews. Google's new pricing structure also applies globally though there will be local market adjustments for certain regions. Customers that have licensed G Suite through a reseller will be contacted by them regarding the price increase. Google's decision to raise the price of G Suite shows just how much pricing power cloud providers have and the move will certainly pay off for the company as the product is estimated to make up half of its cloud revenue.

Diet regimes are full of crass slogans, but one thing holds true: go easy on yourself Recently, I received an email from a young woman who told me that, although she was struggling with an eating disorder, she got great pleasure from reading my restaurant reviews. She said reading about, and enjoying, such enthusiasm for food made her feel normal. I’m sure it did. My reviews gave her the opportunity to engage with a conversation around what we eat, without having to do any actual eating, which is the bit she finds tricky. She’s not a one-off. I’ve had multiple emails like this over the years from people in the grips of eating disorders, who enjoy reading restaurant reviews. It is literally pathological behaviour, but it does shine a light on the massive gulf that can open up between the act of writing about food and the extremely human business of eating it. That is most obvious at this time of year, when we are assailed by advice designed to help us find the new us. It doesn’t matter whether we are happy with the old us. We are promised we can create a new shiny version, one mouthful at a time. It is easy sloganeering to point out how knuckle-dragging so much of this advice is; that doesn’t mean it’s wrong to do so. Some advocates of plant-based diets like to gloss over the very real dangers of vitamin B12 deficiencies. Spoiler alert: it can lead to intellectual impairment. Meanwhile, the proponents of paleo and dairy-free diets claim that modern humans were not designed for their current diet, as if evolution was a cul de sac. We are literally designed, through evolution, to consume bovine milk. Many us adapted to do so because it was an available food supply, and most of those who couldn’t tolerate dairy, where it was a source of nutrition, died out leaving the lactose tolerant to pass on their genes. The reverse argument is that you should simply relax, stop pathologising food, and eat what you want. Do that, and everything will be fine. In the US there’s even an encouraging Eat What You Want day. This year it’s 11 May. The problem is, while that’s easier advice to follow, it’s really no more helpful than being told to quit dairy, binge on soup or live solely on a diet of sautéed kitten. Unless you have the metabolism of a small, hyperactive rodent, or what you really want happens to correspond to a perfectly balanced diet – in which case it’s definitely time to upgrade your desires – few of us can eat what we want without consequences. I certainly can’t. Because here’s the one piece of dietary advice worth paying attention to in January when everyone is telling you how to eat: there is no such thing as one-size-fits-all dietary advice, however much health professionals might wish it were otherwise. As the work on the gut biome by Professor Tim Spector has indicated, how our bodies process the food we eat differs from person to person. But there are so many other issues: how much money and time we have, for example, enabling us to hit the gym to mitigate impacts; what kind of jobs we do; the healthcare to which we have access. Where does that leave us all? Muddling through. Diet books are written in crass slogans, but we live our lives in meandering prose. We pick and choose from the advice. We know sugar is the enemy but we have a biscuit occasionally. We understand the panic over alcohol consumption, but sometimes we open the bottle. We try to get to the gym and sometimes we don’t. It’s called being human. We try. Sometimes we succeed. Sometimes we don’t. Please, don’t beat yourself up about it.

Ever since Hyundai announced it was forming the ‘N’ division, there have been murmurings of an exclusive range-topper. Not another warmed-over version of one of the brand’s existing models, like the nevertheless tremendous i30N, but a bespoke, ground-up performance car. Like when AMG did the SLS (and then the GT). Well we need murmur no longer, for Hyundai has confirmed it is indeed doing a ‘halo model’. We’re told it will ride on a bespoke platform, which is excellent (though there will be some “sharing”), but the company’s remaining tight-lipped about everything else. Seriously - we’ve got next to no information. We don’t know when it’s going to be launched or what sort of engine it might have - not even whether it’ll be coupe, hatch or something else entirely. Gyoo Heon Choi, the company’s boss of high-performance vehicle planning, says Hyundai “needs something to further improve [its] high performance image”. “The base model [i30N] is not enough. Volume-wise it’s good, but it’s just a derivative [of the normal i30]. We need something unique and powerful to live at the top of the hierarchy,” he says. “At the top is motorsports, then just behind that is halo and then comes the N models.” Klaus Köster is Hyundai’s director of high-performance vehicle development. All he’ll tell us is that this mystery-car will be a “blast”. “Everything else, I could tell you,” he says, “but afterwards there are two possibilities. Either I would have to kill you, or use those things from Men In Black”. We managed to extract a few tidbits. Choi confirms N is effectively experimenting with different powertrains and bodystyles. Some form of electrification is on the cards. Of course Hyundai has a lot of in-house expertise when it comes to EV and fuel-cell tech’, so we wouldn’t be surprised if the new car were to feature hybrid power. I speculate wildly, and nothing is denied. Front-wheel drive, four-wheel drive… Klaus has an irritatingly good poker face. Whatever form this halo car does eventually take, we’re told it will follow the same basic principles of N and the i30, and indeed other as-yet unseen N products. “We have a philosophy you can take it from the dealer to the racetrack and you can have some fun without having to renew the whole car after half a lap,” says Klaus. “This philosophy in general will stay I think. And that’s the topic that we will then take into account by choosing what combination and direction we are heading.” While we can’t confirm when this car might be revealed, or when we might learn more about it (give us a break, Hyundai), in the meantime there will without doubt be more ‘normal’ N-cars - performance versions of existing models. Maybe an i20, which would make sense given it’s the car Hyundai uses in the World Rally Championship. Possibly a Tucson, too. Of the latter, Klaus says his engineers are “thrilled” at the prospect of doing different types of cars. “They want to show all that stuff for sure. Others have done it obviously, so we can do the same.” Patience, therefore, is the name of the game with N. Let’s just hope that whatever it is that emerges is at least half as good as the i30N. Because that would still be a very good car. Mustn’t stumble at the second hurdle. That’s worse than fluffing the first.

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A large explosion has killed at least eight people in the Colombian capital, Bogotá, the country's defence ministry says. The blast happened outside a school for police cadets in the south of the city. Thirty-eight people were reportedly injured in the blast which happened at 09:30 local time (14:30 GMT). Images show a charred vehicle in front of the General Santander school, which is located in a working-class area of Bogotá. Colombian President Iván Duque, who was in the west of the country at the time of what he said was an "attack", tweeted that he would return to the capital immediately. He said Colombians would not "bow to violence". Bogotá's mayor Enrique Peñalosa said he condemned the "terrorist act" but so far the authorities have not said who may be behind the explosion. Colombian radio station RCN tweeted footage of the scene of the blast. Car bombs were not uncommon during the decades-long conflict between the Colombian government and left-wing rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc). But local media say there has been no such blast in the past nine years. The Farc signed a peace agreement with the government in November 2016 and the group has since become a political party. Another rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), however, is still active

The death toll from a suspected gas explosion in central Paris has risen to four after rescue workers found the body of a woman in the rubble. Two firefighters and a Spanish tourist were also killed in Saturday's blast at a bakery near a po[CENSORED]r area. Dozens more people were injured in the blast, which also caused damage in nearby streets. The cause was thought to be accidental, though other explanations have not been excluded, the Paris prosecutor said. Some 30 firefighters were involved in the search for a woman who had been declared missing, reports say. The body found on Sunday was in the process of being identified, a spokesman for the Paris fire service said. Search efforts would continue, he said, although rescue workers were no longer looking for anyone reported missing as such, he said. The latest casualty figures were nine people seriously injured, including one firefighter, and another 45 people with lighter injuries, including six firefighters, suffering from hearing or psychological difficulties, he added. Work was going on to reinforce the buildings hit by the blast, and residents "would have to wait a long time" before being allowed to return home, he added. The blast happened at the Hubert bakery at 6, rue de Trévise. A gas leak had been reported in the building and firefighters had arrived to deal with it when the explosion occurred. Around 150 people have been housed in temporary accommodation because of damage to nearby buildings.

Why it matters: Great news for anyone who likes to pack a ton of super-high resolutions photos, along with 4K/8K videos, onto their SD cards. At CES, Lexar has just announced the first 1TB SDXC memory card that you can now buy. Back in 2016, SanDisk unveiled a prototype SDXC card that also came with a one terabyte capacity, but a final commercial product never arrived. Now, it’s been beaten to the punch by Lexar’s Professional 633x line of SDHC and SDXC UHS-I cards, which have capacities ranging from 16GB up to 1TB. “Almost fifteen years ago, Lexar announced a 16GB SD card,” Lexar Senior Marketing Manager Joey Lopez said in a statement. “Today we are excited to announced 1TB of storage capacity in the same convenient form factor.” The highest-capacity card’s specs claim it has read speeds of up to 95MB/s and write speeds of 70MB/s, though its V30/U3 rating suggests we can expect sustained performance closer to 30MB/s. Back in 2017, Micron, Lexar’s then parent company, announced it was discontinuing the Lexar media storage business. But last August saw the brand re-introduced almost a year after being acquired by Chinese flash storage maker Longsys. Not surprisingly, the 1TB card doesn’t come cheap. Lexar lists the price at $499, though B&H has it available to order for $399.99, which is still $100 more than buying two 512GB SD cards. While SanDisk might have missed out on the first commercial 1TB SD card, the company just revealed a prototype 4TB thumb drive at CES featuring a USB Type-C interface. Hopefully, this is one product it will eventually launch.

An opposition presidential candidate in the Democratic Republic of Congo has filed an appeal against the result of last month's election. Martin Fayulu insists he won the vote and has demanded a manual recount, but the electoral commission declared rival Felix Tshisekedi the winner. Security forces have deployed near Mr Fayulu's residence. He accuses Mr Tshisekedi, also an opposition candidate, of making a deal with outgoing President Joseph Kabila. Announcing the appeal, Mr Fayulu's lawyer Feli Ekombe said, quoted by AFP: "The petition demands the annulment of the results proclaiming Felix Tshisekedi president of the republic. It was introduced yesterday [Friday]." On Saturday, Mr Fayulu repeated that the result did not reflect "the truth of the ballot boxes". The electoral commission also said the pro-Kabila coalition had won a majority of parliamentary seats. Several Western governments and the influential Roman Catholic Church in DR Congo have expressed surprise and concern at the declared results. Mr Kabila has been in office for 18 years and the result, if confirmed, would create the first orderly transfer of power since independence from Belgium in 1960. What does Fayulu say? Dozens of Fayulu supporters had gathered outside his residence in the capital, Kinshasa, to chant slogans against Mr Kabila and Mr Tshisekedi. However they fled inside the building when the security forces arrived on Saturday, Reuters news agency reports. Speaking earlier to BBC Africa editor Fergal Keane, Mr Fayulu said he would challenge the declared result in the constitutional court. "I will do whatever is possible for me to do to get the truth because the Congolese want change," he said. Mr Fayulu admitted such a challenge would have little chance of success as the court was "composed of Kabila's people" but he said he did not want to give his opponents any chance to say he had not followed the law. "Felix Tshisekedi has been nominated by Mr Kabila to perpetuate the Kabila regime. Because today the boss is Kabila," Mr Fayulu said. "Mr Kabila cannot stay and make an arrangement with someone who will not have any power... Mr Tshisekedi knows himself that he did not win." Mr Fayulu said he feared there would be violence if the electoral commission did not give the true figures "polling station by polling station" and that it was the right of all Congolese to demonstrate according to the law. Has there been any violence? Thousands of supporters of Mr Tshisekedi took to the streets to celebrate but those who backed Mr Fayulu also came out in protest. Violent scenes were reported in Kikwit, where at least two policemen and two civilians were said to have been killed. There were reports of several hundred students protesting against the result and being dispersed by tear gas in the town of Mbandaka. Protests were also reported in Kisangani but the south, where Mr Tshisekedi has broad support, was mainly celebrating. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged all sides "to refrain from violence" and widespread unrest has not yet been reported.

Last weekend I purchased some marijuana. Not from some friend of a friend of a friend, but from an actual dispensary in Boulder, Colorado. Boulder, like the rest of Colorado, has recreational marijuana dispensaries where you can purchase weed legally. It was cool. But while my partner had purchased legal marijuana in the past, I didn’t know the first thing about the standard operating procedure of bud buying. If you’re not a native, or are visiting a state just to get some cannabis while you vacation, you might want to adhere to a few easy to follow guidelines to make yourself a model dispensary customer. The dispensary, as well as the locals, will appreciate it. Keep Your ID Handy Visiting a dispensary involves proving you’re 21, and that means whipping out your ID. You’ll have to show it twice: first when you walk in the door, and again when you’re finally purchasing your recreational cannabis. Dispensaries are rigorous in their ID checks, with some scanning the IDs to ensure they’re legitimate. Bring Cash Don’t count on using your bank card for purchases at a dispensary. Since marijuana is still considered a Schedule I narcotic on a federal level, it’s illegal for dispensaries to use bank accounts to process transactions, and that means you aren’t able to purchase it with your debit or credit card. You’ll need cash in most situations. Some dispensaries have ATMs inside for your convenience, but you should call ahead to double check. Plan Ahead You should be prepared before you walk in the door and familiar with what you might be interested in purchasing. That means doing a little research beforehand, checking out the dispensary’s site and inventory, and asking friends more familiar with marijuana than you about the best way to get started if it’s your first time. Be sure to check their hours as well; some dispensaries are open late, some open early, and some are closed on certain days of the week. Cameras and Phones are a No-No You should shy away from last-minute lookups and sharing with the world your current weed-friendly situation until you’re home. I was nearly ejected from the first dispensary I visited simply because my DSLR was hanging off my wrist, despite it having a lens cap. Dispensaries have a pretty strict “no photos” policy that you should adhere to unless you want to get kicked out of the store. Be Nice to Your Bud Tender Your bud tender is your marijuana middleman, the person behind the counter that helps you pick the right product. That means you should treat them with the same respect you’d show your friendly neighborhood mixologist, and not like some stoner who just loves weed. They’re happy to help as long as you’re polite. It helps to think about your questions beforehand, so you’re not staring dumbfounded while your bud tender waits for your brain to catch up to your mouth. You shouldn’t feel obligated, but if you’d like to tip your bud tender, you should check the rules beforehand. Some states, like Washington, allow tipping as long as it isn’t linked to product pricing or used to avoid paying certain taxes. Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em (at Home) Smoking marijuana in public is still illegal, despite the growing number of states legalizing recreational use. That means you can’t smoke it outside the dispensary you just walked out of. Some states, like Maine and Massachusetts, will fine offenders up to $100 for smoking in public.