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Experts say that intermittent fasting during the month of Ramadan helps to burn fat and cleanse the body of harmful toxins. Here are other health benefits. Ramadan fasting is considered one of the five pillars of Islam and is a special month for self-reflection, self-improvement, kindness and spirituality. Fasting during Ramadan involves not eating or drinking anything from sunrise to sunset for a month and breaking the fast in evening as part of Iftar ritual. The intermittent fasting during Ramadan comes with its own set of benefits although one should do it in a healthy way to avoid any health problems. (Also read: Ramadan 2022: How to fast during Ramadan when you have diabetes) Intermittent fasting during this month not only uses your fat reserves, but also cleanses your body of harmful toxins that might be present in fat deposits," says Ruchika Midhas, Nutritionist and Dietitian. "With the digestive system on a month-long overhaul, your body naturally detoxifies, giving you the opportunity to continue a healthier lifestyle beyond Ramadan," she adds. Midhas says that according to health studies Ramadan fasting increases the red blood cells (RBCs), white blood cells (WBCs), platelet (PLT) count, high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c), and decreases the blood cholesterol, triglycerides, low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) and very low density lipoprotein cholesterol (VLDL-c). "When you fast regularly for longer durations, it leads to a metabolic switch and an improved Fat loss and maintainance. Month long fasting is the best you you can detoxify your body, with research also showing a reduced inflammatory markers after a period of intermittent fasting. It is also known to reduce the incidence of hypertension as well as lowered amounts of LDL cholesterol," says Dietitian Garima Goyal. During Ramadan fasting, there is a major shift from normal eating patterns to eating exclusively at night. This kind of intermittent fasting (IF) for more than 12-14 hours without food and water is a state where liver glycogen is depleted and replenished, says Dr Meghana Pasi, Nutrition Consultant, MyThali program, ArogyaWorld. Studies have shown that intermittent fasting can be as effective for weight loss and fat loss as a continued calorie restricted diet. "Restricting food intake during the day can help prevent chronic ailments like high cholesterol, heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, as well as improve mental health and wellbeing," says Dr Pasi. "Fasting allows the gut to cleanse and strengthen its lining. A self-cleansing process called autophagy gets stimulated where cells remove the damaged and dangerous particles. Intermittent fasting also increases metabolic rate, lowers blood sugar levels and boost immune system. It has shown to protect brain cells and reduce depression and anxiety," adds Dr Pasi. Downside of intermittent fasting "It is not advisable for those having eating disorders, during pregnancy or breastfeeding and for those with medication-controlled diabetes and other chronic health conditions. Further, IF focuses on when to eat, rather than what to eat, which may negatively affect health if the quality and quantity of food is compromised. Hence, it is advisable follow a balanced and healthy diet regime during the entire month of Ramadan," concludes Dr Pasi. https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/health/ramadan-2022-benefits-of-intermittent-fasting-during-ramadan-101648734571619.html

Ukraine has accused Russia of damaging or destroying at least 59 religious sites across the country since its invasion began. They include an Orthodox cathedral with its steeple ripped apart, a Jewish school struck by shelling, and parish churches left almost totally flattened. Targeting historic monuments and cultural heritage sites is a war crime under international law, according to the Hague Convention. Russia denies targeting civilian infrastructure, but the BBC has identified a number of religious sites that have suffered damage. A shelled cathedral St Michael's Cathedral was described by Mariupol's tourist office as "the most beautiful place" in the city's Left Bank district. Offering "panoramic views of the Sea of Azov, green hills and coastal villages", the cathedral - opened in 1997 - attracted both worshippers and visitors alike, it said. But after weeks of relentless Russian bombardment on the southern port city, the Orthodox cathedral's crowning dome is now a mangled heap of exposed steel and smashed brickwork. The cathedral's glass windows have been shattered, and gaping holes have been blown through its red-brick walls. A parish church torn apart A church in the small village of Yasnohorodka, about 40km (25 miles) west of Kyiv, has also been hit by shelling, the Ukrainian Orthodox It says two shells struck the dome atop the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin on 5 March, seriously damaging its bell tower. Its windows and doors were also reportedly laced with bullet holes from a heavy-calibre machine gun. Amid heavy fighting, the Russian attack on the village that afternoon also killed a priest from another of the village's congregations. A synagogue struck A Russian shell blew a hole in the roof of a yeshiva, used for religious study, in Ukraine's second-largest city Kharkiv, the city's Jewish community said in a post on its Facebook page. The yeshiva building also functions as a synagogue, a secondary school and a dormitory, the post said. "The rocket did not explode but made a large hole in the roof," the wife of Kharkiv's chief rabbi, Moshe Moskovitz, told Hebrew-language news site 0404. The strike prompted the head of the World Synagogue Organisation, David Ben-Na'eh, to write to Russia's chief rabbi, Berel Lazar, urging him to ask Vladimir Putin to order the Russian military to stop damaging synagogues and holy places. "Synagogues are a 'little temple' for the Jewish people everywhere. These have been the mainstay of Jews everywhere in the world for thousands of years," he wrote, urging Russia to preserve their "sanctity and integrity". Russia denies hitting Jewish holy town In an address to Israel's parliament last week, Ukraine's President Zelensky claimed Russia had struck the town of Uman, a site revered by many Hasidic Jews. Mr Zelensky, who is Jewish, said Russian rockets hit the town on the first day of the invasion in February. Tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews travel to Uman every Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) to visit the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, who revived the Hasidic movement and died in 1810. Moscow has denied the claim, sharing images of what it said were Ukrainian forces loading arms near a synagogue there. "I want to underscore that the Russian armed forces do not strike civilian targets as part of the special military operation," Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said. But Uman's Jewish community has rejected claims about weapons near or in synagogues. "All synagogues and Jewish sites in Ukraine are used exclusively for their intended purpose, to carry out religious activities or to help members of Jewish communities and the local po[CENSORED]tion," the United Jewish Community of Ukraine wrote on its Telegram feed. And Irina Rybnitskaya, one of the remaining Jews in Uman, told Israel's Haaretz newspaper that Moscow's claims were "not true". "Nobody is using synagogues for reasons except for the reasons synagogues should be used," she said. A crumpled church in a wiped-out town One church in the south-eastern city of Volnovakha has suffered severe damage after days of Russian bombardment. The city's Temple of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, built to honour Ukrainian soldiers who died fighting pro-Russian militants in 2014, is in ruins. The church's gold dome is mangled and its woodwork has been shredded. The regional governor of Donetsk has said Volnovakha - once home to some 22,000 people - "no longer exists". Satellite images shared by Maxar Technologies, taken before and after the assault, reveal the extent of the damage. The devastation of Ukraine's spiritual sites has left many from its religious communities deeply shaken. "It's a kind of nightmare, I cannot find any words to describe this," said Sergiy Berezhnoy, a Kyiv priest from the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. "It's horrible, it's unhuman," he told the BBC. "I don't know why Russian troops shoot at churches - if we're Christians we should care about peace." Mr Berezhnoy says he has still been holding small-scale services in his church in the capital amid a curfew and air raids. "It's a place where people can find help, support," he says. "We are praying for our country - for each Ukrainian, for saving them." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60933862

Facebook Messenger has released a new set of features called Shortcuts, using commands on the messaging service. Users on iOS and Android smartphones can now issue commands in the chat window to perform different tasks like notifying everyone in a group, or silently send a message without notifying other users. They can also send GIFs and ASCII emoticons on Facebook Messenger. The new features are reminiscent of the now defunct MSN Messenger's hidden ‘Easter Egg' commands and are designed to make certain tasks on Messenger easier through the use of one-word commands. The Meta-owned messaging service revealed on Tuesday that it was introducing Shortcuts for Facebook Messenger on Android and iOS, which will be available starting today. Using the Shortcuts feature, users can now type @everyone to send a notification to all users in the chat. The command can be used to call group members' attention to a message asking a question, or as a reminder for an older message. Users can also utilise Shortcuts on Messenger to message a user or group without notifying them, using the /silent command. Messages sent using this command will not notify the user about the message, which could come in handy when messaging friends in different time zones without disturbing them. The ability to send messages silently without disturbing the recipient is also found on rival messaging service Telegram, which introduced the feature in 2019. It is worth noting that certain Facebook Messenger features announced earlier this year are yet to be enabled for all users on the service. In January, the company announced an upgraded messaging experience for users in its Secret Conversations mode, which uses end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for chats. These features include screenshot alerts, emoji reactions, and Vanish mode, announced ahead of the company's planned date to use E2EE for all chats on Messenger. Asked about the delay in rolling out these features, Head of Messenger Loredana Crisan told Gadgets 360 that some of these features were being tested by the company for stability before being rolled out to all regions. Both the /silent and @everyone Shortcuts will be available to Facebook Messenger users on iOS and Android devices starting today, according to the company. Meanwhile, the company is also working on adding the ability to search for and send GIFs to users and groups on Messenger using the /gif command. Users will also be able to use /shrug and /tableflip commands to send tableflip “(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻” and shrug “¯_(ツ)_/¯” emoticons on Messenger. These three commands will be available to users on iOS devices in the coming weeks. Messenger users in the US will also be able to send and receive money by using the /pay command in the future, the company said. https://gadgets360.com/apps/news/facebook-messenger-shortcuts-new-feature-silent-messages-mention-gifs-emoticons-launch-2850512

If you've lived in New York City any length of time, it might have happened to you: you get word that a big-name developer plans to erect a new high-rise building right on your block that will dwarf those around it or you hear gossip that a po[CENSORED]r local restaurant has applied for permission to add an outdoor space that will significantly increase the noise levels in the neighborhood. What you may not have realized is that anytime a proposed project has the potential to affect a substantive element of the neighborhood—a lengthy list that includes things like socioeconomic conditions, open space, shadows, historic and cultural resources, energy usage, and local character—it undergoes a mandated City Environmental Quality Review (CEQR), and members of the public are allowed to weigh in during that process. All too often, however, people are unaware of that right and remain uninvolved as their neighborhood changes around them. Dana Chermesh Reshef realized that's not the way to build a better, more livable city. Trained as an architect, she earned her master's degree in urban data science from NYU Tandon's Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) in 2018, and, determined to improve the situation, she set about launching inCitu, a platform that democratizes urban development by incentivizing community participation through immersive experiences. Users who download the inCitu app can view a 3D model of a proposed project, envisioning how it will look on-site via augmented reality technology. They also get access to relevant data on the expected impact of a project (how many jobs a new business will bring, for example, or what effects a proposed medical facility will have on public health in an underserved neighborhood). Additionally, the app makes it easy to share feedback during the review process. "Typically, the city hears from only the most vocal members of the public—either those vehemently opposed to a project or those with a strong interest in seeing it implemented," Chermesh Reshef, who interned at the Department of City Planning while studying at CUSP, explains. "But during inCitu's, we receive responses from a cross-section of average residents—all age ranges, income levels, and degrees of education." Chermesh Reshef, a native of Israel, became interested in the transformative power of technology during her military service in the Israeli Air Force, when she trained F-15 and F-15I pilots on a flight simulator machine. How might the world of architecture and urban planning benefit from the same level of technological innovation, she wondered. That question led her from Tel-Aviv to Brooklyn, and despite having no real background in coding or data science, she dove into her studies at CUSP, on a mission to transform how cities tackled urban renewal. "As an architect, I was just a small part of that realm," she says. "When you talk about urban renewal, you're not just talking about buildings: you're talking about history, money, politics, grassroots activism, and a lot more." Armed with her degree from CUSP—and solid ideas of how to leverage data analytics and tech to disrupt the city planning process—Chermesh Reshef joined the innovative Red-Hook Urban Design firm DRAW Brooklyn as Director of Urban Data and Innovation. As she refined the idea for inCitu with the support of DRAW Brooklyn's founder, Alex Washburn (ex-Chief Urban Designer for New York City during the Bloomberg era), much of her time was spent talking to developers, community board members, and city agencies. That all paid off in 2020, when she was tapped to be part of the Schmidt Futures' Entrepreneur-In-Residence initiative, a two-year program that provided her with mentorship, funding, and other resources she needed to get her fledgling company off the ground. (The philanthropy targets what it considers the most promising ideas in technology, science, and paths to shared prosperity in society, and inCitu was one of only six ventures chosen from a large, competitive pool.) "As a first-time, solo entrepreneur, I looked for all the coaching I could get to become the CEO my company deserves to have," she reflects on that period and opportunity. "I'll always be grateful to Schmidt Futures, and I encourage any aspiring founder to seek out that type of guidance and support." Chermesh Reshef, who juggles the challenges of entrepreneurship with the demands of raising three children, is these days closing inCitu's $1 million in pre-seed funding. With a successful pilot involving Madison Square Garden's relocation and a partnership with Manhattan Community Board 5 under her belt, as well as two successful pilots in California over the summer of 2021, she is looking forward to expanding the app throughout New York City and then to other parts of the country. She believes that inCitu will be a boon to developers, who are required by law to solicit feedback from the community, as well as to city agencies seeking to improve their operations and city residents, who will ultimately reap the benefits of living in more inclusive, resilient urban areas. During the Midtown pilot, a traffic policewoman working at the intersection of Seventh Ave. and 34th Street drove home how inCitu encourages civic engagement and transparency. "I've been working at this corner for 29 years," she said while trying the app, "and this is the first time anyone has asked me what I think." https://techxplore.com/news/2022-02-democratizing-urban.html

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Gaming Graphics Cards - The Biggest GPU Performance Leap in Recent History Turing wasn't just any graphics core, it was the graphics core that was to become the foundation of future GPUs. The future is realized now with next-generation consoles going deep in talks about ray tracing and AI-assisted super-sampling techniques. NVIDIA had a head start with Turing and its Ampere generation will only do things infinitely times better. The Ampere GPU does many traditional things that we would expect from a GPU, but at the same time, also breaks the barrier when it comes to untraditional GPU operations. Just to sum up some features: New Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) New Turing Tensor Cores New Real-Time Ray Tracing Acceleration New Shading Enhancements New Deep Learning Features For Graphics & Inference New GDDR6X High-Performance Memory Subsystem New 2nd Generation NVLINK Interconnect New HDMI 2.1 Display Engine & Next-Gen NVENC/NVDEC The technologies mentioned above are some of the main building blocks of the Ampere GPU, but there's more within the graphics core itself which we will talk about in detail so let's get started. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Pricing Per Segment NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 30 series is made up of a diverse portfolio of graphics cards. The lineup starts at the GeForce RTX 3060 with an MSRP of $329 US and goes all the way up to higher-end configurations starting at $499 US for the GeForce RTX 3070, $599 US for the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, $699 US for the GeForce RTX 3080, $1199 US for the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and $1499 US for the GeForce RTX 3090. NVIDIA themselves call the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti the flagship graphics card and not the GeForce RTX 3090. With the arrival of the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, we now have a new ultra-premium card starting at $1999 US. The RTX 3080 & RTX 3070 are both priced well and in line with their predecessors but the GeForce RTX 3090 goes all out with a price of $1499 US. Even the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has seen a price hike compared to the MSRP of the RTX 2080 Ti ($999 US vs $1199 US). NVIDIA calls the GeForce RTX 3090 the "BFGPU" and as per the terminology, it seems like this is a new marketing name for the Titan graphics card. It is likely that we could see a Titan-based card under the Quadro branding with faster specs out of the box but the GeForce RTX 3090 is purely a gaming graphics card first with all the horsepower for intense professional and workstation workloads. With that said, the GeForce RTX 3080 replaces the RTX 2080 SUPER at the same price point and the GeForce RTX 3070 replaces the GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER at the same price point. Given this trend, we might see the more mainstream variants cost just as much as their RTX 20 SUPER series cards but with a higher performance out of the box. In addition to the specs/price update, NVIDIA's RTX technologies are being widely adopted by major game engines and APIs such as Microsoft's DirectX (DXR), Vulkan, Unreal Engine, Unity, and Frostbite. While there were only three RTX titles around the launch of the RTX 20 series cards, NVIDIA now has at least 28 titles that utilize their RTX feature set to offer real-time ray tracing with more coming soon. In addition to that, with the upcoming consoles confirmed to feature ray tracing, developers can also make use of the RTX technology to fine-tune future games for the GeForce RTX hardware. Currently, NVIDIA has 13 game engines that are leveraging their RTX technologies for use in their upcoming and existing games while both Vulkan and DirectX 12 Ultimate APIs are part of the RTX ecosystem on the PC platform. So for this review, I will be taking a look at MSI's latest GeForce RTX 30 SUPRIM X series graphics card which includes the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 24 GB SUPRIM X. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 24 GB Graphics Card At the heart of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics card lies the GA102 GPU. The GA102 is the flagship gaming GPU and also the fastest gaming GPU that NVIDIA has produced. The GPU is based on Samsung's 8nm custom process node designed specifically for NVIDIA and features a total of 28 Billion transistors. It measures 628mm2 which makes it the 2nd biggest gaming GPU ever produced right below the Turing TU102 GPU which powered the RTX 2080 Ti and Titan RTX. The new shader core on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture is 2.7x faster, the new RT cores are 1.7x faster while the new Tensor cores are up to 2.7x faster than the previous generation Turing GPUs. The 2nd Generation RT core delivers dedicated hardware-accelerated ray-tracing performance & features twice the ray/triangles intersection with concurrent RT graphics and compute operations. For the GeForce RTX 3090, NVIDIA has enabled a total of 84 SM units on its flagship which results in a total of 10,752 CUDA cores (vs 82 SM / 10496 cores on RTX 3090 Non-Ti). In addition to the CUDA cores, NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3090 Ti also comes packed with next-generation RT (Ray-Tracing) cores, Tensor cores, and brand new SM or streaming multi-processor units. The GPU runs at a base clock speed of 1560 MHz and a boost clock speed of 1860 MHz. The card has a TDP of 450W (a 100 Watt increase over the RTX 3090). In terms of memory, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti comes packed with 24 GB of memory and that too the next-generation GDDR6X design. With Micron's latest and greatest graphics memory dies, the RTX 3090 Ti can deliver GDDR6X memory speeds of 21 Gbps. That along with a bus interface of 384-bit will deliver a cumulative bandwidth of 1008 Gbps. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics card is also going to be the first PCIe Gen 5.0 compliant graphics card, rocking a single 16-pin power connector that can supply up to 600 Watts of power to the card. The new connector is rated for 600W power delivery is PCIe Gen 5.0 compatible & not designed for legacy PCIe Gen 2 or Gen 3 cards. All cards with a PCIe Gen 5 interface will come with a 3x 8-pin to 1x 16-pin connector adapter within the package. The Founders Edition is also going to utilize what seems to be an updated revision of the PG136 PCB board known as PG136C. As for its feature set, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 24 GB graphics card rocks all the modern NV feature set such as the latest NVENC Encoder and NVCDEC Decoder, support for the latest APIs, 2nd Generation ray-tracing cores, 3rd Gen Tensor cores. It packs all the modern RTX features such as DLSS, Reflex, Broadcast, Resizable-BAR, Freestyle, Ansel, Highlights, Shadowplay, and G-SYNC support too. https://wccftech.com/review/msi-geforce-rtx-3090-ti-suprim-x-24-gb-graphics-card-review-big-ti-energy/

Name of the Game : The Planet Crafter Price : 7.37$ https://store.steampowered.com/app/397540/Borderlands_3/ Offer ends up after 37: 00 hours: XMarch Requirements: MINIMUM: OS: Windows 7 Processor: Intel Core2 Duo 2.4GHz or equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 2GB VRAM Storage: 3 GB available space RECOMMENDED: OS: Windows 7 or more Processor: Intel HD Graphics 5000 or better, OpenGL Support required Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 4GB VRAM Storage: 3 GB available space

I appreciate a good single-serving game idea, and The One Who Pulls Out The Sword Will Be Crowned King is one. Its challenge is simple: pull a sword out of a stone by left-click grabbing it and pulling your mouse upwards. Its catch is devious: with each new player crowned king, the sword gets longer and heavier. Do you have the perseverence to be royal? It's free to find out. It is possible to play offline, in which case the sword will have a fixed length and weight, but the online mode is where real achievement lies. Pulling the sword out will alert everyone else playing that you have been crowned king and add your name to a list of the 100 most recent kings. I just had a go, playing the game for 15 minutes, and I'd wager that the sword moved around 8 inches. From watching videos, that's at most 10% of the distance it needs to travel to succeed in pulling it out. I made a few mistakes, moving my mouse so fast that my invisible hands seemingly slipped from the handle. There are also tricks I wasn't employing which may make the process go faster, such as turning mouse sensitivity up to 900% in the game's settings. Either way, it's going to take considerable time. If no one is able to pull the sword out for a while, it will apparently begin to shrink and get lighter, but a new king was being crowned every couple of minutes while I played. There are currently 426 people playing the game, so there's a decent chance it'll be even harder to remove the sword by tomorrow. Is it worth putting in that time just to have your name on a high score table? I don't know. Is it worth the much longer time it would take to master and overcome the mountains in Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy or Jump King? You can play The One Who Pulls Out The Sword Will Be Crowned King via Steam, where the game is completely free. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/pull-the-sword-from-the-stone-in-this-free-game-before-other-players-make-it-longer-and-heavier

Netflix's true-crime centric thriller series "Mindhunter" was inspired by the true story of how the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit began studying psychopaths and serial killers in the late 1970s. While the names of the special agents involved were changed, several of the convicted murderers they interview are pulled straight from history. Keep reading for a look at the 13 major convicted criminals featured in the show to see how their fictional versions stack up to the real people.

Washington (CNN)The White House will not assert executive privilege over Jared Kushner's testimony to the committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said Tuesday. "Obviously, the President has spoken to the fact that January 6 was one of the darkest days in our country's history and that we must have a full accounting of what happened to ensure that it never occurs again, and he's been quite clear that they posed a unique threat to our democracy and that the constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield from Congress or the public information about an attack on the Constitution itself," Bedingfield told CNN's Kaitlan Collins. "And so, as a result the White House has decided not to assert executive privilege over the testimony of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump." Bedingfield declined to offer details on if the White House had conveyed as much to Kushner's legal team, adding, "I won't speak to private communication between our attorneys and his." Kushner, the son-in-law and former senior adviser to then-President Donald Trump, is expected to voluntarily appear before the panel in a virtual meeting Thursday. This position from President Joe Biden's White House isn't new with regards to Trump-era witnesses and documents. The White House has refused to assert a need for secrecy in response to most House requests related to January 6. CNN reported last month that Trump's daughter Ivanka, who is married to Kushner and also served as senior White House adviser, was in discussions with the House select committee to voluntarily appear for an interview, her spokesperson and two sources familiar with the probe confirmed to CNN at the time. The committee is specifically interested in speaking with Ivanka about what she witnessed or did in the hour or so between when the march to the Capitol started and when the then-President tweeted that then-Vice President Mike Pence denied his request and certified the 2020 election results, which rioters have attested in court had a direct correlation to when violence at the Capitol increased. Kushner's meeting is coming at a significant moment for the committee when its investigation is making progress on multiple fronts. The panel is also seeking an interview with Ginni Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, following revelations that she texted with former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in an effort to overturn the election. Additionally, a federal judge said Monday that Donald Trump and right-wing attorney John Eastman may have been planning a crime as they sought to disrupt the January 6 congressional certification of the presidential election. The judge in California ordered Eastman to turn over 101 emails from around January 6, 2021, that he has tried to keep secret from the House select committee investigating the US Capitol attack. Ultimately, the select committee is planning to produce a multi-media presentation and hire a writer as part of its effort to turn its largely secretive work into a compelling narrative, multiple sources tell CNN. The online multi-media presentation, which would include links to key video evidence, would be in addition to a traditional written report, a source familiar with the committee's work previously told CNN. Presenting its information in a comprehensive and engaging way will be crucial to creating a convincing argument for potential legislative changes as well as possible criminal referrals. This story has been updated with additional information Tuesday. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/29/politics/jared-kushner-biden-white-house/index.html

Atlantic Puffin Dubbed “sea parrots” as well as “clowns of the sea,” Atlantic puffins sport large, brightly-colored beaks on their substantially-sized heads. Crisp black and white markings on their plumage, as well as superior diving capabilities, have led people to compare the northern seabirds to penguins. However, Atlantic puffins are actually not related to penguins at all. They are in fact small seabirds (about 25 cm, or 10 in., long) that belong to the Alcidae (auk) family For most of the year, Atlantic puffins live on the open ocean, with a range spanning from the eastern coast of Canada and the northern United States to the western coast of Europe and northern Russia. 60% of the world’s puffins live near Iceland. Puffins are specially adapted to living on the open sea. Waterproof feathers allow them stay warm as they float at the ocean’s surface or swim underwater. Diving as deep as 60 m (200 ft.), they swim by flapping their wings as if flying through the water and use their feet to steer. There, they hunt herring, hake, capelin, and sand eels. They supplement their meals by drinking saltwater. Atlantic puffins are also excellent fliers. Flapping their wings at up to 400 beats per minute, puffins can reach speeds of 88 km/h (55mph). April to mid-August is breeding season for puffins. When a puffin is around 3-5 years old, it will choose a partner at sea to mate with for life. It is thought that the birds’ colorful bills and feet, which fade in the winter and brighten in the spring, help puffins assess potential mates. Once on land, the pairs of puffins reunite within the colony. Some pairs exhibit a special behavior known as “billing” where the two birds rub their beaks together. This often draws an excited crowd of other puffins to watch. Puffins create burrows, about 90 cm (3 ft.), in rocky cliffs either in the soil or between rocks. Often, couples will return to the same burrow year after year. At the back of the burrow, they build a nest lined with grasses, seaweed, and feathers. After the female lays a single egg, both parents take turn incubating the egg for about 40 days. Once the chick hatches, the mother and father will take turns bringing it fish to eat several times a day. Atlantic puffins have the ability to carry several fish in their beaks at one time. They push the fish to the back of their mouth with their tongue, where ridges at the top of their bill secure the fish in place. This allows puffins to keep their mouth open to catch more fish without losing any in the process. In general, they can hold around 10 fish in their beak at once. The chick stays in the burrow until it is able to fly. The young puffin uses a toilet area towards the front of the burrow away from the nest to stay clean. It cannot risk getting its feathers soiled and ruining the waterproof protection they provide. After 45 days, the chick leaves the burrow and spends 3-5 years at sea learning about feeding places and choosing a mate. In the wild, puffins can live around 20 years. Their main predator is the great black-backed gull, which can capture a puffin mid-flight or swoop in on a puffin on the ground. Herring gulls are also a threat because they steal puffins’ fish (sometimes right from their mouths), and they pull puffin chicks or eggs from their nests. Conservation Status With 6 million alive today, Atlantic puffins are not considered endangered by the IUCN Redlist. But some po[CENSORED]tions have been drastically reduced giving them a conservation status of vulnerable. Puffin colonies are threatened by overfishing, which causes a shortage of food for adults to feed their young. Oil spills also pose a danger. Oil not only destroys puffins’ waterproofing, it also makes them sick when they clean it off their feathers. Finally, global warming adversely affects puffins, who are adapted to living in waters about 0-20°C (32-68°F) and catching fish who are also adapted to those colder temperatures. Global warming also causes rising sea levels, which could flood out puffins’ breeding grounds. What You Can Do to Help If you would like to help puffins, you can help curb global warming by engaging in environmentally-responsible activities like using energy-efficient appliances and light bulbs, cutting down your carbon emissions, and recycling. You can also adopt a puffin from Audubon Society’s Project Puffin. https://animalfactguide.com/animal-facts/atlantic-puffin/

Mazda has just thrown its weight behind an all-new powertrain that sends out over 300 hp to an equally new platform's rear wheels—and that BMW-like combo is appearing on the automaker's latest family crossovers such as the new Mazda CX-60 and upcoming CX-70. The setup's performance promise might have you reminiscing about the glory days of Mazdaspeed, Mazda's performance division that turned out zestier versions of the Miata, Mazda 3, and Mazda 6 here in the U.S. Allow us to pop your balloons, because the automaker has no plans to bring back its performance-branded models, according to the latest reports from Australia. Alastair Doak, Mazda Australia's marketing manager in the region, had to fight off questions from Which Car? regarding the return of Mazdaspeed, or MPS as it was known in Australia, which fans have been counting on for years. We thought the latest Mazda 3 hatchback, now with a turbo, was a prime candidate for the Mazdaspeed treatment when it debuted a few years back, but our hopes for MPS Zoom Zooms were dashed back then, too. "It'd be nice, but the volume realistically would be pretty small for it," Doak admitted to Which Car?. "We have a GT spec and SP GTs. We think our cars ride and handle pretty well anyway, and I think we back ourselves in with the look of those kind of vehicles," he added. Doak also suggested we have nothing to worry about regarding performance from the future Mazda lineup: "If we do step up with even more performance than we're offering currently, then I think we'll be doing okay, and we'll have RWD architecture again as well, which will set us apart." Doak also says the "spirit is still there" regarding the old Mazdaspeed offerings. At the time, we called the 2006 Mazdaspeed 3's performance "imposing," offering 263 horsepower at 5,500 rpm and 280 lb-ft of torque at 3,000 rpm with a zero to 60 mph time of six seconds flat, comparable to a contemporary BMW or Audi. It certainly fits the bang for your buck, burning-hot hatch category, and featured the same 2.3-liter turbo I-4 engine and six-speed manual transmission as the other Mazdaspeed model, the Mazdaspeed 6 sedan, though the 3 drove with more purpose. But the news that Mazdaspeed models aren't coming back isn't surprising, just a sad confirmation. Mazda has been a bit of a roller-coaster as of recently. The new Mazda 3 is great, but it's been bumpy ever since, with the CX-30 crossover garnering mixed reactions and the 6 sedan going away entirely here in the U.S. Recent rumors that an all-new Mazda 6 was just around the corner seem to be false, which was already disappointing. Mazda's diesel program stalled in the U.S. after years of delays, its new Skyactiv-X engine technology has yet to find a place stateside like promised despite launching in other markets, and patents show Mazda is working on new rotary engines for range-extending hybrids that could be a dead-end, giving the push for full-electrification in the market. Its new MX-30 EV, with a limited 100-mile estimated range, just doesn't stack up to the competition. To ask Mazda for yet another passion project that pulls on already-limited resources, like a new Mazdaspeed anything, may just be asking too much. Instead the brand is laser-focused on rolling out a slate of new crossovers like the new CX-60 in Europe, with plans for a slightly larger CX-70 version to be sold in the U.S. soon. Both offer that powerful new rear-wheel drive powertrain mentioned before, so we do have to credit Mazda for trying where it still counts. The CX-60 is currently the "most powerful" road-going production car Mazda has ever made. It features a 2.5-liter I-4 gas engine with a 100-kW e-motor, plugged into a 17.8-kWh battery, good for a total output of 323 horsepower. https://www.motortrend.com/news/mazda-mazdaspeed-performance-cars-dead/

By the 15th over, Sunrisers Hyderabad’s asking rate had climbed to 23-plus. They were gasping for breath at 72/5, back-to-back sixes from Romario Shepherd notwithstanding. The game was long done and dusted, when Sunrisers slipped to 14/3 inside the Powerplay, against Rajasthan Royals’ 210/6. In the end, Sunrisers lost by 61 runs. They were never in the game. Royals flex muscles By the look of it, Royals want to set the record straight this term. One of the perennial also-rans of the Indian Premier League, barring the first season when they won the tournament under Shane Warne’s captaincy, Royals basically played to make up the numbers. A change could be on the cards. It reflected in the franchise’s aggressive auction strategy and in the 15th edition of the IPL, they have a team that can flex its muscles. Batting, pace and spin – Royals have covered all the bases. Their tournament opener in Pune on Tuesday was a case in point. Jos Buttler and Yashasvi Jaiswal stitched a quickfire 58-run opening partnership. Sanju Samson scored a gorgeous half-century, coming in at No. 3. Devdutt Padikkal gave his skipper good company, making 41 off 29 balls and adding 73 runs for the third wicket. Shimron Hetmyer put the finishing touches with a 13-ball 32. The Royals batting thrived on its depth. Their fast bowling was spearheaded by Trent Boult’s quality, Prasidh Krishna’s swing and Nathan Coulter-Nile’s hit-the-deck stuff. The Aussie didn’t have a good game, but Boult and Krishna used the new ball superbly. Krishna took out Kane Williamson and Rahul Tripathi, while Boult accounted for Nicholas Pooran. New-ball bowling was the key on a greenish Pune pitch. Royals sizzled, Sunrisers fizzled. https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/ipl/ipl-2022-rajasthan-royals-vs-sunrisers-hyderabad-match-report-7843348/

The last two years of the pandemic have been tough on all of us. And as we navigate our way, it has reminded us that our mental well-being is just as important as our physical well-being. It is important we appreciate the little things life has to offer and not to let negative thoughts consume us. A happy mind helps ensure a healthier lifestyle. Youtuber-actor Prajakta Koli shared some tips on her channel MostlySane about small habits we can adopt in our daily lives to keep our minds happy. Firstly, she said it’s important to spend some time with oneself after waking up in the morning. “For me, it’s getting up, brushing my teeth, having my morning chai and reading a book. It’s important to have some me time before the hustle bustle of the day starts.” She also put emphasis on having a proper sleep cycle. Prajakta advised that one should take an hour off their phone every day, and utilise that time to either take a nap or watch a movie. “Because our brain is bombarded with content every day, it is important for us to take a breather and relax.” She said it’s also important to monitor the conversations, content and thoughts you have, around you and in your mind. “Monitor the type of people you are talking to and what content you are consuming every day. See how happy, sad or helpful it is and whether these conversations helps you grow.” “Anytime I have a doubt or weird thought coming to the mind, I try to think about the things going right in my life instead of focusing on the wrongs.” According to her, writing down all the things we are grateful for is very helpful. Ending on an encouraging note, she said: “Your mind is the place you’re going to spend the rest of your life in, so might as well make it a healthy and a happy space to be in.” https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/life-positive/make-your-mind-happy-space-prajakta-koli-7795220/

Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine have brought the first signs of progress since the Russian invasion began on 24 February. Russia says it will "drastically reduce" military combat operations in two key areas. But as Tom Bateman reports from outside the talks in Turkey, many Western observers remain sceptical. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted this round of Russia-Ukraine talks at his working office in Istanbul. It's an impressive place. The Dolmabahce Palace dominates a stretch alongside the Bosphorus - the strait across which Europe and Asia meet. Turkey's leader is signalling how he wants his role to be viewed. The building has seen nearly two centuries of history; the Ottoman Empire was once governed from here. On Tuesday morning it rang out with applause for him from the arriving delegations. Mr Erdogan invoked their "historic responsibility" to reach a truce as the two negotiating teams faced each other. But most here were sceptical. From the delegations there were few pleasantries and even less hope for success. The Ukrainians suggested there would be no breakthrough on the "main issues". Talks in Turkey earlier this month ended in failure and recriminations. The human cost in Ukraine continues to be devastating. A ferocious attack on an administrative building in Mykolaiv in the south killed at least 12 people on Tuesday with others feared trapped under the rubble, said local officials. Yet the discussions have delivered a significant moment in diplomatic terms, described as the "most meaningful progress" so far by the Turks. The discussions lasted around three hours. Very little was leaking. Nearly all media were kept away in a packed area on a pavement outside. The key points became clear as members of the Ukrainian delegation came out onto the street an hour before the expected finish. The negotiators said they had proposed to Russia that Ukraine adopt a neutral status in exchange for security guarantees - an international mechanism where guarantor countries would act to protect Ukraine in future. In return Kyiv would not join Nato, a key Russian demand. This was not a new pledge, but it was spelt out in the clearest detail yet. And they proposed sidestepping some of the thorniest issues, saying security guarantees would "temporarily exclude" the breakaway territories in the eastern Donbas region. They suggested talks over 15 years to resolve the status of Crimea. This was sufficient progress for a meeting between the country's presidents, said the lead Ukrainian negotiator David Arakhamia. He said they were sending the proposals to the Russian side and were waiting for an answer. It came a few minutes later from Russia's Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin. He described the discussions as moving into a "practical phase". And then came the key phrase. He said Russia had decided to "drastically reduce combat operations in the Kyiv and Chernihiv areas". This was to boost "mutual trust and create the necessary conditions for further negotiations". It mattered because it signalled the first sense of momentum to a diplomatic process that has so far lacked any clear outcomes. Many are sceptical about what Russia's stance actually means; whether it's a pledge to pull back or merely an acceptance it has already failed in those areas and will instead turn its full force further east. Western countries are saying they will judge Russia by its actions not its words. This is far from a ceasefire or the end of the conflict, but Ukraine says the talks will go on. It wants to bring in other countries as part of proposals for "security guarantees", while Moscow called the talks "constructive". What happens on the ground will remain critical. Meanwhile there'll be a bigger spotlight on Turkey's role. In one aside, the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich was spotted at a small table away from the main delegations. It seemed to confirm reports the sanctioned Chelsea football club owner is still involved in the mediation at some level. He was wearing translation headphones and sitting next to Mr Erdogan's spokesman Ibrahim Kalin, who's reported to have been a key fixer in some of the contacts between Russia and Ukraine. Turkey has resisted joining the West's sanctions against Russia and its oligarchs, leading to growing concerns its crisis-hit economy could be put in further jeopardy. But Mr Erdogan's metaphor about bridging divides is now delivering him a different focus for his supporters at home. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60920255

Founded in 2013 by Carl Pei and Pete Lau, OnePlus started off as a subsidiary of BBK electronics alongside other well-known Chinese smartphone brands including Oppo, Vivo and, more recently, Realme. So right away there was a lot of shared DNA. But critically, even though OnePlus phones often had similar designs and specs compared to contemporary Oppo devices, the teams behind those phones were separate. (The old joke for years was that the latest Vivo phone would eventually become the next OnePlus device after a few months, but I digress.) This gave OnePlus the freedom to tweak things to suit its core audience: hardcore phone nerds, mostly in the US and western Europe before later expanding to India. Meanwhile, Oppo and Vivo focused more on the Chinese market and other regions in Asia. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, when a new OnePlus phone came out, it often launched first in the US. OnePlus phones also had features like its Alert Slider and OxygenOS that weren't available on phones from its sister companies. And as early as 2015, 60 to 70 percent of the company's sales came from overseas as growth in the west quickly outpaced gains in its home country. More recently in 2020, OnePlus sales in the US grew by 143 percent while practically every other phone maker saw shipments decline due to the pandemic and the silicon shortage that followed soon after. In contrast to Oppo and Vivo, OnePlus carved out its niche overseas, and in some ways, you could even think of OnePlus as a western company that just happened to be based in the east. But everything changed last year when OnePlus announced that it was officially merging with Oppo. So now, instead of being an independent company (albeit with the same parent in BBK), OnePlus is being positioned as a sub-brand for its sister company run by Lau, who will jointly oversee both companies while serving as chief product officer. From a business standpoint, the merger makes a lot of sense. Rather than having redundant teams working on similar projects at different companies, combining OnePlus and Oppo helps streamline research and development while also boosting the scale at which the company can produce (and sell) devices. And it's a similar story for the OS powering these devices, because after years of independent development, OnePlus announced that OxygenOS and Oppo's ColorOS would transition to a shared codebase. That means while OxygenOS will still be around, it's closer to being a tweaked and stripped-down skin of ColorOS designed to look OnePlus' old platform. But under the hood, they're the same. And if it wasn't for backlash from fans, Oppo probably would have shelved OnePlus' take on Android entirely in favor of Vivo's platform. Unfortunately, this change to the new codebase hasn't been smooth. During a recent roundtable that took place during MWC late last month, OnePlus' head of OS product Gary Chen admitted that the latest iteration of OxygenOS (version 12) "did not meet expectations." On top of that, when asked why the OnePlus 10 Pro launched first in China months before becoming available in other regions, Lau said the OP10 Pro's delayed availability wasn't caused by the ongoing global chip crunch, but instead because "software development takes longer for non-China countries." This is a very different approach to OnePlus' global sales strategy compared to the past. And lest we forget, there still aren't even any plans to make a non-pro OnePlus 10, which just seems odd after years of new phones landing in pairs. Another important factor to consider is all the former employees who have left the company recently, most notably Carl Pei. Not long before the OnePlus/Oppo merger went down, Pei left the company he helped create to launch Nothing. According to Lau, "Pei's departure did not have an impact on the development of OnePlus." And while I understand the desire for a company to put on a stoic face during a major transition, allow me to reserve a bit of skepticism on that one. Over the course of multiple generations, Pei was often the face of OnePlus, especially for customers in the west. He presented new flagship devices at launch events and regularly popped in to chat with customers or provide updates in the company's forums. And after launching its first product last year (the Ear1 earbuds), Nothing is about to become one of OnePlus' direct competitors now that the company is prepping to launch the Phone 1 sometime this summer. Without getting too deep into any interpersonal drama, I think it's pretty clear that Pei is still very much interested in making gadgets, just not at OnePlus. The brain drain hasn't happened solely at the very top of the ladder either, with other longtime OnePlus execs like chief marketing officer Kyle Kiang having left the company last year in April. And then there are the countless numbers of OnePlus public relations, communication and support staff that have departed as well. Prior to 2020, I basically had the same two or three OnePlus contacts for five years running. And while my more recent contacts have been nothing short of professional, the amount of internal turnover I've seen feels very much like a changing of the guard. And then there are smaller moves like pushing Warp Charging to the back burner in favor of 150W SuperVooc charging, which is slated to arrive on an upcoming OnePlus phone sometime in 2022. Now, it's hard to get too upset about getting even faster charging tech, but this is yet another example of how the Oppo side of the company is seeping into OnePlus. But perhaps most importantly is how OnePlus views itself. After shipping more than 11 million phones last year, OnePlus set new sales records in 2021. And while the company says it will continue to support its core markets in the US, India, Europe and China, the company also has aggressive plans to expand its markets later this year to Canada, Mexico and South America (a first for OnePlus). And in the future, OnePlus is eyeing North Africa and the Middle East as well. In short, while longtime enthusiasts probably won't be completely forgotten, 2022 feels like a massive push from OnePlus to become a truly mainstream name. In some ways, OnePlus has kinda become the new LG, filling the void in the smartphone landscape left after Samsung's cross-country rival shuttered its mobile business. And while this might seem like selling out (which, remember, is exactly what companies are made to do), there are a number of positive things that have come about as part of the company's maturation. We're talking about stuff like wider retail availability and improved carrier support throughout the US, not to mention a growing ecosystem of gadgets that includes wireless earbuds, smartwatches and more. There's also the company's partnership with Hasselblad to improve its mobile photography, which for OnePlus has consistently lagged behind what you get on phones from Apple, Samsung and Google. OnePlus has even improved the everyday durability of its handsets in recent years thanks to support for IP68 dust and water resistance — even if the company's unlocked models don't explicitly mention this in their specs. And thanks to the Nord series, OnePlus has a larger lineup of affordable devices than ever before. So has OnePlus finally turned its back on its longtime customers? Maybe, maybe not. That really depends on what you're looking for in a phone. There's no question that the company's latest flagship devices are very different from what it used to make back in 2014. Heck for the first few year But at the same time, people's preferences and expectations about what makes a good handset have changed a lot during the last eight years too. In its quest for a worldwide presence, OnePlus left a lot of its past behind. And in its place, we're left with a global brand that ranks as the fourth-largest smartphone maker on the planet (and that’s not even counting Vivo) that's very hungry to climb even higher. So say goodbye to the old OnePlus and say hello to the rapidly expanding behemoth that's taken its place.

Google has announced a plan for wide-reaching privacy changes on Android-powered devices. Google announced plans Wednesday to limit ad tracking on its Android operating system running on billions of devices, a sensitive privacy issue that rival Apple has already moved to address on its iPhones. Tech giants are under growing pressure to better balance privacy and ad-targeting, as users complain and regulators threaten tougher rules—but the companies themselves try to maintain access to the precious data helping them earn billions in ad revenue. Apple has about 50 percent of the US smartphone market while Google's Android software is used on roughly 85 percent of smartphones globally. Any changes to Android could therefore impact the data from billions of users. At present, the internet search giant assigns an identity to Android-powered devices, which enables advertisers to have a profile of people's online habits and thus send them ads they might be interested in. "Our goal... is to develop effective and privacy enhancing advertising solutions, where users know their information is protected, and developers and businesses have the tools to succeed on mobile," Google said in a statement. For its part, Apple announced last year that users of its one billion iPhones in circulation can decide whether to allow their online activity to be tracked for the purpose of targeting ads. It was a change which Apple said shows its focus is on privacy, but that critics noted does not prevent the company itself from tracking its users. Apple's tweak has sent ripples through the tech world, with Facebook parent Meta saying it expects that policy to cost the social media giant $10 billion in lost revenue this year. A heavy impact is expected because less data will impact the precision of the ads Meta and other companies can sell, and thus their price. Online advertising billions Google gave an indication of the timing of its announced changes, saying "we plan to support existing ads platform features for at least two years, and we intend to provide substantial notice ahead of any future changes." The company said it is working on ways to better protect users' privacy, which would "limit sharing of user data with third parties and operate without cross-app identifiers, including advertising ID." It contrasted its plans with Apple's moves, saying, "we realize that other platforms have taken a different approach to ads privacy, bluntly restricting existing technologies used by developers and advertisers." Facebook reacted to the news with some relief. "Encouraging to see this long-term, collaborative approach to privacy-protective personalized advertising from Google," tweeted Meta's vice president of ad product marketing Graham Mudd. While Google argued that the changes would protect users' anonymity, it could also further strengthen the dominance the tech giant already holds over the digital advertising industry. Google's parent Alphabet pulled in over $60 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021 just in ad revenue, which makes up over 80 percent of its income. "Google has a number of ways around (tracking). They are monitoring so much of what you do, and control so much of what goes on in the web search environment," said analyst Rob Enderle. "Tracking is much more important to Facebook than it is to Google," he added, referring to the search giant's multiple online services that offer more varied sources of user data.

AMD's EPYC Genoa Early CPU Sample Leaks Out In Geekbench: 32 Zen 4 Cores & Twice The L2 Cache Tested on the Quartz reference motherboard platform, the AMD EPYC Genoa CPU has the OPN code '100-000000479-13' and is termed as an engineering sample. This matches the OPN codes shared by ExecutableFix back in January 2022. This specific AMD EPYC Genoa chip is fabricated on the 5nm process node and will rock a total of 32 cores and 64 threads. In terms of clock speeds, the CPU is reported to feature a base clock of 1.20 GHz while the all-core boost is rated at 3.43 GHz. Now, these are preliminary clock speeds and we can't say for sure how well those clocks were being maintained throughout the tests. As for the cache, the L3 cache remains 32 MB per CCD and this 32 core chip packs four Zen 4 CCDs which will give 128 MB of L3 cache. The L2 cache on the other hand sees a huge bump with a 2x increase over the current Zen 3 design. The AMD EPYC Genoa CPU packs 1 MB of L2 cache per core so that's 32 MB of L2 cache on the chip whereas a 32 core variant within the Zen 3 lineup would feature only 16 MB of L2 cache. The platform featured 32 GB of memory which should be DDR5 since Genoa rocks a DDR5 IMC rather than DDR4 on existing Zen 3 EPYC CPUs. Now what's impressive to see in these benchmarks is that despite a lower 1.2 GHz base and 3.4 GHz boost frequency, the single-core score is reported at 1126 points. For comparison, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X scores 1255 points and it boosts up to 4.5 GHz on a single-core. The slightly older 2990WX with a 4.2 GHz boost clock on a single-core scores 1014 points. The EPYC 7543 is also a 32 core chip based on the Zen 3 core that boosts up to 3.7 GHz and scores around 1200 points so that's an impressive initial showcase for the upcoming Zen 4 chip. We aren't going to compare the multi-core scores since it does look like the boosting for the EPYC Genoa wasn't working correctly across all cores, hence the low score. The AMD EPYC Genoa CPUs based on the 5nm process node will be offering up to 96 cores when they land on the new SP5 platform later this year. We are expecting some huge improvement in both single and multi-core performance and this leak is evident of that.

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There comes a point in a Vampire Survivors run when I know my build is good enough to go the distance, because the violence is so intense and colourful that my framerate grinds down into single digits. I like that point. To me, that's the real win; any minutes remaining before the actual end are a victory lap. Alas, this will change. The devs have laid out revised early access plans and, alongside loads of extra wizards and things, they're moving to a new engine with potentially a tenfold increase in performance. Booo? The arcade survival shooter launched into early access in December, with the developers estimating at the time that Vampire Survivors was 60% complete. It initially only found a handful of players but blew up in January 2022 following attention from streamers and YouTubers. "Thanks to the overwhelming success and support from the players, new content has started to come out at a much faster pace than anticipated and the roadmap has also been expanded significantly," "The amount of playable characters planned for version 1.0 of the game has been doubled and so has the number of stages with the introduction of bonus/challenge ones. A dozen new weapons have been designed and a handful of new power-ups thrown into the mix." So while they've added loads of new wizards and weapons and levels and things since launch, under the revised plan the game had only 70% of v1.0's content as of Thursday's post (a patch followed on Friday with a new wizard and new weapons). Along with even more new wizards, weapons, power-ups, stages, and special stages, they're working on "two new major game mechanics". They say the first of these is due in April, a feature named Arcanas which "will unlock a whole new level of viable builds and power creep." They're also planning to ditch the planned Story mode they had mentioned before, with an Endless mode currently the most likely candidate to replace it. "This doesn't necessarily mean that Story mode is gone forever, but the deep lore of Vampire Survivors requires a solid grasp of theoretical physics to be fully appreciated, so maybe environmental storytelling and subtle hints are the way to go," the devs said. "Please don't take anything from this last paragraph seriously." And yeah, they're planning to shunt Vampire Survivors onto a different game engine (an unnamed "industry-standard game engine") this summer. They say they're still working on it but benchmarks have shown "a tenfold increase in performance (and so in framerate)." This engine swap is also why promised features like key remapping haven't been added yet—because "it's just more time effective to implement those things directly in the new engine, and the same goes for worrying about game performance and hardware compatibility." Some might welcome an end to the endgame chug but I see it as a challenge. A tenfold increase in performance? I'll just have to try to build a run ten times as daft, with even more particles murdering even more monsters. I'm enjoying Vampire Survivors through early access. After doing everything (aside from bothering with super-secret characters), I'm mostly only playing when they add new stuff, to check it out. But they're adding new stuff at a decent pace, so I'm still regularly returning. It's good. I like these explosions. Also it only cost two quid, sheesh. "'Compulsive' really is the word, here," Matt Cox said in our Vampire Survivors early access review. "Most of us are wired in such a way that watching numbers go up feels good, and there's enough passivity baked into Vampire Survivors that comparisons to idle games aren't unwarranted. There's the same basic allure of escalation, and the same brand of absurdity within its eventual cacophony of flailing axes and rainbow-hued destruction." https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/vampire-survivors-should-end-endgame-framedeath-with-new-engine