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Two-minute review Apple has managed to reinvent one of its most iconic products with the release of the iMac (24-inch, 2021) by not only improving upon its predecessor but doing so in stunning fashion. Where the previous iMac had started to look outdated with its hand-me-down looks, the 2021 model is refreshing with its modern and svelte shape. Part of this design overhaul is the size of the screen. The 21.5-inch display is now gone, replaced by the larger 24-inch one (though the 27-inch iMac is still available). While the screen is much larger, the dimensions of the iMac (24-inch, 2021) is not remarkably different from its predecessor, coming in at 54.7 x 46.1cm with a depth of 14.7cm while the prior 21.5-inch model measures 52.8 x 45cm with a depth of 17.5cm. Incredibly, the screen on this iMac is only 11.5mm thin. So, this model gives you all that extra screen real estate while not taking up much more desk space. And, considering the fact that it is slimmer and lighter as well – the 24-inch model weighs 4.48kg compared to its predecessor’s 5.68kg – it’s an even more portable and flexible all-in-one computer. Apple has also released the iMac (24-inch, 2021) in seven vibrant colors, which harkens back to the days of the iMac G3 and shows a confidence and playfulness from Apple that's very welcome. In a nice touch, the Magic Keyboard, Mouse and Trackpad all come in the same color as the iMac you choose, and elements of the macOS Big Sur user interface are also in the same color. It’s a lovely overall effect.

Liqid, MemVerge, and Intel have developed a platform solution that allows to pool and orchestrate system memory and storage-class memory (SCM) like Intel Optane Persistent Memory (PMem) modules together and then use these ultra-large memory pools with CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and other accelerators. The solution supports not only existing PMems, but also future memory hardware from Intel, and upcoming CXL accelerators. DRAM is fast, but it has inherent physical capacity limitations and high per-bit costs. While the DDR5 standard was designed with extreme memory capacities in mid, the problem of costs is still there. Intel's Optane and other upcoming SCM are considerably cheaper than DRAM on per-bit basis, which is why PMem modules are often installed alongside traditional DRAM modules in machines that are used to run large databases or in-memory applications. But many modern workloads use accelerators for processing, including GPUs and FPGAs. While accelerators usually have their DRAM memory onboard, in many cases they need more memory for higher performance. The looming CXL technology will enable upcoming systems to pool-in memory resources easily on the hardware level, but these systems still need software that understands how to use these multi-tier memory pools. The platform solution that Intel, Liqid, and MemVerge developed uses the Liqid Matrix composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) software, MemVerge Memory Machine software for in-memory computing and Intel Xeon Scalable platforms supporting Optane PMem to build high-capacity multi-tier memory pools that can be used both by CPUs and accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.). The platform allows to granularly configure and compose all resources (memory, network, GPU, FPGA to support unique workload requirements. With the new platform, it is now possible to accelerate in-memory computing applications with GPUs or FPGAs, something that was rather hard to do previously. "Our composable big memory solutions are an important part of an overall CDI architecture," said Bernie Wu, vice president of business development at MemVerge in a press release. "The solutions are also a solid platform that customers can leverage for deployment of future memory hardware from Intel, in-memory data management services from MemVerge, and composable disaggregated software from Liqid." The solution supports not only Optane Persistent Memory modules, but also future memory hardware from Intel, and CXL accelerators. At least initially, the platform will require Intel hardware to run, but expect Liqid and MemVerge to tailor their software for other platforms eventually when CXL-based memory accelerators become widely available. "Collaboration between organizations like MemVerge and Liqid, whose respective expertise in big memory and PCIe-composability are well-recognized, deliver solutions that provide functionality now that CXL will bring in the future," said Kristie Mann, vice president of product for Intel Optane Group at Intel in the same release. "Their solution creates a layer of composable Intel Optane-based memory for true tiered memory architectures. Solutions such as these have the potential to address today's cost and efficiency gaps in big-memory computing, while providing the perfect platform for the seamless integration of future CXL-based technologies." The new platform solution will be available from Liqid. To learn more about the product, interested parties need to set up an appointment with Liqid. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/new-platform-lets-gpus-fpgas-use-intel-optane-memory-modules

The po[CENSORED]r podcast app Overcast has been updated for iOS, bringing the first steps of a redesign to the home screen, alongside custom playlists, choices for different playback colors, ways to filter podcasts in three ways, and more. Created by developer, writer, and podcaster Marco Arment, it's been the go-to podcast app for many who haven't been entirely happy with Apple's Podcast app. While Apple recently added some updates to help users manage their subscribed shows, Overcast has other features that make it a great alternative. Called 2022.2 for this latest update, it lets you pin podcasts to the home screen and mark podcasts as played, which can save you from wasting cellular data downloading episodes you've already listened to. With Overcast's significant update, we're wondering what Apple's own Podcasts app must do to stay competitive. Podcasts have always felt as though they've been around as long as we've been able to send emails to one another. While they first appeared as a new medium in the early 2000s, podcasts arrived on Apple's platform in 2005 with iTunes 4.9. It was a way of subscribing to shows on Windows and macOS machines back then, which we would then connect our iPods to sync up our favorite podcasts. That year, Steve Jobs, Apple's co-founder and then CEO, gave an impromptu demo of the feature at one of The Wall Street Journal's early All Things D conferences. Once the iPhone arrived in 2007, podcasts would be part of the original Music app, but at the time, it was still a challenge to subscribe and download new podcast shows. Finally, a dedicated app arrived in 2012 from Apple, and while there have been regular updates to it, alongside a macOS version that debuted in 2019, it's still playing catch up in features, especially when you compare it to Overcast. Arment's app has long had an innovative feature called smart speed, where the app identifies silent pauses and speeds the episode up at those points. Once the host or guests speaks again, the playback speed returns to normal. Having used the Overcast 2022.2 update on an iPhone 13 Pro, being able to pin podcasts, and, at last, change the colors of the controls, it's clear Apple has its work cut out for it. Apple has introduced subscriptions and the ability to track listens for podcast creators to its own app, but the app still feels as though it's playing catchup. Apple's take of a podcast app has the basics covered, but you can't pin shows, there's no smart speed, and links in show notes still don't show correctly. There's no hook from Apple here to tempt you to use its app - everything looks and feels run of the mill, a podcast app that does the basics, and that's it. There's no killer feature like smart speed to tempt you away from Overcast, and in a way, that's only good news for Arment's alternative, especially in the last decade of Apple's Podcast app being available to download. To catch up, Apple could buy Overcast - it won't - or shift how it updates the app and move from annual major updates to a once-every-few-months cadence. In this way, Apple's Podcasts app could build on what listeners and podcasters want. For now, though, this is all wishful thinking. Overcast has been updated with a great redesign, and there are further plans to look into redesigning the Now Playing screen. While you can download Overcast for free, there is a yearly fee of $9.99 / £8.99 / AU$ 10.99 to get rid of ads and use a dark-themed icon. Apple's Podcast app is free. With this substantial 2022.2 update, we can confidently say that it's worth the price if you're a heavy podcast listener. https://www.techradar.com/news/the-best-podcast-app-on-ios-gets-a-major-redesign-leaving-apples-app-in-the-dust

Name of the Game : Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition Price : 24.59$ https://store.steampowered.com/app/921570/OCTOPATH_TRAVELER/ Offer ends up after Xhours: 28 march Requirements: MINIMUM: MINIMUM: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: 64-bit Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i5 3570 or AMD FX-8350 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GPU: NVIDIA GTX 760, AMD Radeon 7970 / R9280X GPU RAM: 2 GB Video Memory DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 120 GB available space RECOMMENDED: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: 64-bit Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i7-7700 or AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1070 / RTX 200, Radeon Vega 56, GPU RAM: 4 GB Video Memory DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 120 GB available space

Are you looking for a new Razer gaming laptop? We've reviewed all the best Razer gaming laptops and found that Razer makes, hands-down, some of the best gaming laptops on the market you can buy. However, when it comes to buying one, you also want the best Razer gaming laptop deals to save yourself some cash. So we've scoured the web to find the best Razer deals around. These premium gaming laptops combine both style and performance to give a new MacBook a run its money. Though much like the laptops that adorn a logo of a partially eaten apple, laptops with Razer's fancy little snake logo do not come cheap. That's why when we see a deal on Razer laptops, we make a big fuss about it. Right now, the best gaming laptop Razer makes has to be the Razer Blade 15 Advanced. These sleek little powerhouses are a little less 5 lbs but pack so much performance it could probably run laps around your current desktop gaming PC. The newer ones have configs that include Nvidia's impressive RTX 30-series GPUs, along with a wide variety of display options from 1080p/360Hz to 4K/60Hz. If you're willing to go deep into your pocketbook, you won't be disappointed by the Razer Blade 15 Advance. Suppose you're looking for a more travel-friendly the latest Blade 14, the company's first AMD-powered gaming laptop in many a long year. That one is gorgeous. If you want smaller, there's even the Razer Book 13, an ultrabook-style gaming laptop that uses integrated graphics for better battery life. https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/the-best-razer-laptop-for-gaming-2019/

Netflix on Thursday announced that its upcoming series "Mai", starring po[CENSORED]r actor Sakshi Tanwar, will start streaming on April 15. The crime drama-thriller series is produced by Karnesh Ssharma of Clean Slate Filmz and directed by Anshai Lal and debutant Atul Mongia. The streamer also unveiled the trailer of "Mai" on social media. "Mai" revolves around the Chaudhary family of two brothers, who live in adjacent houses in the same colony, with their spouses and children. "A middle-class wife, mother and volunteer nurse witnesses a first-hand tragedy that forever changes her world. In an instant, she finds herself sucked into a rabbit hole of violence, crime and power," the official synopsis released by Netflix stated.

A group of Georgia voters on Thursday asked state officials to block Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from running for re-election, alleging she is unfit for office because of her support of rioters who attacked the United States Capitol. In a legal challenge filed with the Georgia secretary of state, the voters claim Greene has violated a provision of the US Constitution known as the “Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause”. The clause, passed after the 19th-century American civil war, prohibits politicians from running for Congress if they have engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” against the United States, or “given aid or comfort” to the nation’s enemies. The Georgia voters are represented by Free Speech For People, a Texas-based advocacy group that had brought a similar challenge to Republican congressman Madison Cawthorn’s qualifications for office. A federal judge dismissed the Cawthorn case on March 4, but Free Speech for People has urged North Carolina officials to appeal that ruling. Greene’s spokesman did not immediately respond to a request by the Reuters news service for comment. Greene has downplayed and justified the January 6, 2021, attack, in which supporters of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, battling with police and sending lawmakers running for their lives after a fiery speech by Trump near the White House claiming his election defeat was a result of widespread fraud. “January 6 was just a riot at the Capitol and if you think about what our Declaration of Independence says, it says to overthrow tyrants,” Greene said during a radio program in October. The legal challenge will be heard by an administrative law judge. Greene could also ask a federal judge to step in and block the challenge. “After taking the oath to defend and protect the Constitution, before, on, and after Jan. 6, 2021, Greene voluntarily aided and engaged in an insurrection to obstruct the peaceful transfer of presidential power,” the lawsuit states. Some legal experts have expressed scepticism of Free Speech For People’s arguments. Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Iowa, said it would be unconstitutional for Georgia election officials to take Greene off the ballot. The Constitution does not give states the power to assess a congressional candidate’s eligibility for office, reserving that power for Congress, he said. “Georgia has no jurisdiction to assess a congressional candidate’s eligibility today,” Muller said in an email. “Even if Ms Greene were an insurrectionist, Congress has the authority to lift that bar, which it could do at any time before she presents her credentials to Congress next year if she were re-elected.” Earlier this year, social media platform Twitter said it had permanently suspended Greene’s personal account for violating its misinformation policy by spreading false claims about COVID-19. After the January 6 riot at the Capitol, Democrats in the House of Representatives sharply rebuked the first-year lawmaker by voting to strip her of committee assignments for “hostile” social media posts that included a suggestion Speaker Nancy Pelosi should be executed. Some Democrats had called for her removal from Congress for her previous endorsement of QAnon conspiracy theories that mass shootings at schools were “false flag” events and calling for violence against Democratic politicians. But Democrats lack the votes that would be necessary to reach the two-thirds majority required to remove her. In 2021, Democrats in the House impeached Trump for inciting the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, but the former president was acquitted by Republicans in the Senate. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/24/lawsuit-seeks-to-prevent-marjorie-taylor-greene-from

What Makes Bobcats Special? The bobcat is often confused with its cousin, the lynx, as both share a tannish brown coat with dark spots or lined markings. The differences between the two species are in the details. Bobcats have short, pointy dark tufts of hair on the tops of their ears and fluffy tufts of hair on their cheeks. Bobcats also have short, bobbed tails that are four to seven inches in length. Bobcats are entirely carnivorous and like to prey on smaller mammals such as rabbits, mice, moles and squirrels. Sometimes birds and reptiles are included in their diets. The largest animals a bobcat has been known to kill are deer, usually in the winter months when small rodents are scarce. Bobcats only hunt from dusk to dawn. Bobcats favor remote rocky outcrops and heavily wooded areas, though they are, at times, found on the urban edge. Rugged terrain, deep forests and caves make perfect dens and hunting grounds. The home ranges established by bobcats are vast and guarded. Bobcats are very territorial and will outline their space by scent markings. While male territories will sometimes overlap, females won't share their space with any other female bobcat. As solitary and far-ranging mammals, interactions between humans and bobcats are rare, but humans are the bobcat's largest threat. Bobcats need large areas of interconnected wild lands to thrive. Land development, over-hunting and trapping bobcats for their fur are just a few reasons bobcat po[CENSORED]tions can decline. Facts about Bobcats Bobcats emit an eerie scream that can be heard for miles. A bobcat's personal territory can span out up to 30 square miles for males and five square miles for females. These territories are clearly marked by the bobcat's urine and/or feces. Bobcats have excellent vision and hearing and a well-developed sense of smell. Unlike the domesticated house cat, bobcats enjoy the water and are very good swimmers. As incredibly skilled climbers, bobcats easily maneuver around rocky terrain and climb up tall trees when pursuing their prey. Bobcats are quiet hunters who pounce on their prey and kill it with one bite. These large cats are known to leap up to ten feet in the air. Bobcat tracks are easy to distinguish - roundish paw, four toes and no claw-markings. American Bobcat Quick Facts Scientific name: Lynx rufus Length: 24-48 inches long Height: 18-24 inches tall Weight: 15-30 lbs. (males larger) Coat coloration: tannish with dark spots; lighter coloring on belly Distinguished by: short (4-7 in) tail with a black tip on the top side; tufts of hair on top of ears and on cheeks Habitats: found throughout North American forests, mountains and brushlands Feeding habits: carnivorous; feed on small mammals and birds; occasionally reptiles Predators: kittens are hunted by foxes, coyotes and large owl; humans are the only threat to adults Reproduction: mate February to March; average litter of two to three kittens; young stays with mother 7-12 months Life span: 10-15 years in wild Conservation status: abundant po[CENSORED]tions in the U.S. and Canada https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/indiana/stories-in-indiana/indiana-bobcats/

It’s no exaggeration to say the new Passport is the most rugged Honda SUV ever built. And its all-new TrailSport edition is the toughest, most capable expression of this strength. Car and Driver agrees, proclaiming, “The TrailSport prepares the crossover for off-road duties.” It’s exactly the type of vehicle you would expect from a company like Honda that has deep roots in off-road performance and fun, with decades of experience making dirt bikes and off-road vehicles. The bold upgrades start on the surface: The redesigned front hood and fenders give the Passport TrailSport a tougher, more muscular look perfectly matched to its all-terrain attitude. The restyled rear accentuates the SUV’s 8.1 inches of ground clearance, while sporty dual exhaust finishers raise the bar for style. New all-season tires add to the aggressive looks, while striking 18-inch alloy wheels create a smooth ride over rough terrain. But the changes don’t stop there. When it comes to versatile performance, the Passport TrailSport checks all the boxes, then asks for more. Its 9-speed automatic transmission has an innovative shift-management system that allows for multiple-gear downshifts, while its paddle shifters allow you to take control. Check. A powerful V-6 engine comes standard with 280-horsepower[1] and 262 pound-feet of torque[2], and its 4-wheel fully independent suspension provides excellent maneuverability even on rocky roads. Check and check. In need of AWD capability? The i-VTM4® all-wheel-drive system, standard on the TrailSport, includes an Intelligent Traction Management feature that includes Snow, Mud and Sand modes[3] to help you keep your grip—and confidence—in adverse conditions. Check, check and check. Can rugged be comfortable? Absolutely. The Passport seats up to five adults comfortably with standard heated front seats, while its rear seats offer nearly as much legroom, shoulder room and hip room as the front seats. “It also pampers occupants,” tells U.S. News & World Report, “with a wealth of standard convenience, tech, and safety features.” And since the Passport is designed for adventure, it also includes underfloor storage and ample cargo space for weekend getaways and weeklong way-out-theres. Capabilities abound for daily driving, too. The Honda Satellite-Linked Navigation System™[4] that comes standard on the TrailSport features 3-D renderings of terrain, buildings and road signs, as well as lane guidance. And because it uses a preloaded map database and satellite connectivity, this navigation system even works in off-the-grid areas where the TrailSport can go. When taking the Passport this far, you’ll appreciate the available wireless phone charger[5] as well as Apple CarPlay® and Android Auto™ integration[6]. An 8-inch Display Audio with high-resolution touch-screen puts your music, apps and settings within easy reach. Throw in multiple 12-volt power outlets and an available 115-volt power outlet that accommodates a standard electrical plug, and the Passport can give you everything you need to stay connected while getting away from it all. Thirsty for even more adventure? Whether you ride trails, slopes or waves, the Passport offers a full range of Honda Genuine Accessories for rooftop carrying. These include attachments for your bike, skis, snowboards, a surfboard or a kayak. And with a towing capacity of up to 5,000 pounds[7], it will also haul your boat, motorcycles, off-road vehicles or trailer without breaking a sweat. The relentless spirit of determination fuels every vehicle, every update and every feature in every Honda, so you can expect to see the rugged TrailSport edition making an appearance in the upcoming Pilot, too. Stay tuned as the adventure continues. https://www.caranddriver.com/about/a28098989/sponsor/?prx_t=mUcHAg6pSAHMUQA&ntv_acpl=1099036&ntv_acsc=2&ntv_gsscm=802*24;774*24;&ntv_ht=Ff49YgA

PAK vs AUS, 3rd Test, Day 5 Highlights: Nathan Lyon and Pat Cummins guided Australia to a series-clinching victory by 115 runs in the third and final Test against Pakistan at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. Lyon completed a five-wicket haul as he ran through the Pakistani top and bottom order. Captain Cummins contributed with the key wickets of Mohammad Rizwan, Fawad Alam and last man Naseem Shah to help his team win a series on Pakistani soil after 24 long years. Australia won the series 1-0 after the first two Tests ended in draws. Australia, the top ranked Test team in the world, will maintain its firm grip on the top spot of the World Test Championship table. Usman Khawaja was the star with the bat for Australia in the match as he contributed with scores of 91 and 104. 3rd Test, Australia in Pakistan, 3 Test Series, 2022, Mar 21, 2022Day 5 | Match Ended PAK268&235 (92.1) AUS391 & 227/3d

While eating a bowl of fresh pumpkin cappellacci at Benoli in Norwich, I realised it had been about 10 years since I’d last travelled this way in search of food. That is shameful on my part, because good things are happening in this nook of East Anglia. The Assembly House, for example, one of the UK’s loveliest boutique hotels, offers a storming afternoon tea, the coffee shops around Elm Hill are fabulous, and restaurants such as Farmyard and Benedicts come highly recommended. In fact, overall, Norwich is a great place for structureless mooching, which is my favourite type of break. And then there is Benoli, a modern, three-floored Italian hidden up an alley in the city centre. I tried to look up which part of Italy Benoli was in, only to discover that it’s a combination of the names of brothers Ben and Oliver Boon, in the type of mash-up that has warmed my heart ever since my grandma’s neighbours Ron and Valerie went upmarket and named their terrace house Ronderval in the 1970s. Chef Oliver – a MasterChef: The Professionals finalist who has worked for Gordon Ramsay and was head chef at Roux at the Landau in London – recreates memories of childhood trips to Italy and Sicily, and my pumpkin pasta is the star of today’s show. It is all made by hand, rather than by machine, the pasta is soft, firm and lustrous, and the cappellacci come swimming in a rich sea of sage butter with salted ricotta. There’s no skimping on portion sizes – there can never be too much fresh, pumpkin-filled pasta, after all. Or, for that matter, too many top-quality, purple-hued winter tomatoes, cut once and drizzled in brilliant olive oil. It was a cold, foggy Wednesday night in Norwich, and dinner at Benoli was exactly what we needed. The humble-sounding “parmesan croquettes” from the snacks section of the menu turned out to be fearsome hay bales of mozzarella, potato and parmesan, deep-fried and smothered in another glut of parmesan. They looked more like furious Shredded Wheat preparing for battle than croquettes, and from the moment I set eyes on their cheesy weirdness, I knew that Benoli was no ordinary Italian restaurant. It is the safe option, for Italian restaurants outside the larger British cities, to serve a few pastas and pizzas, and tiramisu for pudding, but at Benoli there is a definite reach towards the strange and the difficult, with the likes of cod and ’nduja kiev with whipped baccalà or a spin on vitello tonnato made with veal belly, maitake mushrooms and flaky, fishy katsuobushi. The menu is hectic and helter-skelter, Japanese-influenced in places, and then – oops – we’re in eastern Europe, which is all fine by me because Boon can really cook. I’d certainly recommend the aubergine caponata, a pleasing chunk of eggplant in a light tempura batter sitting on a tomato sauce laced with furikake. I had fully intended to share this with my dining companion, but sometimes it really is the thought that counts. My friend Ainsley had the gorgonzola tortelli with cocoa, porcini and chestnut, a defiantly rich bowl of pleasure into which I poked my fork numerous times. To my credit, however, we did intentionally share a radicchio salad with a glossy, chive-emulsion dressing. If Benoli was closer to my house, I would eat here a lot. It doesn’t stand on ceremony; so little so, in fact, that you could probably turn up in your dressing gown and the delightful staff wouldn’t turn a hair, plus it’s dimly lit enough for you to get away with being secretly dressed for bed, anyway. The antipasti and pastas are great, but if you’re feeling fancy, they’ll also rustle up a halibut, chanterelles and pancetta fricassea. The pudding they made me, meanwhile, was so starkly weird that it could have come straight off the set of a MasterChef final, with a bed of softened, still-quite-tart rhubarb topped with a pale-pink, almond-butter gelato on some sort of white chocolate-based plinth scented heavily with hibiscus. Did I like this dessert? I am not sure. Did I finish this dessert? Yes, I did – I ate every mouthful, not least because I was trying to work out where the hibiscus was hidden. Was it used to steep the rhubarb? And if I don’t care for white chocolate particularly – as no grown adult really does after their Milky Bar years – why on earth was I licking the bowl? Few things give me greater pleasure than wandering out of a hotel on the hunt for dinner, expecting nothing and finding a local gem. Benoli isn’t perfect – some mouthfuls are just too much, some dishes are erratic, and if you come expecting a soothing plate of dough balls, you may be a bit disappointed – but the Boons are striving, experimenting and delivering some sort of greatness. And they’re doing it all quietly up a side street in Norwich. I won’t leave it another decade. Benoli 5 Orford Street, Norwich, 01603 633056. Open all week, lunch noon-3pm, dinner 5.30-10pm (9pm Sun). About £55 a head for four courses, plus drinks and service. https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/mar/25/benoli-norwich-restaurant-review-grace-dent

The wife of a US Supreme Court judge repeatedly pressed Trump White House staff to overturn the 2020 presidential election, US media has reported. Virginia Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, reportedly sent 29 text messages to former adviser Mark Meadows, urging him not to concede. Ms Thomas called Joe Biden's victory "the greatest heist of our history". The texts are among 2,320 messages Mr Meadows provided to a committee investigating the US Capitol riot. In the text messages, seen by CBS News and The Washington Post, she urged Mr Meadows, who was Donald Trump's chief of staff, to "make a plan" in a bid to save his presidency. "Do not concede. It takes time for the army who is gathering for his back", she wrote on 6 November. It is unclear if Mr Meadows responded. Ms Thomas also appeared to push QAnon conspiracy theories and urged Mr Meadows to appoint Sidney Powell, a conspiracy theorist and lawyer, to head up Mr Trump's legal team. "Sounds like Sidney and her team are getting inundated with evidence of fraud," Ms Thomas wrote. "Release the Kraken and save us from the left taking America down." Mr Meadows told Ms Thomas that he intended to "stand firm" and said that he "will fight until there is no fight left". The Trump campaign later distanced itself from Ms Powell, after she made dramatic claims of voter fraud, without providing any evidence, at several media events. What is QAnon and where did it come from? What is the 'Kraken' conspiracy? Virginia Thomas - who goes by Ginni - is a prominent Republican fundraiser. She was formerly associated with the Tea Party wing of the party, a hard-line conservative movement to which Mr Meadows was also affiliated during his time in the House of Representatives. She has been married to conservative-leaning Justice Clarence Thomas for 35 years, and has insisted her activist work has no influence on her husband's work with the Supreme Court. In 2010, she made headlines for asking Anita Hill to apologise for accusing Mr Thomas of harassment during his confirmation hearings in 1991. Clarence Thomas is the longest-serving member of the US Supreme Court, having served since 1991, and is currently in hospital with "flu-like" symptoms. He is considered extremely influential in American law, but for much of his career rarely spoke or asked questions in court until 2016 when he broke a 10-year silence. Since the Covid pandemic began, however, Mr Thomas has become more vocal and participates in most oral arguments. In February 2021 the Supreme Court rejected Donald Trump's challenges to the elections result, however Mr Thomas dissented from the decision, calling it "baffling". The revelation of Ginni Thomas's conspiracy-minded text messages have prompted critics on the left to call for Clarence Thomas to be impeached and removed from his lifetime seat on the Supreme Court. They point to his lone dissent from the Supreme Court decision ordering the release of White House documents to the congressional committee investigating the 6 January Capitol attack as evidence that he was secretly protecting his wife, who was closely involved in efforts to overturn Donald Trump's election defeat. Mr Thomas's defenders counter that he should not be held responsible for the activities of his spouse and, in any regard, there are no ethical rules that apply to high court justices. The impeachment process for Supreme Court justices is the same as those for US presidents - a majority vote in the House of Representatives and two-thirds to convict and remove in the US Senate. That's an unreachable bar given the current partisan divide of the latter chamber. In fact, only one US Supreme Court justice has been impeached by the House in US history. Samuel Chase was accused of political bias and misdeeds in 1804. He was acquitted in the Senate by a comfortable margin. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60871794

The A500 Mini Retro games ltd on 10th August 2021 announced a new mini Computer called the The A500 Mini, designed to feel and look like the Amiga A500 that came out in 1987. Picture of the unit below Specs All Winner H6 ARM processor (Cortex A53) 256mb to 1Gb Ram (speculation) 3 x USB 2.0 ports HDMI Port USB-C ( For Power ) 256mb to 1Gb Flash Rom (For OS and 25 games) RRP £119.99 / $139.99 In the Box The A500 Mini Computer USB Mouse (Tank Mouse) USB GamePad (CD32 pad) HDMI Cable USB-C Power Cable Quick Start Guide Due: March 31st 2022 (uk) The system may look like an A500 but it will support A600 and A1200 games. The keyboard is just for show and will not be functional, it also comes with a 8 button controller similar in style to the CD32 controller and a optical mouse in design like the one that would come with an original A500 Amiga, sometimes referred to as the “Tank Mouse”. It features a HDMI port and outputs at 720p 50/60Hz with multiple scaling options and CRT filters. It's currently on a number of sites for pre-order and due for release on 31st March 2022 for £119.99 in the UK. Game in the UK are offering a extra t-shirt with your pre-order, https://www.game.co.uk/en/the-a500-mini-a500-t-shirt-2868015 Also announced is the accessories will be available to buy separately, the mouse for £19.99 and the GamePad £19.99, interestingly the Gamepad will be in black CD32 colors, unlike the white colour of the one included. Two trailers for the machine, https://youtu.be/yKUgEOpr4Qs - Official Launch trailer and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMIcOgQIMCA - Game trailer A products like this is usually just a ARM based system, this is the same company behind the C64 mini & C64 Maxi, which was powered by a A20 All Winner ARM chip at around 1Ghz with 256mb Ram. The GPU in the C64 mini was Mali400 Mp2 dual core roughly clocked at around 500mhz. Below is a picture of the A500 mini motherboard.

Windows 11 has an Easter egg where you can spin the Settings cog in certain parts of the interface. The nifty spinning animation was highlighted by The Verge, who reported on the ability to do this in the Notepad app after a denizen of Reddit posted about it. Further additions to that Reddit thread include the observation that the ability is also present in the new Task Manager, at least in the dev and beta builds for Windows 11 testers. Again, this is the same deal – bottom-left, there’s a cog icon that you can spin, and it’s a surprisingly addictive little extra. Presumably we can expect more cogs to be fully spinnable elsewhere in the interface of Windows 11 in the future, too. Analysis: Some Windows extras are pretty obvious, others not so much… Hidden extras in Windows are nothing new, of course, and indeed they can go quite some time undiscovered. Very recently an enterprising user managed to find an Easter egg in the very first version of Windows, somehow, which comprised of a secret list of developers who worked on Windows 1.0 (one of them being a certain Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve). So that particular nugget lay undiscovered for nearly 37 years before it was stumbled across. Makes you wonder if there are some incredibly well-hidden secrets in Windows 10 or 11 (or indeed other recent versions of Microsoft’s desktop operating system). We’re betting there are, somewhere… Darren Allan Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel - 'I Know What You Did Last Supper' - was published by Hachette UK in 2013). https://www.techradar.com/news/windows-11s-newest-easter-egg-is-a-real-time-waster-in-a-good-way

For the last few years, TSMC's N5 nodes have been used almost exclusively by Apple for its system-on-chips aimed at smartphones and PCs. But as more companies adopt these fabrication technologies, TSMC has had to increase its production capacities. A new report says that TSMC will increase its N5 production capacity by around 25% this year to meet the demand for N5 chips from the likes of AMD, Nvidia, and MediaTek. TSMC's N5 (5nm-class) family of manufacturing processes includes vanilla N5, performance-enhanced N5P, N4, N4P, N4X, and Nvidia-specific 4N. Apple is believed to use N5 and N5P for its existing A14, M1, and A15 system-on-chips, but companies like AMD, MediaTek, and Nvidia, are set to use various technologies from the lineup. Meanwhile, Apple's next-generation A16 is also projected to migrate to N4. For example, Nvidia has tapped 4N for its Hopper compute GPUs (and perhaps for Ada Lovelace consumer GPUs), whereas MediaTek uses N5 for its Dimensity 8000/8100 and will use N4 for Dimensity 9000. With N5, TSMC has the capacity for up to 120,000 wafer starts per month (WSPM), according to a report by DigiTimes. 120,000 N5 WSPM is what TSMC planned to achieve by early 2022, so the foundry has the exact capacity it planned to have. However, to serve its existing and future customers interested in one of N5 processes, TSMC will install some additional equipment to increase N5 output to 150,000 WSPM by Q3 2022, DigiTimes claims. Indeed, TSMC will need more N5-capable tools at its fabs by mid-2022. Nvidia plans to start shipping its Hopper compute GPUs commercially in Q3, so given the length of modern cycles, we're pretty sure that TSMC is already ramping H100 production using the Nvidia-tailored N4 node. While the production volumes dedicated to these GPUs isn't very high, the chips are very large, meaning they'll eat a significant share of TSMC's N5-capable capacity. Meanwhile, Apple traditionally ramps up its new iPhone SoCs in April or May, so expect TSMC to kick off production of A16 in the coming weeks. Apple's smartphone SoCs are used for hundreds of millions of devices, so Apple will remain TSMC's biggest customer both in terms of revenues and in terms of processed wafers. Also, since MediaTek sells a boatload of advanced SoCs these days, it will need tens of millions of its Dimensity 8000/8100/9000 application processors and will therefore remain TSMC's No. 2 customer. We also fully expect AMD to introduce its next-generation Zen 4-based Epyc and Ryzen CPUs along with RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7000-series GPUs this fall. Nvidia will also launch its Ada Lovelace-powered GeForce RTX 40-series consumer offerings around the same time as well. All of these products are meant to be widely available, so TSMC will need a lot of capacity to produce these chips. So far, both AMD and Nvidia have spent billions of dollars on securing production capacity at TSMC to ensure that they can get all the chips they need. As a result, all the capacity that TSMC will add has essentially been paid for already, months before it goes online. Meanwhile, TSMC plans to kick off mass production of chips using its next-generation N3 node (3nm-class) sometime in the middle of the year. Apple will be the first to adopt this node, and Intel is expected to follow. The first N3 products will be shipped in 2023, so we won't see them in 2022.

Name of the Game : OCTOPATH TRAVELER™ Price : 29.99$ https://store.steampowered.com/app/921570/OCTOPATH_TRAVELER/ Offer ends up after 00:45:59 hours: Xmarch Requirements: MINIMUM: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows® 7 SP1 / 8.1 / 10 64-bit Processor: AMD FX-4350 / Intel® Core™ i3-3210 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: AMD Radeon™ R7 260X (2GB VRAM) / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750(2GB VRAM) DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 5 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card Additional Notes: 30+ FPS @ 1280x720 / graphics preset “LOW” RECOMMENDED: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows® 7 SP1 / 8.1 / 10 64-bit Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 / Intel® Core™ i5-6400 Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: Radeon™ RX 470(4GB VRAM) / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 6 GB VRAM DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 5 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card Additional Notes: Expected Framerate: 60 FPS @ 1920x1080 / Graphics preset: “Very High”. Depending on the monitor and PC graphics card environment and setup used, this title can expand its display resolution to 4K. However, please be aware that 4K resolutions are not officially supported

Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep, the Borderlands 2 expansion that doubled as a loving parody of Dungeons & Dragons, came out in 2013. That was a year before D&D's fifth edition revitalized interest in the game, two years before Critical Role premiered. At the time, jokes about D&D seemed pretty niche. It was a surprising move for a shooter expansion, one that paid off. It hit an untapped vein, and quickly became everyone's favorite DLC. In 2022, though? D&D is as po[CENSORED]r as it's ever been, approaching cultural oversaturation, and Tiny Tina's Wonderlands returns to a well that's closer to running dry. While Tiny Tina's Wonderlands looks like a bouncy fantasy-comedy, it plays like a Borderlands game. Specifically, Borderlands 3. Some of the guns shoot crossbow bolts and the grenades have been replaced by spells, but in the moment-to-moment it's a typical Borderlands game—you shoot hordes of bad guys who repeat pithy one-liners, then compare loot to see if the new guns and shields are better than the old ones, then do it again. Gunderlands Being a review of a Borderlands game, I'm obliged by law to tell you about the best guns its randomized loot pool spat out for me. A sniper rifle that fired sawblades, each of which did higher damage the more sawblades were already in a target, was a highlight. The Tediore guns that don't need to be reloaded—instead transforming into throwable explosives then teleporting a fully-loaded replacement into your empty hands—have returned, and I got one that didn't become an explosive but instead became a laser pixie that harassed bad guys. Another summoned hydra heads that vomited poison. Which was nice. One significant change is character creation. Rather than each class being tied to an individual character, you play as a nameless "newbie", building a face and color scheme and choosing a voice (you can even alter the pitch, an option I haven't seen since Saints Row 4), and then choose any class you feel like. I spent most of my time as a spore warden, a kind of fungal ranger with a walking mushroom pet I upgraded so he farted poison. A few of the classes get NPC allies; my co-op buddy played a graveborn who unlocked a floating skull. My mushroom companion really came into his own when I played solo, reviving me when I dropped in the absence of a co-op partner. While co-op is a chaotic good time like always, having an NPC ally makes playing alone an even more viable option, and it was already a totally satisfying way to play. I did have to revive the friendly fungus sometimes too, which got me into trouble more than once. Though actually the worst thing about him was how distracting he was. He'd hop around in the background when quest givers were talking, his floating title MUSHROOM COMPANION appearing in big white letters visible over the NPC's face. His unusually detailed buttocks were distracting too. The spellshot's class ability, being able to slot in two spells rather than one, seemed underwhelming, although when you get spells that drop ice meteors on skeletons—who take bonus frost damage because they don't have skin to keep them warm—it's almost worth it. But the stabbomancer being able to throw a spinning melee weapon that becomes a blade tornado you can reposition around the battlefield? That's my current fave. Melee weapons are a new addition, but not a game-changing one. Your regular melee attack, still mapped to V for some reason, becomes a whack with whatever sword, axe, or stick you've picked up. They've got randomized stats, though nothing as wild as the guns. Same with armor, which mostly boosts your class abilities like relics do in the mainline Borderlands games, rather than providing any actual protection. Skill your darlings While each class in the previous games had multiple skill trees, here they've only got one (though they do unlock a second active special, like the stabbomancer getting an option to turn invisible instead of throw a knife tornado). Instead, build diversity comes from multiclassing once you've hit higher levels, picking a second class to bolt on. My spore warden multiclassed into spellshot, becoming a sporcerer. I mostly just stuck to reliable fungus powers, though. After playing a lot of Pathfinder, the thought of having to galaxy-brain my One last change worth noting is the overworld map. Rather than zooming across empty spaces in vehicles, between-lands are filled by a tilt-shifted top-down tabletop covered in dice, big-headed figurines, and spilled junk food. It's super cute, and full of side quests as well as random encounters that trigger combat arenas when you walk through the long grass. That's a Pokémon reference of course, but a lot of the trademark Borderlands reference-heavy humor in Tiny Tina's Wonderlands goes for targets that aren't RPGs. There are extended storylines that riff on the Smurfs, Don Quixote, and Monkey Island, among others. The last one's especially baffling, since Monkey Island was pretty funny to begin with and redoing it with Guybrush Threepwood as a skeleton named Bones Three-Wood is substantially less funny. Every now and then a bit lands with startling precision, though, usually when your advisors—two fellow players voiced by Andy Samberg and Wanda Sykes—riff on roleplaying stereotypes. They'll be familiar to anyone who has played D&D or games like it. She's the one who knows all the rules and how to most efficiently kill everything; he's the one who cares about backstory and wants to solve every problem via seduction. Sometimes it's painfully accurate to the experience of tabletop RPGs, like when the players fixate on minor NPCs they've decided to distrust for arbitrary reasons while Tina fails to convince them to move on. That made me wince, but I was smiling through the pain. To its credit, and my surprise, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands actually does find fresh angles to come at a comedy about roleplaying. It's funnier than Borderlands 3, that's for sure. It helps that Will Arnett, as the Dragon Lord, makes an amusing villain. Because of course he does: He's Will Arnett. Smug monologuing is his entire thing, and if he never quite equals Handsome Jack from Borderlands 2 that's only because nobody will. I went back to the Borderlands 2 DLC that inspired Tiny Tina's Wonderlands to see how I felt about it today, and while I missed some of the quality-of-life features added by Borderlands 3 that made it into Tiny Tina's Wonderlands—like mantling, not having to hold down E to pick up ammo, being able to fast-travel from anywhere, and only having to do side quests to be appropriately leveled for the main questline occasionally rather than all the bloody time—it was a riot. If anything, I like it even more now. That DLC wasn't just a bundle of jokes about the guy who throws his dice too hard or what it's like to fumble a skill check to do something so basic you probably shouldn't have rolled for it in the first place. It was also a fantasy retelling of Borderlands 2, the cast reimagined as knights and sorcerers like it was The Wizard of Oz. The thing it most effectively parodied was itself. Meanwhile, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands is largely disconnected from the Borderlands games it slots between, with only a handful of cameos (including Claptrap, sorry haters). That feels like a missed opportunity, given that Borderlands 3 was kind of a disaster, and a follow-up that took the piss out of it would have had a lot of material to work with. It still succeeds more often than it fails, though. That's partly just because of how the Borderlands formula has been honed over the years. While other looter-shooters bolt on crafting systems or try to make you care about gear levels and repeatable activities and collecting 15 different kinds of shards (why is it always shards?), Tiny Tina's Wonderlands is simply another game of shooting bad guys with ridiculous guns so you can take even more ridiculous guns off their corpses. And sometimes, in-between that, it delivers a gag about what a mess the average game of D&D is that hits me like a knife in the heart. https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/tiny-tinas-wonderlands-review/

Fate: The Winx Saga is a young adult drama series created by Brian Young. It is a live-action adaptation of Nickelodeon's Winx Club Winxlink.png series, which was created by Iginio Straffi. Fate, initially scheduled to premiere in 2020[1], was released on January 22, 2021 on Netflix.[2][3][4] On February 18, 2021, Netflix announced that the series was renewed for a second season.[5][6] The writers for Fate: The Winx Saga are entirely new and did not work on the animated series. Early in production, some of Nickelodeon's Winxlink.png American team from the cartoon met with the new crew members and reviewed the pilot episode's script[7]. A British company, Archery Pictures[8], produces the show in association with Rainbow SpA, a studio co-owned by Iginio Straffi and Viacom Winxlink.png[9]. The first season consists of six episodes, each one hour long[10]. According to Netflix, Fate: The Winx Saga is targeted towards an audience of young adults. The show follows Bloom as she adjusts to life in the Otherworld, where she must learn to control her dangerous magical powers.

WASHINGTON — One senator asked Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s Supreme Court pick, how religious she was “on a scale of 1 to 10.” Another asked her to define the word “woman.” A third wanted to know if babies are racist. Supreme Court confirmation hearings have long been criticized as empty rituals, or worse. But the complaints have mostly focused on nominees’ failure to answer questions about how they would rule. The questioning this week has been different and marked by increasing partisan warfare, with Republicans seizing the chance to introduce conservative grievances they intend to press in the midterm elections, including opposition to critical race theory and transgender women in sports. “One thing that is striking about this hearing is how little effort we are seeing to engage the nominee on her views about actual legal issues,” said Lori A. Ringhand, a law professor at the University of Georgia and an author of “Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change.” Democratic senators have focused many of their questions on Judge Jackson’s credentials and biography, while Republicans have asked about her work as a public defender, whether some of the sentences she meted out as a trial judge were too lenient and what children should be taught about critical race theory. Questioning at earlier confirmation hearings, by contrast, tended to focus on the nominee’s views on whether there is a constitutional right to abortion and about the other pressing legal issues of the day. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. were asked about the scope of executive power in combating terrorism; Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh was asked about investigations of President Donald J. Trump; and Justice Amy Coney Barrett was asked about the fate of the Affordable Care Act. To be sure, the nominees almost uniformly evaded giving definitive answers. But the questions gave them the opportunity to demonstrate their familiarity with the relevant decisions, statutes and doctrines, and lent the proceedings something like a tone of intellectual seriousness. That tone was often absent in Judge Jackson’s hearings. Two decades ago, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, then a lawyer in private practice, presciently wrote that the modern confirmation process threatened to become “an ideological food fight.” Supreme Court nominations have, of course, long been the subject of partisanship and acrimony. Republicans blockaded the nomination of Judge Merrick B. Garland in 2016; Justice Kavanaugh in 2018 heatedly denied accusations of sexual assault; and, in the waning days of the Trump administration in 2020, Republicans rushed to confirm Justice Barrett. The old complaint about confirmation hearings was that the nominees were insufficiently responsive. Professor Ringhand said it was difficult to assess Judge Jackson’s performance by that metric. “It is hard to evaluate how responsive she is being relative to other nominees, because so few of the senators’ comments are asking concrete questions about legal issues,” she said. “Instead, we are seeing senators using their time to air disputes with each other, and with the president. That type of bickering always plays some role at the hearings, but there seems to be much more of it this time.” Paul M. Collins Jr., a political scientist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the other author of the book on confirmation hearings, said Judge Jackson was no more responsive to questions on her legal views than earlier nominees had been. “Judge Jackson took very few solid positions on anything remotely controversial,” he said, adding that Justice Barrett, who was confirmed in 2020, may have served as her model. “In fact,” Professor Collins said, “it seems she closely studied how Justice Barrett handled the committee, and repeatedly referred to Barrett’s responses when dodging the senators’ questions.” At her own confirmation hearing, Justice Barrett cited the so-called Ginsburg rule, named for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died in 2020 and whose seat she went on to fill. Questioned by senators in 1993, Justice Ginsburg distilled the responsibilities of nominees into a pithy phrase: “no hints, no forecasts, no previews.” The practice of studied evasion can be traced back to the Senate’s rejection of Judge Robert H. Bork in 1987. His confirmation battle was a turning point in a process that has become increasingly politicized. Nominated by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican, Judge Bork gave extensive answers to the senators’ questions that opened him to attacks as holding views outside the legal mainstream. The Senate, which was controlled by Democrats, defeated the nomination by a 58-to-42 vote. That was the largest margin by which it had ever rejected a Supreme Court nomination, and it was the last time the Senate voted down a nominee for the court. In a 1995 book review, Justice Elena Kagan, then a law professor, said there was a lot to like about Judge Bork’s approach. “The Bork hearings presented to the public a serious discussion of the meaning of the Constitution, the role of the court and the views of the nominee,” she wrote. “Subsequent hearings have presented to the public a vapid and hollow charade, in which repetition of platitudes has replaced discussion of viewpoints, and personal anecdotes have supplanted legal analysis.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/us/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-confirmation-hearing.html