What is it? Just like its harder, sharper Trophy sibling, the entry-level version of Renault’s recently updated Mégane RS has been shorn of its six-speed manual gearbox. If you've read Matt Saunders’ report on the Trophy, you'll know why. It makes for pretty depressing reading, so I won’t delve into it in too much detail here, but effectively it boils down to increasingly punitive emissions-based taxation in Renault Sport’s home country. A Mégane RS with a manual gearbox will cost French buyers more in tax than one with a six-speed dual-clutch automatic, so it has been dropped altogether. Sad news. A modest hike in power and torque from the base Megane RS’s 1.8-litre four-pot petrol engine is something of a consolation, though; as is the arrival of new headlight and tail-light designs, an improved infotainment system and a redesigned instrument display. That motor now puts out 296bhp and 310lb ft instead of the 276bhp and 288lb ft it made previously and explains why it’s now called the Megane RS 300 (for 300PS, which is 296bhp) rather than the Megane RS 280. Otherwise, it’s business as usual. You still get four-wheel steering and a set of rally-style hydraulic suspension bump stops. However, the firmer, more aggressive Cup chassis is now available on pricier Trophy models only so this revised Mégane RS 300 makes do with the softer Sport chassis set-up. What's it like? It undoubtedly remains the more usable Mégane RS. Where the Trophy can feel almost unrelentingly edgy and unforgiving on bumpier stretches of road, the base car breathes a bit more freely. It still feels meaningfully taut and controlled in its body movements when you’re travelling with a bit of pace on, but I’d wager you wouldn’t find yourself scrabbling for the keys to literally anything else when faced with a simple trip to the shops. This is good news for those who plan on driving it every day - which most people undoubtedly will. The trade-off is that in gaining this extra level of pliancy and ride refinement, you lose a good deal of the bite that makes the Trophy models so exciting when the weather’s fine and you’re actually in the mood for a proper thrash. By opting for the RS 300, not only do you forgo the stiffer Cup chassis, but you also miss out on a limited-slip differential, beefier brakes and an active sports exhaust. You do notice this in tighter, more technical corners. Tip it in and the Renault’s four-wheel steering still makes it feel really agile and willing to rotate, but it just doesn’t sink its teeth in with the frenzied eagerness I remember from the earlier Cup chassis car. The wet, recently defrosted Oxfordshire B-roads I was driving on will have contributed to this impression, but even in such rubbish conditions, lateral grip levels still felt relatively high. Still, you’d get on the throttle early thinking you’d be able to power out and instead be met by an underwhelming response as the Renault scrabbled to put its power down. It’s not that you’d push into dramatic understeer: you just end up exiting a corner slower than you thought might. The 1.8-litre engine remains as boosty as ever, and on slippery roads, it can spin its front wheels quite freely when that lump of torque arrives. A lighter touch on the throttle can be handy here. Anything too brutal and you can coax a violent amount of axle tramp out of the Renault. Should I buy one? It wouldn’t be at the top of my list if I was in the market for a hot hatch. It might be more liveable with than its Trophy sibling, but I’m sure it wouldn’t be anywhere near as thrilling when the conditions were perfect and the roads were clear. Some might appreciate that more sensible balance and there’s certainly merit in taking such an approach. But other hot hatches are just as usable day to day, yet arguably even more exciting, involving and dynamically accomplished than the Mégane. The excellent Honda Civic Type R and Ford Focus ST spring to mind, to name but two.

Agadir – As the Moroccan House of Representatives prepares for a parliamentary session on the discussion of the situation of prisons on Tuesday, February 2, the house’s commission of justice carried out a fact-finding mission in three Moroccan penal establishments. The report noted the excessive use of punishment for people held in isolation, citing 1,918 such incidents in 2018 in the prison of Oukacha alone. The commission highlighted the overcrowding of prisons as the major concern It estimates that Moroccan prisons are at 75% over capacity. The Oukacha prison is the most overcrowded prison in Morocco, mostly due to the number of prisoners in pre-trial detention. Other concerns discussed in the report are the difficulties of securing orders from the prison store, and the size of the inmates’ promenade, a mere 150 meters for 500 inmates. The report also raised concerns over the inmates of Toulal 1 prison in Meknes and the Moul Berki prison in Safi, citing the remoteness of the locations. Many prisoners are demanding to be transferred to establishments closer to their families. The commission also noted that Morocco lacks the facilities to ensure the fair treatment of minors within the penitentiary system. It pointed to the Oukacha prison as one such example. According to the report, the Casablanca-based prison does not separate minors from adults, neither does it have a psychiatrist or a maternity ward. The only positive point in the report concerns the El Hoceima prison, where juvenile detainees are given larger cells and more time for walks and family visits. The Moroccan parliamentarians also pointed to the weakness of judicial control over penitentiary establishments as another major concern. The report found that many prisoners are receiving insufficient medical care. Attempting to improve the situation of prisoners in Morocco, the government hopes to turn prisons into a place of learning and training. Mohammed V University is providing lectures, books, and scientific papers for the inmates, hoping to prepare them for the outside world. The commission of justice concluded its report by issuing 40 recommendations for improving the situation of Moroccan prisoners. It argued that Moroccan authorities should pay particular attention to improving the legal and organizational framework of the penitentiary system. The report also stressed the need for ensuring that detainees’ rights are respected and that prisoners have access to essential services.

Our GPU benchmarks performance hierarchy ranks all the current and previous generation graphics cards, including all of the best graphics cards, in terms of performance. Whether it's playing games or doing high-end creative work like 4K video editing, your graphics card typically plays the biggest role in determining performance, and even the best gaming CPUs take a second role. Note that the table below is based solely on the scores from performance-based GPU benchmarks. We have a separate article that lists the best graphics cards, based on all factors, including price, graphics card power consumption, and overall efficiency. In this latest edition, we've updated the tables and charts with results from the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and Radeon RX 6900 XT. If you're looking for a good deal on a graphics card this holiday season, we have some bad news. Component shortages, particularly on graphics cards, mean you'll be lucky to find the card you want at all, never mind finding it at a good price. Even previous generation cards are currently often selling (used) for more than the original launch price. Maybe later in 2021 we'll have a decent supply of GPUs at sane prices, but like so many other things in 2020, the latest hardware launches have been awful. To help you decide which graphics card you need, we've created this GPU hierarchy consisting of dozens of GPU benchmarks in the table below. Everything is ranked from fastest to slowest, using the results from our test suite consisting of nine games for our GPU benchmarks, running at 'medium' and 'ultra' settings with resolutions of 1080p, 1440p, and 4K. For comparison purposes, the fastest card, based on the combination of all nine GPU benchmarks, three resolutions, and two settings, gets normalized to 100 percent, and all others are graded relative to it. The arrival of Nvidia's Ampere architecture, along with the GeForce RTX 3090, GeForce RTX 3080, GeForce RTX 3070, and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, has pushed everything down a couple of rungs. AMD's Big Navi and the Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6800, plus the Radeon RX 6900 XT, have joined the ranks of the highest performance GPUs. They're also some of the highest priced GPUs, and they're all sold out. Of course it's not just about playing games. Many applications use the GPU for other work, and we've covered some of the GPU benchmarks in our RTX 3090 review. But a good graphics card for gaming will typically do equally well in complex GPU computational workloads. Buy one of the top cards and you'd be able to play games at high resolutions and frame rates with the effects turned all the way up, and you'll be able to do content creation work equally well. Drop down to the middle and lower portions of the list and you'll need to start dialing down the settings to get acceptable performance in regular game play and GPU benchmarks. And integrated graphics ... well, we've tested that as well, and the results aren't pretty. (See the very bottom of the list for those entries.) It's important to note that all of the games and settings we're using for testing have to conform to the lowest common denominator. That means ray tracing and proprietary tech like Nvidia's DLSS aren't enabled, even where they're supported. We've included our most recent DXR benchmark results from the 6900 XT review at the bottom of the article, but those scores aren't factored into the rankings. The short summary: Nvidia is faster at RT, and DLSS can provide a nice boost to performance. If your main goal is gaming, you of course can't forget about the CPU. Getting the best possible gaming GPU won't help you much if your CPU is under-powered and/or out of date. So be sure to check out the Best Gaming CPUs page, as well as our CPU Benchmarks Hierarchy to make sure you have the right CPU for the level of gaming you're looking to achieve. GPU Benchmarks: Which Cards Ranked Highest? The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 takes top honors for raw performance, with a composite score of 152.7 fps across all 54 tests. That's the 100% mark, though it's worth noting that it also scored 98.7 fps at 4K ultra. It's also a $1,500 graphics card, which is out of reach of most gamers. Not too far behind the 3090 are the Radeon RX 6900 XT, Radeon RX 6800 XT, and GeForce RTX 3080, nominally priced at $1,000, $650 and $700, respectively (if you can find one in stock). The 6900 XT is a minor bump in performance for a relatively large bump in price compared to the 6800 XT, and we'd generally recommend sticking with the latter. The 6800 XT is also technically faster than the 3080 by our ranking formula, though it's important to note that ray tracing and DLSS very much change the picture. Add those in and the 3080 easily beats even the 6900 XT. The new GPUs make all of AMD's and Nvidia's previous generation GPUs suddenly look a bit weak. The same goes for the Radeon RX 6800 and GeForce RTX 3070, which match or beat the outgoing RTX 2080 Ti with a starting price of just $580 or $500, respectively. The RTX 3060 Ti meanwhile leads the old 2080 Super in performance and costs 42 percent less. AMD's Navi 21 GPUs, aka Big Navi, finally break into the top three overall, even including Titan cards. That's something AMD hasn't managed since the Vega 64 launch (where it came in third). AMD is also mostly at feature parity with Nvidia now, with both companies supporting ray tracing. Except, Nvidia has Tensor cores that help with other tasks like DLSS, Nvidia Broadcast, RTX Voice, and potentially more, plus Nvidia's ray tracing performance is definitely still faster in the majority of DXR (DirectX Raytracing) games. If you're in the market for a new sub-$500 graphics card right now, the RTX 3060 Ti is currently the card to get. It's a bit slower than the 3070, but overall it's the best price to performance ratio of all the modern GPUs. We'll probably see RTX 3060 and RX 6700 cards in early 2021, but unfortunately, it's still a terrible time to buy a graphics card, as all of the most desirable GPUs are either out of stock or seriously overpriced. We've seen RTX 2060 Super selling at over $500 ($100 more than the launch price), and RTX 2070 Super going for $600 or more (again, $100 more than the launch price). AMD's RX 5700 at one point could be had for under $300, but good luck finding one for less than $400 these days. The RX 5700 XT can often be found for a lower price than the vanilla 5700, assuming you can find either in stock. If you can find a reasonable deal on a latest generation GPU right now, great! But don't pay more for a previous gen GPU just because there aren't enough RX 6800 series or RTX 30-series GPUs to meet the current demand. Eventually, supply will catch up, and that will be the right time to buy. If you can't wait, our advice is to just try and find any old GPU that still works to hold you over. Even a budget card will suffice, and at least those aren't likely to be completely obliterated before 2021 rolls in. That brings us to the bottom third of the list, the home of true budget GPUs like the GTX 1650 Super, RX 5500 XT, and more. These cards give up a lot of performance in order to keep pricing down, and there are older generation GPUs that can perform just as well (or better) if you shop around. But component shortages are affecting even budget GPUs, and we've seen prices on many of these cards increase 10% or more in the past month alone. Sticking with relatively current GPUs, the GTX 1660 Super, 1650 Super, and RX 5600 XT are the best options for around $250 or less. Also, the RX 5600 XT seems to be selling at over $300 now, which is just ... yuck! Again, the higher you go on price, the more likely you are to see new GPUs arrive in the near future that make current cards look anemic. Based on what's currently available at somewhat reasonable prices, the 1650 Super and RX 5500 XT are currently the best budget options. We don't recommend going below the GTX 1650 Super, though if you already have such a card you don't have to upgrade. There are tons of light and indie games that will run just fine on ... well, practically anything! Even Intel's integrated graphics solutions are often sufficient, particularly more recent variants like UHD 630 and Iris Plus. But there's still a better option if you're on an extreme budget. If you're looking at something like an RX 550 or GT 1030, you should consider AMD's integrated graphics on its Ryzen APUs as a viable alternative. If you have an older PC and are looking at adding a GPU, a motherboard and CPU upgrade might end up being a better option. Or not, as even a basic motherboard, CPU, and RAM can set you back $200 or more. We're interested in seeing what happens with the next generation of integrated graphics as well. Tiger Lake laptops sometimes double the performance of Ice Lake graphics, and AMD also has updated Zen 2 APUs with faster graphics as well. (We'll be testing both of these options soon enough for inclusion in the hierarchy.) Okay, maybe buying a basic GPU isn't a bad idea rather than dealing with a full motherboard and CPU upgrade (depending on what sort of CPU you're rocking). Provided you can provide at least a 6-pin PEG power connector, though, we recommend going for at least something at the RX 570 level or above rather than picking up a lesser graphics card. Also worth noting is that the scoring assigned to each GPU uses all six test resolutions and settings, except on integrated graphics where we scale the result — because, come on, no one is going to try and run Borderlands 3 at 4K on an iGPU. (It will probably just crash.) If you want to check performance at just 1080p medium, or one of the other options, you can see the ranking order for the main GPUs in the charts below. Test System for GPU Benchmarks Intel Core i9-9900K Corsair H150i Pro RGB MSI MEG Z390 Ace Corsair 32GB DDR4-3200 (2x 16GB) XPG SX8200 Pro 2TB Windows 10 Pro (1909) Our overall GPU benchmarks scores are based on the geometric mean frames per second (fps) of our testing of Borderlands 3, The Division 2, Far Cry 5, Final Fantasy XIV, Forza Horizon 4, Metro Exodus, Red Dead Redemption 2, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and Strange Brigade. If you want to do your own GPU benchmarking, see our complete list of the best GPU tests, which includes a lot more games and synthetic tests as well. That's nine games, six settings and over 40 cards from the current and previous generations. We have a solid mix of game genres and APIs, plus AMD and Nvidia promoted titles, making this the definitive GPU benchmarks and performance hierarchy for gaming purposes. Due to the mix of various generations of GPUs, note that we don't include ray tracing or DLSS testing in any of the figures. That does penalize Nvidia's RTX cards quite a bit, and the RX 6800 series as well, since previous generation GPUs can't even try to run ray tracing in most games. GPU Benchmarks and Performance Hierarchy Charts Here you can see the average performance charts for our testing at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K (medium and ultra on all three). If you want to see the full suite of individual game tests, check out the charts in our Best Graphics Cards article. We've focused on the 'executive summary' and have omitted individual game charts as well as a few GPUs that don't fully qualify. We've left off the integrated graphics solutions as well as many older GPUs, plus omitted the Titan cards. That gives us 32 GPUs in the charts, color coded for your viewing pleasure. Yes, we know the labels on the charts are tiny. We've also included links to the full-size (1920x1080) images below each chart for those on smaller devices that want to be able to read them. Again, our GPU benchmarks scoring uses the geometric mean of all 54 scores (nine games, three resolutions, two settings). The geomean is a slightly 'better' weighting than a pure average, though it doesn't massively change the results. Either way, including all 54 scores means the fastest cards are somewhat penalized because they run into CPU limitations at 1080p and even 1440p, and the slower GPUs can also end up penalized because they were never intended to run games at 1440p or 4K. If you intend to play at 1440p or 4K, the charts below can help you focus in on just those results. For example, the RTX 3080 overall scored 20.8% higher than the RTX 2080 Ti, but if you only look at 4K ultra performance, it's 33.5% faster.

Apple has launched a new Chrome extension to help iCloud users remember their passwords. The new iCloud Passwords tool will sync passwords between the Safari and Chrome web browsers. “iCloud Passwords is a Chrome extension for Windows users that allows you to use the same strong Safari passwords you create on your iPhone, iPad or Mac when visiting websites in Chrome on your Windows PC,” the Chrome web store explains. “iCloud Passwords also saves any new passwords you create in Chrome to your iCloud Keychain so that they are also available on your Apple devices.” Users of iCloud for Windows will now see a new “Passwords” section under the list of available services (providing they have updated to version 12.0). By then clicking “Apply,” they will be redirected to download the new Chrome extension. Check out our roundup of the best password managers We've assembled a list of the best anonymous browsers Also, here's our list of the best password management software around Password protected Once the iCloud Passwords extension is running, Chrome users will gain access to the passwords that they have created, had automatically generated, or saved in Safari for macOS or iOS. The feature also works reciprocally, with any passwords stored in Chrome also becoming available on iPhone, iPad, and other Apple devices. The new extension becomes part of a relatively small group of tools that Apple offers on the Windows ecosystem. Before the launch of iCloud Passwords, Apple’s only Windows solutions of note, besides iTunes, were iCloud Bookmarks for older PCs, and Apple TV+ for Xbox users. Password management remains a hot topic in the security sector, however, particularly as a huge number of data leaks still occur due to inadequate password protection. The new iCloud sync tool should help prevent password fatigue for Chrome users, encouraging them to use stronger credentials.

Name of the game: Skul: The Hero Slayer Price: 15.99$ After Discount Link Store: Here Offer ends up after X hours: 4 February Requirements: MINIMUM: Système d'exploitation : Windows 7+ Processeur : Dual core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz Mémoire vive : 4 GB de mémoire Graphiques : Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750 or better DirectX : Version 11 Espace disque : 1 GB d'espace disque disponible Notes supplémentaires : DirectX 9.1+ or OpenGL 3.2+ RECOMMENDED: Système d'exploitation : Windows 7+ Processeur : Dual core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz Mémoire vive : 8 GB de mémoire Graphiques : Nvidia GTX 460 / Radeon HD 7800 or better DirectX : Version 12 Espace disque : 2 GB d'espace disque disponible Notes supplémentaires : DirectX 9.1+ or OpenGL 3.2+

Hello @El Luciano Before I'm taking a decision of PRO/Contra, I want to ask you: 1- Why do you want to be a moderator and join the staff? 2- What are the hard works you done to our community ? (in what way) 3- Do you have any idea that can help the project that you liked to develop further?

Hello @david_okaso Firstly, you need to join one of our projects (Journalist , Devil Harmony, Dealers , Gamblers , VGR ..), make a good activity there & you can come back with a new request Good Luck !

Active ingredients have been the talk of the beauty town and if you are a beauty aficionado — you will agree with it. Whether it is retinol or a Vitamin C — everyone wants to add active skincare ingredients to their routine because of the fast visible results everyone has. In a bid to achieve the same, we end up buying products that do not work for us and rather pose more problems than offering solutions for our skincare concerns. That is why ahead, Mansi Chowdhary, Director, Body Cupid shares top pointers to keep in mind while investing in the same. This is a basic and the first step one should take while buying a skincare product. While there might be names which are hard to decipher or understand most labels do have the key ingredients mentioned in names that you will recognise. “This might take you a little extra time, but you can find out a bit more about the benefits of the key actives by doing some research or asking a skincare expert about them,” says Chowdhary. The trick to understanding is to take note of the place of the active ingredient in the list. “The ingredients are often listed in the order of highest to the lowest concentration. It’s a good idea to check the first five or six listed actives to get an idea of what the product will do for your skin. If your active ingredient is listed way below, then know that the concentration of the active in the product is low and may not deliver the result you are looking for” she further explains. Avoid giving into hype With an industry which launches a new product every single day, it is tough not to get swayed into buying products that are showcased. In fact, the attractive packaging is a great pull too. While it might not be easy to avoid the raving reviews of the products, what you can do is focus on the kind of skin type you have to begin with and understand if the product is truly meant for your skin. Picking the right actives When buying a product for your skin follow these tips to ensure your skin gets the best care: For oily skin ” If you have very oily skin or skin that is prone to clogging then use lightweight water or gel-based product. Look for natural exfoliants and mild acids AHAs to ensure healthy skin renewal and exfoliation to prevent clogging” says Chowdhary. She also explains that AHAs like salicylic acid, lactic acid, glycolic acid are excellent in exfoliating your skin’s top layer. This helps balance excess sebum in the skin as well. For dry skin To protect and repair dry skin you need to not only deliver deep hydration but put in an emollient and maintain healthy lipid and moisture mantle on the skin. “Rich creamy product with shea butter, cocoa butter, olive oil, almond oil all work well. Dry skin people often suffer from patchy complexion due to irregular exfoliation, so an exfoliating face wash gel can help to restore glow” she suggests. For sensitive skin Redness and chapped skin can be a common issue if you have sensitive skin that needs very gentle and lightweight care. Look for actives like oatmeal, aloe vera, shea butter in your label list. “Avoid products that list actives like SLES, parabens, sulfate, silicones. While they might improve product texture or give you that extra little foam or slick, these harms the skin the long run. Instead pick products that have hyaluronic acid, ceramides, niacinamide, tocopherol or vitamin E, ascorbic acid or vitamin C listed in the label” adds Chowdhary.

It has always struck me as strange that when we think of the cars whose appearance we like, especially if we’re deciding whether to buy one or not, it’s always the exterior we find ourselves considering. Why? I guess it’s because, consciously or not, we’re keen to project the right image of ourselves. But the truth is that once our cars are bought, we spend hardly any time looking at them, whereas we literally live in their interiors, whose design by comparison we barely think through at all. Yet interior design has undergone a revolution over the past generation. Time was when interiors were scarcely styled at all, at least from the point of view of the driving environment. Instruments were placed wherever was easy and a dashboard created around them. Then, in the 1970s and 1980s, a certain sense of ergonomic cohesion was gradually introduced, but it wasn’t until this century that mainstream manufacturers started thinking as hard about the look of their cars within as without. And with good reason. First, an interior is far harder to design, because unlike an exterior which is just a relatively simple shape, an interior contains a whole host of competing interests, from dials and switches to the dashboard and infotainment system, all arguing over the same small amount of space. But as journeys have lengthened yet traffic slowed and we’ve spent more and more time looking at our interiors, merely making it functional was never going to be enough. It had to offer a pleasant place to sit and while away all that time. Not least because of the quality of the items with which we now fill out homes, be they sleek music systems, flatscreen televisions or smart and minimalist phones. It simply won’t wash any longer to leave that kind of environment and go and sit in the motoring equivalent of student digs. There’s one more consideration: so much of a car’s exterior is now governed by the legislative rulebook that it’s becoming ever harder to create genuinely beautiful and distinctive exteriors, hence all those jelly-mould crossover SUVs we have these days. But there remains far more scope for creative expression on the inside, so that’s where car manufacturers keen on carving an identity for themselves are increasingly concentrating. But so too is that job getting harder. Interiors aren’t exempt from the forces of law, but that’s really only where the problems start. There’s now so much stuff that we expect to find in our cabins that packaging it all within the legislative framework is becoming an increasingly fraught business. Remember when you would get into your car and every single thing you needed to do, from adjusting the treble on your stereo to turning down the heating a touch, could be accomplished with a single action: the turn of a knob or the flick of a dial? Things are rarely so easy today. We live in an era where function follows form at a deferential distance, so the price paid for a nice, clean-looking fascia with the minimum number of controls is that even some quite fundamental functions require you to go rummaging around in endless menus to locate them. Say you want to turn off the stability control in Volkswagen’s new Golf GTI. You would like to just press a button and see a little light appear on the dash, but these days that would be far too easy. First you must find the vehicle settings menu on the glossy touchscreen in front of you. Once you’ve done that, you need to keep swiping until you find the page concerning the brakes. Yes, the brakes. Only then do you get to tell the car you would like to turn off the ESC. Does it do it? Of course not. It first tells you this is a bad idea that it doesn’t recommend and insists you confirm your wilful recklessness before it will grudgingly do as you ask. So what are the most important priorities of a car interior? To me, job one is visibility. If you can’t see out properly, you’re unlikely ever to be truly comfortable – and that’s becoming increasingly difficult, because car manufacturers make ever-thicker A- and B-pillars to help their cars’ crash performance, apparently without considering how much more likely it is that their cars will crash as a result. And there’s no excuse: even two-seat mid-engined supercars can feel like goldfish bowls if properly designed, as anyone who has sat in a McLaren will tell you. But in many important regards, interiors have progressed beyond all recognition. When I started doing this job in the late 1980s, many cars weren’t even symmetrical, meaning the driving position could be radically different depending on whether the car you drove was left-or right-hand drive. Pedals nowhere near where your feet naturally fell were common, as were seats that weren’t actually directly in front of the steering wheel. Steering wheels that adjusted in any direction at all were the exception, not the norm they are today. I may be critical of the latest Golf’s subsystems, but the way the car presents its primary controls to the driver – pedals, steering wheel and gearlever – is impeccable. One important area in which we seem to be regressing, however, is the design of the instrument pack, or IP, as it’s known in the trade. Some might raise an eyebrow at this, knowing how beautiful those ultra-high-definition screens that are rapidly replacing conventional clocks can look. And I agree: some are excellent. But others aren’t, and I’ll cite BMW as an example only because there was a time when its IPs were without doubt the best in the world. But, having tried to get used to its new design philosophy, where the electronic needles only sweep through a limited arc right around the outside of the IP cluster, I recently climbed into an M2 that still uses the old tech and found myself wondering what on earth was so wrong with BMW’s simple, circular dials that it had to change. I’m still trying to figure that one out. But automotive interior design must at times feel like a thankless task. The customer wants more of everything: more gadgets, more information, more entertainment (don’t get me started on apps), yet they also demand presentation as clean as it is on their smartphones. The only difference is this: it doesn’t matter how much time you spend looking at your smartphone at home, but it matters a very great deal how much time you spend looking at your smart screen in the car you’re driving. And yes, voice recognition and even gesture control can help, but they’re at best useful extras, not complete solutions in themselves. As ever, then, the best interiors are those that strike the correct compromise between ease of use and appearance. It’s tempting to say that everything should have its own, separate, one-touch control, but that would lead to an interior plastered with buttons that could be completely confusing too. Alternatively, a car with no buttons or similar controls might look stunning but, in reality, would likely be difficult and time-consuming to operate. With each new car I drive today, I now configure its control systems the way I want them to be before I set off, which may add between five and 10 minutes to my journey. And I know that if I stop even for five minutes to grab a sandwich, half the systems I’ve disabled will have turned themselves back on again by the time I’ve got back on board. The car will have taken itself out of Dynamic driving mode, turned its stability control fully on again and reactivated its hateful lane-keeping assistance function. So I have to do it all over again. This has little to do with the manufacturer trying to stop you having a crash and almost everything to do with removing grounds for you to sue them if you do. For me, and because I’m old, I would give up all the gadgets and swanky screens in favour of interiors with a limited number of clearly labelled, logically arranged switches. Twenty years ago, that was simply common sense. Today, it sounds like a revolution. Which is why it’s never going to happen. What should happen next? How do we resolve the conflicting interests of the demand for more content and the desire for cleaner cockpits? Truly intelligent voice recognition has a role to play, but I’m increasingly minded to think that the only way to create the space we need on the dash for comprehensive yet easily understood and accessed functionality and information is to migrate the dials onto the screen. The information on current head-up displays duplicates what’s already shown in the IP. There’s no longer space for such redundancy; if the data I need is on the screen, I never look for it anywhere else, because that’s where my eyes are already pointing. So ditch conventional instruments, project all their data on the screen and use the space you save to create a driving environment that’s as easy to operate as it is attractive.

Rabat – Moroccan kickboxer Tarik Khbabez lost his fight to Dutch heavyweight champion Rico Verhoeven in the final of the Glory 77 on Saturday. The Duch legend defeated the Moroccan kickboxer in the first round, with Tarik Khbabez abandoning the fight at the end of the round due to a hand injury. “I had surgery on my hand three months ago and I haven’t made a full recovery,” the Moroccan kickboxer said after his defeat. The world’s kickboxing league, Glory Kickboxing, signed Khbabez in October 2020. Khbabez started his kickboxing career in 2013. At the time of signing, Glory announced that the Moorccan-Dutch champion had a professional record of 15 wins, six losses and one draw. “I don’t come to score points, I come to win. Everyone who stands in front of me in the ring wants to take away from me what I’ve been fighting for ears. I just won’t let that happen,” he said. Rico Verhoeven, meanwhile, remains undefeated despite successive confrontations with a number of big names in the competition, including Morocco’s Badr Hari. Hari lost his fight against Verhoeven in December 2019. He, too, had to give up during the match due to a leg injury. Prior to that, Rico Verhoeven also defeated Badr Hari in December 2016. Verhoeven is reportedly interested in yet another re-match with the Moroccan champion.

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There are many ways to detect movement and distances with your electronics. In another tutorial, we showed how to use a PIR motion sensor with Raspberry Pi Pico. Used in alarm systems, PIRs employ Infrared light to detect moving bodies in a room and are good for projects where, for example, you want users to wave their hands in front of a device to activate it. Our tutorial on how to build a Raspberry Pi handwashing timer uses a PIR. Ultrasonic sensors, on the other hand, use pulses of sound and a simple calculation to determine the distance between themselves and the objects in front them. They are often used in robots to make sure the bot doesn’t walk or roll into an obstacle. We also used one in our Raspberry Pi Toilet paper reminder to tell when we’re running out of rolls. In this tutorial we will use an ultrasonic distance sensor, an HC-SR04+, to quickly determine the distance of an object from our Raspberry Pi Pico. For this project you will need A Raspberry Pi Pico running MicroPython (see how to set up Raspberry Pi Pico) Thonny installed on your computer An HC-SR04P or HC-SR04+ Ultrasonic Sensor 4 x Male to male jumper wires Half or full-size breadboard Hardware Setup of Ultrasonic Sensor on Raspberry Pi Pico This build exclusively uses an ultrasonic sensor compatible with the 3V logic used on the Raspberry Pi Pico GPIO. The HC-SR04P and HC-SR04+ are compatible with 3V and 5V logic making them ideal for Raspberry Pi Pico, Pi and Arduino projects.

Fintech app users may be getting into more trouble than they expected by using free services that sell on their data, a new report has revealed. Research from security firm ESET found that fintech apps were more likely to sell on user information than services from other sectors, with 50% of consumers saying they did not know what the app did with their data. This is despite nearly half (42%) of 10,000 global consumers surveyed by ESET saying they used a free fintech application or platform. These are the best stock trading apps around today Keep your devices virus free with the best malware removal software Also check out our roundup of the best identity theft protection Security risk The report also found a worrying lack of oversight from consumers when using such apps, with only 31% of people say they read the terms and conditions of a fintech application before downloading it, and only 29% reading the privacy policy. ESET notes that this is symptomatic of the wider fintech app user base, as it found almost half (48%) of all consumers do not use a VPN, and 42% of consumers said they would log in to their financial applications using a public Wi-Fi network. Even the users who claimed to be adept at such services (so-called "Fintech adopters" - those who were use four or more FinTech applications) showed a number of shocking security lapses, with 7% not having any security software installed on their devices. “Protecting consumers’ sensitive and financial data has never been more important," noted Ignacio Sbampato, chief business officer at ESET. "Financial technology has a role to play on the journey to personal and societal economic recovery, and it is vital that FinTech solutions and their users are adequately protected. Our findings about consumers and their attitudes to data security reveal that many people may be vulnerable to cyber risks, and it is our mission to ensure that technology users’ most valuable information is protected with cutting-edge security software.” We've assembled a list of the best Android antivirus apps available

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