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Unlike most other modern computing devices, Raspberry Pis have no internal storage, relying instead on removable microSD cards as their primary boot drives. While it’s true that you can boot a Raspberry Pi 4 off of an USB SSD or Flash Drive, most of the time, it’s easier, more affordable and an overall better idea to stick with a microSD card. But which microSD card should you buy for your Raspberry Pi? To help find the answer, we tested ten different 32GB cards on a Raspberry Pi 4, a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and a Raspberry Pi Zero W to see which offers the best performance for the money. We chose the 32GB capacity because it offers more than enough room for most use cases while not being appreciably more expensive than 16 or 8GB cards. Raspberry Pi OS can run on a card that’s as small as 8GB (see how to set up a Raspberry Pi), but that leaves you very little extra space. With every update and release slowly using more and more of your card, 8GB will soon become too small for a typical setup. Even if you are running a game emulation system with lots of ROMs, you are unlikely to exceed 32GB (though some have). Black Friday Raspberry Pi Deals This Black Friday season is a great time to buy extra storage for your Raspberry Pi. Whether you need 16GB cards for your projects or a 512GB card for your Raspberry Pi powered arcade cabinet, there is a card for every project and wallet. We're tracking all of the sales on our best Black Friday Raspberry Pi deals page. We’re honestly shocked that the best performing Raspberry Pi microSD card in our roundup is also the cheapest one and comes from a lesser-known brand. It’s also rated UHS Speed 1 rather than 3, although these ratings are largely meaningless (at least for Pi owners). In fact, we were so surprised at this card's performance that we tested a second unit to make sure the first one wasn’t a fluke. For a price of just $6.99 (£5.99) at publishing time, the Silicon Power 3D NAND achieved the highest speeds on the Raspberry Pi 4 in almost all the IOzone tests, especially with 4K random writes. It also, by a hair, loaded all of our apps fastest on the Pi 4, though its boot time was second slowest. The Silicon Power NAND 3D card also performed well on Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and Pi Zero W, though it didn’t lead in as many categories. In addition to its performance, the card has one huge advantage over most of its competitors: the ability to physically write on it. Because the surface is partially white, you can scribble on it with a Sharpie marker. That helps immensely when you have multiple cards in a drawer and don’t know which is which. SanDisk claims that the Extreme Pro can read at up to 100 MBps and write at up to 90 MBps and has labeled it with a UHS rating of 3, a Video Speed Rating of 30 and an Application Speed rating of A1. As we note below, these ratings aren’t very useful, but nonetheless, this card is indeed one of the fastest around. On the Raspberry Pi 3 B+, the SanDisk Extreme Pro finished first in six out of eight IOzone tests, including random 4K reads and writes. On Raspberry Pi 4, the card was within a few tenths of a second of the fastest application open times on the Raspberry Pi 4 and it was 0.5 MBps or less behind the leader in the all-important 4K random read and write speeds on IOzone. It also had the fastest sequential write speed on the Raspberry Pi Diagnostic test. SanDisk backs the Extreme Pro with a limited lifetime warranty and claims that it is waterproof, shockproof and X-ray-proof. The Kingston Canvas React was in the upper performance tier on nearly all of our Raspberry Pi microSD card tests and it stood out by being the fastest booter on both the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 3 B+. It also provided application open times that were consistently among the best. The card’s only real downside is modest (but not terrible) 4K reads and writes on the Raspberry Pi 4. On the Raspberry Pi 3 and Zero, which have a slower microSD card reader, its 4K scores were better relative to the competition. Kingston backs the Canvas React with a limited lifetime warranty, but it does not claim that the card is waterproof or shockproof in its market materials. While it doesn’t win every test, the Samsung Pro Endurance is a great all-around Raspberry Pi microSD card that promises up to 25 times greater longevity than a typical card. While we can’t prove or disprove this claim, we do know that Samsung has an excellent reputation in the industry and backs the card with a limited lifetime warranty. The company also says that the card is waterproof, temperature-proof and X-ray-proof. The Samsung Pro Endurance comes close to the leaders on application open times and boot times while achieving fast transfer speeds on every test on every Pi model. On the Raspberry Pi 4, it achieved the fastest 4K random reads on IOzone and the speediest sequential transfer rate in the Raspberry Pi Diagnostics tool. Though it is labeled as UHS 1 speed, it hangs with or outpaces cards that are labeled UHS 3. At $10.99 at publish time, it’s not the cheapest card, but also not the most expensive. Selling for a modest $8.51 (£7.29) at publication time, the Samsung Evo Plus offers solid performance from a highly-trusted brand at a very reasonable price. Samsung backs the Evo Plus with a 10 year warranty and claims that the card can survive X-rays, magnetic radiation and even 72 hours in seawater. Most of us probably aren’t worried about submerging a card in water, but it’s nice to know that if you waterproof your Raspberry Pi, the card will be fine too. In our tests on the Raspberry Pi 4, the Samsung Evo Plus offered consistently strong application opens, coming within 0.2 to 0.3 seconds of the leader. It also booted in a speedy 24.7 seconds, only 0.7 seconds slower than the Kingston Canvas React. The card had solid transfer rates in IOzone, though its 4K random writes were a little disappointing (rates were much higher in the Raspberry Pi Diagnostic test). On the Raspberry Pi 3 B+, the Evo Plus got really good application open times and slightly better 4K writes. Other Raspberry Pi microSD Cards We Tested Not every product deserves to be listed as one of the best Raspberry Pi microSD cards. Here are some other cards we tested and our brief take on each. SanDisk Extreme: This card really was not bad, offering solid all-around performance for, at press time, a little more than $10 or £10. PNY Performance Turbo: The most expensive card we tested at $14.90 (UK price N/A), this card did not live up to its name or its price tag. The Raspberry Pi Diagnostic tool gave the Performance Turbo a failing grade, thanks to an awful 4K random write speed of 0.8 MBps. Its sequential numbers were also subpar. Lexar 633x: The second least expensive card we tested, the Lexar 633x isn’t all bad. Its app open and boot times were good, but its 4K random write speed and its sequential write speed were poor enough for it to flunk the Raspberry Pi Diagnostic test. Silicon Power Elite: This card costs a few dollars more than the Silicon Power 3D NAND and yet it performs so much worse. It was the slowest card to boot by far, taking more than twice as long as the fastest booting card on both the Pi 4 and Pi 3 B+, the Kingston Canvas React. It had the slowest app open times and also failed the Raspberry Pi Diagnostic Test. Fatty Dove: You wouldn’t expect much of a no-name brand like Fatty Dove so you won’t be disappointed. This card was rated UHS 3, proving how meaningless these speed numbers are. It failed the Raspberry Pi Diagnostic test, thanks to really poor 4K random writes and overall sequential writes. MicroSD Speed Ratings and Types: What Do They Mean? When you’re shopping for a microSD card, whether it’s for Raspberry Pi, a phone, a camera or a Nintendo Switch, you’ll see as many as four different types of speed ratings listed, the first three of which measure minimum sequential write speed in MBps. The SD Association provides a detailed explanation by to keep it simple, here’s a brief list: Speed Class: The oldest class system appears with a circle around the number. The highest class, class 10, is a mere 10 MBps so any new card will meet this standard. UHS Speed Class: This is the most common spec and appears as either a 1 or a 3 inside of a U symbol. The 1 promises 10 MBps and the 3 offers 30 MBps. However, in practice, we’ve tested cards rated as UHS 1 that were just as fast as 3s. Video Speed Class: This is shown as a V with a number after it and is commonly shown as V30 (30 MBps), V60 (60 MBps) or V90 (90 MBps). Application Speed Class: This is a newish metric that measures IOPS rather than sequential throughput. Cards can be rated either A1 (1,500 IOPS random read / 500 IOPS random write) or A2 (4,000 IOPS random read / 2,000 IOPS random write). Few of the cards we tested were rated for A1 (and none for A2) as 32GB cards don’t tend to have this classification. However, several users in the Pi community report that the A2 cards make no difference in Pi performance. Jeff Greeling has a comprehensive article comparing A2 and A1 microSD card performance on Raspberry Pi where he finds zero benefit. Almost all cards are marked with the UHS rating or 1 or 3, fewer have the Video Speed and only a few high-end cards are marked with the Application Speed. In addition to labeling their cards with some of these classes, vendors will offer their own estimates that are much more generous. For example, Samsung claims that its Pro Endurance card can get up to 100 MBps reads and 30 MBps writes, even though it is only labeled as UHS class 1 (10 Mbps). In practice, these classes meant nothing, because cards with UHS class 1 often outperformed those with class 3. You’ll also see that some cards are listed as microSDHC while others are specked as microSDXC. These standards mean nothing for performance and only tell you something about the capacity that you already know from the number of GB. microSDHC (high capacity) cards are those that go up to 32GB and microSDXC cards support higher capacities (but could also be 32GB). Either type works fine in a Raspberry Pi. How We Tested Raspberry Pi microSD Cards We used a combination of synthetic and timed tests to measure microSD card performance on Raspberry Pi. Because it has the highest possible transfer speeds, we ran the full suite of tests on the Raspberry Pi 4, including FIO (Flexible Input / Output tester), which usually took more than five hours to complete. On the Pi 3 B+, we ran just IOZone and the application and boot time tests and, on the Pi Zero W, which is slow to open every app, we used IOZone alone. IOZone Results on Raspberry Pi microSD Cards IOzone is a po[CENSORED]r Linux storage benchmark that measures read and write speeds. We owe a huge hat tip to Jeff Geerling whose excellent article on microSD card benchmarks inspired us to use IOzone in our testing. We configured it to test both random and sequential reads of 4K and 1,024K blocks with a total file size of 100MB. We also enabled the direct I/O option that bypasses the operating system’s cache so we’re getting a better idea of the card’s performance on its own. When we tested on the Raspberry Pi 4, the Silicon Power 3D NAND card, which coincidentally is listed as UHS Speed 1, comes out on top in the all-important 4K random write, 4K sequential write, 4K sequential read, 1,024K random read and 1,024K sequential read tests. The SanDisk Extreme Pro, Samsung Pro Endurance and Kingston Canvas React all put in strong showings as well. The Silicon Power Elite, while more expensive than the company’s 3D NAND did very poorly as did the Lexar 633x, the PNY Performance Turbo and the Fatty Dove 32GB card.

In the world of social media, it's easy to see why people fall victim to fake news posts and misinformation. Up until this year, very little was being done to protect susceptible web surfers from misleading information until the onslaught of Covid-19 conspiracy theories and baseless claims of voter fraud in the US election forced the hands of Facebook and Twitter to put measures in place to prevent further spread. Twitter has now opted to go a step further: if you try and like a tweet that is already flagged for containing false or disputed content, a warning will appear urging the user to check official news sources. How to change your Twitter password or reset it How to mute people and words on Twitter How to send voice tweets on Twitter Safer social media This additional step to prevent the fake news blight from current affairs is, frankly, a welcome sight. We're sure we all have family members or friends that have sadly become part of the spread of conspiracy theories and baseless, problematic claims, and with any luck, Twitter implementing this style of warning system will make users think twice about their sources. It does appear that the pop-up is not currently a consistent feature, as it mostly seems to apply to the source tweet, and not re-tweets. It should also be noted that this was tested on the Twitter website and that this update has not yet been rolled out to mobile apps. Giving context on why a labeled Tweet is misleading under our election, COVID-19, and synthetic and mani[CENSORED]ted media rules is vital.These prompts helped decrease Quote Tweets of misleading information by 29% so we're expanding them to show when you tap to like a labeled Tweet. pic.twitter.com/WTK164nMfZNovember 23, 2020 We did notice that it appears the feature is still being developed and tweaked as widely-known sources for misinformation (such as a certain US President) have more consistency applied to the warning messages, whilst other fake news spotted on the site does not yet flag a prompt to check sources, despite being marked for disputed information. We look forward to seeing how this develops and hope that anyone looking at our Twitter feeds during our investigation doesn't judge too harshly: it's all in the name of news, we swear.

BMW has become the latest brand to remove a number of diesel engine options from its UK range, including Mini, as demand for the fuel continues to drop. Confirmed by the brand in a statement sent to Autocar, the 2 Series Coupé and 2 Series Convertible are now solely available with only petrol engines, ranging from a 1.5-litre three-cylinder in the 218i to the 3.0-litre straight six in the M240i. It's understood that this is primarily down to the need to upgrade the diesel engines to meet the forthcoming Euro 6d emissions standard, which BMW has decided isn't worthwhile, given that these cars are due to be replaced next year. However, Mini will cease taking orders for the diesel Countryman Cooper D SUV despite a Euro 6d-compliant engine being added only in July. This is down to reduced customer demand for the fuel, with a spokesman confirming the product range is “reviewed and refined on an ongoing basis in order to reflect customer preferences”. Finally, BMW has ceased Europe-wide production of the range-topping M50d versions of the X5, X6 and X7 SUVs. Introduced in 2016, the quad-turbocharged six-cylinder engine put out 395bhp and 561lb ft in those applications. Although not officially confirmed, previous reports suggest the engine’s complexity has made it too expensive to produce as diesel falls out of favour. Many manufacturers have either reduced or culled entirely their range of oil-burners in the last few years. The fuel’s market share is down to around a fifth in 2020, while data recently gathered by Autocar shows the number of diesel variants offered for sale in the UK has almost halved in the past five years.

Around the world, Netflix’s The Crown has been trending a lot — mostly because of its intricate portrayal of the inner world of the British royal family. Currently in its fourth season, the show details the life of the late Princess Diana of Wales, her fairy tale wedding, and her troubled marriage with Prince Charles. Among other things, her wedding gown has suddenly roused the interest of many viewers around the world, who have been looking to understand what exactly went into the making of it. Diana famously wore the puffy, ivory white gown to her wedding that took place at St Paul’s Cathedral on July 29, 1981. In the new season of The Crown, viewers are treated to Emma Corrin’s portrayal of Diana. The actor had previously said it had taken 10 people to help her get into the “massive dress” that was a replica of the late royal’s wedding gown. Princess Diana’s wedding dress was conceived and designed by duo David and Elizabeth Emanuel. According to The Independent, David and Elizabeth had met while studying at the Harrow School of Art. They got married, had two children and launched their fashion house ‘Emanuel Salon’ in 1977. In fact, early in his career, David had worked for royal fashion designer Hardy Amies, who began working with Queen Elizabeth II in the 1950s. In 2016, he had told Woman’s Own that Diana had called up to make an appointment for her wedding dress “like anybody else”, for she had previously got “three or four gowns made for formal occasions”. “Fashion was not her thing at all; it was something that was really forced upon her because she had to dress up for the part. The dress had to be something that was going to go down in history, but also something that Diana loved. And we knew it was going to be at St Paul’s, so it had to be something that would fill the aisle and be quite dramatic,” Elizabeth Emanuel had said. According to the Independent report, the gown was made of ivory silk taffeta, with the neckline and mutton sleeves designed with lace flounces — a feature fitting for the fashion of the 80s. It also had hand-embroidered mother-of-pearl sequins, which came together to form a heart motif. In 2018, the Time magazine chose it as one of the “most influential British royal wedding dresses of all time”. In July 2020, the former curator of Diana: Her Fashion Story exhibition Eleri Lynn stated that the dress is now “part of the private collection of the Dukes of Sussex and Cambridge”; this means that as ordinary spectators, we may never see it physically again.

Rabat – The Czech Republic has commended Morocco’s engagement to maintain the 1991 ceasefire agreement with the Polisario Front, despite the hostile acts of the separatist group. The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its support for Morocco in a statement issued on Monday, the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. The Czech Republic also called on Polisario and its militias to respect the 1991 ceasefire agreement with Morocco. The statement from the Central European country came after armed members of the separatist group blocked traffic in the Guerguerat crossing point, near the Moroccan-Mauritania border for several weeks. The Polisario Front began its blockade on October 21. Its hostile act lasted more than three weeks until Morocco decided to intervene and lift the blockade on November 13. The Moroccan operation restored the flow of civil and commercial traffic between Morocco and Mauritania and earned international recognition as a legitimate, sovereign act. The Polisario Front breached the 1991 ceasefire agreement on the day Morocco intervened to lift the blockade when the separatist group attempted to attack the Moroccan army. Polisario’s Leader, Brahim Ghali, formalized the ceasefire breach one day later, on November 14, when he declared “war” against Morocco. The Czech Republic in its statement on Monday urged the Polisario Front to adhere to the UN-led political process in Western Sahara and to respect the Security Council’s resolutions in order to find a sustainable solution to the territorial dispute. With its statement, the Czech Republic has joined a growing list of countries, including Hungary, that voiced their support for Morocco’s operation in Guerguerat and condemned Polisario’s hostilities. The list includes more than 35 countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas.

We're seeing some fantastic Black Friday monitor deals right now, but this discount on the Dell S3220DGF might be the best of 2020. Reduced from $449 to $329 at Best Buy, an all-time low, this 32-inch, 165 Hz curved gaming monitor sits at the top of our list of best gaming monitors and for good reason. In our Dell S3220DGF review, we noted that the monitor's 2560 x 1440, VA panel offers an amazing contrast ratio of 3000:1 and a peak brightness of 350 nits which jumps up to 450 nits when HDR is enabled. The monitor provides extremely accurate colors while working with both AMD FreeSync 2 and (unofficially) Nvidia's G-Sync standard for variable refresh rate. The Dell S3220DGF supports 10-bit color (8-bit+FRC), DCI-P3, DisplayHDR 400 and HDR 10 standards. It has a single DisplayPort 1.4 and two HDMI 2.0 connections. Its screen sports an 1800R curve. It also has USB ports you can use to connect your peripherals. For more savings, check out our lists of best Black Friday tech deals, best Black Friday SSD deals, best Black Friday graphics card deals, best Black Friday laptop deals, best Black Friday gaming PC deals, best Black Friday CPU deals and best Black Friday Raspberry Pi deals. Dell S3220DGF 32-inch, 165 Hz: $449 $329 at Best Buy We gave this curved, QHD monitor 4.5 stars for its great contrast, high brightness and fantastic color accuracy. The Dell 3220DGF supports FreeSync 2 HDR and works with G-Sync as well.

Reports have claimed that US government officials are leaving millions of dollars of illegal Bitcoin funds accessible to criminals in wallets that they have supposedly seized – including the mysterious billion-dollar wallet that suddenly re-appeared earlier this month. On November 5, a Bitcoin wallet containing nearly $1 billion was suddenly emptied after lying dormant for almost five years. Not long afterwards, the US government confirmed that it had seized the funds, announcing that they were connected to the now-defunct Silk Road online marketplace. Now Coinfirm has discovered that there are still sizeable sums of money held on forked addresses that could still be accessed by the wallet’s owner – identified only as ‘Individual X’. We've put together a list of the best bitcoin wallets These are the best mining rigs on the market Also, check out our roundup of the best cloud mining providers Spend away Reportedly, the owner of the private keys for the main wallet could still have access to the following funds: 693701 Bitcoin Diamond (BCD), presently worth approximately $310,000 69370 Super Bitcoin (SBTC), which is presently worth around $66,000 69370.11453606 Bitcoin Private (BTCP), which is equivalent to approximately $11,000 It isn't clear why the US Government overlooked these funds – whether it was an oversight or deliberate - but either way it emphasizes the difficulty of cracking down on illegal Bitcoin activity. In addition to forked addresses, there are also currency forks, as well as entirely separate cryptocurrencies to keep tabs on. It is worth noting, however, that cryptocurrencies are not illegal in of themselves and have plenty of legitimate uses. That being said, despite Bitcoin's surge in value this year, it could still benefit from more mainstream applications. The recent announcement that PayPal now accepts the cryptocurrency for buying and selling should also help with that.

The forthcoming new Vauxhall Astra will echo the bold styling direction taken by the Mokka SUV rather than adopt a more conventional look, according to the brand’s design boss. “What [the new Mokka] is to this segment, that car [the Astra] will be to its segment,” Mark Adams told Autocar. “The boldness and the key elements [of the Mokka] will be coming through. We’re not going to take the same design and morph it into a different shape. We’ll take the same ingredients and develop it around them.” The next-generation family hatchback, which is expected to be revealed next year and go on sale in 2022, is set to share its platform and underpinnings with the next Peugeot 308. However, Adams claims that he’s able to give Vauxhall’s cars a distinctive look and feel of their own under the new management. “As soon as we became part of the PSA Group, I had the opportunity to just think about what we want the brand to be,” he said. “That was the brief Carlos [Tavares] gave to me: ‘Right, you can do what you want to do for the brand.’ We had the freedom to take it to where we wanted to go. So we came up with this whole philosophy and the look of the car by thinking about how we want to distil the values of the brand down to key elements.” As such, the eighth-generation Astra will be substantially differentiated from the 308 externally, much like the Peugeot 208 and Vauxhall Corsa superminis. Cues such as the distinctive new Vizor front end seen on the Mokka, which Adams described as “almost glasslike” and “where we’re heading generally with all of our products”, will be introduced. The current Astra sits alongside the Insignia as the last Vauxhall models to feature no PSA influence, having been conceived under General Motors management. The underpinnings and engine range will therefore be entirely new. An updated version of PSA’s EMP2 platform and a new range of three- and four-cylinder petrol and diesel engines are expected. Although it’s unlikely that an electric version of the Astra will be offered, two plug-in hybrid variants (using the same petrol-electric powertrain as the Grandland X) are expected: a front-driven car and a more powerful (296bhp) four-wheel drive version. The latter is likely to wear a VXR badge as part of Vauxhall’s plan to electrify its sporting brand.

Anushka Sharma never fails to impress us with her fashion choices — whether it is on the red carpet, at the airport or a casual day out. And her maternity looks are no different. The Zero actor, who is expecting her first child with husband Virat Kohli, once again took to her social media to share her latest look after pictures of her resuming shoot went viral a day before. The outfit, as with most of her other picks, is simple, comfortable yet stylish. Keep scrolling to know more! In the picture, Anushka is seen in a monochromatic outfit — a comfortable T-shirt styled with a ribbed skirt. And the glow on her face seems to be increasing by the day! While Anushka is someone who keeps it minimal when it comes to makeup, here she is seen with softly smudged out eyeshadow, berry red lips and oodles of mascara. For accessories, she opted for a chained golden necklace which added a pop of bling to the look. Earlier, she was spotted in a stunning bottle green gown paired with tanned faux leather flats. Needless to say, this is our favourite look of her ever since she announced pregnancy. Take a look below. What do you think about her latest look?

Rabat – The Ministry of Health in Morocco reported on Sunday 3,979 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the country’s cumulative confirmed cases since March 2 to 324,941. The country counts 49,168 active cases of COVID-19, with 996 patients in severe or critical condition. In the past 24 hours, 186 new severe cases emerged. A total of 95 patients are intubated while 435 are receiving non-invasive ventilation. Morocco’s COVID-19-related death toll also increased by 60 on Sunday to reach a total of 5,316. The fatality rate is 1.6%. Recoveries, meanwhile, climbed by 3,746 and now stand at 270,457. The recovery rate is 83.2%. Morocco has tested more than 3.79 million people for COVID-19. Of this sum, over 3.47 million test results came back negative. Morocco’s COVID-19 cases by region Health authorities in the Casablanca-Settat region reported 1,157 new cases of the virus on Sunday, as well as 14 deaths. In the city of Casablanca, where authorities again extended lockdown measures, 795 new infections emerged. The economical capital also accounted for all 14 of the region’s deaths. The Rabat-Sale-Kenitra region followed with 757 new cases and three deaths. The majority of the new cases emerged in the cities of Kenitra (314), Skhirat-Temara (156), Rabat (124), and Sale (115). In Souss-Massa, 581 new cases of COVID-19 appeared along with 11 deaths. Agadir-Ida Ou Tanane reported 252 cases and one death, while Chtouka-Ait Baha confirmed 162 cases and two deaths. The region of Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hocemia, in northern Morocco, confirmed 491 new cases of COVID-19 and seven deaths. Most of the new cases are in Tetouan (140) and Tangier-Asilah (129). Eastern Morocco’s Oriental region registered 282 new cases of COVID-19 and nine related deaths. To the south, Marrakech-Safi counted 212 new infections on Sunday and six deaths. The overwhelming majority of the new COVID-19 cases were in Marrakech (157), Morocco’s touristic capital. Morocco’s southern regions continue to report some of the lowest daily COVID-19 case counts. Guelmim-Oued Noun confirmed 146 cases and one death, followed by Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra (96 cases, no deaths). The under-100 club includes Draa-Tafilalet, which reported 88 cases and four deaths, and Fez-Meknes, with 79 cases and two deaths. Beni-Mellal Khenifra also reported relatively low figures, with 56 cases and three deaths. Dakhla-Oued Ed Dahab confirmed 34 cases and no deaths.

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Nvidia’s RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition has appeared in pictures online, reinforcing the many rumors around the next expected GPU to arrive in the Ampere range – and showing that it’ll carry much the same design as the RTX 3070. Videocardz shared the purported images of Nvidia’s own take on the 3060 Ti, which will supposedly debut imminently, on December 2, the rumor mill insists. Check out our in-depth Nvidia RTX 3080 review And these are all the best PC games We'll show you how to build a PC The graphics card will use the same cooling arrangement as the RTX 3070 Founders Edition, but there will be small differences in the design, with the 3060 Ti being ‘a bit more silver’ (any changes look very slight, though – the heatsink design looks just a touch different in places, too, but barely). It would seem that the 3060 Ti will also have a 12-pin power connector in the middle of the card (Nvidia will be supplying an adapter with this model, Videocardz assures us). Obviously treat this with the usual caution around leaked imagery, but certainly the snaps all look authentic enough, and it would make sense that they could be floating around, now we’re supposedly so close to the launch of Nvidia’s next GPU. Leaks aplenty Rumors dictate that the RTX 3060 Ti will run with 4,864 CUDA cores (1,024 less than the RTX 3070) and 8GB of GDDR6 video RAM (running at 14Gbps). Speculation has also suggested this GPU could outdo the RTX 2080 Super. There will, of course, be third-party cards and in recent times we’ve seen plenty of leakage around these as well – including purported pics of a 3060 Ti from Inno3D, Gigabyte and others.

Microsoft researchers waited more than two years to be assigned a patent that brings the possibility of storing data on DNA a little closer - a move likely to make backup media such as tape obsolete. The High-density DNA storage with salt patent (no. 10,793,852) was filed back in 2018, but only received approval at the USPTO in October 2020. It reads like a kitchen recipe, referring to a dried product formed by “drying a salt solution together with artificially synthesized DNA molecules encoding digital information”. Apparently, the cations and anions at play do not influence the result of the process. We've built a list of the best cloud storage services right now Check out our list of the best cloud storage for photos Here's our choice of the best free backup solutions available Salt solution? Drying the DNA with salt prevents it from degrading too fast; Microsoft researchers found that removing liquid reduces the rate of degradation by nearly 70% compared with untreated DNA. Likewise, the dry product formed from DNA and a salt have a far higher DNA density, by almost one third. DNA storage with salt seems to be an exciting (albeit far-fetched) candidate for long-term, high-density storage for archival purposes. Unsurprisingly, the patent is coy about timeframes and storage capacities, which is understandable given how far we are from getting a product. The news comes a few days after Microsoft announced it has joined forces with Western Digital, the world’s largest storage company, and a few others to launch the DDSA (DNA Data Storage Alliance) . The initiative aims to standardize and promote the adoption of a potential future DNA-based storage system. Check out our list of the best data recovery software right now Via StorageNewsletter

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There isn’t much good news around in these Covid-infested days, particularly from the beleaguered automotive sector, but there is one kind of business that has thrived since the lifting of total lockdown: track days. It’s easy to see why. Even before the pandemic, people were increasingly turning to track days, for two reasons. First, modern performance cars are so fast that it’s increasingly hard to exercise them properly in public. And second, if you do attempt to drive fast on the road rather than track, you will at best incur the wrath of the locals, at worst risk anything from your licence to your liberty. “The track day market isn’t just back to normal but exceeding what could normally be expected,” says Ben Taylor, boss of the British Automobile Racing Club, which lets tracks such as Thruxton, Pembrey and Croft to track day organisers. “Even our own track experiences, where you drive our cars on track rather than your own, are coming back strong. You have to take Covid seriously and be assiduous in all processes, like thoroughly sanitising every car for each new driver, but if you show that level of care and professionalism, customers are now far more likely to be put off by the prospect of bad weather than anything else.” Indeed, driving a car around a track is one sport you can pursue while guarding very effectively against the risk of coronavirus transmission. You’re usually alone in the car, and even if you have a friend or instructor next to you, there are surely few face coverings more effective than a balaclava and full-face helmet with the visor down. This, combined with people catching up with track days they might otherwise have done during lockdown, likely accounts for most of their current po[CENSORED]rity. There’s another factor at play here, too: at a time when the greatest restrictions have been placed on our movements since the war, the idea of cutting loose and driving a good car around a great track as fast as possible is a fantastically liberating thought. And so long as you and your car leave in the same number of pieces as you arrived, a track day will deliver on that promise in spades. So what’s stopping you? For most, it’s a mixture of factors such as cost, thinking you have the wrong car and the fear of anything from not being fast enough to hurting your car or yourself in a crash. My aim here is to answer a few such questions for track day newbies and hopefully put minds at rest. Perhaps the first thing to say is that you won’t struggle to find a venue: the track day market is so valuable to circuits that if there’s one near you, it’s guaranteed to either host its own or let its facilities to one of the many track day companies out there. But never do a track day at a circuit just because it’s local. However you do them, track days aren’t cheap, so you might as well go somewhere that presents the best chance for you to enjoy yourself. So you might want somewhere like Silverstone, with huge amounts of on-track space and run-off to reduce the chances of hitting something; a circuit steeped in history and still in its original form, like Goodwood; or one that combines elements of both, such as Brands Hatch or Donington Park. Speed fiends will find nowhere better than Thruxton, while if you want somewhere beautiful, technical and challenging, you’re spoiled for choice all the way from Anglesey past Oulton Park to Cadwell Park. If you couldn’t care less about scenery or history and just want to go fast in relative safety, Bedford Autodrome fits the bill very well. There is, of course, an almost limitless choice of circuits in Europe, but we will come back to those another day. All I will say for now is that the most po[CENSORED]r for British punters are Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium and the Nürburgring in Germany, for obvious reasons. All petrolheads should try to do a lap of the ’Ring at some stage in their lives but, as a venue for a novice, Spa is faster yet less intimidating and far more fun. The next question is whether you and your car are up to it, and the answer is almost certainly yes. You don’t have to be Lando Norris and you don’t need to drive a McLaren to safely have fun. You and your car must be fit and safe enough to withstand a day’s hard use, of course, but remember that at least half the fun is driving flat out on a purpose-built facility, knowing there’s nothing coming the other way – and you get that in any car. Even so, if your car is fundamentally pleasant to drive, nicely balanced and mechanically robust, you will definitely have a better time. But you can buy a Mazda MX-5 that ticks those boxes for a very modest sum, so you definitely shouldn’t consider your wheels any kind of bar to such enjoyment. So what about you? Well, if you’ve got this far, you’re likely to be an enthusiast and therefore also likely to be more than good enough for some gentle lappery at your circuit of choice. That said, there are plenty of current Formula 1 stars who still employ driving coaches, so you’re never too good to learn. All the big track day companies should provide expert tuition from Association of Racing Driver Schools instructors, and half an hour with one of them at the start of a day will not only increase your levels of knowledge, skill and enjoyment but also improve the chances of you keeping your car pointing in the right direction.