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Mercedes-Benz only showed us photos of the Hyperscreen interior when it revealed the inside of the EQS to us over the weekend. However, today there are photos of the standard interior available on the company’s website (h/t Motor1). You’ll see a gallery of photos at the top that you can scroll through to compare the Hyperscreen dash with its non-Hyperscreen equivalent. At first glance, the standard EQS’ interior looks a whole lot like the new 2021 S-Class. You’ll see it has the same 12.8-inch vertically-oriented center infotainment system and center console design. The surrounding dash is where things begin to differ. Even some of the structural bits of the interior are vastly different from the Hyperscreen-equipped EQS. With the Hyperscreen taken away, the standard screen appears to float above the massive trim backing. The massive swath of trim that was previously Hyperscreen space extends tall and wide on the passenger side. You’ll see a classic wood-paneled waterfall design, a wavy brown metallic look and a futuristic light-studded piano black option in photos here. The wood finish is the classiest of the bunch, but that light-backed piano black dash piece would be stunning at night. You’ll notice that the top air vents appear to extend the entire width of the dash behind the free-standing cluster. In the Hyperscreen car, they halt at the hood that covers the cluster, then a trim piece picks up the same design as it heads into the door. And while the design is slightly different, you’ll notice that the central strip of rose gold remains. The uniform strip of air vents is different from the centrally-mounted vents in the new S-Class that look rather compact and sit above the infotainment system. We know that the Hyperscreen will be an option for the EQS, but Mercedes hasn’t revealed its price yet. Given the substantial nature of the add-on, though, it’s bound to be pricey. It’s not just the second 12.3-inch screen on the passenger side that you lose when you skip it, though. The center screen within the Hyperscreen is a 17.7-inch touchscreen, so it has far more real estate to work with than the 12.8-inch standard touchscreen. If you’re someone who wants the most cutting edge technology in every way, the Hyperscreen is definitely the way to go. However, there’s a great argument to be made for enjoying the gorgeous trims Mercedes dreamed up instead.

I booked a holiday with Cruise & Maritime Voyages (CMV) in May 2020, paying a £400 deposit with my Santander Visa debit card. The company went into administration in July and I was sent an email by Abta, telling me to use its template letter to ask my bank to make a chargeback. I sent this, along with a form the bank branch provided, to Santander, and it reimbursed me at the end of August. However, it wrote back in December saying my chargeback claim had been rejected and then the money was taken back. I had no explanation, except that “every case was different” and the decision was Visa’s, not the bank’s. Santander said Abta should reimburse me. But Abta insists I claim from my bank, despite me telling it that this has failed. I do not know who is at fault. Visa’s website says its chargeback scheme is discretionary and Abta is washing its hands of it. SH, Truro A look at Abta’s Trustpilot page suggests that you are by no means alone in trying to get your money back from CMV. Customers of the cruise firm, some of whom have been waiting more than a year for refunds, are queueing up on the site to report similar experiences. Having spent rather too long trying to get to the bottom of it, it seems to me that Abta is responsible for providing the refund. In the past, travellers have been able to make successful chargeback claims from failed travel firms, which is maybe why Abta was pushing the 80,000 customers thought to be caught up in CMV’s collapse towards their banks. However, when it became clear that CMV’s administrators were refusing chargeback claims – as happened to you - it should have acted sooner. Abta apologised this week and claimed it has “tried to minimise delays and provide assistance to customers, all of whom will receive 100% refunds”. Happily for you, though, Santander has come to your aid. While it maintains Abta was responsible, it has agreed to refund you the £400 as a gesture of goodwill. It did so on the basis that it had made your refund process “unnecessarily complex”. I would advise others in the same boat to persist with their claims to Abta. And always book direct and pay by credit card rather than debit card. I cannot reiterate this enough.

Jair Bolsonaro’s ultraconservative foreign minister has resigned after a rebellion from diplomats and lawmakers who accused him of demolishing Brazil’s international reputation and putting Brazilian lives at risk by vandalizing relations with China and the US during the coronavirus pandemic. Ernesto Araújo, a 53-year-old career diplomat famed for his bashing of Xi Jinping’s China and devotion to Donald Trump, tendered his resignation on Monday, ending what critics call the most calamitous chapter in the history of Brazilian diplomacy. “One thing’s for sure, he’s the worst foreign minister Brazil has ever had,” said Celso Amorim, who held the post between 2003 and 2011. Just hours after Araújo’s resignation, defence minister Fernando Azevedo e Silva announced he was also leaving government, a shock move that added to the sense of crisis surrounding the Bolsonaro administration, which is facing growing domestic anger over its catastrophic response to Covid. Araújo was picked as foreign minister in November 2018, a fortnight after Bolsonaro’s stunning presidential election win, despite never having served as an ambassador. Under his watch, Brazil’s internationally respected foreign office – known as Itamaraty after the 19th-century Rio palace it once occupied – took a hard-right tack on issues such as reproductive rights and the environment and became a bunker of hardcore Bolsonarian ideologues. Brazil courted rightwing nationalists such as Donald Trump and the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, and ditched its hard-won position as a global climate leader. Araújo and other top Bolsonaristas, including the president’s son, Eduardo, also trashed ties with Beijing. Brazil’s top diplomat – who once declared Trump “the saviour of the west” – repeatedly assailed China’s Communist party leaders and called coronavirus the “communavirus”. More recently Araújo irked Joe Biden by calling the pro-Trump extremists who stormed the Capitol “upstanding citizens” and taking a holiday during the US president’s inauguration. Jamil Chade, a Geneva-based journalist who covers Brazilian diplomacy, said diplomats had long regarded their boss’s submissiveness to Trump and the Bolsonaro family with disdain. Among foreign envoys Araújo – who has pushed baseless conspiracy theories about the origins of Covid – generated “perplexity”. But opposition to Araújo’s 27-month stint as minister finally exploded this month with the deterioration of Brazil’s Covid catastrophe, which has killed more than 312,000 Brazilians. Many blamed Araújo’s mishandling of relations with China, India and the US for Brazil’s failure to secure sufficient quantities of vaccines and vaccine components. During a parliamentary hearing last week senators chided the foreign minister with one telling him: “Quit, you’ll save lives”.

Name of the game: Evil Genius 2: World Domination Price: 35.99$ Link Store: Steam Offer ends up after X hours: 17h Requirements: MINIMUM: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i3-8100 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GT 1030 2GB, Radeon RX 550 2GB Storage: 18 GB available space RECOMMENDED: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K, AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB, Radeon RX 5700 8GB Storage: 18 GB available space

Game Information: Initial release date: 30 Mar, 2021. Software Developer: Studio Koba. Publisher: Team17. Platform: PlayStation 4, Windows Microsoft. Narita Boy is a side-scrolling, 80s VCR-soaked pixel adventure. You play as the titular Narita Boy, a chosen hero of sorts who's tasked with saving a digital dimension from its all-powerful creator. There's a lot more story here than you might think — most of it told through lengthy dialogue boxes — but the gist of it is that you're on a rather epic quest, and you'll be kicking a lot of arse. Narita Boy is mostly comprised of combat, platforming, and some light puzzle solving. It's not really a Metroidvania — there's no branching map — but there is quite a bit of backtracking as you find keys that unlock previously inaccessible locations. It's a linear journey, and the game keeps track of your current objective, but with no markers and no map, you can quite easily lose your bearings. It's not necessarily a problem — the way forward is usually a lot more obvious than it appears — but it does mean that you have to pay constant attention to your surroundings. Fortunately, the world of Narita Boy is wonderful. The 80s VCR aesthetic certainly isn't original, but the game pulls it off extremely well. Again, this is a digital realm; its denizens are mostly mechanical beings with screens for faces, and their land is filled with discarded data given physical form. It's a world packed with detail and brilliantly bizarre sights. It's consistently, impressively creative — and it's another prime example of what can be achieved with relatively simple pixel art. That creativity also bleeds into the combat. Encounters with enemy programs punctuate the entire release, and the good news is that Narita Boy feels great to control during these action-based battles. You steadily unlock a range of combat abilities, from a standard evasive dash to specialised super moves, and everything serves a purpose. As you'd expect, the complexity of these encounters gradually increases as more dangerous enemy types are introduced, but the difficulty curve is masterful. What's more, boss battles are usually a joy. It's a shame, though, that the platforming isn't quite as enjoyable as the sword-swinging action. The nature of Narita Boy's slip and slide movement lends itself well to combat, but when it comes to precision platforming, he's a bit unwieldy. Thankfully, there are only a handful of truly challenging navigation sequences throughout the game, and even then, Narita Boy is reasonably forgiving. Losing all of your life simply places you at the start of the screen, or at the last checkpoint (which are plentiful). If it isn't already clear, Narita Boy is a great indie adventure. It's got satisfyingly slick gameplay, and the visuals are a delight. But perhaps the true star of the show is the stellar electronic soundtrack. Whether it's twinkling ambient tunes or booming synth chords, the music is superb. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: OS: Windows 7 Processor: Dual Core processor, 2.0 GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX, 1 GB or AMD Radeon HD 4870, 1 GB DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 2 GB available space Sound Card: Windows Compatible Soundcard

If there's one item most closely associated with Nvidia's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, it's the leather jacket. You'll almost never see the man sans jacket. It's a staple of every keynote, stream, event, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if Huang wears one to bed at night. It's also apparently the single most recognisable item that Nvidia could decide on for a branded emoji next to the #nvidia hashtag on Twitter. I feel like I'm usually pretty sour on these sorts of things but I'll admit this one got me. Perhaps it's just because it's not at all what I had expected from a company that takes its branding very, very seriously. I'm going to take a punt and say that this is some form of early April Fools joke. You forgot about this cursed time, huh? Prepare yourselves for wave after wave of poor jokes with a punch line that's almost always 'no, not really'. Either that or it's a set-up for Nvidia's GTC, or GPU Technology Conference, which takes place in a couple of weeks and will feature a keynote from Huang on April 12. Whatever the cause, the company probably committed some significant sum of money on a Twitter marketing campaign to unlock such privileges. Those branded hashtag emojis probably don't come cheap.

The UK’s Ministry of Justice is ditching a £100m ERP procurement as it strives to get in step with a new Cabinet Office shared service strategy for enterprise applications. The department responsible for court, prison and probation services is set to withdraw a market prior information notice, launched in July 2020, which aimed to speak to suppliers about a “prospective contract opportunity for the supply, configuration, implementation, support and maintenance of a configured ERP SaaS Solution” in a potential 10-year agreement. The MoJ is part of the “Delivery” cluster of Whitehall departments — which also includes the Department for Work and Pensions, the Home Office and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — deemed to be working together on ERP procurement under the new shared service strategy launched this month. Despite the fact the departments have long relied on Oracle ERP systems, the Cabinet Office confirmed that further procurement of SaaS applications for the cluster would consider alternative vendors in the “next couple of years”. This came in the same week that Big Red celebrated the Home Office going live on Oracle Fusion for its SaaS ERP system. In its 2020 procurement, the MoJ had said it wanted enterprise software to cover finance, HR and commercial functions in the core department, as well as 33 agencies and non-departmental public bodies, and the territorial offices in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It would include HR records, staff recruitment, payroll processing for approximately 82,000 employees. One-SOP shop The MoJ is currently within the “Single Operating Platform” (SOP), the “Delivery” cluster of departments that moved their Oracle R12 eBusiness Suite systems to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in October 2020 to meet a commitment in the 2019 shared service strategy refresh to enable "SOP cloud hosting." That strategy had detailed plans to move to SaaS during the current financial year, 2021/22, and had seen a £15m procurement launched in April last year in a hunt for a consultancy partner for the SOP2SaaS programme.

SAKHIR, Bahrain — World champion Lewis Hamilton just held off Max Verstappen to win the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix and clinch the 96th Formula One win of his career on Sunday. The race was effectively decided when Verstappen overtook Hamilton but went too wide on a turn and was told by his team to give Hamilton the position back, as he risked a time penalty. Verstappen still had a few laps to catch Hamilton and he almost did, finishing just .74 seconds behind the Mercedes driver. Hamilton's teammate, Valtteri Bottas, took third but was way behind the front two. Verstappen took a superb pole position on Saturday, the fourth of his career, and started immediately ahead of Hamilton. Verstappen got away cleanly and held off Hamilton, while Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc made a fine overtake on Bottas but lost that position after the safety car came out on Lap 1.

BRADFORD MP Naz Shah has attempted to diffuse tensions after a Batley Grammar School teacher reportedly used an "inappropriate" resource in a religious studies lesson. Protesters gathered outside the school last week and called for the teacher in question, who is suspended, to be sacked. The school received a number of complaints about the reported use of an image taken from the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo during a religious studies class. The school has apologised over the "inappropriate" image and suspended the teacher. In an interview on British Muslim TV, Naz Shah, MP for Bradford West, said: "There has been a lot that has been said over the issue that took place at Batley Grammar School. "Let me be clear that we must be calm and collected when looking at this debate. "And I completely condemn any notion of violence full stop. "Extremists on every side want to divide communities and pit us against each other and further push the us versus them rhetoric. "So let me start by thanking the headteacher for the leadership he has shown. "Unlike the Prime Minister, this headteacher recognised that things went wrong, acknowledged the pain felt by the local community and took decisive action. "So I do want to thank the headteacher for doing the right thing. "The issue at the forefront is not about freedom of speech nor is it about cartoons, but is about safeguarding and protecting children. "Freedom of speech is an integral part of our democracy. It is this very freedom that allows me to do my job, to debate, to discuss and to critique. "And I get it, and I know many of you are hurt by these images and so am I. "I don't need to show an Islamophobic image depicting the Prophet with a turban and a bomb to raise discussion, debate and conversation. "Because there are other ways we can have meaningful conversations on these topics in the classroom and reach the same goal without causing upset. "The government's own hate crime reporting centre over the years has reported an increasing level of Muslim pupils in schools being bullied for their religion and being labelled as terrorists. "In this school, parents have highlighted similar sentiments too. "In that context, to show an Islamophobic image was the wrong thing to do. "But the school has apologised, the teacher is being investigated and due process is taking place. "So people can either continue to protest or see sense and allow the process to take its course, and if you ask me what I think should happen, I think we respond with compassion because that is what my Prophet, the Prophet Muhammad, would do. "He was the first and worst victim of Islamophobia. And what did he say? What did he do? He was most generous, kind, gentle, brave, humble, protecting, caring, honourable and giving. "People make mistakes. Ignorance leads us to positions where we make mistakes and fail to understand the sensitivities. "So there was one caricature shown in a classroom, but what I'm saying is what we, through our actions, show the true caricature of the Prophet, peace be upon him, one of love, mercy and compassion."

Leave campaigners have begun raising funds to open a Museum of Brexit after the long-awaited project was granted charitable status. The trustees are seeking to generate £400,000 to buy a home for the museum – possibly in a pro-Brexit town such as Dudley in the West Midlands – plus another £250,000 to set up the institution and a strategic financial reserve of £350,000. The project is being championed by prominent Brexiters who say they want to set up an institution that will tell the story of Britain’s departure from the EU “before items and stories get lost”. Although all those involved in the project are keen Brexit supporters and the museum has had no public endorsements from pro-Europeans, the trustees said they were only able to secure charitable status by persuading the Charity Commission that it would be neutral. A Q&A on the museum’s website says both sides of the Brexit debate need to be presented “fairly and in a balanced way”. Alex Deane, one of the trustees and the executive director of the Grassroots Out campaign in 2016, said: “There is a tremendous story behind this that deserves to be preserved. Unless we act fast, much of the material from the referendum will be lost. Our objective is to plug that gap at the time when it is easiest – right now, while memories are fresh.” Other trustees include Lee Rotherham, a former director of special projects at Vote Leave, Thomas Borwick, Vote Leave’s former chief technology officer, Jim Reynolds, the honorary secretary of the Campaign for an Independent Britain, and Gawain Towler, a former director of communications for Ukip. The museum is intended to include a library and an archive, while its website sets out how people can contribute items, such as correspondence, diaries and campaign material. According to the prospectus, one model is the Working Class Movement Library in Salford, Greater Manchester, which also houses an extensive collection of books and material for study. But the museum is also being billed as an attraction for the public as well as researchers, and the prospectus says visitors could be greeted at the door by an image of the former Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell delivering his anti-European Economic Community speech lamenting “the end of a thousand years of history” in 1962. The museum is designed to explore Britain’s relationship with Europe going back to the Romans and the development of parliamentary democracy, as well as telling the story of the birth of the EU, the UK’s membership, and the 2016 vote to leave.

Name of the game: Half-Life: Alyx Price: 35.99$ Link Store: Steam Offer ends up after X hours: 31 March Requirements: MINIMUM: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Core i5-7500 / Ryzen 5 1600 Memory: 12 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 1060 / RX 580 - 6GB VRAM RECOMMENDED: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

You may be aware, and you may even care, that Apple is working on a VR headset design. Why should we care? Well, according to a 'reliable analyst' talking to 9to5Mac (via KitGuru) the device may end up weighing just 5.2oz (150g). Not only is that lighter than your average, grocery-store apple, it's heaps lighter than current VR and Mixed reality headsets on the market. It's even lighter than the iPhone 12—which weighs 5.8oz (164g). If these rumours are anything to go by, this headset could be the lightest, and potentially the highest resolution VR headset of all time. The estimate comes from Apple analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo, in a research note shown to 9to5Mac, who explains that the device's miniscule weight is thanks to it's ultra-short focal length lenses. Fresnel's hybrid, ultra-short focal length lenses will bring improved field of view to the world of Apple VR, and will be made of plastic instead of glass, to greatly improve their contribution to the devices weight. There's no word on durability yet, but the main caveat comes in the form of an inherent reduction in brightness caused by these new lenses. Kuo notes that this will be counteracted by the company's use of Micro-OLED displays. The headset it described by Kuo as having "sleek, curved visor attached to the face by a mesh material and swappable headbands." Other features expected from this potentially sub-5oz mixed reality headset design include advanced eye tracking, intuitive operation methods, 15 built in camera modules and the possibility of the Micro-OLED displays clocking in at 8k each. That would be an incredible feat if the company can figure out how to viably pull it off, especially in that kind of weight-class. The heft of modern virtual reality headsets is a major burden for long term users. The Oculus Quest 2 is relatively light for a head-mounted display at around 500g, but is still uncomfortable with the original strap after a while. The Valve Index is far heavier, clocking in at around 800g, but the weight distribution and smart headband design helps there. But if we're talking about a headset some 80 percent lighter than that it's going to be a far more comfortable fit than either of the best VR headsets the PC can offer. Despite its size, the likelihood of all this Apple VR tech coming for less than $1,000 is low, and rumours place the release date for the lightweight VR headset somewhere in 2022, so there's a while to wait yet.

Autonomous driving sales are accelerating, claims analyst house Canalys, citing global shipments of 3.5 million vehicles with Level 2 self-driving capability during calendar Q4 2020. Whether a car is self-driving or not isn't a binary, but rather judged across a sliding scale. There are multiple "levels." The lowest, Level 0, refers to automated systems that may occasionally take control of the car, such as automatic parking. The highest, Level 5, refers to cars where manual controls are entirely optional. The most prevalent standard is Level 2. Here, the car is able to control its momentum and direction, handling things like acceleration and assisted steering. However, the driver must be ready to take control of the vehicle at any time. Think of it as a super-cruise-control. The most hyped-up example of this tech is Tesla's Autopilot system, although Canalys noted much of the last quarter's growth had come from brands like Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen, and Ford, which have started offering similar self-driving features as an optional extra on pricier models. Unsurprisingly, the US led the pack in end-user sales, accounting for 30 per cent (or 1.2 million units) of all new car sales. Japan, Europe, and China followed, with Level 2 semi-autonomous cars accounting for 20, 19, and 12 per cent of all sales. Once the preserve of deep-pocketed early adopters, autonomous driving features are increasingly commonplace, with more cars retailing under $40,000. By contrast, in the second quarter of 2019, Level 2 features were present on 8 per cent of all new cars sold in Europe. Carmakers have committed to increasing levels of automation in the coming years, with Level 3 functionality (which doesn't require the driver to remain in control, but rather ready to take over should the need arise) expected to trickle out from this year. Some of the first examples have already left the forecourt, with Honda starting limited lease sales of the Honda Legend EX customers in Japan. BMW is also expected to release a Level 3 car in the coming year, dubbed the iNext EV. Still, despite this progress, there remain significant barriers to widespread adoption, particularly on the legal front. Legislation simply has not kept up with technical progress, and features like Autopilot are technically illegal in the UK. The UK government is expected to publish the results of its consultation on self-driving motors in early 2021. Earlier this year, Britain's Department for Transport said it expected the UK autonomous car market to be worth $41.7bn by 2035.

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Stellantis will idle production of the Chrysler Pacifica at its Windsor, Ontario, facility for several weeks due to the ongoing global chip shortage. The facility will be idled starting Monday. "Stellantis continues to work closely with our suppliers to mitigate the manufacturing impacts caused by the various supply chain issues facing our industry," a Stellantis spokesperson told Autoblog. "Due to the unprecedented global microchip shortage, production at the Windsor Assembly Plant will be down beginning next week through mid April." Automotive production shutdowns continue to mount amid a global microchip shortage brought on by spiking consumer demand across countless industries, production slowdowns due to pandemic restrictions, and untimely natural and man-made disasters. The shortage has put a great deal of pressure on chip producers, especially in Asia. Taiwan’s central role in producing chips has shot into focus during the COVID-19 pandemic, with soaring demand for laptops, tablets and other equipment to power the work-from-home trend benefiting firms like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker. Washington has increasingly viewed tech-powerhouse democracy as a key part of its strategy to shift global supply chains away from China, especially when it comes to technology and chip companies. Foreign governments and companies have also beseeched Taiwan to help resolve a shortage of auto chips which have idled factories around the world. U.S. companies are not standing still either. This week, processor giant Intel announced a $20 billion plan to expand its advanced chip manufacturing capacity in Arizona.

Five years ago the historic mill town of Batley became the centre of a media circus when its MP Jo Cox was murdered by a far-right extremist. Cox’s tragic death in nearby Birstall at the hands of the white supremacist Thomas Mair looked set to cause ruptures in the community. In her maiden speech the Labour MP Tracy Brabin, who was elected to replace Cox, said she would “stand tall against those whose only mission is to divide our community”. Brabin added that her constituency of Batley and Spen would “not be defined by the one person who took from us, but by the many who give”. But the constituency continues to be a battleground for far-right activists. In the 2019 general election, an independent candidate known for anti-Muslim Facebook posts, Paul Halloran, came third ahead of the Liberal Democrat candidate. On Thursday, protests erupted over claims a teacher had shown a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad to pupils at Batley grammar school and now there are fears the row could be hijacked by extremists on both sides. But in the town, where Muslims make up 41% of the po[CENSORED]tion, the day after the main protest, Brabins’ sentiment in her maiden speech is echoed by some living in the area with most locals describing the community as friendly and cohesive and saying they do not want trouble. Outside the gates of the school, Hassan Mahmood said the protest was about educating people and raising awareness with the hope of increased community cohesion. “This is about generating that positive awareness so that there’s no sort of untoward reaction and there’s no disruption or disharmony in the community,” he said. Mahmood explained that the issue centred on the potential impact on children, especially non-Muslims, and their knowledge of what is deemed offensive. “The kind of message that’s going out from this school is quite dangerous for all children. You’re giving out the wrong information, you’re setting a wrong mindset, which doesn’t help community cohesion,” he said. Shehram Farrukh, a fellow protester, said the demonstration had been about opening up a conversation. “So the thing is, if something happens, anywhere in any part of the world about the prophet Muhammad, we Muslims are very sensitive. We are not maligning anybody else, we just want to say, don’t make fun of our prophet. That’s all we want,” he said. Rukhsana Khaliq and her daughter Maariha, 16, agreed the protest was warranted. Maariha went to the school but is now in sixth form elsewhere. She said: “There’s nothing bad about the school. It’s just what he did was offensive and he didn’t know that. I feel like now that this has happened he understands.” “There’s no way of accommodating that,” added her mother. Qari Asim MBE, an imam at Leeds Makkah Mosque, said he sympathised with parents and pupils and that teachers have a responsibility to exercise better judgment for sensitive classroom content but added that the protests should stop and be replaced with constructive dialogue. “We do not want to fan the flames of Islamophobia and provoke hatred or division,” he said.

At least 32 people were killed and more than a hundred injured when two trains collided in southern Egypt. Authorities blamed a passenger activating the emergency brakes. Two passenger cars flipped on their side from the force of the collision, the latest in a series of deadly accidents along Egypt’s troubled rail system, plagued by poor maintenance and management. Video from the scene in the southern province of Sohag, 270 miles south of Cairo, taken shortly after the collision showed derailed cars turned into twisted piles of metal, with some passengers trapped inside. Bystanders carried bodies and laid them out on the ground near the site. Egyptian railway authorities said the accident happened when someone activated the emergency brakes of a passenger train headed to the Mediterranean city of Alexandria. The train stopped abruptly and was struck from behind by another train, a statement said, causing two carriages from the first train to flip over. Egypt’s president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said he was monitoring the situation and that those responsible would receive “a deterrent punishment.” “The pain that tears our hearts today cannot but make us more determined to end this type of disasters,” he wrote on his Facebook page. The office of the prime minister, Mustafa Madbouly, said he and five of his cabinet members would travel to the scene. Egypt’s railway system has a history of badly maintained equipment and poor management. Official figures show that 1,793 train accidents took place in 2017 across the country. In 2018, a passenger train derailed near the southern city of Aswan, injuring at least six people and prompting authorities to fire the chief of the country’s railways. In the same year, the president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, said the government lacked about 250bn Egyptian pounds (£11.5bn) to overhaul the run-down rail system. Sisi spoke a day after a passenger train collided with a cargo train, killing at least 12 people, including a child. A year earlier, two passenger trains collided just outside the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, killing 43 people. In 2016, at least 51 people were killed when two commuter trains collided near Cairo. Egypt’s deadliest train crash took place in 2002, when more than 300 people were killed after fire erupted on a train travelling from Cairo to southern Egypt.

Name of the game: Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI Price: 14.99$ Link Store: Steam Offer ends up after X hours: 8 April Requirements: MINIMUM: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 7x64 / Windows 8.1x64 / Windows 10x64 Processor: Intel Core i3 2.5 Ghz or AMD Phenom II 2.6 Ghz or greater Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 1 GB & AMD 5570 or nVidia 450 or Intel Integrated Graphics 530 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 12 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Device RECOMMENDED: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 7x64 / Windows 8.1x64 / Windows 10x64 Processor: Fourth Generation Intel Core i5 2.5 Ghz or AMD FX8350 4.0 Ghz or greater Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: 2GB & AMD 7970 or nVidia 770 or greater DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 12 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Device

Game Information: Initial release date: 26 Mar, 2021. Software Developer: Realmforge Studios. Publisher: Kalypso Media. Platform: PlayStation 4, Windows Microsoft. Spacebase Startopia is a management simulator based on Startopia, released way back in 2001 on PC. Much like in the original, you're put in charge of a series of doughnut-shaped bases that you’ll need to turn into fun places for aliens to live, work, and play. Every visitor has a wallet filled with Energy that you’ll need to tempt them into spending by keeping them entertained and fulfilling all their needs. There’s some story going on about wars between different alien races and how this has decimated this region of space. These bases are supposedly vital in helping different species come together in peace and harmony. It’s mostly guff that isn’t particularly important or memorable, but the game does throw in lots of silly sci-fi jokes and, while most of them are painfully cheesy, they may occasionally get a smile out of you. It can be pretty difficult to make simulation games feel at home on console — the sheer number of menus and the need for precise clicks can be tricky to get right on a controller. While Spacebase Startopia doesn't manage to implement the most intuitive of controls, there is thankfully a tutorial, complete with sarcastic AI, that does a reasonable job of walking you through the basics and showing you some shortcuts. Your space base has three decks; a sub deck which is used to satisfy basic needs, an entertainment deck where your guests can party, and a bio deck to grow plants and provide you with lots of precious resources. You can also research new types of rooms that'll get your guests to spend even more Energy, as well as handy things like factories and security stations. It's important to also keep an eye on pollution and cleanliness as you can quickly end up with a base full of sick aliens if you’re not careful. Some of the facilities you build, like the disco or the recycling plant, will need staff to manage them. Thankfully, your guests are more than happy to accept a job with you in exchange for a small amount of Energy and free use of the facilities. Each potential worker only has two metrics for you to judge how good they are; skill and dedication. Obviously the higher these numbers are the better, but it's hard to tell how much difference they really make as there's no indication that they're working any harder or faster than their lower numbered colleagues. Your staff still have to do things like sleep and eat, so they will occasionally wander off to take care of these needs. Unlike other simulation games such as Two Point Hospital, there doesn't seem to be any way to check up on your staff and pull them off their breaks if you need them. It doesn't really feel like you're managing them, or have much control over them. It's cheap and easy to keep on hiring more and more staff, but there isn't any metric of whether you're being efficient or are way over-staffed. One thing that is really quick and easy to check is seeing what your visitors think of your attempts to create a little alien utopia. You can quickly skim through an alien social media feed to see what's trending and what guests are angry about. They also regularly take a vote about if they like the base or not. The higher your ratings, the more visitors you'll get, and the larger the size of their wallets. The main campaign isn't particularly long; there are only 10 missions and many of them feel a bit like they're extensions of the tutorial. Each mission will give you new types of rooms to unlock and new alien species to impress. Once you've completed a few objectives, which mostly serve to showcase the new features you've unlocked, you'll be swiftly moved on to a new station and a new objective. The simulation elements of the game start to feel quite repetitive after a while, which isn't helped by the fact that your base is always the same shape and looks exactly the same. While there are new obstacles to overcome in each scenario, you're likely to be repeating most of the same steps that you did in the previous mission. A lot of your time with the game is likely to just involve you waiting around until you have enough currency to buy a different room or unlock the next research item, which you'll then have to unlock all over again in the next mission. Occasionally your base will be infested with space worms or boarded by pirates, which is when you'll need to use any drones and mechs you've built to blast the crap out of them. This could've been used to inject a bit more tension and excitement in the game, but it ends up falling a bit flat. All you'll really end up doing is directing your squads to where the fighting is happening and then leaving them to it. Once you're done with the campaign, you can try out the freeplay mode where you can play against the AI and set the victory conditions, as well as things like the base size and length of the game. There's also an online multiplayer mode which you can play with up to four players. Here you can either play co-operatively, or you can do your utmost to destroy their economy before sending your mechs to finish them off, like the evil little space tyrant you are. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system. OS: Windows 10. Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X @3.6 GHz / Intel Core i3-9100 @3.6 GHz. Memory: 16 GB RAM. Graphics: AMD/Nvidia dedicated GPU, 6GB dedicated VRAM and Shader Model 6.1 (Nvidia Geforce GTX 980Ti or AMD Radeon RX 5600XT). Sound Card: 10 GB available space.

Gamestop is in the news again, but this time for doing something less exciting than throwing the stock market and our lives into chaos. The massive gaming retailer is adding PC gaming hardware to its online product catalog, which, of course, includes RTX 30-series GPUs. And in case you're wondering, those too are sold out. Predictably, as soon as folks found out Gamestop was selling GPUs, they were sold out in mere moments. Navigating the PC Games page is a bit of a nightmare, but we've seen a smattering of non-GPU PC gaming products for sale like pre-built systems, monitors, and even a couple of motherboards. A digital flyer from Gamestop was our first hint that the retail giant was going to dive into the PC hardware market. Gamestop CEO George Sherman said that the company would expand its product offerings with more PC gaming and consumer electronics in an earnings call. There's no word if the new products will be exclusive to Gamestop.com or offered in limited quantities to physical stores. Gamestop entering the PC gaming hardware scene makes sense considering how Sherman said this move would "reduce our reliance on the cyclicality of the console-based gaming market." The news comes after Gamestop reported a drop in net sales from $2.19 billion to $2.12 billion from last year. "We are continuing the work to expand our addressable market by growing GameStop's product catalog," says Sherman. "This includes growing our product offerings across PC gaming, computers, monitors, game tables, mobile gaming, and gaming TVs, to name only a few." This seems like a more practical move for Gamestop than turning some physical locations into internet cafes/event space last year. Though, for most of us, it's just another site where we can be let down by the lack of availability on RTX 3080s as you and I hit F5 over and over again on our browsers.

OpenCollective, an online funding and community platform founded in 2015, on Wednesday launched Funds for Open Source, a program to facilitate financial support for open source software projects. Open source software is everywhere but its rewards have not been evenly distributed. Technology giants like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft all depend upon open source software, but not all those who develop the code underlying these businesses get recognized, paid, or supported. In response, some developers have become resentful or stopped contributing entirely. Others have proposed alternative software licenses to limit potential exploitation. And many in the technology community have tried to find ways to make contributing to open source projects more sustainable, like bounties, crowdfunding, and support contracts. Over the past few years, OpenCollective – a Delaware-based corporation with affiliated non-profit entities – has been trying to help specific open source projects, and other community-focused initiatives, raise funds through a more durable framework, one that persists rather than ends after a specific financial goal. CEO Pia Mancini, in a phone interview with The Register, said OpenCollective "makes it easy to give money to entities that aren't incorporated." "The internet is great at bringing people together to collaborate and communicate with one another," she said, "But when it comes to funding, you need to become a corporation." Mancini has likened OpenCollective to an API for funders. What that means essentially is that large tech companies can work with other corporate entities far more easily than individuals. The organization complements another open source funding initiative, GitHub Sponsors. Mancini said GitHub Sponsors is set up to fund individuals and connects funders with OpenCollective when they want to support specific communities. Already handling funding management for some 2,500 projects, OpenCollective has made Funds of Opens Source available for any organization interested in anteing up to support projects or "collectives." Funders can use the platform to reward specific types of projects, whether they're working with OpenCollective or not. For example, Chrome's Web Framework & Tools Performance Fund has made donations to projects like ESLint and Vue. And AirBnB has given money to projects it favors, like Babel, Prettier, and Yeoman. "Instead of figuring out how to give money, $5,000 here, $10,000 there, we put together a fund and support a whole host of open source projects, some of which we sponsor and some not," explained Mancini. Mancini said projects receiving funds, within some limits, are free to decide how they spend donated cash. Some pay salaries, she said, others spend the money or equipment or conferences, or divide donations equally among maintainers. "We take care of the compliance aspect of it," she said. One unusual aspect of OpenCollective is its insistence on transparency. It provides insight into where money came from and how it's being spent. Like Venmo, but without the privacy risks. It's also not just for software. Mancini pointed to films that have been made using the OpenCollective platform and to community groups that have provided food to people in need. "We have a lot of mutual aid groups," she said. "The silver lining of last year for me was being able to see people show up for each other and support their neighbors."

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