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The first AIB model of the NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 graphics card has been pictured. The leak comes from Elchapuzasinformatico who managed to find pictures and specifications of the KFA2 GeForce GT 1030 EX-OC White graphics card. KFA2 GeForce GT 1030 Specifications Revealed – Features Single Slot, Low-Profile Design For Entry Level PCs The KFA2 GeForce GT 1030 EXOC White is an interesting graphics card. Not only does it feature a single slot design but also comes in a low-profile form factor. The specifications for this card reveal that we are looking at the new Pascal GP108-300-A1 GPU which was confirmed a few days ago. The graphics card is aimed to tackle the Radeon RX 550 with a similar price tag. Before we get to the specifications, let’s take a detailed look at this low end card. As mentioned, it’s a low profile, single slot solution meant to be housed in small ITX cases. It’s perfect for streaming media in compact HTPC setups. The card comes with a pure white PCB and there’s a single fan cooler embedded in the aluminum heatsink that cools the GPU and memory chips. The card sports a 2 phase design that will be enough for this low-end card. In terms of display I/O, the card features a single DVI and HDMI 2.0b port. There’s no power connector on the board since this card features a TDP of 30W. While this variant uses a PCIe 3.0 x8 link, some cards would be available with x4 interface. NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 With GP108 Has Decent Specifications For The Price The NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 is going to utilize the new GP108 GPU that is based on the Pascal architecture. It may be based on the same 16nm FinFET process that is utilized by other Pascal architecture based GPUs.

Volkswagen Group profits have soared in the first quarter as cost-cutting measures kick in, the German car giant has said. Volkswagen Group also sold more models with higher profit margins, a spokesperson said. Group profit before tax rose 44.3% to 4.6bn euros (£3.9bn), one of the carmaker's highest quarterly results to date. Meanwhile, the group's troubled flagship brand also saw profits surge. Volkswagen brand operating profits rose to 869m euros from 73m euros the year before, although accounting changes meant sales revenues declined 24% to 19bn euros. Investors have said a turnaround at VW's namesake brand, which has had high fixed and research and development costs, is key to turning it into a more appealing business, although VW last year overtook Toyota as the world's biggest selling carmaker. Group changes Since the VW diesel emissions scandal broke in 2015, the group has made a number of structural changes. These include streamlining vehicle development, cutting material costs by reducing complexity in parts, dropping unprofitable models and shifting more power to brands and regions to respond more quickly to market needs. "Our efforts to improve efficiency and productivity across all areas of the company are also paying off," chief executive Matthias Mueller said. "The healthy quarterly figures strengthen our resolve to continue our chosen path," he added. The group saw "solid earnings in Western Europe", he said, and also benefited from favourable exchange rates. Quarterly profit at luxury division Audi slipped to 1.2bn euros from 1.3bn euros a year earlier as VW's biggest earnings contributor pushes into new models and technologies.

In my teens, I worked as an artisanal miner, waist deep in water, sieving the gravel to find a diamond. Growing up in diamond-rich eastern Sierra Leone, it was the natural thing to do. Jobs were, and still are, few and far between, so the gemstones were a magnet. They persuaded many to drop out of school, but I worked as a miner mostly during school holidays and sometimes at weekends. The Kono District was densely po[CENSORED]ted because the sparkling stones could be found virtually everywhere, sometimes through sheer luck. My parents joined thousands of people from across the country, as well as The Gambia, Mali, Senegal and even Lebanon, to go to Kono in the hope of making a quick fortune. Blistered palms I grew up there and my work as a miner was hard. I dug the river beds for gravel and extracted the often muddy earth looking for diamonds. The pickaxes and shovels would blister my palms and the sieve would harden or even deaden my fingers, often breaking my fingernails. And because I had to also lift sacks full of dry red tropical gravel, my head and neck were almost always in pain. Diamond deposits were sometimes so close to the surface in parts of Kono that it was common for people to pick up tiny gemstones that had been loosened by a heavy downpour. I found a tiny stone once or twice in my birthplace, Bumpeh. I did not know their true worth, but got enough money to see me through for about a week. Africa's biggest diamonds: 1. Cullinan Diamond, found in South Africa in 1905, weighed 3,107 carats 2. Lesedi La Rona, found in Botswana in 2015, weighed 1,111 carats 3. Excelsior Diamond, found in South Africa in 1893, weighed 995 carats 4. Star of Sierra Leone, found in Sierra Leone in 1972, weighed 969 carats 5. Incomparable Diamond, found in DR Congo in 1984, weighed 890 carats Source: Mathew Nyaungwa, Rough and Polished After doing my school-leaving exams, I took to full-scale mining to help pay for my university studies. Apart from mining in Kono, I also went to Tongo Fields in neighbouring Kenema District. There, I discovered that the life of an artisanal miner was like that of an indentured labourer. Diamond diggers generally had two layers of sponsorship, and still do. The Group of Geng, or Gang, is what the diggers are called. In language which harks back to the days of slavery, each group has a Master who looks over them. He is also in charge of providing food, accommodation and medicine. But when I was there, conditions were such that only one square meal a day was assured - and please do not ask how the sauce tasted. We often slept on the floor of a room or veranda, with bedbugs and mosquitoes biting us in turns. As for health care, Panadol was all we would get if we fell ill. Then there was the Supporter - the person who would provide the funds for the Master. We rarely got to know him personally. He tended to be a big businessman or diamond dealer, and he provided us with tools and monthly allowances. Like me, most diggers did not know - and still do not know - the real value of their diamonds. So, it was easy for the Master and the Supporter to connive and dupe us about the price.