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3 things to know 63.1 percent of Minnesotans 16 and older with at least one vaccine dose; 56 percent — more than 2.4 million people — are now completely vaccinated New cases trending at lowest level since late September; hospitalizations trending near two-month low Minnesota tops 5 million doses administered, but vaccination pace still languishing Updated: 11:35 a.m. For the first time in more than two weeks, Minnesota is averaging more than 40,000 COVID-19 vaccinations each day. That increasing vaccination rate is driven by a big rise in reported first vaccine doses — now averaging more than 17,000 a day, up from fewer than 10,000 a day a week ago. Backlogged data reported in recent days accounts for some, but not all of that rise. It remains to be seen whether the recent uptick is a brief blip, or something lasting, as the state works to break out of what had been several weeks of sluggish vaccination numbers. Minnesota was averaging 60,000 shots a day at one point last month before the numbers began dropping. Meanwhile, the state reported nine more COVID-19 deaths and 599 more cases on Saturday. Averaged over the past week, the number of new cases each day is at its lowest point since September. Projections by MPR News data reporter David Montgomery Here are Minnesota’s latest COVID-19 statistics: 7,363 deaths (9 new) 598,327 positive cases; 98 percent off isolation 63.1 percent of Minnesotans 16 and older with at least one vaccine dose; 56 percent completely vaccinated Sign upAnalysis of COVID-19 data in Minnesota Get vaccinatedHow to get a COVID-19 shot in Minnesota Top headlinesFrom MPR News Tracking the spreadCOVID-19 in Minnesota Active cases, hospitalizations trending down Despite concerns around the vaccination rate, the overall pandemic picture remains solid. The state has recorded 598,327 total confirmed or probable cases so far in the pandemic, including the 599 posted Friday — the seventh consecutive day of fewer than 1,000 new cases. About 98 percent of Minnesotans known to be infected with COVID-19 in the pandemic have recovered to the point where they no longer need to isolate.

Details regarding the AMD AM5 Desktop platform which will be powering future Ryzen CPUs and APUs have leaked out by ExecutableFix. The AMD AM5 platform will compete directly against the Intel 600-series platform with both being the first to offer DDR5 memory support to consumers. AMD AM5 Desktop Platform Details Leak Out - Future Ryzen CPU / APU Support, Dual-Channel DDR5 Memory & Socket LGA 1718 According to the leak, the next-generation AMD AM5 socket will be the biggest platform upgrade in several years for team red. The AM4 socket has so far lasted four generations of Zen architectures starting with Zen, Zen+, Zen 2, and the existing Zen 3 parts. Starting Zen 4, AMD will have its brand new AM5 platform ready to support future Ryzen Desktop CPUs and APUs.One of the biggest changes mentioned on the AM5 platform is the switch from the PGA socket to the LGA socket. The AM5 platform will feature the LGA 1718 socket and as the name suggests, it'll comprise 1718 pins that will make contact with the CPU. That's actually 18 more pins than the Intel LGA 1700 socket which will support the next-generation Alder Lake CPUs. That would mean that we won't see anymore Ryzen Desktop chips with pins beneath them but instead, we would see contact pads (gold) similar to those underneath Intel Desktop CPUs. Other features of the AM5 platform include the brand new 600-series chipset lineup. The X670 PCH is supposedly going to be the flagship offering, replacing X570. The X670 motherboards will feature support for dual-channel DDR5 memory with native speeds starting at 4800 and going all the way up to 10,000 as hinted by DRAM manufacturers. One thing that's interesting is that the platform is going to stick with PCIe 4.0 support and not move to PCIe 5.0 like Intel's Alder Lake. PCIe Gen 5.0 is only going to be supported by Genoa but it looks like future AM5 platforms will include the tech if AMD sees the need for it to promote its next-generation graphics cards. Here's Everything We Know About AMD's Raphael Ryzen 'Zen 4' Desktop CPUs The next-generation Zen 4 based Ryzen Desktop CPUs will be codenamed Raphael and will replace the Zen 3 based Ryzen 5000 Desktop CPUs that are codenamed, Vermeer. From the information we currently have, Raphael CPUs will be based on the 5nm Zen 4 core architecture & will feature 6nm I/O dies in a chiplet design. AMD has hinted at upping the core counts of its next-gen mainstream desktop CPUs so we can expect a slight bump from the current max of 16 cores and 32 threads. The brand new Zen 4 architecture is rumored to deliver up to 25% IPC gain over Zen 3 and hit clock speeds of around 5 GHz. ‘Mark, Mike, and the teams have done a phenomenal job. We are as good as we are with the product today, but with our ambitious roadmaps, we are focusing on Zen 4 and Zen 5 to be extremely competitive. ‘There will be more core counts in the future – I would not say those are the limits! It will come as we scale the rest of the system.’ AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su via Anandtech AMD's Rick Bergman on Next-Gen Zen 4 Cores For Ryzen CPUs Q- How much of the performance gains delivered by AMD’s Zen 4 CPUs, which are expected to use a 5nm TSMC process and might arrive in early 2022, will come from instructions per clock (IPC) gains as opposed to core count and clock speed increases. Bergman: “[Given] the maturity of the x86 architecture now, the answer has to be, kind of, all of the above. If you looked at our technical document on Zen 3, it was this long list of things that we did to get that 19% [IPC gain]. Zen 4 is going to have a similar long list of things, where you look at everything from the caches, to the branch prediction, [to] the number of gates in the execution pipeline. Everything is scrutinized to squeeze more performance out.” “Certainly [manufacturing] process opens an additional door for us to [obtain] better performance-per-watt and so on, and we'll take advantage of that as well.” AMD EVP, Rick Bergman, via The StreetThe Raphael Ryzen Desktop CPUs are also expected to feature RDNA 2 onboard graphics which means that just like Intel's mainstream desktop lineup, AMD's mainstream lineup will also feature iGPU graphics support. The Zen 4 based Raphael Ryzen CPUs aren't expected till late 2022 so there's still a lot of time left in the launch. The lineup will compete against Intel's Raptor Lake 13th Gen Desktop CPU lineup.

It is fair to say that for those who are not familiar with it through their career or interests, understanding field service software is easier said than done. Like many other technological innovations to come into mainstream play in recent years, field service software is an innovation that continues to prove its worth while simultaneously baffling those who do not necessarily find it easy to understand, due to a lack of familiarity with the concept-turned-business-necessity. But alas, field service software is a modern success story, and it will likely only continue to be as time goes on. As modern businesses and empires alike continue to see more and more merit in field service software, it is time to unpack what it is, what it offers businesses, and if it is really worth all the attention it has been getting in recent years. What is field service software? Essentially, field service software is a system that is designed to orchestrate and maintain the management of activities within a field service organisation. Said activities include anything from scheduling, dispatching, billing, and invoicing (among other processes and systems). As an example, companies can save a considerable amount of money when automating the process of comparing prices and services before narrowing down the final selection of securing a frontdesk software. Field service software takes a lot of the tedious necessities of running an organisation, and cohesively organises and minimises the need for human interference. The nature of field service software is that it is always evolving. Now, after a long time of ongoing movement and further advancement, we are beginning to see AI capability work its way into the core of the next iteration of field service software. Why field service software is so appealing At the end of the day, field service software is all about making life at work and the ecosystem of the company run smoother. There is something to be said about the power of organisation, and field service software maximises organisation to the utmost tier, while simultaneously managing to achieve a remarkable bracket for organisation, convenience, and efficiency. No matter what type of organisation is in question, the underlying appeal of investing in field service software is the realisation that it will almost certainly make life within the company far easier. The factors to consider before investing While field service software might seem like a brilliant idea straight off the bad, it pays to actually sit back and consider not only the reasons you want to invest in it for your company, but also what it can genuinely provide your business with. While you very well may benefit from getting all the bells and whistles that come with full-force field service software, perhaps the business can only truly benefit from a select few. Factors to consider before investing in the full nine yards of field service software are the need for mobility, cloud connections, analytics, and AI capability within the organisation in question. Once you have successfully sifted through all these innovations, you can securely make the informed decision surrounding just how much field service software is necessary to maximise convenience and efficiency within the organisation. Read More https://techbullion.com/more-and-more-companies-finding-appeal-in-field-service-software/

Players vs player combat will undergo a big change for the upcoming Overwatch 2, as Blizzard revealed during today's livestream that PvP will change to 5v5 for the new game. The reduction from 6v6 PvP as it currently stands in Overwatch will also bring about changes in team composition, which will be limited to one tank, two DPS, and two support. "We feel like this is the next step in the way that Overwatch ought to be played," game director Aaron Keller said. "If you think about it, there is a lot going on in an Overwatch map. It is incredibly fast paced. We have always tried to make our combat easy to read and very understandable, and even with all of the work that we've put into that, sometimes it's just hard to track what 11 other players are doing on the battlefield. Removing two of those simplifies everything, and it allows players to understand everything that's happening around them, and to be able to make better choices." Predictably, the reduction in team size has influenced Blizzard's approach to new map design, but there's an even greater impact on the role of tanks, which will be locked to one per team. "Tanks can be problematic," Keller said. "A DPS hero is simple—they're shooting. But a tank has abilities that can be noisy, or when stacked with other tanks can cause problems for other teams to try to overcome and counter."By going to five players on a team and limiting them to one tank, he continued, there's a better chance of individual players being able to carry teams, because each player "has the opportunity to have a larger individual impact on their own team." Tanks will also undergo some individual changes for Overwatch 2 aimed at making them "a lot more aggressive," lead hero designer Geoff Goodman said. "They'll be a little more hybrid-y on the gameplay side, and less just wall protection." We saw a few examples of this in the streamed gameplay. Zarya now has two bubble charges that she can freely use on herself or teammates (you can now double bubble yourself, for example) and Winston has a new ranged alt-fire on his lightning gun. Reaction to the changes is decidedly mixed at this point: Some players are eager to try a more structured take on Overwatch PvP, while others predict the end of tank relevance: As redditor kooog put it, "OWL tanks just got Thanos snapped." We'll have a closer look at those reactions, and some thoughts of our own on the future of the Overwatch meta, very soon.Andy covers the day-to-day happenings in the big, wide world of PC gaming—the stuff we call "news." In his off hours, he wishes he had time to play the 80-hour RPGs and immersive sims he used to love so much.

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Auto sales across the world are recovering vigorously from coronavirus-insipred economic disruption although regional differences remain as China leads the recuperation, followed by the U.S. and with Europe lagging. That’s the view of S&P Global Ratings in a report published Tuesday, which also said Europe was leading the march towards electrification. Disruption from the semiconductor shortage remains a worry but its impact varies widely across the industry, with Ford F -1.1% Motor Co the worst hit. S&P Global Ratings expects world sales to advance between 8 and 10% in 2021 to between 83 million and 85 million, up from 77 million in 2020. According to Fitch Solutions, global auto sales peaked at 92.5 million in 2019. “Visibility on the semiconductor shortage crisis is still very low and hopes of a recovery in the second half of this year are fading. The impact on individual auto manufacturers varies substantially,” the report said. S&P Global Ratings said this latest forecast was a little stronger than its earlier one as pent-up demand and government stimulus had propelled sales later in 2020. Low stocks had suggested a fast rebound of vehicle production this year. “However, we have substantially realigned our projections, owing to the shortage of electronic components since the end of last year, further exacerbated by unexpected supply-chain disruptions in 2021, such as the fire at a major Renesas Electronics Corp semiconductors supplier in Japan and (weather) issues in Texas that triggered the closure of chip-making plants. We now expect restocking to be delayed into 2022 and 2023,” the report said. MORE FOR YOU Tesla’s China Sales Dip, Scaled-Back Shanghai Plans Extend Its Share Price Slide National Republicans Applaud Andrew Yang’s Pro-Israel Stand Amid Its Conflict With Hamas The Autonomous Truck Revolution Is Right Around The Corner The impact on production remains hard to gauge. “The impact of the chip shortage varies substantially between companies. Ford already suffered a 17% negative impact on its planned production in the first quarter compared with 11% at Stellantis, the group created from the merger of Peugeot and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles earlier this year. Ford has now announced likely cuts of up to 50% in the second quarter, leading to a loss exceeding 1 million vehicles in 2021. This leads us to believe that our initial assessment of net loss production of up to 3 million for the industry as a whole in 2021 may have been too optimistic,” the report said. The forecast for sedan and SUV sales growth in 2021 has China up 7% in 2021 at 26.2 million, Europe at 18 million up 10% and the U.S. 16.6 million, up 15%. “Across the regions, the recovery in global auto sales remains uneven. China and the U.S. are powering the recovery of global demand for autos, supported by rebounding private consumption in China and massive economic stimulus in the U.S,” the report said. Electric car sales are accelerating, with Europe leading the way here, although hurdles remain to be jumped. “Mass adoption of electric cars still requires a much more granular charging infrastructure and local supply chains for battery cell production. Europe is currently leading the transition: battery electric vehicles (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) will represent 15%-20% of the European market in 2021 in our base-case scenario and 30% by 2025. This compares with an expected 6%-9% market penetration in China, although we believe the Chinese market will regain its position as the largest EV market over time.” “In the U.S., the Biden Administration has announced a commitment of $174 billion to accelerate the deployment of electric vehicles, including point-of-sale rebates and tax incentives, and a national network of 500,000 chargers by 2030. These developments lead us to assume, in our base-case, that electric vehicles, including plug-ins, will approach 10% of U.S. light vehicle sales by 2025. Last year, the share of these vehicles was barely 2%.”

All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Online luxury retailer Net-a-Porter has been a go-to fashion and beauty source for style-setters for decades. Naturally, amid a year when shoppers have spent less time putting together looks from their closets and beauty vanities and more time dressing the table, the company is furthering its reach within the home with a number of tabletop introductions. “We want to be a full-service destination shop,” Lea Cranfield, Net-a-Porter’s chief buying and merchandising officer, tells AD PRO. “Now that people are home more than ever, we are seeing a lot of focus on homeware and interiors in general.” The expansion comes only a few months after Net-a-Porter launched its lifestyle category, debuting a Homeware edit consisting of decorative objects and soft goods from Anissa Kermiche, Erdem, and CompletedWorks, among others. The company also recently inked a deal with Loewe Home Scents to build out its home fragrance selection.Cranfield anticipates Net-a-Porter’s clientele will be quick to adapt to the new offerings. “Tableware is so special and a beautiful way to show off one’s personality,” she says. The key? Having a great selection to choose from. Net-a-Porter’s debut tabletop partners include L’Objet, featuring the brand’s hand-gilded Perlée porcelain collection, as well as serveware from its Haas Brothers collaboration. Ginori’s mythological-inspired collection with Luke Edward Hall, among other designs, is also now available at the retailer. Collections from Helle Mardahl, Vanderohe Curio, La DoubleJ, Bernadette, Brunello Cucinelli, Laetitia Rouget, and more are scheduled to be released over the coming months.As for what can be expected of the category’s rolling spring launch, Cranfield says the buying team is keeping in mind a jovial, brightly hued selection. “We are seeing a lot of colored glass, [as well as] intricate detailing for tabletop accessories from L’Objet and Ginori,” notes Cranfield. “Brands such as Laetitia Rouget and Bernadette bring a playful, chintzy yet modern mix of tableware, where La DoubleJ is very feminine with a vintage feel.” An abundance of style to work with, indeed

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WFXR) — If you spend any time in the Lynchburg area on a regular basis, you’ve probably been to one of the roughly 263 nearby restaurants, schools, and nursing homes where the Virginia Department of Health either didn’t come by to inspect or didn’t post a report from within the last year. “I love Joe Beans, oh my God,” said Raven Usry, a Lynchburg resident, as she read through the list of uninspected restaurants. “I get my coffee there every day.” “Oh my god. Uppercrust? That’s my favorite pizza place! Oh my God, all the restaurants that I go to. Jade palace, Waterstone.” “It’s definitely like a combination of chains and then little, looks like some little mom and pop places, too,” said Lynchburg resident Danielle Racke, “so it kind of looks like everybody’s getting missed.” “Outback? I love their wings,” said Usry. “Oh my, Brauburger…I’m upset.” The Central Virginia Health District covers Lynchburg and the counties of Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, and Campbell. According to Environmental Health Manager Jim Bowles, restaurants are inspected between one and four times each year. An inspector not checking in on a restaurant does not necessarily mean there are any issues with the restaurant itself, but as we found, hundreds of spots in the district don’t have a health inspection report from the past year. “That’s very shocking and scary,” said Usry. We sent VDH our list, and the Department came back with recent inspection dates for only seven of them, still leaving more than 250 uninspected. “I was at first a little bit shocked that that would even be a thing that’s not a priority,” said Racke. This is not a new issue. In December 2019, WFXR News found at least 65 restaurants didn’t have a publicly available report. At the time, the Virginia Department of Health said all restaurants were up to date and blamed it on technical issues. From 2019: Dozens of recent Lynchburg-area health inspections missing from public database “The state is transitioning from an older database to a new database, and there has been a problem with some of the data transfer,” said Bowles during a December 2019 interview with WFXR News. Even though back then, they also struggled finding paper records. Now, the number of missing reports has quadrupled, and the Virginia Department of Health is refusing to give an interview, sending only a written statement citing the coronavirus pandemic as the reason: Yes, the restaurant report website is working, and there aren’t any issues with the online restaurant report website. The website is showing routine, follow-up, and pre-opening inspections. Any inspections in those categories, which were entered into the local database, are on the public-facing website. There may be some facilities without an inspection within the last year due to VDH working on the COVID-19 pandemic. As with all VDH staff, the priority issue since March of last year has been COVID. Food specialists worked on case investigations, contact tracing, educating business owners and the public about COVID, and investigating COVID-related complaints. From April 2020 to early 2021, onsite inspections of food facilities were suspended because of the risk to both health department staff and facility employees. Although VDH was able to do some virtual inspections, that was not always possible. We’ve resumed onsite inspections with some limitations to protect personal health. We are prioritizing the facilities that have not had an inspection in the last year, but with the staffing shortage it will take us some time to catch up. JIM BOWLES, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH MANAGER, VDH “That’s no excuse. None,” said Usry. “It’s been a weird year, but I don’t think that gives us any excuse to stop looking out for all the other health issues that we have,” said Racke. “Just because we have one thing that we’re worried about doesn’t mean that everything else suddenly goes away.” We reached out to the owners of several of these restaurants. Those we talked to didn’t want to go on camera, but at several restaurants, managers tell WFXR News that they have noticed that it’s been a long time since an inspector came around. But even that doesn’t tell the whole story. Places that have apparently been inspected still don’t have recent reports in the system, either. Among those we flagged are two Centra locations: elderly care facility Centra PACE and Riverside Roasters in Lynchburg General Hospital. A spokesperson for Centra said both have been inspected recently: Riverside Roasters in January and PACE in March. Usry summed up her thoughts succinctly: “Please inspect the restaurants!” Click here to find your Virginia health district and search the database of restaurant inspections. Get breaking news, weather, and sports delivered to your smartphone with the WFXR News app available on Apple and Android.

History tells us that games are an inseparable facet of humanity, and mainly for good reasons. Advocates of video games laud their pros: they help develop problem-solving skills, socialize, relieve stress, and exercise the mind and body—all at the same time! However, games also have a dark side: the potential for addiction. The explosive growth of the video game industry has spawned all sorts of games targeting different groups of people. This includes digital adaptations of po[CENSORED]r board games like chess, but also extends to gambling-type games like online casinos and betting on horse races. While virtually all engaging forms of entertainment lend themselves to addictive behavior under specific circumstances, some video games are more commonly associated with addiction than others. But what exactly makes these games so potentially addictive? This is a difficult question to answer because it deals directly with aspects of the human mind, and the inner workings of the mind are mostly a mystery. However, there may be a way to answer it by leveraging what we do know about the physical world and its laws. At the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan, Professor Hiroyuki Iida and colleagues have been pioneering a methodology called "motion in mind" that could help us understand what draws us towards games and makes us want to keep reaching for the console. Their approach is centered around modeling the underlying mechanisms that operate in the mind when playing games through an analogy with actual physical models of motion. For example, the concepts of potential energy, forces, and momentum from classical mechanics are considered to be analogous to objective and/or subjective game-related aspects, including pacing of the game, randomness, and fairness. In their latest study published in IEEE Access, Professor Iida and Assistant Professor Mohd Nor Akmal Khalid, also from JAIST, linked their "motion in mind" model with the concepts of engagement and addiction in various types of games from the perceived experience of the player and their behaviors. The researchers employed an analogy of the law of conservation of energy, mass, and momentum to mathematically determine aspects of the game-playing experience in terms of gambling psychology and the subjective/objective perception of the game. Their conjectures and results were supported by a "unified conceptual model of engagement and addiction," previously derived from ethnographic and social science studies, which suggests that engagement and addiction are two sides of the same coin. By comparing and analyzing a variety of games, such as chess, Go, basketball, soccer, online casinos, and pachinko, among others, the researchers showed that their law of conservation model expanded upon this preconception, revealing new measures for engagement while also unveiling some of the mechanisms that underlie addiction. Their approach also provides a clearer view of how the perceived (subjective) difficulty of solving uncertainties during a given game can differ from and even outweigh the real (objective) one, and how this affects our behavior and reactions. "Our findings are valuable for understanding the dynamics of information in different game mechanics that have an impact on the player's state of mind. In other words, this helps us establish the relationship between the game-playing process and the associated psychological feeling," explains Professor Iida. Such insight will help developers make game content more engaging, healthy, and personalized both in the short and long term. Further studies shall make the tailoring of game experiences much easier, as Professor Iida remarks: "Our work is a stepping-stone for linking behavioral psychology and game-playing experiences, and soon we will be able to mechanistically mani[CENSORED]te and adapt the notions of engagement and addiction towards specific needs and use-cases."

Lenovo has just introduced its new line of Legion gaming laptops with the Legion 7i, the Legion 5i Pro, and the Legion 5i powered using Intel's latest 11th Gen Intel Core Tiger Lake-H-series mobile processors and NVIDIA's latest GeForce RTX 30 series mobile graphics cards. The Flagship Lenovo Legion 7i Features The Intel 11th Gen Tiger Lake-H Core i9-11980HK And The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile The entire Lenovo Legion lineup features the latest 11th gen Intel Tiger Lake-H processor with up to 8 cores and 16 threads. The flagship Legion 7i comes equipped with up to the 8-core, 16-thread Intel Core i9-11980HK. Both the 5i and 5i Pro come equipped with up to the 8-core, 16-thread Core i7-11800H. The 7i, 5i Pro, and the 15" variant of the 5i come with up to 32GB of DDR4-3200 memory while the 17" variant of the 5i only comes with up to 16GB of DDR4-3200 memory In terms of graphics, the latest entry-level NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti can be found as options on the Lenovo Legion 5i and 5i Pro. The most affordable variant of the flagship 7i offers the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 clocked in at 1702MHz boost with a TDP of 130W. For the most powerful variant of the 7i, it comes equipped with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 with a boost clock of 1710MHz and a 165W TDP. Both variants of the 5i and the 5i Pro come equipped with up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070. The 7i and the 5i 15" variant come with up to a 2TB M.2 NVMe whilst the 5i Pro and the 5i 17" variant come with up to a 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD. Both the 7i and 5i Pro are 16" laptops with a 16" WQXGA (2560 x 1600) IPS panel with a 16:10 aspect ratio. The display also features a 165Hz refresh rate, a 3ms response time, G-Sync support, and a VESA DisplayHDR 400 certification. The 17" 5i variant features a 17" FHD IPS display with a 144Hz refresh rate. The 15" 5i variant comes equipped with up to a 15.6" WQHD IPS display with NVIDIA G-Sync and a 165Hz refresh rate. With portability in mind, the 7i weighs in at 5.5lbs (2.5kg), the 17" 5i at 6.57lbs (2.98kg), the 15" 5i at 5.3lbs (2.4kg), and the 5i pro at 5.4lbs (2.45kg). Both the Lenovo Legion 7i and 5i Pro are expected to be available in June with the 7i starting at $1,769.99 and the 5i Pro starting at $1,329.99. The Lenovo Legion 5i is expected to be available in July and starts at $969.99.

If you thought bagging one of the best graphics cards was difficult, questing for a Kyber crystal is totally unthinkable. But fear not. Where previously, such a pursuit would require you to evidence immense Jedi skills through a series of ridiculous tests, researchers are now one step closer to manufacturing real-life lightsabers with the dawn of particle suspending, holographic technology. Ok, so currently they have only teeny weeny lightsaber examples to show, and they can't slice through anything… yet. But something quite stunning has been achieved here, so bare with me. Dan Smalley, a professor of electrical engineering at Brigham Young University, is heading one of the most exciting holographic research projects of our age. Funded by a National Science Foundation CAREER grant, his team have birthed 'optical trap technology.' It gives researchers the ability to trap tiny particles in the air with a laser beam, and by dragging the particle around just fast enough, an image can be drawn in the air (via Pys.org). It's sort of like when you try to write your name with a sparkler, but a thousand times faster, and way cooler.his isn't completely new technology either, but a new twist on what the team had already achieved three years prior. Back then, it was possible to draw free-floating objects in space with light, though it was necessary to take long exposure pictures in order to capture the final image, as they were rastered out slowly in physical space. Now though, real time animations have been achieved, and they can actually interact with 3D objects. The results are light-based stick figures walking on human fingers, and photon torpedo animations crashing against tiny model starships. All of which can be seen with the naked eye—no CGI or space-age goggles necessary. And without the need for a screen, this research surpasses current holographic techniques. As graduate student researcher Wesley Rogers explains, by using motion parallax tricks that involve tracking and adjusting the image as the viewer moves around the display, they can "create the illusion of a much deeper display. Up to, theoretically, an infinite sized display."Katie is a confessed logophile with a love of metaphor and an insatiable creative urge. She's also an RPG, sim and survival game enthusiast who harbours an overt disdain for MMOs, un-managed cables and software that doesn't include a dark mode.

WICHITA CO. (KFDX/KJTL) — In a press release Thursday, May 6, 2021, The Wichita Falls – Wichita County Public Health District announced that two animals have tested positive for rabies. This brings the total to three for 2021 in Wichita County. The Texas Department of State Health Services advised that an 8-month old calf was sold to an individual in another county in Texas, from an individual residing in Burkburnett. After being sold, the calf began exhibiting symptoms of rabies and subsequently died. There is no known exposure while the calf was still in Burkburnett. The second animal to test positive was a skunk that was found in downtown Burkburnett in daylight hours. An Animal Control Officer collected the animal and it was sent for testing which resulted in a positive result. The skunk is the third animal in Wichita County to test positive for rabies. The first rabies case was reported in Wichita Falls on April 16, 2021. The Health District and the Burkburnett Police Department have been in communication about this rising trend and would like to remind citizens to be cautious and informed. Burkburnett Police Department Administration is currently taking direction and leadership from Health District experts on best practice protocols and remedies to support public safety operations in response to this concern. Most wild animals are not infected with rabies but residents should always keep in mind that wild animals, by nature, are unpredictable and can carry disease. Any exposure to wild animals, alive or dead, in particularly, bats, raccoons, skunks, coyotes and foxes should be avoided. Children and pets should be watched closely while outdoors to ensure that they do not come in contact with or touch wild animals. If a wild animal strays onto your property, bring children and pets indoors, alert anyone else who may be in the vicinity and let the animal wander away. Residents are urged to call their local Animal Control if they observe a wild or domestic animal who is active during the day, appearing sick, fearless or aggressive. There should be no attempt to capture or shoot the animal. Be aware that rabies can only be transmitted by saliva. Exposure may occur if scratched by an infected animal or whenever saliva enters an open cut or mucous membrane (nose,mouth, eyes). Rabies is 100% preventable by following a few important guidelines: Ensure all pets: dogs, cats and ferrets, are current on their rabies vaccinations, as required by Texas State Law. Livestock owners are also encouraged to vaccinate horses and other livestock. Don’t let pets roam free. Stay away from all wild animals and unknown dogs and cats. Avoid wild animals-even if they appear friendly. Never coax a wild animal to eat from your hand. If you encounter a bat, do not handle it. Bats have extremely small teeth and you may not realize that you have been bitten. Teach your children to report all bites, scratches and encounters with wild or unknown animals. To reduce the risk of exposure to rabies from wildlife, we recommend the following: Don’t feed or water your pets outside. Even empty bowls will attract wild and stray animals. If you are feeding feral cats, feed early in the day and do not leave food out overnight as that will attract wild animals as well. Keep your garbage securely covered. Open garbage will attract wild or stray animals. Wild animals should not be kept as pets. Enjoy all wild animals from a distance and teach children never to handle unfamiliar animals – even if they appear friendly. If you see a wild animal acting strangely, report it to city or county animal control officials. If someone has been bitten or scratched by an unfamiliar or wild animal, contact a physician or the local Animal Control for immediate assistance. Residents are discouraged from purchasing or taking “free” animals, especially puppies and kittens, from people trying to sell or give them away on the side of the road or in parking lots. Domesticated animals can be quarantined for a period of time for rabies observation and wildlife will be euthanized and sent to the Department of State Health Services for rabies testing. You can contact the Burkburnett Animal Control at 940-285-1144 and the Wichita Falls Animal Services at 940-761-7824.