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For decades, the State Department bifurcated the oversight, accountability and implementation of its cybersecurity defenses. The Information Resource Management office, where the agency chief information officer sits, and Diplomatic Security Bureau each play separate and not always complimentary roles, drawing the ire of Congress and the inspector general, and, at times, creating unnecessary challenges. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence and co-chairman of the bipartisan Senate Cybersecurity Caucus, wrote to the department earlier this year asking questions about the reporting structure of the CISO after an inspector general report found the CISO “lacked necessary seniority for effectiveness or accountability. My understanding is that the current CIO reports to the Undersecretary for Management to the Secretary of State, and that the CISO reports to the CIO.” Just about a year after that letter and IG report, Undersecretary of State for Management Brian Bulatao is creating a new position — the enterprise chief information security officer — to once again try to address what could be seen as a disparate approach to cybersecurity across the department. Bulatao announced the new position, which will report to the CIO, in a Dec. 7 memo to staff, which Federal News Network obtained. “The E-CISO will have broad authority (on behalf of the CIO) to oversee all aspects of cybersecurity. Any bureau that maintains their own cyber infrastructure will be responsible to the E-CISO for meeting all required cyber standards,” said Stuart McGuigan, State’s CIO, in an email to Federal News Network. “The E-CISO will be responsible for developing and implementing enterprise information security programs, including policies and procedures that are designed to protect the department’s enterprise communications systems from internal and external threats. The central E-CISO position was created to ensure that one entity is responsible to oversee cybersecurity on behalf of the CIO and follows industry best practices.” Within the E-CISO, State also is creating the Office of Global Information Technology Risk. “GITR will develop policy, procedures and templates to guide organizations within the department responsible for IT to conduct their own IT risk assessments and report results,” McGuigan said in a memo to Bulatao from earlier this fall, which Federal News Network also obtained. “These results will be analyzed and presented to department leadership for situational awareness and to inform decisions to manage risk.” The E-CISO role, however, likely will have the bigger impact on addressing State’s cyber coordination challenges. McGuigan expanded on the E-CISO role in a video shared publicly on the internet and provided to Federal News Network. He said all cyber policy and oversight activities performed by the information assurance organization will be elevated to the new E-CISO, the deputy CIO for information assurance will be renamed the deputy CIO for cyber operations and will be responsible for all IRM cyber operations. “These new enhancements will increase transparency throughout IRM’s cybersecurity efforts and strengthen the partnership we have with the Bureau of Diplomatic Security,” he said in the video. McGuigan said the E-CISO has not been selected yet. State advertised the position on USAJobs and are now reviewing applications. Two reasons for the reorganization In the memo to Bulatao, McGuigan said the decision to realign cybersecurity oversight and responsibilities are two-fold. First, it’s in response to senior leadership direction, and second from multiple inspector general recommendations. “IRM seeks to formalize its cyber risk management program as an office within the E-CISO office and expand its responsibilities for all dimensions of IT risk,” the memo said. “The office will be staffed with two divisions, Risk Management and Risk Solutions, with distinct capabilities to advise, assist and guide the department on taking calculated risks in support of the conduct of diplomacy.” Read more Reporter's Notebook news. The one big question that the E-CISO doesn’t answer is something Congress and auditors have been trying to address across the department for decades. The E-CISO nor the CIO will have day-to-day responsibilities over operational management, workforce performance and non-IT resource allocation. The hope is that by requiring each bureau to conduct risk assessments and share them, the E-CISO can work through senior leadership, including the CIO and the undersecretary of management, to force improvements. The IG issued reports in 2019 and again in 2020 saying the agency’s CIO continues to struggle to address systemic cybersecurity challenges. “The OIG found that numerous control weaknesses affected program effectiveness and increased the chance of cyberattacks and threats to the department,” the IG wrote in the fiscal 2020 management challenges report. “The department’s Field First initiative to align technology to conduct diplomacy on the foreign affairs frontlines continues, with a new chief architect now in place. Under the Field First initiative, the department is identifying existing IT gaps, costs to close them and establishing post-specific roadmaps for implementation. Preliminary analysis shows that our greatest needs overseas are bandwidth, collaboration tools, and new equipment. IRM has been working with the Bureau of Administration to deploy an IT Service Management portal in myServices that will manage employee requests for IT solutions.” In 2019, the IG was more specific about the lack of coordination between IRM and Diplomatic Security Bureau. “OIG remains concerned with the overlapping and poorly defined responsibilities between DS and IRM and the organizational placement of the CIO, which impedes the position’s ability to effectively implement an agencywide information security program,” auditors stated in the management challenges report for 2019. “In addition to addressing these structural and organizational concerns through its reports and recommendations, OIG has repeatedly emphasized these matters in testimony, presentations, and other communications with the department and with Congress.” Diplomatic Security created CTS This challenge is not new for State. In 2017, the Diplomatic Security Service established the Cyber and Technology Security (CTS) directorate to improve security at embassies, consulates and among foreign affairs officers. Despite these efforts and the ongoing auditor reports, State has been slow to fix these long-standing problems and now the agency is trying the E-CISO approach. Sign up for our daily newsletters so you never miss a beat on all things federal The changes to State’s cyber oversight and policy offices is part of a targeted IRM modernization. McGuigan said recently he reinvigorated the IT Executive Council to include six working groups, including cybersecurity, mobility, architecture and workforce. He said the goal is ensure bureaus help develop and take part in enterprise capabilities like cloud services or other new technical capabilities. Outside of IRM, State wants to create a new Bureau of Cyberspace Security and Emerging Technologies (CSET), which would consolidate many disparate functions and improve coordination internally and across the government. The technologies CSET will look at include things like 5G, supply chain security and similar national security issues. State told the Government Accountability Office that it expects to establish the new office in early 2021. The creation of the E-CISO comes nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic where State’s cyber challenges, like many agencies, increased as its risk profile expanded with remote working. “In order to meet the growing demand for remote work in response to the pandemic, IRM undertook a multi-pronged approach to ensure that the department could continue to operate while many employees worked from home, and provide users with more options to overcome IT challenges,” McGuigan said. “First, the department enabled the Office 365 environment, coupled with multifactor authentication, for all employees. Next, the department increased the concurrent virtual desktop interface (VDI) capacity to 15,000 users, previously it was limited to 5,000 concurrent users, and procured and imaged several thousand laptops. Additionally, the department enabled a video collaboration capabilities through WebEx and Teams to ensure that users could continue to meet virtually throughout the pandemic.”

Absorb Software continues to innovate and solidify its position as the most holistic corporate learning platform in the industry with latest release CALGARY, AB, Dec. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Absorb Software, provider of the industry-leading Absorb Learning Management System (LMS), today announced the release of its new course authoring tool, Absorb Create. Absorb Create's biggest value is in enabling individuals and teams to take an active role in their eLearning creation. Absorb Create simplifies the complexity of creating eLearning content, enabling anyone to build compelling and engaging courses for their learners. The intuitive platform makes it easy to use. With features like templates, conditional branching, interactive elements and games, organizations can produce and update high-quality eLearning for business agility and resilience. Following its acquisition of Koantic in August, Absorb integrated the tool into the Absorb product set and renamed it to Absorb Create LI, which stands for LMS Integrated. New and existing Absorb customers can now build and seamlessly publish courses to the LMS with the click of a button. This focus on providing a holistic learning platform comes at a time when learning has been increasingly recognized as a core solution to the challenges at hand. "This year—more than any in recent history—has tested our ability to be agile and responsive in the face of major world events," said Mike Owens, founder and CEO of Absorb Software. "Businesses have been charged with creating and disseminating information quickly but may be struggling with how to do so. Absorb Create's biggest value is in enabling individuals and teams to take an active role in their eLearning creation. We're incredibly excited to bring it to the market." Also being offered as a stand-alone product, anyone can use Absorb Create to build and sell engaging, interactive eLearning content and upload it to any LMS using eLearning standard formats including SCORM, xAPI and HTML5.

Alphacool has released two new fans offering different sizes and speeds, up to 6,000 RPM with a minimum speed of 800 RPM. These fans are called the ES and the SL-15 PWM fans, which €are currently available for purchase through Alphacool's website. The SL-15 PWM fan is currently priced at €11.69, or roughly $14, while the ES PWM fan is currently priced at €21.99, or roughly $27. Alphacool has announced two fans, the ES and SL-15 PWM fans, featuring a maximum RPM speed of up to 6,000 The SL-15 PWM fan features the standard 120 mm fan size, with a fan speed ranging from 600 RPM to 1,800 RPM. This, paired with the lower price alongside the simple black color scheme, makes this fan perfect for a sleep PC build. The SL-15 PWM fan's design features a slim design, making this fan perfect for radiators or tight fan mounting locations. The SL-15 PWM fan features eleven fan blades allowing for a maximum noise level of 32 dBA. The Alphacool SL-15 fan is part of the new core product line designed to offer fantastic performance while dropping other less used features. he Alphacool ES PWM fan is smaller than the SL-15, featuring 80 mm instead of the standard 120 mm. Another significant change when comparing the two is the maximum speed, and this fan can achieve a maximum speed of up to 6,000 RPM. This fan is designed with workstations and servers in mind, to save a considerable amount of energy, users can regulate the fans, going as far as stopping the fans completely. This fan offers a smooth start-up, which increases the fan's life and even reduces the risk of injury when trying to maintain the servers. Both of these fans use the double ball bearing, which ensures a longer lifespan and ensures that even at the 6,000 RPM speed, the vibrations won't rattle the server chassis or PC case. Both these fans are currently available for purchase through Alphacool's website. The Alphacool ES PWM fan is currently priced at €21.99, or roughly $27; the SL-15 PWM fan is currently priced at €11.69, or roughly $14. This low price ensures that these fans could make an appearance in budget builds.

For the very first time, the Japanese-published manga series Super Mario-kun has been localised for an English-speaking audience, with a new book being released across North America and Europe. The series, written by Yukio Sawada and regularly published in Japan's CoroCoro magazine, has been putting its own crazy spin on the Mario franchise since 1991. It's been running for over 50 volumes and has featured stories based on Mario classics like Paper Mario, Super Mario Sunshine, and more – you might remember that it even inspired one of the costumes available in Super Mario Maker. The new English-language book is titled 'Super Mario Manga Mania' and includes a selection of stories from Sawada's series. Those of you in the US can grab a copy right now from Amazon or Walmart, while those in Europe will have to wait a little longer (Amazon UK says it'll launch in January).From crazy to classic, Mario and his friends star in adventures that find them traveling through the many worlds of one of the biggest video game series ever! Gamespot reports that the book features ten stories, two bonus short stories, and will be more than 160 pages long in total. Perhaps this could be an ideal Christmas present? Let us know if you'd like to spot one of these under the tree this year with a comment below. Please note that some external links on this page are affiliate links, which means if you click them and make a purchase we may receive a small percentage of the sale. Please read our FTC Disclosure for more information.

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The 2020 Nissan Kicks is something that fits just between the Rogue Sport and Versa Sedan. If you need something to whip around the urban landscape and get remarkable mileage, look no further. Under the hood of the 2020 Kicks is a 1.6L 4-cylinder engine making around 121 horsepower and put to the pavement via a continuously variable transmission CVT and front-wheel drive. There’s not a lot of expectation for this car to win ¼ mile races and it definitely doesn’t “kick” you back in your seat but it’s a whole lot of predictable and efficient driving. Exterior styling won’t wow you with style or aggressive lines. In fact, it’s quite the opposite and lands on the side of boring and functional. I’m not by any means declaring the Kicks a boring car, it just works and functions well without any fanfare. At first glance, you’ll think it’s a Rogue, but after careful scrutiny, you’ll notice it’s not quite as tall, wheels are more at the corners and the windows aren’t tinted. These are giveaways to a smaller crossover vehicle. Upfront are large headlamps and at the corners are black wheels. Follow the lines up and back to the extended rear tailgate with a black bumper and single exhaust pipe. THE GOOD, THE BAD ... The Good: SV package for blackout, comfortable interior. The Bad: Small engine and boring drivability. Jump into the driver's seat and the first thing I noticed was how cozy and intuitive things are on the dash. A touchscreen centers the show with HVAC and storage just below. A traditional shifter is there as well as an old-fashioned emergency brake handle. The driver's instrument panel is mostly digital like most nowadays. Seating in front is very comfortable and there is a good amount of space in the back for other passengers. I was able to latch my child seat, but it was a little cramped for the boys around it. Rear trunk space is fairly adequate as well and was enough room for baseball equipment. Overall, the interior was a decent place to spend time and is able to carry a family around well. It also came optioned with the Rockford Fosgate sound system and I have to say I was a bit disappointed. I was hoping for a pulse-pounding experience and I have to say it was far from that. Either way, it’s a better-than-standard sound system, but left some to be desired.On road, the Kicks is a bit loud and a bit light on its feet. I have to say, most of the time I drove it I wasn’t completely turned off. At highway speed, it can be a little loud and get pushed around by the wind. On suburban roads, it was kind of fun to throw around the corners and held speed really well. It’s also really easy to maneuver in the city and tight alleyways. I found it was at home in the city setting with smaller roadways and areas to park.

Associated Press | PHOENIX (AP) — Bruce Babcock only has to walk across the street from his house in a residential neighborhood to get to the 10-acre patch (40,500 square meters) of farmland where he labors to help feed his community. As a community garden coordinator, Babcock works with volunteer growers and food enthusiasts to provide enough freshly grown produce every week for hundreds of low-income Phoenix residents without access to much nutritional food. The Spaces of Opportunity neighborhood food system is among several initiatives launched in Phoenix in recent years, following other U.S. communities like Oakland, California; Detroit and Chicago where urban gardens aim to improve food options in racially and ethnically diverse neighborhoods. The efforts have grown increasingly important with hunger across America on the rise amid the coronavirus pandemic. For example, more than 5 million people in Arizona filed unemployment claims this year and many worry where their next meal will come from. The Arizona Department of Economic Security said as of October more than 900,000 people had applied for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps. Spaces of Opportunity works with the Roosevelt School District, the Orchard Community Learning Center, Unlimited Potential, the Tiger Foundation and the Desert Botanical Garden to produce and improve access to healthy food through farmers markets and distribution programs. It is located in south Phoenix, a predominantly Latino and Black community that public health officials call “food deserts” because of limited access to fresh produce and other healthy options. A map by the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows such food deserts are widespread throughout Arizona and other parts of the Southwest. A lack of fresh food can cause people to depend on fast food and other items that can make them vulnerable to diet-linked health problems such as diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity. Babcock began volunteering with the garden in 2015, after he experimented with an aquaponics project in his backyard. He began paying for a quarter-acre plot of his own shortly after that. Babcock said growers start out paying $5 a month for a quarter-acre and can later expand to a full acre plot. More than 60 gardeners now work there and as many as 200 have worked under Babcock since 2015. “We really slowed down over the summer and I was worried it wasn't going to pick back up because of COVID-19,” Babcock said. But people returned in the fall when the triple-digit temperatures dropped and he opened up more land for gardeners. Community interest in nutrition and food education has sparked some of the growth, said John Wann-Angeles, director of the Orchard Community Learning Center. Wann-Angeles, a former principal in the Roosevelt School District, said part of his interest comes from his earlier experiences working with children, hoping to keep educating young people to build a better future for their community. Wann-Angeles gathered one early fall morning with volunteers at a Roosevelt district elementary school, wrapping vegetarian burritos for the meals they deliver each Thursday to up to 175 people with modest resources. Bags stuffed with seasonal fruits and vegetables were also lined up for delivery. The recipients that day included residents of the Justa Center, which provides shelter, food and job services to people over 55 who have lived on the street. Justa Center Executive Director Wendy Johnson said the fresh fruits and vegetables from Spaces of Opportunity “are a treat among our residents.” “The strawberries are a favorite. The oranges are gone in minutes,” said Johnson, noting that residents are used to getting canned foods. “Food is a privileged item when you are poor.” Spaces of Opportunity farmland is also where former WNBA athlete, coach and executive Bridget Pettis operates Project Roots Arizona, the group she recently founded after she retired. Project Roots offers seasonal produce bags for free to residents in Phoenix, Tempe, Scottsdale and Glendale; sells garden boxes that people can use to grow their own produce at home; cooks soup for homeless people and sells vegetables at farmers markets throughout metro Phoenix. “There is a lack of access, but it’s a lack of knowledge and education about food in these areas that we are trying to address,” Pettis said. “That’s what Project Roots wanted to bring — the knowledge of food.” The International Rescue Committee, a leading resettlement agency for people who come to the U.S. fleeing war and persecution, has a similar program in the Phoenix area called New Roots for refugees. New arrivals from countries such as Iraq, Sudan and Afghanistan are given lots, seeds and guidance to grow crops such as tomatoes and watermelon to sell or add fresh, healthy options to their own family meals. Farm Express, another fresh food initiative, has taken a more accessible approach, converting a 40-foot (12-meter) city bus and a smaller shuttle into mobile markets selling fruits and vegetables at cost in disadvantaged Phoenix neighborhoods. “We’re trying to make sure working class families have the same access to the kind of produce the restaurants get, that are sold at farmer’s markets,” said Elyse Guidas, executive director of Activate Food Arizona that runs Farm Express. Activate Food Arizona buys the produce wholesale, then charges the same prices to shoppers who choose what they want from a list. Shoppers can use their government nutrition benefits, plus get a bit more produce for free through a program funded by a local grant. Matthew Forest, 32, said he was delighted by the low prices he found for fruits and vegetables at a recent stop Farm Express made next to a public housing project south of downtown Phoenix. It was the first time he and his girlfriend, Eboni Davis, 33, bought anything from the brightly painted former city bus. The closest grocery story is a 1 1/2-mile walk for Forest and Davis, who don’t have a car. “This has been a real experience,” Forest said after the couple spent less than $14 for a bunch of bananas, a few oranges, collard greens, a grapefruit, a butternut squash, a green apple, a red onion, strawberries and a few potatoes. “This is a lot less expensive than the supermarket,” Forest said before wheeling the produce home in a metal cart. Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

I come from people who did what needed to be done when faced with personal or community crisis. And I have a long history of experience with vaccines. So, when I heard about the COVID-19 vaccine trial taking place where I live in Salt Lake City, I didn't hesitate. I already knew the research team because I'd been through two unrelated vaccine trials in the last year. I was familiar with the pin pricks, protocols, clinic visits, informed consent forms and piles of paperwork. I already knew the trial's doctor, nurses and medical assistants. "Sure," the nurse told me when I called the clinic. "We need people for this trial and you'd be great." I seemed like a good candidate because I'm at the pandemic-risky age of 66, but relatively healthy and active. My wife Wanda fits that description as well. So, we both endured two hours of questions, medical history reviews, and checks of temperature, blood pressure, hearts and lungs. We scrupulously read informed consent forms, considered all the caveats, did our own research, and signed. Needles and vials came out and we had our first sharp but gentle jabs. It was a big production that day and later for the second round of injections. The medical assistants, nurse and doctor flitted in and out of the tiny examination room, always politely apologizing for the questions, the probing, the crowding, and especially the paperwork. We were patients 2 and 3 and they were still working out the kinks of the routine. They were checking each other along the way. "Did you have them sign this page?" "Did you tell them about that?" "Did you get their blood?" We gave lots of blood. We didn't know then and we still don't know who in our group of volunteers got the real vaccine and who got the placebo. The research team doesn't know. It's a double-blind study. So, even Moderna, the vaccine developer, isn't supposed to know. Only the independent vaccine overseers are supposed to have access to that information. Like everyone else, Wanda and I have been trying to guess, based on our reactions to the vaccines. But those reactions were minor, so it's hard to say. Moderna has promised that eventually everyone in the placebo group will be offered the vaccine, so we'll find out then. In any case, we aren't worried. We know that the Moderna vaccine uses synthetic COVID-19 mRNA. There's nothing in it that could actually give us the coronavirus. And in the early preliminary trial with a very small group, there were no serious side effects. Still, friends asked us why we did this. That got me thinking about my people and their history, and my own long experience with vaccines. First, there's the example set by my grandmother. When she boarded the New Rochelle, a massive passenger ship, in Le Havre, France, in 1921, she was 24 and pregnant. Really pregnant — close to delivery. And she feared that alone would get her kicked off the ship before it left port, or deported once she arrived at Ellis Island. She and 22-year-old Moise, the man who would become my grandfather, couldn't again face deadly pogroms, severely restricted lives, and forced service in armies fighting hopeless battles. That's what they and other Jews were fleeing in eastern Europe. Moise and Ruchel were determined to get to America, their promised land, so Ruchel did what needed to be done. She put on layer after layer of heavy coats, and wore them the entire voyage. It was winter on the high seas so that may have seemed sensible. Other immigrants wore lots of clothes, too, so they had more room for more things in their luggage. It worked for Ruchel. She hid that pregnancy from the 2,000 other migrants on board, from the ship's crew, and from the immigration officers at Ellis Island. One officer did note a medical problem on the immigration arrival form, so my family suspects that a government doctor discovered the pregnancy during an examination but let it go — doing what needed to be done for these young refugees desperate for new lives. Ruchel and Moise Berkes' daughter Reba was born four days later; the new father sold apples on the street to support his suddenly expanded family. My father Milton came along a few years after that. He eventually became a local elected official in a Philadelphia suburb. In 1957, when I was 3, the first non-white family moved into a Levittown neighborhood, and my father and other community leaders found themselves facing down white racists, who rioted night after night. The rioters burned a cross, honked horns, and screamed ugly insults and threats. My dad and a group of other leaders stood with the family, as they all stood up to the mob, which required unblinking commitment and some physical and political risk. The rioting subsided, the Black family stayed, and more families of color moved in, too. In his own time of reckoning, my father did what needed to be done. Later, as a state representative and Pennsylvania's first drug czar, my father Milton authored a law that transformed Pennsylvania's treatment of drug addiction, turning state policy away from incarceration and toward rehabilitation. His work on drug policy resulted in another test — for both of us I was in my early teens, home alone one night, forced to field the regular phone calls we'd get from people looking for my dad, often looking for his help. One caller that night was desperate. Suicidal. He talked about his drug use and his hopelessness. "There's no point in going on," he cried. So, I just talked and talked, kid to kid, thinking fast about what to say. "There's help," I told him. "There are people who can get you through this. Hang on. I'll get someone to call you." My dad phoned the desperate caller back later and he did provide help and hope, connecting him with a treatment program. That night we both did what needed to be done. There's also this, when I think about why I signed up for experimental shots aimed at COVID-19: I have my own long and deep experience with vaccines, starting at a very early age. I still have a wrinkled yellow certificate dated November 1954, from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. It proved to all who cared that I had a "successful vaccination" for smallpox in my right arm at age 9 months. And maybe more influential was my experience three years later. when the United States was panicking about the crippling infectious disease called polio. First came the Salk vaccine, which required a series of three injections. People waited in lines for hours to get their shots, my mom among them. My mom Ethel saved for decades a tiny newspaper clipping with a brief headline: "Three-Year-Old Overshot." I was that 3-year-old, and had gone with my mother to the local hospital. She was getting a Salk vaccine polio shot herself, and I was just standing in line alongside her. I'd already had my three shots — my mom made sure the nurse at the front of the line knew that. But in the rush of people getting poked, and with my mom distracted, a doctor suddenly nailed me in the arm with my own fourth shot. My mom freaked, but, the doctor told her not to worry. The extra vaccination wouldn't hurt me. Think of it as a booster shot, he said. She kept a sharp eye on me as time wore on, but I was fine. After that, I was all in for vaccines – a dutiful pincushion for shots, when necessary, against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps and rubella. There was one exception in 1976, when I was 22, and an outbreak of swine flu at an Army base in New Jersey triggered fears of a pandemic. No one off the base became infected and the vaccine that was rushed out seemed to be involved in some rare but nasty side effects. That scared me and I wound up avoiding flu shots for the next 40 years, probably at my own peril. But with advancing age and increased risk from flu I decided it was time to man up. I not only subjected myself to vaccines again, but became a voluntary guinea pig in trials for new flu and pneumonia vaccines. I suffered no major side effects from either of those vaccines (or any other) and, coincidentally, both trials were handled by the research team at my medical clinic, which is also conducting the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trial here in Utah. So, it was easy for me to sign up for the Moderna trial. And, beneath it all, there's this: I can't make people wear masks. I can't force anybody to maintain safe physical distance. I can't revive the 280,000 Americans who've died. I can't protect the 15 million who've been diagnosed. I can't restore jobs and paychecks. I can't keep people from losing homes. I can't reopen schools, restaurants, gyms and bars. I can't keep ICU's from overflowing with coronavirus patients. I can't magically ease the burden of doctors, nurses and other medical professionals who are risking their lives every day, and sometimes falling ill and dying themselves. And I can't force politicians to exercise leadership, and to ignore the selfish political "don't tread on me" resistance to doing what needs to be done. But I can be Patient 3, tolerating two needle pricks in the arm in a month, giving up vial after vial of blood, enduring multiple deep swabs into my nostril and throat, and regularly reporting any changes in my medications or health. These are actually very small acts with negligible risk. But, right here and right now, it's precisely what needs to be done. Howard Berkes is a retired NPR Investigations Correspondent living in Salt Lake City. He spent 38 years at NPR and has earned more than 40 national journalism awards.

How big is the market for artificial intelligence software? In new research, Forrester forecasts that the size of the AI software market will approach $37 billion by 2025. That's a large number but still smaller than many investors and other analysts have projected. We believe our projection is more realistic, however, for two reasons. First, most business applications are adding AI functions without monetizing them. Second, the custom-built AI applications that businesses create for their own use don't generate market revenues. Investors, vendors, and buyers who wish to understand and/or invest in the AI software market must understand Forrester's four segments: AI maker platforms, AI facilitator platforms, AI-centric applications, and AI-infused applications. Key Takeaways Forrester has defined four AI software segments: 1) AI maker platforms for general-purpose AI algorithms and data sets; 2) AI facilitator platforms for specific AI functions like computer vision; 3) AI-centric applications and middleware tools built around AI for specialized tasks like medical diagnosis; and 4) AI-infused applications and middleware tools that differentiate through advanced use of AI in an existing app or tool category. The largest segment will be AI maker platforms, which will grow to $13 billion by 2025. New AI-centric apps built on AI functions such as medical diagnosis and risk detection solutions will be the second-largest, at almost $10 billion by 2025. Growth in AI software slowed in 2020 due to the pandemic recession and will slow again after 2023. Like the software market overall, demand for AI platforms, applications, and tools slowed in 2020. Growth in demand will resume in 2021 and remain high until 2023. But revenue growth will flatten out in 2024 as AI gets absorbed into all software products and can no longer be a differentiator between vendors or command a premium. Indeed, we project that revenues for premium-priced AI-infused apps and tools will start shrinking after 2023. AI will continue to get embedded within software. AI is fast becoming as fundamental to software as software has become to business. As a result, AI software will increasingly be embedded into existing software products by existing software vendors. Companies will find that it makes the most sense to acquire AI functions through these software vendors, rather than custom-build their own AI functions using AI platforms and facilitator tools. As a result, application software vendors will represent rising shares of the revenues of AI platform and AI facilitator revenues. At the end of the day, AI will be everywhere in software products, just as analytics, workflow, and data are part of those same software products. To understand the business and technology trends critical to 2021, download Forrester's complimentary 2021 Predictions Guide here. This post was written by Forrester VPs & Principal Analysts Andrew Bartels and Mike Gualtieri, and it originally appeared here.

ASUS's upcoming gaming notebooks have been spotted online featuring AMD's next-gen Cezanne-H Ryzen 5000 CPUs, Intel's next-gen Tiger Lake-H 11th Gen CPUs and NVIDIA's RTX 30 mobility line of GPUs. These laptops include TUF Gaming & ROG Zephyrus variants and will be coming to the PC in the first half of 2021. AMD's Cezanne-H Ryzen 7 5800H & Intel's Tiger Lake-H Core i7-11370H Spotted in Next-Gen ASUS Gaming Notebook Lineups, Also Come With NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs The two laptops will be introduced sometime in the first half of 2021 as high-end gaming options. What's interesting about the laptops is that both are based on high-end CPUs from the respective chip makers. The ASUS TUF Gaming model is based on the AMD Cezanne-H platform while the ROG Zephyrus model is based on Intel's Tiger Lake-H platform. ASUS TUF Gaming A17 Notebook With AMD Ryzen 7 5800H (Cezanne-H) CPU First up, we will be talking about the ASUS TUF Gaming A17. The laptop is powered by AMD's Ryzen 7 5800H CPU which is an 8 core and 16 thread chip with a base clock of 3.00 GHz and a boost clock of 4.30 GHz. The CPU features 16 MB of L3 cache and 4 MB of L2 cache. The TDP for the chip is 35-45W. While there's an onboard Vega 8 CU graphics chip, the laptop will primarily be using the RTX 3060 discrete GPU to power the visuals. With that said, Zen 3 will deliver a huge leap in single-core performance and also efficiency figures on the laptop segment. As for the specifications of the ASUS FA706QM-HX011T (TUF Gaming A17), we are looking at a 17.3" display which features a matte IPS panel sporting a full HD resolution. The screen comes with a 144 Hz refresh rate. The screen has a maximum brightness of 250nits. The laptop weighs in at 2.60 kg & will be shipping with a 90 WHr 4-cell Lithium-Ion battery which is standard for a product of this size. Other specifications include 8 GB DDR4-3200 memory which should be upgradable to 32 GB. There is a single 512 GB SSD operating on the PCIe 3.0 protocol and you can also get up to 1 TB capacity. As for discrete graphics support, the GeForce GN 20-E3 has been listed which Videocardz reports is the internal codename for NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card. The RTX 3060 is an upcoming mobility GPU that will be part of the NVIDIA RTX 30 Mobility lineup featuring the RTX 3080, 3070 & 3060. This also explains the 6 GB GDDR6 VRAM listed as graphics memory on specs. Some listed features of the laptop include: 43.94 cm (17.3 ") matte IPS Full HD display (1920 x 1080) AMD Ryzen 7 5800H processor (3.0 / 4.3 GHz, 16 MB) NVIDIA GeForce GN20-E3 graphics card 8 GB DDR4 memory 512 GB SSD hard drive Wi-Fi (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.1 1x USB-C 3.2, 3x USB-A 3.2, 1x 3.5mm combo audio jack Windows 10 Home Aside from the primary specifications, you also get NVIDIA Optimus support on the ASUS A17 TUF Gaming laptop. Some I/O include Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 5.1, a couple of USB 3.2 ports, and a 3.5 mm audio jack. Expect this laptop to cost somewhere between $1500-$2000 US based on the last-gen TUF Gaming lineup featuring the Ryzen 7 4800H and RTX 2060 configurations.ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE With Intel Core i7-11370H (Tiger Lake-H) CPU The second ASUS notebook to leak out is the ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE (GX551Q). As per the tech outlet, My Laptop Guide, the model recently passed through certification and this variant is based on Intel's next-generation Tiger Lake-H platform. While no specific SKU was mentioned, we know that ASUS usually makes use of top-end Intel chips for its top of the line gaming products & ROG Zephyrus 2021 should go with the Tiger Lake-H based Core i7 and Core i9 processors along with high-end GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs. Some interesting specifications include up to 48 GB of RAM. The source specifically mentions this as RAM which mostly means system memory but they could also be combining both system DDR4 and graphics GDDR6 memory since the RTX 3080 mobility is expected to pack 16 GB GDDR6 VRAM and the rest of the 32 GB would be featured as DDR4 inside the laptop. Harukaze5719 also gave us an early look at the ROG Zephyrus (GX551Q) model and two additional ROG STRIX variants which include the ROG STRIX G713QY(C) and the ROG STRIX G533Q. The images come from the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards and still look early at this point. The ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo is a top-of-the-line notebook and as such, expected to be priced well above $2000 US and closer to $3000 US. The laptop will be available in various configurations with different display resolutions, refresh rates, CPUs, storage capacities, and graphics support. In addition to these models, ASUS is also preparing next-gen TUF Gaming laptops featuring Intel's 11th Gen Tiger Lake-H CPUs and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series discrete graphics. We looked at one particular notebook last week and you can read more on that over here. AMD is making grounds in the mobility segment with its strong Zen-based Ryzen U and Ryzen H notebook/laptop CPU portfolio and Intel will be facing some heated competition next year in the laptop segment.

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin has been out for just over a month now, and to celebrate it's been bumped up to version 1.04. This comes with some fixes, adjustments and various other improvements. Once again we have a translation of the latest patch notes, courtesy of Nintendo Everything: Reduced the stagger after the player uses the Divine Raiment and it catches nothing. – Fixed an issue when with Fierce Furrow where it was sometimes difficult to land a hit depending on the frame rate and skill level. – Fixed a bug with healing when using Milky Way or Mirror of Purification when a certain Spirit Bough was in effect. – Minor adjustments to the camera at home. – Fixed an issue so the release conditions will no longer randomly update when moving items in and out of the Fertilizer Pit. – Fixed an issue so recipes that can no longer be made will now disappear when adding ingredients to the Fertilizer Pit. – It is now possible to obtain Nibancha (Summer) by adding fertilizer to tea. – Increased the spawn rate of Medicinal Base at Hidden Crimson Spring. – Fixed an issue so quest information will no longer display during events. – The player can now progress through the event that requires the Soul-Stealing Mask with the Soul-Stealing Mask+, as well. – Fixed other minor bugs. You can view the previous updates here and here. Have you updated to version 1.04 yet? Have you played this game yet? If not, why not check out our review. What do you think of the latest update? Tell us in the comments.

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