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An astonishing hypothesis regarding the appearance of the coronavirus pandemic is circulating on the internet. There are rumors that the famous Nostradamus predicted the appearance of coronavirus 500 years ago. An excerpt written by him described a plague that was to kill the world and change the evolution of the world economy. It would be interesting to know what the global reaction would be if it were known beforehand that in 2020 a deadly virus will appear that will fundamentally change the world. The text was considered controversial, being disputed by specialists who claim that the appearance of the virus does not appear in the report of the French astrologer. According to historians, Nostradamus used to write in verse, which is not the case with that fragment. Facebook has completely banned information on the text but also the association of words with the famous French fortune teller. What is the truth? However, there is a touch of reality in Nostradamus' quatrains regarding the Covid-19 pandemic. Although it seems hard to believe, in the book "Les Propheties" written by the French astrologer, there is a passage where it was signaled that there will be a pandemic.

CD Projekt RED has launched a new webpage outlining its commitment to restoring its reputation after last year’s disastrous Cyberpunk 2077 release. On the site, the Polish developer addresses its fans directly, outlining a roadmap for future updates to the title, as well as a personal apology by co-founder Marcin Iwinski, which we’ve embedded below: In the video, the bigwig addresses all of the criticisms that have been aimed at the massive role-playing release. He stresses that the title’s shortcomings are not the fault of its development team, and fall directly at the feet of management – including himself. He explains that optimisation of the console versions, such as the PlayStation 4 edition, continued until days before launch – hence why review code was held back for outlets like Push Square. Iwinski goes into a little more detail about the challenges it faced developing for Sony’s last-gen console, but he makes a few curious statements along the way. For example, he suggests that “our testing did not show many of the issues you experienced while playing the game”, which seems utterly unfathomable considering the scale and scope of the problems. Nevertheless, he says that a new patch will launch within the coming days: “The first update will drop in the next 10 days, and it will be followed by a larger, more significant update, in the weeks after. Our plans for supporting Cyberpunk 2077 in the long-term are unchanged, and we will continue to introduce updates and patches to give all players across all consoles and PCs a better experience with the game.” He also adds that the developer hasn’t changed its approach to the title’s previously announced free DLC, but that its “top priority” is working on patches and updates. “We will be releasing free DLC afterwards and we’ll have more to say about that in the coming months,” he promises. As previously announced, a native PS5 version will be made available as a free update, and this will launch in the second half of 2021. There’s no word on when the title will return to the PlayStation Store, although it states that it’s working with Sony to bring the game back “as soon as possible”. Elsewhere on the website, the studio explains that it will not be “crunching” its staff in order to produce these fixes and updates, and it’ll be changing its approach with future projects. “The team is working to bring relevant fixes to the game without any obligatory overtime,” the webpage reads. “Avoiding crunch on all of our future projects is one of our top priorities.” While we certainly saw plenty of promise in the project, we awarded it a 3/10 in our Cyberpunk 2077 PS4 review due to the scale of the issues. “Cyberpunk 2077 is a blatantly unfinished game, and the worst part is that CD Projekt has known this to be the case for quite some time,” we said. “On PS4 and PS4 Pro, poor performance comes close to wrecking the experience.”

It is great to know there is strong evidence that fuelling your body well can go a long way towards protecting your brain. In fact, I like to think of good nutrition as the assembly of ‘brain scaffolding’ which provides the effective support structure you need to enable you to carry out the ‘renovations’ I have been recommending — and also reinforce the foundations of good brain health. Although I am convinced no single food or nutrient holds the key to good brain health, it is very clear that a combination of healthy foods will help shield the brain against assault, and it is never too early to switch to a brain-healthy diet. We do know that high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and high cholesterol, especially in midlife, substantially increase the chances of developing dementia later. The food you eat in your youth can begin to lay the groundwork for protecting your brain in your later years. That is why prevention should begin early, but to make it count, you need to have a proper strategy. This has to be a plan that you can easily incorporate into your daily life. And improving your general diet is the best possible place to start. HOW you can FEED YOUR MIND I set out to find the best possible diet for my brain, spent countless hours with experts all over the country and synthesised a great deal of information. It should come as no surprise that the typical Western diet, which is high in salt, sugar, excess calories and saturated fats, is not brain-friendly. As the research concludes, a plant-based diet that is rich in a variety of fresh whole fruits and vegetables, particularly berries and green leafy vegetables, is associated with better brain health. This is backed up by studies which show that people who stick to a Mediterranean-style diet enjoy greater brain volume as they age compared to those who don’t eat that way. Research consistently concludes that this plant-based diet is associated with better brain health. I’m fascinated by the MIND diet for healthy brain ageing, which was based on years of research into nutrition, ageing and Alzheimer’s disease. It was created for a large study by merging the Mediterranean diet and very similar DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension), and modifying the two to incorporate science-supported dietary changes that improve brain health. Eat seven colours a day When you ‘eat a rainbow’ of vegetables, you’ll get a diverse array of nutrients, many of which are brain-friendly antioxidants Aim for a wide variety of colours on your plate over the course of the day (real food — not jelly beans!). Because colour indicates a different nutritional profile, choosing a good mix will ensure you get all the macro and micronutrients you need. When you ‘eat a rainbow’ of vegetables, you’ll get a diverse array of nutrients, many of which are brain-friendly antioxidants. Try to add new vegetables to your diet, and experiment with different ways of cooking and preparing them. The protocols are simple: it’s a thumbs-up for vegetables (especially green leafy ones), nuts, berries, beans, whole grains, fish, poultry, olive oil, and (for those interested) wine; and a thumbs-down on red meat, butter and margarine, cheese, pastries and other sweets, and fried or fast-food. The long-term studies showed that ten years on this diet can measurably prevent cognitive decline and reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. In fact, the closer you stick to the rules, the better your chance of avoiding dementia. The researchers found that people who followed the diet to the letter had the slowest rate of cognitive decline and those who followed it less rigidly had a faster rate. The difference between the highest third and lowest third in cognitive decline was equivalent to about seven-and-a-half years of ageing. FERMENTED food is YOUR SECRET WEAPON Changing your diet in an effort to optimise your brain will take some time, I realise — and, of course, it should. Over the past few years I have focused on creating a style of eating that I can easily maintain even when I’m on the road. Most of us have a general idea of what’s good for us, and what we like and don’t like. Fermented foods such as pickles are a secret weapon for me but maybe not for you. I occasionally snack on them to boost my productivity. We are all different, and part of the solution is figuring out what really fuels you in the best way without digestive problems or food allergies. However, if you focus more on what you should eat instead of what you shouldn’t eat, you will end up refuelling with good calories and naturally avoid the bad ones.

Bill Gates believes that the world must prepare for the next pandemic as it would prepare for war. In a letter published on his blog , which he signs with his wife Melinda, he writes that investments of tens of billions of dollars are needed every year and proposes the creation of a global alert system, which will immediately warn of the appearance a new dangerous virus to keep it out of control. "We cannot afford to be caught off guard again. The threat of the next pandemic will always remain above our heads - unless the world takes action to prevent it, "wrote the billionaire philanthropist , according to Mediafax . To avoid the ravages of Covid-19, "preparation for the next pandemic must be taken as seriously as the threat of war." "Stopping the next pandemic will require tens of billions of dollars in investment each year, but remember that the cost of the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide is estimated at $ 28 trillion. The world needs to spend billions to save trillions and prevent millions of deaths. I think it is the best, most profitable insurance policy that the world can afford ", writes Bill Gates. According to Bil Gates , "most of the investment must come from rich countries, because their governments have the most to gain." In addition to the scientific investments that should make it possible to defeat the Covid-19 pandemic and others in the future (diagnoses, vaccines, treatments, etc.), Bill Gates also calls for the establishment of a "global alert system, which we do not have today. large scale ”, in order to be able to detect epidemics as soon as possible. The billionaire, who has already sounded the alarm about the dangers of pandemics, especially at a famous TED conference in 2015, also supports the creation of a rapid reaction force for infectious diseases, the "pandemic firefighters" who would be in constant alert to respond to a potential health crisis. Bill Gates estimates that about 3,000 such professionals would be needed worldwide.

On January 17, 1953, the Chevrolet Corvette prototype was unveiled at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City at Motorama. But the car that we recognize today as synonymous with (relatively) accessible sportiness wasn’t as loved when it first appeared. (Welcome to Today in History, the series where we dive into important historical events that have had a significant impact on the automotive or racing world. If you have something you’d like to see that falls on an upcoming weekend, let me know at eblackstock [at] jalopnik [dot] com.) Harley Earl, head designer over at GM at the time, was convinced that a two-seater sports car was the way to go, and introducing a good one could make an impression in what was then a European-dominated market. People were curious, so Chevy had to make sure it filled its expectations. From History: The car featured an all-fiberglass body, a white exterior and red interior, a relatively unremarkable 150-horsepower engine and a starting price tag of around $3,500 (not including taxes or an optional AM radio and heater). In an effort to give the Corvette an air of exclusivity, GM initially marketed the car to invitation-only VIP customers. This plan met with less-than-desirable results, as only a portion of the 300 Corvettes built that first year were sold. GM dropped the VIP policy the following year; however, Corvette sales continued to disappoint. In 1954, GM built around 3,600 of the 10,000 Corvettes it had planned, with almost a third of those cars remaining unsold by the start of 1955. To make matters worse, customers at the time just weren’t impressed with the Corvette. The fiberglass body suffered from poor quality. Doors could open while the car was being driven. Water leaked all over the damn place. GM did its damndest to make sure newly produced cars didn’t feature those same issues, but it’s hard to correct a poor first impression. That said, a Po[CENSORED]r Mechanics survey released in late 1954 revealed that half of the Corvette owner who also owned a foreign sports car said the Corvette was superior to its international competition. Another 19 percent said their Corvette was, at the very least, on the same level as foreign competition. Apparently, GM was onto something. And then Ford launched the Thunderbird, a rival to the Corvette. If it hadn’t been for a serious competitor attempting to occupy the same market space, we might have seen the Corvette taken off the lots, left to become nothing more than a footnote in automotive history. But with Ford waiting in the wings, GM had another stab at the Corvette. I have to say that the investment paid off. The 500,000th Corvette was built in 1977, with the one millionth coming in 1992. The Corvette has become a staple of sporty Americana—definitely worthy of the foibles at the start of its life.

The European laptop vendor that sells XMG and Schenker laptops has sent a statement to reporters about recent confusion regarding gaming laptop listings and whether or not Nvidia's Max-Q technologies were specified. "We always list Max-Q in the spec sheets and product texts and provide detailed information about the TGP of the installed GeForce RTX 3000 graphics card in order not to confuse our customers unnecessarily," public relations manager Kai Tubbesing wrote. "This was already the case with the previous laptop generation and does not change with the update to RTX 3000." On the page for the XMG Neo 15, for instance, the company lists the most comprehensive mobile GPU listing we've seen, with not just the model, but whether it uses Max-Q technologies and the total graphics power (TGP). Tubbesing claims the information was there the entire time, and not added in response to recent reports. Last week, Nvidia told Tom's Hardware that Max-Q branding wasn't going away, even though we haven't been able to find the name on many major laptop OEM websites. "No, Max-Q branding is not going away," an Nvidia spokesperson told us at the time. "When we originally introduced Max-Q back in 2017, the brand was initially used in GPU naming since Max-Q referred to the GPU TGP only. "Today, 3rd Generation Max-Q is broader, and is a holistic set of platform technologies and design approach to building powerful and thin laptops. "In addition, to be more transparent about a laptop’s exact capabilities, RTX 30 Series laptops now show more information than ever, listing exact TGP, clocks and features supported. You will find this in the control panel which now reports maximum power (TGP+Boost), and support for key features including Dynamic Boost 2, WhisperMode 2, Advanced Optimus, and others, all of which fall under the Max-Q umbrella. "We strongly encourage OEMs to list clocks and other technologies a laptop supports, including Advanced Optimus, Dynamic Boost 2, and more. Ultimately, like all laptop features and specs, it is up to the OEM to market what their particular laptop configuration supports." XMG and Schenker have gone full speed on transparency, which is a good look, considering the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, 3070 and 3080 for laptops can have a wide variety of clock speeds and different TGPs depending on the implementation. It's unclear whether other vendors will follow suit.

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The Journey is a new story-based mode centering on Alex Hunter, a young player breaking into professional football. It’s built from a mix of gameplay, dialogue, and cutscenes, which depict Alex’s evolving relationships with his family and teammates and, ultimately, whether his talent is enough to kickstart a dream career. It is, in other words, a football Cinderella story--and, as such, it marks a pleasant change from the relentless capitalism of FIFA’s monstrously successful Ultimate Team. FIFA already contains at least three modes life-consuming enough to take up 12 months of your spare time, and aside from an annual release schedule that demands a constant supply of newness, recapturing some of the hope and romance of football seems the only logical reason for The Journey to exist. As for the mode itself, hope and romance are what it does best--convincing dramatics and RPG gameplay, not so much. Choice within The Journey is, in practice, pretty limited, outside of the initial opportunity to choose which Premier League side Hunter joins. Certain fixed plot points underpin the story. They happen no matter how you’re performing on the pitch or behaving off it--things like being sent out on loan, or Hunter’s childhood friend and teammate Gareth Walker being inexplicably awful to him the whole time. Once you start leveling up, you can directly apply upgrade points to specific skills, enabling you to make Hunter exactly the sort of player you'd like him to be. But there's less flexibility in the dialogue choices offered during certain cutscenes and post-match interviews. These are clearly labeled--"fiery," "cool," "balanced"--and rather than leading individually to different opportunities or outcomes, these decisions are aggregated into a binary temperament gauge showing whether Hunter is hot-headed or sensible. This, in turn, has an effect on cosmetic things like how pleased your manager is with you or how many fans you have, but it doesn’t unlock any significant changes in events. While lead actor Adetomiwa Edun (Merlin, Bates Motel) shines through the performance capture process to offer a vulnerable, determined Alex Hunter, The Journey still sounds the occasional awkward dramatic note. Interactions between characters can seem forced, like Alex’s dad storming away from an early game or your rivalry with Gareth. And sometimes the locations themselves (especially exteriors) are quiet and empty, giving the scenes an unreal, disconnected feel. Speaking of unrealistic, sometimes the cost of mistakes seems unfeasibly high. At one point, Hunter was established in the first team at Tottenham Hotspur, and a red card led directly to him getting released from his contract despite the fact that he'd scored in the previous three games (requiring a return to the latest save). A talking-to or even a transfer listing might’ve worked here; to suggest a player scoring goals in the Premier League could find his contract canceled and career over because of a sending-off is bizarre. And yet, for all that, The Journey captures something that the existing parts of FIFA never have. Despite its rough edges, there are moments here that deliver a kind of brute emotional force: the opening scene of Sunday morning boys’ football, which puts the cliched tale in a delicate context; a pitch-side camera’s view of Hunter’s first goal for the senior side, with his own delirious shout audible above the crowd; various quiet moments of triumph and failure with family. It lacks sophistication, but The Journey has something, and it succeeds in attaching an added emotional weight to your actions on the pitch. As for the rest of this year's update, FIFA 17 feels like a round of unglamorous but welcome housekeeping after the relatively thorough gameplay changes of last year. EA has touted the switch to the Frostbite engine, a change that will presumably pay off increasingly in future years. Right now, wide shots of stadiums look very pretty, especially at night and with mist hanging in the air. But elsewhere, you'd be hard pressed to spot the difference, and some locations in The Journey--offices, bedrooms, changing rooms--look a little flat and characterless. The gameplay improvements this year are typified by much-needed tweaks but also feel like the kind of changes you only get around to when there's nothing really pressing to address. So now throw-ins can be dummied much like a faked shot, giving players a way to move defenders around and get a better chance of keeping possession. Free kicks and penalties have been freed up, so you can choose your angle of approach and charge your cross or shot much more like you would in regular play.

One of the companies leading the charge in affordable at-home 3D printing, Prusa, has built its own Cyberpunk 2077-themed Prusa i3 MK3S 3D printer. It's built using parts that, you guessed it, can be 3D printed, so it's easy to mod for yourself at home. All you've got to do is follow the simple mod instructions laid out, grab some paint, and get to work. If you've already filled your Cybersneakers to the brim with Cyberpunk 2077-themed gear then there's only one option to further your growing collection of overly yellow things: Start making your own Cyberpunk 2077 merchandise. That's where a 3D printer comes in, and none better for the job than the Cyber Prusa i3 MK3S+, which Prusa has itself modified to give it a yellow sci-fi coat and impressive android overhaul. Take a look at the video above for the full Cyberpunk 2077 makeover, pieced together by the Prusa team. Prusa printers are a po[CENSORED]r gateway into the world of 3D printing—I, too, used a slightly older model than the 'Cyber Prusa' here to kickstart my own 3D modelling and printing pastime. Prusa is providing the print files required for the build over on its website—all 57 of them. It recommends using a resin printer in order to print the more complex parts. That means you can't technically print the Cyber Prusa using only the i3 MK3S+ alone, but you could certainly get away with many of the less complex parts using solely the to-be modded machine itself. There are a couple of po[CENSORED]r 3D printing technologies going today, and probably the most common, at least for home use, is the type that prints from a heated nozzle onto a moveable bed—such as the Prusa i3 MK3S+. The other po[CENSORED]r alternative, and that which I've recently upgraded to myself, is what's often called a resin 3D printer. These commonly use a vat of resin and a UV screen to print a design, inverted, onto a height adjustable plate. Since the print resolution is defined by the screen resolution, they can often allow for more intricate models and detailing. There are positives and negatives to weigh up with either po[CENSORED]r printer technology, and requirements for strength, size, and print time are all factors in deciding which is the best for you. Changing the look for your new 3D printer is perhaps one the best ways to get to grips with the printing process, too. You have precise measurements for the machine, you have all the tools you need to make it, and so long as you're careful with glue and paint it's a fairly low-risk operation, too. As for the professionally printed and painted Cyberprinter, the Prusa team has actually pieced together three of them. One it's said it will keep for display, and another it hopes to send to the team at CD Projekt Red to congratulate them on the game's launch. The final printer it hopes to hand to an anti-cyberbullying charity auction, but it's got to get CDPR's approval before it can go ahead

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It turns out mo’ money may actually mean mo’ smiles. While traditional wisdom tells us that money can’t buy happiness, a new study suggests that the opposite may in fact be true. The research also indicates that previous studies, which indicated some sort of limit to the amount of money that impacts happiness, may have been wrong. Matthew Killingsworth, a senior fellow at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, recently released his findings on the relationship between money and well-being, Penn Today reports. His research reportedly differed from previous studies on this subject, which ranked participPrevious research also suggested that the relationship between money and happiness seemed to plateau for people making $75,000 per year or more. ants’ happiness based on their overall satisfaction with life. Killingsworth asked his participants to rank their happiness using an app that would randomly check-in with them, from time to time. The app would ask questions ranging from "How do you feel right now?" and "Overall, how satisfied are you with your life?" This allowed Killingsworth to rank users’ happiness both in how they felt overall, and how they felt in the moment. "Scientists often talk about trying to get a representative sample of the po[CENSORED]tion," he told Penn Today. "I was trying to get a representative sample of the moments of people’s lives." More than 33,000 people participated in the study — and in the end, Killingsworth says the data showed that "all forms of well-being continued to rise with income." "When you have more money, you have more choices about how to live your life. You can likely see this in the pandemic. People living paycheck to paycheck who lose their job might need to take the first available job to stay afloat, even if it’s one they dislike. People with a financial cushion can wait for one that’s a better fit," he explained. "Across decisions big and small, having more money gives a person more choices and a greater sense of autonomy.

While most brands recorded substantial falls in registrations across the country, due to the pandemic, Subaru (which is run in the UK and Europe by British independent importer International Motors) was the hardest hit of any, with a year-on-year decrease of more than 68% compared with 2019. It shifted only 951 cars last year, compared with just under 3000 the year before. In August, Subaru’s 69 UK dealers clocked up just 34 registrations between them. “2020 was a horrible year,” admitted John Hurtig, who moved from heading up Subaru’s Nordic operation to become UK boss last summer. “What can you say? It’s just an embarrassing number. There’s no more context, to be honest.” Hurtig details some specific reasons that contributed to 2020 being one of the brand’s worst on record here, stating that “it’s not really as bad” as the numbers make it seem. “As a brand, we had a very high registration number in December 2019,” he explained. “In fact, it was actually the best month Subaru UK has had ever. So we went into 2020 with a big backlog.” Hurtig admitted this was entirely down to the company pre-registering cars en masse to avoid being handed hefty fleet-average emissions fines when the European Union’s new CO2-cutting regulations came into force in January 2020. All of those cars were sold throughout the year as discounted pre-registrations. There were two other crucial factors, Hurtig claimed, that meant Covid-19 and associated lockdowns did greater harm to Subaru than to other brands. One was its customer base. “Our target audience, is, to be honest, older people,” he said, “and those are the [biggest] risk group [for the disease]. So they have been very concerned about getting out there and doing business; that has been the feedback we get from customers. This might be one of the reasons it’s hit us more.” Perhaps even more significant, however, is what Hurtig describes as a need to “rebuild the dealer network from the roots”. He explained: “We’ve changed a lot of things within Subaru UK. We also need to change the structure of our dealer network entirely. There’s a lot of things we lacked in the past – from both sides of the business. I’m not just blaming the dealers; 50% [of the blame] goes back to us as an organisation as well.” While he acknowledges that there’s a “core” need for more Subaru presence in the UK, both in terms of dealers and investing more in marketing and brand awareness activities, more pertinent is actually getting those dealers engaged in the brand and on-message. “We need the right dealers,” he said. “It comes back to that. We can have the best marketing and brand awareness, but if the dealers aren’t on the same page, it’s useless. So this has to be developed hand-in-hand.” ADVERTISEMENT Find an Autocar review Make Select model Latest Drives 1 Audi SQ5 2021 first drive review hero front Audi SQ5 Sportback 2021 review 1 Audi Q5 Sportback 2021 first drive review hero front Audi Q5 Sportback 40 TDI 2021 review Merc GLC300e frontcorner Mercedes-Benz GLC 300e 4Matic 2021 UK review Vauxhall Crossland frontcorner Vauxhall Crossland 1.2 Turbo 130 2021 UK review 1 Xpeng P7 super long range Premium 2021 review hero front Xpeng P7 Super Long Range Premium 2021 review View all latest drives Read our review CAR REVIEW Subaru XV 2.0i Lineartronic SE Premium 2018 Subaru XV Can the crossover stand out from the crowd not only off-road but on tarmac too? Read our review Article continues below advertisement Back to top Hurtig has an “aggressive” plan to expand the network in the UK, hoping to establish 15 new sites this year alone, as well as bringing a “new attitude” across the board. Subaru also still finds itself suffering from a confused brand image that it must overcome. In the 1990s and 2000s, its reputation was firmly bolstered by the rallying success of the Impreza WRX STi, a model with a huge legacy that gradually fell out of favour in the face of a European hot hatchback boom and was killed off in the UK entirely in 2018.

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Available for an MSRP of just $4, the Pico is powered by Raspberry Pi’s own custom silicon, the RP2040 SoC, which features an Arm Cortex M0+ processor running at up to 133 Hz, with 264K of SRAM and 2MB of onboard storage. A great choice for robots, weather stations or other electronics projects, the board doesn’t run a full operating system, but instead launches programs you write in either MicroPython or C on a host computer (that could be a PC, a Mac or a regular Pi) and upload to it. Perhaps even more important than the Pico itself is Raspberry Pi Foundation’s first foray into making its own silicon. We wanted to learn more about the RP2040 so we asked James Adams, Chief Operating Officer at Raspberry Pi Trading to tell us how “Pi Silicon” was created. “We couldn’t see a way to offer something differentiated in the microcontroller space using existing third-party silicon, so we set out to build our own,” Adams said. “The RP2040 chip has been a long time in the making - we started initial work at the back end of 2016, we had some test silicon in our hands in September 2018 which we then reworked into the final device we use on the Raspberry Pi Pico board. The device has evolved substantially since those early days. We learned a lot from our first test silicon and I think, although it has taken a while, what we've ended up with is very exciting (in terms the architecture and performance per $) - it's a superb bit of engineering. The RP2040 chips are fabricated at TSMC on their 40nm process.” RECOMMENDED VIDEOS FOR YOU... video playing The Tom's Hardware Show (May 28): Raspberry Pi 8GB, Intel Code... 29/05/20 The Tom's Hardware Show (May 21, 2020): Comet Lake-S Tested,... 22/05/20 The Tom's Hardware Show: AMD vs Intel, Arrowless Keyboards, Pi... 08/05/20 The Tom's Hardware Show: New Intel Chips, Pi Camera and High... 01/05/20 Raspberry Pi 4 Reviewed: The New Gold Standard for Single-Board... 24/06/19 Adams outlined some of the advantages of the custom silicon. “We are offering some really unique features with the RP2040 chip - a dual core device (I’m not aware of other dual core microcontrollers at this price point) coupled to a high-performance bus matrix, meaning you can get full performance on both cores concurrently, and plenty of high-bandwidth RAM,” he said. As well as the usual fixed peripherals (UARTs, I2C, SPI etc.) we also have a special bit of hardware called the PIO (Programmable I/O) unit, which is basically a very small, specialised, programmable state machine that can do high-speed, cycle accurate “bit banging” of I/O – this block can be used to offload many kinds of timing-critical pin-waggling tasks from the CPU(s) – we’ve had it emulating interfaces such as SD card, VGA and driving WS2812B LEDs. We’ve also added other goodies like optimised floating-point libraries to the boot ROM, and a USB core which can be used in either master or slave mode.” Could the Raspberry Pi Pico be the start of a new range of boards based upon the RP2040? Adams said the Foundation is waiting to see how things go with the first board.