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The current generation Porsche 911, the so-called 992, is punctually unveiling its different versions. We already knew the Carrera, the Turbo, the Targa body, the Cabrio… However, we all wanted to take a closer look at the long-awaited Porsche 911 GT3 992. And here it is. The brand from Stuttgart revealed a few hours ago all the details of the new edition of this sports car born practically on the circuits. In fact, it is developed in close collaboration with Porsche Motorsport, inheriting technology and components typical of professional racing. Light materials and details studied to the millimeter Aesthetically it is distinguished from some less performance versions of the range by its greater width, higher air intakes, larger wheels, a specific diffuser with double central exhaust outlet and, of course, the spoiler. It has also been created using lightweight materials in some components to contain the weight, throwing 1,418 kilos on the scale in the manual versions. The brand cites the bonnet with carbon fiber reinforced plastic, light glass windows, as well as the rear cover. Even the exhaust system saves 10 kilos. Meanwhile, inside it maintains the style seen in the other Porsche 911 992, with a technological and digitized cabin. Porsche highlights the use of a new track display system in the instrument cluster. In it you can clearly see the pressure of the wheels, the temperature and oil pressure, fuel level, coolant temperature and other key information for use on the track. It also includes a visual gear change assistant, with a color bar that lights up from left to right of the tachometer, a more derived element from the competition but which certainly comes in handy in extreme driving. This is truly the Porsche 911 GT3 But the most interesting thing about all Porsche 911 GT3 is its technique. Hanging from the rear end is the four-liter, six-cylinder boxer engine with atmospheric intake, which develops 510 hp at no less than 8,400 revolutions per minute; although the cut is at 9,000. Few models remain that reach such a rotational regime. Its torque is 470 Nm at 6,100 rpm. Of course, all this cavalry is sent to the rear, but Porsche offers us two alternatives: 6-speed manual transmission or the 7-speed dual-clutch PDK. If you allow me, this car must have the manual transmission yes or yes. According to the Stuttgart company, this model is capable of rolling at 320 km / h (318 km / h with PDK) and doing 0 to 100 km / h in just 3.4 seconds (3.9 with manual gearbox) Regarding the suspension, a double wishbone scheme with stabilizer is used at the front, using a multi-link axle in the rear axle. In any case, the GT3 incorporates variable damping Porsche Active Suspension Management with sport adjustment and a height lowered by 20 mm. As for the brakes, on the front axle it mounts fixed aluminum monoblock calipers with six pistons, which bite into perforated discs of 408 mm in diameter and 34 mm in thickness. Four-piston monoblock calipers are used at the rear to attack 380 mm diameter and 30 mm thick perforated discs. Fastest street atmospheric on the Nürburgring By the way, the front tires have measures 255/35 ZR 20 and the rear ones are 315/30 ZR 21, being able to be a Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 R optionally. With these tires he was able to run at the Nürburgring in 6: 59.927 in the long 20.8 kilometer variant, stopping the clock at 6: 55.2 in the variant shortened to 20.6 kilometers. Finally, we must talk about the price of this new Porsche 911 GT3 992. Part of the 192,134 euros, to which we will surely have to add the odd option. That is, we get into 200,000 euros almost with total security. If that's not a problem, the first units will start arriving in May 2021. When will we see the Porsche 911 GT3 RS?

Update, 2.30pm BST: Sadly the promotion is over! Hopefully you grabbed the game while it was free. Original story: Creative Assembly's new strategy game A Total War Saga: Troy has now been released. The best thing about it: this brand new full Total War PC game is free, right now on the Epic Games Store, for the first 24 hours. And that's not just free-to-play for one day, either – it's free to download and keep, as long as you pick it up within that 24-hour window, which is nearly over. It's like the GTA 5 giveaway Epic ran earlier this year on PC, then, but the difference is that this is a brand-new game. You won't want to miss out, even if you're only slightly interested in the Total War strategy series. Below, we'll explain how you can grab A Total War Saga: Troy for free today. If you don't have an Epic Games account or if you're not quite sure how to go about downloading a free game from the store, this quick guide will help you get A Total War Saga: Troy for free in the next couple of hours – as well as any other free games that Epic has on offer. Epic Games Store free games: a list of what's been released to date The best PC games The best PC strategy games When is Total War: Troy free to download on the Epic Games Store? Total War Saga: Troy is available to download for free now on the Epic Games Store (go get it here). The giveaway began at 2PM BST / 9AM EDT / 6AM PDT on August 13, and since it's running for 24 hours, that means the free window is almost over. Grab the game today, and it'll be in your library forever, as long as you've added it to your account within this window. How to get A Total War Saga: Troy for free You'll need an Epic Games account to get the game, which you can set up here if you don't have one already. Since the game has unlocked, sign in, and you should be able to add it to your account from Troy's store page here through your internet browser. You'll be asked for confirmation of your purchase, but you won't be charged. If you don't have the Epic Games launcher installed on your computer, you can simply head on over to the Epic's official site. You don't need it to add the game to your account (though you can do that for ease), but you do need the launcher to play A Total War Saga: Troy. And, that's it. A Total War Saga: Troy is yours to enjoy forever on the Epic Games Store, assuming everything goes as planned. How to get free A Total War Saga: Troy DLC After you've grabbed A Total War Saga: Troy on August 13, you'll be able to get some free DLC for the game too, themed around the Amazons. According to the Total War website, this requires you linking a Total War Access and Epic Games account. You can sign up for Total War Access here – it's free. This might be worth doing if you're thinking about actually playing A Total War Saga: Troy, and not just adding it to an endless pile of free Epic PC games you'll never have time to play like we are. Enjoy!

UL Benchmarks is getting us used to launching new small tests to check new functionalities that incorporate the new APIs and compatible graphics cards, so in recent times we have not seen a major change in the main performance test of the suite but we have specific tests such as DirectX Raytracing, Variable Rate Shading, PCI Express bus speed test or even a test for NVIDIA DLSS. Now we see a new free addition to owners of the 3DMark suite that covers another DirectX 12 Ultimate functionality: Mesh Shaders. It should be remembered that DX12 Ultimate has 4 great technologies compared to DX12 which are DX Raytracing, Sampler Feedback, Variable Rate Shading and Mesh Shaders, so the UL Benchmarks suite is already prepared to test almost all of them separately. They actually have tests for 3 of the 4 new technologies and UL Benchmarks promises that they will include the Sampler Feedback test in a few months. That 3DMark incorporates the new Mesh Shaders test is not a surprise either since at the beginning of the week Intel raised the hare showing that its future graphics were capable of executing this precise test and therefore it seems that they will reach the market supporting the latest version of the API from Microsoft for games. The new test is not visually attractive, but it can be very useful for the measurement of this new technology, they comment that it is very short and that two passes are made: one without activating the function and another with Mesh Shaders activated, thus showing the improvement of performance involving the use of this technology. The first summary of provisional performance by architecture is as follows: NVIDIA Ampere (RTX 30): 702% AMD RDNA2: 547% NVIDIA Turing (RTX 20): 409% NVIDIA Turing: 244% In VideoCardz they have compiled the results of several graphic cards that we can see in the following table although they recognize that they have chosen the best result of each one and it does not have to be 100% representative of the real performance, for example there could be overclock. As a curious note we see that the GeForce RTX 20 offer higher performance than the RTX 30 without activating Mesh Shaders, however after activating the technology the increase with the RTX 30 is the most notable of all. We are left wondering what consumers should look for in the test results, if the% improvement or overall performance, since in the results we do not see a big difference between an RTX 2080 Ti and an RTX 3080 or for example the GTX. 1650 Super achieves a% improvement similar to that of an RTX 2080. We also don't know if it would be wise to wait for new versions of the graphics drivers from AMD and NVIDIA to get more reliable results. After the update of this news below we see that it was wise to wait. Unfortunately, the UL Benchmarks YouTube channel seems to be quite abandoned and we could not find the official video that would show us how the test looks on our computer, so we have to resort to what they have published on the Hardwareluxx channel, which seems to be made with an RTX 3080: The official UL Benchmarks website gives us all the information about the new test as well as the requirements such as Windows 10 version 2004 and a graph with drivers that give support for DirectX 12 Ultimate. Updated February 12: After the arrival of the new AMD drivers, many users are reporting that the performance of this test has improved a lot with the Radeon RX 6000, we have examples in our forum and VideoCardz shows us an example of this:

Injecting brains into memory Today, Samsung announced that its new HBM2-based memory has an integrated AI processor that can push out (up to) 1.2 TFLOPS of embedded computing power, allowing the memory chip itself to perform operations that are usually reserved for CPUs, GPUs, ASICs, or FPGAs. The new HBM-PIM (processing-in-memory) chips inject an AI engine inside each memory bank, thus offloading processing operations to the HBM itself. The new class of memory is designed to alleviate the burden of moving data between memory and processors, which is often more expensive in terms of power consumption and time than the actual compute operations. Samsung says that, when applied to its existing HBM2 Aquabolt memory, the tech can deliver twice the system performance while reducing energy consumption by more than 70%. The company also claims that the new memory doesn't require any software or hardware changes (including to the memory controllers), thus enabling a faster time to market for early adopters. Samsung says the memory is already under trials in AI accelerators with leading AI solutions providers. The company expects all validations to be completed in the first half of this year, marking a speedy path to market. Inside Samsung's HBM-PIM Memory Samsung presented the finer details of its new memory architecture during the International Solid-State Circuits Virtual Conference (ISSCC) this week. As you can see in the slides above, each memory bank has an embedded Programmable Computing Unit (PCU) that runs at 300 MHz. This unit is controlled via conventional memory commands from the host to enable in-DRAM processing, and it can execute various FP16 computations. The memory can also operate in either standard mode, meaning it operates as normal HBM2, or in FIM mode for in-memory data processing. Naturally, making room for the PCU units reduces memory capacity — each PCU-equipped memory die has half the capacity (4Gb) per die compared to a standard 8Gb HBM2 die. To help defray that issue, Samsung employs 6GB stacks by combining four 4Gb die with PCUs with four 8Gb dies without PCUs (as opposed to an 8GB stack with normal HBM2). Notably, the paper and slides above refer to the tech as Function-In Memory DRAM (FIMDRAM), but that was an internal codename for the technology that now carries the HBM-PIM brand name. Samsung's examples are based on a 20nm prototype chip that achieves 2.4 Gbps of throughput per pin without increasing power consumption. The paper describes the underlying tech as "Function-In Memory DRAM (FIMDRAM) that integrates a 16-wide single-instruction multiple-data engine within the memory banks and that exploits bank-level parallelism to provide 4× higher processing bandwidth than an off-chip memory solution. Second, we show techniques that do not require any modification to conventional memory controllers and their command protocols, which make FIMDRAM more practical for quick industry adoption." Unfortunately, we won't see these capabilities in the latest gaming GPUs, at least for now. Samsung notes that the new memory is destined to satisfy large-scale processing requirements in data centers, HPC systems, and AI-enabled mobile applications. As with most in-memory processing techniques, we expect this tech will press the boundaries of the memory chips' cooling limitations, especially given that HBM chips are typically deployed in stacks that aren't exactly conducive to easy cooling. Samsung's presentation did not cover how HBM-PIM addresses those challenges. Kwangil Park, senior vice president of Memory Product Planning at Samsung Electronics stated, "Our groundbreaking HBM-PIM is the industry's first programmable PIM solution tailored for diverse AI-driven workloads such as HPC, training and inference. We plan to build upon this breakthrough by further collaborating with AI solution providers for even more advanced PIM-powered applications."

On paper, Anthem is a game with everything. It's developed by one of the gaming industry's most revered studios, BioWare, and published by one of its biggest companies, Electronic Arts. A co-operative sci-fi shooter, early footage showed off fluid gameplay and a world that is bold and bright, stuffed with exciting environments and plenty of enemy encounters. However - less than two years after its troubled debut - there are reports that the game's lacklustre reception and dwindling player count mean its days are numbered. 'The world was so empty' So how did a studio as beloved as BioWare, the same team behind fan-favourite franchises like Mass Effect and Dragon Age, go so wrong? "It's sad," says Inel Tomlinson, Twitch streamer and reviewer on BBC Sound's Press X to Continue podcast. "You can tell developers put a lot of hard work into it - whether or not the direction was correct or not, you can tell there was a lot of hard work. "Because the world is lush - and the graphics beautiful - it just wasn't cohesive enough for people to really enjoy it." I was surprised by how tactile it felt, but the world was so empty," adds reviewer Shay Thompson. "With all the promises they made about the stuff you could do... none of it was in there. It's a real shame. We know that BioWare is capable of so much more." Titles such as Destiny, Fortnite and World of Warcraft have grown huge communities of players that spend hours developing their characters and working to collect rare in-game items - it seems Anthem just hasn't delivered. "Considering it was meant to be a multiplayer, online role-playing game, it felt so lonely and isolated," adds streamer and reviewer Rage Darling. "I remember walking up to this exosuit thing, and there were so many mechanics, so many features you could add but there was no-one around." No-one to interact with or talk to, it was empty. "It just felt like they had the core features of a game - the foundation - but they missed the socialisation." 'Seen it all before' So can new games and their unfamiliar in-game worlds still attract - and perhaps more importantly, retain - an audience? "What makes people want to play new games is the world they create, and making new ones for people to care about is really hard," acknowledges Press X to Continue presenter Steffan Powell. Rising to that challenge is about trying original ideas according to Inel Tomlinson who says: "The issue with Anthem is that it felt like any other third-person shooter, except that you could fly. "Anthem is trying to be Call of Duty, it's trying to be all these other games in one, in a third-person world and some of it we've already seen before." Rage Darling says the game felt too much like a tick-box exercise full of tried and tested features seen in other games: "It's almost like they said, 'let's throw that at it!' It's a pick-and-mix." It's not impossible for the developers of Anthem to turn things around and make the game a success. Games like Final Fantasy XIV and No Man's Sky - both of which also failed to deliver their promises at launch and suffered heavy criticism from the games media and fans alike - have gone on to build passionate communities and win awards. "I have hope they might be able to turn it around," says Shay Thompson. "I think if they lean in to what makes BioWare games special, in that they tell these really cool stories, I think that will really help them. "They do have the potential to pull it out of the bag. "Destiny 2, Final Fantasy - these are games-as-a-service that did not have amazing launches, but they were able to turn it around because they leaned on what made the first games in their franchises really special."

Ali Mabkhout, Al-Jazeera sniper and Arab Gulf League top scorer with 14 goals, continued to play “Hattrick” for the second round in a row, achieving the title of “Round 16” star in the “Sport for All” network referendum for the second time in a row, and the third this season, after The "Abu Dhabi Pride" attacker won 46% of the votes of experts and the public, surpassing the star among the "leader" Yahya Nader, who came in second (34%), despite a rare outperformance in the number of votes from the masses, "886 out of 1650" participants in the referendum, while Mabkhout collected 395 "16 out of 20" votes, which was weighted in the experts' nomination cards, while Nader got only one vote. With a full score for the first time in the history of the referendum over the course of three seasons, Khaled Issa, the Al Ain goalkeeper, won the best goalkeeper award in the 16th round, and for the third time this season, and won all the votes of the experts, with a percentage of 40%, and 1087 out of 1650 public votes, to obtain the "Golden Glove" with a score 79.5%, a wide difference between Sultan Al-Mandhari, Al Wasl goalkeeper (7.6%). In the category of best referee, the award went to Ahmed Salem, who ably managed the Sharjah and Al Ain Summit, to receive 59% of the overall evaluation of the Sport for All Weekly Poll. It is noteworthy that the voting rates in the referendum were distributed between 40% for 20 sports and media experts, and 60% for the audience and followers of the network participating in choosing the star of the tour in the Arab Gulf League

Dismissing reports there were lapses in the arrest of climate activist Disha Ravi, Delhi Police Commissioner S N Shrivastava Tuesday said her arrest was made in accordance with law and that it doesn’t differentiate between a 22-year-old and a 50-year-old. “As far as Disha’s arrest is concerned, it was done as per the procedures. Law doesn’t differentiate between a 22-yr-old & a 50-yr-old. She was produced before a court which sent her to 5-day Police custody. It’s false when people say that there were lapses in the arrest,” he was quoted as saying by ANI. The Delhi Police has also written to video conferencing platform Zoom, seeking details of those who participated in the January 11 meeting organised allegedly by a pro-Khalistani group to prepare a protest “toolkit” backing the farmers’ agitation, officials said. Police alleged that Mumbai lawyer Nikita Jacob and Pune engineer Shantanu were among the around 70 people who had attended the meeting through Zoom app, days before the Republic Day violence in the national capital that left over 500 police personnel injured and one protester dead. “The Delhi Police has written to video conferencing app Zoom seeking details of participants who attended the meeting on January 11,” the official said. Joint Commissioner of Police (cyber) Prem Nath said, “Nikita and Shantanu had on January 11 attended a Zoom meeting organized by PFJ in which modalities were decided to create the ‘toolkit’ titled ‘Global Farmer Strike’ and ‘Global Day of Action, 26 January’.”

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Basketball legend Michael Jordan is donating $10 million to launch two medical clinics in underserved communities near his hometown in North Carolina, a regional health care system announced Monday. The Novant Health clinics are set to open in early 2022 in New Hanover County along North Carolina's southeastern coast, according to a statement from the system. The gift marks one of the largest ever from the Basketball Hall of Fame athlete, news outlets reported. Jordan previously gave $7 million to open Michael Jordan Family Clinics in Charlotte in 2019 and 2020. Those clinics have since seen more than 4,500 patients and have administered nearly 1,000 COVID-19 vaccines, Novant Health said. “I am very proud to once again partner with Novant Health to expand the Family Clinic model to bring better access to critical medical services in my hometown,” Jordan said in a statement. “Everyone should have access to quality health care, no matter where they live, or whether or not they have insurance." Novant said the new clinics would bring services to “more rural and rural-adjacent communities” and to those who are uninsured or underinsured. Jordan grew up in Wilmington before going on to play at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He later played 15 seasons in the NBA, winning six championships with the Chicago Bulls. “Wilmington holds a special place in my heart and it’s truly gratifying to be able to give back to the community that supported me throughout my life," he said. Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Tags: Associated Press, health

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A large-scale scam circulating on Facebook has already affected about 500,000 people, say online security experts. In fact, it's a phishing campaign derived from the version that has already claimed millions of victims so far, namely the "Is it you, somehow?" which involves receiving a message from a person, which can also be known by the target person. The message consists of a video, in which the attacker claims that the victim would appear, shows the publication "The Sun" It is, in fact, a virus, which attempts to exploit the victim's computer or phone in order to obtain sensitive personal information, including access to bank accounts, warns experts in organized crime online, according to the quoted source. The phishing message can be sent right from the computer or phone of a virtual friend, without him suspecting, because he already has the infected device. Read also Vaccine documents made public by hackers after a computer attack on the EMA If the target clicks on the link with the so-called video sent, it will be redirected to a number of sites, ending up infecting its device with malware. The current threat, considered at least as dangerous, has been investigated by Cybernews experts. Online security experts believe that a hacker could determine a person's location, the device they use and the operating system on the device. Based on this data, it will adapt the type of malware used, which will eventually infect the device and lead to the leakage of sensitive information. The victims even reach a phishing page that mimics Facebook, where they will be asked for personal data. According to CyberNews, the attacks began in January 2020 and targeted mainly users in Germany. So far, 480,000 people have been affected. Source: The Sun. Trump downplays the cyber attack on the United States and suggests that it is not Russia's fault

Destruction AllStars is a game full of crashes. Most of them are the kind you'd expect, but the PlayStation 5 exclusive has been prone to the odd hiccup here and there. Fortunately, developer Lucid Games appears to be working overtime to improve its vehicle-wrecking multiplayer title, as it's just released another patch. Update version 1.2.3 is live right now on PS5, and it looks like a pretty solid maintenance patch that fixes some common problems. In a Twitter thread, the studio outlines the major points addressed by the update. Here's all the notes: Weekly Reset time has been set to Wednesday 3pm UTC Weekly Challenges now award AllStar Coins instead of XP XP rewards for Daily Challenges have been increased from 3k to 25k Fixed several issues preventing successful matchmaking Reduced the frequency of parties being split into different games at the end of a match Fixed an instance of the UI incorrectly reverting player level Fixed several server crashes relating to Gridfall Fixed several client crashes Improved some error message descriptions So, essentially the game should now be much more reliable. Plus, if you beat one of the weekly challenges, you'll get AllStar Coins rather than XP, which seems like a good shout. In a recent poll, we asked you what you think of Destruction AllStars so far. With this new patch, will you be giving it another shake? Did you experience any technical issues with the game prior to this update? Discuss in the comments section below.

Mac owners who are upgrading to macOS Big Sur should be very careful if they are running low on drive space, as in this case, the process could reportedly lead to data loss. The issue here is that an initial upgrade to Big Sur requires a minimum of 35.5GB to be available on the drive, plus 13GB for the macOS Big Sur installer itself (making 48.5GB in total). If you don’t have that much space, then things can go badly wrong, as reported by Mr Macintosh. Apple sold a ton of Macs last year All the best Macs to buy Check out all the best laptops around The problem is that apparently macOS doesn’t check if you have that amount of drive space before starting the installation process, and when the installer subsequently runs out of room, some folks are reporting getting an “error occurred preparing the software update” message. The Mac then becomes stuck in the Boot Recovery Assistant environment, with no way to recover. Well, no easy or obvious way to recover, anyway, leaving the data on the disk in danger of being lost – more on that in a moment. Sticky situation The possible recovery procedure depends on the exact scenario you’re in, as explained in the blog post by Mr Macintosh, but if you have FileVault encryption enabled on your system, things can get very sticky. Indeed, in the latter case, the only way to go about righting your system and recovering your data is by using a second Mac (running macOS High Sierra or Mojave) and hooking the two machines up. So, many folks will be in trouble there, as it isn’t exactly common to have more than one Mac (or easy to borrow one, if you don’t).

Famed PSU and graphics card manufacturer EVGA offers a 1300W PSU specifically for mining, the EVGA 1300 M1 80 PLUS Gold, but so far it's only seen a release in China. However, as cryptocurrency mining comes back into fashion, it's since been made available over at Newegg in the US. As far as I can see you won't find it listed on the US EVGA site but you can see a full listing for the EVGA 1300 M1 over on the EVGA China website. It comes with a 7-year warranty, 80 PLUS Gold efficiency, and a fully modular design capable of powering up to six graphics cards at a time. That warranty is a few years shy of the 10-year one offered with EVGA's G-line PSUs, those which are intended for overpowered PCs. The mining PSU will be expected to run 24/7, though, which perhaps goes some way to explaining the slightly less optimistic outlook. RECOMMENDED VIDEOS FOR YOU... video playing The PC Gamer Show is back! — Fallout 76 beta,... 25/10/18 The PC Gamer Weekender is back! 05/02/18 The PC Gamer Show - Hellblade, Overwatch... 10/08/17 The PC Gamer Show - Steam Summer Sale and... 29/06/17 PC Gamer Show: Are arena shooters coming back? 27/02/15 As for the connections, the PSU bears striking resemblance to most high-powered PSUs. There are two fewer SATA power and only one CPU power, which limits this PSU for high-performance PCs somewhat, but the rest of the unit is largely the same to a 1300W G2 unit or G+. Perhaps the biggest difference between this model and EVGA's others is the lack of fancy packaging. Just a standard box will do for miners, and to be honest I'd be happy with that all-round if it meant less waste. It's available in the US from Newegg (via Vortez.net) for a total of $294.99, down from $299.99. That's a little pricier than the list price of the G+ on the EVGA store, and the same as the G2, but both of those PSUs are sold out. Going off Newegg's ballooned list prices, the M1 is actually the cheapest of the lot. SCREEN QUEENS (Image credit: Future) Best gaming monitor: pixel-perfect panels for your PC Best 4K monitor for gaming: when only high-res will do Best 4K TV for gaming: big-screen 4K PC gaming It appears as though the M1 has been on sale on the Chinese EVGA store since at least August 2020, yet only seems to have recently been made available by a third-party seller on Newegg in the US. The product is remains listed on the official EVGA store in China alone, however, and I don't suspect we'll see it pop up elsewhere anytime soon. I'd take a guess that hardware companies, such as EVGA, are likely a little more hesitant to dive headfirst on mining demand this time around, for fear of a crash leaving themselves oversupplied with mining gear nobody wants anymore. Nvidia and AMD famously overstocked cheaper graphics cards during the initial 2017–2018 boom and bust cycle, leaving tons of unwanted graphics cards floating in the channel that impacted both companies' earnings for the next few quarters, if not admittedly a little longer. And nobody wants to go down that road again...

2021 Genesis G80 Starting Price: $47,700 | Price yours or View listings near you. Above Average: Available all-wheel drive; plenty of driver assists; unique looks; powerful twin-turbo V6; optional adaptive suspension. Below Average: No V8 or hybrid option; lacks European brand cachet; small trunk. Consensus: A sharp-looking and distinctive midsize sedan, the 2021 Genesis G80 offers comfort, style, and luxury at a very competitive price. The base turbocharged 4-cylinder engine provides plenty of power, and a 3.5-liter V6 upgrade takes it to another level. The G80 comes generously equipped, with plenty of standard equipment including driver-assist and safety features. 2021 BMW 5 Series 2021 BMW 5 Series Starting Price: $55,195 | Price yours or View listings near you. Above Average: Choice of engines, including a plug-in hybrid and a powerful V8; optional all-wheel drive; great driving manners. Below Average: Gets expensive quickly; somewhat polarizing styling; not as thrilling as some older 5 Series. Consensus: A top-notch midsize luxury sedan, the 2021 BMW 5 Series sedan offers a luxurious interior, great driving manners, and a choice of engines, including a plug-in hybrid and a V8. It starts expensive and only gets more so, and its aggressive twin-kidney grille is not to everyone’s liking. G80 vs. 5 Series: Performance and Luxury Genesis G80 Having gone through a comprehensive redesign for this year, the 2021 Genesis G80 is a striking midsize sport luxury sedan that offers a whole lot at a very competitive price. The base engine is a 300-horsepower turbocharged 4-cylinder, with a 3.5-liter V6 as an upgrade. Gone is last year’s optional V8. Rear-wheel drive is standard, with all-wheel drive available as an option for more sure-footedness in snow. Despite its size and generous interior, the G80 handles itself well, and there’s even an optional sport suspension that uses cameras to read the road surface and adjust accordingly. Inside, there are comfortable and supportive seats, plenty of space for rear passengers, and a 14.5-inch infotainment screen operated by a console-mounted dial. Navigation and Apple CarPlay/Android Auto compatibility come standard. Safety features include adaptive cruise control, blind-spot monitoring, and rear cross-traffic collision avoidance. Not only does the G80 start thousands below its German competitors, but it also offers a best-in-class 10-year/100,000-mile warranty and 3-year free maintenance. Genesis still doesn’t have the name brand of its competitors, and there’s no available hybrid option. BMW 5 Series Practically the dictionary definition of performance luxury sedan, the BMW 5 Series is a solid driver’s car, with a very good balance between comfort and handling. A choice of engines ranges from a turbocharged 4-cylinder that returns 28 mpg combined up to a rather bonkers 523-hp V8. In between is a plug-in hybrid and a 6-cylinder that uses mild hybrid power to improve acceleration. An 8-speed automatic sends power to the rear wheels or all four, except with the V8, which gets all-wheel drive. The interior is predictably well made and comfortable, with a good balance between soft SensaTech leatherette (or in upper models, leather or even Nappa leather) and tech, with a 12.3-inch digital instrument display and a 12.3-inch infotainment touchscreen. The look is clean and elegant, although the twin-kidney grille is not for everyone. Standard features include power front seats, automatic climate control, and both Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility. There are also numerous standard driver-assist and safety functions, with more available as options. Resale values are typically above average. Similarities Trunk size; standard safety features; standard Apple CarPlay/Android Auto integration. 2021 Genesis G80 Advantages Much lower starting price; longer warranty; sharper looks. 2021 BMW 5 Series Advantages Optional hybrid; optional V8; fuel economy; luxury cachet. Final Recommendation In the competitive luxury sport sedan segment, the 2021 Genesis G80 is a great car, with a starting price more than $7,000 below that of the 2021 BMW 5 Series. For that alone, it could win this comparison. But there’s no mistaking that the 2021 5 Series has earned its place as one of the best midsize luxury sedans, and continues to improve and refine itself. If it’s in your budget, you’ll know where that extra money went.

Rafael Nadal, world number two, controlled the situation against the British Cameron Norrie (69 ATP), a tough rival but finally defeated by the Spanish (7-5, 6-2, 7-5), this Saturday in the third round of the Australian Open. The Spanish, in this way, continues without losing any set in this first Grand Slam of the year. In the second round he will have Italian Fabio Fognini (17 ATP) as an opponent, who eliminated Australian Alex De Miñaur (23 ATP) with a 6-4, 6-4 and 6-4. MIRA: Australian Open will be left without an audience after the new outbreak in Melbourne After beating Laslo Djere and Michael Mmoah in previous rounds, Nadal fulfilled the mission against Norrie, despite the fact that the Briton fought and at times disturbed the Mallorcan, who had to work hard to take especially the first and third sets. Beyond the victory, the other good news for Nadal was that he resisted well physically, after the back problems that he has admitted and that worried him in previous days

Vice President Kamala Harris, who took oath on January 20, has her hands full at the moment. But that has not stopped her from taking out time for herself and continue with her fitness routine. Recently, a social media user uploaded pictures and videos on Instagram sharing about his surprise encounter with Harris, during his five-mile run in the city. The runner wrote how during their run they had stopped to see the new glass portrait of the Vice-President when he happened to spot Harris herself running up and down the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial with her husband, the Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. Flanked by Secret Service personnel, Harris, in the pictures, can be seen wearing a warm North Face jacket, running leggings, trainers, a baseball cap, and face mask. Take a look! A number of Twitter users commented on the now-viral pictures and video commending Harris on perfectly balancing personal and hectic professional life. How does stair-jogging help? As an explosive, fast, and strength-based form of physical activity, stairs-jogging helps tone muscles, increase cardiovascular endurance, and burn calories to aid weight loss. Stair running helps accelerate the heart rate rapidly and makes one breathe faster to take in more oxygen. A 2005 NIH study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine showed that short bouts of stair-climbing five days a week for eight weeks improved VO2max or the maximum rate of oxygen consumption by 17 per cent in women.

Game Information Initial release date: October 15, 2020 Software developer: Playmestudio Publisher: Rao Fiori Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS Type: video game, puzzle video game, adventure video game, indie game Machines that can look at people’s memories are a fairly po[CENSORED]r sci-fi trope. The Signifier, however, goes about it in a noticeably different way. It’s part-adventure game and part-walking simulator, with enough unique concepts to stand on its own and deliver an intriguing, memorable story. The voice acting and character animations don’t live up to the premise, but the trippy visuals, thoughtful design, and the lingering questions it leaves make it well worth a playthrough. The Signifier tells the story of Frederick Russell, a celebrated AI researcher. Russell works out of a small lab that houses a machine capable of scanning brains, interacting with memories via the assistance of an AI he developed, Eevee. The game takes place in the future, where AI is heavily regulated by a government entity known as the TSB, which is attempting to manage the way society integrates with the technology. All the while, the tech firm Go-AT continues to aid in changing people’s lives with AI tech. The plot kicks into gear when Go-AT’s vice president is found dead in her apartment of an apparent suicide. But something about it stinks to high heaven. The TSB sends Russell a hard drive with a scan of her brain on it so that he can dig into her memories and find out just what happened to her and why. The story is alluring and mostly well-written, even if it does have a jarring coincidence or two and doesn’t exactly wrap itself up in a satisfying way. As I said, the voice acting isn’t great and the character animations are stilted and awkward, but I was intrigued by the narrative the whole way through. The game has three endings, and I completed it twice to view two of them. But there are a lot of different, well-integrated responses you can give that will change the way characters interact with you. Subjective is the objective Gameplay in The Signifier revolves around using Russell’s machine to personally dive into and explore the memories of the deceased vice president, Johanna. It handles this feat in truly interesting ways. Most memories have two forms: objective and subjective. The objective memories are more realistically drawn, while the subjective ones feature levels of metaphor. In Johanna’s case, she was heavily medicated and her objective memories tend to lack color and detail, oftentimes devolving into a mess of voxels. The subjective versions of these memories are generally much more detailed. The way these memories are rendered looks like someone took a photo and distorted it until it became three-dimensional, similar to the way that street-level Google Maps look. It’s rather striking and quite eerie at the same time, and makes the game unique from a visual standpoint. When in a memory, Russell can swap between the objective and subjective states, as well as switch to different memories, ask Eevee for hints, or move to different memories altogether. You even get to explore one of Johanna’s dreams, which is quite memorable. When inside memories, The Signifier is all about exploring and finding new pathways into deeper memories. For instance, you go to a memory of Johanna’s childhood home early on and end up finding strange connections to others in the same location. It’s trippy as hell. Russell also finds raw data that he can pick up and use in various places to fill in gaps that either allow him to progress further or learn more. It’s typically never too difficult to progress, even though it would have been all too easy for the game to become confusing. Futureal While in a memory, Russell can return to his lab. From there he can go home or to several other places via an in-game map. The plot frequently requires you to visit other locations, in which you also explore and talk to people. Visually, The Signifier is much less interesting when in the real world, but that’s to be expected. The locations are still well-realized with believable architecture and the like. Russell has a cell phone that he can use to call people, which is important when aiming for some of the game’s endings. For instance, his contact at the TSB, Tom, is the one who sent him the brain scan and is responsible for distributing the funding that keeps the lab running. If you don’t keep him abreast of your investigation and do what he asks of you, he tends to get pissy. It’s an enjoyable game to play, but it doesn’t have enough differences in subsequent playthroughs to maintain the same level of interest afforded to the initial one. Even when going for different endings, the events play out identically. Despite this, certain characters can treat you completely differently based on your choices throughout the story. For instance, Russell’s daughter Lauren shows up early on. Based on the way you treat her, she might end up hating you in the end. Funny thing about Lauren, though. She has septum and lip piercings that were typically invisible on her face. Occasionally, you can see them pop into existence, which was really weird. As per usual, The Signifier is far from a long game. I think it’ll take most players about 4.5 hours to play through. Additional playthroughs can take less than two, though, which makes getting other endings a breeze. I wouldn’t say that these endings are really worth the effort, though. They have something interesting to say about the game’s central themes, but you’re still putting a couple of hours or so in mostly for a minute or two of new stuff at the very end. I feel so hollow The Signifier‘s ending is fairly anticlimactic and a little disappointing, but by design. Don’t get me wrong, it was pretty good and didn’t do too much to damage the rest of the game’s events, but I certainly wanted a bit more closure and elaboration. The story’s details are fairly ripe for analysis, though, and this is definitely a game where the answers you find on your own will be more worthwhile than what is directly presented to you. Overall, I enjoyed my time with The Signifier, even if I’m not exactly happy with how things went. But the game wants you to be conflicted and ask questions. Some aspects of it are janky and it isn’t particularly lengthy, but anyone intrigued by the premise will find a good story and a solid foundation worth unearthing. System Requirements Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system. OS: Windows 7. Processor: Intel Core i3 (3.4 GHz) / AMD A8-7600 (3.1 GHz) Memory: 8 GB RAM. Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 660 / AMD R9 270. DirectX: Version 11. Storage: 20 GB available space.

The Samsung Galaxy S21 trio got yet another software update. The changelog isn't very descriptive, but coming so shortly after the last one it's likely that the new release is here to fix the battery drain issues some users reported after the previous OTA update. Samsung Galaxy S21 family gets another software update The new firmware version is G99xBXXU1AUB6, it's 257MB big and carries February 2021 security patch along with it. It's still not available for everyone but it seems that the initial rollout is fairly wide as users across most of Europe have already downloaded it. Three of the Samsung Galaxy S21 received another software update. The changes are not very clear, but coming shortly after the last one it is likely that the new version is here to fix battery drain issues other users reported after the previous OTA update. The Samsung Galaxy S21 family is getting another software update The latest version of the firmware is G99xBXXU1AUB6, is 257MB large and carries a security patch for February 2021 with it. It is still not available to everyone but it seems that the first publication is very broad as users

A poster on the Chinese Bilibilli forums has managed to grab one of Intel's (yet unreleased) Rocket Lake SKUs, the Core i5-11500, and focused exclusively on benchmarking the chips integrated graphics. The chip comes with Intel's most powerful desktop iGP to date, the UHD 750 which promises to be significantly faster than its predecessors. According to the latest scuttlebutt, Intel will offer two Xe iGP variants for Rocket Lake-S. One configuration consists of the UHD Graphics 750 (GT1) engine with 32EUs, and the other is a less powerful variant called the UHD Graphics 730 (GT1) with 24 EUs. Luckily we get to see the performance of the more powerful UHD 750 graphics today. The tester ran 3DMark TimeSpy on both the Core i5-11500 and the Core i5-10400, the Rocket Lake chip managed a score of 11500 points and 10400 points for the older Comet Lake part. It's cool to see Intel's new desktop Xe integrated graphics in action; the tester also showcased League of Legends and CSGO gameplay, and most of the time the frame for both games was above 100FPS at a resolution of 1080P, which is very respectable for an integrated graphics chip. But Intel is not done with Xe graphics, there are also rumors that Intel's 12th Gen Core architecture, Alder Lake, (Tweeted by @Komachi) will receive an upgraded Intel Xe chip with 96EUs. This would theoretically triple the performance of Rocket Lake's UHD 750 graphics. It's great to see Intel getting competitive again with its integrated graphics performance. Hopefully the company will continue to keep increasing the performance of its IGPs with each new generation, which would be a nice change of pace from the multiple rounds of Gen9-based chips.

My vote DH1, nice music!