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High in the Indian part of the Himalayas, a distant lake nestled in a snowy valley is covered in human skeletons. Lake Roopkund is 5,029 meters above sea level, at the bottom of a steep slope in Trisul, one of the highest mountains in India, in the state of Uttarakhand. Human remains are scattered on and under the ice in the "Lake of Skeletons", discovered by a British patrol in 1942. Anthropologists and other scientists have been studying them for more than half a century. The lake has attracted curious researchers and visitors for years. Depending on the season, the lake, which stays frozen for most of the year, expands or shrinks. Only when the snow melts are skeletons visible, some with meat still well preserved. To date, the skeletal remains of between 600 and 800 individuals have been found here. The Indian government promotes it in tourist brochures as the "lake of mystery".

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Four years after its launch, the Audi Q2 receives an aesthetic update where it integrates for the first time Matrix LED headlights and state-of-the-art assistance systems. The smallest member of the Q family grows as it now measures 4.21 meters in length -17 mm more than before-, the wheelbase of 2.60 m, 1.79 m wide and 1.54 m high. Desing The rear has the polygonal motifs that we had already seen in the front and on the shoulder line, while the bumper has an insert in the diffuser that includes large five-sided polygons. Also, the front end receives modifications in the octagonal Singleframe grille with polygonal motifs, the pentagonal air intakes and the surfaces located under the headlights emerging in a more striking way. Matrix LED headlights From the base version it incorporates LED headlights as standard and as an option, it can equip the Matrix LED headlights. In addition, it offers a version with LED technology for the taillights and if Matrix LED headlights are equipped, the dynamic rear indicators are included as standard. When the car is closed and opened, both the headlights and the rear light clusters reproduce a light sequence. Motorization Although this compact SUV retains the 1.4L TFSI engine with 150 hp and 184 b-ft of torque, it is now mated to an eight-speed automatic transmission. Inside The interior design has new shapes for the air conditioning vents and for the automatic transmission selector. The panoramic roof and tinted windows are optional. As standard, it is equipped with analog instrumentation with a color screen and a 7 ”color display, while the top of the range is the 12.3” Audi virtual cockpit that includes an 8.3-inch screen and the Audi smartphone interface, available on the Connectivity Package, which is operated through the MMI touch rotary control located on the center console or through the voice control system, which recognizes natural language. The Audi smartphone interface or the Audi phone box - which connect mobile phones directly to the vehicle - are optional. The trunk capacity is 405 liters and they expand to 1,050 liters when the rear seatbacks are folded down. Additionally, it can be equipped with an electric trunk. Driver assistance systems The Audi Q2 2021 offers as standard cruise control, Audi parking system plus, rear view camera and cruise control. As an option, Audi pre sense front - which uses radar to monitor what is happening in front of the car and can warn of imminent collisions with other vehicles, pedestrians or cyclists. More colors The range of body colors includes five new options: apple green, Manhattan gray, Navarra blue, arrow gray and turbo blue. The rear pillars (blades) can be painted in the body color or in Manhattan gray, matt platinum gray, foil silver, selenite silver or gloss black.

We cannot deny that the announcement of the new graphics cards for mining by NVIDIA has caused quite a stir. The CMP HX GPUs would arrive to solve the problem of the stock of graphics cards for gaming, but the cross of the coin arrives with the RTX 3060 and will be extended shortly to the rest of the models, since NVIDIA limits the performance of its gaming GPUs for mining . Do we or are we not really owners of our hardware if this happens? We may not have thought about it, we may not be aware of it, but indirectly NVIDIA has set a precedent in the industry that can be very dangerous for the user. This article is rather opinionated, thoughtful and with a clear objective: to ask ourselves for a moment if what has just happened with the new RTX 3060 (and those to come) is really a restriction on the freedom of the consumer who acquires an NVIDIA GPU . Are we about to lose ownership of our hardware by purchasing an NVIDIA GPU? so the performance will drop 50% in this area when the driver detects the software algorithm to mine the Ethereum cryptocurrency. This is something totally new in the industry and the company masks it with the slogan of "GeForce is made for gaming" and although they are right, it is the company that is dictating what we can do with our GPU and what not. Let's not limit this to mining, because this is not an argument or attack against the company or against wanting to launch a new line of GPUs exclusively for mining. The problem is that you are limiting the buyer's freedom to a specific segment to use their proprietary hardware. Now let's think about video editing software, what would happen if NVIDIA limits its use to us, such as the performance in SONY Vegas? In exchange for this performance restriction, it offers us GPUs that do a worse job, slower, but cheaper and more efficient, but also limited and with an exclusive use for this purpose, which is why it encourages us to buy those new models. But, by pure logic, it is indirectly limiting the use of our proprietary hardware, it would take away a range of possibilities simply because it does not fit with their sales strategy and they have a stock problem that they cannot solve themselves (current case of the RTX 3000).

For some time now, the digital voice assistants that part of the large technology firms have been launching for their clients, products and platforms, have been growing exponentially, both in quantity and functionality, although some proposals are more successful than others. . One of them is the one offered by the software giant, Microsoft with Cortana, an intelligent assistant that we can find as part of one of the company's star products, we refer to Windows 10. Of course, seen what we have seen and in Based on the latest movements that the Redmond-based company has been making these months ago, it seems that Microsoft wants to further empower and try to get its assistant to everyone, in the same way that they are doing with their own proposals, firms such as Google, Apple or Amazon. It should be said that these companies that we mentioned, giants of the size of Google or Amazon, are bringing their own digital assistants to all kinds of devices to help users' day-to-day lives. In parallel, what Microsoft intends with Cortana, something of which it has given much evidence, is to bring its assistant closer to consumer-oriented products, something for which its operating system, Windows 10, is very important. In fact and to highlight all this, it has just been announced that Microsoft itself is beginning to make available to everyone a new application belonging to the aforementioned assistant Cortana, all available in the official Windows 10 store, Microsoft Store. We can also verify that this new UWP app comes with a label that shows that it is a Beta version, which makes us indicate that its development is being carried out independently of the Windows 10 updates. Microsoft won't give up on Cortana and releases a standalone UWP app This is a somewhat significant fact because it will possibly allow the Redmond firm to launch updates and improvements for the aforementioned Cortana assistant with a faster cadence than before, all by not directly depending on those that are reaching the entire set of Windows 10.

The United States government has expelled from its territory Javier Bertucci, the dissident Venezuelan deputy of the opposition led by Juan Guaidó. The deportation occurred on Tuesday when he arrived in Miami on a commercial flight and was detained for several hours at the airport, preventing him from entering and invalidating his passport. In conversation with ABC, the also former presidential candidate has rejected the measure and has said that it is about pressure from the radical opposition of Guaidó, however, the US authorities alleged that the decision is due to his links with the regime of Nicolás Maduro and "They said that I have a house and multimillion dollar accounts and I have none of that in the United States." “There is no valid reason to prevent me from entering the United States, nor is there a reason to invalidate my visa that I have had for more than 21 years. I am convinced that this is the position of people who support a failed strategy (Juan Guaidó), who insist on making the United States see that there is only one opposition (...) The problem with the United States is that it believes that in Venezuela there is a single opposition, and they have to understand that there are other voices, "he commented by telephone. Bertucci, 51, is a politician and evangelical pastor who measured himself against Nicolás Maduro in the 2018 presidential elections.He assured that since May 2019 he had not entered the United States and his visit was due - he explained - to an invitation from several organizations to attend the humanitarian emergency in Venezuela. "I told them that I was not even going to speak ill of the opposition (...) but in return I received an offensive attitude. They linked me with the government of Nicolás Maduro and told me that they only recognized a single opposition, which is that of Juan Guaidó. Bertucci is also a Venezuelan businessman, whose name came up when he was singled out in the Panama Papers investigation for allegedly using tax havens. The deputy's name was among the more than 370 Venezuelans who used the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca to hide assets and earnings in tax havens around the world. Some time later, he surprised with his candidacy for the presidential elections, and now he makes up the group of 277 deputies elected on December 6 in the parliamentary elections.

Every day we take care of mani[CENSORED]ting images with our PC, not in vain our monitor sends us a minimum of 60 of them per second. But, which component processes them faster? The GPU that is specialized in it or the CPU with its great speed. Many of you already know the answer, but we explain why. Image mani[CENSORED]tion is one of the professional disciplines most related to the PC today and for decades. From photo mani[CENSORED]tion to computer art creation, through prepress and editorial design. Day after day millions of images are mani[CENSORED]ted by the hardware of our PC. What is an image We all know what an image is, but the question is more directed at what an image is when we talk about computing, and that is that it is nothing more than a mesh of pixels, each pixel storing the information of the RGB color components. When it comes to mani[CENSORED]ting an image, what the processor, be it a CPU or a GPU, does is mani[CENSORED]te all those pixels individually and in parallel, mani[CENSORED]ting each and every one of the color components that make up each of the pixels of the picture. CPUs are designed to work seriously and not in parallel, this is due to how the Von Neumann architecture on which all CPUs are based works, this means that when mani[CENSORED]ting images they usually do it taking pixel by pixel, and in certain cases even component by component, individually. For reasons of space, there are not several ALUs with different precisions, but to operate with a lower precision data, higher precision ALUs are used. This means that if the CPU has to manage a pixel with 3 or 4 components, RGB or RGBA, then it will manage all one by one each of these when calculating them, which will require many more cycles. Shifting GPUs are meant for graphics processing and their pixel mani[CENSORED]tion instructions are meant to mani[CENSORED]te all 3 or 4 components of a pixel. In addition, the way in which they use memory means that despite the fact that the access is serial as a CPU, it can process several pixels at the same time that it will process making use of its high level of parallelism. Because storage space is important, compressed image formats were developed in which the image information is not given as is, but is encrypted to occupy less space and requires decryption to obtain it. The graphic processors in the beginning were a cluster of fixed function units that could not be programmed, this led to the fact that when using certain image formats, the CPU had to do the decryption, which caused the image to already decoded was in the memory space of the CPU. With the arrival of shader units in GPUs, the hardware of graphics cards began to be used to decode images, but it was a momentary solution, since although it frees the CPU from the task, it was not entirely elegant, that is why Fixed-function units and / or accelerators began to be used to decrypt certain image formats much faster and without affecting CPU and GPU performance.

With the arrival of each new version of iOS, Apple usually leaves the older devices that had, until then, with updates without support. For example, with the arrival of iOS 14, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were without support, and with the arrival of iOS 13 the same happened with the iPhone 5s. The end of support after the launch of a new version of iOS also affects iPads that are equivalent, by reason of SoC, to the model mounted by iPhones that remain without support. For example, with iOS 13, the iPhone 5s, which used an Apple A7 SoC, was unsupported, and the same happened with the iPad Mini 2, which mounts that same SoC. According to new information, with the launch of iOS 15, the next major update to Apple's po[CENSORED]r mobile operating system, scheduled for the end of this year (September), the models that will be unsupported will be the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. This means that this version will only be compatible with the iPhone 7 and above, but it also lets us read something interesting between the lines, and that is that the iPhone 7 will be the next to fall. Users of an iPhone 8 or higher have nothing to worry about yet. Their smartphones have a fairly long life cycle ahead of them, and thanks to their hardware specs they should be able to withstand the type and offer good performance. An iPhone 7 has a quad-core CPU and lacks a neural processing unit, while an iPhone 8 has a six-core CPU and does have a neural processing unit.

(CNN) - The growing number of migrant minors arriving alone at the U.S.-Mexico border is generating alarm among officials struggling to find enough space to house the minors until they are relocated with their parents or relatives to the United States. . On Thursday, a senior official with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) briefed Capitol staff on the capacity challenges facing the department, which is charged with caring for migrant children, according to a congress assistant. Jallyn Sualog, acting director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), shared concerns about the increase in minors and limited space, noting that bed capacity hovers around 90%, according to an aide. The problems facing the department are compounded by the coronavirus pandemic, which has forced shelters to reduce their ability to take covid-19 precautions into account. On Thursday, there were more than 1,200 unaccompanied minors in Customs and Border Protection custody on the southwest border, according to a Department of Homeland Security official, who warned that the number is constantly fluctuating. More than 100 minors have been in custody for more than 72 hours, according to the official and a source with knowledge of the situation. Most of the minors are over 10 years old, the source said. Customs and Border Protection continues to take more than 300 unaccompanied minors into custody daily on the U.S.-Mexico border on average, according to the Homeland Security official. On Wednesday, border officials arrested about 360 unaccompanied minors, according to a Customs and Border Protection official, adding that the majority of those arrests occurred in the Rio Grande Valley. MIRA: The US advances in the location of the parents of children separated from their families at the border Unaccompanied migrant minors are a particularly vulnerable po[CENSORED]tion and one that the United States has struggled to address for years. The Border Patrol facilities, designed for expedited processing of adults, are not equipped to care for minors. Instead, they are turned over to HHS, which runs a network of shelters where they remain until they are relocated with a parent or relative to the US. But the process has been further complicated by the pandemic. “There has been significant growth in the number of minors in custody in the last month, but the current number of minors in custody is not high relative to several times during the Trump administration. What is different now is that many of the beds that ORR had agreed to be available are not available due to covid, "said Mark Greenberg, Principal Investigator at the Migration Policy Institute and former HHS official. There were approximately 6,800 minors in the agency's care as of February 18. In April 2019, as arrests at the border increased, approximately 8,700 unaccompanied minors were turned over to ORR. The increase in minors crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, along with restrictions on the capacity of the shelters, has resulted in minors remaining in Border Patrol custody for more than 72 hours, according to two U.S. officials. “[The number] is growing. If they don't take the children and the children keep coming, what are we supposed to do? "A Homeland Security official told CNN, referring to HHS. Another official said HHS is "fighting" for space to house the children. The Office of Refugee Resettlement, a federal agency under HHS, recently opened an overflow facility in Texas to accommodate newcomers. The agency said shelters are also authorized to pay transportation bills for minors, including airline tickets, to facilitate delivery to approved sponsors, a measure that is likely to be less expensive than keeping children in care. "The system itself for all unaccompanied minors is being strained in an effort to protect children and communities from covid and its spread," the source with knowledge of the process told CNN. "The responsibility lies with the programming on how to mitigate concerns, how to adapt." In January, more than 5,800 unaccompanied children were detained by Customs and Border Protection at the US-Mexico border, according to the agency's most recent monthly data. That is the highest level since the summer of 2019 after that year's spring surge of migrants who reached the southwestern border. The number of unaccompanied migrant minors detained at the border has continued to rise

It is no news that miners are gathering large amounts of GPUs for crypto mining, but this latest farm that was leaked on Twitter attracted special attention for two reasons: First, because it uses about 100 GeForce RTX graphics cards and ASICs, and secondly. , because it does it in an extremely small space, which forced the owners to put 2 huge industrial fans to reduce the heat generated by such a number of GPUs. In addition, in the video you can see the almost deafening noise that these graphics generate. However, it seems that the temperature is not a problem, since a person can be observed working on the mining rig in a jacket. It is no news that miners are gathering large amounts of GPUs for crypto mining, but this latest farm that was leaked on Twitter attracted special attention for two reasons: First, because it uses about 100 GeForce RTX graphics cards and ASICs, and secondly. , because it does it in an extremely small space, which forced the owners to put 2 huge industrial fans to reduce the heat generated by such a number of GPUs. In addition, in the video you can see the almost deafening noise that these graphics generate. However, it seems that the temperature is not a problem, since a person can be observed working on the mining rig in a jacket. Despite the hard fall that not only Bitcoin, but all cryptocurrencies suffered in recent days, these are already beginning to recover, so crypto mining does not seem to be anywhere near to an end. It is worth noting that all the GeForce RTX that can be seen in the video are used to mine Ethereum, the second most valuable cryptocurrency on the market, while Bitcoin is mined with ASICs. About 100 GeForce RTXs and ASICs on a fairly small farm Will the cryptocurrency craze ever end?

The company Veeam, specialized in data protection solutions for virtual data infrastructures, has published its predictions of the evolution of the IT business and, among other issues, considers that developers will have more weight in the strategy of organizations, there will be a greater focus In the protection and management of data in the cloud, the software-defined model and machine learning will prevail and IT spending will rebound. Danny Allan, CTO CTO and vice president of product strategy at Veeam, says developers will have more weight in the data strategy and in the direction in which companies' technology will advance. "Those responsible for information technology systems will depend more on their development teams to indicate the technical direction that the company should follow." In addition, due to the pandemic, there will be a further strengthening of cloud-based environments. There will also be a greater focus on protecting and managing data in the cloud from team collaboration platforms. The trend of having templates spread out in different spaces was already booming, but its adoption has exploded with the covid-19 pandemic. Reliance on cloud-based collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams and Slack is going to increase as many companies offer telecommuting through the second half of next year. With the decline in hardware, software-defined models will become even more important. Devices will no longer be as attractive and the focus will be more on software-defined models because computers will lose their appeal, according to Veeam. Ten years ago, gadgets were the new toys that everyone wanted to have, but that interest has not lasted as long as we had anticipated. ? The democratization of machine learning will take place in the cloud with data. We can already see companies recognizing the limitless opportunities available to them thanks to the data they have collected. Data reuse will be a major trend for companies in 2021. Many will harness the power of machine learning to do so. This is still in its infancy. There will be no rebound in penalties related to compliance with regulations, the trend will continue to be downward. Data privacy and the regulations that protect it will continue to gain momentum in 2021. Specifically, I predict that we will have the proposal for the first federal privacy regulation next year. However, we will continue to see a downward trend in fines for non-compliance as has already happened in 2020. ? IT spending will recover after 2020, with security and hardware as priorities. Despite the economic turbulence caused by the pandemic in 2020 we will see a 10% increase in overall IT spending in the next year. Most likely, the money will go mainly to security, the modernization of the general system (backup, applications, migrations to the cloud, etc.) and the hardware update

(CNN) - Two different teams of researchers said this week that they found in New York City and elsewhere in the northeastern United States a new variant of the coronavirus that is concerning. It carries mutations that help it evade the body's natural immune response, as well as the effects of monoclonal antibody treatments. Genomics researchers have named the variant B.1,526. It occurs in affected people in various neighborhoods in New York City, they said, and is "scattered in the Northeast." One of the mutations in this variant is the same as the disturbing change found in the variant that was first seen in South Africa and is known as B.1,351. It also seems to evade, in a way, the body's response to vaccines. And it is becoming more common. "We saw a steady increase in the detection rate from late December to mid-February, with an alarming rise to 12.7% in the past two weeks," writes a team from Columbia University Medical Center in a report that It has yet to be released, although it is scheduled to appear in pre-print this week. Experts fear variant-driven covid-19 surge could take weeks, but cases are likely to drop again in summer It is the latest in a growing number of viral variants to emerge in the United States, which has recorded more coronavirus cases (28 million) than any other country and where the spread is still intense. It's "homegrown, presumably in New York," Dr. David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at Columbia, who led the study team, said by email. Viruses mutate all the time. The more people are infected and the longer they are infected, the greater the chance that viruses will change. The body of a patient will be loaded with billions of copies of a virus and it is possible that it will change slightly or mutate. Most will leave as they arrived. But sometimes a mutation or pattern of mutations takes hold and is passed on. If viruses with such patterns become more common, they are called variants. Again, it's not unusual for variants to emerge, but if they give the virus troubling properties, such as increased transmissibility or the ability to evade treatments and vaccines, that's when doctors start to worry. The coronavirus variant identified for the first time in Brazil is identified in Mexico The mutation in this variant of greatest concern to researchers is called E484K, and it gives the virus the ability to overcome part of the body's immune response, as well as authorized monoclonal antibody treatments. This mutation is appearing independently in many different cases, but it also appears in one particular variant: the so-called B.1,526. "It is this novel variant that is emerging, alarmingly, in our patient po[CENSORED]tion in recent weeks," the Columbia team wrote in a copy of their report provided to CNN. 'We found that the detection rate for this new variant is increasing in recent weeks. One concern is that it could be starting to outperform other strains, like the UK and South African variants, ”Ho told CNN. "However, we don't have enough data to confirm this point now."