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Moeen Ali crashed 56 off 39 balls, including six sixes, as England chased a revised target of 197 with 77 balls remaining in Guwahati. Reece Topley took 3-23 as Bangladesh made 188-9 from their 37 overs, with rain causing a three-hour delay during the middle of their innings. England start their World Cup campaign against New Zealand on Thursday. Listen to the Tailenders World Cup preview on BBC Sounds After losing the toss and being asked to bowl England started poorly with Topley and Sam Curran struggling with their length. However, they recovered and England took regular wickets to leave Bangladesh 153-5 off 30 overs when the rain arrived. England were brilliant after the resumption with David Willey (2-26) taking two wickets in two balls, plus Topley and Curran (1-23) also taking a wicket. Jos Buttler used all nine of his main bowling options, with Mark Wood (1-9) and Adil Rashid (2-27) bowling for the first time since July and 8 September respectively because of injuries. England lost Dawid Malan (four) early in their innings but rattled to 100-3 in 10 overs, with Jonny Bairstow, who received some treatment on a lower back injury, making 34 off 21 and Harry Brook 17 off 15. Buttler added 30 and Liam Livingstone seven, before Moeen attacked the short ball and spinners to propel England towards a comfortable win. He fell with them needing four to win, but Joe Root, who made a patient 26 off 40 as he looks to find form, and Chris Woakes saw them over the line. "It was very valuable," Moeen told Sky Sports. "We didn't have the first warm-up [because it was rained off against India] but it was important for the bowlers to bowl, us to spend time in the field and some batters to get time in the middle in these conditions. It is very valuable before the World Cup." Monday's other warm-up saw New Zealand edge South Africa by seven runs in another rain-affected game in Thiruvananthapuram. New Zealand posted 321-6, with Kane Williamson making 37 before retiring as he continues his comeback from a knee injury. South Africa were 211-4 off 37 overs when the rain arrived, with opener Quinton de Kock 84 not out. Tuesday's warm-up games see hosts India play the Netherlands, Australia face Pakistan and Afghanistan come up against Sri Lanka. https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/66987965

A new survey reveals that software engineering talent remains in high demand, with a preference for software generalists and full-stack engineers over specialized skill sets.Despite ongoing cycles of layoffs by major tech companies, software engineering talent is still in high demand, with the emphasis talent leaders are placing on strong engineers only growing, according to a Karat/Harris Poll survey of 600 engineering and talent leaders. The survey revealed that more than half of the engineering leaders said strong engineers were worth at least three times their total compensation — up more than 20% since the job market peak in 2020. Related: Senior Software Engineers with Experience in NLP, AI in Demand Jason Wodicka, principal engineering advocate at Karat, calls the continued acceleration of the hiring process "really interesting." "We first started seeing interview cycles speed up during the 2020 lockdowns as remote work enabled faster scheduling," Wodicka said. "Now, even though the overall pace of hiring has slowed, we're still seeing that trend continue." Related: ITPro Today's 2023 Salary Survey Report The highest performing leaders the company surveyed averaged eight days for their technical interviews — nearly a week faster than their peers. Karat's interview data from the past year confirms this trend. "We've seen the average time to interview completion shrink from seven days in 2022 to just five days in 2023 as more candidates are prioritizing interviews and moving fast to land jobs in a tighter labor market," Wodicka said. The survey indicated software generalists and full-stack engineers are being prioritized over more specialized skill sets. By hiring engineers with strong problem-solving skills, engineering leaders can bring in desirable people and plug them in where they are needed most. "This may be an example of organizations rising to the top based on having the infrastructure in place to encourage internal mobility and upskilling," Wodicka said. "This lets organizations hire the best engineers available rather than being overly focused on niche skill sets that can be taught.""The growing value that leaders place on strong software engineers is really encouraging," Wodicka said. "This is a strong indication that fears of AI taking over developer jobs don't reflect what's actually happening." Wodicka added that, if anything, these new tools are making software development more accessible to more people, which will accelerate innovation and create more demand for tech jobs, not less, adding that it's a great time to be getting into tech. The trend shows top leaders prioritizing generalists with strong fundamental skills, which Wodicka said is a testament to the central importance of continuing learning and development. "We've had a lot of buzzy new techs hitting the market over the past decade," Wodicka explained. "Containers, microservices, blockchain, AI, the list keeps going — and some have been more successful than others." Because nobody enters the field knowing all these things, having curiosity and a desire to keep up with new tech is important to sustaining a long career in tech, and the pace of change is only going to continue to accelerate. Benefits of 'Hiring Fast and Hiring Fair' In an introduction to the report, Karat CEO and co-founder Jeffrey Spector touted the benefits of "hiring fast and hiring fair." "It's a common misconception that equitable hiring and efficient hiring are conflicting goals," Wodicka said. "They aren't. This is something that I'm passionate about, and a fact that this year's survey data reinforces.""Hiring fast," Wodicka explained, is about having a candidate-friendly experience that moves at the speed of talent, while "hiring fair" means giving every candidate a chance to demonstrate what they can do.This year's report shows that the most effective hiring leaders are relying less on referrals and resume screens. "These outdated processes can introduce pedigree bias, where candidates are judged on factors like where they went to school or worked in the past," Wodicka said. "Instead, they're evaluating candidates based on their capabilities, using assessments that give every candidate the chance to prove themselves at the application stage." A good assessment doesn't have to be burdensome on candidates — they adapt to the level of skills demonstrated and can generate a strong signal about which candidates to advance to interviews in as little as 15 minutes. Wodicka added that building diverse teams is an outcome of having a fair hiring process, but it's just as accurate to say that building strong teams is an outcome of having a fair process. "Not missing out on great candidates because of pedigree bias, candidate dropout, or other negative factors is a big reason why top leaders in this survey were twice as likely to prioritize DEI," Wodicka said. https://www.itprotoday.com/software-development/software-engineering-talent-strong-demand-2023#close-modal

Spoilers are kind of Google’s other thing. Rather than attempting to shut down leaks and rumors, Google has leaned in. In fact, the company has already announced and revealed pictures and specs of the two marquee devices we’ll be seeing at its event on Wednesday, October 4 at 10 AM ET.In fact, if you go to the Google Store right now, you’ll see a giant ad for the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro and Google Watch 2. Clicking through, you’ll find additional photos and a little more information. On the Pixel 8 front, the company continues sticking with the design language it laid out with the Pixel 6, though the corners are more rounded and the 8 Pro drops the secondary hole in the camera bar. The landing page also highlights existing software features like Magic Eraser and Live Translate. Nothing new there, but both are still bleeding edge compared with much of the rest of the industry. An image of the Pixel Watch 2, meanwhile, shows little if anything in the way of design changes. “Pair it with your new Pixel phone to get even more personalized help, safety features, and health insights,” Google writes, seemingly alluding to some new health features — no surprise there. The Pixel 8 and 8 Pro are reportedly arriving with 6.2- and 6.7-inch displays, respectively, along with a sizable bump in brightness. The 8 Pro is said to max out at a whopping 2,400 nits of brightness that could go a ways toward making the handset that much more readable in direct sunlight. The most bizarrely plausible rumor on the Pixel 8 front is a new thermometer feature. Soon your phone could be used to read your temperature. Why not? Another nice potential addition for the phone is seven years of Android software support. The arrival of the Google Tensor G3 seems like a no-brainer, as well. The Pixel 8 an Pixel 8 Pro are apparently getting more expensive, as well, to the tune of $699 and $999 to start, respectively. That would mean they both get a not insignificant $100 price increase. Preorders begin the day of the event (October 4) and they would start shipping the 12th. The Pixel Watch 2, meanwhile, is said to start at $349, which would put it right in line with the first-gen product. Google could also include the Watch 2 as part of a bundle, if you preorder the Pixel 8 Pro — not a bad deal, TBH. The above video also features a glimpse at a new sensor many believe is electrodermal. That would make sense, given that Fitbit’s Versa watches have used the sensor to determine stress levels for several years now. I’ve not heard much in the way of Home/Nest rumors. In fact, things have been extremely quiet on that front for several years. It seems Google’s smart home ambitions have been sidelined temporarily or permanently in the wake of economic headwinds and other global woes. As for Pixel Buds, new colors seem like a possibility. It seems likely the company would have included the headphones in it own hardware teases if something more substantial was on the way. Whatever the case, TechCrunch will be live at the Manhattan event on October 4, bringing you the news as it breaks. https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/29/google-pixel-event-2023-pixel-8-watch-2-and-everything-else-we-expect/

The floodgates are open and we're awash in new PC games. August opened and closed with widely-celebrated releases, opening the month with the full release of Baldur's Gate 3—maybe you noticed—and closing out with a mech-sized showstopper courtesy of Armored Core 6. What's next? September means Starfield. It's Todd's time now.We might be entering the year's last quarter, we're in the age of game delays no matter what month it is. Even as 2024 approaches, it'll be no surprise if a lot of these games get their release dates knocked back for some extra polish. If they're lucky, it'll just be one delay. Not all of them are lucky. Still, while release dates are always tentative nowadays, 2023 has already shaped up to be a huge year—particularly for RPGs. A lot of major releases and long-in-the-works sequels are targeting this year: June launched us into a frenzy of demonslaying in Diablo 4, Baldur's Gate 3 emerges from early access its August full release, and Starfield's sending us spaceward to kick off September.If August ramped up the role-playing with Baldur's Gate 3, September's sending things skyrocketing: Starfield is primed and ready for takeoff. If 1,000 planets' worth of Bethesda open-world isn't tickling your fancy, maybe some fresh fatalities in Mortal Kombat 1 will. If all else fails, there's always crime, and Payday 3 has plenty of opportunities for an enterprising posse of crown-faced co-conspirators. https://www.pcgamer.com/2023-games-new-upcoming/

MELBOURNE, Australia — The Philippines has confirmed it is in the process of canceling a contract to acquire Russian-built transport helicopters, citing changes in priorities brought on by world events. National Defense Department spokesman Arsenio Andolong said in a statement carried by the Philippines’ national news agency that the government is currently formalizing the termination of the contract with Russia’s Sovtechnoexport for 16 Mi-17 helicopters.“We are also preparing to initiate a diplomatic dialogue with the Russian side regarding matters arising from the project’s cancellation,” Andolong said, adding cryptically that “changes in priorities necessitated by global political developments resulted in the cancellation of the project by the previous administration.” He also said efforts are being made to retrieve the $48.2 million down payment for the helicopters made in January. Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana previously told The Associated Press that the government was canceling the $322.3 million deal due to concerns over potential U.S. sanctions. He also said the decision was approved by then-President Rodrigo Duterte, whose administration had signed the contract for the helicopters in November 2021.The Philippines insisted as recently as March 2022 that the procurement would go ahead despite the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began Feb. 24. Those buying Russian arms could be hit with sanctions under the U.S. law Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act. The law was passed in 2017 and is meant to discourage governments or entities from acquiring weapons as well as military hardware and parts from American adversaries like Iran, North Korea and Russia. Without the Mi-17s, the Philippines would be left with an outstanding requirement for heavy transport helicopters. The Mi-17 was chosen because of its relatively spacious cabin as well as its rear ramp or clamshell doors (depending on the variant). Transport helicopters are a vital component of the Philippine military; the country is an archipelagic nation made up of more than 7,000 islands and is beset with natural disasters and ongoing insurgencies. Its existing fleet of transport helicopters are often engaged in relief operations or transporting troops and equipment. The Mi-17 has similar payload capabilities to several Western transport helicopter types, but its price was a draw for the Philippines, with the country seeking to modernize its aging and modest military in the face of a tight budget.

No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you: this is a custom BMW from a German tuning firm, and it isn’t any uglier than it started. Gott im Himmel, et cetera. Logically named the MH3 GTR, Manhart’s mucked with the M3 until it makes 641bhp and 590lb ft – a decent jump over the 503bhp and 479lb ft. But of course we live in the age of both turbocharging and timid risk assessors, so there was always more left on the table with BMW’s biturbo straight-six. It’s a simple case of a bit of chip tuning and Berthold’s your uncle, right? Eh, kind of. Manhart has its own auxiliary control unit called the ‘MHtronik’ (because nothing works in Germany without a tronic suffix), teamed with a stainless-steel exhaust that has the almost-obligatory valves to go from quiet to ‘quit it’ as you see fit.Brakes are standard given that the G80’s a rare type of M3 – one that brakes as well as it goes – but the coilover suspension, wheels, and wide-boy Michelins are not. Neither is the carbon-fibre rear diffuser, nor the equally carbon-fibred (and likely featherweight) one-piece Recaro bucket seats. And in terms of that other standard M3 feature... yes, it still has that nose. So if you need to get on the rusted roundabout for another ride, do so now. But even Manhart’s sick of hearing about the G80 M3’s front end. “Instead of once again discussing the controversial front-end design,” says Manhart, “we would rather focus on the driving dynamics.” But given that we’re acolytes at the Holy Light of Lightness and our patron saint is Gordon Murray, we’re more concerned about just how far the G80 M3 tips the scales. Eyes don’t actually deceive you, after all – but scales don’t, either.

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Now that Windows 11 is past the beta stage, you can upgrade to the official release build of the operating system, without joining the Windows Insider program. But what if you're still waiting for Windows Update to upgrade you, a process that could take months? What if you just what if you just want to throw Windows 11 onto an old or experimental PC, without having to install an activated copy of Windows 10 first? Or what if you want a fresh start without all of your old programs and settings being carried over? What you need is a Windows 11 ISO file you can boot from and use for a clean install or an in-place upgrade. Fortunately, there are a few ways to get one. First, you can download a Windows 11 ISO directly from Microsoft. Second, you could use tools from a site called UUP dump to download the files from Microsoft's update servers and build a custom ISO that's fully up-to-date with an insider build that's even newer than release build. Finally, you can use Aveyo's open-source Universal MediaCreationTool to create an ISO that bypasses WIndows 11's TPM requirement. Whichever way you choose, you will use your Windows 11 ISO file to create a bootable install USB Flash drive or install Windows 11 in a virtual machine. You can even get away with skipping the product key so you can run the new operating system completely for free (at least for now).

Computer chips. Exercise equipment. Breakfast cereal. By now, you’ve probably heard: The world has run short of a great many products. In an era in which we’ve become accustomed to clicking and waiting for whatever we desire to arrive at our doors, we have experienced the shock of not being able to buy toilet paper, having to wait months for curtains and needing to compromise on the color of our new cars. Of far greater importance, we have suffered a pandemic without adequate protective gear. Doctors cannot obtain needed medicines. In Alaska, people are struggling to find enough winter coats. Airplanes are delayed while crews wait for food deliveries. Why is this happening? The pandemic has disrupted nearly every aspect of the global supply chain — that’s the usually invisible pathway of manufacturing, transportation and logistics that gets goods from where they are manufactured, mined or grown to where they are going. At the end of the chain is another company or a consumer who has paid for the finished product. Scarcity has caused the prices of many things to go higher. When did this start? The disruptions go back to early last year, to the beginning stages of the pandemic. Factories in parts of the world where a lot of the globe’s manufacturing capacity sits — places like China, South Korea and Taiwan as well as Southeast Asian nations like Vietnam and European industrial giants like Germany — were hit hard by the spread of coronavirus cases. Many factories shut down or were forced to reduce production because workers were sick or in lockdown. In response, shipping companies cut their schedules in anticipation of a drop in demand for moving goods around the world. That proved to be a terrible mistake. Demand for some things — restaurant meals, trips to vacation destinations, spa services — indeed cratered. But Americans took the money they used to spend on such experiences and redirected it to goods for their homes, which were suddenly doubling as offices and classrooms. They put office chairs and new printers in their bedrooms, while adding gym equipment and video game consoles to their basements. They bought paint and lumber for projects that added space or made their existing confines more comfortable. They added mixers and blenders to their kitchens, as parents became short-order cooks for cooped-up children. The timing and quantity of consumer purchases swamped the system. Factories whose production tends to be fairly predictable ramped up to satisfy a surge of orders.

3DMark, the well-known benchmark used to measure the performance of graphics cards, has been updated to include a storage benchmark. It uses real world workloads that assess the storage capabilities of a system more accurately than would be the case if the tests were simple synthetic tests. The new benchmark is designed to accurately measure and compare all kinds of storage devices, all the way from PCIe 4.0 NVMe drives to SATA drives and even good old mechanical hard drives. The tests include measuring the load times of several po[CENSORED]r games including Battlefield V, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and Overwatch. There’s also a test of recording a 1080p gameplay video at 60 FPS with OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) while playing Overwatch, along with a game saving measurement and a file copy test.SSD performance is an underrated part of the gaming experience. It’s not just loading times, but things like level transitions, saving and minimising in-game asset popups, not to mention all the random things the OS is doing in the background that could detract from your game. so a benchmark like this is very much welcome. We gave the benchmark a run on a 12th Gen i9-12900K system equipped with a PCIe 4.0 Adata XPG Gammix S70 2TB drive. A score of 2410 looks to be a good score, but that’s with a high end PCIe 4.0 drive. A rusty spinner won’t look so good. If you’ve been thinking about upgrading your storage, it’s worth checking out our top gaming SSD picks.

February, 2011, an Israeli computer scientist named Noam Slonim proposed building a machine that would be better than people at something that seems inextricably human: arguing about politics. Slonim, who had done his doctoral work on machine learning, works at an I.B.M. Research facility in Tel Aviv, and he had watched with pride a few days before as the company’s natural-language-processing machine, Watson, won “Jeopardy!” Afterward, I.B.M. sent an e-mail to thousands of researchers across its global network of labs, soliciting ideas for a “grand challenge” to follow the “Jeopardy!” project. It occurred to Slonim that they might try to build a machine that could defeat a champion debater. He made a single-slide presentation, and then a somewhat more elaborate one, and then a more elaborate one still, and, after many rounds competing against many other I.B.M. researchers, Slonim won the chance to build his machine, which he called Project Debater. Recently, Slonim told me that his only wish was that, when it was time for the actual debate, Project Debater be given the voice of Scarlett Johansson. Instead, it was given a recognizably robotic voice, less flexible and punctuated than Siri’s. A basic principle of robotics is that the machine shouldn’t ever trick human beings into thinking that they are interacting with any person at all, let alone one whom Esquire has twice named the “Sexiest Woman Alive.” Scientific work inside the biggest corporations can sometimes feel as insulated and speculative as in an academic lab. It wasn’t hard to imagine that businesses might make use of Slonim’s programming—that is, they might substitute a very persuasive machine for any human who interacts with people. However, Slonim’s Tel Aviv-based team was not supposed to think about any of that—they were only supposed to win a debate. To Slonim, that was a lot to ask. I.B.M. had built computers that had beaten human champions at chess, and then at trivia, and this had left the impression that A.I. was close to “humanlike intelligence,” Slonim told me. He considered that “a misleading conception.” Slonim is trim and pale, with a shaved head and glasses, and in place of the usual boosterism about artificial intelligence he has a slight sheepishness about how new the technology is. To him, the debate project was a half-step out into reality. Debate is a game, like trivia or chess, in that it has specific rules and structures, which can be codified and taught to a machine. But it is also like real life, in that the goal is to persuade a human audience to change their minds—and to do that the machine needed to know someth

The new car lot at the Jim White Toyota just outside of Toledo, Ohio, is depleted on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, with only a few new vehicles available for sale. A global shortage of computer chips has forced automakers to temporarily close factories, limiting production and driving up prices. The coronavirus delta variant is now causing shortages of other parts. (AP Photo/Tom Krisher)That hope has now dimmed. A surge in COVID-19 cases from the delta variant in several Asian countries that are the main producers of auto-grade chips is worsening the supply shortage. It is further delaying a return to normal auto production and keeping the supply of vehicles artificially low. And that means, analysts say, that record-high consumer prices for vehicles — new and used, as well as rental cars — will extend into next year and might not fall back toward earth until 2023. The global parts shortage involves not just computer chips. Automakers are starting to see shortages of wiring harnesses, plastics and glass, too. And beyond autos, vital components for goods ranging from farm equipment and industrial machinery to sportswear and kitchen accessories are also bottled up at ports around the world as demand outpaces supply in the face of a resurgent virus.

Turtle Rock's co-op zombie shooter Back 4 Blood turned out to be really good—"A triumphant return to the genre it created," we said in our 88% review—and so it's probably not a great surprise to learn that the studio has big plans for it well beyond its initial release. A post-launch roadmap revealed today laid out a timeline for both short-term improvements, including bug fixes and quality of life tweaks, and longer-term commitments for December: New features—new supply lines, Ridden practice area, holiday seasonal event Solo offline mode with campaign progression New card type All-new cards And into 2022:The roadmap also gives us a look at the first of three story expansions included in the Back 4 Blood annual pass, which sells for $40/£35/€40. Entitled Tunnels of Terror, it will bring us new Cleaners and Ridden (that's B4B-speak for "characters and zombies"), a new activity type, new cards, exclusive cards, and of course more weapons. It, and the other two as-yet-unnamed expansions are all slated to be out sometime in 2022. It's not the most detailed layout of future plans I've ever seen, but it's definitely ambitious. If you're just getting started on Back 4 Blood (or plan to jump it at some point in the future), we can help set you off on the right foot with guides to the best settings, the best builds, how the card system works, and how to play the PvP Versus mode.

If you’re interested in a new job in some of the fastest-growing technology sectors, Google Career Certificates can provide some of the skills you’ll need. Google’s online learning programs now cover user-experience design, project management and data analytics – and include an Android development certification course. These are in addition to the IT support program that Google has offered since 2018. They are relatively inexpensive and do not require a degree or experience to enroll. Obtaining any of the certificates gives you access to interview tips and connections to more than 140 companies working with Google.The company chose fields that can be taught well online, are in high demand, are well-paying and can be assessed for mastery, says Lisa Gevelber, vice president of Grow with Google. Courses are designed and taught by Google employees, in consultation with companies seeking to fill technology jobs. Google says there are more than 1 million open positions in these fields, with an average starting salary of $69,000.

It is the first time in the history of UEFA EURO that the interval between tournaments was extended to five years rather than the usual four. This year also marks the 60th anniversary of the quadrennial event. This year's tournament was especially anticipated by spectators and football fans around the world, as it is the first world-class sporting event following the ending of lockdown measures in most countries since the outbreak of the pandemic, as well as the first to allow a certain number of spectators to watch the game on site. There was a huge turnout online in Europe for this first game of the tournament, while Chinese fans, due to the time difference, stayed up late to watch the game. The first three days of UEFA EURO 2020 happen to coincide with the Dragon Boat Festival holiday in China, when star teams from Belgium, England and the Netherlands had their first matches. The po[CENSORED]rity of these three teams in China is expected to send ratings soaring among that audience. Five years ago, in 2016, Hisense, the first Chinese sponsor of UEFA Euro in the 56-year history of the tournament, left a lasting impression on the audience with the tagline "Hisense TV China's No. 1". During the opening match this year, however, Hisense chose to remain low-profile, by returning to the earlier tagline "Buy TV, Choose U7". The U7 is a customized TV set series officially created for UEFA Euro 2020, and is proving to be an item in the Hisense TV portfolio that is turning a lot of heads. Just as most soccer teams have their own legendary "No. 7 player", Hisense's executives, as they have become of aware of the series' po[CENSORED]rity, have started referring to it in company meetings as "Hisense's No. 7 Player". Publicly available data from All View Cloud show that for two consecutive months, three models in the Hisense U7 series have been among the top 10 best-selling new TVs in China. Hisense U7G-Pro, the world's first ULED XDR TV, boasts a peak picture brightness of 1600nit, more than 5 times that of ordinary LCD TVs, vastly boosting the clarity of the image and the level of detail. The ultra-high 144HZ refresh rate eliminates the streaking effect that mars the viewing experience when players run or pass the ball. Hisense has also developed a "Super Fan" viewing mode tailored for this year's UEFA Euro, which includes features such as AI Green Field (a smart feature that optimizes the viewing effect when panning over a field green grass, rendering the image substantially clearer), AI Watching and Multi-Perspective Watching. The lineup of these special features with the football fan in mind makes U7G-Pro a particular good choice for watching UEFA EURO 2020 games.

There's a network test for Elden Ring coming up, which unfortunately for us isn't available to PC players. To hype up this closed beta From Software has revealed the classes that will be available in it, writing that "In seven days, these five brave Tarnished will cross the Sea of Fog." The five options are warrior, enchanted knight, prophet, champion, and bloody wolf, each available in two body types. They sure do look like soulsborne heroes, with heavily armored options like the bloody wolf and enchanted knight alongside characters in more patchwork ensembles. None of them are exactly the deprived, but the prophet's combination of a monkish robe with a rope belt, blindfold, and some kind of wooden wheel around the neck makes for a strong look. In seven days, these five brave Tarnished will cross the Sea of Fog.#ELDENRING pic.twitter.com/t7SNykhr3ENovember 5, 2021It's likely there will be more classes available in the finished game. Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, and Dark Souls 3 all had 10 classes to choose from, with eight in Dark Souls 2, while Bloodborne had nine of what it called origins. Your starting class in these games usually doesn't mean much in the long run of course, and Elden Ring's build customization will apparently be "even more varied than before" according to game director Hidetaka Miyazaki. The classes may just mean different starter weapons and armor, with some slight stat differencesJody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was published in 2015, he edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and actually did play every Warhammer videogame.

SEATTLE, June 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Dyndrite™, provider of the world's first accelerated computation engine used to create next-generation digital manufacturing hardware and software, was selected among hundreds of candidates as one of the World Economic Forum's "Technology Pioneers". Dyndrite delivers access to production automation and scalable compute through software, giving additive manufacturing hardware and software companies the power, freedom and control necessary to deliver the future of digital manufacturing.The World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers are early- to growth-stage companies from around the world that are involved in the use of new technologies and innovation that are poised to have a significant impact on business and society. With this selection as Technology Pioneer, Harshil Goel, CEO & Founder, Dyndrite will be invited to participate at World Economic Forum activities, events and discussions throughout the year. Dyndrite will also contribute to Forum initiatives over the next two years, working with global leaders to help address key industry and societal issues. "We're excited to welcome Dyndrite to our 2021 cohort of Technology Pioneers," says Susan Nesbitt, Head of the Global Innovators Community, World Economic Forum. "Dyndrite and its fellow pioneers are developing technologies that can help society solve some of its most pressing issues. We look forward to their contribution to the World Economic Forum in its commitment to improving the state of the world." "We are both humbled and honored to be acknowledged as a pioneer by the World Economic Forum", said Harshil Goel. "Additive manufacturing has the potential to transform humanity but requires a new approach in software technology. Dyndrite is revolutionizing the way 3D geometry is created, transformed and transmitted on a computer, and by doing so we empower additive manufacturing to deliver serial production, at scale." For the first time in the community's history, over 30% of the cohort are led by women. The firms also come from regions all around the world, extending their community far beyond Silicon Valley. This year's cohort includes start-ups from 26 countries, with UAE, El Salvador, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe represented for the first time. The diversity of these companies extends to their innovations as well. 2021 Tech Pioneer firms are shaping the future by advancing technologies such as AI, IoT, robotics, blockchain, biotechnology and many more. The full list of Technology Pioneers can be found here. Technology Pioneers have been selected based on the community's selection criteria, which includes innovation, impact and leadership as well as the company's relevance with the World Economic Forum's Platforms. All info on this year's Technology Pioneers can be found here: http://wef.ch/techpioneers21 More information on past winners, information on the community and the application link can be found here. About Dyndrite: Dyndrite makes the world's first accelerated computation engine, a tool that gives hardware and software companies the power, freedom and control necessary to deliver the future of digital manufacturing. Our GPU-accelerated software delivers hyper-scalability, python automation and eyebrow-raising performance due to the dedication of a team of mathematicians, software engineers, and mechanical engineers. Dyndrite exists to help its partners solve the toughest geometry and compute problems on the planet, to ignite their purpose. Investors include Gradient Ventures, Google's AI-focused Investment Fund and former Autodesk CEO Carl Bass. The company, which was founded in 2016, is headquartered in Seattle, WA. For more information visit: www.dyndrite.com About World Economic Forum: The World Economic Forum, committed to improving the state of the world, is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. (www.weforum.org). About the Technology Pioneers: The World Economic Forum believes that innovation is critical to the future well-being of society and to driving economic growth. Launched in 2000, the Technology Pioneer community is composed of early to growth-stage companies from around the world that are involved in the design, development and deployment of new technologies and innovations, and are poised to have a significant impact on business and society. The World Economic Forum provides the Technology Pioneers community with a platform to engage with the public- and private-sector leaders and to contribute new solutions to overcome the current crisis and build future resiliency.

Loud and proud champion of RBG peripherals, Razer is taking a hard turn with its new range designed for low profile office use. This set adds a mouse, keyboard, and mousepad that all focus on odd features like silence and comfort to the company’s Productivity range. The Razer Pro Click Mini is a small, white, unassuming looking office mouse. I don’t even think it has lights in it. It has capacity for two AA batteries but can run off one, and can connect to three devices via Bluetooth, plus an extra one using the dongle. The Razer Pro Click Mini also boasts programmable buttons and other general features most gamers will be used to, most importantly it’s the muted switches, which you can listen to on the product site and do actually sound pretty good. It’s set to retail for $79,99 (£79.99, €89,99). To match the mouse, Razer has gone with another solid white design for the Razer Pro Type Ultra keyboard. The white is a nice look, and the white backlighting on the keyboard does add a touch of office acceptable bling. Again, we have a focus on silence with Razer Yellow Mechanical Linear switches and comfort with a wrist rest which looks similar to the ones for its Blackwidow and Ornata range of keyboards. It can similarly pair via bluetooth or dongle to multiple devices, and the mouse and keyboard can use the same Razer Productivity Dongle potentially saving users a port. the Razer Pro Type Ultra wireless keyboard is priced at $159,99 (£159.99, €169,99)Lastly, Razer announced its office styled mouse pad, the Razer Pro Glide XXL. This is a 940x419xz3mm light grey desk mat. The specs say it’s made from thick high-density rubber foam for comfort as well as a micro-weave cloth surface and nonslip rubber base, and it does look nice enough in the promo images. You’ll be able to grab one of these for $29,99 (£29.99, €34,99)

It might rank as the understatement of the decade to say that when the DB11 was launched in 2016, it was a fairly important car for Aston Martin. Never a company to prosper with quite the financial success you’d imagine a maker of such desirable and expensive sports cars might do, the DB11 arrived at what could be called a make or break time for the British firm. Luckily the car was liked by the press, the public and the people who bought it, so the work Aston had put in was certainly justified. It sat on a brand-new platform, for one, and it borrowed a lot of technology from Aston’s partner, Mercedes. The DB11 is made mostly from aluminium, too, which is light, except where it’s made of magnesium, which is even lighter, and on top of that a lot of work went into making its graceful and arresting shape aerodynamic, so it not only looks like a million dollars but also goes like it.Under that voluptuous bonnet was an initial choice of either a twinturbo 4.0-litre V8 or a 5.2-litre twin-turbo V12. Some buyers felt a proper GT Aston should always have a V12, but they were in the minority and the engine was discontinued last year. Although it turns out that Aston didn’t really discontinue the DB11 V12 after all, it simply rebranded it as the DB11 AMR (for ‘Aston Martin Racing’).Those seeking some wind-inthe-hair action might look to the convertible Volante version, which, if anything, looks even more divine than the closed-top coupé. Volante buyers will have to make do with just the V8 option, and inevitably 110kg of extra weight, but one look at this beautiful machine should be enough to convince most people to overlook such trivialities.