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The problem occurs when an external NVMe SSD is plugged in Windows 10 has another nasty little gremlin that causes a PC to crash with a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD), and as a result some folks have been blocked from upgrading to the May 2020 Update or October 2020 Update (which are the affected versions of the OS). As described by Microsoft in a support document, the bug happens when the user plugs in an external NVMe SSD into a Thunderbolt port. So obviously, this only affects folks who have the latter connector on their machine, as well as Windows 10’s driver related to said NVMe SSDs. Microsoft explains: “An incompatibility issue has been found with Windows 10, version 2004 or Windows 10, version 20H2 when using an Thunderbolt NVMe Solid State Disk (SSD). “On affected devices, when plugging in a Thunderbolt NVMe SSD you might receive a stop error with a blue screen and ‘DRIVER_VERIFIER_DMA_VIOLATION (e6) An illegal DMA operation was attempted by a driver being verified.’ “Affected Windows 10 devices will have at least one Thunderbolt port and any currently available version of the driver file stornvme.sys.” More widespread? The error could possibly be a bit more widespread in terms of affected users, at least going by a post on Microsoft’s Answers.com help forum, where a Lenovo laptop owner describes the blue screen error as coming out of nowhere when simply typing in Notepad – although obviously we can’t put too much stock in a single report. At any rate, Microsoft says it’s working on a resolution for the problem, and the software giant is hopeful that a fix can be delivered later in November. That being the case, the upgrade block will be lifted, and these Windows 10 PCs will be allowed to install the latest update (which is now the October 2020 Update, of course).

Mass Effect fans may want to keep their eyes locked onto BioWare's blog tomorrow. N7 Day--the annual celebration of all things Mass Effect--is finally upon us, taking place on Saturday, November 7. And it seems developer BioWare is teasing some sort of news related to the critically acclaimed and massively po[CENSORED]r sci-fi action-RPG franchise for tomorrow. Apparently, Mass Effect fans should watch the BioWare blog on November 7 around 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET. BioWare hasn't publicly said anything as of yet, but the studio has been talking about N7 Day all over social media, teasing merchandise and table-top RPG livestreams. Now Playing: The History of Mass Effect It's unclear if the rumored Mass Effect Trilogy will be revealed tomorrow. With N7 Day celebrating all things Mass Effect, though, it's safe to assume it may at least be mentioned, especially since the original cast has plans to host a special panel during Saturday's festivities. In either case, the rumored bundle--which includes enhanced versions of all Mass Effect games except for Mass Effect: Andromeda--is allegedly coming sometime next year. Earlier this year, BioWare showed its appreciation for Mass Effect by sharing "Mass Relays," a series of tweets highlighting songs from the series.

A battle of hot hatch titans. When it comes to hot hatchbacks you can’t do much better than the Honda Civic Type R and Renault Megane RS 300 Trophy. Both of these sensation driver’s cars descend from a long line of hot hatchback excellence after generations of refinement. Both of these legendary vehicles have a special place in the hearts of enthusiasts so it can be hard to choose which is best. That’s why nothing beats a good old-fashioned drag race. The Renault Megane RS 300 Trophy is powered by a turbocharged 1.8-liter inline-4 cylinder that produces an impressive 300hp (221kW) which is mated to a 6-speed manual transmission. This front-wheel-drive hot hatch uses a Torsen limit slip differential to ensure power is sent to the ground in the most efficient manner. This level of power in a front-wheel-drive hatch is quite a bit to handle which is why this differential is critical. There’s also a clever four-wheel steering system that aids in turn in and makes the tiny hatch feel even more agile but only adds detrimental weight during this drag race competition. The Honda Civic Type R is one of the most impressive hot hatches of the modern era and held claim to the fast front-wheel-drive vehicle around the Nürburgring upon its debut. Powered by a turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-4 that also produces 300hp (221kW), the Honda Civic Type-R is one of the most powerful Honda’s ever built. Traditional Honda Civic Type Rs were powered by high revving naturally aspirated engines but due to higher power demands and emissions, Honda chooses to pursue turbocharged engines like the example in the new Civic Type R. In the drag race, we may have a winner, but the real triumph is the incredible performance offered by modern hot hatches. These incredible machines offer convenience and affordability while adding in a level of performance usually reserved for sports cars.

BARRABA, Australia (Reuters) - When Fintan Magee was asked to paint a mural on a trio of 40-metre high grain silos in the small Australian town of Barraba, he decided against an archetypal image of sheep and cattle. Instead he painted a water diviner, a practice still used in parts of Australia where proponents believe they can find ground water with two metal rods or, as pictured in the mural, sticks. Painted last year, it is one of dozens of large-scale murals to appear across rural Australia, turning sides of buildings, water tanks and old grain silos into striking canvasses. “Painting walls is a bit like surfing, every wave is different, every wall is different. That’s the biggest challenge for me,” Magee told Reuters from his art studio in Sydney’s inner-western suburbs. “Scaling and the technical things are just part of the job now.” Many of the works were painted during a long drought that devastated communities and led to widespread water restrictions including in agricultural towns like Barraba in central New South Wales. Magee said that during a research trip he saw a diviner working with water bore drillers during the drought, which only started to ease early this year. While broadly considered street art, the sheer size of the murals makes them a phenomenon of their own. Many artists use cherry picker cranes or lifts to reach their canvasses, go through hundreds of litres of paint, and spend weeks on their murals. “It wasn’t really until the last three or four years that projects have been growing bigger and bigger - more stuff happening in Sydney and Melbourne and also the silo thing has exploded,” said Magee. The size has one great advantage over other forms of art - it’s almost impossible for passersby not to take it in. “It’s absolutely gorgeous - it wasn’t here last time we came through,” said Cathy Skinner, one of several people who stopped at the Barraba mural when Reuters visited last week. “I think he looks like Prince Harry, I think he’s wonderful,” Skinner said of the water diviner. The resemblance to the British prince is often remarked upon. Magee said while he didn’t see the likeness, other than the red hair, people were free to come to their own conclusions. “I don’t see why Prince Harry would be divining in central New South Wales, but who knows, he might have been through town on a royal trip one time,” he said.

The US reported a third straight daily record for new coronavirus cases on Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 127,000 infections were reported in 24 hours, as well as 1,149 deaths. The news comes as officials announced that White House chief of staff Mark Meadows had also tested positive for the virus. He is the latest Trump administration official to contract the disease. The US is the worst affected nation in the world by Covid-19, with more than 9.7 million confirmed cases and a death toll of more than 230,000. It was not immediately clear how Mr Meadows - who has often appeared at public events without a face mask - was infected. According to the New York Times he first tested positive on Wednesday. Trump election campaign adviser Nick Trainer also has the virus, the paper said. Mr Meadows travelled with the president on the final days of campaigning and was at an election night party attended by dozens of Trump supporters at the White House. The country's coronavirus outbreak was a key policy battleground in the run-up to the 3 November election, and contributed to a surge in postal and early in-person voting. In late October, Mr Meadows said in an interview with CNN that the US was "not going to control the pandemic", saying that Covid-19 could only be defeated by "mitigation areas" like vaccines and therapeutics. President Trump and his wife Melania and son Barron all contracted and recovered from Covid-19 - as did national security adviser Robert O'Brien, senior advisor Stephen Miller and White House counsellor Hope Hicks. A ceremony at the White House on 26 September came into focus after the president contracted the virus. More than a dozen reporters, guests and officials at the crowded Rose Garden event - where Mr Trump formally announced Amy Coney Barrett as his pick for the Supreme Court - contracted the virus. Footage captured attendees standing close together without masks. Some shook hands, bumped fists and even hugged.

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Kioxia's XD6 datacenter SSDs offer up to 6,500 MB/s sequential read speed Kioxia has introduced one of the industry's first SSDs featuring an EDSSF E1.S 'ruler' form-factor as well as a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface. The Kioxia XD6 drives comply with the NVMe Cloud SSD specification (developed by the Open Compute Platform organization) and are designed for applications that need consistently high performance, decent thermal management, and reliability. Kioxia's new XD6 SSDs are based around the company's 3D TLC NAND memory as well as a new controller that supports all the features one comes to expect from an NVMe 1.3c-compliant hyperscale-optimized chip, including end-to-end data protection, TCG Opal security features, sanitize instant erase (SIE) capability, hot plugging, expanded drive health information, and power loss protection (appropriate capacitors are onboard). The drive guarantees reliability in 24/7 environments common for hyperscalers. The manufacturer plans to offer its XD6-series drives in E1.S 9.5 mm, 15 mm, and 25 mm form-factors. The drives will feature different capacities depending on their physical dimensions. As far as performance is concerned, Kioxia says that the XD6 SSD is rated for of up to 6,500MB/s and 2,400MB/s sequential read and write speeds as well as offers low latency. Power consumption of the drive is projected to be at around 15 Watts and for that reason it comes equipped with a rather huge heat spreader. Speaking of the heat spreaders, it should be noted that the enterprise & data center SSD form-factors (EDSFFs) were developed primarily to increase capacity of SSDs (and therefore storage density of servers) as well as to optimize their thermals and therefore ensure consistent performance. The EDSFF E1.S form-factor was designed to be short, yet offer capacities higher than those of M.2 drives. With a huge cooling system, the Kioxia XD6 is not designed to provide maximum storage density, but it will certainly offer consistently high performance even under high loads as its controller will never have to throttle due to overheating. Kioxia is currently sampling its XD6 SSDs with select customers and plans to start their volume shipments at a later date. Considering the fact that the drives are compatible with the NVMe 1.3c protocol and comply with the NVMe Cloud SSD specification, OCP members will be the first to adopt the new drives.

At this rate, Microsoft Edge will soon leapfrog established rival Firefox In recent months, Microsoft has thrown everything behind its new, Chromium-based web browser Edge - and it appears to be paying dividends. With the enforced retirement of Internet Explorer, Edge is now the company’s indisputable flagship and that status is beginning to be represented in the browser’s market share. On its current trajectory, according to Statcounter data, Edge will soon overtake established rival Firefox in the rankings, which would be a serious coup for Microsoft. Although Firefox still currently has a larger overall share (3.98%) than Edge (2.85%), the former’s numbers have remained almost constant for the past twelve months. Microsoft’s browser, on the other hand, has enjoyed steady growth since April that (if maintained) will see it surpass Mozilla’s service by early 2021. Microsoft Edge adoption Microsoft debuted Edge Chromium in January, with the launch of the first stable build. The browser took a few months to gain any momentum, but its growth has steepened significantly since the spring. At present, Edge is the fastest growing browser on the market, rising from 0.44% market share to 2.85% in the past six months alone - with the greatest leap registered between June and July (+ 0.8%). In each of the past three months, meanwhile, Edge has added circa 0.3% to its share. The increase in adoption can be attributed in part to renewed marketing efforts, but also to improvements made to the platform that bring it in line with the experience a user might expect from a modern web browser. Microsoft has delivered a host of new upgrades to the browser in recent months, including a secure password generator, in-built price comparison tool, screenshot capture facility and scrolling tab bar. The company is also “experimenting” with a new feature - called start-up boost - that could increase the speed with which the browser is able to launch from the Windows 10 desktop or taskbar. Although Edge is still a minor player in comparison to market leader Chrome (which holds a 66.12% share), Microsoft will be encouraged by its early performance. The main caveat is that the greatest number of users appear to have migrated from Internet Explorer and Edge Legacy, both of which have been retired. To continue on its current growth trajectory, then, Edge will need to find a way to snatch users from the largest fish in the market: Chrome, Safari and Firefox.

Destiny is known for having a somewhat confusing plot, so if you're a returning player coming back to Destiny 2's Beyond Light expansion, you might be fuzzy on the details--and if you're new, it might be really intimidating to jump into. Either way, don't worry; from vanilla Destiny and Destiny 2 through each expansion, we've covered everything you need to know about the story so far. Here we've outlined the main beats of your Guardian's story, leaving out a lot of superfluous details and information from the Grimoire and lore books, so you can get the basics down before starting Destiny 2: Beyond Light. Now Playing: Destiny Lore You Should Know Before Playing Destiny 2 Prologue Long before the events of the game was the Golden Age, when mankind discovered the Traveler. The gigantic, spherical entity terraformed planets throughout the solar system, though its true nature--sentient being, vessel, deity, or something else entirely--is unknown. Its discovery launched humanity into an era of prosperity, as it allowed them to colonize other planets. Top scientists founded the Ishtar Academy on Venus, while a genius industrialist named Clovis Bray founded a corporation by the same name on Mars, eventually developing Exos, machines with human consciousness. The many technological advancements during this time came from Clovis Bray, including that of powerful AI called Warminds charged with maintaining humanity's interplanetary defenses, one of which remained through Destiny's present day: Rasputin. One day, a dangerous but relatively unknown enemy of the Traveler known as the Darkness approached Earth, destroying nearly everything in its path and wreaking havoc upon what humanity had created. This is referred to throughout Destiny as the Collapse. The Traveler sacrificed itself to save humanity, using its Light to drive the Darkness away. After the Collapse, the Traveler remained hovering dormant over Earth, but even in its dormant state, it created Ghosts--small, floating AI robots imbued with its power. Ghosts scattered through the solar system, resurrecting a few chosen dead and gifting them the Light. These superpowered people had no recollection of their past lives, in the Dark Age following the collapse, many became warlords, fighting each other and the groups of angry, hostile aliens who had appeared during that time in search of the Traveler. But some of the Risen, as those with the Light became known, fought to help those less powerful than them. A group calling themselves the Iron Lords fought back the other warlords, sometimes even destroying them outright. They banded together with some other Risen heroes to found a huge walled stronghold called the Last City, beneath the Traveler, where survivors could congregate and live peacefully, protected. Over time, the Risen who protected the City took on a new name: Guardians. Over the centuries, the city thrived, but faced threats and attacks. It was besieged on more than one occasion by the Fallen, a scavenger race that had once been visited by the Traveler, much as humanity was, and seemingly abandoned by it to suffer through its own version of the Collapse, the Whirlwind. The Fallen scrounge across what's left of Earth, posing a major threat to any people who survive in the wilderness. Year One Much of vanilla--also known as Year One--Destiny's story consists of setup for things to come. At the beginning, you're a Guardian who has been dead for some time and is then revived by a Ghost. You wake in the Cosmodrome, an ancient spaceport in Old Russia, Earth. Like other Guardians, you can wield the power of the Traveler's Light. Your mission is to fight past the Fallen here and activate an old jump ship, which you can use to escape to the Last City. Once at the Tower, you learn about the Vanguard, the Guardian military hierarchy that protects the City. It consists of Commander Zavala, Cayde-6, and Ikora Rey, who represent each of the three playable classes (Titan, Hunter, and Warlock, respectively). You also learn of the Traveler through someone called The Speaker, a representative of the Traveler who helps to guide Guardians. Your job as a Guardian is to help protect the Last City from any threats, and while you're free to do as you wish, you're more or less under the Vanguard's command. You return to Old Russia to recover a drive for your ship that will allow you to travel to other planets in the solar system. While there, you encounter the Hive, an old species that worships death. The Hive presence on Earth is somewhat frightening, you discover. Some years past, the Hive attacked the Moon, creating structures and catacombs deep beneath its surface. Guardians mounted a major offensive to drive the Hive back and retake the Moon, but failed miserably and suffered enormous casualties. Since then, the Vanguard has declared the Moon off-limits--so the Hive showing up on Earth suggests they might be preparing an invasion. You fight past the Fallen and the Hive and open an Array that gives you access to more technology and information. Through this you discover the Warmind Rasputin, thought to be long-dead. You protect Rasputin from the Fallen and head to the Moon in search of the last Guardian that had gone there, in order to figure out what the Hive have been up to. In the process, you wake up the Hive (again). In the process, you meet an Exo known as the Stranger who tells you to meet her on Venus if you survive the Moon. Your adventure on the Moon helps you to slow the Hive's plans, but without fully uncovering them. On Venus, you learn about a complex, highly intelligent, time-traveling machine race called the Vex. The Exo Stranger shows up after you push back the Vex in the Ishtar Academy (but her story is largely nonsensical, so don't worry about it too much). What's important is that the Stranger warns you about the Vex, who are the biggest threat you're facing right now. From here you travel to the Reef, a sovereign collection of space trash and asteroids, which are home to the Awoken. These are the third race in Destiny after humans and Exos, who were created during the Collapse when the Traveler's Light converged with the energy of the Darkness. That energy hit a ship of humans leaving the solar system in a huge colony ship, fundamentally altering them. On the Reef, you meet the Awoken Queen, Mara Sov, and her brother Prince Uldren. You also learn that the Fallen who make their home there--the only Fallen in the game who aren't your enemies, since they serve the Queen--belong to a sect called House of Wolves. The Wolves tried to take over the Reef at some point in the past, but Mara and the Awoken put down the attack, imprisoning the leaders of the Wolves in their asteroid jail, the Prison of Elders. Some of the Fallen, including an adviser to the queen called Variks, were allowed to stay out of the prison if they pledged their fealty to the Awoken. With the queen's help, you learn what the Exo Stranger was warning you about: the Vex's origin point, a place that exists out of time and space called the Black Garden. The Heart of the Black Garden is a chunk of the Darkness, and left unchecked, it could destroy the Traveler. The queen offers to help you get into the Black Garden, but you'll need to head to Mars to retrieve a specific piece of a powerful Vex robot. So it's on to Mars, home of the warmongering rhino-like race known as the Cabal, who have turned the planet into a beachhead for their invasion of the solar system. You fight your way across the planet to find a Vex Gatelord to claim its eye. With that, the Awoken show you how to open the way to the Black Garden so you can destroy the Garden's Heart and save the Traveler. At the end of vanilla Destiny, The Stranger gifts you with her weapon, The Stranger's Rifle, and says she'll be in touch. It'll be years before you hear from her again, though. Destiny's original Raid, the Vault of Glass, involves an area where Vex have control over time and space. In the Vault of Glass, all timelines converge--there you find corpses of people who are long dead, but because reality is bent here, parts of them and their memories still exist. The Raid involves the battle and then defeat of Atheon, who is said to be the point where all of space-time converges. Expansion 1: The Dark Below After you've destroyed the Black Garden's heart, a former Guardian named Eris Morn arrives in the Tower. Lurking below the surface of the Moon is Crota, a Hive prince and the son of Oryx, the Hive's god-king. Crota is the reason the Guardian counterattack on the Moon failed all those years ago--he wields the power to destroy the Guardians' Light, and used it to murder thousands. After that battle, Eris Morn and five other Guardians delved beneath the Moon as part of a plan to destroy Crota, but one by one, they were all killed. Eris lost her Ghost, and thus her immunity, but survived for years in the darkness of the Hive caves, only to be changed and twisted by their power. Eris asks you for help to deal with Crota once and for all--his followers are working to bring about his return. (Like other Hive gods, Crota is effectively immortal thanks to his connection to the Ascendant Plane, which allows him to protect and hide his soul even when his body is destroyed.) You defeat his disciple Omnigul, a Hive Wizard, before destroying Crota's essence and stopping the attempted resurrection. In the Crota's End Raid, you summon, fight, and defeat Crota himself, finally avenging Eris's fireteam. Expansion 2: House of Wolves Remember the Reef and its queen? The Fallen House of Wolves had served Queen Mara Sov for years after she defeated them, but that changes in Destiny's second expansion. Skolas, a Fallen captain, is attempting to unite the fragmented Fallen sects under one House to become the legendary Kell of Kells, or king of kings. Under his command, the House of Wolves betrays Mara Sov. Only Variks of House Judgment remains loyal to the queen. Petra Venj, the queen's emissary, enlists your help as repayment for the favor the Awoken did you in helping you get into the Black Garden. Your job is to hunt down Skolas and prevent the formation of a united Fallen front against the Reef. You head to Venus, where he is studying Vex technology, to find him. You capture him alive and send him to the Prison of Elders, and later can head there and defeat him again for some reason. Expansion 3: The Taken King The Taken King expansion is widely regarded as the high point of Destiny's storytelling. The writing feels more cohesive, it strikes the right tone, and the characters have more presence than in previous iterations. The expansion sees the arrival of a new Hive adversary: Oryx, the Taken King, father of Crota, and God-King of the Hive. He arrives in the solar system looking to take revenge on the Guardians for the death of his son, Crota. He rolls into the rings of Saturn on his enormous ship, the Dreadnaught, which comes equipped with weapons of mass destruction. Mara Sov, Prince Uldren, and the Awoken fleet engage the Hive near Saturn, but they're wiped out by the Dreadnaught's weapon. All over the solar system, Oryx's army begins to appear. They're the Taken--members of other enemy races that Oryx controls and distorts by sending them into and back out of another dimension. The Taken resemble shadowy versions of existing enemies, but they move as if they're glitching in and out of reality. Oryx's arrival is what Eris Morn has been preparing for, and she and Cayde-6 work together to dispatch you to the Dreadnaught. When you arrive, you find the Cabal are already there, responding to Oryx "taking" their soldiers, but they're in a losing battle--they try to retreat from the Dreadnaught and even send a distress call that reaches outside the solar system. After your initial foray onto the Dreadnaught, you're sent to recover special cloaking tech from Cayde-6 that will help you reboard the ship, where you disable its weapon and, after several more missions, take down Oryx. But Oryx only retreats--you defeat him fully in the Raid, King's Fall. Defeating a Hive God isn't without consequences, though. Expansion 4: Rise of Iron The final expansion of Destiny fills in some of the story of the Iron Lords, the group of precursor Guardians from back during the Dark Age after the Collapse. In the present, we find out that the Fallen House of Devils started looking in Old Russia for something that could give them an edge against Guardians. There they found SIVA, a Golden Age nanotechnology created by Clovis Bray with the ability to make the Fallen more powerful. Those who use it are called Splicers. Lord Saladin, the last of the Iron Lords (and the guy who runs the Iron Banner tournament in the Tower), calls on you to investigate and secure the Iron Temple, which is under attack by a rebuilt Sepiks Prime (an enemy you fought for the first time in a Year One Strike). There you learn of the Fallen Splicers and enter the vault where they are replicating SIVA in order to stop the spread. Saladin sends you to the Plaguelands, a formerly closed-off section of Old Russia, where SIVA is on the loose. You fight to defeat the SIVA Splicers, but you also discover that the Iron Lords were killed by Rasputin. The Warmind seemingly misinterpreted the Iron Lords as enemies and unleashed SIVA on them, and they sacrificed themselves to keep it contained. In the Wrath of the Machine Raid, you finally defeat the Splicers and their leaders. The Plaguelands are quarantined by the Vanguard to keep SIVA from spreading, and it remains there to this day, as far as we know. Destiny 2 That brings us to Destiny 2. The sequel begins two years after the events of the original. Remember those Cabal who sent a distress call during their battles with the Hive on the Dreadnaught? Someone responded: Ghaul, the leader of the Cabal, and his army, the Red Legion. Ghaul manages to sneak-attack the Vanguard and ravages the Tower, then deploys a special net that allows him to capture the Traveler's Light. Suddenly, all Guardians lose their Light, and with it, their immortality and powers. The attack is devastating, but you survive--if barely--and escape the Last City. Key characters from what we've seen so far include the Vanguard (Zavala, Cayde-6, and Ikora) and shipwright Amanda Holliday, who were little more than quest-givers and gear merchants in the first game. Check out the full Homecoming story mission to see how they've taken center stage. Destiny 2 launches on PS4 and Xbox One on September 6, followed by a PC release on October 24.

Good one, Nissan. A few hours ago, Nissan took the wraps off the Navara facelift for the European market. At the same time, it also revealed the virtually identical Frontier for Mexico and South America. It looks as though Nissan also snuck in a teaser image of the Frontier for the US market where it’s a different, larger truck. In the official presentation video published by Nissan Mexico, you can see an interesting poster at around the 11:50 mark. Hit the play button below as it takes you straight to the relevant part. From left to right, that sure looks like the 2020 Titan, 2021 Frontier, and the aforementioned Navara / Frontier for global markets. The top-right corner of the poster even says “Next Trucks” as a further hint this is the real deal. That LED daytime running light signature with two parallel lines at the top and bottom extending across the entire width of the headlight does seem to match the original teaser from the end of May. It also matches what we’ve seen already in the spy shots (attached at the bottom), so there are plenty of reasons to believe we are indeed looking at the US-spec 2021 Frontier. It’s safe to say it’s been a long time coming taking into account the outgoing truck is one of the oldest vehicles on sale in North America, having been around for about 16 years. While most of the technical specifications remain shrouded in mystery, we do know what will power the revamped truck. Introducing for the 2020 Frontier, a new 3.8-liter V6 will send 310 horsepower and 281 pound-feet (381 Newton-meters) of torque to the road via a nine-speed automatic transmission. Given how old the current truck is, we’re expecting major improvements in terms of refinement and comfort for the 2021MY. Those spy shots we mentioned earlier also allowed us to take a peek inside the cabin. The prototype’s dashboard seemed to be a step in the right direction, although we’re certain that the huge bezel for the infotainment system’s larger touchscreen will be a turnoff for some people. The lower section of the center stack had new HVAC controls, with another row of buttons below for the heated front seats flanking the heated steering wheel button, parking sensors, and two USB ports. Look for a debut by year’s end or early 2021 considering Nissan has already confirmed the new Frontier will be available for the 2021 model year. Gallery: 2021 Nissan Frontier Spy Shots

Democrat Joe Biden has a path to victory in the US election but his Republican opponent President Donald Trump is challenging vote counts in four key states. So what might happen? The Trump campaign has claimed, without evidence, there is voter fraud and wants to stop the count in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia and Michigan. We speak to legal experts about what this means - and what comes next if the contest drags on. Section divider Shouldn't we know the results by now? Yes and no. Usually, when the data shows a candidate has an unbeatable lead, the major US networks declare one candidate the winner. This tends to happen in the early hours of the morning after voting day. These are not official, final results - they are projections, and the final official tally has always taken days to count. But this year's massive volume of postal votes means the counting is taking longer, especially as some battleground states have not allowed counting ahead of election day. media captionCould postal voting upend the US election? So they have had to count everything on the day itself, and counting postal votes can take longer than in-person votes due to verification requirements. When might we get a winner? If races are too close to call, and neither candidate concedes, it's normal for the counting to go on, says Matthew Weil, director of the Bipartisan Policy Research Center's elections project. There were obstacles before voting It was already a very litigious election. Before Tuesday's vote, there were more than 300 lawsuits across 44 states regarding postal and early voting in elections this year. They centred on a range of issues such as the deadline for posting and receiving ballots, the witness signatures required and the envelopes used to post them. Republican-run states said restrictions were necessary to clamp down on voter fraud. But Democrats said these were attempts to keep people from exercising their civic rights. Why it can be hard to vote in the US Does US postal voting lead to fraud? What are the challenges issued by Trump? Wisconsin The president's campaign said it has requested a recount in Wisconsin "based on abnormalities seen" on Tuesday. It's unclear when this recount would take place, however, since typically these do not happen until after the county officials finish reviewing the votes. The state's deadline for this part of the process is 17 November. Columbia University Law School professor Richard Briffault says there was a recount in Wisconsin in 2016 as well, and it "changed about a hundred votes". "A recount is not a means of, challenging the legality of a vote," he explains. "It's just about literally a means of making sure that the calculations are right." Who has the easier path to victory? Michigan Mr Trump won the state in 2016 by his slimmest margin - just over 10,700 votes. On 4 November, his campaign announced a lawsuit to stop the count there, though 96% of the votes have already been unofficially tallied by local election officials. Election officials looking at absentee ballots IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGES Thousands of votes remain uncounted and many come from regions that are historically Democratic, but US outlets and the BBC are projecting a win for Mr Biden. Pennsylvania The challenge here centres on the state's decision to count ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive up to three days late. Republicans are seeking an appeal. Mr Weil says he is most concerned about this dispute as the nation's top court was deadlocked on it before the election - and before Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined. "They did indicate in some of their dissents that they would be interested in taking it after. So I do think there is a risk that some of those [postal] ballots that were cast by election day and not received until Friday may be discarded. I think that would be the wrong result, but I think that is a legally possible result." But Weil adds that the election would have to be "very, very close for that to matter". He points out that state officials had sent out messaging ahead of election day urging voters to turn in their absentee ballots at polling places instead of posting them. "So my guess is that it's not going to be a huge number of ballots that could be thrown out, if that was the case." Prof Briffault also points out that the ballots arriving late are being counted separately, and says if Mr Biden can pull ahead without those being tallied, he sees no basis for a legal challenge. But the Trump campaign has declared victory in the state though there are more than a million votes still to be tallied. No major US networks have yet projected a winner. Georgia State Republicans and Mr Trump's campaign have filed a lawsuit in Georgia's Chatham County to pause the count, alleging problems with absentee ballot processing. Georgia Republican chairman David Shafer tweeted that party observers saw a woman "mix over 50 ballots into the stack of uncounted absentee ballots". They've asked a judge to account for the county's ballots that were received after polls closed on Election Day. protesters holding signs saying every vote counts Could anything reach the Supreme Court? Early Wednesday, Mr Trump also claimed voting fraud without evidence, and added: "We'll be going to the US Supreme Court - we want all voting to stop." Voting has already stopped - polls closed on Election Day, though there is the question of late ballots, like in Pennsylvania. Mr Weil says: "The Supreme Court doesn't have any kind of special power to stop the legal counting process." Prof Briffault also says that campaigns may dispute close contests in pivotal states, but "they still nonetheless have to have [a case] that raises a constitutional concern" for it to reach the Supreme Court. "There's no standard process for bringing election disputes to the Supreme Court. It's very unusual and it would have to involve a very significant issue." Graphic showing what happens if results challenged If the election result is challenged, it would require legal teams to challenge the result in the state courts. State judges would then need to uphold the challenge and order a recount, and Supreme Court justices could then be asked to overturn a ruling. In some places, recounts are automatically triggered if the margins are close enough - you may remember Florida's in the 2000 presidential election between George W Bush and Al Gore (more on that below). How long can this drag on? Because this is a presidential race, there are key federal and constitutional deadlines to move things along: States have about five weeks from 3 November to figure out which candidate won their presidential contest. This is called the "safe harbour" deadline, and this year, it's 8 December. If states haven't settled on their electors by this date - remember the president is chosen by an electoral college not the po[CENSORED]r vote - Congress can rule that their electors won't count in the final tally. On 14 December, electors meet in their respective states to vote. If we still don't have a majority-winner after 6 January, then Congress decides the outcome in what's called a contingent election. The House of Representatives will select the president while the Senate confirms the vice-president. Yes, this means we could see a president and vice-president from different parties, but maybe don't prep your Biden-Pence signs just yet. Each House state delegation gets one vote. Whoever wins 26 delegations is the new US president. But Mr Weil notes that "a lot would have to go wrong to get to this situation where the House and Senate are really deciding the presidency". Namely, the election would need to be incredibly close. "It's not just that some states have to be up for grabs," he says. "We could have some disagreements in states and still have one candidate getting to 270 electoral college votes." What is the Electoral College? Why might states not declare a winner? What if the states themselves can't agree on who gets their electors? You could imagine this happening if one party argues that the final vote count is inaccurate or rigged. The key battlegrounds of North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin all currently have split governments - Democratic governors but Republican-majority legislatures. In a contested election, lawmakers could theoretically split from their governors and submit their own certified electors to Congress. (This happened in 1876 - but more on that below.) Congress would need to determine whose votes count - the ones submitted by the legislature or the governor's. If the House and Senate both agree, there's no problem. If they're split, we're in uncharted waters, though some experts say federal law is in favour of the governor's electors. The final, final deadline No matter what, on 20 January, the Constitution says there must be a new presidential term. "At noon, we have to swear in somebody to be president. If there isn't an outcome, then we go into our succession plan," Mr Weil says. Mr Weil notes we could also see a scenario where the House is in a deadlock about the president, but the Senate confirms a vice-presidential pick. If the House can't resolve it by Inauguration Day, the Senate-selected vice-president becomes the president. Next in line, if there's no vice-president - the Speaker of the House (currently a Democrat, Nancy Pelosi). Have we seen this kind of drama before? To date, the 2000 election this is the only one decided by the Supreme Court, when George Bush edged out Al Gore. It was a tight race between Democrat Mr Gore and Republican Mr Bush. On election day, Gore won the po[CENSORED]r vote, but things were closer in the electoral college. Everything hinged on how Florida doled out its 25 electoral votes. The race was close enough to trigger a recount. Mr Gore's team asked for four counties to do that recount by hand, prompting an appeal by the Bush camp. Weeks later, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of Bush along party lines 5-4. Mr Gore conceded and President Bush moved into the White House. There are two other instances of unusual outcomes: Right to the wire, 1876 Lawmakers had another election mess on their hands in 1876, between Democrat Samuel Tilden and Republican Rutherford Hayes. Tilden was one vote short of a win in the electoral college. Four states had electoral disputes - and if Hayes won those, he'd win it all. Lawmakers appointed a bi-partisan commission to decide the winner. And so came the Compromise of 1877: Hayes won - by a margin of one electoral vote - by negotiating with southern Democrats. The election was resolved just two days before Inauguration Day. Getting most electoral college votes still not enough, 1824 In 1824, the man who won the po[CENSORED]r vote and the most electoral college votes did not win the election. Andrew Jackson appeared to narrowly beat John Quincy Adams for the sixth presidential seat, but because neither candidate secured a majority, the decision went, per the Constitution, to the House. The Speaker at the time, Henry Clay, was not a Jackson fan. In what's known as the "corrupt bargain", Clay negotiated with House lawmakers and Adams to secure the win for Adams - and the Secretary of State role for himself. Reporting by Ritu Prasad

ROME (Reuters) - In nearly seven decades in the barber business, Luigi Pinzo has seen Italy go through some bad times, from myriad recessions to political assassinations, but it took the coronavirus to force him to hang up his scissors. Pinzo is 80. He first starting working in a hairdressers when he was 12, sweeping the floors and brushing down clients’ jackets, before going on to open his own barber shop in a well-to-do Rome neighbourhood in 1977. With a loyal roster of clients, Pinzo’s business was thriving until February when COVID-19 hit, keeping his patrons away and instilling a fear of infection. “People are staying at home and I am working a lot less, and then there is the fear. Given my age, I worry I could catch this virus at any moment,” said Pinzo, wearing his trademark lime green jacket. “It is sad, but that’s the way it is.” Business association Confcommercio estimates that up to 40% of shops in the capital Rome have been forced to close because of the pandemic, leaving streets dotted with empty windows. Pinzo’s small establishment, called “Luigi”, fell victim of the mass cull on Oct. 31. Prior to that, the shop had barely changed over the decades, sporting three, polished leather chairs and a collection of colognes kept in a glass cabinet. Pride of place on the wall was a certificate awarded by the president of Italy in 1993 declaring Pinzo a Knight of the Republic in recognition of his long, successful career - one of the highest accolades handed out by the state. “I don’t know of any other barbers in Rome who have kept at it like me for 68 years,” said Pinzo, who started work as a child in central Italy before moving to Rome when he was 16. “I was always very ambitious. I was always looking to improve.” When Pinzo started out, long apprenticeships were the norm to master the craft of scissorwork. Now, he says, people open shops and wield electric razors with little formal training. “The profession has lost its soul. It has become mechanical,” he said. “When a client comes in you have to study them, how they dress, how they are and then work out the right haircut for them. It is an art, but it is dying out.” This attention to detail won Pinzo a faithful following over the years and when word spread that he was retiring, clients streamed in for a final cut. “I will remember the history that there is in this shop, the lovely time you could have staying here for 30 minutes to relax in the company of a person who comes from another time,” said long-standing customer Jacopo Romagnoli.

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The supercar gets five new exterior colors. Lamborghini isn't a supercar company that settles for subtlety. Wild designs, trick doors, and bright colors have made the Italian automaker a worldwide pop culture icon. The company is further enhancing the look of one of its products with a new color palette called the Huracan Evo Fluo Capsule for the supercar, which makes five new bright colors available for the supercar's exterior. The five matte colors are Verde Shock (green), Arancio Livrea (orange), Celeste Fedora (blue), Arancio Dac (another orange), and Gallo Clarus (yellow). They're as bright as you'd expect from the automaker. Lamborghini pairs them with a matte black roof, front bumper, and side skirts, though the company adds a pop of the new Fluo Capsule colors on the pieces' details, like the touch of color on the mirrors or on the rear splitter. The black trim creates a nice contrast against the bright colors. Gallery: Lamborghini Huracan Evo Fluo Capsule Inside is a full-black interior, but the bright exterior colors are present – just in a much smaller dose. The colors are used on the start-stop button cover and on the headrest's embroidered Lamborghini shield. The Huracan Evo Fluo Capsule comes with new sport seats as an available option over the standard comfort ones. The optional seats are available in Alcantara or leather with an Evo Sportivo trim. The new colors freshen the Huracan's appearance, though it doesn't receive any more pep to its step. Lamborghini's naturally aspirated 5.2-liter V10 motivates the machine, producing the same 630 horsepower (470 kilowatts) and 443 pound-feet (600 Newton-meters) of torque. The car sprints to 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) in 2.9 seconds with a top speed of 202 mph (325 kph). Those are impressive numbers, and the new colors for the 2021 model year should further help it stand out from the crowd. Pricing information hasn’t been revealed.

MARIB (Reuters) - When Um Feras realised there were no leisure spaces for women in her city in Yemen, she founded her own cafe and hopes to change attitudes about women-led businesses. “There were no places for women to gather comfortably, no places belonging to the female community: where the team from administration to the youngest employee is female,” she said from the Morning Icon cafe she set up in April last year in Marib, central Yemen. Traditional, conservative attitudes held by many locally against women working outside the home mean her project is new and strange for some people, Um Feras said. “The word ‘cafe’ can be associated with negative ideas and convictions ... Every new idea will have its supporters and opponents,” she said, adding she wants to lead by example to show that women can run enterprises. Wadad, a medical student and cafe customer, said she was drawn to the cafe’s internet connection: “There is space for women in general, amid the the poor internet network in Marib and the limited available spaces for female students.” Marib boomed into a bustling city at the start of Yemen’s almost six-year war as people fled fighting elsewhere. Running a business is not easy in a country battered by conflict, disease and an increasingly severe economic crisis. Um Feras imports most of her coffee and drinks. Maintaining quality amid rising prices and fluctuating currency rates has been a real challenge, she said. But she aspires to expand into a larger leisure spot for women and children.