The iPhone SE (2020) is well over a year old now, so we had hoped we might see the iPhone SE 3 soon, but the latest leak suggests that’s not to be. According to leaker Ross Young, the iPhone SE 3 has been delayed until 2024, so it might not land for years. Apparently when it does land though it will have a larger 5.7 - 6.1-inch LCD screen. That’s up from 4.7 inches on the iPhone SE (2020). Young doesn’t say anything else about the phone, but if that size is accurate then we’d think it will probably sport a more modern design, with smaller bezels and no home button, more in line with the iPhone 13 than the iPhone 8 that the current SE is based on. Otherwise it could be a substantially large phone, and one that might look incredibly dated by 2024. However, anyone who’s after a new affordable iPhone won’t necessarily have to wait that long, as Young adds that we’ll apparently see an iPhone SE Plus in 2022. This is said to have the same 4.7-inch LCD screen as the iPhone SE (2020) and the iPhone 8, but with the addition of 5G. We’d expect more will change than just the connectivity options – at the very least we’d think a slightly newer chipset would probably be included to keep the iPhone SE Plus current, but Young doesn’t comment on that. We would however take all of this with a pinch of salt. While Young has a solid track record, just the other day we heard that the next iPhone SE would launch in early 2022 but with a design based on the iPhone XR – which would likely mean a 6.1-inch screen. So that’s at odds with what Young says about the iPhone SE Plus. For now, it’s hard to say which – if either – leak is right. Analysis: it’s not the first time we’ve heard about an iPhone SE Plus Most iPhone SE rumors have been focused on the iPhone SE 3, but we’ve actually been hearing about an iPhone SE Plus since slightly before the iPhone SE (2020) even launched. However, previous leaks had suggested the iPhone SE Plus would have a larger screen than the iPhone SE (2020), whereas Young reckons it will be the same size. A larger display would fit better with the name, especially as Apple has previously used ‘Plus’ to denote larger screens, as with the iPhone 8 Plus for example. So there’s a lot of uncertainty surrounding this phone, and we’d take everything we’re hearing with a pinch of salt until more concrete details emerge. James is a freelance phones, tablets and wearables writer and sub-editor at TechRadar. He has a love for everything ‘smart’, from watches to lights, and can often be found arguing with AI assistants or drowning in the latest apps.

Seagate is ramping up production of its yet-to-be announced hard drives with a 20TB capacity, the company said in its latest earnings call. The drives use perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology with two-dimensional magnetic recording (TDMR) heads and are set to be generally available, unlike the company's current 20TB HDDs based on heat-assisted magnetic recording technology that are only available to select customers. 20TB Is Almost Here "We began ramping 20TB products in the September quarter, and am thrilled with the strong customer interest," said David Mosley, chief exec of Seagate. Back in July Mosley said that the company was prepping 20TB PMR HDDs to complement existing 20TB HAMR drives shipped exclusively to operators of hyperscale cloud datacenters as well as inside the company's own Lyve storage systems. These drives have some specifics that prevent Seagate from shipping them to all customers, including the DIY market. "[We] are now operating multiple varieties of 20 terabyte drive to meet the breadth of customer demand," said Mosley. With 20TB HDDs, enthusiasts will get plentiful storage space in desktops and NAS systems at home. For example, a quad-drive NAS could store some 60TB of data in RAID5 mode offering both ample capacity as well as rather high performance (at least in HDD terms, but one can add a caching SSD to an appropriate NAS to get high speeds). Dual-Actuator Adoption Is Growing Perhaps more interestingly, but Seagate is also ramping up production of its dual-actuator Mach.2 hard drives. Initially, these HDDs were only available to select customers and the largest adopter was Microsoft, which developed a number of ways to benefit from two actuators. Seagate began to list its Exos 2X14 HDD in May, which signalled the company's readiness to offer such drives to a broader selection of clients. "I am equally excited by customer reception for our Mach.2 dual-actuator drives, which are now shipping at large scale," said the head of Seagate. "As we were anticipating a few months ago, we are seeing greater adoption of Mach.2 drives for core and edge applications. The benefit from the read and write performance gains that we deliver with these products. We expect dual actuator drives to become more mainstream as capacities increased beyond 30TB, to support both cost and performance requirements." Seagate's Exos 2X14 14TB HDD is basically two 7TB drives crammed into a 3.5-inch hermetically sealed helium-filled chassis. The device features a 7200 RPM spindle speed, is equipped with a 256MB multi-segmented cache, and uses a single-port SAS 12Gb/s interface. With a 524 MB/s sustained transfer rate (outer diameter), 304/384 random read/write IOPS, and a 4.16ms average latency, the Exos 2X14 is the world's fastest HDD that can challenge some SATA SSDs as far as linear read/write performance is concerned. The host system considers an Exos 2X14 as two logical drives that are independently addressable. High Capacities Incoming While solid-state drives and 3D NAND technologies are developing rapidly, for bulk storage hard disk drives are unchallenged in terms of cost per gigabyte, reliability, and longevity. To keep gaining capacity, HDD makers must adopt new energy-assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) technologies, such as HAMR or MAMR (microwave-assisted magnetic recording). Seagate bets on HAMR, whereas its rivals Toshiba and Western Digital use FC-MAMR (flux-controlled MAMR) and energy-assisted PMR (ePMR) for now. HAMR requires new glass media and new write heads, whereas competing technologies use disks with minimal (if any at all) changes from PMR media. Seagate is leapfrogging its rivals with usage of new disks and believes that HAMR is the best technology both for now and for distant future since the media used today is posed to be used in the long term. "Just to be super clear, HAMR is really the pathway to get to 30TB and beyond," said Mosley. "We are very confident about that right now." Earlier this year Seagate said that its technologies will enable 100TB HDDs sometimes in 2030.

Name of the game: NBA 2K22 Price: 40,19$ Link Store: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1644960/NBA_2K22/ Offer ends up after X hours: in 3 hours Requirements: Minimum : OS: Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit or Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-2100 @ 3.10 GHz/ AMD FX-4100 @ 3.60 GHz or better Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 450 1GB/ ATI® Radeon™ HD 7770 1 GB or better DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 110 GB available space Sound Card: Directx 9.0x Additional Notes: Dual-analog Gamepad recommended. Initial installation requires one-time internet connection for Steam authentication; software installations required (included with the game) include DirectX and Visual C++ Redistributable 2012. In order to play NBA 2K22 on PC, you need a processor capable of supporting SSE 4.2 and AVX Recommended : OS: Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit or Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4430 @ 3 GHz/ AMD FX-8370 @ 3.4 GHz or better Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 770 2GB/ ATI® Radeon™ R9 270 2GB or better DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 110 GB available space Sound Card: Directx 9.0c Additional Notes: Dual-analog Gamepad recommended. Initial installation requires one-time internet connection for Steam authentication; software installations required (included with the game) include DirectX and Visual C++ Redistributable 2012. In order to play NBA 2K22 on PC, you need a processor capable of supporting SSE 4.2 and AVX

There’s an admirable belligerence about Audi Sport’s thinking with this third-generation RS3 mega-hatch. It hasn’t been made a crime just yet, after all, to put a big engine into something relatively small and create an amusingly alternative driver’s car in the process, much as a great many of Europe’s CO2-based taxation regimes would already suggest it ought to be. It really would be an aberration, though, if Audi’s excellent EA855 five-cylinder performance engine, motivator of the likes of the TT RS and RS Q3 and winner of more International Engine of the Year awards (yes, they do exist) than you can shake a golden crankshaft at, were taken from us any earlier than was absolutely necessary. Thankfully, it hasn’t been, so the ‘net zero glidepath’ can get back in the sea for the 1000 words at least. Hot hatchbacks like this used to be a little bit more common, but the RS3 has become the last of that over-engined breed, with motors significantly bigger, more powerful and more mechanically exotic than you expect to find in any humble five-door and something of the aura of the custom-built, engine-swapped hot rod about them. When I started out writing about cars and not long thereafter, there was a Volkswagen Golf R32, an Alfa 147 GTA, a five-pot Ford Focus ST and a straight-six BMW 130i about which to get excited – and I did. Now, every other hot hatchback seems to come with a samey four-pot turbo. Whatever the planet may make of it, my inner 20-something thinks that’s a great shame. Available in both saloon and five-door hatch Sportback bodystyles, the new RS3 has Audi’s updated 2.5-litre five-cylinder lump, which now produces 394bhp and 369lb ft of torque (15lb ft more than it did last time out). There’s plenty else that’s interesting about it, but that fact alone is enough (if you tick the right options boxes) to give this little Audi a top speed of, get this, 180mph. Imagine, if you will, the look of crestfallen incredulity on the face of the besuited driver of a BMW X6 M550i or Mercedes-AMG E-Class Estate, on his morning autobahn commute between Karlsruhe and Pforzheim, when he’s passed at that kind of speed by an Audi A3. It might even be worth the price of admission – although, as we’ll come on to, it’s quite a high price. Audi Sport has certainly pushed the boat out for this car. Significant effort beyond the scope of that involved with any RS3 before it has gone into the car’s chassis and suspension overhaul. This also becomes the latest fast five-door with an electronically controlled, torque-vectoring rear differential – and, of course, a drift mode (although traditionally demure Audi doesn’t label it as such). The work started with widely revised wheel hubs and axles. The RS3 rides 10mm lower even than an S3; on special uprated dampers that don’t appear on any other VW Group relation; on widened 19in wheels with front tyres wider of section than any on a previous version; with a front track some 33mm wider than the last version’s; and with increased negative wheel camber, for enhanced cornering grip, featuring at both front and rear. The new RS3’s seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox has a wider spread of ratios than it used to, for faster acceleration and better cruising efficiency. (It’s the first one that’ll crack 62mph from rest in less than four seconds). There’s a new active exhaust for an even more expressive five-cylinder sound. There are new and enlarged standard steel brakes with six-piston calipers, too. Or, if you prefer, you can have optional carbon-ceramic brakes, which come packaged with adaptive dampers, as part of Audi’s RS Dynamic package. Pirelli P Zero Trofeo R tyres are optionally available in other markets but, for reasons unknown, Audi UK isn’t offering them. Link : https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/audi/rs3

Defiant protesters remain on the streets of Sudan after the country's armed forces launched a military coup. Chanting and waving flags, they have blocked roads in the capital Khartoum and around the country following the takeover. On Monday coup leader Gen Abdel Fattah Burhan dissolved civilian rule, arrested political leaders and called a state of emergency. Soldiers opened fire on crowds and reportedly killed ten people. The coup has drawn global condemnation. Diplomats told AFP news agency the UN Security Council is due to meet on Tuesday to discuss the crisis. Gen Abdel Fattah Burhan sought to justify the takeover by blaming political infighting. Troops are reported to have been going house to house in Khartoum arresting local protest organisers. The city's airport is closed and international flights are suspended. The internet and most phone lines are also down. Central Bank staff have reportedly gone on strike, and across the country doctors are said to be refusing to work in military run hospitals except in emergencies. LIVE UPDATES: Sudan protests continue IN PICTURES: Sudan coup protesters take to streets EXPLAINER: Sudan coup: What you need to know ANALYSIS: Sounding the alarm for Sudan’s democracy Civilian leaders and their military counterparts have been at odds since long-time ruler Omar al-Bashir was overthrown in 2019. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the military's actions "are a betrayal of Sudan's peaceful revolution". The US has halted $700m (£508m) in aid. After a night of protests, demonstrators remained on the streets on Tuesday morning, demanding the return of civilian rule. "Civilian rule is the people's choice," they chanted as they set up barricades of burning tyres. Many women are also taking part, shouting "no to military rule". The protests continue despite troops opening fire on demonstrators on Monday. One wounded protestor told reporters he was shot in the leg by the army outside the military headquarters, while another man described the military firing first stun grenades, then live ammunition. "Two people died, I saw them with my own eyes," said Al-Tayeb Mohamed Ahmed. Sudan's doctors' union and the information ministry also wrote on Facebook that the fatal shootings had happened outside the military compound. Pictures from a hospital in the city showed people with bloodied clothing and various injuries. World leaders have reacted with alarm to news of the military takeover. The US has joined the UK, EU, UN and African Union, of which Sudan is a member, in demanding the release of political leaders who are now under house arrest in unknown locations. Among them are Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and his wife, along with members of his cabinet and other civilian leaders. BBC Arabic's Mohamed Osman reported from the capital that a special security unit of the military went to the prime minister's home early on Monday morning, and tried to persuade Mr Hamdok to agree to the coup, but he refused. Why Omar al-Bashir was overthrown Are military takeovers on the rise in Africa? The agreement between civilian and military leaders signed in 2019 was designed to steer Sudan towards democracy but has proven fragile with a number of previous coup attempts, the last just over a month ago. Gen Abdel Fattah Burhan, who was head of the power-sharing council, said Sudan was still committed to the transition to civilian rule, with elections planned for July 2023. Link : https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59045020

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While we’d heard that the new iPhone 13 may run into production issues resulting in fewer units shipped in the coming months, the situation might be even more dire. A new report suggests most of Apple’s new slate of products, including the iPad mini 2021, new iPad 2021, Apple Watch 7, and MacBook Pro, are backordered so severely that shipments might not be fulfilled until November or December. Backorders on new Apple products aren’t new, but new devices are seeing the longest delays in years, per Bloomberg. This may impact Black Friday deals this year, too. Apple’s online store listings illustrate how far out product delays are: at the time of this writing, it’ll take at least a month to get an iPhone 13 Pro in your hands in most markets (estimated arrival: Nov 19-29), and the the MacBook Pro 16-inch has an identical month-away shipping window (the MacBook Pro 14-inch has a three-week delay until Nov 12-19). While you can get a new iPad mini 2021 rushed to your door in two hours for an extra fee in some countries, normal deliveries are delayed for a month, and the same is true for the new iPad 2021. The Apple Watch 7 seems hit hardest, and will take over a month to arrive (Nov 30-Dec 7). The delays aren’t limited to Apple’s newest products – even the iPhone 12 and iPhone 11 lines are seeing similar delays from two weeks to a month, respectively. Apple’s not alone in product delays: the global chip shortage continues to make GPUs and PS5s nigh impossible to get, and impeding the rollout of other products. But the backorders come on the heels of an earlier Bloomberg report claiming production delays will result in 10 million fewer iPhone 13 units shipped over the next few months into the crucial holiday period, which is when Apple’s sales typically peak for the year. Apple is expected to do almost $120 billion in sales, up 7% from last year, of which half is projected to come from iPhone sales, but that number could fall short if these shortages persist. More importantly for consumers – that new iPhone or MacBook Pro you’ve been eyeing might not make it in time for a holiday gift. Analysis: why all these Apple delays? We were excited to see the new MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch models debut at Apple’s October event, but quickly saw that the continued impact of Covid on production and supply chains could mean a lot fewer MacBook Pros available to buy over the holidays, let alone many MacBook Pro Black Friday deals. Diving deeper into the reported 10 million-unit iPhone 13 shortfall, analysts and experts affirmed that the report was plausible given how many fault points along the production, supply, and shipping chain could result in serious cascading delays. But Apple does command a lot of priority among those chains due to the sheer volume of its orders – while the company rarely shares how many units it’s sold, IDC estimated that the company sold around 90.1 million iPhones during Q1 2021 (which includes the 2020 holiday season), per CNBC, and we’d only expect them to sell more. So fewer iPhones for this year’s holiday season is relative: we don’t know how many more iPhones Apple had projected to sell. Analysts further cautioned us against reading too much into a single supply chain report and its effects – retailers could rely more on existing stock, or Apple could make adjustments (or coax more device shipments) to make up for the shortage by the time holiday sales roll around. It’s too early to tell if consumers will run into availability issues with Apple’s new products – but these reports do suggest buyers might want to account for delays during Black Friday and other upcoming shopping periods.

As spotted by hardware sleuth Komachi_Ensaka, Nvidia's flagship CMP 170HX cryptocurrency mining GPU has gone up for purchase overseas. Vipera, a retailer in Dubai, reportedly has up 238 units in stock and is selling the CMP 170HX for a whopping $4,300. Nvidia had launched the Cryptocurrency Mining Processor (CMP) lineup in an attempt to divert cryptocurrency miners' attention away from its Ampere-based GeForce graphics cards. We later learned that Nvidia was repurposing Turing silicon for these CMP GPUs. The CMP 170HX, on the other hand, leverages the GA100 silicon, the same brobdingnagian die that powers the expensive A100 data center GPU. Once again, it's just Nvidia's smart way of recycling defective GA100 dies into something lucrative. The GA100 silicon inside the CMP 170HX only has 70 enabled SMs, amounting to 4,480 CUDA cores whereas the A100 has the full-fledged die at 108 SMs or 6,912 CUDA cores. The CMP 170HX delivers up to 164 MHps of Ethereum mining performance. It only requires a PCIe 4.0 x4 connection to hit its performance target. The GPU also wields 8GB of HBM2e memory across a 4,096-bit memory interface. The CMP 170HX has a 250W TDP and is more than happy to feed off a single 8-pin PCIe power connector. The CMP 170HX has previously smiled for the camera, but this is the first time that a retailer is publicly selling it. Komachi_Ensaka also unearthed a Yahoo auction over in Japan where the current bid for the CMP 170HX is at 600,000 yen ($5,285). The GPU features a standard, dual-slot design with passive cooling. The silver metallic shroud looks pretty sleek and if it wasn't for the small Nvidia and CMP 170HX logos, you wouldn't know where the GPU came from. Being a GPU that's tailored to professional cryptocurrency mining, the CMP 170HX lacks display outputs. In fact, user feedback revealed that the GPU comes with a locked vBIOS so overclocking or undervolting are off the table. Due to the nature of cryptocurrency mining, GPUs that are designed for that purpose typically don't come with a generous warranty. For example, Gigabyte backs its CMP 30HX with a limited three-month warranty. According to Vipera, the CMP 170HX has a one-year manufacturer warranty.

Name of the game: Fallout 4 Price: 4,99 Link Store: https://store.steampowered.com/app/377160/Fallout_4/ Offer ends up after X hours: in 2 days Requirements: Minimum : Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required) Processor: Intel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz/AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz or equivalent Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or equivalent Storage: 30 GB available space Recommended : Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required) Processor: Intel Core i7 4790 3.6 GHz/AMD FX-9590 4.7 GHz or equivalent Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 780 3GB/AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB or equivalent Storage: 30 GB available space

The bright neon lights of Cyberpunk 2077’s Night City twinkle invitingly as you gaze at it from the craggy desert hills of the Badlands, but as you approach it and it begins to surround and swallow you, the lights fade and you find yourself in the grime and sweat below. CD Projekt Red’s sprawling and troubled RPG game may have made its share of missteps – the aggressive marketing campaign and buggy launch perhaps chief among them – but it gets a lot of things right, too. One area where Cyberpunk 2077 – which you can buy here, coincidentally – really shines is in its cast of characters. The people V meets in the streets of Santo Domingo and the dusty desert trails of the Badlands are complex and layered, often brought to life by masterful vocal performances and animation. In keeping with the finer traditions of the cyberpunk genre, these characters can rarely be understood as being either good or bad – far more often, they’re desperate people trying to navigate a world full of bad options. Here’s news editor Carrie Talbot and senior news writer Ian Boudreau, talking about Cyberpunk 2077’s dramatis personae – who these people are, and why they’re so appealing… even if they make you hate them sometimes. Oh, and there will be major plot spoilers ahead. You have been warned. Carrie Talbot: Well, I don’t know about you, Ian, but Cyberpunk 2077’s endings had me yelling at several of its best characters. No matter which path I took, I wound up confronting complexities and disappointments I wasn’t expecting. Take ex-cop River Ward, for example. He’s an intriguing guy to encounter in a place like Night City: stable, (mostly) morally upright, emotionally intelligent, and charismatic. I saw the flip side of these seemingly great attributes in the epilogue, where it’s revealed that River stays in Night City – a town that cares for him about as little as he cares for it – with his family rather than carving out his own path into the unknown alongside V; a fate he seemed to want for himself. It’s a similar story with the smart, strong, and dazzlingly personable Judy Álvarez. After gently turning her down she bolts, leaving V to face their imminent demise alone, eventually flinging over a video message to show V the wonders she’d escaped to. Some volatile emails from a past relationship you can read on a laptop in Maiko’s office reveal yet another side of Judy’s personality – even if we’d ridden off into the sunset together I’d have to accept that there’s a toxic side to Judy. In both situations, despite picking what felt like sensible, moral options, I didn’t get what I had hoped for when the credits rolled. The train tracks of their paths didn’t automatically converge with mine just because I was the protagonist of this RPG. Or at least that’s what I thought I wanted from these romances. What I really want is for Night City to be full of complex people with their own agendas, wants, and needs, independent of those I choose for V. And that’s what we get, isn’t it? Ian Boudreau: It really is, and I think that might secretly be the thing that makes Cyberpunk 2077 a genuinely brilliant RPG. CD Projekt Red is no stranger to morally compromised characters – The Witcher series is full of them – and the cyberpunk genre is nothing if not an exploration of what compromises do to people. Cyberpunk 2077’s characters have all had to make sacrifices just to get by in the corpo controlled world of Night City. In my playthrough, I followed the romance storyline with Panam Palmer, who initially comes across as a fiercely independent free agent, someone who has figured out a way to really be herself. But it quickly becomes clear that her approach to life is the result of a family dispute with her clan, the Aldecaldos, rather than a freely taken decision. What she really wants is to reunite with the clan and find acceptance there, and it turns out she can be a bit of a jerk. Eventually you realise exactly why Panam has such a tough time getting along with people, although you’ll probably wind up liking her a lot by then. The best example is the relationship that develops between V and Johnny Silverhand. Compromise is exactly the thing that set Johnny off on the path of self-annihilating rage, and Cyberpunk 2077 helps you understand his motivations by dropping you into his perspective for some key sequences. He’s standoffish and often mean, but – and here I think we need to give credit to Keanu Reeves’ weirdly inherent charisma – he’s also kind of irresistible. There’s an exchange in Clouds where Johnny makes some snide, cutting remark about the choice of braindance partners offered to V, and they shoot back with a simple, “Eat a dick, Johnny.” It’s hard to nail down exactly why, but to me that feels like such a genuine, human response – the kind you’d make to someone you often can’t stand, who you’re frequently at odds with, but who you’ve also grown to love in some way, perhaps because you’ve never really had another choice in the matter. CT: That’s such an important point, and I totally agree. Each character, romanceable or otherwise, has compromise hardwired into them. They’re all jerks at some point or another, and that really draws me to them because it makes them more human. And that’s key in a city where humanity’s a rare commodity. The glimpses I got of Judy’s irascibility made me carefully consider how I should navigate my fledgling friendship with her. Should I back her up and let the Moxes declare their independence, even if it feels like the wrong choice? Or should I let a vicious, determined yuppie take Clouds over and steer the ship with a more seasoned hand? Pick the latter and Judy will be pretty pissed – she’ll challenge you, and she can be immature and unreasonable about it. Her knee-jerk reaction had my stomach gnawing itself up for a bit. The result is that every interaction feels rich. You’ll question yourself; evaluate your options; get fired up and defensive about your choices. Heck, on a few separate occasions I Googled whether or not I’d made the ‘wrong’ choice only to find that I hadn’t – and Judy comes to realise that, too. There’s no perfect answer. I want to be right, of course, but I also want her to see that. It means a lot to me that she does. Ultimately, it makes me treat her more like a person, not an archetypal RPG character. And then there’s Johnny. How does he become someone who can blow up a building and kill thousands of people? Can we identify with or care for him without compromising ourselves? There’s a flashback that shows an Arasaka techie talking about how her partner died in the explosion, and he says nothing; he doesn’t even acknowledge her pain. He can be pretty awful. Does his trajectory over the story make us empathetic because both he and V are growing from the experience of sharing headspace, or simply because they’re becoming an amalgam and can more easily find common ground? I often kicked myself for coming to care deeply about Johnny, because he doesn’t make it easy!

What could a 1980s fast Ford and its 2021 all-electric descendant possibly have in common? Are they chalk and cheese or two peas in a pod? In 1986, 35 years ago, Ford launched the Sierra RS Cosworth, then its fastest production road car to date, with a top speed close to 150mph. This year marked the launch of the Mach-E, its first proper EV, so the opportunity to get the two together and ponder how much things have changed is too good to miss. This Sierra was a homologation special designed to form the basis for an International Group A racing car. Five thousand was the number that manufacturers were required to put on public sale with fundamentally the same mechanicals that they would need on the track. The main reason for producing it was to win the FIA Touring Car Championship (now the European Touring Car Championship), and it did that with flying colours. My example is the last known remaining car from the fleet of 10 run by Ford’s press garage in Brentford and wears its original aluminium plates, carrying only the registration number and the Blue Oval. The actual car I ran for 12 months on long-term test from 1986 to 1987, it spent around 25 years in Australia in private ownership, and when it appeared again in the UK, I was able to buy it and return it to original specification. While the Mustang Mach-E is entirely different and with a different purpose, it’s still very much a performance Ford. This one is the four-wheel-drive Extended Range version, powered by an electric motor on each axle. Like all EVs, it’s at the cutting edge of technology, whereas even back in the day, the Sierra wasn’t. Its 2.0-litre 16-valve Ford Cosworth YBB engine was essentially an up-to-date version of the famous 1970s BDA engine with the addition of a turbocharger. So let’s cut to the chase. How do these cars illustrate the change in trends over the past 35 years? All cars inevitably reflect the culture in a car company and the character of the people who created them. In that respect, the apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree. The Sierra was developed at Ford Special Vehicle Engineering at the Dunton Technical Centre in Essex. The Mach-E is the product of the newly formed Ford Team Edison working out of an old factory in Corktown, Detroit. Ford chose anti-hype in its advertising for the Sierra, letting the visual drama of the winged beast do the talking. A double-page spread carried a moody studio image of a Moonstone Blue car like this one over the understated headline ‘Sierra by Cosworth out of Special Vehicle Engineering’. With the Mach-E, Ford has upped the ante a bit but still kept it tastefully reined in. ‘Electric. And untamed’ reads one headline and ‘The future of exhilaration’ another. Naturally, the two are technically worlds apart. The dual motors of this Mach-E are fed by a lithium ion battery pack containing 376 cells with 88kWh of usable energy. Peak power is 346bhp and torque 427lb ft – both figures unthinkable in 1986. But equally unthinkable back in the day was the idea of a 2.0-litre European production Ford making 201bhp at 6000rpm and 203lb ft of torque – twice that of the basic 2.0 Sierra with the potential for twice that again. The Sierra can get to 60mph in 6.1sec and has a top speed of 149mph. The Mach-E can sprint to 62mph in 5.1sec and has a top speed electronically governed at 112mph. But here’s the thing: although classed as a medium to large D-segment car in its day, the Sierra feels tiny by comparison and weighs a delightful 1205kg. At 2182kg, the Mach-E weighs just 23kg shy of a tonne more. Infotainment? The Sierra has a stereo on which you could listen to Sade, Alison Moyet or whoever else took your fancy in the 1980s. The sound quality depends on how bumpy the road is and the age of the cassette. There’s FM radio, too – as long as you remember to pull up the chrome aerial from the rear wing. In contrast, the Mach-E has Ford’s latest Sync 3 system, which presents 80 vehicle settings via a giant touchscreen. Even standard sound systems today are better than the most expensive aftermarket ones back in the Sierra’s day. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto allow you to morph a mobile phone onto the dashboard, whereas a ‘briefcase’ mobile phone in 1986 would occupy most of the passenger compartment and just about make a call if you were lucky. The Sierra’s interior is famously old-school Ford in that, apart from the bespoke Recaro seats, it’s cheaply made to look as good as possible. Since then, materials and manufacturing technologies have moved on, Ford has raised its game a long way and the Mach-E is lusciously finished inside. Long-distance travel is no problem in the air-conditioned luxury of the Mach-E, while the only chance of staying cool in the Sierra is a sunroof, air vents and open windows. The Mach-E may be an SUV and the Sierra a mere family hatchback, but both have five seats and the luggage compartments aren’t dissimilar at 385 litres for the old car and 420 litres for the new one. Park the two side by side and the trend towards bigger and heavier cars since the 1980s is obvious to see. Which brings us to the driving experience. The Sierra is smooth and easy to drive and, thanks to its light weight, its handling and agility through the switchback turns of the Scottish Borders set my heart fluttering with delight. The steering is analogue and the change of direction predictable and linear, with natural feedback through the hydraulic power-steering rack. The Mach-E’s steering feels digital and synthetic by comparison – sharp and almost over-responsive. There’s a sense of piloting by wire rather than being directly connected to the road. Even though its weight is masked by clever engineering and technology, the Mach-E feels colossal. Admittedly, Ford has done an impressive job of keeping the weight down: even with its large battery, this car weighs only marginally more than some ICE SUVs of a similar size. But while the Sierra sails over crests and effortlessly changes direction, he Mach-E feels less poised on these twisting, undulating roads. The early turbocharger technology and electric drive share something in common, though. The instantaneous torque from the EV’s powerful electric motors continues to spool out endlessly, and although the Ford Cosworth engine needs to get above 3000rpm to really get going, when it does, that slingshot feeling is similar. Link : https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/true-blue-ford-sierra-rs-cosworth-vs-mustang-mach-e

Labour is calling on the government to bring in its Plan B measures to tackle Covid in England, including advice to work from home and compulsory masks. Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves also told the BBC the vaccine programme was "stalling" and needed to work better. But Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the data did not currently suggest "immediately moving to Plan B". The measures, which aim to protect the NHS from "unsustainable pressure", also includes mandatory Covid passports. Plan A, which is currently in place, involves offering booster jabs to the most vulnerable, a single dose to healthy 12 to 15-year-olds and encouraging unvaccinated people to get jabbed. The NHS Confederation and the British Medical Association are among the groups who have called for some restrictions to be reintroduced in England, amid rising cases. Meanwhile in Wales, ministers are to consider whether to extend the use of Covid passes for a wider range of venues. What is Plan B for Covid this winter? When can I get my Covid booster jab? Why are UK Covid cases so high? Ms Reeves told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: "I think the first thing is the government have got to do more to make Plan A work. "If the scientists are saying work from home and masks, we should do that. So get A working better because the vaccination programme has been stalling, and introduce those parts of Plan B. "But there are also things not in A or B that need to be done, like paying statutory sick pay from day one and also better ventilation in public spaces." Asked whether Plan B should be introduced now, she said: "Yes, but let's not let the government off the hook with Plan A either." A Conservative Party spokesman said it was the third time Labour had changed its position on Plan B in four days. Appearing on the same programme, Mr Sunak was also asked whether it was time to bring in the government's back-up plan. "We're monitoring everything, but at the moment the data does not suggest that we should be immediately moving to Plan B, but of course we will keep an eye on that and the plans are ready," he said. The chancellor also said reintroducing the furlough scheme was "not on the cards because we don't envisage having to impose significant economic restrictions in the way that we had to over the last year". He added that the vaccine rollout was the "first line of defence" and the booster campaign was the best way to protect people through the winter. More than 325,000 booster jabs were given in England on Saturday - the biggest daily figure for boosters yet, NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard tweeted. Prof Adam Finn, a member of the government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said the vaccination programme by itself was not enough "to bring things under control". "We do need to have people using lateral flow tests, avoiding contact with large numbers of people in enclosed spaces, using masks, all of those things now need to happen if we're going to stop this rise and get things under control soon enough to stop a real meltdown in the middle of the winter," he told Sky News' Trevor Phillips On Sunday. Asked if the government should move to Plan B now, he said: "Well, some kind of Plan B." The Liberal Democrats said it looked "increasingly likely" Covid restrictions would have to be reintroduced because of the "government's bungling and inaction". Dr Katherine Henderson, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, told the programme emergency departments were "already struggling to cope", with large queues of ambulances waiting outside hospitals. Analysis by Jim Reed, BBC health reporter One in 55 people in England had Covid last week, according to the latest ONS figures, the highest rate since the end of January. Demands for compulsory mask wearing, vaccine passports and more working from home have been growing - backed by many doctors and people representing NHS trusts. Labour's position has not been altogether clear on this. When asked by Andrew Marr whether Plan B should be introduced "now", shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves agreed. But she also suggested the priority should be accelerating the rollout of booster vaccines to the over-50s and first jabs to teenagers. On the same programme, Chancellor Rishi Sunak repeatedly ruled out reimposing stricter measures "immediately" - perhaps suggesting a slight change of tone from senior ministers. The key measure to watch for is pressure on hospitals. As things stand, there are currently 6,405 people being treated for Covid on wards in England. The number has been rising but is still no higher than it was in mid-September - and well below the 34,000 seen in January. line In minutes of a meeting of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) on 14 October, which were published on Friday, the scientists said restrictions should be prepared for "rapid deployment" and that acting earlier could reduce the need for stricter measures over a longer time period. They said that out of the government's back-up measures, advising people to work from home was likely to have the most impact on the spread of Covid. Stricter rules are already in place in other parts of the UK, with masks compulsory in some settings in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Link : https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59027290

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What is it? Less than a month after driving the new Porsche 911 GTS in Italy, we’ve had the chance to sample one of the first right-hand-drive versions to reach the UK: an all-wheel-drive Carrera 4 GTS Coupé, experienced on the challenging moorland roads around Weardale in County Durham. The new GTS is closer to a model family than a trim level, with the choice of Coupé, Cabriolet and Targa bodyshells and a multitude of potential dynamic options. But the biggest quandary for British buyers is likely to be over the number of driven wheels. Choosing the Carrera 4 GTS over the rear-driven GTS requires an extra £5580 and brings around 50kg of additional mass but it also carries the promise of better traction in slippery conditions. Such as those I found on my test drive. Other items from the dynamic smorgasbord of options fitted to our test car included rear-axle steering, PCCB carbon brakes and the speed-sensitive Power Steering Plus, but it didn’t have the roll-fighting PDCC dynamic chassis system. What's it like? Porsche says the GTS’s chassis components and settings are close to those of the Turbo S and it felt noticeably firmer than the regular Carrera and Carrera S over challenging roads. Stability and traction were both impressive, even when rain tried to stop play. However, GTS drivers may spend a lot of their time travelling over choppy Tarmac searching for the optimal setting for the PASM adaptive dampers. On the bumpy (but supremely well-sighted) B6278 from Eggleston to Stanhope – one of the sternest tests of chassis manners in England – Normal mode struggled to digest high-frequency corrugation, the front of the car growing light as speeds rose. Selecting Sport imposed iron discipline, but at the cost of a forceful lower-back pummelling through the seat base. Beyond mild discomfort, though, the Carrera 4 GTS proved hugely impressive at delivering its turbocharged urge to pretty much any road surface. The GTS’s 3.0-litre flat six is well short of the Turbo on poke – its 473bhp is just 29bhp up on the Carrera S – but the ability to deploy this is much more important than the number itself, especially given the GTS’s low-down torque and the scintillating reactions of the test car’s eight-speed PDK gearbox. It sounds good when revved out, a louder exhaust tune giving a more purposeful voice than in the standard Carrera, but it needn’t be thrashed to deliver serious performance. The GTS feels agile and svelte on a tight-fitting road, easy to place and loyal to a chosen line, with steering that stays accurate as speeds and loadings rise. As with every 911, small inputs yield immediate reactions, fractional changes in throttle position widening or tightening cornering attitude. Mechanical grip is huge, but the chance to experience some tight, wet, bumpy corners proved that when the rear Pirelli P Zeros do let go, they do so abruptly. Loss of traction was also the only time the car felt obviously all-wheel driven, with torque aggressively diverted forwards as the quick- acting transmission tried to pull the car straight. And while Porsche’s carbon-ceramic brakes always feel over-spec for road use, they behaved impeccably under gentle loadings. Should I buy one? The GTS is definitely a Carrera-plus rather than a junior GT3, a point I confirmed by driving over the same roads in the GT3, whose responses and soundtrack remain on a higher, ethereal plane. Yet a well-chosen GTS feels like a particularly sweet spot within the 911 clan, especially given its ability to make use of an impressively high percentage of its dynamic talents in the real world. Link : https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911/first-drives/porsche-911-gts-2021-uk-review

Last week I waited in a packed press pen for German Chancellor Angela Merkel to descend the stairs at the Egmont Palace in Brussels. She'd already had lunch with King Philippe and later would go to a farewell concert featuring the works of Mozart and Beethoven. In other words, they were laying it on for her. "You've always kept your cool," she was told by Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander de Croo as they prepared to face the media. And she certainly appeared calm, even poker-faced, despite the heavy outpouring of warm words. Others might have blushed, maybe even visibly enjoyed it. After 16 years as chancellor she's been to many European Council (EUCO) summits - 107 is the po[CENSORED]r number floating around. Frankly after all those emergency EU summits and the odd "virtual" event, I've been advised that it's hard to be entirely sure. But we're talking big numbers. On Friday she took her seat at the table to deliberate for the last time. Also to absorb more compliments, some of them slightly unusual. Council President Charles Michel declared her a "monument" and said summits without the long-time chancellor was like Paris without the Eiffel Tower. He praised her "extreme sobriety and simplicity", which he said was "a very powerful seduction weapon". "You are a compass," he said, "a shining light of our European project". She has tried hard, in her own way, to keep the European project on course. To keep the family together. This week, for example, she was promoting dialogue with Poland, rather than confrontation and big legal battles. Germany's view, in this instance, is that you can try the court route - or withholding EU cash - but that the problem is ultimately political. Therefore, so is the solution. After all, the Law and Justice Party (PiS) is in power and the next Polish election isn't until 2023. But there is frustration here, among some, about Angela Merkel's watchful patience. The Polish rule of law row with the EU is a prime example where some feel that approach just hasn't worked. I've heard diplomats express impatience at all the talking on this issue, with a feeling or fear that it's going nowhere - even backwards. The European federalist and former British MEP Andrew Duff said he actually felt "sad" for Angela Markel. "She prioritised EU unity over reform - and she leaves the Union more disunited than ever, with one man overboard." That, of course, is a reference to Brexit. The UK's departure from the EU, Mrs Merkel said at the Egmont Palace, had "saddened her deeply". Read more on Chancellor Merkel: EU's queen with a tarnished crown How Germans will look back on Angela Merkel So, taking on Charles Michel's words, pick your monument. Angela Merkel: a steady, unshakeable figure who has been that beacon of light keeping the EU building blocks largely in place, even during the toughest of times. Or a cautious - even indecisive - overseer of European affairs; so determined to maintain the peace that problems, not confronted, are left to fester. In politics it isn't easy to draw comparisons with that mysterious concept of what might have been. Counterfactual history is a blank page. But her signature is all over the last period of European history. In December, at the next European Council in Brussels, we'll begin to learn how things could be different. Link : https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59008892

Finally showing myself. Here is a photo of me and my niece :)).