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According to @hongxing2020 on Twitter, a refresh of the GeForce RTX 2060, RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3080 could be on the horizon. These compete with the best graphics cards, and outfitting them with higher memory capacities will make them more attractive. The most significant upgrades go to the RTX 2060 and RTX 3070 Ti. Hongxing believes the 2060 refresh will pack 12GB of memory, and the RTX 3070 Ti will feature 16GB, doubling the amount of memory for both cards. The RTX 3080, on the other hand, will only feature a small bump in VRAM capacity, up to 12GB. This will upgrade the RTX 3080 to the same memory capacity as its bigger brother, the RTX 3080 Ti. The leaker believes the RTX 2060 refresh will launch on December 7th, with the RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3080 following suit a bit later on January 11th. Please keep in mind these are rumors, so take these results with a grain of salt as always! Perhaps the most interesting card of the bunch is the RTX 2060. This card, in particular, has been rumored to feature a 12GB memory upgrade for nearly a year now (according to Videocardz). It seems strange that Nvidia would upgrade a card from 2019, but given the current graphics card shortage we're experiencing, upgrading an RTX 2060 to 12GB of VRAM might not be such a bad idea. RTX features like ray tracing and DLSS, along with ultra-high-quality textures, are starting to push 8GB memory configurations, never mind the 6GB RTX 2060. We suspect Nvidia is upgrading the memory to compensate for the more graphically demanding games we're seeing in 2021, like Far Cry 6. This could also be why Nvidia is targeting the RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3080 for a memory upgrade, with their somewhat small 8GB and 10GB frame buffers. However, a more compelling reason to refresh these cards might be competition against AMD's high capacity Radeon RX 6000 GPUs, which feature significantly more memory than their Nvidia counterparts. Most of Nvidia's Ampere products have been a step behind AMD's RDNA2 cards in memory capacity, making Nvidia's cards appear worse on the spec sheet. The refresh would alleviate this "problem." The RTX 3080 does seem like an odd choice, though. The RTX 3080 Ti already ships with 12GB of GDDR6X on a 384-bit memory interface, while the stock RTX 3080 has 10GB GDDR6X on a 320-bit interface. It wouldn't make a lot of sense to have both models using the same memory speed, but shifting the RTX 3080 to 12GB of 16Gbps GDDR6 would yield nearly the same bandwidth (768 GBps vs. 760 GBps) while increasing capacity, and GDDR6 might be in better supply. Or these could all be fake rumors. If Nvidia can replace all three SKUs with these new refreshed models and offer them at the same prices as the current models (not counting scalpers), these cards might be a nice little upgrade for the relatively few customers who will acquire these graphics cards in the face of the ongoing graphics card shortage. Unfortunately, there's no reason the newcomers would end up priced any better than the existing models, and adding more VRAM would likely just increase the prices.

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The Audi A8 has received a subtle facelift for 2022, with new styling features, advanced lighting technology and a top trim level reserved for the Chinese market. The luxury saloon’s front end has been redesigned with a wider grille, while the air intakes at the edges of the bumper have been angled slightly to make them appear more upright. A new S Line package will be available for the first time on an A8, adding bespoke styling features including S8-inspired blades in the side intakes. Optional Chrome and Black exterior packages have been carried over from the pre-facelift model, while the colour range has been updated with four new metallic and five new matt shades. The new A8 L Horch trim level has been created exclusively for the Chinese market, and is designed to rival other super-luxurious saloons such as the Mercedes-Maybach S-Class. At 5.45m long, the Horch is 13cm longer than the existing A8 L. It features new wheels and chrome exterior styling, with optional two-tone paint - a first for the A8. The interior receives diamond quilting, deep-pile rear floor mats and foot-massaging relaxation seats as standard. The Horch is powered by the same 3.0-litre V6 found in the standard A8. All new A8 models are available with Audi’s Digital Matrix LED headlights, which use around 1.3 million micromirrors to split the light into individual pixels, similar to a digital projector. This allows the car to emit a “carpet of light” into the driver’s lane only. Digital OLED brake lights are now included as standard, with proximity sensors that activate them if another car comes within two metres of a stationary A8. Inside, two 10.1in infotainment screens have been added to the rear seats and are controlled by a touchscreen remote in the centre armrest. Optional extras include a cooler with a bar compartment, a fold-out centre console table and a perfume function. The updated A8 splits 40 driver assistance systems over several different packages - for example, the Park package features Audi’s remote park assist, allowing the car to automatically manoeuvre in and out of parallel or bay parking spaces without the driver needing to be in the car. The City package includes Audi’s pre-sense 360deg safety system to lift the suspension up in a side impact to protect the occupants, while the Tour package features adaptive cruise assist to automatically adjust its speed. The engine line-up remains unchanged, with the six-cylinder 3.0 TDI and 3.0 TFSI producing 282bhp and 335bhp respectively. The TFSIe hybrid option delivers 455bhp - slightly more than the range-topping 4.0 TFSI, a detuned version of the V8 found in the S8. All engines are connected to an eight-speed Tiptronic gearbox and Audi’s Quattro four-wheel drive system. The 563bhp V8-powered S8 performance variant gets predictive active suspension, a sport differential and dynamic all-wheel steering included as standard. It promises 0-62mph in 3.8sec. Link : https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/new-2022-audi-a8-updated-sharper-styling

On the night before the opening game of baseball's 1919 World Series, 46-year-old sportswriter Hugh Fullerton was worried. He suspected the series was going to be rigged. The Cincinnati Reds were hosting the Chicago White Sox, and Fullerton was staying in the same hotel as legendary former pitcher Christy Mathewson. They talked about how they might be able to tell if a game was being fixed. Mathewson explained the kinds of plays that could be indicative of something sinister - a misplaced throw to first base, or a pitch that was just slightly off-target. At the time there was no such thing as sports analytics - but Fullerton kept his own detailed shorthand notes and recorded plays during games. So they agreed to monitor and highlight all instances of anything questionable. What followed was the Black Sox Scandal - which resulted in eight Chicago players being banned from Major League Baseball for life two years later, in 1921. Fullerton's role was key. Despite the opposition he faced during his lifetime, and baseball's reluctance to face up to the dark influences often shaping its early fate, he was a radical pioneer whose impressive early advances helped set the foundation for data's transformative effect on global sport. Short presentational grey line When the centre-forward of your favourite football team looks up and takes a shot at goal they trigger a multitude of data points. The position of the player, the ball, team-mates and opponents will be collected, along with their speed, the movement of the ball, where the ball is struck, the time of the game, the state of the game and much more. This event will be added to thousands collected in each match. Football, like almost every other sport, has undergone a data revolution. And the conclusions drawn from analysis of that data has in turn transformed the way sport is played. For example in basketball, players of the modern era are far more likely to attempt three-point shots. Much of this analytical explosion was triggered by the book, and film, Moneyball, which followed a new approach in baseball. What is perhaps less well known is that a wide range of sports employed data collection systems and analysis going back to Victorian times. Baseball was one of those sports and one of the pioneers in this regard was Hugh S Fullerton. Born in Ohio in 1873, Fullerton fell in love with baseball at an early age and, although he reported on other issues and even dabbled in fiction, it was the thing he always came back to. He also loved numbers and collected detailed information on every game he attended, eventually more than 3,000. Fullerton wanted to use the data he collected to find out how games were won and lost, not just to be added up for record keeping. He believed his scientific methods could predict a season's worth of results based on mathematical values he assigned to players and positions. Using the system he was able to make bold predictions about each year's World Series. In 1906, he leapt to prominence when he picked the 'hitless wonders' of the Chicago White Sox to beat the Chicago Cubs, despite the latter having won a record-setting 116 games during the regular season. He wrote that the Sox would win games one and three, the Cubs would win game two and that it would rain on the fourth day. He was spot on with each pronouncement. In May 1910 he wrote an article for The American Magazine titled 'The Science of Baseball'. It revealed some of his methods, alongside diagrams of theories and deductions. He was one of the first published writers to show the shorthand markings he used to denote batted balls, hits and pitches. As more recent innovators have found, traditionalists didn't like his new approach. A letter to Baseball Magazine complained that Fullerton "would have us believe that good ball can only be played by those men who work with the assistance of a tape-measure, a tee-square and an intimate knowledge of algebra and fractions". But using his data, Fullerton had correctly predicted the winners of the 1912, 1915, 1916 and 1917 World Series, often going against perceived wisdom, and including the exact numbers of games needed to win, using his self-devised ratings system. So in 1919, when he gave his opinion on what was happening between the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox, those words carried weight. And he was right. White Sox first baseman Chuck Gandil was the ringleader. He admitted as much in a Sports Illustrated interview, 37 years later. He'd had discussions with gamblers in mid-September, weeks before the first match. The question of whether the World Series could be bought was answered - "yes, it could" - and by the end of the month he had a number of accomplices. The key was star pitcher Eddie Cicotte, who Gandil knew had money troubles after buying a farm. Six others agreed to help, with varying degrees of apprehension. A fee of $100,000 was agreed, to be shared among the eight conspirators. That would be worth about $1.6m today - not a lot compared to current MLB salaries, but Cicotte was then earning a yearly wage of $5,000. There were rumours. By the time Fullerton had heard enough to become concerned, Gandil had taken delivery of a first cash payment. Cicotte went to bed that night and found $10,000 in cash under his hotel pillow. There was no going back for them now. Meanwhile, Fullerton wired a message to all 40 of his syndicated newspapers: "Advise all not to bet on this series. Ugly rumours afloat." The warning was widely dismissed and left unprinted. No-one would believe a World Series could be crooked. Game one of the best-of-nine series - a new format - took place on a beautiful autumnal afternoon at Cincinatti's Redland Field. Everyone involved in the conspiracy knew that White Sox pitcher Cicotte would give a clear signal that the fix was on: if he hit the first Reds batter it was happening. His first pitch was called a strike, but the second hit Maurice Rath on the back. As he trotted to first base the money on the Reds kept building. Before the match, the White Sox were seen as slight favourites, but Fullerton used his own methods to calculate they had a 71% chance of winning. Game one turned into a rout for the Reds: 9-1. Fullerton ringed three plays in dark pencil, each attributed to Cicotte. After game two he circled six plays in another Reds victory. That night, White Sox catcher Ray Schalk complained to manager Bill Gleason that Cicotte was not pitching the way Schalk was asking. In the decisive fourth inning of game two he said the pitcher had "crossed" him four times, something he hadn't done once during the rest of the season. Cicotte was left out of game three - won by the White Sox 3-0 - but played again in game four. After the previous bust-up with Schalk he pitched as agreed. Instead he found other ways to sabotage the game. Fullerton made two notes that highlighted what he saw as suspicious plays where Cicotte misfielded the ball and allowed the Reds to score two runs. By the time of the eighth game the Reds led 4-3. Fullerton was frustrated. He had no concrete proof but was absolutely convinced the series was fixed. He walked past a well-known gambler before the opening pitch and was advised to put some money on the Reds. "It's going to be the biggest first inning you ever saw!" he was told. And it was. Claude Williams gave up four runs to the Reds as they built up a 10-1 lead before wining the game 10-5. The series was over. Even with eight players conspiring it had been reasonably close. Fullerton believed his original prediction would have been proved correct without foul play. He knew the numbers didn't lie. The Sox players he suspected of being in on the fix committed nine errors during the series compared with only four by the rest of the squad combined. They gave up 21 runs compared to 14 by the non-fixers. As the players cleared out their clubhouse and prepared to go their separate ways for the off-season, White Sox owner Charles Comiskey sent word that he had the pay cheques for the players under suspicion, and that they should come to his office to collect them. None of them did; they left the stadium without their money. Dozens of newspapers covered the series and rumours abounded, but nobody wrote anything about a fix. When Fullerton prepared his post-series piece he couldn't get it published. Both the Chicago Herald-Examiner and the Chicago Tribune backed down from printing the accusations for fear of being accused of libel. Fullerton was frustrated. Not only did he place great faith in his scientific approach but he was a deeply moral man who felt compelled to speak out about wrong-doing, even if others felt it better to keep quiet 'for the good of the game'. No-one else seemed interested in exposing what many suspected. Furious, he set off into the wilderness on a fishing trip. When he returned to find still no action being taken he was even angrier. Weeks later The Evening World in New York agreed to run his story, but it was edited down to be less inflammatory and finally published in December 1919. Rather than shaking the authorities into an investigation it made the author a pariah and he was accused of writing hogwash for personal gain and out of bitterness, because his prediction hadn't come true. Baseball Magazine, with the weight of the franchise owners behind it, called Fullerton "an erratic" who should "keep his mouth shut when in the presence of intelligent people". But even if Fullerton's article didn't immediately change anything, suspicions around baseball and gambling remained. In September 1920 an investigation was opened into the possible fixing of a game between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies. It was here that testimony claimed the 1919 series had been fixed and named several White Sox Players. Within days several had confessed. Link : https://www.bbc.com/sport/baseball/59078788

Rescuers are searching for survivors in the wreckage of a 22-storey block that collapsed under construction in Nigeria's largest city, Lagos. At least 10 people have died and dozens are missing. Rescue workers at the site say they have heard more voices from under the rubble. Nine people have been pulled out alive so far. The partially built block of luxury apartments came down on Monday but what caused the collapse remains unclear. Overnight, despite the heavy rain, people used floodlights to continue the search digging through debris and twisted metal. Many relatives are now anxiously waiting near the site to hear whether their loved ones have survived. "Our sister is inside," Fawas Sanni told the Agence France-Presse news agency. His sister, Zainab, was working at the construction site as part of the National Youth Service Corps. "I was the last one who to spoke to her before she went to work yesterday morning," Mr Sanni is quoted as saying. Moses Oladipo, 65, was also waiting for news about his son. "He just came here to visit his friend, before his flight back to the US where he lives," Mr Oladipo said. He said when a man was rescued on Monday night, "I thought it was him, but no. I still have hope". In the meantime, local authorities have ordered an investigation into the collapse and pledged to make the final report public. Femi Adesina, a special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari, said the president "commiserates with families who have lost loved ones". The building came down at around 14:45 local time (13:45 GMT) in the upmarket district of Ikoyi. It was part of a complex named 360 Degrees Towers, which was intended to house luxury apartments, town houses and penthouses, according to the development's website, which has since been taken offline. The housing scheme is being developed by Fourscore Homes Limited, which has a portfolio of projects in the UK, US, South Africa, and other areas of Nigeria. Construction worker Ade John told BBC Igbo that he was on the ground floor when the building started caving in. "There were 40 bricklayers who came to work, including some engineers on the first floor," he said, fearing that they had not escaped. A witness who was working in an office building opposite told the BBC's Outside Source that he heard a sound, looked out of his window and "saw the building literally going down floor by floor". According to the AP news agency, visiting Lagos' deputy governor Femi Hamzat was met by crowds of angry people on Monday who accused authorities of not starting rescue efforts soon enough. Link : https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59125228 Some reports say the building was several floors higher than originally intended.

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Western Digital this week said that it would start volume shipments of its 20TB hard drives featuring OptiNAND technology next month. Western Digital's OptiNAND technology uses an iNAND UFS embedded flash drive (EFD) with an HDD to improve performance, reliability, and capacity. But the question is, will those 20TB drives be available to consumers? "Next month, we will commence volume shipments of our 20TB CMR hard drives based on OptiNAND technology," said David Goeckler, chief executive of Western Digital, on a call with analysts and investors. Western Digital's 20TB HDDs with OptiNAND rely on the company's familiar nine-platter 7200RPM helium-filled platform that uses energy-assisted perpendicular magnetic recording technology (ePMR). OptiNAND adds several advantages to the platform as it stores various kinds of metadata data on the EFD instead of rotating media. The tech frees up onboard and makes metadata related to repeatable runout (RRO) and adjacent track interference (ATI) available to the controller faster, optimizing performance. The amount of metadata stored on modern HDDs is quite significant, so offloading it to NAND makes perfect sense both from a usable capacity and performance point of view. Furthermore, OptiNAND also boosts the reliability of HDDs. Officially, Western Digital's OptiNAND-equipped HDDs are meant for cloud data centers and enterprises. However, OptiNAND is poised to solve performance and effective area density challenges of all hard drives, so nothing can stop a user from installing such a drive into a desktop or NAS and taking advantage of all the features that OptiNAND has to offer At this point, we have no idea whether Western Digital plans to offer OptiNAND-equipped 20TB HDDs to the channel. However, unlike its SMR-based HDDs, these drives actually make a lot of sense for this market. Unless, of course, they are priced at levels not accessible to average enthusiasts.

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The revived Opel Manta will arrive in 2025 to spearhead the transition of Opel into an electric-only brand – and it will be among the first in a wave of bespoke EVs from new industry giant Stellantis, alongside a reinvented Lancia Delta. Whereas the original Manta of 1970 was a rear-driven coupé, the new one will be an electric coupé-SUV. Like Ford has done with the Mustang Mach-E, Opel bosses believe that using a classic name will give the new Manta some sporting pedigree. It has yet to be confirmed if the Manta name will be used in the UK. While there has never been a Vauxhall badged Manta, the model does have heritage here. The first iteration was sold in the UK as the Opel Manta, before later versions were rebranded as the Vauxhall Cavalier Sports Hatch and Cavalier Coupé. The return of the Manta was confirmed in July, when Opel and Vauxhall confirmed that they would launch only new electric cars from 2027. The British brand already offers electric versions of the Corsa supermini and Mokka crossover, and the impending new Astra will also be available as an EV. The Manta would probably sit just above that hatchback in Vauxhall’s range. While no technical details for the SUV have been confirmed, it will use one of the four new bespoke EV architectures being developed by Stellantis. The most likely is the STLA Medium platform for C-and D-segment cars. This can house a battery of up to 104kWh, delivering a range of around 440 miles, and be fitted with one or two motors. The latter set-up affords all wheel drive, which could give the Manta the performance to reflect its history. Stellantis says the motors used on its new platforms can offer 0-62mph times of around 2.0sec. The motor earmarked for the STLA Medium can make between 167bhp and 241bhp, so a dual-motor Manta couldoffer in excess of 400bhp. The Manta should serve as something of a halo car for Opel and Vauxhall, sitting in a fast-growing market segment and giving the brands a performance edge. It is likely to be pitched as a rival to the Mustang Mach-E, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV6 and Volkswagen ID 4. Link : https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/opel-manta-and-lancia-delta-lead-stellantis-ev-attack

When world leaders meet in Glasgow this week to discuss the global response to climate change, sporting organisations will either be involved or looking on with interest. The summit, COP26, is the latest in a series of annual meetings, but this one is considered by many as the most significant yet, with a major United Nations scientific report warning that climate change is a "code red for humanity". The two-week conference is expected to dominate the news agenda around the world, but it could also have implications for sport. What exactly is COP? COP stands for "conference of the parties" and is an annual meeting of the 197 parties (mostly countries) who have signed up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, an agreement aimed at "preventing dangerous human interference with the climate system". Glasgow is the 26th occurrence and has added significance as nations are expected to outline their plans for honouring pledges made five years ago relating to global warming. Agreement was reached at COP21 in Paris to limit global warming to well below 2C and, preferably, to 1.5C compared to pre-industrial levels. However, the increase is already believed to be 1.1C and we are on course for 2.7C warming this century with current emissions, something a recent UN report warned could have "disastrous consequences" and be a "climate catastrophe". The meeting is being seen as of elevated importance after last year's was postponed during the pandemic and also coming after a year of unprecedented weather events: flooding in western Europe (killing at least 170 people) and China (displacing nearly 2m people), as well as the "heat dome" in Canada and the United States which is estimated to have killed around 1bn marine animals, not to mention a continued growth in wildfires. How is climate change affecting sport? Extreme weather events have already begun to have significant impacts on sport in recent years. In 2014, matches on all outside courts at the Australian Open were suspended because of heat. The Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014 was an example of a major winter sports event which needed to use artificial snow to supplement the melting snow at Olympic venues. Matches at the 2019 Rugby World Cup, including England's meeting with France, were cancelled because of Typhoon Hagibis. The marathon at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 was moved because of concerns about extreme heat, while competitors spoke of the brutal conditions in the hottest ever Games. And by 2050 it is estimated that almost one in four English football league grounds can expect flooding every year. The Met Office's Dr Fai Fung recently told BBC Sport: "Climate projections are the best window we have on our future world and looking through that window reveals that all aspects of our lives will be affected increasingly by climate change. "Looking at major global sporting events is an interesting way of understanding the impacts of climate change on society and we find that we can't take the future viability of any of these events for granted. "Cutting greenhouse gas emissions by nations around the world will avoid many but not all of the worst impacts of climate change on people, businesses and nature - including sport. The science shows that adaptation will also be needed alongside the emission reductions." What has sport got to do with COP itself? Sport is a huge multi-billion dollar business with unique global reach and engagement. With an all-encompassing effort involving all aspects of society and industry required to address issues of climate change, many see sport as being a key tool for communication across the globe. The UN recognises this in the form of their Sport for Climate Action Framework, which asks sports bodies to sign up to five key principles: Undertake systematic efforts to promote greater environmental responsibility Reduce overall climate impact Educate for climate action Promote sustainable and responsible consumption Advocate for climate action through communication What will the sporting presence be like in Glasgow? Wednesday is the day when sport will come into focus in Glasgow. Key figures from the world's biggest sporting organisations are expected to attend including the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Sport for Climate Action will host an afternoon of events on Wednesday, while there will be plenty of fringe talks and panel discussions in which sports bodies and athletes will come together to try to increase pressure on the industry to act, as well as send out a positive message to fans around the world. Formula E is the only official sporting partner of the summit, while the likes of Olympians Paula Radcliffe and Hannah Mills, the Williams F1 team, former F1 driver Nico Rosberg and Tottenham Hotspur ambassador Ledley King are all due to attend. What decisions could affect sport? The main resolutions of the conference could impact sport in that they will aim to address emissions and climate change across the board. One very specific development is that the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework - a pledge from sporting bodies to play their part in helping the environment - is set to announce it will be increasing its ask of sports organisations, requiring them to: Achieve a 50% reduction in overall CO2 emissions by 2030 Achieve net zero by 2040 Submit annual reports to the UN on progress to achieve these goals The IOC has already committed to the above targets but we expect to hear which other sports organisations will do likewise. Outside the main summit a variety of other sporting organisations are coming together to announce a selection of other initiatives: COP26 Sport Manifesto: Announcement of a manifesto signed by athletes and sports organisations. Currently has 200 signatories but could be closer to 250 by the day. Loughborough University will be announcing the world's first sport and sustainability course, to launch in September 2022. Link : https://www.bbc.com/sport/59055449

Barclays chief executive Jes Staley has quit following a probe into his links with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The City watchdog and Bank of England have been investigating if Mr Staley's relationship to the dead financier was closer than first thought. Barclays said it had been made aware of the conclusions of the probe and "Mr Staley's intention to contest them". Regulators began investigating after getting a cache of emails between the men from Mr Staley's former employer. Before joining Barclays the married father-of-two was an executive at US bank JP Morgan, where Epstein, who committed suicide in 2019 while in prison, was already a client. Over many years, Epstein, who was convicted of trafficking a minor for prostitution in 2008 and served 13 months in custody, had formed a network of links with the rich and powerful. Although Mr Staley, 63, has characterised his relationship with Epstein as professional, with contact starting to "taper off" from about 2013, regulators looked into whether the emails pointed to a friendlier connection. Mr Staley had already admitted he maintained contact with Epstein for about seven years after his 2008 conviction. And it is also known Mr Staley visited a retreat owned by Epstein in the US Virgin Islands in 2015, months before taking the top job at Barclays. Mr Staley said last year: "Obviously I thought I knew him well and I didn't. For sure, with hindsight with what we know now, I deeply regret having any relationship with Jeffrey." Barclays said in a announcement on Monday that it was "made aware on Friday evening of the preliminary conclusions from the FCA and the PRA of their investigation into Mr Staley's characterisation to Barclays of his relationship with the late Mr Jeffrey Epstein and the subsequent description of that relationship in Barclays' response to the FCA". "In view of those conclusions, and Mr Staley's intention to contest them, the board and Mr Staley have agreed that he will step down. "It should be noted that the investigation makes no findings that Mr Staley saw, or was aware of, any of Epstein's alleged crimes, which was the central question underpinning Barclays' support for Mr Staley following the arrest of Mr Epstein in the summer of 2019." Barclays praised Mr Staley's success at the bank, but added that "the regulatory process had still to run its full course and it was not appropriate for Barclays to comment further on the preliminary conclusions". The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) announced an investigation last year into Mr Staley's "characterisation to the company of his relationship" with Epstein. Barclays said last year that following Epstein's death in 2019, Mr Staley had "volunteered and gave to certain executives, and the chairman, an explanation of his relationship with Mr Epstein". It was not the first time Mr Staley's actions had faced regulatory scrutiny. In 2018, he was fined £642,430 by the FCA and PRA for trying to unmask a whistleblower who had raised concerns about a senior executive appointment at the bank's US operation. Many commentators thought the chief executive was lucky to stay in his job. Under the terms of his contract with Barclays, Mr Staley will receive 12 months' pay, totalling £2.4m, as well as his pension allowance of £120,000 for the year, and any other benefits. He will be replaced as chief executive by Mr C.S. Venkatakrishnan, known as Venkat, subject to regulatory approval. The board said Venkat had been identified as its preferred candidate for the role over a year ago. In a statement, the FCA and PRA said they "do not comment on ongoing investigations or regulatory proceedings beyond confirming the regulatory actions as detailed in the firm's announcement". This is not the first time the board of Barclays has been blindsided by Jes Staley, but it will now be the last. Having accepted Mr Staley's promise that he had been totally transparent about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the board described itself as "disappointed" that the preliminary findings of the regulator seemed inconsistent with the account Mr Staley gave to the bank. In 2018, Mr Staley was fined £642,000 and Barclays £15m after Mr Staley took it upon himself to instruct the bank's own security unit to track down a whistleblower who had raised concerns about the suitability of the appointment of a former colleague of Mr Staley's. That could have been a straight red card but he escaped with a yellow. The board will also be disappointed because Mr Staley's strategy for the bank seemed to be paying off. He saw off an activist shareholder challenge to split the investment and retail banks, the investment bank had started delivering good returns and the profits were beating analyst estimates. But ultimately, boards don't like surprises - particularly ones that are perceived to tarnish a reputation and culture they have spent many years trying to rehabilitate. Link : https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59117084

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Rumors of a Facebook smartwatch have been swirling for months, and thanks to a new leak we now have our first glimpse of the device. According to the image obtained by Bloomberg, we can see the smartwatch has one big feature its competitors don't – a front-facing camera. There's a camera notch that eats into the screen, located in the center of the bottom edge of the display. Other than its peculiar placement, it looks much like the front-facing camera you find on a smartphone. Aside from the camera, the design of the smartwatch looks reminiscent of the Fitbit Sense, with a wide square face and softly rounded edges. There does appear to be some button on the right-hand side of the smartwatch, but the photo isn't clear enough to be sure. Earlier rumors surrounding this smartwatch suggested it would have a detachable display, functioning more like a video-calling device (or action camera) than a fitness or health-tracking wearable. The image of Facebook Inc's – now officially known as Meta – in-development smartwatch was first spotted by Steve Moser. He found the image inside its Facebook View app, which is used to edit photos and videos taken using Facebook’s smart glasses, the Ray-Ban Stories. According to Moser, code in the Facebook View app suggests the smartwatch has the codename 'Milan'. As Bloomberg reports, code discovered in the app indicates the camera will be able to take photos and videos, and share them with a smartphone. The smartwatch market has a large number of entrenched players, with Apple and Google both having significant investment in the space, and there’s a constant stream of new products coming to market. Most recently, we’ve seen the launch of the Apple Watch 7, the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and a slew of devices from Garmin and Fitbit (which was acquired by Google early this year). In such a competitive space, it’s perhaps sensible that Facebook appears to be taking a different route, with a distinct focus on the social potential of the smartwatch centered around its video capabilities. While it makes sense for the social media giant to want to tap into this potential, the question remains around how much more convenience do we actually need (and want) when it comes to devices with the ability to video chat. From one perspective, this new watch could be seen as a rehash of the same "throw a camera in it" strategy that we saw with the recent launch of the Ray-Ban Stories sunglasses. The camera in the Ray-Ban glasses arguably makes more sense, however, in that it quickly and easily allows the wearer to capture and share what they’re seeing. But when most of us have a smartphone in our pocket, is there a market for a smartwatch with a built-in camera that’s facing towards the user, rather than outwards? The ability to video chat hands-free could be a draw factor for some users, but it has to be asked, will the angle be all that flattering? The earliest rumors surrounding the Facebook smartwatch do suggest that some level of health tracking will be available on the device, so there’s a chance it will be matching its competitors in this way. However, given Facebook’s track record with handling sensitive information of its users, it should also be asked whether users can trust Facebook with the privacy of their health data.

Intel's Xe-HP compute GPUs were the company's first high-performance discrete GPUs in years to power on and were the first standalone Xe GPUs that Intel demonstrated to the public. But these GPUs will never make it to the market as the company decided to abandon this lineup. Instead, according to a tweet from Raja Koduri, senior vice president and general manager of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) Group at Intel, the company will concentrate on its Xe-HPG and Xe-HPC GPU families. The Xe-HP Family Axed "We deployed Xe-HP in our oneAPI devcloud and leveraged it as a software development vehicle for oneAPI and Aurora," said Koduri. "We currently don't intend to productize Xe-HP commercially, it evolved into HPG and HPC that are on general market production path. When Intel detailed its Xe family of GPU architectures in August 2020, it unveiled four architectures that were meant to power four product facilities: the Xe-LP for integrated and low-end discrete GPUs, the Xe-HPG for high-performance gaming graphics cards, the Xe-HP for commercial data center GPUs, and the Xe-HPC for supercomputers. Xe-HP GPUs were meant to scale from one GPU tile to four GPU tiles and were supposed to power everything from cloud gaming to video streaming platforms and from virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to commercial accelerated computing. To show off the potential of its Xe architecture in high-performance implementations, Intel demonstrated a quad-tile Xe-HP GPU in August 2020. That early Xe-HP GPU outperformed Nvidia's A100 compute GPU by double and offered performance of around 42 FP32 TFLOPS. The silicon was made internally using the company's 10nm Enhanced SuperFin (now called Intel 7) fabrication process, the same node that is used to make Intel's Alder Lake and upcoming Sapphire Rapids processors. Intel's Xe-HP architecture relies on specialized execution units (EUs), high-bandwidth internal interconnects, and an HBM2E-based memory subsystem since these GPUs are (or rather were) designed to process vast amounts of data. These EUs support data formats and instructions common for data centers and high-performance computing (HPC), which includes FP64 for technical computing, bfloat16 for AI/ML workloads, DP4A convolution instruction for DL, and Intel’s new XMX instructions. In addition, Xe-HP has advanced media encoding/decoding capabilities to address video streaming services. Missed Window of Opportunity? Given the fact that Intel received its first Xe-HP GPUs from the fab in April 2020 and showcased them publicly in August, it probably planned to commercialize them by now. The company made its Xe-HP GPUs available to software designers back in November 2020 and earlier this year it shipped samples of these compute GPUs to developers. Quite naturally, the company didn't disclose why it decided not to roll out its Xe-HP commercially, but we can speculate both about technological and strategical reasons. Configurations of Intel's Arctic Sound 2T samples for developers only included cards with up to 960 EUs over two tiles that were rated for 300W, which did not seem like the best combination of performance and power consumption. While the FP32 performance of Intel's quad-tile Xe-HP looks impressive today, we do not know anything about its performance in other workloads and how it compares to the performance of existing hardware. Meanwhile, this product must be competitive for at least a couple of years and this is something that cannot be guaranteed given the fact that AMD is about to roll out its next-generation compute GPUs in November, whereas Nvidia is rumored to release its next-gen compute GPUs in 2022. Timing may not be Intel's only problem with its Xe-HP GPUs. Back in the day, Intel addressed video streaming platforms like YouTube with Xeon processors or even special Visual Compute Accelerators (based on Xeons). Google's YouTube is replacing Intel's Xeon-based machines with servers running its homegrown visual (trans)coding units (VCUs), which could greatly shrink the addressable market for Intel's Xe-HP GPUs meant to replace Xeons and VCAs. If other major video streaming platforms follow the suit, the media transcoding capabilities of Xe-HP GPUs will hardly be appreciated. Meanwhile, media transcoding has always been a very important Xe-HPC component. Or a Rational Decision? Advertisement On the other hand, Intel has its Xe-HPC-based Ponte Vecchio 'PetaFLOPS-class AI' compute GPU that appears to be performing better than expected. Being aimed at supercomputers, it cannot really address all types of datacenter workloads, but it can address loads of them, including technical computing that requires double precision as well as AI/ML. However, the caveat is that Ponte Vecchio is expensive to make. Yet, assuming that Intel can ship enough Ponte Vecchio compute GPUs to interested parties, launching a lower-cost rival for its own product isn't rational. Intel is also about to introduce its Xe-HPG GPUs optimized for gaming. These parts can address desktops and laptops, but they can also be used to power cloud gaming services and provided that they support GPU visualization (ability to serve more than one client), they can be even better than Xe-HP. To serve gamers, Intel needs to offer a comprehensive software stack that is constantly updated to provide high performance in the latest games. Supporting a separate stack for Xe-HPG and Xe-HP GPUs is a hard and expensive task. Furthermore, Xe-HP GPUs are more complex than Xe-HPG GPUs since they have to support all the aforementioned HPC data formats and their combination of performance and power consumption may not be too attractive for cloud gaming services. For the same reason, Xe-HP might not be too appealing to virtual desktop applications that need low power and relatively low cost. But while Intel may have good reasons to ax Xe-HP family for now, it is still a bit disappointing to see this happening. Still, as Intel's discrete GPU initiative evolves, we may well see Intel's GPUs designed specifically for data centers.

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Artist: French Montana Real Name: Karim Kharbouch Birth Date /Place: Rabat, Morocco / November 9, 1984 Age: 36 Social status (Single / Married): Married Artist Picture: Musical Genres: Hip Hop Awards: Best Collabo, Duo or Group Top 3 Songs (Names): Boom Boom & Lockjaw & Pop that Other Information:Karim Kharbouch (Arabic: كريم خربوش‎ Karīm Kharbūš [kæɾiːm χɑʁbuːʃ]; born November 9, 1984), better known by his stage name French Montana, is a Moroccan-American rapper managed by SAL&CO.[1] Born and raised in Morocco, he emigrated to the United States with his family when he was 13.[2][3] He is the founder of Coke Boys Records and its predecessor Cocaine City Records. After years of independent material, he was signed as joint-venture record deal with Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Records and Rick Ross's Maybach Music Group in 2012.

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