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https://gadgets360.com/social-networking/news/elon-musk-confirmed-to-acquire-twitter-for-44-billion-2919889 Elon Musk clinched a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion on Monday in a transaction that will shift control of the social media platform po[CENSORED]ted by millions of users and global leaders to the world's richest person. Discussions over the deal, which last week appeared uncertain, accelerated over the weekend after Musk wooed Twitter shareholders with financing details of his offer. Under pressure, Twitter started negotiating with Musk to buy the company at the proposed $54.20 per share price. The deal ends Twitter's run as a public company since its 2013 initial public offering. Parag Agrawal, Twitter's CEO, said, "Twitter has a purpose and relevance that impacts the entire world. Deeply proud of our teams and inspired by the work that has never been more important." "Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated," Musk said in a statement, adding, "I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans. Twitter has tremendous potential – I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it." Twitter's shares were up about 6 percent following the news.

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-smarter-3d-faster.html 3D printers may soon get better at producing intricate metal and plastic parts, thanks to new software developed at the University of Michigan that reduces harmful heat buildup in laser powder bed fusion printers. significantly reducing heat-caused defects that must be corrected after printing. Laser powder bed fusion is a form of 3D printing used in aerospace, automotive and biomedical industries to manufacture parts that are too intricate to make with conventional manufacturing. It uses a laser to fuse layers of powdered metal or plastic together. But the laser's heat can build up in the delicate parts being printed, causing deformation and other defects. "This problem gets even more serious for parts with really thin features," said Chinedum Okwudire, U-M associate professor of mechanical engineering and corresponding author of the paper in Additive Manufacturing. "The heat doesn't have a lot of room to spread, so you need to be smart about how you move the laser around, otherwise your part will deform in really weird ways." SmartScan tackles the problem by considering how heat flows within a given part and mapping an optimized scan sequence to limit heat accumulation in any given area. It analyzes the shape of the part and the thermal properties of the material being used, including conductive and convective heat transfer. Others in the field have experimented with varying printing patterns to reduce heat buildup, for example by jumping from one area to another or alternating between horizontal and vertical scanning directions. But Okwudire says SmartScan is the first solution that uses a thermal model to optimally guide the laser to distribute heat more evenly. "When you bring science into it, you can do it in a way that is better and works for even the most intricate parts," Okwudire said. To determine the effectiveness of this first version of SmartScan, the researchers used a laser to imprint an identical pattern on two stainless steel plates. They used the SmartScan process for the first plate and switched to traditional printing patterns for the second plate. The prints made with SmartScan were consistently less warped and showed more uniform heat distribution during the marking process than the other methods. Based on the results of the experiment, the team is confident that, with further research, they'll be able to adapt SmartScan to build full 3D parts. They plan to further improve the software by factoring the fusing of metal or plastic powder into their thermal modeling, as well as enabling active updating of a scan sequence during printing based on real-time observed temperature measurements using an infrared camera. "The results are very promising, and we've gotten a lot of positive feedback," said Okwudire, who has started to demonstrate the software to industry partners. "We went with a simple model because it works, and it works better than the trial-and-error approaches used today. We wanted to focus in a direction that is practical and truly has the chance to make a difference."

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-selling-gpus-5800x3d-at-msrp-pax-east In a surprising turn of events, AMD is reportedly selling reference-designed Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs and CPUs for MSRP at Pax East, according to HotHardware. AMD's SKUs include the RX 6700 XT, RX 6800 XT, and RX 6900 XT Halo Infinite Edition GPUs, plus the newly released Ryzen 7 5800X3D. All these products are being sold at MSRP, so it is a great place to grab one if you can make it to Pax East. This surprise appears to be another sign of supply and demand returning to normal for the GPU market. Currently, AMD's own store is out of stock of all these products. However, if AMD had enough volume to sell GPUs and the 5800X3D at Pax East, it's a possibility we could see graphics cards coming back in stock at its direct buy store sometime soon. This would be nice, considering none of AMD's AIB partner cards are available at MSRP at the current moment. On Newegg.com, RX 6900 XT's are averaging $1100 -- just $100 over MSRP, while RX 6800 XTs are around the $850-$950 mark for the cheapest models (which is $200-$300 over MSRP). RX 6800's are faring even worse, with prices similar to the RX 6800 XT's, at around $800-$900 for the cheapest models, which is a $220 -$320 price hike over MSRP. However, good news returns with the RX 6700 XT, which has the closest-to-MSRP prices of all the cards. AIB partner cards are selling for $570-$600 at the cheapest level, which is only a $91-$121 price hike over MSRP. Overall, we can expect prices to continue to decline, especially for AMD cards, with prices of RX 6000 series GPUs being closer to MSRP than Nvidia's RTX 30 series counterparts for the current time (with the exception of the RTX 3050). In our overview of GPU pricing for April, we saw a 10% drop in GPU prices overall, and that trend has been consistent over the past few months. We have also seen AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D doing incredibly well in the market, with the CPU going out of stock almost instantly upon launch. This still remains true, as Newegg.com still has no supply of 5800X3D's at its default price. To counter the supply issue, 5800X3D's are going for $100-$150 over MSRP right now on Amazon and 3rd party sellers on Newegg.com. If GPU prices continue their downward trend, we should see GPUs at MSRP by Q4 2022. But this change could happen even sooner depending on market forces.

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-bethesda-launcher-will-be-shut-down-on-may-11/ Back in February, Bethesda announced plans to place a merciful bullet in the brainpan of the Bethesda Launcher, an unloved alternative to certain other po[CENSORED]r digital game management programs. Those plans have since been elaborated in an update to a blog post about sunsetting the launcher and migrating to Steam. "If you do have games through the Bethesda.net launcher," it says, "don't worry. Starting on April 27 you'll be able to migrate your games and Wallet to your Steam account." Detailed instructions on what to do will be provided on April 27. Some games will have their saves transfer over automatically, while others will require manually copying them into the relevant folder. "At this time," Bethesda writes, "we expect almost all save progress to be transferable automatically or manually with the exception of Wolfenstein: Youngblood, which currently is unable to transfer." DLC and in-game currency will automatically transfer, which is good news The Bethesda Launcher will remain up and running until May 11, but even if you don't get all your games transferred over to Steam by the time someone with a high enough Speech skill convinces it to self-destruct, you'll still be able to transfer them after that. Don't throw away your Bethesda.net login details, either. "For games that require it, you will still use your Bethesda.net login to sign in to play. Your Bethesda.net account will not be lost and will still be accessible on our website and in-game, and we will continue supporting all Bethesda.net accounts with our future titles."

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