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https://www.arabnews.com/node/2029481/lifestyle Greed is often the cause of humanity’s slide into disaster. It can be for territorial gains or higher profits and comes with immense human suffering, death and destruction. Rory Kennedy’s latest foray into documentaries is “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing.” Now streaming on Netflix, the film is a masterly work on how corporate greed led to hundreds of airline passengers dying in two separate crashes. Kennedy and writers Mark Bailey and Kevin McAlester have experience in producing damning exposes. In 2007, she and her husband Bailey came out with the Emmy-winning “Ghosts of Abu Ghraib,” and in 2014 all three created the Oscar nominee “Last Days in Vietnam.” The film about Boeing, despite all the nitty-gritty details, engages us. We are made aware of corporate avarice at a macro level and how the insatiable thirst to be one up in the world market pushed the American aircraft manufacturer to blink at safety. It was insecure, and terribly so when France’s Airbus began producing planes that were far more fuel efficient than what came out of the Boeing factories. With the price of “liquid gold” going through the roof, the cost of operating an airline became a focal point in boardroom discussions. Boeing then brought out its fuel-efficient 737 Max with the new Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System that helped stabilize aircraft in certain conditions. But pilots needed to be trained in this system with the help of a simulator. The training required two weeks, and this meant money that Boeing had to spend on pilots. It was loath to do this in a climate where balance sheets were of paramount importance. Boeing then went on an aggressive publicity campaign to promote its 737 Max — until a point came when travelers felt so confident that they said: “If it ain’t Boeing I ain’t going.” Soon, Boeing was back in the race with its fuel-efficient jet. The company sold hundreds of 737 Max aircrafts, and buyers did not realize that they were in for a shock. This all came to an ugly head on Oct. 29. 2018 when Indonesia’s Lion Air flight crashed shortly after taking off from Jakarta. All 189 people on board, including Captain Bhavye Suneja, died. There are moving accounts of her husband, an ace pilot, by Garima Sethi. She talks to the camera in a composed manner, a highlight of the documentary, which avoids dramatizing the events, instead relying on facts presented with great accuracy. This makes it a compelling watch, especially with Kennedy ensuring that her movie of 89 minutes does not seem like a dull factsheet. Five months after the Lion Air disaster (after which Sethi had to live with not only the tragedy of her husband’s death but also accusations by Boeing that it was caused by pilot error), an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing Max jet crashed soon after takeoff from Adis Ababa airport. All 157 passengers and crew perished. There are heartbreaking interviews with the families of the dead, including Michael Stumo, whose 24-year-old daughter Samya Rose died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash, and his narration is an agonized crusade for justice. There were others who also lent their strong support, and damned the assertion by Boeing Chairman and CEO Dennis Muilenburo that the crashes resulted from pilot error. The moviemakers call on a wide range of accusers, who were outraged at Boeing’s disregard for human lives. They included Captain “Sully” Sullenberger and politicians such as US Representative Peter DeFazio, who led a congressional investigation into the Boeing 737 MAX disasters. The documentary also highlights other heroes, such as The Wall Street Journal journalist, Andy Pasztor, who wrote several hard-hitting pieces outlining how Boeing was responsible for the tragedies. “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing” is a wonderfully laid out piece of investigation that underlines “corporate malfeasance” and concludes that ultimately the angry whistles had to be heard by a company whose toxic culture had killed hundreds.

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2029446/sport Filip Krajinovic struggled to overcome a gallant Malek Jaziri in a thrilling first-round battle at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Monday. The Serbian, who like his Tunisian opponent had reached the semifinals in 2018, edged his way to a 6-7 6-2 6-4 victory in a highly entertaining two hours 18 minutes. Although it was Krajinovic who made the better start by leading 3-0, Jaziri levelled at 3-3, saved a set point on his serve at 5-4 with an ace and then took the tiebreak 7-4. The second set saw Krajinovic go up a level as he dropped just four points on serve and broke to lead 2-1 and 5-2. The 38-year-old Jaziri remained strongly in contention in the third, before calling for treatment when leading 4-3. At that stage Krajinovic was under severe pressure at deuce on his serve, but when play resumed he held for 4-4 and then won a decisive break to lead 5-4 before serving out the match. Qualifier Jiri Vesely earned a surprise 6-4 7-6 victory over Marin Cilic to also reach the second round. Cilic, a former US Open champion and world number three, had recently claimed an impressive win over world number six Andrey Rublev to reach the fourth round of the Australian Open, while Vesely had failed to win a main draw match in his three previous visits to Dubai. Cilic began by holding the first game of the match at love, but then saw his opponent win 15 of the next 17 points to hold three points to lead 4-1 before Cilic steadied and held serve again in the fifth game. Vesely went on to win the set, surrendering just five points on his serve, and then broke to lead 2-0 in the second. Cilic eventually began to offer greater resistance midway through the set, holding a break point for 3-3, saving three break points to hold for 3-4, fighting off three match points on his serve at 5-3 and then breaking for the first time as Vesely served for the match at 5-4. The set then went to a tiebreak which Vesely won 7-3. Another qualifier reached the second round as Taro Daniel defeated David Goffin 6-3 7-6. “We have already enjoyed a very exciting contest as Malek Jaziri fought right to the very end in a match that remained in the balance to the final ball. We wish him well during the rest of the season, and congratulate Filip Krajinovic, Jiri Vesely and Taro Daniel on their wins today,” said Colm McLoughlin, executive vice chairman and CEO of Dubai Duty Free. Tournament Director Salah Tahlak said: “The outstanding quality of the field competing for the trophy this week is underlined by the fact that two of the seeds come into Dubai having just won tournaments, with 2018 Dubai champion Roberto Bautista Agut capturing his 10th career ATP Tour title in Doha on Saturday and Andrey Rublev yesterday winning his ninth career ATP Tour title in Marseille.” “With so many top stars bidding for the title this week demand for tickets is strong, and we urge anyone planning to attend to purchase their tickets as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.”

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https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-76-will-be-invaded-by-aliens-this-spring/ Bethesda has teased its plans for Fallout 76 in 2022, which will begin this spring with an alien invasion and end the following winter with "The Fizziest Show on Earth." Aliens are nothing new in Fallout: Evidence of their existence, ranging from strange skeletons to powerful weaponry and crashed ships, have been present in the series since the original game. They'll soon be taking a more active role in in the post-nuclear future in Invaders From Beyond, coming this spring with public events and random encounters in which you'll do battle against an extraterrestrial threat to Appalachia. The spring update will also add the ability to earn Score, the points used to rank up and unlock rewards, and kick off Fallout 76 Season 8, entitled A Better Life Underground. Summer will see the addition of more public events including arena fights against mechanical menaces. Another new season will kick off in the summer, and there will be scoreboard progression updates for Fallout 1st subscribers. The fall update will feature the addition of Expeditions: The Pitt, a trip to the ruined city of Pittsburgh, which will include new missions, NPCs, enemies, and rewards. The Pitt itself isn't exactly a new location, though: The Pitt was originally released in 2009 as Fallout 3 DLC. And then in the winter, it's time for the promised Fizziest Show on Earth: A traveling roadshow called Nuka World on Tour, with new public events and a new region boss. The fall and winter updates will also feature new Fallout 76 seasons. The announcement is light on detail, but another year of active development is good news for Fallout 76 fans. Launch dates haven't been announced yet, but you can get a closer look at evil alien menace coming the spring update at bethesda.net. Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80. From there he graduated to the glory days of Sierra Online adventures and Microprose sims, ran a local BBS, learned how to build PCs, and developed a longstanding love of RPGs, immersive sims, and shooters. He began writing videogame news in 2007 for The Escapist and somehow managed to avoid getting fired until 2014, when he joined the storied ranks of PC Gamer. He covers all aspects of the industry, from new game announcements and patch notes to legal disputes, Twitch beefs, esports, and Henry Cavill. Lots of Henry Cavill.

https://www.techradar.com/news/your-whatsapp-voice-calls-are-getting-a-needed-overhaul-for-ios-and-android WhatsApp is testing a new look for being in a call, both on iOS and Android, which shows who's speaking in a group call with waveforms, alongside a more modern design. The company has been working on improvements across the app for the last year, with multi-device support, a desktop app for Windows 11, and more to better rival other messaging apps. But calling in WhatsApp has been relegated to the standard user interface of what iOS and Android offer to third-party apps with call features. However, version 22.5.0.70, currently available to beta testers, the new look for calling in the app is going to benefit group calls more than those that are one-to-one. For years, the interface when you're in a call on iOS and Android has barely seen any improvement since their first versions. While iOS 14 brought a compact view for when you would be in a call, the full-screen view has been relatively unchanged. More users are preferring to choose to call over other apps, from WhatsApp to Skype, especially with group calls, which is why an update to the interface for WhatsApp is welcome. Here, you've got an elegant design that shows who's speaking thanks to the audio waveforms for when someone speaks, alongside three options that's available to you at all times if you want to go on mute, end the call, or go on loudspeaker. It's a modern design that only goes to show how much of an update the call screen in iOS and Android needs, especially for group calls. Via WABetaInfo Daryl had been freelancing for 3 years before joining TechRadar, now reporting on everything software-related. In his spare time he's written a book, 'The Making of Tomb Raider', alongside podcasting and usually found playing games old and new on his PC and MacBook Pro. If you have a story about an updated app or one that's about to launch, drop him a line.

https://www.techspot.com/news/93490-nvidia-reportedly-spent-10-billion-chunk-tsmc-5nm.html Securing enough manufacturing capacity is going to be critical to the success of Nvidia’s RTX 4000 GPUs, which are expected to land as soon as this summer. The RTX 3000 series were regarded by gamers as paper launches, but the company is said to have paid through the nose so that wouldn’t be the case for its upcoming GPUs. Back in November 2021, the rumor mill was abuzz with hints that Nvidia was planning to use TSMC’s 5nm process node for its upcoming GeForce RTX 4000 series (Ada Lovelace) GPUs. These are widely expected to be significantly faster and more power-hungry when compared to the current Ampere lineup, but a much bigger issue for the Jensen Huang-powered company is securing enough manufacturing capacity. According to a report from Hardware Times, Nvidia is prepared to pay dearly for the ability to meet growing demand for increasingly powerful graphics cards. Specifically, it may be offering up to $10 billion to TSMC for a significant chunk of its 5nm manufacturing capacity. Other companies tapping TSMC’s N5 process node are Bitmain, AMD, and Apple. Nvidia previously used Samsung’s 8nm process node to make Ampere GPUs, which are notorious for being power hungry. The company may have also dealt with relatively poor production yields when it comes to its RTX 3000 series GPUs, so moving to a smaller process node could help in that regard. However, TSMC’s 5nm wafers are expected to cost quite a bit more, which could translate into more expensive graphics cards. With Intel’s Arc (Alchemist) GPUs on the horizon, it makes perfect sense for Nvidia to ensure availability issues won’t plague the launch of its upcoming RTX 4000 series GPUs. The tech supply chain is on the road to recovery, but most industry leaders believe the ongoing shortage of chips and passive components will persist until 2023. When it comes to graphics cards, Nvidia and AIB partners are more optimistic, but we’ll have to wait and see.

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https://www.arabnews.com/node/2028481/sport Loeb had closed the gap with Sainz to two seconds nearing the driver switch point when the red flag was called due to Foust’s crash, causing a reset Four-time rallycross world champion Johan Kristoffersson pulled a risky side-swoop past the Acciona Sainz XE for him to take first place for Rosberg X Racing on Sunday, in NEOM's first-ever X Prix. Last year, the Swedish driver managed to take it home for RXR — founded by Formula 1 world champion Nico Rosberg — in AlUla, Saudi Arabia, for the championship's inaguaural race. Kristofferson, who was chasing down Sainz XE’s Laia Sanz and X44’s Christine Gutierrez in the final lap, activated his hyperdrive at a critical point during a long stretch in the fourth section which propelled him from P3 past Gutierrez to then go after Sanz — who herself was moments away from bringing it home for the Spanish team after her co-driver’s extraordinary efforts in the first leg of the race that gave her a significant lead. During the first lap, Sebastian Loeb in the X44 took an early lead with all teams evenly-matched right out of the starting line. The red NEOM dust engulfed the air, and soon after, Tanner Foust racing for motorsport giants McLaren — who joined the all-electric championship for season two — crashed out in the first section after passing waypoint 2. The crash proved race-ending and the McLaren Odyssey 21 was forced to retire. Carlos Sainz then led the rest of the lap in the Sainz XE, followed by Loeb in the X44, Mikaela Ahlin-Kottulinsky in the RXR and Sara Price aboard Hummer EV for Chip Ganassi. After gaining some vision, Loeb managed to close the gap between himself and Sainz nearing the driver switch point. Sainz, who led his team up until the driver switch zone, received disappointing news of a stoppage. A red flag was called shortly after the first lap due to Foust’s crash, causing a reset and taking the now-switched drivers to the starting line. An unfortunate stroke of luck for Sainz who created a great distance for his team during the first lap. Rear footage from the RXR electric vehicle showed Foust in P4, blindsided by the dust, clip the back of Ahlin-Kottulinsky's RXR causing the McLaren to flip and tumble, taking him and the British racing team out of their inaugural X Prix in the Extreme E Championship. The second drivers to take the last lap were Sanz, Gutierrez, Kyle Leduc and Kristoffersson who headed out to the first gate for the restart, where a one lap shootout now decided the teams’ fate. A time gap was created between each driver as a fair way to maintain the distances gained by the other drivers in the first lap. Unfortunately, Leduc was too far back to make an impression and couldn’t catch up with the other drivers. Sanz led, followed by Gutierrez and Kristoffreson. Kristofferson then activated hyperdrive to take the lead from Sanz in section four but went wide. The Swedish driver managed to correct his line and come out ahead to take the last slope down to the finish line. Sainz XE came in second followed by X44 taking the last podium spot. Chip Ganassi Racing came fourth having secured a spot in the final with a win in semifinal 2 and McLaren XE finished fifth despite Foust's crash, having made an excellent comeback from qualifying to win the Crazy Race earlier in the day.

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2026651/lifestyle One of the first to embrace 100 percent natural, non-toxic beauty, Tata Harper’s eponymous skincare line has revolutionized clean beauty, gaining cult status for its whittled-down ingredients that are biodegradable and toxin-free. Her skincare range is sustainably made from start to finish on her Vermont farm, and the Colombia-born entrepreneur’s farm-to-face products are testament to the fact that you can both be a conscious consumer and passionate about your beauty routine. “I didn’t ever believe in beauty minimalism,” Harper told Arab News. “I am the exact opposite. More is more when it comes to beauty. Life is stressful and for me, my beauty ritual is such a place to go for comfort and soothing.” But it wasn’t until her stepfather was diagnosed with cancer and Harper started becoming more conscious about everything she was putting in and on her body that she decided to launch her own beauty label. “You are made of what you ingest,” Harper said. “Your skin is the biggest organ and it reacts to everything,” she added on why women should be selective with the products on their bathroom counter. “I started Tata Harper skincare out of personal need. I didn’t know what to use. I didn’t know how to replace the products that I was using that were super advanced, super high tech, really efficacious, really efficient for the skin. And all of a sudden I’m confronted with natural beauty that it’s very simplistic and very basic. And I am not a basic beauty girl,” she said. The beauty entrepreneur couldn’t find anything that was made of high-quality ingredients and effective, so she decided to cre The result was a line of cleansers, serums, moisturizers and eye creams that fuse natural ingredients such as calendula, arnica, alfalfa, chamomile and varieties of mint with technology for products that are not only organic but work. The cult-favorite Elixir Vitae Serum, for example, uses neuropeptide technology so that it relaxes wrinkles and serves as an alternative to injectables. In addition to being organic, Tata Harper aims to be completely sustainable and end single-use packaging. Each formula comes in recyclable glass, and the little plastic they do use for their tubes is derived from sugar cane, which means it is made from a renewable resource instead of petroleum. Even the packaging’s labels use soy-based ink for printing. “My hope for the beauty industry is that it becomes more sustainable for real,” Harper said. “Sometimes, a lot of the things that people call sustainable, are not really — and if you’re not sustainable, that means that you’re unsustainable,” she said. “I believe in refillable packaging. If the pump still works, if the bottle isn’t broken, then why are you throwing it away? If every customer reuses it, even once, they’re saving 12 from those packaging going into the landfill every month.” Her cult-classic Water-Lock Moisturizer can be refilled with a product pod once it runs out. Ingredients are also upcycled when possible. Recently, Harper collaborated with the Mandarin Oriental hotel in the UAE on three face and body treatments exclusively available at the Dubai hotel’s award-winning spa. “I’ve always been a huge Mandarin fan. And I just thought that this was the right venue to have our facial experiences,” Harper said, adding that they have plans to launch in other parts of the region as well. The treatments include one anti-aging facial, a full-body scrub and a skin-brightening ritual that leaves the limbs illuminated and smooth. Hotel guests and day spa guests are able to experience Harper’s 100 percent natural and all-organic, custom-created treatments and rituals, as well as purchase a full range of products from the spa’s boutique.

https://www.techspot.com/news/93478-intel-arc-alchemist-flagship-clocks-24-ghz-leaked.html After many delays, Intel is finally within months of delivering its first generation of discrete gaming GPUs, branded Arc Alchemist. Engineering samples are appearing regularly in public benchmark databases, giving us insight into their performance and specifications. Already, we know quite a bit about the series. At the top end, the Arc Alchemist flagship has 512 EUs and 16 GB of GDDR6, and then there are at least two smaller models with 256 and 128 EUs and correspondingly smaller amounts of memory. Before today, Intel GPUs had been seen at speeds of up to 2.1 GHz. But this morning, a handy Twitter bot found a new OpenCL benchmark entry from the 512 EU model and it had a peak frequency of exactly 2.4 GHz. On paper, a GPU with 512 EUs clocked at 2.4 GHz has 19.7 TFLOPs of power. Its rumored direct competitors, the RTX 3070 and 3070 Ti have just a fraction more. Performance in the benchmark didn’t quite measure up though. At 85,448 points, it scored only slightly better than an RTX 2060 Super. But there's any number of legitimate reasons why it might’ve underperformed, the likeliest of which is that it was clocked below 2.4 GHz for most of the run. In other leaked benchmark results, it’s done better and worse. In an OpenCL benchmark run from November, it achieved just ~68,000 points. But in a recent SiSoftware Sandra benchmark, it traded blows with the 3070 Ti and generally came out ahead. Intel’s GPU was clocked at 2.1 GHz during the SiSoftware benchmark, which means that at 2.4 GHz it could’ve pulled away from the 3070 Ti. Still, synthetic productivity benchmarks aren’t good indicators of gaming performance. Rest assured, when time comes, we'll have full blown reviews of Intel's new graphics cards.

https://www.techradar.com/news/one-of-the-best-microsoft-teams-features-is-finally-available-to-all-users Microsoft is preparing an update for collaboration platform Teams that will extend one of the most useful features to an additional group of users. As explained in a new entry in the company’s product roadmap, Microsoft is bringing the ability to blur the video background to customers running Teams on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). “Users on Teams on VDI on Azure Virtual Desktop/Windows 365 can blur their background in your video meeting and call,” the entry explains.The feature still appears to be under development, but should be made available to relevant Microsoft Teams users by the end of the month. Since the transition to remote working, a number of video conferencing vendors have rolled out virtual background functionality, which allows users to obscure the room behind them with an overlay of their choice. A more subtle option is to blur the background, which has the dual effect of obscuring anything incriminating that might be laying around in someone’s bedroom or home office and focusing the attention on the person’s face. Although Microsoft Teams has offered such a feature for a while now, it has traditionally been available to users of its desktop and mobile clients only. After bringing background effects to the web client last month, Microsoft is now completing the set by extending the feature to those running Teams on Azure Virtual Desktop or Windows 365. The broad objective is to ensure the meeting experience is consistent for all Microsoft Teams users, no matter which client or hardware they are using the dial in. Beyond the virtual backgrounds feature, Microsoft has made a number of recent additions to Teams with this goal in mind, including the ability to control calls using Bluetooth devices, combine work and business accounts and access screen-sharing controls across all clients. Complete your setup with the best business webcams and best headsets for conference calls Joel Khalili is the News and Features Editor at TechRadar Pro. He's interested in receiving pitches around cybersecurity, data privacy, cloud, AI, blockchain, internet infrastructure, 5G, data storage, business software and computing.

https://www.pcgamer.com/rainbow-six-siege-is-getting-three-new-maps-in-year-seven/ Ubisoft released a long video outlining its plans for year seven of Rainbow Six Siege today, and there's a lot to look forward to in the tactical multiplayer shooter. The most exciting announcement was probably that Siege will receive three new maps in year seven, one apiece for the first three seasons of the year. The first will be a competitive map set in an Irish country club, with season two's offering being a team deathmatch map set in Greece. Season three will get another comp map, this time in Singapore, the home country of that season's new operator. The team also outlined further efforts to deal with toxic players and prevent harassment. Viewers will now be able to report players they are spectating via match replay, and the team will be proactively disabling the friendly fire, voice, and text chat functionality for players who have been reported for abusing them. I'm a bit curious as to how the friendly fire restriction will be implemented, as that seems like it could be a bit of an advantage, something you could deliberately trigger for yourself before playing ranked matches, for example, but we'll have to see how it works in-game. Ubisoft will be rolling out a reputation system in stages throughout the year, with the most surprising feature being restricted account features for players with a low enough reputation. Ubisoft's video cited Alpha Pack rewards and the Test Server as privileges that would be restricted for low-rep players. Siege will be seeing some major gametype changes too: Team Deathmatch and Arcade will have permanent playlists starting in year seven, a response to community demand for more low-stakes content than Siege's typical knife-edge maximum intensity. For fans of knife-edge maximum intensity, the ranking system will get overhauled with the second season. The team has promised more and better rewards, as well as an adjustment to the way placement matches work. The kicker is that the new system will place players below where it expects them to settle, allowing for a sense of progress and development in subsequent matches. Year seven will also introduce a host of new accessibility features, including more options for gun sights, more granular gamepad settings, and clearer marking denoting which team gadgets that have been placed belong to. Last, some operators will be getting major reworks and balance adjustments, with Thatcher singled out in particular. The video also included a code for a free charm, redeemable here with the code "R6SI-SI22-CHIB-CHAR," though some commenters reported issues with getting it to work. All-in all, it's looking like a promising year for the po[CENSORED]r tactical shooter. It's unclear if this interior is another view of the season one Ireland map, or our first look at the season two Greece map. (Image credit: Ubisoft)

Nickname: @Cinderella 乡 Video author: PlayStation Name of the game: ROTOTYPE - PS5™ Gameplay [4K HDR] Video link: Short description of the video: Prototype is an open-world action-adventure video game developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Activision. The game follows Alex Mercer after getting superpowers and becomes a superhero.

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