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    [News] 5 dead, 40 injured after SUV speeds into Christmas parade

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    A joyous scene of marching bands and children dancing in Santa hats and waving pompoms turned deadly in an instant, as an SUV sped through barricades and into a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee

    A joyous scene of marching bands and children dancing in Santa hats and waving pompoms turned deadly in an instant, as an SUV sped through barricades and into a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee, killing at least five people and injuring more than 40 others.

    One video showed a woman screaming, Oh my God! repeatedly as a group of young dancers was struck Sunday. A father talked of going from one crumpled body to the other in search of his daughter. Members of a Dancing Grannies club were among those hit.

    The city of Waukesha posted on its social media accounts late Sunday that it could confirm at least five died and more than 40 were injured, while noting that it was still collecting information. The city's statement also noted that many people took themselves to hospitals. The city did not release any additional information about those who died.

    A person of interest was in custody, Waukesha Police Chief Dan Thompson said, but he gave no details about the person or any possible motive. The investigation was ongoing, with assistance from the Wisconsin Department of Justice.

    What took place in Waukesha today is sickening, and I have every confidence that those responsible will be brought to justice, Attorney General Josh Kaul, the state's top law enforcement officer, tweeted.

    The horror was recorded by the city's livestream and onlookers' cellphones.

    One video shows the moment the SUV broke through the barricades and the sound of what appears to be several gunshots. Thompson said a Waukesha police officer fired his gun to try to stop the vehicle. No bystanders were injured by the gunfire, and Thompson said he did not know if the driver was struck by the officer's bullets.

    Another video shows a young child dancing in the street as the SUV speeds by, just a few feet from her, before it hurtles into parade participants a few hundred feet ahead. One video, of dancers with pompoms, ends with a group of people tending to a girl on the ground.

    There were pompoms and shoes and spilled hot chocolate everywhere. I had to go from one crumpled body to the other to find my daughter, Corey Montiho, a Waukesha school district board member, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. My wife and two daughters were almost hit. Please pray for everybody. Please pray.

    The Milwaukee Dancing Grannies posted on its Facebook page that members of the group and volunteers were impacted and we are waiting for word on their conditions . The group's profile describes them as a group of grannies that meet once a week to practice routines for summer and winter parades .

    A Catholic priest, multiple parishioners and Waukesha Catholic schoolchildren were among those injured, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee spokeswoman Sandra Peterson said.

    Chris Germain, co-owner of the Aspire Dance Centre studio, had about 70 people in the parade ranging from as young as 2 being pulled in wagons to age 18. Germain, whose 3-year-old daughter was in the parade, said he was driving at the head of their entry when he saw a maroon SUV that just blazed right past us .

    A police officer ran past in chase. Germain said he jumped out of his own SUV and gathered the girls who were with him to safety.

    Then he walked forward to see the damage.

    There were small children laying all over the road, there were police officers and EMTs doing CPR on multiple members of the parade," he said.

    Angelito Tenorio, a West Allis alderman who is running for Wisconsin state treasurer, said he was watching the parade with his family when they saw the SUV come speeding into the area.

    Then we heard a loud bang, Tenorio said. And after that, we just heard deafening cries and screams from the crowd, from the people at the parade. And people started rushing, running away with tears in their eyes, crying.

    The Waukesha school district cancelled classes Monday and said in a notice on its website that extra counsellors would be on hand for students and staff. The parade's list of entries included cheer, dance and band entries associated with district schools.

    Governor Tony Evers said he and his wife, Kathy, were praying for Waukesha tonight and all the kids, families, and community members affected by this senseless act .

    The parade, held each year on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, is sponsored by the city's Chamber of Commerce. This year's, the 59th, had the theme of comfort and joy .

    Waukesha is a western suburb of Milwaukee, and about 55 miles (90 km) north of Kenosha, where Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted Friday of charges stemming from the shooting of three men during unrest in that city in August 2020.

    [News] Star Citizen has now raised over $400M

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    Less than 18 months after clearing the $300 million mark, Star Citizen has now raised over $400 million in crowdfunding. At the time of writing, 3,364,629 players have contributed a total of $402,657,305 according to its funding goals page.

     
     

    Star Citizen is currently having a free-fly period, which runs until December 1, coinciding with the in-game Intergalactic Aerospace Expo on the planet microTech. During the expo ships from different manufacturers are available to rent every 48 hours. It's like a car show, only without a bunch of hoons doing donuts in a field somewhere off to the side. And it coincides with a huge spike in funding, which went from an average of under $200,000 per day to well over $700,000 on the event's first day. Today's total is nearing two million.

     
     

    If you're wondering whether that total will mean we hear more about the release of Star Citizen's singleplayer partner Squadron 42, the answer is "probably not". Near the end of last year, in his annual letter from the chairman, Cloud Imperium Games founder Chris Roberts wrote that, "Squadron 42 will be done when it is done, and will not be released just to make a date, but instead only when all the technology and content is finished, the game is polished, and it plays great."

    Xiaomi conducts 5G trials for upcoming Redmi Note 11T 5G in partnership with Jio

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    Redmi India has announced its partnership with Reliance Jio to conduct 5G trails for its upcoming Redmi Note 11T 5G smartphone in the country. The 5G trials were meant to verify the capability and performance of the upcoming Redmi device.

     
     

    We had earlier reported that Redmi Note 11T would mark its India debut on November 30, as a rebranded version of the Redmi Note 11 series which was recently launched in China. Confirming the same in a new release, the company has now also shared the latest developments on the phone in India.

    As per the release, the sub-brand of Xiaomi India, in collaboration with Jio, has conducted a 5G standalone lab trial, and tested the device through various scenarios, in order to ensure enhanced 5G end-user experiences.

    The upcoming addition to the Note series, Redmi Note 11T 5G was utilized for lab trials where it achieved "stellar results" as per the company, by attaining a high downloading speed. The results further demonstrated the capabilities of Redmi Note 11T 5G in bringing an immersive 5G mobile experience to users.

    The device comes with support for 7 bands including SAn1/ n3/ n5/n8/ n28/ n40/ n78 and NSA: n1/n3/n40/n78.

    Redmi Note 11T 5G specifications (expected)

    Since Xiaomi has confirmed the name of the upcoming Redmi phone in India to be Redmi Note 11T 5G, we can expect this to be the very same phone that recently debuted in China. This means an educated guess can be taken on the specifications that the Redmi Note 11T 5G may feature.

    Redmi Note 11T 5G may thus come with a 6.6-inch display with a 2,400x1,080 pixels resolution, 90Hz refresh rate and a 240Hz touch sampling rate. It will likely ship with an octa-core MediaTek Dimesity 810 chipset, along with three memory options - 6GB RAM and 64GB storage, 6GB RAM and 128GB storage, and the top-variant with 8GB RAM and 128GB of storage.

    Redmi Note 11T 5G is expected to feature a dual-camera setup at the back with a 50-megapixel primary shooter and an 8-megapixel ultra-wide shooter. On the front, it may get a 16-megapixel camera for selfies. The Redmi Note 11T 5G could be powered by a 5000mAh battery with 33W charging.

    [SOFTWARE] Innovative software modules for effective excess thermal energy recovery

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    After nearly two years of data collection and software development, EU-funded project, EMB3Rs, is almost ready to reveal the best ways that industry can re-use excess thermal energy.

    PDMFC is responsible for integrating the modules to the platform and also ensuring the software interoperates seamlessly. As PDMFC researcher, David Fernandes, highlights: "Module integration is almost complete and soon, the user will be able to simply define their initial conditions and then receive a user-friendly result."

    EMB3Rs initially comprises four key modules that have been programmed to handle different types of energy-related technical and economic data. A GIS module will find the best and cheapest way to connect different heat sources and sinks while a Techno-Economic module can find the least cost option for using excess thermal energy across an entire energy supply chain.

    Meanwhile, the Market module calculates an overall economic analysis of a potential energy system, depending on market types such as centralized or peer-to-peer (P2P) conditions. And then a Business Model module will allow platform users to explore the financial, environmental and risk implications of any energy set-up.

    On top of these four energy data-crunching modules, a simulation manager module coordinates how the modules interoperate as a user runs his or her energy simulation while a reporter module organizes the output for the end-user. "The user will want to configure a simulation, run it and then examine the results without caring what has been going on between the platform and the modules," says Fernandes.

    To program the modules, partners from a range of case studies have been busy collecting vast amounts of project data from digging costs and energy flows to local energy tariffs and regulatory framework information. For example, industry-focused case studies, including an industrial park in Greece and cement plant in Portugal, have supplied data from potential providers and users of excess energy. Meanwhile, network-focused case studies have provided data from heating and cooling, and district heating networks, in Sweden, Portugal and the UKIn the final pieces of the data puzzle, a super-user case study from the Portuguese Energy Agency adene has provided data from hundreds of thousands of commercial building and households to explore what happens to the platform when a user wants to analyze massive volumes of data. And a market-focused case study from the Technical University of Denmark has collected data associated with P2P relationships between the different energy market players.

    At the time of writing, data collection and development of all software modules is complete, and PDMFC researchers have been working closely with developers to integrate all software to the EMB3Rs platform so that each module can analyze data in a standardized way. As Fernandes points out: "Integration is almost complete, but we only recently realized that the modules are all 'talking somewhat differently.'"

    "This is not a problem and we have been studying the inputs and outputs of the modules so we can find the middle-point between, say the techno-economic and market modules, to ensure processing takes place quickly," he adds.

    As part of these activities, Fernandes and colleagues have developed so-called wrappers that developers can add to their modules. These wrappers standardize the code for communication between modules to ensure seamless interactions between each other and the platform.

    However, according to Fernandes, standardizing communications between modules is not the biggest challenge that he and his PDM colleagues have faced. Instead, scaling the EMB3Rs platform to analyze more and more data for more and more users has been a trickier task.

    "It's one thing running one simulation at a time on a desktop but what if you have 100 or even 1000 simulations at any single time? This is when scalability becomes very important," he says.

    Fernandes and colleagues dealt with this issue by assessing how much processing power a module needed for any particular task. "Once we understood this we could see if there was any task that was stealing the available server resources," explains Fernandes. "Even once module integration is completely finished we'll continue to run more tests to work out how much we can scale platform simulations using a single server."

    In the future, more servers may be an option, but for the time being simulations continue apace. An initial platform simulation has already looked at the functions of each module using dummy data. And data analysis from EMB3Rs platform developer and partner, Portugal-based INEGI, has also confirmed that the data being generated by case studies is suitable for future platform simulations.

    "We've been testing the platform manually, step by step, but now we are working on automating the simulations so each module receives the inputs and provides the outputs that the user wants," says Fernandes. "This will take around a month but then the user will be able to 'click' a button and watch as everything happens."

    Hopes for industry

    Without a doubt EMB3Rs project partners are excited. For example, Aristotelis Botzios and George Goumas from the Greece-based Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (CRES) have been collecting heating and cooling data from businesses at the Volos Industrial Park in Greece and residents in the nearby town of Agios Georgios, since May 2020. Botzios and Goumas hope that future EMB3Rs simulations will confirm the economic and technical viability of their proposed heat-exchange system between the industrial park and town so they can then bid for pilot study funds from Greece's Energy and Environment Ministry.

    "Everything is going well so far," highlights Goumas. "We've had great results on the integration of our data and now we are looking forward to the simulation results."

    Botzios concurs, saying: "With these simulation results we'll get an idea of the size of works that needs to be done, cost information and also what sort of financial policy or subsidies that may be needed to make this all possible."

    "The EMB3Rs platform is going to be useful for any industrial park," he adds. "You'll be able to enter just basic data and see if your [project] is viable."

    Importantly for users, EMB3Rs has also been designed as a modular platform so in the future, software developers will be able to integrate additional, different modules to the open source tool. "I see EMB3Rs as the kind of platform that is going to grow," says Fernandes. "As more and more more people use it, then of course the tool will also grow in complexity but the platform is certainly stable enough for this growth to take place… this is a pretty interesting project for us."

    Grab an RTX 3060-Powered Dell XPS Desktop for Just $999

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    If you really want an Nvidia RTX 3060 graphics card, the good news is that you can find one right online at Amazon . . . for around $900. Considering that the original Founder's Edition of the card carries an MSRP of $329, that's nearly three times what it should cost. But the good news is that, if you buy a prebuilt desktop with an RTX 3060 inside, you don't have to pay that kind of markup.

    Right now, Dell has an XPS Desktop with RTX 3060 inside on sale for just $999 when you use code DBXPS18AFF at checkout. When you get past the graphics card, this desktop has modest specs, including a Core i5-11400 CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive. Most people would prefer an SSD for storage and at least 16GB of RAM, but it should be inexpensive enough to add those pieces after purchase.

    Another possibility: you could buy this desktop, pull out the graphics card to use in another computer and then use the desktop, which also has integrated graphics, without it. Considering that the graphics card alone would go for $900, you could think of it as getting a Core i5 productivity desktop for just $100. Perhaps you have someone in your family who doesn't game but does need a new PC that would appreciate getting the shucked computer as a gift.

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