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A leading US philosopher has been disinvited from taking up a prestigious professorship at the University of Cologne after signing a letter expressing solidarity with Palestinians and condemning the killings in Gaza carried out by Israeli forces. Nancy Fraser, professor of philosophy and politics at the New School for Social Research in New York, said she had been cancelled by the university, which has withdrawn its invitation to the Albertus Magnus Professorship 2024, a visiting position, which she had been awarded in 2022. The letter was written in November 2023 following the 7 October attacks on Israel by Hamas, prompting Israel’s attack on Gaza. Fellow academics have written a letter to the university in protest against the ban. In it, they call the withdrawal of the invitation “another attempt to limit public and academic debate on Israel and Palestine by invoking supposedly clear, distinct, governmentally sanctioned red lines”. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/10/nancy-fraser-cologne-university-germany-job-offer-palestine
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اللهم اجعل هذا العيد عيد النصر للمسلمين المجاهدين في فلسطين
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Nick: GL HERO SHIMA Real name: Ibrahim How old are you?: 19 Which Games you play? and for how long?(each of them): cs 1.6 Where are you from?(country and city): Egypt \ Tanta Describe yourself(at least 50 words): iam Cute Person and I Love Complete calm and I Love Romance and Sometimes Prefer to sit alone in my Room and i Love be alone always Note some of your qualities: very cute and I Like Calm Tell us some of your defects: I get Nervous easily and always try to control my nerves Had you before any kind of responsabilities(describe it): ah no On which category/categories have you been active lately?(describe your activity): In Devil Harmony And in the Projects Which category/project you want to care off?: Davil Harmony How well you speak english?(and other languages): yes i can speak English Do you use TS3? Do you have an active microphone?: no For how long can you be active after you get accepted?(days, weeks, months, years): Years Contact methods: on Discord and Here Last request:
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Following pushes from the community to do so— particularly from George Hotz' Tiny Corp— AMD has finally started open sourcing some of their GPU software stack and documentation, including open-sourcing their MES (Micro-Engine Scheduler). Open-sourcing of the MES was one of the things that Tiny Corp predicted AMD would do last month, though they seemed to have predicted a turnaround time well sooner than the one we actually got. As-is, we're still waiting for the full release— this is just AMD announcing their intent to do it. For those unfamiliar with Tiny Corp, the important thing to know is that they're responsible for building "TinyBox", which is their design for an AI-powered server using AMD hardware. While the TinyBox indeed shows the potential power of AMD's raw GPU compute, deeper issues seemed to force Tiny Corp to make an Nvidia version, as well, citing that the AMD machine simply doesn't work as intended. The ongoing updates to AMD's ROCm platform alongside this news should hopefully mean that the AMD TinyBox is competitive as an AI solution against Nvidia sooner rather than later. Since MES was the most important thing that needed to be open-sourced according to TinyCorp, the resultant bug fixes may be just enough to make the AMD TinyBox (and AMD AI hardware in general) look more competitive against Team Green. As it stands, it seems like nearly everybody is hoping to undercut Nvidia's dominant position in AI hardware and pro workloads. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-announces-open-sourcing-of-its-gpu-software-stack-and-documentation-including-mes
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Consumers remain concerned about increases in the cost of living but are still determined to purchase gadgets they need, according to a survey conducted by TechRadar, one of our sister sites. Along with announcing the survey results, TechRadar also launched a major redesign and rebranding today with the aim of highlighting its ability to help readers find the right products at the right prices. Conducted on 13,797 consumers in the UK and the U.S. across four time periods between May 2022 and March 2023, the survey included 2,319 respondents who were TechRadar readers. The poll’s results indicate that people in both countries plan to or already have made changes to their spending habits in order to save money. Of the respondents who were TechRadar readers, 50 percent in both countries reported that they had cut back on streaming subscriptions while 47 and 38 percent in the UK and U.S. respectively said that they were eating out less frequently. Despite other cutbacks in their lives, only 24 percent of UK readers and 18 percent of U.S. readers said they would delay a planned tech purchase. However, 40 percent of all respondents and 37 percent of TechRadar readers indicated that they would be spending less on electronics in the near future. Not surprisingly, 86 percent of all respondents and 90 percent of TechRadar readers agreed with the statement that “it’s more important than ever to get a good deal.” https://www.tomshardware.com/news/techradar-survey-shows-consumer-purchase-intent
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Nothing oozes more revulsion than the mere mention of a cockroach - that unsightly creepy crawly that gives you the heebie-jeebies yet remains a darling child in the eyes of an evolutionary biologist thanks to its seemingly invincible lifespan. It's this immortality that enabled gacha fans to associate such vermin with the Girls Frontline franchise as it keeps a steady momentum despite operating on paper-thin revenue. Ironic as it’s built a foundation of fair monetisation practices and goodwill with rich, albeit depressing lore. To keep their legacy afloat they introduced not one but four spin-offs/sequels. And considering Project Neural Cloud, the prequel of the first Girls Frontline turned out to be a robust game, ignoring its financial performance, surely we can trust MICA’s bank of talents and experience to deliver good on their sequels, right? In this game, it's always adrenaline on the clock as you're constantly on the move, scraping by whatever commissions you can to make ends meet as a bounty hunter after S&K's downfall that saw the world plunged into another cliched calamity. Exilium takes place ten years after the events of its ongoing first instalment in the year 207X, so expect a lot of mind-boggling time-skips. Don't feel weirded out when characters act chummy with one another despite what seems to be their first encounter. Cinematic high-quality cutscenes bordering on Michael Bay’s level of theatrics are peppered between story chapters, semi-animated images of characters with dynamic expressions and voice acting to boot. https://www.pocketgamer.com/gfl2-exilium/review/
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Upcoming multiplayer combat foot-racing game DeathSprint 66 looks pretty cool, but I still might be a little nervous if I were responsible for making back its budget. A genre of news story we've become pretty familiar with is "niche multiplayer game was great, but not enough people played it to justify keeping the servers on." Knockout City, for example, shut down a couple years after it launched. Rumbleverse lasted only six months. At the Game Developers Conference last month, DeathSprint 66 director Andrew Willans told me that he's confident in the game, saying that playtesters are "overwhelmingly finding something which is very fresh." That freshness, he thinks, is due in part to the scope of the project: It's a medium-sized game from a medium-sized team, and will be "sensibly priced." "I think that [under $70] price bracket … it allows you to be a bit more creative," said Willans. "If you've got a more limited budget than triple-A, and you've got a more limited timeframe to do it, I think you get more innovation on that scale. It's not indie, and it's not triple-A, it's somewhere in between. And when I look at the indie market and the amount of innovation constantly being pushed, there are really exciting things there which you don't tend to see in the bigger triple-A games. And I think there's this lovely middle ground, where we're aiming to be as a studio." https://www.pcgamer.com/games/racing/smaller-games-can-be-more-creative-says-designer-who-made-one-of-ubisofts-most-acclaimed-games-with-a-tiny-team/
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Programs for expedited review may be preferentially reducing the development costs for conditions with lesser disease burden, potentially making investments in addressing the most significant disease burdens even less appealing and exacerbating the market failure further. he World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 1.7 billion people around the world are in need of measures to prevent or treat neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), conditions that collectively account for as many as 200,000 deaths/year and a burden of disease running in the hundreds of billions of dollars per year. This vast unmet medical need reflects the global pharmaceutical industry’s focus on developing products for US markets, where efficient channels for product sales and few limits on drug pricing provide companies with the opportunity for robust returns on investment and profit. US markets, however, account for less than 4% of the global burden of disease. The greatest disease burden is associated with conditions prevalent in low- and middle-income countries, where the available market is typically inadequate to justify the investment cost; a classic instance of market failure. From 1975-1997, less than 1% of new drug approvals in the USA and EU were indicated for tropical communicable diseases. A decade later, from 2000-2011, only 1% of new drug approvals (New Chemical Entities) were indicated for NTDs, and only 1% of all clinical trials involved products that might address this unmet medical need. A new report in the British Medical Journal Open (BMJ Open) from the Center for Integration Science and Industry at Bentley University demonstrates that this trend continued through the decade before COVID (2010-2019) with only 1.8% of the new drugs indicated for tropical diseases. The BMJ Open study further demonstrates that, while half of the new product approvals were for conditions in the top quartile of US disease burden, there was no association between the number of product approvals and conditions contributing the most to the global disease burden. https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/the-global-pharmaceutical-industry-isnt-investing-in-products-for-the-greatest-burden-of-human-disease-are-non-profits-a-solution
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Audi is updating the S3 sedan for 2025 with extra power and chassis revisions. It also gets the torque-splitting rear end function from the RS3, which includes a drift mode. We expect the revised S3 to arrive in America later this year. UPDATE 4/8/24: Audi released more details and new photos of the updated S3 sedan. We have updated this story accordingly. The middle child of the Audi A3 lineup is inching closer to its big sibling. For 2025, the S3 gains horsepower and torque, benefits from chassis revisions, and adopts the rear-end torque-split function from the top-dog RS3. The car also has some visual tweaks, including new headlights and taillights and four new exterior colors. With new output figures of 328 horsepower and 310 pound-feet of torque, the turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-four is 22 horsepower and 15 pound-feet stronger than before. Audi claims a 62 mph time of 4.4 seconds, but considering we got the old S3 to 60 mph in just 4.3 seconds, the new one will likely beat that time. Audi also claims that the seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission features quicker shifts. To enhance the auditory experience, there's a newly available performance exhaust system with a titanium silencer. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a46769502/2025-audi-s3-preview/
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Railway nostalgia, the world’s oldest football, fenland skies and a little-known bard are among the highlights of Crewe, Stirling, Boston and Barnstaple Chris Moss Tue 9 Apr 2024 07.00 BST These oft-bypassed towns have all been, at some period in history, influential if not necessarily powerful; wealth-creating though hardly opulent; and vital to the nation’s wealth and security while never fully rewarded for it. Communications and trade once gave some urban centres the edge over others. Churches and marketplaces were social magnets. Today a brand-name art gallery, celebrity residents, or media chatter are most likely to generate appeal, however specious. What if estate agents sold houses using poetry, memories, polyglotism, ruins and rust? https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/09/where-tourists-seldom-tread-part-9-crewe-boston-barnstaple-stirling
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A teenage girl who is missing part of her arm, hand and oesophagus is pursuing a career working with animals. Louise Fox, who lives in Addlestone, Surrey, said her daughter Gabriella was diagnosed with a rare condition called VACTERL after she was born. Now aged 17, Gabriella is studying to pursue a career working with animals after winning a national education award. “Envisioning her being able to go to college... we just didn’t ever think that would be possible,” her mother said. VACTERL is an acronym made up of the first letters of the main symptoms of the condition - vertebral defects, anorectal anomalies, cardiac defects, tracheo-oesphageal fistula/oesophageal atresia, renal abnormalities and limb abnormalities. As a result of the condition, Gabriella was born with gaps in her digestive system and a shortened left arm, with an absent radius bone and thumb. She has always been much smaller than her peers and now measures 4ft 6in (1.37m). She had her first surgery at 36 hours old and vomited “violently” for at least seven days every month until the age of 12, her mother said. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw5zywr13vlo
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The uncertainty around how financial rule breaches are handled "makes a mockery of the Premier League", says Luton Town midfielder Andros Townsend. Everton were docked two points for a second violation of the Premier League's profit and sustainability rules (PSR) on Monday. They say they will appeal against the decision but the process may not be completed before the season ends. That could leave clubs uncertain of their top-flight status after 19 May. PSR rules permit clubs to lose £105m over three years and Everton were found to have breached that by £16.6m for the three-year period to 2022-23. The points deduction has dropped Everton one place to 16th in the Premier League, two points above the relegation zone. Monday Night Club: Liverpool lose lead and Everton lose points Visit our dedicated Everton page The Toffees also had a 10-point deduction reduced to six on appeal in February for the three-year period to 2021-22 while Nottingham Forest were deducted four points for PSR breaches in March and are awaiting the outcome of an appeal. Luton sit just inside the drop zone - separated from 17th-placed Forest on goal difference - and Townsend says his club still look at the league as though no points have been deducted because of the uncertainty surrounding hearings and appeals processes. "We don't know what's going to happen with appeals," the former Everton player told BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club. "We were probably celebrating when Everton got 10 points taken off them and then they got four given back and we're back in the relegation zone. So we take out the deductions to take away the confusion and we'll see at the end of the season." Townsend said that he does not advocate for teams receiving points deductions and that the way in which they are handed out "doesn't make sense". He added: "I think it makes a mockery of the Premier League. When you announce the charge, you have to be certain of the points deduction." The 2023-24 season technically remains 'live' until the annual general meeting in June when relegated clubs transfer their certificates and 24 May has been selected as a 'backstop date' for the appeals process to be concluded. Townsend said he thinks clubs had not anticipated that punishments for breaching the rules would be "this severe". "Everton would have known they weren't going to be inside that £105m debt mark because they spent £30m in the summer," he said. "They spent that knowing they weren't going to make this £105m target. I think clubs just thought it would be a fine and a slap on the wrists and get on with it." The Premier League had asked for a five-point deduction for Everton but an independent commission concluded that the fact Everton have already been punished this season "for losses in years which overlap with the years at issue in these proceedings" merited a two-point reduction in punishment. A further point was credited back for the loss of revenue after a sponsorship deal with Russian company USM was suspended, along with the early admission of guilt. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68764608
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Israel buying 40,000 tents to prepare to evacuate civilians before Rafah invasion - official An Israeli official has said that Israel is buying 40,000 tents to prepare for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the Associated Press reports. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Monday that a date has been set for an Israeli invasion of Rafah, located on the Egyptian border, without disclosing the specific date. Israeli officials have said that Rafah is Hamas’ last major stronghold in Gaza. An estimated 1.5 million Palestinians – over half of Gaza’s po[CENSORED]tion – have taken refuge in the southern city after fleeing Israeli bombardments elsewhere in the territory. Many western countries, including the US, have voiced strong opposition to the proposed Israeli ground invasion as any attack on Rafah is likely to cause many more civilian casualties and worsen an already acute humanitarian crisis across Gaza. The city is also a logistics hub for the distribution of aid through Gaza, where famine looms and one in three children under the age of two in the north are acutely malnourished, according to the UN. Israel has said it has a plan to evacuate civilians ahead of its offensive, and Israel’s defence ministry on Monday published a tender seeking a supplier of tents. The Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the tents were part of the Rafah preparations. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/09/middle-east-crisis-live-hamas-israel-ceasefire-talks-gaza-rafah-latest