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Southampton have agreed a fee with Arsenal to sign England goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale in a deal worth up to £25m. Ramsdale, 26, is expected to make the move before Friday's transfer deadline, with Saints paying £18m upfront with the potential of £7m in add-ons. Speaking to BBC Radio Solent after Southampton’s 5-3 Carabao Cup second round win at Cardiff,Saints boss Russell Martin said: "If it happens it’s very, very exciting. "But we'll have to wait and see. I’m sure we’ll talk about it at some point if and when it happens." Wolverhampton Wanderers had been in talks with Arsenal about signing the keeper, who is back-up to David Raya at Emirates Stadium. However, they pulled out because of the deal being too expensive. Ramsdale played every minute of every league game as Arsenal finished second behind Manchester City in 2022-23. However, he lost his place to Raya, who joined on loan from Brentford last season. Ramsdale made just six league appearances while Arsenal have since turned Raya's loan into a permanent signing. In total he made 78 Premier League appearances for Arsenal after joining from Sheffield United in 2021 for £24m. The ex-Bournemouth keeper joins a Southampton side that has lost both games since winning promotion back to the Premier League. Goalkeeper Alex McCarthy, 34, started the games against Newcastle and Nottingham Forest, both of which ended in 1-0 defeats. Ramsdale has five England caps, the most recent coming against Iceland in June in England's farewell game before the European Championship in Germany. Southampton are away to Brentford on Saturday (15:00 BST). Link: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cvg31zk2v7ro

A cancer screening campaign has been launched in Alderney to encourage women to check for symptoms. The Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Alderney team and the Island Medical Centre said it had introduced the 'don't be in doubt, check it out' campaign for women of all ages to understand their bodies, what changes to look out for and when to get checked. It said it would run alongside the 'check it out mate' campaign for men, with both being put on posters, drink coasters and leaflets. Jan Walker, who is leading the CRUK Alderney Team, said: "Four in 10 cancers could be prevented through modifying our lifestyle - things like stopping smoking and keeping a healthy weight." She said: "This campaign with the new resources for women has been developed by our own team especially for our local community. "We are fortunate to have all the knowledge and information at our disposal from Cancer Research UK and other relevant charities." Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2yj86zdrgo

Although Apple's traditional annual fall presentation is still a long way off, insiders continue to share information about the upcoming iPhone 15 line of smartphones. This time the source is a well-known insider Ice Universe, who has gleaned interesting details about the top-of-the-line model. iPhone 15 Pro Max. this is what we know Apple hasn't upgraded the camera resolution in years, only switching to 48-megapixel sensors on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max in 2022. So don't expect more megapixels this year: the iPhone 15 Pro Max will also have a 48 MP camera. That being said, there will still be changes: according to the leak, Apple is using a more advanced Sony IMX903 sensor. Its size is more similar to the 1-inch sensor: 1/1.14 inches compared to 1/1.28 inches on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. That is, the Sony IMX903 is larger, as the renders of the iPhone 15 Pro Max demonstrate: in them the camera protrudes more above the body than in its predecessors. What is the difference? The larger sensor has inherent advantages in that even in low light conditions, the larger camera lets more light through, capturing more detail. Also, the rumored Sony IMX903 could be more expensive than the one-inch Sony IMX989 sensor. Source: @UniverseIce https://gagadget.com/es/238093-universo-de-hielo-el-iphone-15-pro-max-recibe-un-sensor-sony-de-casi-1-pulgada/

"Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence" by mikemacmarketing is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Ryan Mattfeld offers insights into how the recently developed technology could become integrated into our lives. The public has rapidly become fascinated with the power of a new artificial intelligence technology — ChatGPT — a chatbot developed by the research and deployment company OpenAI and launched late last year. Already it’s demonstrated the ability to serve up detailed answers to complex questions while using the information it processes and feedback from users to improve its ability to respond. ChatGPT has proven to be versatile, with users using the technology to compose music, debug computer code, write restaurant reviews, generate advertising copy and answer test questions. It’s able to deliver its responses in a conversational way, and has sparked excitement about its potential, along with some concerns with how it might be used. But what exactly is ChatGPT and what does it say about the state of AI now, and in the future? Today at Elon reached out to Assistant Professor of Computer Science Ryan Mattfeld, who has been using ChatGPT as a discussion point in the classroom and has insight into how it could transform our use of AI. sample I saw was of a piece of software written by ChatGPT, including an explanation of how the code worked. I was immediately skeptical about the capabilities, and I initially assumed the example was cherry-picked. I continued to hear more about ChatGPT, so at the end of the semester, I created an account and started playing around with it. I was immediately blown away. I gave it an assignment used in one of my 2000-level courses from the prior semester, which included a specific programming task embedded in a story/scenario about creating robots. This was multiple paragraphs long, had unnecessary information, and referenced parts of the class that ChatGPT had no knowledge of. I thought it would stump ChatGPT. I was wrong. It immediately produced an accurate solution, including an explanation for the code written and a description of how it solved the provided problem. I quickly emailed everyone in my department to alert them that ChatGPT was real and demanded attention. https://www.elon.edu/u/news/2023/02/13/how-chatgpt-is-changing-the-way-we-use-artificial-intelligence/

Nvidia's Ada architecture and GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards first started shipping on October 12, 2022, starting with the GeForce RTX 4090. The GeForce RTX 4080 followed one month later, on November 16, 2022, and the RTX 4070 Ti (formerly RTX 4080 12GB) launched on January 5, 2023. That's two years after the Nvidia Ampere architecture and basically right on schedule given the slowing down (or if you prefer, death) of Moore's 'Law,' and it's good news as the best graphics cards are in need of some new competition. With the Nvidia hack early in 2022, we had a good amount of information on what to expect. Cards are now shipping and Nvidia has confirmed specs on the first RTX 40-series cards. We've collected everything into this central hub detailing everything we know and expect from Nvidia's Ada architecture and the RTX 40-series family. There are still rumors swirling around, mostly concerning future Ada Lovelace cards like the rumored Titan RTX Ada / RTX 4090 Ti, and the lower tier models like the RTX 4070 (non-Ti), RTX 4060, and RTX 4050 — and those lower spec GPUs are already shipping in the Nvidia RTX 40-series mobile solutions. But model numbers notwithstanding, we now have a good idea of what we can expect from the Ada Lovelace architecture. With the Ada whitepaper now available alongside the GPUs, we've updated the information here to cover exactly what the new generation of GPUs delivers. The first three desktop RTX 40-series cards have launched. If Nvidia follows a similar release schedule as in the past, we can expect the rest of the RTX 40-series to trickle out over the next year. RTX 4070 will likely ship in April, followed by the RTX 4060 and 4050 over the coming months. Let's start with the high level overview of the specs and rumored specs for the Ada series of GPUs. The 4090, 4080, and 4070 Ti cards are now official and the specs are fully accurate. The 4090 Ti and/or Titan, 4070, 4060, and 4050 cards require some generous helpings of salt, as they're more speculation than anything concrete. Nvidia hasn't officially revealed even the existence of these cards, and it won't until they're close to release — and the laptop variants are likely to be quite different from the desktop models. There are also likely to be intermediate cards that aren't in that table. For the RTX 30-series as an example, Nvidia has ten major models with varying specs, ranging from the 3090 Ti down to the 3050. Other than the 4070 Ti, no other 40-series Ti cards have been revealed yet, but it's a safe bet that they'll arrive at some point. Certainly, there's plenty of room at the top for a future RTX 4090 Ti. Note that the maximum L2 cache is cut down on the 4090 (six blocks of 12MB instead of six blocks of 16MB), ROPs are trimmed a bit, and Nvidia could certainly push higher on clocks and power... and price. [Sigh.] But while credible rumors of a 4-slot Founders Edition card have been circulating, nothing is official at present. We do know that Nvidia is hitting clock speeds of 2.5–2.6 GHz on the 4090 and 4080, and we expect similar clocks on the other GPUs in the RTX 40-series. Nvidia has also successfully overclocked RTX 4090 to 3.0GHz and beyond. We've put in tentative clock speed estimates of 2.6 GHz on the unannounced GPUs for now. The three released models are also using three different GPUs, which is a big change from previous launches. RTX 4090 uses a significantly trimmed down AD102 implementation (89% of the cores, 75% of the cache). Meanwhile, RTX 4080 uses an "almost complete" AD103 chip (95% of the cores and all the cache), and RTX 4070 Ti uses a fully enabled AD104 chip. Again, we can expect either harvested or more fully enabled variants of each GPU at some point. Nvidia will most likely use TSMC's 4N process — "4nm Nvidia" — on all of the Ada GPUs, and it's definitely used the launched cards. We know for certain that AD102, AD103, and AD104 along with Hopper H100 all use TSMC's 4N node, a tweaked variation on TSMC's N5 node that's been widely used in other chips and which is also used for AMD's Zen 4 and RDNA 3. We don't think Samsung will have a compelling alternative that wouldn't require a serious redesign of the core architecture, so the whole family will likely be on the same node. Nvidia will be "going big" with the AD102 GPU, and it's closer in size and transistor counts to the H100 than GA102 was to GA100. Frankly, it's a monster, with performance and price to match. It packs in far more SMs and the associated cores than any Ampere GPUs, it has much higher GPU clocks, and it also contains a number of architectural enhancements to further boost performance. Nvidia claimed that the RTX 4090 is 2x–4x faster than the outgoing RTX 3090 Ti, though caveats apply to those benchmarks. Our own testing puts performance at more like 60% faster in aggregate compared to the previous generation RTX 3090 Ti. That's at 4K and maxed out settings, without DLSS 2 or DLSS 3. But as we noted in our reviews, while DLSS 3 Frame Generation can boost frame rates, it's not the same as "real" frames and it adds latency, meaning it feels more like a 10–20 percent improvement over the baseline performance. It's also worth noting that if you're currently running a more modest processor rather than one of the absolute best CPUs for gaming, you could very well end up CPU limited even at 1440p ultra. A larger system upgrade will likely be necessary to get the most out of the fastest Ada GPUs. With the high-level overview out of the way, let's get into the specifics. The most noticeable change with Ada GPUs will be the number of SMs compared to the current Ampere generation. At the top, AD102 potentially packs 71% more SMs than the GA102. Even if nothing else were to significantly change in the architecture, we would expect that to deliver a huge increase in performance. That will apply not just to graphics but to other elements as well. Most of the calculations haven't changed from Ampere, though the Tensor cores now support FP8 (with sparsity) to potentially double the FP16 performance. Each 4th generation Tensor core can perform 256 FP16 calculations per clock, double that with sparsity, and double that again with FP8 and sparsity. The RTX 4090 has theoretical deep learning/AI compute of up to 661 teraflops in FP16, and 1,321 teraflops of FP8 — and a fully enabled AD102 chip could hit 1.4 petaflops at similar clocks. The full GA102 in the RTX 3090 Ti by comparison tops out at around 321 TFLOPS FP16 (again, using Nvidia's sparsity feature). That means RTX 4090 delivers a theoretical 107% increase, based on core counts and clock speeds. The same theoretical boost in performance applies to the shader and ray tracing hardware as well, except those are also changing. The GPU shader cores will have a new Shader Execution Reordering (SER) feature that Nvidia claims will improve general performance by 25%, and can improve ray tracing operations by up to 200%. Unfortunately, support for SER will require developers to use proprietary Nvidia extensions, so existing games won't necessarily benefit. The RT cores meanwhile have doubled down on ray/triangle intersection hardware (or at least the throughput per core), plus they have a couple more new tricks available. The Opacity Micro-Map (OMM) Engine enables significantly faster ray tracing for transparent surfaces like foliage, particles, and fences. The Displaced Micro-Mesh (DMM) Engine on the other hand optimizes the generation of the Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) structure, and Nvidia claims it can create the BVH up to 10x faster while using 20x less (5%) memory for BVH storage. Again, these require that developers make use of the new features, so existing ray tracing games won't benefit without a patch. Together, these architectural enhancements should enable Ada Lovelace GPUs to offer a massive generational leap in performance. Except it will be up to developers to enable most of them, so uptake might be rather diminished. Ada's ROP counts are going up quite a bit in some cases, particularly the top model (for now) RTX 4090. As with Ampere, Nvidia ties the ROPs to the GPCs, the Graphics Processing Clusters, but some of these can still be disabled. The AD102 has up to 144 SMs with 12 GPCs of 12 SMs each. That yields 192 ROPs as the maximum, though the final number on the RTX 4090 is 11 GPCs and 176 ROPs. RTX 4080 gas seven GPCs, just like GA102, though in an odd change of pace it appears one of the GPC clusters only has 8 SMs while the other six have up to 12 SMs. Regardless, all seven are enabled on the RTX 4080 and it has 112 ROPs. AD104 in the RTX 4070 Ti uses five GPCs of 12 SMs, with 80 ROPs. For the time being, the remaining three cards should be taken as a best guess. We don't know for certain what GPUs will be used, and there may be other models (i.e., RTX 4060 Ti) interspersed between cards. We'll fill in the blanks as more information becomes available in the coming months, once the other Ada GPUs are closer to launching. Last year, Micron announced it has roadmaps for GDDR6X memory running at speeds of up to 24Gbps. The latest RTX 3090 Ti only uses 21Gbps memory, and Nvidia is currently the only company using GDDR6X for anything. That immediately raises the question of what will be using 24Gbps GDDR6X, and the only reasonable answer seems to be Nvidia Ada. The lower-tier GPUs are more likely to stick with standard GDDR6 rather than GDDR6X as well, which tops out at 20Gbps and is used in AMD's RX 7900 XTX/XT cards. This represents a bit of a problem, as GPUs generally need compute and bandwidth to scale proportionally to realize the promised amount of performance. The RTX 3090 Ti for example has 12% more compute than the 3090, and the higher clocked memory provides 8% more bandwidth. Based on the compute details shown above, there's a huge disconnect brewing. The RTX 4090 has around twice as much compute as the RTX 3090 Ti, but it offers the same 1008 GB/s of bandwidth — 24Gbps for an eventual RTX 4090 Ti, anyone? There's far more room for bandwidth to grow on the lower tier GPUs, assuming GDDR6X power consumption can be kept in check. The current RTX 3050 through RTX 3070 all use standard GDDR6 memory, clocked at 14–15Gbps. We already know GDDR6 running at 20Gbps is available, so a hypothetical RTX 4050 with 18Gbps GDDR6 ought to easily keep up with the increase in GPU computational power. If Nvidia still needs more bandwidth, it could tap GDDR6X for the lower tier GPUs as well. The catch is that Nvidia doesn't need massive increases in pure memory bandwidth, because instead it will rework the architecture, similar to what we saw AMD do with RDNA 2 compared to the original RDNA architecture. Namely, it will pack in a lot more cache to relieve the demands on the memory subsystem. One great way of reducing the need for more raw memory bandwidth is something that has been known and used for decades. Slap more cache on a chip and you get more cache hits, and every cache hit means the GPU doesn't need to pull data from the GDDR6/GDDR6X memory. A large cache can be particularly helpful for gaming performance. AMD's Infinity Cache allowed the RDNA 2 chips to basically do more with less raw bandwidth, and the Nvidia Ada L2 cache shows Nvidia has taken a similar approach. AMD uses a massive L3 cache of up to 128MB on the Navi 21 GPU, with 96MB on Navi 22, 32MB on Navi 23, and just 16MB on Navi 24. Surprisingly, even the smaller 16MB cache does wonders for the memory subsystem. We didn't think the Radeon RX 6500 XT was a great card overall, but it basically keeps up with cards that have almost twice the memory bandwidth. The Ada architecture pairs up to an 8MB L2 cache with each 32-bit memory controller, or 16MB per 64-bit controller. That means the cards with a 128-bit memory interface would get 32MB of total L2 cache, and the 384-bit interface on AD102 has up to 96MB of L2 cache. Except, part of the L2 cache blocks can also be disabled, so the RTX 4090 only has 72MB of L2 cache (six blocks of 12MB instead of 16MB). While that's less than AMD's RDNA 2 Infinity Cache in many cases, AMD also dropped to 96MB total L3 cache for its top RX 7900 XTX. We also don't know latencies or other aspects of the design yet. L2 cache tends to have lower latencies than L3 cache, so a slightly smaller L2 could definitely keep up with a larger but slower L3 cache, and as we saw with RDNA 2 GPUs, even a 16MB or 32MB Infinity Cache helped a lot. If we look at AMD's RX 6700 XT as an example. It has about 35% more compute than the previous generation RX 5700 XT. Performance in our GPU benchmarks hierarchy meanwhile is about 32% higher at 1440p ultra, so performance overall scaled pretty much in line with compute. Except, the 6700 XT has a 192-bit interface and only 384 GB/s of bandwidth, 14% lower than the RX 5700 XT's 448 GB/s. That means the big Infinity Cache gave AMD at least a 50% boost to effective bandwidth. In general, it looks like Nvidia gets similar results with Ada, and even without wider memory interfaces the Ada GPUs should still have plenty of effective bandwidth. It's also worth mentioning that Nvidia's memory compression techniques in past architectures have proven capable, so slightly smaller caches compared to AMD may not matter at all. https://www.tomshardware.com/features/nvidia-ada-lovelace-and-geforce-rtx-40-series-everything-we-know

Time-bending multiplayer FPS Lemnis Gate won't reach its second birthday. An update from Ratloop Games and Frontier Foundry(opens in new tab), posted yesterday, has informed the game's players that the game will be removed from sale on April 11 pending the final shutdown of its multiplayer servers on July 11, a few months short of September 28, the would-be second anniversary of its release. For PC players, July 11 will be the last possible opportunity to play Lemnis Gate at all, according to the update from the devs. While console players will be able to "access local multiplayer and training modes" on their machines seemingly in perpetuity, PC players will "be unable to play beyond that point". Some players in the comments on the announcement(opens in new tab) are begging the devs to enable local play on PC after the game dies, but there's been no sign of a response yet. Hard luck if you only recently bought the game, I guess. To be fair, the likelihood that anyone has forked over the cash for Lemnis Gate in the last couple of months is actually pretty slim. The game last went on sale—for 60% off—in October last year, and since then its simultaneous player count has barely ever managed to hit a double digit figure. At time of writing, SteamDB(opens in new tab) lists five players in-game. It's not hard to see why the studio is pulling the plug. But while it's not a surprise, it is a shame. Lemnis Gate was an interesting and innovative FPS whose core mechanic—using time shenanigans to disrupt your opponent's plays in previous rounds—felt very fresh and very weird when it released in 2021. Robert Zak scored the game 84% in his Lemnis Gate review(opens in new tab) for PCG at the time, with particular praise for its "smart strategizing" and "dextrous gunplay," but noting even back then that it suffered from low player counts that made finding a game hard. It's been a bit of a bloodbath when it comes to game shutdowns in recent years. Lemnis Gate joins the dubious ranks of games like Hyperscape, Babylon's Fall, Fuser, and a whole host of other games(opens in new tab) that have moved to a nice farm upstate in the last year or so. Let's hope this is the one that finally ends the streak? https://www.pcgamer.com/theres-only-a-few-months-left-before-time-loop-fps-lemnis-gate-becomes-unplayable-on-pc-forever/

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Guernsey's States has paid £45,000 for a review of the cost, reliability and capacity of the island's air links. The work was commissioned by the Committee for Economic Development (ED) and will be carried out by Frontier Economics. It will investigate whether the current air transport licencing policy "meets the needs of the economy and the local community", according to ED. It said the review "should be completed by the end of the year" and will form part of proposals for air transport licencing, which will come before the States by the end of March 2025. In 2018, the States of Guernsey moved to a "quasi open-skies" policy, which meant airlines no longer needed an air transport licence to fly to and from the island. ED's review - according to a spokesperson - will look at "the extent to which Guernsey’s air services meet the needs of the economy and the local community in terms of capacity, cost and reliability and how this might have altered since changes to air transport licencing policy in 2018". Last week the States Trading Supervisory Board commissioned a review of Aurigny's fleet, following a "challenging" six months for the airline. That piece of work will look at the airline's future reliability and resilience and how its board members managed the fleet transition. Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w757dv14go

A rescue centre for exotic animals has said it is "saddened" to have to close after its mini-zoo was forced to shut down earlier this year. Cookham Rescue Centre announced on Wednesday that it was unable to keep paying rent at its site on Lower Mount Farm on Long Lane. The centre said its animals would be relocated to other zoos and rescue centres, but added that it said it was still raising funds to set up a smaller facility where it can keep looking after some animals. It comes after it had to close its mini-zoo earlier this year after failing to get planning permission. The zoo, opened in May 2023, had not been issued planning permission at the time it was opened. This was then refused by Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Council in March this year, on the basis that it would cause harm to the green belt. In a statement the rescue centre said: “Despite our best efforts over the past six months, circumstances beyond our control have forced us to leave our beloved facility." The centre said its team had “worked tirelessly" on the zoo project. “Unfortunately, despite our best efforts to comply with local regulations, the council decided in March that our facility was not suitable for the greenbelt, even though other businesses on the land were approved.” It added: “With our rent remaining the same despite the facility not being able to use it for the agreed purpose we find ourselves unable to continue to pay for the property.” The rescue centre has set up a GoFundMe page seeking to raise £10,000 from supporters to set up a smaller facility. Animals housed there would include two wolfdogs Otis and Pippa, which the team had been unable to relocate and had "formed strong bonds with their keepers". Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0l8jg5g34go

The Mazda EZ-6, unveiled today, is the first of a series of new electrified vehicles (new energy vehicles) developed and manufactured by Changan Mazda in cooperation with Mazda and Chongqing Changan Automobile Co., Ltd. (Changan Automobile), and will be launched in China by the end of 2024. In addition, the concept model Mazda 創 Arata, unveiled at the same time, is scheduled to be mass-produced as the second new electrified vehicle by the end of 2025 and introduced in the Chinese market. In China, where electrification is rapidly advancing, Mazda will expand its lineup of electrified products so that more customers can choose them. Masahiro Moro, President & CEO of Mazda, said in the Changan Mazda press conference that took place today: "We are delighted to introduce the all-new new energy vehicle (NEV) developed in alliance with Mazda and Changan Automobile. The Mazda EZ-6 is the latest electrified vehicle that combines Mazda's strengths with Changan Automobile's electrified technology. Going forward, Mazda will continue to work with Changan Automobile to turn Mazda’s China business around by introducing its unique products that meet the needs of Chinese customers who prefer advanced vehicles. The Mazda EZ-6 is a dedicated electrified model which combines Mazda’s design language, KODO-Soul of Motion, and its signature driving performance which focuses on the Jinba-ittai (car and driver as one) driving feel, with advanced electric vehicle technology and smart technology supplied by Changan Automobile. Two versions of the Mazda EZ-6 will be available, a battery electric vehicle (BEV) and a plug-in hybrid electrified vehicle (PHEV). Customers in China will be able to select a powertrain that matches their personal lifestyle and preferences. The Mazda 創 Arata is a design concept model for which Mazda took on a challenge to create a new value based on the Mazda philosophy of “Uplifting the Human Spirit.” As a crossover SUV, with a modern design that creates a sleek, elegant impression, it is designed to appeal to the advanced, sophisticated taste of Chinese consumers. Mazda will continue to pursue the 'Joy of Driving' under its core Human Centric value and aim to deliver the 'Joy of Living' by creating moving experiences in customers' daily lives. ■ MAZDA EZ-6 product summary Based on the “Authentic Modern” theme, the design of the Mazda EZ-6 seeks to capture the lively spirit and elegance of Mazda’s “Soul of Motion” design philosophy, expressed through advanced styling appropriate for the electric vehicle age. Overall, the vehicle shows a simple, flowing coupe form. The Mazda EZ-6 dynamic performance also reflects Mazda’s commitment to create vehicles that gives the driver a feel of Jimba-ittai, car and driver as one. Its crafted handling and braking enable the car to respond in a linear manner to the driver’s intentions. The Mazda EZ-6 features 50:50 weight distribution between the front and rear (BEV model); front strut suspension and rear multi-link suspension; and an electric-powered rear spoiler that improves high-speed stability. Other smart features that improve both safety and convenience include an intelligent drive system that provides support for the driver as well as accident mitigation technology; intelligent parking technology that allows the Mazda EZ-6 to be controlled by voice, even when the driver is outside the vehicle; and smart cabin technology that can be operated in various ways including voice-control, touch, and gesture control. The BEV model has an expected driving range of approximately 600 km, while the PHEV model is expected to achieve over 1,000km of driving range on a single tank of fuel.*2 https://newsroom.mazda.com/en/publicity/release/2024/202404/240425b.html

Crystal Palace have signed Wolfsburg centre-back Maxence Lacroix in a deal worth up to £18m. Palace have been linked with the 24-year-old throughout the transfer window and he joins on a five-year deal. The former France U20s defender joined Wolfsburg in 2020, made 130 appearances and played under Palace boss Oliver Glasner when he was in charge. Palace sold centre-back Joachim Andersen to Fulham in a deal worth up to £30m but look set to hold onto England international Marc Guehi, who has been tracked by Newcastle. They are also close to signing Chelsea defender Trevor Chalobah. Lacroix came through the youth teams at Sochaux and played 28 times for the French club before moving to Wolfsburg. He was part of the Wolfsburg side that qualified for the Champions League under Glasner and played in all six of their group-stage matches in 2021. On the move, Lacroix said: "It’s like a dream for a young football player. I’m really happy to be here and arrive at this good team. "I watched Palace’s last games and I was really happy for the coach, because I’d played under him before. I think it’s the right moment to move to the Premier League." Palace chairman Steve Parish said: "We have watched Maxence play at the very highest level of European football and we are delighted to be able to welcome him to Selhurst Park. "He is another young, talented player to add to the club, and I am sure he will prove himself to be a valuable asset for Oliver and the squad." https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/crrlxyl2k7qo

More than 130,000 people in England will be offered free workplace health checks in the next six months under a new initiative to try and prevent heart disease. From September, employees in several sectors including building and hospitality will be able to access quick assessments that will determine their risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), which can cause heart attacks and strokes. Those aged between 40 and 74 who do not have certain pre-existing conditions linked to heart disease will be eligible. According to the government, these checks will save thousands of hours of NHS time and will help to cut waiting lists. The scheme is an effort to increase the number of NHS Health Checks, first introduced in 2009, that are carried out. As well as targting heart disease, the programme aims to prevent diabetes and kidney disease, as well as some cases of dementia among adults. Health minister Andrew Gwynne said that while over 16 million people were eligible for the check, current data showed only 40% went on to complete one. "This is especially true for men, who are less likely to get early help but who are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease at an earlier age than women," he said. "This new programme aims to reach more people through their place of work and make it more convenient for people to understand and improve their cardiovascular health." People taking part will be required to answer a short lifestyle questionnaire; have their height, weight, and waist measured; undergo a blood pressure test; and have a simple blood test to measure cholesterol and blood sugar levels. The checks will also record key information including smoking status; family history of coronary heart disease; and cholesterol level. They are part of government efforts to boost economic growth in the UK by improving healthcare. “Health checks can save lives. They can prevent people from developing largely preventable diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, Type 2 diabetes and liver disease," said Louise Gittins, chair of the Local Government Association. Plans for a digital version of the NHS Health Check have also been announced, with testing for this due to take place next year. Councils in Norfolk, Medway and the London borough of Lambeth have signed up for the trial. It is estimated the initiative will deliver one million checks in its first four years and there are plans to then roll it out nationally alongside face-to-face assessments. CVD is a leading cause of death and disability in England. It accounts for 1 in 4 deaths in England, according to NHS figures, despite being largely preventable if people lead a healthy lifestyle. Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clywg73vzxdo