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A Tucson Sector Horse Patrol Unit Border Patrol agent sustained a serious injury while on patrol near the Arizona-Mexico border. A CBP Air and Marine Operations Blackhawk aircrew airlifted the agent to a Tucson hospital for emergency medical care. Tucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent John R. Modlin tweeted photos of a rescue operation after a Casa Grande Horse Patrol agent became injured while on patrol. The photos show agents caring for their fellow agent and carrying him to an awaiting Blackhawk helicopter shortly after the incident on September 29. On September 29, a Casa Grande Station Horse Patrol agent sustained a serious injury while on duty. Tucson Sector BORSTAR and @CBPAMO airlifted him to Tucson for emergency care. Please keep the agent and his family in your thoughts and prayers while he recovers. #HonorFirst pic.twitter.com/nYuLsfX6KS — John R. Modlin (@USBPChiefTCA) October 4, 2022 The aircrew flew the seriously injured agent to a Tucson-area hospital for … [Read more...] about Mounted Border Patrol Agent Seriously Injured on Duty in Arizona

Prime Minister Liz Truss may hit all the notes and say the right things, but after over a decade of incompetent Tory governments, her administration is “not credible”, Brexit leader Nigel Farage said at the conclusion of the annual Conservative party conference in Birmingham. Following one of the shakiest starts to a prime ministership in recent memory, Liz Truss attempted to shore up support for her leadership with a speech to cap off the annual Tory party conference. The speech received some plaudits from commentators and Conservative MPs, with many pointing to her handling of two anti-fracking Green Peace activists as a highlight, enabling her to use the left-wing agitators as a mascot for the “anti-growth coalition” which she claims is standing in the way of Britain’s prosperity. Heaping praise on the speech, Brexit leader Nigel Farage said that “in rhetorical terms, I loved it,” explaining: “It was all there: smaller state, lower taxes and a passionate defence of the … [Read more...] about Farage: ‘Too Little, Too Late’ From Truss to Save the Floundering Tories

Il 18 gennaio 2023 si chiuderà la parabola di Google Stadia e il servizio verrà sospeso definitivamente dopo poco più di tre anni di vita. L’annuncio, diramato dall’azienda statunitense a fine settembre, potrebbe non aver colto di sorpresa i giocatori ormai abituati a non vedere più titoli di spessore entrare a far parte del pacchetto Stadia. Il servizio è stato ufficialmente lanciato nel novembre 2019 , dopo essere stato svelato durante la conferenza GDC (Game Developer Conference), e portava con sé grandi promesse: streaming dei videogiochi da tutti i dispositivi e la possibilità di avviarli da un video di YouTube , per non parlare della creazione di una casa di sviluppo proprietaria , che avrebbe dovuto produrre le esclusive per Stadia . Proprio quest’ultimo punto è una delle ragioni del fallimento del progetto. Non fraintendiamo, le esclusive per Stadia ci sono, ma si tratta di titoli che non hanno avuto un impatto sul mercato e non hanno conquistato … [Read more...] about Google Stadia non ha mai avuto speranze, l’unica era chiudere

With blackouts possible at any time, many people use battery backup to keep their TVs on while the lights are out. TVs can be power-hungry, but you can drastically cut their consumption and, ideally, keep watching until power is restored. How Much Power Can You Really Save? To demonstrate how much of a difference changing your TV settings can make to its power draw, we’re using a 555Wh lithium battery pure sine inverter that shows the current power draw on its display. The power pack also estimates how much time is left before running out of juice. If the load is 100W, you’ll consume 500Wh of power in five hours. On the other hand, if the load is 50W, the time doubles. Any reduction in power consumption leads directly to longer running times. It’s the difference between watching all of the Lord of the Rings movies and running out of power halfway through The Two Towers . First, we took a reading with the TV after resetting its picture settings to default. The TV in … [Read more...] about How to Make Your TV Last Longer on Backup Power

Here at TechRadar, we thoroughly test every phone we can get our hands on, putting each handset through its paces to not only determine how much functionality and value it offers consumers, but to also figure out how it compares to other devices on the market.. Of course, there are a great number of smartphones available to purchase at any given time, which can be overwhelming for those who simply want the best option. In order to deduce which phones are most worthy of your hard-earned dollars, we've taken the liberty of narrowing down a definitive top ten that's judged based on power, specs, design and value for money. In this regularly updated roundup, you can always expect us to point you towards the latest and greatest handsets – we're talking the cream of the crop, here – because we want to make sure you choose a handset that will provide you with years of great performance and security updates. So whether it's one of the best Android phones , the latest iPhone or one … [Read more...] about Best phones in New Zealand 2022: top 10 smartphones tested and ranked

Audio player loading… The rise of low-code could soon see it topple more "traditional" forms of operations, new research has claimed. Mendix's 2022 State of Low-Code found a rise in low-code adoption from 77% in 2021 to 94% this year, with four in 10 businesses now using low-code for mission-critical solutions in their business operations. The report cites a Gartner projection which places low-code or no-code applications at 70% by 2025, up from 25% in 2020. Should I use low-code? Mendix outlined several benefits of low-code, many of which were most notable at the height of the pandemic. When business ground to a halt and economies froze, many businesses were faced with incredibly tough decisions. One in nine businesses surveyed said that they would have had to face reputational damage or look at cost-cutting measures like rising prices or losing staff had they not adopted low-code. As such, 69% saw no-code evolving from a crisis technology to a core … [Read more...] about Low-code could replace “traditional” coding within months

Audio player loading… A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research (opens in new tab) (NBER) examining the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on our working environments has predicted what it calls an “office real estate apocalypse”. The September 2022 paper found a significant 45% decline in office values during 2020, with a longer term fall of 39%. The NBER places the long run figure at an alarming $453 billion, however among the findings was a hint at how offices can protect themselves against impending doom. The abstract reads: “Higher quality office buildings were somewhat buffered against these trends due to a flight to quality, while lower quality office buildings see much more dramatic swings.” Should I rent an office? That said, an article on the San Francisco Standard (opens in new tab) entitled “ Turning Downtown Offices Into Housing Isn’t the Solution You Think It Is ” suggests that repurposing old office buildings may not be such a … [Read more...] about Office real estate prices could be facing an “apocalypse”

The DEA announced Tuesday that a task force team busted a New Jersey woman trafficking approximately 15,000 rainbow fentanyl pills stuffed in Lego boxes in Manhattan. The drug agency noted that this “significant seizure” of the multi-colored pills was the largest in New York City’s history. On September 28, at around 7:10 p.m., task force members — compromised of officers in the New York City’s DEA office and the NYPD — were surveilling a woman who was about to enter a rental car in the Hudson Yards neighborhood. She was noted to be carrying a large black tote bag wrapped around an object. When officers stopped the vehicle, they found the woman in the back seat with two black tote bags and a Lego box inside. Authorities later discovered — after investigating — that the box contained approximately 15,000 colored pills wrapped in black tape next to Lego bricks. New Jersey resident, Latesha Bush, 48, was arrested on the scene and was charged with criminal possession of a … [Read more...] about DEA Seizes 15K Rainbow Fentanyl Pills Stuffed Inside Lego Box in NYC

Julien Salinas wears many hats. He’s an entrepreneur, software developer and, until lately, a volunteer fireman in his mountain village an hour’s drive from Grenoble, a tech hub in southeast France. He’s nurturing a two-year old startup, NLP Cloud , that’s already profitable, employs about a dozen people and serves customers around the globe. It’s one of many companies worldwide using NVIDIA software to deploy some of today’s most complex and powerful AI models. NLP Cloud is an AI-powered software service for text data. A major European airline uses it to summarize internet news for its employees. A small healthcare company employs it to parse patient requests for prescription refills. An online app uses it to let kids talk to their favorite cartoon characters. Large Language Models Speak Volumes It’s all part of the magic of natural language processing (NLP), a popular form of AI that’s spawning some of the planet’s biggest neural networks called large language models. … [Read more...] about AI Esperanto: Large Language Models Read Data With NVIDIA Triton

I migliori giochi per PC sono titoli spettacolari, che impiegano la tecnologia esistente per scopi creativi e sorprendenti. La grafica di alto livello, con risoluzione 4K , HDR e ray tracing in tempo reale, è un elemento che distingue una parte delle produzioni di spicco per PC. Eppure, sempre più spesso, la grafica è accompagnata da elementi solo apparentemente secondari: una direzione artistica eccellente, contraddistinta dall'uso della "pixel art", di applicazioni della fisica e altri elementi che influenzano attivamente il gameplay. Le prestazioni dei PC contemporanei hanno consentito di implementare elementi realistici , in particolare la cinetica, che hanno quasi rivoluzionato i gameplay tradizionali. Molti dei migliori giochi per PC presentano anche trame e missioni secondarie approfondite, accompagnate da colonne sonore meravigliose e da cui è spontaneo aspettarsi un film, una serie TV, dei fumetti e finanche dei romanzi. L'ultimo successo, in questo caso, è The … [Read more...] about I migliori giochi per PC del 2022: i titoli da non perdere assolutamente