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While the CPU architecture is still a mystery, we now know that the Scorpio will be dumping the Xbox One’s ESRAM configuration for GDDR5X or HBM2. Beyond the performance improvement, this decision will probably result in a much smaller die size, allowing for cheaper production and better yields (the accompanying photo shows just how much space ESRAM occupied in the original system). Also (re)confirmed is a six-teraflop GPU that makes Scorpio 4.5 times more powerful than the Xbox One. The whitepaper, however, would suggest that the new console is no different than the PS4 Pro, at least in terms of approachآ—while Forza is rumored to be a native 4K title, there is a lot of focus on various rendering and scaling tricks, which implies that hitting the UHD target, as you might have guessed, will be a typical struggle for developers. In fact, there are passages that strongly advocate the use of GPU power elsewhere.
آ…the in-depth discussion of techniquesآ…may be suggesting that Scorpio isn't the 'true 4K' console that Microsoft marketed it as at E3 2016. But the practical reality is that the document confirms that at least one first-party 1080p title has transitioned relatively easily to native 4K (our best guess would be the Forza Motorsport engine is the technology in question here), and accepts the reality that GPU resources aren't always best spent on precision pixel-work at ultra HD resolutions. Of course, the reality is that the techniques outlined in the whitepaper have been battle-tested by PlayStation 4 Pro. Titles like Rise of the Tomb Raider, Horizon Zero Dawn and Days Gone have validated sparse/checkerboard rendering up to 2160p, while Call of Duty Infinite Warfare employs virtually all the techniques Microsoft discusses in some way, shape or form. Scorpio's additional horsepower - combined with more developer experience by the time it launches - should also lead to fewer of the basic 1440p ports we've seen on PS4 Pro.
A Norman lord, master of Vernonsur-Seine, who distinguished himself in the First Crusade. He was captured by the Muslims during the campaign but managed to escape from slavery. He returned to France and entered the abbey of Tiron. There he became a recluse, remaining recollected until his death of April 30.
The icy grip of winter on the state of Michigan is affecting all sorts of things.
When the windchill is expected to hit 30 below, everything that matters is all about cold.
With temperatures hovering around zero, homeowners need to worry about frozen pipes.
Check pipes, starting with the ones most exposed to the cold, and use a blow dryer, not an open flame, to warm up the pipe. Turn on the faucet while you’re heating the pipes until you have a steady flow of water.
Tempted to warm up your car in the driveway before heading off into the frozen tundra?
It's legal – but you still might want to rethink it.
Gov. Rick Snyder signed a bill into law last June that allows drivers to leave their vehicles running unattended on private property. The law was the result of a controversy surrounding Nick Taylor, a Roseville man who ended up with a $128 ticket for leaving his vehicle idling unattended in a driveway last winter.
While it might be legal to leave a vehicle running in a driveway, it might not be the best move.
Apparently, thieves are finding the warm, empty cars irresistible — at least in one community.
Dearborn Police earlier this week said they received multiple reports of vehicles being stolen after they were left running and unattended in the driveway. They're discouraging residents from warming up cars and trucks without the use of a remote starter.
While many districts still are on holiday break, others are wrestling with whether to close schools in the wake of this week's arctic blast.
The temperature around 8 a.m. Thursday morning is expected to be a crisp 0, with a wind child of -15, said Jordan Dale, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. And while the temperature is expected to warm up slightly Friday, the wind chill will be worse: the 8 a.m. temp is expected in the low single digits, while the wind chill is expected to be between -20 and -25.
Here's a hint, kids: Administrators are making decisions based on the conditions and safety – not the number of tweets you fire off begging for the day off. On Wednesday, it was a mixed bag, with some districts, like Armada, staying open but others, like Roseville, closing for the day.
Cold weather has the effect of freezing liquids, but when the Great Lakes get cold, there is an additional cool beauty: little ice boulders — or ice balls — form.
Pictures of the chilly spheres dotting Michigan beaches are being shared across social media.
How cold is it? Enough to freeze bubbles. When the temperature is just right, below about 9 to 12 degrees Fahrenheit, according to Live Science, the bubbles will freeze.
Allie Gross, Perry A. Farrell and Hasan Dudar and Lori Higgins contributed.
Whether you look impeccably groomed at soirées, presenting ideas or just living the moment, we see you. It may not be your day job but fashion doesn’t have to take the back seat.
From moviemakers, businessmen to doctors, this week we picked an unusual set of fashion mavens who live by the rules they create and consequently caught our attention.
The Saudi artist and entrepreneur believes dressing up is a form of art and one we think he is well versed with. Whether it’s a sophisticated thobe, classic suit or a simple t-shirt- he’s the jack-of-all-trades.
• First of all, I don’t think being stylish or following trends depends on money or how much you can splurge on an item.
• Secondly, buying brands doesn’t mean you can buy style. There are brands that are trendsetters no doubt, but buying something when it doesn’t even suit you just to show off, doesn’t make you stylish.
• Be a smart shopper. For instance I prefer a one-button or four-button suit, which is hard to find. I would rather tailor my own suit and customize it rather than just going for a brand for namesake. People have this idea that buying a branded item is the key. Be it an Armani suit or D&G, the former is classic and the latter is made for fit men. So you can’t just buy it and assume it’ll do the job for you. Sometimes you can buy an item that’s not high-priced but looks like a million bucks on you. That’s what I aspire to. People think buying brands can help buy happiness too. I don’t neglect brands, but I find pleasure in buying things that are trendy, stylish and inexpensive. In fact, it’s rewarding when people come up and ask ‘wow is this Tom Ford, or where did you get this suit from?’ At the end of the day, it doesn’t depend on the brush or paint being used but the tools the artist uses to turn something ordinary into a piece of art.
• Be different. Stand out. Metaphorically, I’d be the Vimto in a fridge full of Coca Cola. It alludes to the same scenario about standing out in a room full of black suits, where you are able to shine because of your style, the way the suit is cut or the details. That’s where the ultimate challenge lies.
Award winning Emirati director, writer and producer established his own production company AFM Films in 2006. Mostafa’s inimitable charm seems to impact his style too, whether it’s on or off set on the red carpet. He mostly keeps it simple with ridiculously stylish glasses and a simple ensemble. He effortlessly balances high fashion with timeless classics.
Some of his favorite brands include Burberry, Ralph Lauren, Gucci and Tom Ford.
Dwairi was born in Istanbul to a Jordanian father and a Turkish mother.
I finished med school in Egypt and I’m doing my internship currently in Amman. I’ve modeled for four years in Egypt then I shifted to blogging and content creating.
Regarding my style, I don’t have a specific style but an all white outfit is my favorite in the summer. I usually go for a simple yet unique style, usually monochrome. I liked the Hawaiian vibes for this summer outfits.
Gucci and Saint Laurent are my favorites for this season.
Financial rating agency Standard & Poor's analyzed the cost of the partial government shutdown on the United States economy and found it added up to at least $6 billion — more expensive than the $5.7 billion President Donald Trump wanted for the border wall.
In a report issued on Friday, titled, "U.S. Government Shutdown Ends, But At What Cost?" the rating agency's Global Economics arm said the overall cost to the economy — for the longest government shutdown in U.S. history — is "likely worse than what we had previously expected."
Late Friday, Trump signed a bill officially reopening the federal government for three weeks while Congress further negotiates border security funding with the president.
S&P previously estimated that the partial shutdown would have a "modest impact" on the U.S. economy, which is worth about $19 trillion, according to the agency.
The rating agency previously estimated the U.S. economy would lose approximately $1.2 billion of real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for each week of the political standoff.
People hold placards during a rally to protest against the partial government shutdown at Federal Plaza in Chicago, Jan. 18, 2019.
But, as the shutdown continued, "weekly costs likely widened beyond the average weekly cost of $1.2 billion," the agency said in a press release announcing the results.
"Here, both direct costs, on lost productivity from furloughed government workers, and indirect costs, from lost economic activity to outside businesses because of the shutdown, amplified with each week the government remained closed," the statement continued.
"We had expected that other indirect costs were likely just delayed, with businesses recouping some of those losses once the government reopens its doors. But, with a five-week closure, we suspect that more of those economic activities indirectly tied to the government may have been outright canceled," the statement said.
The agency, like many affected government workers, expressed caution about the end of the shutdown.
"Although this funding battle has ended, the next one starts in a few weeks, which may reduce growth expectations if businesses and financial markets begin to expect that Congress and the president will repeat the experience again and again," the statement said.
Share Settings Among Folders in Outlook 97.
To share settings among folders (particularly useful if you want similar settings among contact lists), open a new folder, select "Folder" from the File menu, then choose "Copy Folder Design". In the dialog box, select the folder with the original settings. Then, choose among the properties you want to copy and click on OK.
On now to Chapter MLXII in our Chronicles of National Disarray: "Congress Solves Immigration Perplexity."
Or, far likelier, "Congress Kicks Can Down Road."
With the federal government coming back to listlessness -- if not exactly life -- Republicans and Democrats are set for corrosive conversation in February regarding the topic of what to do about newcomers. We don't know what to do, which is why the conversation will likely end in kicked-can mode. Still, one considerable virtue of the Trump mode of doing business has been bringing us to this point: infuriating people, kicking up a ruckus we'd hoped to avoid.
The fervent loyalty that restrictionist views command on the right plus the fervent detestation of anything Trump says by the left could bring about the compromise so badly needed. We can't go on forever as we are. Can we?
"Compromise" is the dirtiest of words in modern politics: implying surrender of principle in the search for a "moderate," mushy, middle ground. "Compromisers" are wimps, weasels, sellouts. "So then," wrote St. John the Divine to the Laodiceans, in Revelation, "because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth."
A major reason we can't address immigration reasonably is that neither restriction nor an open door is a policy or a program. Each is a rhetorical stance, a way of blowing off steam over a challenging aggravation. We don't like what it is, but we can't find the language to figure out what's to be done.
Just now, the problem is in regard to the so-called Dreamers. "Dreamers," my hind foot. Who says that the 700,000 children brought to the United States illegally are sitting around with books on their laps and far-away looks in their eyes? Some likely are, but which ones? How do we decide fairly among them? Do we offer all of them, without exception, a path to citizenship, or do we send all of them back whence their parents came? And how, specifically?
The latter strategy is improbable and the former a little more likely, but burdened by the problem of precedent. Is it now the policy of the United States that any child smuggled in by a parent is for all intents and purposes an American? Things could be read that way.
At the same time, neglecting to refresh the existing population with ideas and hands from abroad is to contradict a signature American commitment. But at what rate and speed would this be done? And without qualifications of any particular kind? That seems an acutely wrong-headed way of going about things in a complex, intermingled world.
A key point overlooked by those in favor of an open-door policy is the importance of attachment to place -- of willingness to die for a particular patch of ground. The imparting of American citizenship as a high ideal, and the beckoning of foreigners into full-throated, pulsating identification with the United States of America are particulars that seem of marginal importance to open-doorists. Yet restrictionists can seem too pleased with the population mix we already have here -- so pleased they overlook the possibility of renewal in new and surprising ways.
Not many years ago I became friendly at my place of business with a late-middle-aged Eritrean refugee working his way toward citizenship, earning his keep as a security guard. I have rarely known anyone who loved America as much as this black man from the other side of the world. On the day he gained citizenship, he decked himself in red, white and blue and beamed ceaselessly. I do not know where he is now, but I am sure we are enriched by his patriotism.
How do you factor into perfected legislation the desires and hopes -- or lack thereof -- of others around us in this crowded world? How do you deal with the world as it is, rather the world we wish we had?
I cannot think much will come out of Congress' compelled attempt to figure out immigration. We might feel odd twinges of sympathy, nevertheless, for all engaged in this vexing enterprise. The wimps, the sellouts and the Laodiceans may eventually find themselves very much in demand.
Feb 12 (Reuters) - Gold prices eased on Tuesday as investors sought safety in the dollar from a long-drawn U.S.-China trade war and its impact on the global economic growth.
* Spot gold was down 0.2 percent at $1,306.51 per ounce, as of 0102 GMT, after falling 0.4 percent in the previous session.
* U.S. gold futures fell 0.1 percent to $1,310.20 per ounce.
* Investors are now focussed on the new round of trade talks between China and the United States that started in Beijing on Monday.
* These talks come as the world’s two largest economies try to hammer out a deal before a March 1 deadline, after which U.S. tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports are scheduled to increase to 25 percent from 10 percent.
* Sino-U.S. trade tensions have rattled financial markets since last year and also boosted the appeal of the U.S. dollar as a safe-haven.
* The dollar index was steady at 97.08, after advancing 0.4 percent in the previous session in its largest percentage gain since Jan. 24.
* Meanwhile, top four Democratic and Republican congressional negotiators on border security funding resumed talks on Monday, with the possibility of another partial U.S. government shutdown looming if they fail to reach a deal by a Friday deadline.
* The British parliament is set to hold a debate on Brexit on Feb. 14 where Prime Minister Theresa May is seeking changes to her deal with Brussels after it was rejected by a record majority in parliament last month.
* Italy’s ruling League party has drafted a law proposal which would eventually allow the government to sell the country’s gold reserves through a change to the constitution.
* Russia’s central bank will pay less than an industry benchmark for gold that it buys on the domestic market, it said on Monday.
* Kazakhstan raised its gold holdings by 2.81 tonnes in January, according to International Monetary Fund data.
* China’s gold reserves were at 59.94 million fine troy ounce at end-January versus 59.56 million troy ounce at end-December, according to central bank data.
* Venezuela’s most successful financial operations in recent years have not taken place on Wall Street, but in primitive gold-mining camps in the nation’s southern reaches.
* Russia’s largest gold producer, Polyus, on Monday reported a 20 percent jump in fourth-quarter adjusted net profit to $291 million compared with last year, lifted by increased production and rising sales of the metal.
Sundance winds down this weekend, but the distributions deals are heating up as a trio of titles announce their acquisition: Skeleton Twins, Love Is Strange, and The One I Love.
Coming Soon clued us in to the first of these three deals. Skeleton Twins stars Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader as the titular twins. But veering away from expectations, this feature from director Craig Johnson is not a flat-out comedy. Instead these two funny folk set aside the slapstick and silliness they are known for and dig into drama with the story of estranged siblings who reunite in a moment of simultaneous crisis.
Like Will Forte before them, these former Saturday Night Live co-stars are gaining serious praise for their serious turn. But according to reviews out of Sundance, this drama isn't all darkness. Film Threat's review reads, "It is rare to see a film as tonally balanced as The Skeleton Twins. It is both a tearjerker and a crowdpleaser, often in the same scene."
With all the Sundance buzz, Skeleton Twins has attracted Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions, and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions as distributors. Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions have inked a deal to release the film in the US, while Sony will open it overseas.
Skeleton Twins could hit theaters Stateside as early as this summer.
Another wing of Sony has scooped up a different drama garnering praise at the star-studded film festival. Sony Pictures Classic acquired Ira Sach's Love is Strange, a follow-up to his Spirit Award-nominated Keep The Lights On. Like his last film, Love is Strange focuses on a troubled gay relationship in New York City.
Alfred Molina and John Lithgow star as George and Ben, partners of 39 years who "make it official" once marriage equality comes to New York City. But a change in laws doesn't always equal a change in minds, and their wedding sparks homophobia that gets George fired from his longtime job at a Catholic school, forcing the couple to move out of their Manhattan home and seek separate living situations elsewhere. While George is able to crash with a couple of gay cops next door, Ben moves to Brooklyn to stay with his nephew. The strain of their separation impacts all around them. Or, per Time Out New York's review, "It's an essential--and essentially New York--story about limited room, limited time but incalculable attachment."
Love is Strange makes for SPC's third Sundance pick-up this year, following Whiplash and Land Ho! There's no word yet on when Love Is Strange might hit theaters. While Deadline reported a deal was in the works, cast member Cheyenne Jackson updated us all with this Instagram message: "YEAH BABY!!! Per Deadline.com. @loveisstrangemovie gets picked up by Sony Pictures Classics. Congratulations @irasachs & the whole family."
Lastly, Deadline divulged that The Weinstein Company is throwing its weight behind The One I Love. Its Radius-TWC branch made a $2 million deal within 24 hours of the film's Sundance debut. We first heard of this production last March, when Charlie McDowell's directorial debut scored a cast that included Elisabeth Moss, Mark Duplass and Ted Danson.
The One I Love is a dramedy that centers on an unhappily married couple (Moss and Duplass) who are advised by their marriage counselor (Danson) to take a weekend getaway to reassess their relationship and reconnect with each other. Something strange happens over this weekend, but what that is has purposely been kept out of its synopsis. As Variety's review explains, "(The One I Love is) a pleasure to watch but a challenge to discuss without spoiling a good deal of the fun."
Radius-TWC hasn't yet teased when The One I Love will be released.
HOUSTON - One person was killed and two others were injured during a shooting at a southwest Houston gas station Thursday night.
The shooting happened around 8 p.m. on Nov. 10 at the Exxon station at the intersection of Sam Houston Tollway and Rockwell Boulevard.
Houston police said Vincent Depaul Stredic, 39, was the shooter in the case.
According to Houston police, a car with four people inside stopped at the gas station. The group in the car got into a fight and Stredic pulled a shotgun out from the trunk of the car and shot Chirstopher Barriere, 44, in the back of the head, police said. Stredic left the scene, but later returned and shot a second person who was initially in the car. A bystander was also hit in the leg by one of the bullets.
Barriere is a well-known Houston rapper who went by "Mr. 3-2."
One of the men was shot in the back of the head and died at the scene, police said. The second person was shot in the face and taken to Ben Taub Hospital, where he was listed in serious condition. The bystander suffered minor injuries and was not taken to the hospital.
Police said the truck belonging to the bystander was also shot.
Houston police said Stredic was taken into custody on Tuesday without incident.
Putin, left, and Rakhmon meeting in Dushanbe on Friday.
President Vladimir Putin signed a deal Friday in Dushanbe that will allow Russia to keep a military base in Tajikistan until 2042.
Putin met with Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon on Friday on a trip to , where Putin was scheduled to tour the ase and to celebrate Rakhmon's 60th birthday with him.
Putin cancelled a trip to Pakistan previously scheduled for Thursday at the last minute and flew to Dushanbe, arriving late Thursday, according to the Kremlin website.
Presidential aide Yury Ushakov told Interfax that Putin's agenda in Dushanbe would include bilateral negotiations on issues including immigration, military cooperation and trade.
He said there would also be an official meal where Rakhmon's 60th birthday, which falls on Friday, would be celebrated.
To mark the occasion, Putin gave Rakhmon the latest model of Russian sniper rifle, Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists Friday, Interfax reported.