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‘That’s a load of crap’: Ramsey Show just highlighted the ‘painful truth’ behind President Biden’s $39B student loan debt forgiveness — here’s what it is and how to protect yourself – Yahoo Finance
- ‘That’s a load of crap’: Ramsey Show just highlighted the ‘painful truth’ behind President Biden’s $39B student loan debt forgiveness — here’s what it is and how to protect yourself Yahoo Finance
- $130M in student loan relief announced for CollegeAmerica students in Colorado FOX31 Denver
- Biden admin canceling $130M in debt for students who it says were ‘ripped off’ by Colorado college ABC News
- Student loan payments resume soon. Here’s what you should do right now. CBS 6 News Richmond WTVR
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NBA All-Star takeaways: On Giannis’ health, load management, Mitchell’s moment and a happy Kevin Durant – The Athletic
- NBA All-Star takeaways: On Giannis’ health, load management, Mitchell’s moment and a happy Kevin Durant The Athletic
- Team Giannis beats Team LeBron 184-175 in NBA All-Star Game Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Don’t be fooled by Nikola Jokic’s All-Star antics. Giannis Antetokounmpo wasn’t. The Denver Post
- Giannis Antetokounmpo Says The Boston Celtics And Miami Heat Are Only Teams That Can Defend Him Sports Illustrated
- Giannis Played Just 20-Seconds of the All-Star Game, Leaving Bettors Begging for Refunds on Twitter The Big Lead
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Marco Rubio vows to oppose potential Hurricane Ian aid package if lawmakers ‘load it up with stuff that’s unrelated to the storm’
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Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said Sunday that he will vote against any potential congressional disaster aid for victims of Hurricane Ian if lawmakers “load it up with stuff that’s unrelated to the storm.”
“Sure. I will fight against it having pork in it. That’s the key,” the senator told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” when asked if he would vote against any potential relief package that also contains money for other things. “We shouldn’t have that in there because it undermines the ability to come back and do this in the future.”
“I think disaster relief is something we shouldn’t play with. We are capable in this country, in the Congress, of voting for disaster relief for key – after key events like this without using it as a vehicle or a mechanism for people to load it up with stuff that’s unrelated to the storm.”
Rubio had previously faced criticism for voting against federal disaster aid for victims of Hurricane Sandy because he said the relief wasn’t narrowly tailored to address only the storm. The senator later voted in favor of a piecemeal aid package for victims of Sandy.
“It had been loaded up with a bunch of things that had nothing to do with disaster relief,” he told Bash on Sunday, referring to a Hurricane Sandy aid package he voted against. “I would never put out there that we should go use a disaster relief package for Florida as a way to pay for all kinds of other things people want around the country.”
On Friday, Rubio and fellow Florida Sen. Rick Scott sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee requesting their “support in developing a disaster supplemental to provide much needed assistance to Florida.”
“A robust and timely federal response, including through supplemental programs and funding, will be required to ensure that sufficient resources are provided to rebuild critical infrastructure and public services capacity, and to assist our fellow Floridians in rebuilding their lives,” the Republican lawmakers wrote.
Hurricane Ian – expected to be ranked the most expensive storm in Florida’s history – made landfall Wednesday as a powerful Category 4 and had weakened to a post-tropical cyclone by Saturday, dropping rain over parts of West Virginia and western Maryland.
At least 67 people have been killed by Ian in Florida as it swallowed homes in its furious rushing waters, obliterated roadways and ripped down powerlines. Four people were also killed in storm-related incidents in North Carolina, officials have said.
Valve Made A Load Of Fake Games For Steam Summer Sale
This year’s Steam Summer Sale is over, so say goodbye to all the deals. But say hello to some rad-looking art! With the sale over, an artist at Valve is now free to share all the fake video game key art and covers that she helped create that were hidden inside Steam’s large digital catalog as part of the sale’s scavenger hunt. Sure, the games are fake, but I really want to play most of them.
The art for these non-existent video games was created by Valve developer Claire Hummel. She’s previously worked on games like Half-Life: Alyx and Westworld Awakening VR. And now, with the Steam sale over and its related time-traveling event ended, Hummel shared on Twitter all the cool covers she made for a variety of fake games spanning various genres.
For example, here’s what appears to be a fishing game about failing to catch fish. I’d play that.
And here’s some key art for a game about helping a very important king get to the bathroom. Yeah, I’d play that, too.
According to Hummel, the idea behind the art was to make it look “relatively convincing” so it would blend in with the thousands of other games on Steam. However, the art and game titles are just odd enough that you might notice something “a little weird on second glance.”
The various game names and ideas were created by Erik Wolpaw and Jay Pinkerton, longtime Valve writers. Once Hummel had a fake game name, she went to work making art for it.
“I just tried to match their energy in the final art,” explained Hummel on Twitter. “Super fun trying to make plausibly polished logos in a whole bunch of different styles/genres.”
This process led to some wonderfully strange but also very intriguing fake video games. For example, who wouldn’t want to at least see a trailer for Custard Castle Small Claims Court?
On Twitter, Hummel shared that creating all these fictional video games from the future “ended up being a whole lot of work” but it was still fun to do.
“I hope everyone got a kick out of finding each of these as much as we did making ‘em.”
COVID symptoms: Does higher viral load to worse COVID symptoms?
Scientists recently conducted the first human trial of infecting people with the coronavirus and found that COVID-19 symptoms might not be an indication of viral shedding.
What they found: On the surface, the study — published by the scientific journal Nature Medicine — found exactly how little of the coronavirus is needed to infect someone.
Symptoms: The researchers also found that there was no connection between viral shedding and COVID-19 symptoms, per Reuters.
- The researchers said that COVID-19 symptoms didn’t indicate viral shedding.
- The study found that “among the 18 participants that caught COVID-19, the severity of symptoms, or whether they developed symptoms at all, had nothing to do with the viral load in their airways,” Reuters reported.
What they said: “There was no correlation between the amount of viral shedding … and symptom score,” the researchers said in the paper, according to Reuters.
The bigger picture: A study published back in January in the journal Cell identified four factors that could increase your chances of long COVID-19 symptoms.
- One of those factors was the viral load, or the number of viral droplets in one’s blood, as I wrote for the Deseret News.
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China’s soaring COVID case load raises concerns about costs of containment
BEIJING, March 15 (Reuters) – China posted a steep jump in daily COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, with new cases more than doubling from a day earlier to hit a two-year high, raising concerns about the rising economic costs of the country’s tough containment measures.
A total of 3,507 domestically transmitted cases with confirmed symptoms were reported on Monday across more than a dozen provinces and municipalities, up from 1,337 a day earlier, the National Health Commission said. Most of the new cases were in the northeastern province of Jilin.
Though China’s case load is still tiny by global standards, health experts said the rate of increase in daily infections over the next few weeks will be a crucial factor in determining whether its tough “dynamic clearance” approach – aiming to contain each outbreak as soon as it arises – is still effective against the rapidly spreading Omicron variant.
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A COVID-19 forecasting system run by Lanzhou University in China’s northwest predicted that the current round of infections would eventually be brought under control in early April after an accumulated total of around 35,000 cases.
The university said in its latest assessment published on Monday that while the latest outbreak was the most serious on the mainland since Wuhan in 2020, China could bring it under control as long as stringent curbs remained in place.
Chinese businesses from automaker BYD (002594.SZ) to KFC operator Yum China (9987.HK) say their operations have already been hit by the country’s latest COVID-19 curbs, with more disruptions expected as case numbers rise. read more
China’s zero tolerance approach is not only becoming more costly, but also suffering diminishing returns against the highly infectious Omicron, said Yanzhong Huang, senior health policy analyst at Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a U.S. think tank.
“Now we have two of the wealthiest Chinese cities, Shanghai and Shenzhen, both under lockdown: how is that going to affect the Chinese economy?” he said.
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Though confirmed symptomatic infections in Shanghai stood at 21 on Monday, with an additional 130 asymptomatic cases, authorities were taking no chances, cordoning off individual apartment buildings and testing residents.
China’s aviation regulator said that 106 international flights scheduled to arrive in Shanghai will be diverted to other domestic cities from March 21 to May 1 due to COVID.
In Shenzhen, there were 39 confirmed infections with 21 asymptomatic cases. The government is describing the week of controls aimed at containing the outbreak as a period of “slow living”, with public transport, marriage and funeral services all suspended, and some residents forced to undergo daily tests.
Nearly 90% of the mainland’s confirmed new symptomatic cases on Monday were found in the northeastern province of Jilin, which has banned its 24.1 million population from traveling in and out of the province and across different areas within the province without notifying local police. read more
Jilin officials should step up the preparation of temporary hospitals and designated hospitals and make use of idle venues to ensure all infections and their close contacts are isolated, a local Communist Party authority-backed paper said, citing the provincial head of the Party.
The number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed cases, stood at 1,768 compared with 906 a day earlier.
There were no new deaths, leaving the death toll unchanged at 4,636.
As of March 14, mainland China had reported 120,504 cases with confirmed symptoms, including both local ones and those arriving from outside the mainland.
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Microsoft releases DirectStorage: ‘a new era of fast load times and detailed worlds in PC games’
18 months ago, Microsoft revealed that one of the most important advancements in its new Xbox Series X console would be coming to PC — the ability to stream tremendous amounts of data from a blazing fast NVMe solid state drive to your GPU, instead of relying on your pesky CPU to decompress it first. The so-called “DirectStorage API” would let games load more detailed worlds, and load them more quickly than before.
Now, Microsoft says the DirectStorage API has arrived. “Starting today, Windows games can ship with DirectStorage. This public SDK release begins a new era of fast load times and detailed worlds in PC games by allowing developers to more fully utilize the speed of the latest storage devices,” reads the company’s blog post.
More good news: it’ll work with Windows 10, not just Windows 11, even though Microsoft says that 11 is “our recommended path for gaming.”
Before you rush out to find a game to finally take full advantage of that speedy NVMe 4.0 stick drive and compatible motherboard, though, you should know the games aren’t available yet. While developers have been able to preview the tech since July, today’s just a starting gun for many who might dig in. In fact, the real starting gun might not be till March 23rd at the Game Developers Conference, when AMD and developer Luminous Productions will explain how they brought DirectStorage to Forspoken, one of the first showcase games for the tech. It’ll be October 11th before you can try Forspoken, by the way, since that game got delayed just last week.
You might also have some understandable doubts that developers will really take full advantage of NVMe storage all that quickly, considering that many PC gamers still haven’t moved to fast NVMe SSDs, and because games that talked up SSD like Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart on the PS5 were found to be taking somewhat less than full advantage of their capabilities. (Heck, the Steam Deck means that some games developers will still need to target UHS-I microSD cards that might read at under 100MB/sec, rather than the 4,000-7,000MB/sec of a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD.)
Still, if Windows games can theoretically pull the same SSD tricks as the PS5 and Xbox Series X, that means there’s one less piece of the PC dragging down the potential of next-gen gaming — and we’re eager for that largely unrealized potential to finally be fulfilled.
Here’s the latest gameplay trailer for Forspoken, as it might run on a Sony PS5, but also on a Windows PC and the Xbox Series X using fast SSD techniques:
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Cyberpunk 2077 PS5/Xbox Series X|S Update Is Out Now With Ray Tracing, 4K, Faster Load Times
As part of CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk 2077 video event today, we learned all about the 1.5 update, a major addition to the game that came alongside bespoke versions for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. You can see the full 1.5 patch notes here, while a breakdown of what to expect in terms of gameplay changes and general improvements can be seen below.
There is also a new, five-hour free trial for Cyberpunk 2077 that players can check out to get a taste of the new 1.5 update. Progress from the free trial will carry forward to the full game. If you held off on purchasing it at launch, this is the perfect change to see what it has to offer.
Plenty of gameplay footage of Cyberpunk 2077 running on Series X and PS5 was released as well–check out the videos below to see the game in action on the new platforms.
“With the update, Cyberpunk 2077 takes advantage of the additional power of the newest generation of console hardware, allowing for ray tracing features and 4K with dynamic scaling, faster loading times, and a variety of other visual and technical improvements,” CD Projekt says.
During the livestream, developers discussed how a “ton of stuff” is being changed in the 1.5 update, including reworked talent trees. If you already played, you can reset perk points and redistribute them. Perks that were not very useful have been removed, including one that prevents players from being detected underwater. New perks have been added, too, including one called Looking Sharp that enhances your skills with throwing knives.
Some of the new perks have been purposefully designed to give players the ability to play more aggressively and fast without necessarily needing to use cover. In general, CD Projekt says the new perks should help players find new playstyles. Additionally, the AI characters are better and smarter, while the driving model has been changed as well to make cars feel “heavier.” Crowd AI is changed as well. Some NPCs will have weapons and might attack you in certain situations.
Additionally, the 1.5 patch for Cyberpunk 2077 will let players change their appearance mid-game. Players can visit the mirror in their apartment to change up their look. There are the same character-creator options from the start, along with new options for makeup.
Cyberpunk 2077’s 1.5 patch also adds a new website to your apartment’s computer, EZ Estates, which allows players to change up the look of their apartment, choosing from six different options. There are also four brand-new apartments to choose from spread throughout Night City.
The developers also spoke about how Cyberpunk 2077’s 1.5 patch includes some new mysteries for players to uncover. Fans will be able to discover these secrets on their own, though the studio did not give any indication as to what the secrets might be or where to find them.
Also included with Cyberpunk 2077 1.5 is a guitar in your apartment that you can play ’80s-themed songs on. The sequences are animated so that your fingers and hands are moving as they would if you’re playing a real guitar. What’s more, 1.5 adds the ability to simply walk through Night City when playing on PC. Previously, you were either moving at one speed or sprinting.
The romance options have been expanded in Cyberpunk 2077 1.5 as well, with players now able to more regularly send messages to potential romantic partners. Successfully romancing someone will let you stay in their apartment as a safe house, too.
There are also new photo mode poses for Johnny Silverhand coming to Cyberpunk 2077 in the new update to help you take snappier, more eye-catching photos.
Some had speculated that Cyberpunk 2077 might also be joining Xbox Game Pass as part of the next wave of titles, but that remains to be seen.
For more, check out the complete patch notes for Cyberpunk 2077’s major 1.5 update.
In other news, Cyberpunk 2077 recently got pushed down the charts for most concurrently played games on Steam by Lost Ark after that game’s gigantic launch. Cyberpunk 2077 remains one of five games ever to pass 1 million concurrent players on Steam, and it’s one of the best-selling RPGs in history.
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