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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti prototype with 16GB memory surfaces
NVIDIA plans for RTX 3070 Ti with 16GB VRAM confirmed by leaked prototype
A rare graphics card has been discovered lately.
Some rumors do turn out to be true. Just as we were expecting news on RTX 3090 Ti in late 2021, NVIDIA was also preparing RTX 3080 12GB and RTX 3070 Ti 16GB graphics cards. Only two out of three were eventually released.
NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti prototype with 16GB memory, Source: MEGAsizeGPU
NVIDIA canceled the RTX 3070 Ti 16GB model which was supposedly equipped with GA104-401 GPU. This card was to feature the same GPU specs as RTX 3070 Ti 8GB except for a higher memory capacity and different clocks. It was speculated that this might be NVIDIA’s response to the upcoming Intel Arc A770 16GB GPU, however as we know the competitor’s card was pushed back by almost half a year.
NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti prototype with 16GB memory, Source: MEGAsizeGPU
The GPU-Z software shows a base clock of 1590 MHz and boost at 1800 MHz, this is respectively 25 and 30 MHz faster than RTX 3070 Ti 8GB. The output also shows that the card uses GDDR6 memory instead of GDDR6X. This means that the bandwidth is lower (512 GB/s vs 608 GB/s).
As we can see, this card is not a custom model, but rather a prototype using RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition design. The only thing that does not look right is the SKU logo, which reads RTX 3070.
NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti prototype with 16GB memory, Source: MEGAsizeGPU
The leaker did not share any performance figures for this card, but one can see that it works with the current drivers so that shouldn’t really be a problem. This card is almost certainly a prototype that somehow escaped from NVIDIA HQ captivity. Interestingly, this leak appears just days away from RTX 4070 Ti launch with 12GB memory.
Source: MEGAsizeGPU
Rare ‘new’ 1989 Pontiac Trans Am surfaces for sale
It’s a pace car that’s been taking it easy.
A 1989 Pontiac Trans Am Indy 500 Pace Car replica has been listed for sale in Nebraska with just 178 miles on its odometer.
The car is being offered by Restore a Muscle Car, an outfit that rebuilds and deals in classic American sports cars.
The outfit’s online sales and marketing manager, Tom Hegland, told Fox News Digital that the car had two previous owners and was always treated as a collectible.
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This 1989 Pontiac Trans Am Indy 500 Pace Car replica has 178 miles on its odometer.
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Along with being sparsely driven, it’s been properly stored its entire life and retains some of its original protective wraps.
The white coupe is powered by a 3.8-liter turbocharged V6, which was based on the one featured in the legendary 1987 Buick GNX muscle car, and equipped with a four-speed automatic transmission.
The car is powered by a 3.8-liter turbocharged V6.
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Power was officially rated at 250 hp, because Pontiac didn’t want to upstage the Chevrolet Corvette team, but was really closer to 300 hp.
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Even though this one never tried, it was capable of accelerating to 60 mph in less than 5 seconds, covering a quarter mile in 13.5 seconds and hitting a top speed of around 155 mph, making it one of the top American performance cars of all time up until then.
Only 1,555 pace car replicas were built.
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The car is number 1,517 of 1,555 that were built.
The Trans Am is in like-new condition.
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Hegland said he previously owned one of the other ones and that it was exciting to drive and a crowd-pleaser wherever he took it.
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“It’s an outstanding example and really represents the very essence of performance in 1989,” he said.
Magnetars might have solid surfaces made of crystallized ions
Apollo 11 was the culmination of NASA’s crewed space operations in the 1960s, but more than that, it was the realization of a dream thousands of years in the making. Since before recorded history, people have looked to the sky and imagined what it might be like to touch the Moon and see the stars. Apollo 11 (seen from the inside in the 2019 documentary Apollo 11) proved that we were capable of looking into the cosmos, identifying destinations, and then actually going there to walk upon alien surfaces.
Our potential exploratory targets have always been limited to rocky planets and moons, as the gaseous surfaces of stars and gas giants kept them perpetually beyond our reach. Now, the prospect of walking on the surface of a star just got a little bit easier, thanks to a recent discovery published in the journal Science.
Scientists from the University of Padova, and colleagues, used data from NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer satellite. The IXPE is a collaboration between NASA and the Italian Space Agency looking at the polarization – the direction the light waves are wiggling – of X-ray light in the cosmos. Researchers used the instrument to observe a highly magnetized dead star, known as a magnetar, 13,000 lightyears from Earth.
When stars several times more massive than the Sun die, they explode into a brilliant supernova burst of rapidly expanding gas. If the star is in the right size range, a piece of it is left behind after the explosion, a highly compacted stellar remnant known as a neutron star. These super dense ghost stars already have incredibly powerful magnetic fields, but some are even stronger than others and we call them magnetars. The fields around some magnetars have been measured at 1,000 times the strength of a typical neutron star and a trillion times stronger than Earth’s magnetic field.
It’s unclear why magnetars have such aggressively powerful magnetic fields, but it’s probably the result of the strange machinations happening inside the star. Matter is pressed so closely together and is under such immense forces and pressures that the star’s interior might become a superconducting fluid, turning the entire star into a dynamo which generates the magnetic field.
Magnetars emit light in the X-ray part of the spectrum and can be observed with X-ray telescopes. Researchers looked at the IXPE data from observations of magnetar 4U 0142+61, located in the constellation Cassiopeia, in the hope of determining the surface features of the dead star. When looking at the measurements, scientists found a lower amount of polarized light than they would have expected if the light was passing through an atmosphere. Were an atmosphere present, it should have filtered out more of the light, but that didn’t appear to be the case. Instead, they found that when the light was at higher energies, the angle of polarization shifted 90 degrees as compared with lower energies. Those findings are consistent with what we would expect to find if the star actually had a solid crust instead of a gaseous atmosphere.
Researchers suggest that the powerful magnetic field transforms the star’s gas into a solid, in the same way that low temperatures cause crystallization in liquid water and turn it into ice. Instead of an amorphous cloud of hot gas, it becomes a liquid or solid in a process known as magnetic condensation. The result is a surface crust made of ions bound together in a crystalline lattice all stretched in the direction of the magnetic field.
Now that we know there are stars out there which are solid enough to walk on, it’s difficult not to imagine what that might be like. A person – or non-human alien intelligence – could step on the surface of a neutron star, in theory, but the first step would be your last. Before you even got close to the star, once you reached a distance of about a thousand kilometers away, the magnetic field would be so powerful that it would strip electrons away from your body and reduce you to a rapidly dissipating puff of atoms.
If you could survive the field and actually reach the surface, you would never be able to leave. On neutron stars, the matter is packed so densely that a piece the size of a sugar cube would weigh about the same as a typical mountain on Earth. According to the CDC, the average person in the United States weighs 185 pounds. Of course, that’s Earth pounds. On a magnetar, the same person would weigh in at nearly 26 trillion pounds. There might not be enough rocket fuel in the solar system to achieve escape velocity from the star’s surface, let alone materials or bodies strong enough to endure the crush.
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Unreleased Mario Kart XXL Tech Demo For Game Boy Advance Surfaces Online
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Nintendo preservation website Forest of Illusion has acquired the “infamous” Mario Kart XXL tech demo – a pitch by Denaris Entertainment Software for the Game Boy Advance, dating back to April 2004. It’s now been made available to download.
The German development studio (founded by Turrican creator Manfred Trenz) originally showcased the game and its “dynamic and adjustable perspective view engine featuring dual playfields” to Nintendo of Europe. The demo is made up of a single track using Mario Kart assets and features BGM from a PlayStation racer called Moorhuhn Kart, which Denaris also helped develop.
Interestingly, this Mario Kart demo began life as a racing game called ‘R3D-Demo‘. The same developer eventually went on to release a Game Boy Advance kart racer based on the CGI-animated character Crazy Frog. Yikes!
You can get a more detailed history and look at Mario Kart XXL along with the R3D-Demo on the Hard4Games YouTube:
What do you think of this slice of kart racing history for Game Boy Advance? Comment below.
[source forestillusion.com, via youtu.be]
Monkeypox virus can linger on surfaces touched by an infected person, study finds
MONKEYPOX virus can stick stubbornly to surfaces touched by an infected person, a study has found.
The potentially deadly disease can cling to household items in a patient’s home even after extensive cleaning – but there is no evidence you could pick up the pox yourself after touching infected objects.
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Most of the samples in the experiment – 21 out of 30 – tested positive for the virus after coming into contact with infected people, acccording to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The experiment investigated a home in Utah where two monkeypox patients lived alongside other uninfected people.
Investigators swabbed 30 household items from nine different areas of the house, while both patients were still symptomatic and therefore actively spreading their infection.
The scientists tested two types of object – labelling soft surfaces which could soak up liquid like clothing or furniture “porous”, and hard surfaces like handles and switches “non-porous”.
Both types of object were discovered to be carrying monkeypox even after cleaning and disinfectant.
All three “porous” surfaces tested positive, while 17 of the 25 “non-porous” items had traces of the virus.
Only one item – oven knobs – was negative and the rest of the samples were inconclusive.
But despite evidence of the monkeypox on these household objects, not a single sample was positive for virus culture – meaning the disease wasn’t “live” and couldn’t infect other people.
None of the other members of the household picked up the disease, so scientists are unsure how much of a risk this discovery poses to others sharing a space with monkeypox patients.
The virus is mainly spread by physical contact, meaning you are most likely to catch monkeypox if you directly touch another person.
Although the evidence of the bug sticking to household objects sounds unsettling, the discovery might not pose a threat if the virus doesn’t survive long enough on these surfaces to transmit to other people.
The CDC report read: “Monkeypox virus DNA was detected from many objects and surfaces sampled indicating that some level of contamination occurred in the household environment.
“The inability to detect viable virus suggests that virus viability might have decayed over time or through chemical or environmental inactivation.”
It added: “Their cleaning and disinfection practices during this period might have limited the level of contamination within the household.”
Hopefully the scientific research will help to control the spread of monkeypox across the world.
In the US there are 13,517 cases, with California and New York having the most.
At present there are around 20 cases of the bug being picked up each day in the UK, down from 35 a week ago.
The latest data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) states that there are 3,081 confirmed cases in the UK – with a further 114 highly probably infections.
Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men are at higher risk of becoming infected with monkeypox.
Dr William Welfare, Incident Director at UKHSA, said: “While the most recent data suggests the growth of the outbreak has slowed, we continue to see new cases every day.
“While anyone can get monkeypox, the majority of monkeypox cases in the UK continue to be in gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, with the infection being passed on mainly through close contact in interconnected sexual networks.
“Please continue to be aware of symptoms, including rashes and blisters, particularly if you have recently had a new sexual partner.”
While there is a vaccine protecting against monkeypox, a vaccine drive to jab those most susceptible to the illnesses has been slowed due to shortages.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the growing cases a public health emergency, with jabs being rolled out to those most at risk.
But the company that manufacturers the vaccines has now warned that the demand keeps on rising.
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Nier Automata community “in shambles” after never-before-seen secret door surfaces
Update: The mystery around Nier Automata’s secret church is deepening, as the player who discovered it has provided more footage, modders have begun digging deeper, and the game’s developers have provided a few vague comments.
The new footage provided by sadfutago on Reddit (opens in new tab) is nearly four minutes long, and shows A2 continuing through the twisting hallway into the nave of the church. A brief cutscene plays, highlighting a mannequin on an altar with a lunar tear flower growing out of its chest and an unkillable figure shrouded in black voxels.
Just after the cutscene, A2 and her pod have a brief exchange. A2 says “Whoa. What’s that?” The pod replies “Unknown.” A2 then says “You’re useless.” (This conversation is a pretty good metaphor for where the community is at right now.) sadfutago notes (opens in new tab) that they had to “delete my Terraria and Far Cry 4” in order to record the video.
Members of the modding community have gotten in touch with sadfutago for further details. Apparently this footage was captured on a French Canadian PS4 copy of the game that was never updated. Now players are scrambling to test various game versions to retrace sadfutago’s steps and see if they can open this secret door.
“We so far haven’t found any evidence in the assets that this exists, OTHER than the tower itself from late game,” modder xxk_ notes in a Reddit post (opens in new tab). xxk_ adds that “If this is a mod this would be the first time anyone has done something like this, and NOBODY else knows how to make custom doors like seen in the video – it would be a relatively IMMENSE undertaking for a single individual to accomplish with various modding breakthroughs.”
Meanwhile, Nier Automata producer Yosuke Saito has been tweeting. First he sent a tweet (opens in new tab) in English saying “eternal mystery.” Then one in Japanese, translated by aitaikimochi (opens in new tab), to say “This looks like something Yoko Taro would do. Lol.” Then came a self-translated tweet (opens in new tab) saying “First of all, please calm down and make a reservation here,” pointing to a link for pre-orders of Nier Automata’s upcoming Switch port.
On that last point, some fans are growing convinced (opens in new tab) that this is some sort of viral marketing stunt for the Switch port, speculating that the church might actually be a Switch-exclusive area and that all this mystery is just a way to draw public interest.
Every new possibility seems just as weird as the last, though, and whatever the truth, it remains fascinating to watch the story unfold.
Original story: A Nier Automata player has stumbled across what appears to be a never-before-seen secret door, and the sudden revelation has the community “in shambles.”
A month ago, a Reddit user called sadfutago made a post (opens in new tab) asking “how to access the church?” Apparently, this player had opened a door in the Copied City leading to the interior of a church-style building, and was trying to figure out how to get back inside. The issue was that, as far as the rest of the community was concerned, no such door existed.
Shortly afterward, sadfutago provided a handful of screenshots (opens in new tab) and a brief video (opens in new tab) showing the path to the mysterious door. Some community members were suspicious of a fake, pointing to the fact that the clip ended just after the door opened. To that point, sadfutago responded “I didn’t want to record too much because my mom said not to take up space.”
Nothing more happened for a month’s time, until today, when sadfutago posted a longer clip (opens in new tab) showing what lies beyond the door, including custom assets and animations that don’t appear to have precedent elsewhere in the game.
Someone randomly posted a video on the Nier Automata subreddit showing they found a secret room in the Copied City. So far no one else has worked out how they managed to make this secret door appear. Literally 1 person on earth has accessed this room and we are uttered mind blown pic.twitter.com/g7W4JxiNDgJuly 25, 2022
As modder and dataminer Lance McDonald puts it (opens in new tab), “the community is in shambles over this discovery.”
Members of the Nier Automata modding community say it’s unlikely this area was created through mods, as full-on new maps with unique animations are well beyond what modders’ tools are capable of building right now.
That leaves us with three possibilities. Someone’s either pulling an elaborate prank by creating a Nier Automata mod far beyond what other modders have made possible, pulling an even more elaborate prank by perfectly animating a fake video of the game, or this door is truly a new discovery that’s somehow gone unnoticed in the five years since the game launched. No matter the truth, it’s a remarkable mystery.
Nier Automata is on the way to Switch in October, if you’re looking for a way to mine undiscovered mysteries on the go.
Sonic Frontiers’ Demo Title Screen Surfaces On Social Media
Sega has shared quite a bit of footage of Sonic Frontiers now, but one thing blue blur fans haven’t seen yet is the title screen.
If you have been wondering what it might look like, you’re potentially in luck. Screenshots are surfacing on social media of the demo’s title screen. It comes via the in-person Summer Game Fest ‘Play Days’ event.
This screen looks to be a cloudy sky, with a logo and menu options. There’s no saying anything on display here is final.
It seems some other people in attendance have also taken photos and recorded footage of the demo. Some of the more interesting screenshots include a possible look at the game’s HUD display, a cinematic, and what could be Sonic speeding through a cityscape-like environment.
Keep in mind, that this is all subject to change between now and the game’s holiday 2022 release, and the demo may not even be reflective of the final release if it is based on an “early build” like IGN’s preview footage.
On a related note, we’ve also got some impressions of the same demo from G4TV host Goldenboy. While he can’t say much, he did note how the controls felt crisp. It follows on from some other media impressions earlier this week.
Are you excited about Sonic Frontiers? How are you feeling about the early build previews so far? Share your thoughts below.
Alleged Google Pixel 7 Pro prototype surfaces on reddit
Another alleged Google Pixel 7 prototype has surfaced, this time from a Reddit user who says they bought it on Facebook Marketplace. From appearances, it’s a Pixel 7 Pro, which Redditor AMC20_ says was listed as a Pixel 6 Pro without a box. It is not, in fact, a Pixel 6 Pro.
Google’s phones have a long history of unusual leaks, but even by Pixel standards, this is a strange one. It’s also the second time a prototype Pixel 7 Pro has surfaced in the last week. In case you missed episode one of this saga, someone listed a Pixel 7 prototype on eBay. As Android expert Mishaal Rahman pointed out, the photos seem to have been taken with another prototype unit — a Pixel 7 Pro, which can be seen in the reflection on the phone’s glossy back panel. The person who purchased the 7 Pro prototype on Facebook thinks that his phone is the same one used to take those photos.
Google pre-announced the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro at its I/O keynote last month, revealing what the devices will look like and… not much else. They’ll very likely make their formal debut in October with Android 13. These alleged prototypes haven’t shed much more light on what we can expect from the phones, either — just confirmation that it’s using a different modem than the Pixel 6 series and that it appears to come in a variant with 256GB of storage and 12GB of RAM.
There probably won’t be much more we can learn from it, either. The purchaser of the alleged prototype said that the phone had been functioning fine until a few days ago when it seems to have been remotely wiped. That’s not surprising — if it’s the genuine article, Google would have a safeguard like that in place in the event that the phone went missing. But given the Pixel series’ track record, it probably won’t be long until we see another leak.
Genetic Clues and How It Might Be Spreading
Cases of monkeypox continue to climb across the globe, with more than 200 confirmed and suspected cases documented in over 20 countries. Scientists are starting to gather their first clues about these outbreaks, including how the virus may have begun spreading farther than it ever has before.
According to a tracker from the group Global.health, there have been 174 confirmed and 93 suspected cases reported from 21 countries as of Tuesday afternoon. The UK and Spain have reported the most cases, and at least seven cases have been found in the U.S., including one in New York City. No deaths are reported so far; the type of monkeypox virus associated with these cases is known to have a fatality rate around 1%.
The viral disease tends to cause large bumpy rashes throughout the body, along with flu-like symptoms. It can take up to three weeks following exposure for symptoms to start and two weeks for the illness to clear. The virus primarily spreads through direct contact, though it may also be spread through contaminated surfaces as well as respiratory droplets and aerosols. Infected people aren’t considered contagious until after they start showing symptoms.
Monkeypox, closely related to the now-extinct smallpox virus, is endemic to parts of Africa and is thought to typically infect rodents. Following its discovery in the 1950s, it has occasionally jumped from animals to humans, causing localized outbreaks with limited transmission between humans. That makes these newest cases far different from past incursions of the virus. But we may have some early indications of what’s going on.
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Some researchers have been able to genetically sequence samples of the virus collected from patients. These results suggest that the strains in these cases are closely related to strains recently collected from Nigeria, where outbreaks have been ongoing since 2018. So far at least, there doesn’t seem to be evidence that the virus has mutated in any significant way since then, which is reassuring. But further research will be needed to rule out the possibility that it somehow became more inherently transmissible between humans.
“In the past, human to human spread has occurred but has been quite limited. We don’t know that it is spreading more easily from person to person yet. That is one possible explanation, but I am not aware of any evidence to support that idea yet,” Andrew Pavia, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Utah, told Gizmodo last week.
If the virus hasn’t changed intrinsically, then these outbreaks may be the result of other factors, including how it’s now being caught. Many cases have been found in young gay and bisexual men who were recently sexually active. And a World Health Organization adviser has argued that its spread may have been amplified by two recent raves in Spain and Belgium where casual sex was common.
Even if this does turn out to be true, though, it wouldn’t mean that gay or bisexual men are the only people at risk, since the virus can spread through direct contact between any sexual partners. It’s also possible that these cases were first found simply because these individuals tend to be more cognizant about the risk of sexually transmitted infections in general and are more likely to regularly see a doctor as a result. On Tuesday, popular dating app Grindr sent out an alert about monkeypox to its users, advising them to seek medical help if they or a recent sexual partner develop unusual sores or rashes.
Other experts have argued that the virus may be spreading more now because of declining immunity to the related smallpox virus, following its eradication in 1980. Poxviruses often cause cross-immunity to other poxviruses, but this protection has faded over time in the general population for various reasons, according to Jo Walker, an infectious disease epidemiologist and modeler at the Yale School of Public Health.
“This ‘declining immunity’ is less due to waning immunity at the individual level, and more due to people with immunity dying, and people without immunity being born and then staying non-immune,” Walker told Gizmodo last week.
The risk of monkeypox to the general public is still considered to be low. And for now, Pavia says, there is no reason to panic or for most people to have any worries. “But it is early days, so that may change,” he noted.
Indeed, health officials in Europe have warned that if these outbreaks aren’t contained quickly and effectively enough, the virus could establish itself in new parts of the world and regularly cause outbreaks from here on out. And while monkeypox can be managed with preventative vaccines and treatments, the last thing the world needs right now is trouble from another emerging infectious disease.
This article has been updated with comments from Andrew Pavia and Jo Walker.