An Overwatch 2 beta will be arriving soon, updates to Blizzard's Battle.net servers suggest.
Ever since the Overwatch team announced that the next Overwatch League season would take place on an early Overwatch 2 build back in April, fans have been on high alert for any and all Overwatch 2 news.
For the last year or so, Blizzard has been pretty silent when it came to Overwatch 2 announcements, but fans of the game have found some crumbs of news that hint towards a beta announcement.
Looks like the Overwatch 2 Beta will be out really soon!
"Overwatch 2.0" and "Demo 2" has been updated to the Blizzard https://t.co/T7YrWrqOeO developer server.
Twitter user OverwatchNaeri wrote, "Looks like the Overwatch 2 Beta will be out really soon! 'Overwatch 2.0' and 'Demo 2' has been updated to the Blizzard [Battle Net] developer server."
In a screengrab of the Battle Net developer server, Naeri shows update 2.00 has already been applied, and thus will be out sometime soon. Meanwhile the live update is 1.68, meaning that what is most likely an Overwatch 2 beta will be out soon.
This news follows previous leaks from Overwatch content creators after a secret developer meeting that "left them very optimistic for the game's future."
Currently, Blizzard hasn't spoken on whether these leaks are true, and there's been no official news concerning an Overwatch 2 beta. Despite this, players remain optimistic.
As many as 2,000 protesters were reported at the rally's peak on Friday. The group's demands included the immediate removal of all COVID-19-related restrictions, even though the government has announced its intent to remove them by mid-February. Organisers have told police that they plan to use civil disobedience tactics to press their claims.
Police began towing vehicles parked on Mannerheimintie (main street passing the Parliament house) when the protesters did not disperse when instructed to do so just after midnight. Police detained some 55 protesters outside parliament who had blocked traffic for several hours in pursuit of demands including cheaper petrol and the resignation of the government.
Protesters said they would gather again on Saturday at Citizen's Square, opposite the parliament building.
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Super Bowl Sunday is more than a week away, but the Davis-Monthan based A-10 Demonstration Team is already preparing for the big game.
Maj. Haden Fullam, call sign Gator, will pilot his A-10 as part of an Air Force Heritage Flight flyover at the end of the national anthem in Los Angeles.
Fullam says it is a thrill to not only attend a Super Bowl, but to flyover it in a five plane formation.
"To be able to take these great airplanes right here, go show them off, and be able to do the flyover," Fullam said describing his excitement. "Take this team with us and show off the mission of our team, show off the mission of the Air Force and show off these airman and what we can do. Should be really exciting."
"It's quite cool," said Senior Airman Caleb Spencer. "I've never been to an NFL game so it'll be kind of cool. Sad not seeing the Bills there, but I think we're excited to go show what we can do."
Spencer is from upstate New York. He says the pressure is on the crew to have the A-10 ready to fly Super Bowl Sunday.
The Davis-Monthan based crew will be joined by the F-16, F-22, and F-35 demo teams — along with a Heritage Flight P-51 Mustang.
For Maj. Fullam, this is a much different assignment than the usual air show circuit.
"This is definitely out of our normal scope, doing flyovers in really busy airspace in a really busy city," Fullam said. "Then having that coordinated to a perfect, down to the second, timeline that we have to meet. So, there's definitely a lot that goes into it. It's a little different than our normal day to day operations, but nothing we can't handle. We're excited about it."
Super Bowl LVI is Sunday February 13, at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
A video essay by Todd Mizener from Wednesday's I-74 Bridge celebration set to the voices of the Quad-Cities and "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Eric Whitacre, Grace Davidson.
Consulting engineers interested in overseeing the demolition of the old spans of the I-74 bridge have three weeks to prepare their proposals.
The Iowa Department of Transportation, DOT, which continues to oversee the I-74 corridor improvements, has issued its request for proposals, or RFP. The deadline to submit a bid is Feb. 23. No date was given for the conclusion of IDOT's selection process.
The RFPs for the actual demolition are expected in coming months.
For now, the DOT is looking for the consultant/inspector for the project.
George Ryan, manager for the corridor, said the contractor will determine the method of demolition, including whether explosives are used in any portion of the twin bridges' removal.
"The cost of the demolition of the old I-74 Bridges will be shared 50/50 by Illinois and Iowa," he said. "Each state has a program estimate of $10.825 million for a total of approximately $21.65 million for the demolition of the bridges.
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"The final cost they pay for the demolition will depend on the lowest responsible bid by contractors for the project."
The RFP contains the following background description:
"The I-74 corridor in the Quad Cities has been undergoing improvements for the past several years, with the keystone project being the construction of the new arch bridges over the Mississippi River. Construction of the main channel Mississippi River bridges and approaches is nearly complete.
"The remaining work includes, but is not limited to, removal of the existing bridges, landscaping, and other miscellaneous projects. The consultant selected will provide construction inspection and related services for these projects."
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AT&T said it had successfully completed its first milestone toward proving the capabilities of its 5G network solution to enable “smart warehouse” applications for the Department of Defense’s Naval Base Coronado in San Diego.
In a statement, the carrier said its 5G network solution demonstrated data throughput speeds greater than 4 Gbps with less than 10 milliseconds of latency using AT&T 5G spectrum and a private 5G core and Radio Access Network (RAN). This performance was demonstrated with commercially available commodity mobile devices at a testbed facility in Richardson, Texas.
In October 2020, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced $600 million in awards for 5G experimentation and testing at five U.S. military test sites, representing the largest full-scale 5G tests for dual-use applications in the world.
AT&T said that this successful demonstration of its 5G networking capabilities allows the program to advance to its next stage, which stipulates the provision of 5G across the 120,000 square foot Naval Base Coronado warehouse. With this initiative, the telco expect to securely connect smart warehouse application infrastructure to provide high-speed, low-latency 5G connectivity for autonomous mobile robots, video cameras, Internet of Things (IoT), and AR/VR systems that will enable inventory tracking, transshipment and other elements of DOD’s objectives for the test. Following successful completion of that stage of the test, AT&T 5G is expected to integrate with official Navy systems to enable Smart Warehouse capabilities.
DOD had selected AT&T as the primary 5G networking services provider for two of the four U.S. military test sites where it is testing 5G capabilities as part of DOD’s Tranche 1 experiments
The objective of 5G smart warehousing project at Naval Base Coronado is to develop a 5G-enabled smart warehouse, focused on transshipment between shore facilities and naval units, to increase the efficiency and fidelity of naval logistic operations, including identification, recording, organization, storage, retrieval, and transportation of materiel and supplies. Additionally, the project will create a proving ground for testing, refining, and validating emerging 5G-enabled technologies.
Meanwhile, the telco is also involved in an augmented reality/virtual reality training project at the U.S. Army base Fort Hood near Killeen, Texas. The objective of this project is to enable modular, deployable and secure 5G connectivity on currently available training devices, specifically the Instrumentable Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (I-MILES) and the U.S. Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS). DOD is testing 5G support for tactical edge use cases that integrate I-MILES and IVAS with Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) capabilities to conduct mission planning, distributed training, and operations.
“AT&T 5G demonstrated data throughput speeds of more than 4 gigabits per second on commodity mobile user equipment, far surpassing the data throughput speeds DOD has seen in other tests. More importantly, we look forward to moving to the next stage of implementation with DOD at Naval Base Coronado and helping it create its Smart Warehouse there with a scalable solution,” said Lance Spencer, client executive vice president, defense, AT&T Public Sector and FirstNet.
LAS VEGAS, Nevada, February 1, 2022 – Tachyum announced today it will show Prodigy, the world’s first universal processor, in a 3D demo, that will enable the first human brain-scale AI Supercomputer at LEAP22 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 1-3 at the Riyadh Front Exhibition Center. Tachyum is featured in booth H3.E47.
Tachyum booth at LEAP22.
LEAP draws more than 40,000 international tech gurus, innovators, entrepreneurs, start-ups, and enthusiasts to its global platform for future technologies. The unique event showcases more than 500 disruptive start-ups, exhibitions from more than 700 world-leading tech companies, and more than 400 expert speakers. LEAP is hosted by the Ministry of Communications and IT of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Tachyum will show the impact of its groundbreaking technology and potential solutions for industries such as oil and gas, telecommunications, finance, healthcare, and many others that address current global concerns in mobility, sustainability, global health, and climate change.
“Both LEAP22 and Tachyum have the same goal: leapfrog with technology and innovation,” said Marwan Oghli, Tachyum’s business development manager for the ME region. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the biggest economy in the region, clearly recognizes the importance of AI in its “Saudi Vision 2030” and aims to be in the top five global countries in AI. Tachyum is proud to bring disruptive AI technology to Riyadh at LEAP22.”
Tachyum’s ME expansion plans were launched in January at Expo 2020 Dubai where it presented its Prodigy Universal Processor for supercomputers. LEAP22 continues the company’s efforts to participate in the most important events in this region.
The Prodigy demonstration marks the latest achievement in bringing a single processor that delivers industry leading performance for hyperscale, HPC and AI workloads to market. Prodigy has progressed to a complete system prototype with the Prodigy FPGA Emulation System, which emulates a complete CPU, memory, I/O, and management complex. The advanced matrix operations showcase Prodigy’s cutting-edge architecture which natively addresses the most demanding HPC and AI applications. A full four-socket reference design motherboard is expected to be available in Q2 2022.
In addition to HPC applications, convolutional AI, explainable AI, general AI, bio AI, and spiking neural networks, Tachyum’s Prodigy processor can run normal data center workloads. Prodigy offers a single homogeneous processor platform, using existing standard programming models; without Prodigy, hyperscale data centers must use a combination of disparate CPU, GPU and TPU hardware for these different workloads, creating inefficiency, expense, and the complexity of separate supply and maintenance infrastructures. Prodigy’s ability to seamlessly switch among these various workloads dramatically changes the competitive landscape and the economics of data centers. Prodigy’s 3x lower cost (at equivalent performance) can translate to billions of dollars in annual savings to hyperscalers like Google, Facebook, Amazon and Alibaba. At the same time, Prodigy’s 10x lower processor core power consumption will dramatically cut carbon emissions associated with data center usage.
Tachyum is transforming AI, HPC, public and private cloud data center markets with Prodigy, the world’s first Universal Processor that delivers industry-leading performance, cost, and power efficiency for both specialty and general-purpose computing. When Prodigy processors are provisioned in a hyperscale data center, they enable all AI, HPC, and general-purpose applications to run on one hardware infrastructure, saving companies billions of dollars per year. A fully functional Prodigy emulation system is currently available to select customers and partners for early testing and software development. With data centers currently consuming over 3% of the planet’s electricity, predicted to be 10% by 2025, the ultra-low power Prodigy Universal Processor is critical, if we want to continue doubling worldwide data center capacity every four years. Tachyum, Co-founded by Dr. Radoslav Danilak with its flagship product Prodigy, is marching towards tape out and chip sampling in 2022, with software emulations and an FPGA-based emulator running native Linux available to early adopters. The company is building the world’s fastest 64 AI exaflops supercomputer in 2022 in the EU with Prodigy chips. Tachyum has offices in the United States and Slovakia. For more information, visit https://www.tachyum.com.
