AMD has confirmed it won’t officially support the older OS
AMD has come out and confirmed that its next-gen Ryzen processors, due to emerge at the beginning of next month, will not be officially supported for Windows 7.
Last year, the company had said that Ryzen wouldn’t support the older OS, but as PC World points out, a recent report put the rumour out there that AMD had changed its mind, and would issue drivers for Windows 7 after all.
Perhaps this was more believable because a hell of a lot is riding on Ryzen making an impact and being a success for AMD, so such a turnaround would be another way of getting one over on Intel when it comes to the plentiful number of users still running Windows 7. (Intel, of course, has already turned its back on Windows 7 with Kaby Lake CPUs).
But this was just wishful thinking, and although AMD says it has tested Ryzen on Windows 7, there won’t be any official support or drivers for the new processors.
So if you upgrade a Windows 7 system to a Ryzen CPU, the chip might work okay on the face of it, but there are no guarantees you’ll get the full performance levels or set of features which the processors will offer on Windows 10. And indeed, you might encounter stability issues.
In short, it’ll be a pretty uncertain endeavour to run this software and hardware combination.
Last August, Microsoft confirmed that only Windows 10 would support Intel’s Kaby Lake and AMD’s Zen (Ryzen) processors, and as we mentioned before, at the time, AMD stated that its processor roadmap was “fully aligned with Microsoft’s software strategy”. And it remains fully aligned, much to the chagrin of Windows 7 diehards, no doubt.

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The deal is for one week only and is being offered with all Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge purchases.
With the Galaxy S8 rumoured to be dropping at the end of March, it makes sense for Samsung to be trying to sell Galaxy S7 units. After the exploding Galaxy Note 7 debacle , a bit of customer goodwill can’t go astray either.
The 256GB microSD EVO+ memory card offers up to “95MB/s Read and 90MB/s Write speed with Class 10 and U3 compatibility,” and is ideal for 4K video recording and playback, Samsung says.
The offer is only valid for a week to US customers who purchase a Samsung Galaxy S7 edge or Galaxy S7 between February 8 and February 14. Head to the Samsung website for the deal.

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Get ready for dirt, rocks, silt and did we mention rocks? King of the Hammers is the biggest off-road race in the country.
Are you ready for some seriously crazy off-roading? Then get ready for King of the Hammers!
The week long Burning Man for racers started this weekend with the King of the Motos race, where some seriously insane moto racers had a land rush start… at night. Exactly 107 racers from across the United States, Canada and Mexico endured rocks, silt and sand as they battled through three heats for the coveted first place trophy. In the end, Endurocross and Superenduro champion Colton Haaker won on his handy Husqvarna 350.
Racers make their way through the rocks at the 2017 King of the Motos.
Wednesday marked the UTV side-by-side (think of them as souped-up golf carts) race, where the tiny little Polaris Rzr and Kawasaki Teryx side-by-sides tried their hand at the Hammers. At time of writing, it looks like two-time Ultra4 King Shannon Campbell has unofficially added another trophy to his case, followed closely by his son Wayland. Rounding out the Campbell racing dynasty was daughter Bailey, finishing 15th. X-Games medalist Sara Price, who was doing well in last year’s race until her UTV lost its drivetrain, finished 18th. With 74 teams starting, only half finished and all those who took the checkered flag can be proud of their accomplishment.
Taking place in Johnson Valley every February, King of the Hammers (KOH) brings more than 35,000 spectators, racers and crew support to the desert. A makeshift metropolis called Hammertown springs up on a dry lakebed and an entire week is devoted to racing everything from motorcycles and side-by-sides to regular trucks and unlimited four-wheel drive rigs. Competitors of each race find their way through boulder-strewn sections with names like Clawhammer, Wrecking Ball and my favorite, Chocolate Thunder. Find a good line and you can slowly pick your way up. Make a mistake and you have to winch your way up.
Only the strong survive the boulders of Johnson Valley.
Friday is the big show where the unlimited Ultra4 rigs vie for the title of the 2017 King of the Hammers. The final race is the longest, with over 200 miles of impossibly rocky terrain standing between racers and the finish line. Some drivers finish by sundown, many come in long after dark. With beefy axles, 40-inch tires and plenty of torque, these rigs defy physics as we know it. But to make things even more difficult, racers must also traverse vast sections of open desert at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour.
Usually off-road vehicles are set up to do either slow-speed rock crawling or high-speed whoop bashing, but the custom-built Ultra4 rigs must to do both. Most teams choose to work within the confines of solid front and rear axles, betting that the stronger and more nimble components will give them the edge in the rock crawling. Others opt for an independent front suspension; not as good in the rocks but way better at soaking up whoops in the open desert. Since the race’s inception in 2007, Shannon Campbell has piloted the only independent front suspension rig to a win in 2008. He did it again in 2011, proving that his first IFS win was not just a fluke.
The King of the Hammers is the largest off-road race in North America and the toughest one-day off-road race on the planet. With over 100 teams entered and an attrition rate often as high as 75 percent or more, King of the Hammers is not to be missed.
The differences between an independent front suspension, left, and a solid front axle, right, are clear.
It’s easy to watch in person. Just search for King of the Hammers on Google maps and go to www.ultra4.com for more information about camping and entry fees to Hammertown. If you can’t make it to the California desert, the Ultra4 website offers a great live-stream with multiple views of the course.
See ya in Hammertown!

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Details are really thin on the ground, but the original series is coming this year.
Konami’s sprawling Castlevania video game franchise, starring the vampire-slaying Belmont family, has seen many adaptations — from comic books to novels to radio plays to interactive fiction. What it hasn’t seen is an official, dedicated adaptation to screen. This looks like it’s all changing, according to a Netflix announcement earlier today.
Among its upcoming original programming, the entertainment company included, “Castlevania Season 1, Part 1 Coming to Netflix in 2017. ”
That’s all we know so far, although there are several names attached to the project. Producer Adi Shankar announced via Facebook that he was involved, with comics author Warren Ellis as the writer of the first and second seasons (Ellis announced in 2006 that he was writing a “Castlevania” movie, but it never eventuated). In August 2015, Shankar also named Fred Seibert and Kevin Kolde of Frederator (” Adventure Time “) fame, which points to the series being animated, rather than live action.
Netflix did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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“Fighting With My Family” will feature “Game of Thrones” star Lena Headey, Nick Frost and “The Rock” Johnson. Plus, it’s being directed by Stephen Merchant.
That’s a spectacular collision of worlds right there.
The flick is actually based on WWE starlet Paige , a multiple-time champion whose mother and father were both wrestlers in their homeland of England. Newcomer Florence Pugh will be the project’s lead actress.

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After searching since the 1960s, astronomers have finally found the hypothesised white dwarf pulsar.
Artistic impression of AR Scorpii.
The first pulsar was discovered in 1967. It’s a type of star that rotates, sending out beams of electromagnetic radiation. As it rotates, it flashes brightly like a lighthouse in a pulsing rhythm, hence its name. Since that 1967 discovery, all pulsars in the sky have been neutron stars , the last, extremely dense stages of a dying star after supernova, before it collapses into a black hole. However, researchers hypothesised that white dwarfs — dying stars not massive enough to become neutron stars — could also become pulsars.
Tom Marsh and Boris Gänsicke of the University of Warwick’s Astrophysics Group, and David Buckley from the South African Astronomical Observatory, have just found proof of this in the form of a binary star called AR Scorpii, located in the constellation of Scorpius, just 380 light-years from Earth.
The pair consists of a red dwarf, and in proximity, a white dwarf pulsar the size of the Earth but 200,000 times more massive, lashing its neighbour with electrical energy and particles. And that proximity is close — a mere 1.4 million kilometres, three times the distance between the Earth and the moon.
The white dwarf’s rotational period is just two minutes, and the orbital period of the pair is three hours and 36 minutes.
The team have published their historic findings in the journal Nature Astronomy .

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