Sue Gray’s exit and Israel’s memorial for the 7 October attack headline several of Monday’s papers.
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A twinge of sympathy struck in the moment, sitting in Vanderbilt’s McGugin Center last month, listening to Diego Pavia talk about turning down significant money at Nevada to play his final collegiate season at Vanderbilt instead.
“That’s gonna come when I go to the NFL,” Pavia said then of the money. “That’s my dream goal. This was my best opportunity for that, the best way for me to get there.”
That seemed such a misunderstanding of his own limitations. Now it sounds like an understatement. Tell me this folk hero who just put 40 on No. 1 Alabama won’t be a Pro Football Hall of Fame lock by 30 and NFL commissioner by 50.
“Every time he touches the ball, we have a chance!” Clark Lea told SEC Network’s Alyssa Lang in the chaotic moments after Vanderbilt 40, No. 1 Alabama 35 went final, the biggest Vanderbilt football win in like a century, followed up by goal posts paraded through the heart of a city that often forgets Vanderbilt football exists.
Give Pavia all the NIL – if you’re a Nashville restaurant who isn’t at least comping his appetizers at this point, you should be embarrassed. Don’t put limits on what he can do (the official assessment of his NFL hopes, per The Athletic draft expert Dane Brugler late Saturday, is that he’s not considered draftable right now but is “certainly doing what he needs to be doing to get noticed”).
And don’t miss the college football lessons he’s helping impart. He’s a great player and story in this sport, and after he’s gone Lea and Vanderbilt are still going to have a chance because they’ve embraced the need to be different. This is what programs that face consistent talent deficits must do.
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How many coaches wish they had landed Pavia in the offseason instead of the less impressive quarterback they did get out of the transfer portal? A few, I’d imagine, but Pavia’s toughness and playmaking and sleight of hand are multiplied in the scheme that traveled from New Mexico State to Vanderbilt with him.
That offense, the baby of Jerry Kill, coordinated by Tim Beck, shares starring credits with Pavia in this upset and season, which stands at 3-2 with much possibility ahead. This team could easily be 5-0, ranked in the top 10 and the No. 1 story in college football, but for late defensive failings to drop heartbreakers to Georgia State and Missouri.
Pavia made some things happen that were all on him, none bigger than faking a handoff on fourth-and-1, holding off on a quick pass to his first, covered read, scrambling around and lofting a 36-yard touchdown pass to Junior Sherrill. That made it 30-21 Vanderbilt with 2:53 left in the third quarter, and that’s when you knew Alabama was really in one.
WHAT. A. PLAY pic.twitter.com/1OURMUFi9o
— Vanderbilt Football (@VandyFootball) October 5, 2024
He also did some things that were purely a function of an offense that pushes the bounds of creativity. The speed option into a shovel pass — a couple of big ones to tight end Eli Stowers, who will absolutely be drafted — the variety of play-action shots, the counters and powers and pulls.
The NFL is more fun to watch in the past decade and change because it has borrowed a lot of concepts from some of college football’s best minds. But Pavia and Vanderbilt’s offense exemplify the superiority of the college product.
There’s still a whole bunch of stuff in the college game that folks in the NFL wouldn’t touch, and some of it helps create a level of parity that otherwise would have no chance of existing. Check out some of the things teams such as Navy and UNLV are doing this season. And those teams don’t have to deal with teams such as Texas and Alabama.
“If we want to win in this league,” Kill said, “we need to be different.”
PAVIA TO JOHNSON FOR THE TOUCHDOWN pic.twitter.com/UcS9lN4ndf
— Vanderbilt Football (@VandyFootball) October 5, 2024
For Vanderbilt fans who have been screaming for years that their team can’t hope to compete without schematic uniqueness, congratulations. You were right about that, just as you were wrong all Saturday afternoon that your team was going to blow it, the only question being the excruciating details.
As the fever dream of actually finishing the job against Alabama was just taking hold for the fans, Pavia ripped through one of the wildest postgame interviews on record with Lang, highlighted by: “Vandy we’re (freaking) turnt!”
Then Lea got emotional in a more traditional way, talking about his program, his players who have pushed through years of losing and his athletic director, Candice Lee.
Back in September, after an upset of Virginia Tech to start the season that now looks quite mild, Pavia and Vanderbilt were a story. An eyebrow raised as Pavia started to talk about his new head coach.
“Coach Lea? He’s a psycho like me,” Pavia said. “Yeah, for sure. Not a lot of people would know that but deep down he’s got that mentality of win at all costs, do whatever it takes. He has to carry himself a certain way, but man, me and coach Lea have had deep, deep conversations about things.”
Years from now they may talk about the role of Pavia, and the offense he runs, in saving a coaching tenure that was going nowhere through three seasons.
Required reading
• Vanderbilt knocks off No. 1 Bama. Is this the biggest upset in SEC history?
• When was the last time Vanderbilt beat Alabama? More than 40 years ago
• How does Vanderbilt’s upset over Alabama impact the College Football Playoff?
(Photo: Carly Mackler / Getty Images)
#Diego #Pavia #Bamaslaying #Vanderbilt #legend #Vandy #college #football #lesson
This week’s episode of The Penguin introduced a new drug to Gotham–something to one-up the drug everyone was hopped up on in the The Batman, called Drops by its users, who were known as Drop-heads. The Penguin introduced us to Bliss, a red crystalline drug. Its source, though, has a fascinating if not exactly euphoric real-world origin.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Penguin, Episode 3, which aired on October 6.
Oz “The Penguin” Cobb sees a chance to make it big in Gotham. Carmine Falcone is dead, and the late mob boss’ family is in a state of disarray as it figures out how to handle it, with the aftermath of the Riddler’s bombing only adding to the confusion. We’ve been hearing about a game-changing drug, and now we finally get to see it.
Sofia Falcone takes Oz to visit the warehouse where they’re manufacturing the drug, and into the grow room where the whole process starts. In there, we see hanging garbage bags covered in fungus–white mushrooms covered in glistening, viscous, crimson fluid. It looks dangerous, like the kind of thing you’d expect to find in a movie where characters are visiting alien planets.
Aside from the dark urban setting and fictional criminals, though, it’s not the most unrealistic sight. Both the method and the fungus itself are very real things.
The fungus is referred to in the show as Bleeding Tooth Fungus, and that’s basically what it’s called in real life–Bleeding Tooth or Devil’s Tooth fungus. Hydnellum peckii is the scientific name.
Bleeding Tooth is a particularly striking fungus thanks to the contrast of the pinkish-white cap and the vivid crimson fluid they excrete. Here’s where fiction and reality separate, though. While the Bleeding Tooth isn’t known to be poisonous, it reportedly has a particularly bitter taste. The fluid, meanwhile, is not known to be psychoactive, but the reality is just as interesting. The fluid has anti-coagulant properties, meaning that it acts as blood thinner, behaving similarly to the common blood thinning medication Heparin. That’s right–it’s a blood thinner that looks like blood.
The growth method, too, is based in reality. Real mycologists (both aspiring and otherwise) will often grow mushrooms from the sides of hanging bags as a way of maximizing limited square footage.
We don’t recommend going out into the forest and putting random mushrooms in your mouth, but the team behind The Penguin has chosen a particularly interesting species of fungus to create its fictional drug from. Just don’t try to get high with it, and please don’t eat random forest fungus.
Image Credit: Getty Images/DEA/P. PUCCINELLI
#Penguins #Designer #Drug #Based #Real #Strange #Fungus
The latest SSD cooler to land on our test bench is the M9 NVMe SSD heatsink from Ineo, a company that specializes in niche products, like NVMe-to-USB adapters, SSD heatsinks, and other related devices. This heatsink features a split design with two heatsinks connected by a 6mm copper heatpipe, one suspended above the other, and actively cooled by a 30mm PWM fan.
Does Ineo’s M9 perform well enough to compete with the best SSD heatsinks we’ve tested for your storage? Are there any other issues you should be aware of? Before we get to the benchmarks, we’ll take a quick look at the features and specifications of this product.
Cooler Specifications
| Heatsink | Ineo M9 NVMe SSD Heatsink |
| MSRP | $16.99 |
| Heatsink Material | Aluminum alloy |
| Compatibility | M.2 2280 |
| Dimensions | 83mm (L) x 31mm (W) x 52mm (H) |
| Weight | 110g |
| Warranty | 1 year |
Packing and included contents
Ineo’s M9 arrives in a very small box, suited to the size of the heatsink.
Opening the box reveals the heatsink, thermal pads, and included screwdriver.
Installation
The installation of this NVMe heatsink is fairly simple and easy to complete.
1. To begin, you’ll first need to disassemble the unit. Then, you’ll apply the first thermal pad to the base of the heatsink.
2. Place your M.2 NVMe SSD onto the thermal pad. Take the second thermal pad, and place it on top.
3. Next, place the heatsink on top of the SSD and secure it using the included screws.
4. The last step is to place the unit into an m.2 slot and secure it using a screw or alternative method and connect the PWM connection to a motherboard header.
Features of the Ineo M9
*️⃣ Split heatsinks connected by a 6mm copper heatpipe
The Ineo M9 features split heatsink design with the two parts connected by a copper heatpipe.
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*️⃣ Double sided SSD support
Some NVMe heatsinks only effectively cool the top side of a SSD – which means they’re not effective for storage drives with NAND on both sides of the PCB. Ineo’s M9 supports double-sided SSDs and will keep both sides of the unit cooled effectively, ensuring peak performance at all times.
*️⃣ 30mm fan for active cooling
In addition to the dual heatsinks and 6mm copper heatpipe, Ineo includes a small 30mm fan to actively dissipate heat away from your SSD.
*️⃣ Rotatable design
In order to minimize compatibility concerns, the top half of the heatsink can be rotated to the left or right if desired.
What I don’t like about Ineo’s M9
❌ Bending concerns
The top heatsink is connected by a single copper heatsink only on one side, and there is nothing underneath the top heatsink to support it otherwise. This can lead to bending over time, and in fact the unit I received was slightly bent upon arrival. Whether or not this is a problem is another matter, in theory any bending that would continue to occur would be minor and shouldn’t cause a problem. Nonetheless, I would prefer a design with better support.
❌ Compatibility concerns
While the unit can be rotated to avoid interfering with one device, that can result in compatibility issues on the other side. So you may need to install this device in a non-primary m.2 slot, depending on the CPU cooler and GPU you’re using.
How hot is too hot? Does cooling even matter for a SSD?
Until recently, cooling and storage was at best an afterthought for most enthusiasts and PC builders – it really wasn’t a concern outside of servers jammed with hard drives. With SSD heatsinks, a lot of you are probably asking if it really matters. And the truth is that if you’re a typical user who merely loads a few applications and games from time to time – you don’t need an advanced heatsink. I’ve run a variety of tests, and for common tasks like loading a game or application, you generally don’t need more than a basic heatsink – at least not with current SSDs and workloads.
That said, current-gen PCIe 5 SSDs can transfer more data in less time than ever before, and pushing those speeds can generate extra heat depending on the type of workload. With these modern drives, not only is some kind of cooling recommended, it’s a requirement to prevent throttling or even crashing in some instances.
There is now a large market for NVMe SSDs heatsinks and coolers to ensure PCIe 5 drives can maintain maximum speeds. Heatsinks large and small, with or without active fans, and even liquid cooling solutions are now available for purchase.
Most users who will need cooling for their drives will already be aware that they need one. This includes users whose workloads are IO-intensive or involve high-resolution video editing. We’re also trying to look to the future here, to an extent. While today’s common workloads might not need anything more than a basic heatsink, this may change with PCIe 6 and future standards which will allow for higher speeds (and potentially higher power consumption) in consumer SSDs.
After consulting storage experts across the industry who work for Sabrent, Solidigm, Phison, Micron, and other storage manufacturers I’ve created an IOMeter script that’s specifically designed to stress an SSD’s controller and NAND, causing it to reach its maximum temperature (also known as TJ Max). The ambient temperature is maintained at 23 degrees Celsius while these tests are performed. The SSD used is Teamgroup’s Z540 SSD, powered by Phison’s E26 controller.
This test will cause throttling when paired with lower-end heatsinks. For those heatsinks, we’ll be looking at the IOPS of the drive during testing. The more advanced heatsinks and coolers will be capable of keeping the SSD under its peak temperature – for these units, we’ll compare the actual temperatures of the TeamGroup Z540 SSD.
When I was determining how to test these units, I consulted with many storage industry experts before I started testing. They emphasized that modern PCIe 5.0 drives need at least some sort of cooling to avoid throttling and that even basic workloads can be impacted by minor throttling without a heatsink.
If peak performance in common scenarios like gaming is your only goal, then most basic heatsinks will offer satisfactory performance. However, users with storage intensive workloads will require a stronger heatsink, like the Ineo M9 SSD heatsink we’re reviewing today, in order to prevent their SSDs performance from throttling. The impact of this potential throttling can vary; lighter loads won’t be impacted as much, but in the worst-case scenario I tested I measured a 92% loss of performance without cooling on a PCIe 5.0 SSD.
You might think that’s the only aspect to consider when looking at a heatsink, but the thermals of a SSD also have a huge impact on a drive’s longevity. Much like other electronic components, extreme variations in temperature cause wear and tear, reducing lifespan. Now let’s be real here – most users shouldn’t need to worry about longevity, and instead should purchase a drive from a reliable manufacturer that has a good warranty. While this is our general recommendation, there are scenarios where this won’t apply – if you purchased a refurbished SSD at a discount, you can’t expect to have a long warranty.
Finally, there’s the matter of dealing with the hassle of a warranty. While it is nice to know that a failing drive will be replaced by the manufacturer, why create an environment where such a claim is likely to happen? I’d argue that it would be wiser to invest $10 or $15 into a heatsink to extend the lifespan of your SSD so that you don’t have to worry about dealing with the paperwork and time involved to process a warranty claim.
In theory, if your NVMe SSD arrives with a heatsink from the manufacturer, you shouldn’t need to worry about a heatsink at all. Most of the heatsinks I’ve seen paired with high-end PCIe 5 SSDs are more than capable enough of handling strong thermal loads. However, many drives do not include a heatsink with the purchase of an SSD, and you shouldn’t run a high-speed PCIe 5 SSD entirely uncooled as performance will suffer even in common workloads.
Also, every expert I’ve spoken to in the storage industry agrees that it is best practice to minimize temperature variations for the health and longevity of your SSD. How strong of a heatsink you’ll need is another matter for debate. In common scenarios, most users will be fine with basic heatsinks – but professionals or users with storage-intensive workloads might want to invest in a stronger heatsink.
Testing Methodology
| CPU | Intel Core i7-13700K |
| Motherboard | MSI Z690 A Pro DDR4 |
| SSD | TeamGroup Z540 |
| Case | Be Quiet! Silent Base 802, system fans set to speed 1 setting. |
| PSU | Cooler Master XG Plus 850 Platinum PSU |
| Testing Method | Custom IOMeter Script, 30 minute test length |
To test the heatsinks, I’ve created a custom IOMeter script with input from experts in the industry. I run an initial test of 30 minutes after installing the heatsink to burn it in. After turning the system off and allowing it to cool down, I run another 30-minute test. I’ll repeat the process for verification and if there is no variance I consider the results accurate. If there is variance, I’ll test the heatsink twice more.
Tests are performed inside of Be Quiet’s Silent Base 802. I use a 360mm AIO to avoid having the CPU Cooler potentially impact the results, but there’s an argument to be made that the most petite heatsinks should be tested under an air cooler. We’ll investigate this further in upcoming reviews to see how much – or little – this can impact the results of lower-end heatsinks.
All testing is performed with an ambient temperature of 23 degrees Celsius.
Noise Levels
I always test NVMe heatsinks with fans with my motherboard’s default setting, shown below. I never bothered to adjust this because at this setting, none of the units I’ve tested ran louder than my system fans at idle – and I like a nice, quietly running system.
At least for every unit I’ve tested, it would be pointless to run any of these heatsinks fans at full speed. You won’t gain any additional storage performance or speed, and the thermal benchmarks recorded while running at the settings shown below were excellent.
#Ineo #SSD #Heatsink #Cooler #Review #Strong #performance #interesting #design
Western Australia’s top draft prospect has pushed her case to the be the No.1 pick after finishing in the top 10 in every test at the AFLW combine in Melbourne over the weekend.
East Fremantle star Zippy Fish won the agility test with an impressive time of 8.388 seconds and was runner-up in the 20m sprint with a time of 3.185sec, cementing her status as a serious contender for the first selection in the draft.
#AFLW #draft #Top #West #Australian #prospect #Zippy #Fish #blitzes #combine #Molly #OHerir #impresses
TALLADEGA, Ala. — Michael Jordan expressed confidence Sunday in the outcome of the antitrust lawsuit his 23XI Racing team recently filed against NASCAR in federal court, telling The Athletic, “I wouldn’t have filed it if I didn’t think I could win.”
Jordan made his comments before Sunday’s race at Talladega Superspeedway, sitting atop the pit box for 23XI driver Bubba Wallace. The team jointly filed its lawsuit with another NASCAR organization, Front Row Motorsports, alleging NASCAR operates as a monopoly and uses “anticompetitive and exclusionary practices” to “enrich themselves at the expense of the premier stock car racing teams.”
The issue between the parties centers around NASCAR’s so-called “charter system” and a final “take-it-or-leave-it” offer NASCAR offered teams last month to extend the deal. Thirteen of 15 team owners signed the deal, with 23XI and Front Row as the holdouts.
“We want a fair deal, but this wasn’t fair. I didn’t just file it for me. It’s for everyone,” Jordan said as he extended both arms and gestured toward the cars stationed on the grid.
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NASCAR, meanwhile, continued to decline comment. The sanctioning body has not reacted or responded publicly since the lawsuit was filed, nor did NASCAR comment when 23XI and Front Row refused to sign the charter agreement in September.
NASCAR chairman and CEO Jim France, who is named as a defendant in the suit, thanked reporters for the opportunity to comment but said he had nothing to say about the lawsuit when approached Sunday in the garage area.
“Excited about our championship battles and looking forward to a fantastic race today,” France said.
Court records indicate 23XI and Front Row will file for a preliminary injunction in federal court on or around Oct. 8.
Charters are NASCAR’s version of a franchise, which guarantees entry into each race (along with access to more of the race winnings and money from the season-long points fund than non-chartered teams).
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(Photo: Logan Riely / Getty Images)
#Michael #Jordan #confident #outcome #lawsuit #NASCAR #fair #deal
We’ve covered NVIDIA ACE technologies a few times at TweakTown, a toolset and set of AI-powered technologies that can bring digital humans to life. As seen in the Covert Protocol tech demo, AI creates and generates personalities and dialogue, converts text-to-speech, generates facial animations, and more. For game developers and gamers, it’s a potential game changer for player interaction and immersion in a digital world.
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However, when it comes to NVIDIA ACE, the generative AI tools available to developers aren’t merely there to add AI-generated characters into a game powered by the Nemotron Mini 4B model that can run locally on GeForce RTX 40 Series GPU.
Audio2Face-3D is a brilliant tool in its own right. It is a plugin that uses audio to generate accurate lip-synching and facial animation for characters.
Easily integrated into Autodesk Maya and Unreal Engine 5, NVIDIA has created a Unreal Engine 5 sample project that serves as a guide for developers looking to use ACE and add Digital Humans to their games and applications.
“As a developer, you can build a database for your intellectual property, generate relevant responses at low latency, and have those responses drive corresponding MetaHuman facial animations seamlessly in Unreal Engine 5,” NVIDIA’s Ike Nnoli writes. “Each of these microservices are optimized to run on Windows PCs with low latency and a minimal memory footprint.”
Accurate facial animation is a tiny part of the bigger picture, as Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) allows AI models and characters to be aware of conversational history and context. These detailed Digital Humans or MetaHuman characters in Unreal Engine 5 require a lot of AI horsepower to run so they can sit in the cloud.
#NVIDIA #ACE #digital #human #technology #Unreal #Engine #plugin
By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Sunday allowed Elon Musk’s SpaceX and T Mobile to enable Starlink satellites with direct-to-cell capability to provide coverage for cellphones in areas of North Carolina hard-hit by Hurricane Helene.
The FCC often grants such emergency temporary approvals during disasters to help restore wireless and internet services in badly impacted areas and to allow for testing.
An FCC spokesperson said on Sunday that the agency remains “committed to helping with recovery efforts in states affected by Hurricane Helene. We stand ready to do all that is necessary to return connectivity to hard-hit areas and save lives.”
SpaceX said the satellites “have already been enabled and started broadcasting emergency alerts to cellphones on all networks in North Carolina.” The company said it may “test basic texting (SMS) capabilities for most cell phones on the T-Mobile network in North Carolina.”
On Sept. 28, more than 74% of cell towers were out of service in disaster-impacted areas of North Carolina due to the devastation caused by Helene. The FCC said on Sunday that figure has fallen to 17% as crews work to restore service.
“While SpaceX’s direct-to-cell constellation has not been fully deployed, we felt that getting even this early test version into the hands of people on the ground could provide vital support as teams work to get infrastructure and services back online and help first responders with rescue efforts,” T Mobile said on Sunday.
The company added that its “network is almost fully restored along affected regions, with less than 1% of network sites in specific areas where conditions remain particularly challenging not connected.”
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said that “the focus is on enabling emergency alerts to smartphones.”
Carr added that “it is important to manage expectations here. Starlink does not have a full constellation of direct-to-cell satellites in space yet. … Starlink is giving this a shot nonetheless to help address the serious need for connectivity in these disaster areas.”
T Mobile said in January that SpaceX had launched a Falcon 9 rocket with the first set of Starlink satellites that can beam phone signals from space directly to smartphones. The companies announced plans to provide mobile users with network access in parts of the United States in August 2022. T Mobile said at the time that the direct-to-cell service would begin with text messaging followed by voice and data capabilities in the coming years.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Will Dunham)
#lets #Starlink #provide #directtocell #coverage #hurricanehit #areas
DURHAM, N.C. — Twenty minutes were just a taste.
Or really, a tease.
Only so much can be gleaned from these preseason, meet-the-team, intrasquad events, like Duke’s Countdown to Craziness on Friday night. They’re as much about the schtick — mood lighting, air cannons, silly introductory dances — as any actual basketball. And, obviously, they don’t count.
But they do have meaning.
Especially in the case of this projected top-five preseason team — with the country’s top freshman in Cooper Flagg and a bevy of other NBA hopefuls — this is a glimpse. A snapshot of what’s possible. So when you see junior guard Tyrese Proctor on the fast break, with Flagg — the expected No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft — sprinting ahead of him, and then you see Proctor kick ahead an outlet pass, and you see Flagg loading up as he takes off toward the rim …
Well, you start imagining the possibilities. About the high-flying acrobatics about to unfold, yes, but also beyond. Your mind skips forward, to the sorts of spectacular plays and games this team may have in store if it can deliver on even a fraction of the still-growing hype surrounding it.
The moment, at least, delivered: Flagg effortlessly elevated off the Cameron Indoor court, twisted backward in midair and flushed home a highlight dunk with a ho-hum attitude.
His face seemed to say, more to come.
“You can’t really describe it, the feeling when you’re out there playing,” Flagg said. “That type of stuff is something you can’t really experience until it happens.”
Flagg finished the night with 13 points — third-most overall, considering players were switching teams at halftime — as well as three rebounds, three assists, and two turnovers. He was … good, if not overly deferential.
“I thought Cooper tonight was being a little hesitant, and just getting a feel for things,” coach Jon Scheyer said. “That’s the beauty of Coop: He’s such a team player, and he has such a great feel for the game.”
That much was evident, even on his first basket. The 6-foot-9 Maine native drove left from outside the arc, then switched the ball to his right hand in midair, showcasing the touch and inside finishing he’s so known for. From the first row of Duke’s student section, through the raucous applause, you could hear one Cameron Crazie note the occasion:
Those were Cooper Flagg’s first points at Duke.
The novelty around Flagg, especially early on — and especially if he’s as good as expected, anywhere near the Zion Williamson stratosphere that no one in college hoops has occupied since — will be a thing. His first dunk. First pick six. First 20-point game, first double-double. All of it. It will be noted, diligently, the continuing ascent of someone already deemed “generational” by the masses before his 18th birthday. (That’s Dec. 21, by the way; Georgia Tech drew the short stick and hosts the Blue Devils that night.)
Flagg, of course, can’t look at this season that way. Neither can his teammates, many of whom — like fellow freshmen Khaman Maluach and Kon Knueppel — will likely be following him to the NBA as early as next June. If Duke learned anything from its star-studded 2018-19 season with Williamson, it’s how to handle the spectacle that follows a phenomenon.
“You’ve just gotta stay present,” Proctor said. “Everyone knows who Coop is. Everyone knows who Khaman is. Everyone knows who all these guys are. So I think from day one, everyone has been on the same page. We haven’t necessarily had to sit down and talk about, ‘It’s going to be we over me.’ Everyone sort of knows that.”
But saying so in front of your home fans, on a night that’s more ceremonial than serious, is one thing — and maintaining that after a tough early-season stretch is another entirely. In the first month of the season, Duke plays (deep breath) Kentucky in the Champions Classic in Atlanta, at Arizona, versus Kansas in Las Vegas, all before hosting Auburn in the ACC-SEC Challenge in early December. That’s three of The Athletic’s top 10 preseason teams, one after another after another. We’ll have a good sense by Flagg’s birthday of the kind of talent he is, what kind of team Duke is — and how fair the national title expectations for this squad really are.
Friday was a taste of all that, a 20-minute morsel before the 30-plus games Duke has coming over the next five — maybe six — months.
It’s nothing worth overreacting to.
But it is, if nothing else, worth noting. Because Friday was Flagg’s, and Duke’s, beginning.
“I liked seeing him in a Duke uniform tonight,” Scheyer said. “I know that much.”
(Photo: Grant Halverson / Getty Images)
#Cooper #Flaggs #Duke #debut #beginning #season #full #highly #anticipated #steps
iPhone SE 3, New iPad Air May Debut Alongside New 7K Apple Studio Display at Launch Event on March 8
iPhone SE 3 and new iPad Air could be joined by a new external display at the Apple launch event on March 8. Although Apple has maintained suspense on what exactly we could see at the forthcoming ‘Peek Performance’ event, new reports suggest that the Cupertino-based company may unveil a new external display called Apple Studio at the event. The iPhone SE 3, which is also known as the iPhone SE (2022) or iPhone SE 5G, is also separately predicted to come in distinct colours and have three different storage options.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his Power On newsletter writes that the next-generation external display could be a fourth “wild card” unveiling at the Apple event this week — alongside the iPhone SE 3, new iPad Air, and at least one new Mac.
He says that Apple completed work on the external display “months ago” but has not yet made its public announcement. The device was said to be due for launch soon after last year’s MacBook Pro debut.
At WWDC in June 2019, Apple unveiled its last external display that it called the Pro Display XDR.
The display expected to launch tomorrow will be called Apple Studio Display, according to a report by 9to5Mac. It is said to have a 7K resolution and may include an A13 chip to handle some processing tasks natively.
Market analyst at TF Internal Securities Ming-Chi Kuo, who has a credible track record of forecasting Apple product plans, has also speculated that Apple is readying its new 27-inch external display that would come without a mini-LED panel. The display is also referred to as an “affordable” option by the analyst — suggesting that it could be priced lower than the 6K Pro Display XDR, which debuted at $4,999 (roughly Rs. 3,84,400) in 2019.
Kuo also predicts that Apple is working on releasing its new Mac mini this year that we could see at the forthcoming event itself. The analyst additionally forecasts that new Mac Pro and iMac Pro models would be ready for unveiling next year.
Gurman also believes that the new Mac mini could debut at the Apple event this year.
The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models were also initially speculated to come at the event, though the new predictions suggest that we may have to wait for some more time to see those upgrades. Gurman, though, suggests that the new 13-inch MacBook Pro or iMac models might appear sometime in the first half of the year — maybe around May or June.
Some people expect Apple to release an updated version of the 13-inch MacBook Pro. I’m just curious, would Apple be interested in upgrading an outdated form factor design product?
— 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) March 6, 2022
Apple may also preview its new Mac Pro or iMac Pro at this week’s event, according to Gurman.
On the part of the iPhone SE 3, Kuo predicts that the new model would come in 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB storage options and have White, Black, and Red colours. He also corroborates some earlier reports by saying that the new iPhone SE would feature a similar form-factor design that is available on the current model.
Further, he predicts that Apple would kick-off the mass production of the iPhone SE 3 in March and ship its 25–30 million units in 2022.
Previous reports suggest that the iPhone SE 3 would include a faster A15 Bionic chip with 5G support and an improved camera experience.
Apple is also rumoured to have its new iPad Air ready for launch that could debut as the iPad Air (5th generation), with features including A15 chip, optional 5G support, and Centre Stage for FaceTime camera. It could also come in a similar design that we saw in 2020.
The Apple event is taking place on Tuesday, March 8. Just like the past few launches by the company, it will be an online-only event that will be livestreamed on the Web.
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