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LAS VEGAS — With a restructuring at Andretti Global that pushed Michael Andretti into a smaller role, the chances of his organization landing a Formula 1 team have substantially increased. So much so that F1 and Formula One Management could have a decision to grant the General Motors-backed entry a spot as the 11th team on the grid in the coming weeks. Dan Towriss, now the majority owner of the Andretti organization, was at the Las Vegas Grand Prix on Thursday scoping his chances of entering the top motorsports series in the world. So was the FBI, allegedly, as part of a Department of Justice investigation into why F1 denied the Andretti organization expansion into the series. F1 currently has 10 teams that field 20 cars and only one — the organization owned by California businessman Gene Haas — is an American team. Las Vegas marks the third race this season in the United States, more than any other country, as F1 has exploded in American popularity over the last five years. People are also reading... Even so, Andretti could not get approval from F1 to enter the series. But, the situation changed in September when Andretti scaled back his role with his namesake organization. Now with Towriss in charge, talks have amplified, even though it is not clear what the name of an Andretti-less F1 team would even be. Cadillac would do the engines — but says it won't be ready until 2028 — which means a 2026 Towriss-led F1 team would be GM branded but with a partner engine supplier. Most of the existing teams have been largely opposed to an 11th team entering F1, citing a dilution in prize money and the massive expenses they've already committed to the series. But, Andretti among others believed the teams' position was personal in that they simply didn't like Andretti, who ran 13 races in the 1993 season. His father, Mario, is the 1978 F1 world champion. The Andretti application had already been approved by the FIA, which is F1's ruling body, but later denied by F1 itself. F1 promised to revisit the issue once General Motors had an engine ready to compete. The existing 10 F1 teams have no actual vote or say in if the grid is expanded, which Mercedes boss Toto Wolff reiterated Thursday when The Associated Press asked why the sudden chance of acceptance in a potential 11th team. "We have an obligation, a statutory obligation as directors, to present the standpoint that is the best for our company and for our employees, and we've done that," Wolff said. "I think if a team can add to the championship, particularly if GM decides to come in as a team owner, that is a different story. "And as long as it is creative, that means we're growing the popularity of the sport, we're growing the revenue of the sport, then no team will be ever against it. So I'm putting my hope in there." Wolff has been eager to hear from Towriss directly on what the plans for the organization are now that Andretti has a smaller role. "No one from Andretti or Andretti Global or whatever the name will be has ever spoken to me a single sentence in presentation of what the creative part is," he said. "But they don't need to because the teams don't decide. It is the commercial rights holder, with the FIA, we have no say. If I want to be invited to a party and go to the party, I'm sitting down at the table and telling who I am and why I'm really good fun and sitting here and everybody will enjoy my presence. "That hasn't happened, but you know, that's now my personal point of view, not a professional, because there's nothing we can do, nothing we can say," Wolff continued. "And I don't know the people. I've obviously spoken to Mario. I didn't speak to his son. I didn't speak to any other people that are behind that. I don't know who they are. So I know GM, GM is great." Fred Vasseur, team principal at Ferrari, said he's not opposed to another team if it adds value to F1. "The discussion is between FIA, the team, and FOM. It's not our choice," he said. "For sure, as Toto said, that if it's good for the sport, good for the show, good for the business, and adds value on the sporting side, that we are all OK." Be the first to know
Poll grudge: Murder plot against sarpanch fails, 2 held with gunsSteep price hikes could be on the way if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to impose sweeping new tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada and China. He threatened to implement the tariffs on the country’s top three trading partners on his first day back in office, including a 10% tariff on products from China. In a pair of social media posts, he explained the decision as a way to crack down on illegal immigration and drugs. “On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States,” he said. “It is time for them to pay a very big price!” Ultimately, consumers could end up absorbing the brunt of those costs. When tariffs are levied on imports, American companies have to pay taxes to the U.S. government on their purchases from other countries; the companies often pass on those extra costs to customers. “This is a bully effort to put everybody on notice,” said economist Chris Thornberg, founding partner of Beacon Economics in Los Angeles. “One of the reasons he uses tariffs is because it’s one of the few places that he actually has some leverage.” Though Thornberg noted it’s still a “giant remains-to-be seen” whether and how Trump’s proposed tariffs are implemented, consumer goods across the board could be dramatically affected. Here are a few top categories: Mexico was the U.S.’s top goods trading partner last year, surpassing China. Mexico is a major manufacturer of passenger vehicles, light vehicles, trucks, auto parts, supplies and electric-vehicle technologies. Eighty-eight percent of vehicles produced there are exported, with 76% headed for the U.S., the International Trade Administration says. Automakers with manufacturing operations in Mexico include General Motors, Ford, Tesla, Audi, BMW, Honda, Kia, Mercedes Benz, Nissan, Toyota and Volkswagen. “If we get tariffs, we will pass those tariff costs back to the consumer,” Phil Daniele, chief executive of AutoZone, said in the company’s most recent earnings call. “We’ll generally raise prices ahead of ... what the tariffs will be.” Last year, China accounted for 77% of toy imports — about 25 times greater than the total value of toy imports from Mexico, the next largest foreign source of supply, according to the National Retail Federation. U.S. producers account for less than 1% of the toy market. The federation recently released a study that found the tariffs Trump proposed during his campaign — a universal 10% to 20% tariff on imports from all foreign countries and an additional 60% to 100% tariff on imports specifically from China — would apply to a wide range of toys imported into the U.S., including dolls, games and tricycles. “Prices of toys would increase by 36% to 56%,” the study concluded. The National Retail Federation study also analyzed more than 500 items of clothing and found prices “would rise significantly” — as much as 20.6%. That would force consumers to pare spending on apparel. Low-income households would be hit especially hard, the group said, because they spend three times as much of their after-tax income on apparel compared with high-income households. “U.S. apparel manufacturers would benefit from the tariffs, but at a high cost to families,” the study said. “Even after accounting for domestic manufacturing gains and new tariff revenue, the result is a net $16 billion to $18 billion loss for the U.S. economy, with the burden carried by U.S. consumers.” Imported footwear products already face high U.S. duties, particularly those made in China. The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America expressed concern that new tariffs would make it more difficult for consumers to afford shoes and other everyday essentials. Trump’s proposed tariffs would increase the costs of several imported fruits and vegetables, said Jerry Nickelsburg, faculty director of UCLA Anderson Forecast, an economic forecasting organization. The vast majority of U.S. produce imports come from Mexico and Canada, including avocados, cucumbers, potatoes and mushrooms. The U.S. spent $88 billion on agricultural imports from the two countries in fiscal year 2024. Big-ticket electronic products such as televisions, laptops, smartphones, dishwashers and washing machines — many of which are manufactured in Mexico and China, or made with parts imported from those countries — likely would become more expensive. The U.S. imported $76 billion worth of computers and other electronics from Mexico in 2023, and more than a quarter of U.S. imports from China consist of electronic equipment. Get local news delivered to your inbox!Pepe Coin’s Growth Echoed- Could This Altcoin Be the Next Big Hit?
When the cathedral of went up in flames in 2019, few people believed could fulfil his promise to restore it by the end of this year. Yet he succeeded in mobilising donors, and a small army of restorers and craftsmen to put back together in five years a medieval masterpiece that had taken almost centuries to originally complete. Today’s reopening ceremony should have been a triumph for Macron comparable only to de Gaulle’s in Notre-Dame at the liberation in August 1944, or Napoleon’s self-crowning there in December 1804. France’s youngest head of state since Napoleon III expected his own apotheosis today. Instead, the former whizz-kid banker finds he has developed a perverse Midas touch: everything he handles these days turns to soot and ashes in his mouth. Over the last six months, Macron has blundered from one setback to another defeat, culminating in the current paralysis in France’s political system. Poor results for his Renaissance Party in the European Parliament elections in June triggered him into calling early elections for France’s own national assembly. His supporters promptly lost their majority and France. The hard left and the hard right can’t agree on anything except stymieing Macron by voting down his hand-picked prime minister, , and his austerity measures – which were meant to reignite French entrepreneurship and cut the state’s huge deficit, projected to exceed 6 per cent of GDP. So instead of De Gaulle’s vision of the French president as the guarantor of the Fifth Republic’s stability, Macron has become the embodiment of systemic failure and chaos. France is obviously too important as our major neighbour for its agonies to be ignored – and Britain, or France’s neighbours, like , cannot overlook how much our woes have in common with Emmanuel Macron’s. Across , conventional parties of centre-left and centre-right are no longer able to win enough votes to form a government on their own or at the head of a coherent coalition. Germany’s odd thrupple coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and free market Liberals has just collapsed, in the wake of the in recent, regional elections. This was as much a reflection of the country’s sharp economic downturn as the AfD’s playing up anti-immigration policies – and suggests it will be hard for the centre-right Christian Democrats to form a classic coalition in Berlin after next February’s election. Across Europe to the east, after its Constitutional Court cancelled the country’s presidential election as a nationalist, anti-EU, and anti-Nato jack-in-a-box candidate looked likely to win. At first sight, Labour’s thumping majority in our general election in July bucked the trend in the EU. But with the nosedive in Sir Keir Starmer’s personal ratings since then – and Labour’s rapidly sinking poll numbers – post-Brexit Britain seems to align with the EU’s members in a sour public mood about our country’s governance. In fact, all of western Europe’s once industrialised economies are suffering similar symptoms, including the haemorrhaging of highly skilled jobs at the same time migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East risk their lives to get here. Waning affluence is the key to public attitudes to immigration shifting in the west European states, which still remain magnets for people from the global south. In reality, Europe, including Britain, is trapped as the world’s third-ranking economic unit between the top two: the USA and China. This is a face evident in the ways we handle the race to decarbonise the global economy. The shift to a is taking a huge toll on German carmakers as well as any other energy-intensive industry. It is one thing for governments to promote “green” alternatives but quite another for European companies to actually design and manufacture cars people want and can afford to buy, for instance. Compare this to China and the US: whatever Donald Trump’s climate scepticism, his No 1 booster, Elon Musk, has made his Tesla into the signature Western-manufactured electric car. China might be pumping vast amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere but its manufacturers are and electric vehicles that have cut swathes through European markets. Meanwhile, the EU and Britain remain faithful to the free trade shibboleths of the increasingly redundant Washington Consensus, ahead of threatened tariffs under Trump 2.0. Trying to mix free trade with net zero regulation is a real contradiction which is becoming a living nightmare for European societies squeezed by the kind of external competitive and technological challenges which they haven’t experienced before and still haven’t thought through. The challenges are many, and the paths through unclear. President Macron is today’s high-profile European leader battered by these surging problems besetting France. In some ways, his triumphant restoration of Notre-Dame is symbolic of . Just as King Charles’s coronation was a masterpiece of public theatre, so reopening a pristine Notre-Dame shows how good we Europeans are at the past! For all that I welcome the return of Notre-Dame as the spiritual centre of Paris – its reconstruction is a tribute to former glories rather than a sign that France in particular, or Europe in general, is about to enjoy a renaissance. Today’s ceremonies are a wake for an old France, maybe for old Europe too.Japan's famous sake joins UNESCO's cultural heritage list, a boost to brewers and enthusiasts
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Three long days of counting in the General Election finished late on Monday night when the final two seats were declared in the constituency of Cavan-Monaghan. Fianna Fail was the clear winner of the election, securing 48 of the Dail parliament’s 174 seats. Sinn Fein took 39 and Fine Gael 38. Labour and the Social Democrats both won 11 seats; People Before Profit-Solidarity took three; Aontu secured two; and the Green Party retained only one of its 12 seats. Independents and others accounted for 21 seats. The return of a Fianna Fail/Fine Gael-led coalition is now highly likely. However, their combined seat total of 86 leaves them just short of the 88 needed for a majority in the Dail. While the two centrist parties that have dominated Irish politics for a century could look to strike a deal with one of the Dail’s smaller centre-left parties, such as the Social Democrats or Labour, a more straightforward route to a majority could be achieved by securing the support of several independent TDs. For Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin and current taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris, wooing like-minded independents would be likely to involve fewer policy concessions, and financial commitments, than would be required to convince another party to join the government benches. Longford-Westmeath independent TD Kevin “Boxer” Moran, who served in a Fine Gael-led minority government between 2017 and 2020, expressed his willingness to listen to offers to join the new coalition in Dublin. “Look, my door’s open,” he told RTE. “Someone knocks, I’m always there to open it.” Marian Harkin, an independent TD for Sligo-Leitrim, expressed her desire to participate in government as she noted that Fianna Fail and Fine Gael were within “shouting distance” of an overall majority. “That means they will be looking for support, and I certainly will be one of those people who will be speaking to them and talking to them and negotiating with them, and I’m looking forward to doing that, because that was the reason that I ran in the first place,” she said. Meanwhile, the Social Democrats and Irish Labour Party both appear cautious about the prospect of an alliance with Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. They will no doubt be mindful of the experience of the Green Party, the junior partner in the last mandate. The Greens experienced near wipeout in the election, retaining only one of their 12 seats. Sinn Fein appears to currently have no realistic route to government, given Fianna Fail and Fine Gael’s ongoing refusal to share power with the party. Despite the odds being stacked against her party, Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald contacted the leaders of the Social Democrats and Labour on Monday to discuss options. Earlier, Fianna Fail deputy leader and outgoing Finance Minister Jack Chambers predicted that a new coalition government would not be in place before Christmas. Mr Chambers said planned talks about forming an administration required “time and space” to ensure that any new government will be “coherent and stable”. After an inconclusive outcome to the 2020 election, it took five months for Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and the Greens to strike the last coalition deal. Mr Chambers said he did not believe it would take that long this time, as he noted the Covid-19 pandemic was a factor in 2020, but he also made clear it would not be a swift process. He said he agreed with analysis that there was no prospect of a deal before Christmas. “I don’t expect a government to be formed in mid-December, when the Dail is due to meet on December 18, probably a Ceann Comhairle (speaker) can be elected, and there’ll have to be time and space taken to make sure we can form a coherent, stable government,” he told RTE. “I don’t think it should take five months like it did the last time – Covid obviously complicated that. But I think all political parties need to take the time to see what’s possible and try and form a stable government for the Irish people.” Fine Gael minister of state Peter Burke said members of his parliamentary party would have to meet to consider their options before giving Mr Harris a mandate to negotiate a new programme for government with Fianna Fail. “It’s important that we have a strong, stable, viable government, whatever form that may be, to ensure that we can meet the challenges of our society, meet the challenges in terms of the economic changes that are potentially going to happen,” he told RTE. Despite being set to emerge with the most seats, it has not been all good news for Fianna Fail. The party’s outgoing Health Minister Stephen Donnelly became one of the biggest casualties of the election when he lost his seat in Wicklow in the early hours of Monday morning. Mr Donnelly was always predicted to face a fight in the constituency after boundary changes saw it reduced from five to four seats. If it is to be a reprise of the Fianna Fail/Fine Gael governing partnership of the last mandate, one of the major questions is around the position of taoiseach and whether the parties will once again take turns to hold the Irish premiership during the lifetime of the new government. The outcome in 2020 saw the parties enter a coalition on the basis that the holder of the premier position would be exchanged midway through the term. Fianna Fail leader Mr Martin took the role for the first half of the mandate, with Leo Varadkar taking over in December 2022. Current Fine Gael leader Mr Harris succeeded Mr Varadkar as taoiseach when he resigned from the role earlier this year. However, this time Fianna Fail has significantly increased its seat lead over Fine Gael, compared with the last election when there were only three seats between the parties. The size of the disparity in party numbers is likely to draw focus on the rotating taoiseach arrangement, raising questions as to whether it will be re-run in the next coalition and, if it is, on what terms. On Sunday, Simon Coveney, a former deputy leader of Fine Gael, said a coalition that did not repeat the rotating taoiseach arrangement in some fashion would be a “difficult proposition” for his party. Meanwhile, Fine Gael minister Paschal Donohoe said he would be making the case for Mr Harris to have another opportunity to serve as taoiseach. On Monday, Mr Chambers said while his party would expect to lead the government it would approach the issue of rotating the taoiseach’s role on the basis of “mutual respect” with Fine Gael. “I think the context of discussions and negotiations will be driven by mutual respect, and that’s the glue that will drive a programme for government and that’s the context in which we’ll engage,” he said. On Monday, Labour leader Ivana Bacik reiterated her party’s determination to forge an alliance with fellow centre-left parties with the intention of having a unified approach to the prospect of entering government. Asked if Labour was prepared to go into government with Fianna Fail and Fine Gael on its own, she told RTE: “No, not at this stage. We are absolutely not willing to do that. “We want to ensure there’s the largest number of TDs who share our vision and our values who want to deliver change on the same basis that we do.” The Social Democrats have been non-committal about any potential arrangement with Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, and have restated a series of red lines they would need to achieve before considering taking a place in government. Leader Holly Cairns, who gave birth to a daughter on polling day on Friday, said in a statement: “The party is in a very strong position to play an important role in the next Dail. In what position, government or opposition, remains to be seen.” Fianna Fail secured the most first preference votes in Friday’s proportional representation election, taking 21.9% to Fine Gael’s 20.8%. Sinn Fein came in third on 19%. While Sinn Fein’s vote share represented a marked improvement on its disappointing showing in June’s local elections in Ireland, it is still significantly down on the 24.5% poll-topping share it secured in the 2020 general election. The final breakdown of first preferences also flipped the result of Friday night’s exit poll, which suggested Sinn Fein was in front on 21.1%, with Fine Gael on 21% and Fianna Fail on 19.5%.
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Xbox owners can purchase storage expansion cards from Seagate or Western Digital , which acts like internal storage and bypasses the restriction. Fortunately, such issues are mostly limited to gaming consoles these days. In some cases, you may hear someone tell you that you need to buy a specific type of external hard drive for MacOS or something like that but in virtually all cases, you can simply reformat any old drive to be compatible with whatever OS you're working with. This one seems obvious — mostly because it is. External storage devices have to connect to your computer in order to be of any use and thus, you'll want to make sure that whatever drive you buy will actually fit into your computer. For desktop PCs, this is rarely an issue as most desktop PCs come with an assortment of USB ports to choose from. Laptops, on the other hand, can get a little tricky depending on which one you own. One excellent example is the MacBook lineup of laptops. The 2024 MacBook Air M3 only comes with two USB-C ports . Thus, an external drive that uses a USB-A port won't work unless you buy an adapter . So, if you own a modern MacBook, you'll want to ensure that your new external hard drive either comes with a USB-C cable or an adapter so that you can actually use the thing on your laptop. Folks with older PCs want to think about the above problem in reverse. Desktop PCs can last for many years depending on how they're used, so people with older computers may not have the modern USB-C ports. In that case, make sure your external hard drive comes with a USB-A cable or adapter so you can use it. That should cover the vast majority of cable compatibility issues. If you wind up with one that has a connection you've never seen before, here is a helpful graphic hosted on Reddit that shows all the various connection types in case you need to buy an adapter. Okay, so we have compatibility out of the way in terms of operating system and cable types. The final consideration in terms of compatibility is your lifestyle. People use external hard drives for myriad reasons and in various conditions. How you intend to use and store your external storage drive can help you determine which one to get. For example, many external storage brands such as Samsung sell ruggedized versions of their products with IP ratings and thicker enclosures for folks who need extra storage in inclement weather or more difficult conditions. How you use your storage can help you decide what kind to buy in other ways as well. External hard drives with the old school HDDs are more susceptible to drop and shock damage, so while they are great for mass storage, you'll want a flash drive or an external SSD if you intend on taking it with you everywhere. Flash drives are the smallest form factor but are often just plastic enclosures over the internal components. Those who need survivability in their external storage would be best served with something more rugged like this Corsair Flash Survivor Stealth stick. People with active lifestyles have more to think about than those who intend to leave their hard drive at home all day. As long as it's stored in a safe place where it won't take an accidental tumble, you can buy any type of external storage for home-only use. Those who venture into the used market for external storage should be wary. Storage drives have finite lifespans, and these can range wildly depending on how much they get used. Most authorities on the matter say that mechanical hard drives can last around five years while SSDs can last around 10 years, give or take. Since external drives don't get used as often as internal ones, they tend to last much longer. However, a person simply doesn't know what an external drive was used for before it went to the open market. There are ways to find out. Programs like CrystalDiskInfo can tell you things like reads, writes, and drive usage over time. This can help ensure that you're using a drive that isn't beyond its expected lifespan. If you're dealing with an individual seller on eBay, Facebook Marketplace, or Craigslist, a reputable seller will have no problems booting up CrystalDiskInfo and showing you the drive's stats. Even older hard drives come with S.M.A.R.T. data, which tells you how old the drive is and how often it's been used. In general, SSDs measure their lifespan in TBW — terabytes written — while mechanical hard drives have moving parts that age just like anything else. For the most part, as long as the hard drive is relatively new, you should be fine. However, if you intend on using the drive heavily, as in the case of an external storage device for a game console or for frequently moving data from one computer to another, you may want to buy new so you can maximize the lifespan. However, S.M.A.R.T. data can only tell you so much, so it's wise to avoid nearly all external HDDs that are on the used market if you can help it. It's not necessarily that all external HDDs are bad. It's more of a risk versus reward decision. HDDs have moving parts, which degrade with age. Since it's not optimal to open an external hard drive to check its integrity, each mechanical drive you buy used is a little bit of a crapshoot as things like manufacturing tolerances and other variables can cause drives to fail sooner than expected. Tech savvy folks will buy used mechanical drives, but it usually comes with a long list of caveats. You'll want to test the drive with multiple full passes using something like Microsoft's SDelete tool to make sure the entire drive can be written and not just most of it. Less reputable sellers will also wipe or change the S.M.A.R.T. data, leaving you with no way to know how old the drive is or what it was used for in its prior life. Plus, if someone dropped the thing, the disks themselves might be damaged, which will cause failure and data loss down the road. There are complicated equations that businesses use to predict hard drive failure in server farms that use a lot of HDDs. However, unless you're a tech savvy individual who understands and accepts the risks, it's mostly better to buy a new external HDD. Then you know how many times it's been dropped and how often it's been used. Another big issue with buying external storage is underestimating how much storage you actually need. Taking a quick look at the contents of your computer or mobile phone and buying exactly enough storage to offload what's already there might seem like a sound investment in the moment, but you'll eventually run low on storage and end up having to buy a second drive. This is a waste of space, money, and time. Using external storage for gaming is the biggest and best example of this. Not long ago, it was rare to see games eclipse the 50GB mark and such games were considered massive. In 2024, such games are not only commonplace, but darn near average for the segment. Some games are well over 100GB now with some even asking for over 200GB of space. Even games released years ago have grown. Destiny 2 launched at around 30GB in 2017 and now requires over 150GB as of its latest DLC in 2024. In short, things are getting bigger. Phone cameras are taking larger photos and recording larger videos. File sizes are ballooning everywhere. What's good for you right now may not be ideal in a few years. Thus, it's good practice to buy a size or two up from what you think you need. It might seem like overkill at first, but as you accumulate more files and as those files increase in size, you'll be glad you did. It's virtually always cheaper to buy a single 1 TB drive than it is to buy two 500 GB drives. Backing up personal data is one of the most common reasons to own an external hard drive. After all, it's always good to keep your personal documents backed up in case of a failure. However, offloading them onto a small device that is easily misplaced and stolen carries its own risks. Fortunately, security is plentiful on external storage devices, and you can do things like encrypt your drive to keep prying eyes out in the event your drive falls into the wrong hands. Many external hard drive makers have security software that come with their drives. These are okay for basic security and will keep prying eyes from accessing your drive. Usually, included software has simple features like password protection and full disk encryption. These certainly help deter potential ne'er-do-wells from accessing your private files. At a minimum, consider encryption and password protecting your drive. People who are serious about their privacy have other options as well. One such example is VeraCrypt . VeraCrypt allows you to do all sorts of neat things, like create hidden, encrypted partitions on your external storage that only you know how to access. These partitions are hidden from others and fully encrypted. This is not an ad for VeraCrypt and even if it was, it wouldn't matter because the app is free and open source. We're just fans of software that lets you do the kinds of things that most thieves won't even check for, like create completely hidden volumes on your hard drive. For the most part, external storage drives are very similar from product to product. They include a drive of some sort inside of an enclosure, and all you have to do is plug it in. So what if I told you that you can create your very own external storage drive with a couple of Amazon purchases? This gives you complete control over what kind of drive it is, how big it is, and which brand it's from. Additionally, this is a great way to repurpose old internal hard drives that you otherwise might not be able to use. Start by looking for hard drive enclosures. They come in many shapes and sizes and for a variety of drive types. For example, this Cenmate Aluminum Dual Bay Hard Drive Enclosure comes with a cooling fan to keep your HDDs cool. Buy one of those, pop one or two HDDS into it, and you've effectively made yourself your very own external storage drive. There are also enclosures available for 2.5-inch drives and NVMe SSDs . The technology here is fairly straightforward, as the enclosures are relatively simple pieces of tech. They come with all of the connections necessary to let an internal drive connect to your PC over a USB cable. There are other benefits as well. If your laptop fries, you may be able to salvage the data by pulling out the laptop's hard drive and using an enclosure to access the data. Plus, internal drives tend to be less expensive than their external counterparts, which might help you save money. The only downside is that purpose-built external drives are more rugged than an enclosure. Reliability is a mixed bag when it comes to storage. There are so many variables that can determine if a storage drive is going to go the distance or fail. For the most part, the big players have near equal reliability and most negative feedback is simply bad luck. It is in the nature of mass-produced goods that some just roll off the line with a defect and virtually all makers have had bad products in the past. Still, it's important to know the big players in the external hard drive space. They include Samsung, Seagate, Crucial, Western Digital, Toshiba, and SanDisk. For the best customer support and warranty support, you'll want to stick with the big guns, even if they cost a little more. However, the industry isn't as big as you think it is. For example, Micron makes flash storage for a variety of brands. Crucial is the in-house brand for Micron but the brand also sells its storage to other brands for use in their products. Another example is Samsung, which works with SanDisk to make flash storage. Thus, buying a SanDisk or Samsung external SSD will likely have components from the other company. LaCie makes storage drives, but the company is owned by Seagate. Kingston buys its tech from Micron and SK Hynix, among others. You see where this is going. Most of the industry's drives are made by the same handful of companies, so reliability is virtually the same across the entire vertical. We do recommend checking to see who supplies off-brand companies with their tech before buying, though, to make sure you're getting something good.
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Molecular Templates, Inc. (Nasdaq: MTEM, “Molecular Templates,” or “MTEM” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of proprietary targeted biologic therapeutics, known as engineered toxin bodies, to create novel therapies with potent and differentiated mechanisms of action for cancer, announced that it has received an expected deficiency notification letter from the Listing Qualifications Staff of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) on November 25, 2024. The notice indicated that MTEM is not in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5250(c)(1) (the “Listing Rule”) as a result of its failure to timely file its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2024 (the “Form 10-Q”), as described more fully in MTEM’s Form 12b-25 Notification of Late Filing (the “Form 12b-25”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on November 15, 2024. The Listing Rule requires Nasdaq-listed companies to timely file all required periodic reports with the SEC. MTEM has until January 24, 2025 to submit a plan of compliance with respect to the notice. On November 25, 2024, MTEM also receive a notice with respect to its failure to maintain a $1.00 bid price in accordance with the Nasdaq Rule 5550(a)(2) (the “Minimum Bid Price Requirement”) as the closing price of the Company’s common stock as reported by Nasdaq was less than $1.00 for the preceding 30 business days. In accordance with Nasdaq rules, MTEM has been provided a 180-calendar day compliance period, or until May 26, 2025, to regain compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement. To regain compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement, the closing bid price of the common stock must meet or exceed $1.00 per share for a minimum of 10 consecutive business days during the 180-calendar day compliance period. Pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A)(iii), if the price of the common stock is less than $0.10 during a compliance period, Nasdaq will issue a delisting determination for the common stock. At this time, the Company has not yet determined whether to appeal these notices, submit plans of compliance or to take other action to address these deficiencies. The notices have no immediate effect on the listing or trading of the Company's common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market. About Molecular Templates Molecular Templates is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of next-generation ADCs. Our drug platform technology, known as Engineered Toxin Bodies (ETBs), leverages the resident biology of a genetically engineered toxin payload to create novel therapies with potent and differentiated mechanisms of action for cancer and various disease indications. Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements for purposes of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the “Act”). Molecular Templates disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements and claims the protection of the Act’s Safe Harbor for forward-looking statements. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this press release regarding strategy, future operations, future financial position, future compliance with Nasdaq listing requirements, prospects, plans and objectives of management are forward-looking statements. In addition, when or if used in this press release, the words “may,” “could,” “should,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “predict” and similar expressions and their variants, as they relate to Molecular Templates may identify forward-looking statements. Examples of such statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding any future actions the Company may take regarding the notices received from Nasdaq, the future price of the Company’s common stock and the Company’s ability to maintain the listing of its common stock on Nasdaq or otherwise continue its operations. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties. Continued investment in the Company’s common stock is highly speculative at this point. Actual events or results may differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors including, but not limited to the following: the effects of the pending potential dissolution of the Company on its stockholders who are not currently expected to receive value for their shares of common stock; the continued availability of financing on commercially reasonable terms; whether Molecular Templates’ cash resources will be sufficient to fund any future operations; the results of MTEM’s clinical studies which may be unable to resume in the near-term; the ability to effectively operate MTEM and retain key employees post-MTEM’s previously announced restructuring and reductions in force; the ability of MTEM to maintain the continued listing of its common stock on Nasdaq; the ability of MTEM to resume its regular and required Exchange Act reporting obligations which the Company is currently unable to do; and those risks identified under the heading “Risk Factors” in Molecular Templates’ filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recently filed Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2024 and any subsequently filed reports. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date hereof, and Molecular Templates specifically disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether because of new information, future events or otherwise. Contact Michelle Iwamoto-Fan michelle.iwamotofan@mtem.com
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Imran Khan asks PTI supporters to 'fight until last ball is bowled' "We will not back down until our demands are met,” says jailed PTI founder amid ongoing protest Incarcerated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan has asked the party workers and supporters to continue protest in Islamabad against his "illegal" incarceration, urging them to “fight until the last ball is bowled”. "I commend the Pakistani nation and PTI's political workers, who are fighting for their rights by participating in this peaceful protest, and resolutely standing before the mafia that has imposed itself upon our country, to demand their rights and genuine freedom," the jailed former prime minister said in a message posted on his official X handle. “My message for my team is to fight until the last ball is bowled. We will not back down until our demands are met!,” he added. Amid the government’s claims that the "PTI miscreants" were responsible for the deaths of security personnel, Imran said his party workers remained peaceful while marching on Islamabad. “My thanks go to overseas Pakistanis around the globe, who are not only mobilising Pakistanis and contributing funds, but also holding historic protests in their respective countries,” he said. It is pertinent to mention here that the PTI has staged protests in major cities of the world, including London and outside American President-elect Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Moreover, the PTI founder hailed his party’s “social media warriors around the globe”, asking them to continue to vigorously reiterate the demands that include the release of party leaders including himself from jail, revocation of 26th Amendment and the return of stolen mandate in the February 8 general elections. “Those who haven't yet joined the protest must also head to D-Chowk. All Pakistanis participating in the protest must remain peaceful, stay united, and stand firm until our demands are met. Remember, this is a struggle for Pakistan's survival and true freedom,” he concluded. Thousands of PTI protesters marched to Islamabad this week, defying all the obstacles and clashing with police, in response to incarcerated former prime minister’s call for a "do-or-die" protest. Authorities have enforced a security lockdown to block the protesters while highways into the city were barricaded. Meanwhile, the law enforcement agencies (LEAs) have pushed back the marching protesters from Islamabad's D-Chowk — the venue of the party’s much-touted power show. Geo News correspondent, who is present at the spot, reported that PTI protesters began retreating from the site following the heavy teargas shelling and action by the authorities. The Imran Khan-founded party, in recent months, has marched on the federal capital on multiple occasions which has seen its workers clashing with the law enforcement agencies (LEAs). Pakistan, Belarus sign 15 agreements, reaffirm deepening bilateral cooperation Death toll in Kurram clashes climbs to 99 as violence escalates Naqvi says PTI's 'secret leadership root cause of chaos' Security forces foil infiltration bid on Pak-Afghan border, eliminates three terroristsRoyal Navy warfare specialist avoids jail after allowing bank account for £22k crypto scamTrump jokingly calls Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 'Governor of the Great State of Canada'
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