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The EU is ready to commit significant funds to battle the semiconductor shortage.
Thierry Breton, the EU s commissioner for internal markets, discussed potential plans last Thursday.
The EU s ultimate goal is to double its share of global semiconductor production to 20% and to produce 2-nanometer chips by 2030.
The EU seems set to follow in the footsteps of the U.S., China, and South Korea when it comes to combatting the global semiconductor shortage. Thierry Breton, the EU s commissioner for internal markets, discussed goals and plans in a meeting at the headquarters of ASML, an industry equipment supplier, last Thursday (via Reuters).
The best face codes we ve seen for your Shepard
Looking for Mass Effect face codes for the Mass Effect Legendary Edition? Like the rest of the game, the Legendary Edition character has been spruced up substantially, and now it’s much easier to craft a photogenic Shepard to take on your many adventures in space.
You can import Mass Effect face codes from the original games, but because there are a few new skin tones and hair styles in the Legendary Edition, the face may turn out slightly different – but it shouldn’t take too much tweaking to return to your OG Shepard.
Source: BioWare/EA Noveria in the original Mass Effect and in Mass Effect Legendary Edition.
The most obvious example of the updated graphics ruining the tone of a scene is the overhauled version of Mass Effect s Eden Prime, which trades the ominous blood-red skies of the original game for a bright and warm sunset vista, complete with a giant lens flare. This makes the location look more realistic based on its in-game description, but it also makes the game s opening level feel much less nerve-wracking and tense. There was something distinctly terrifying and downright intimidating about how the Sovereign made a paradise world known across the Milky Way for its lush beauty look like a hellscape. That has been lost in the remaster.
Reader ArcadeDayDream falls in the camp of installing updates right away:
I always install right away. I know I often post criticism of Windows 10, but I ve never personally run into any technical problems with their 6 month upgrade cycle. In fact, the one time where it would have been bad if I did upgrade (PCIe SSD storage on system drive had a nasty bug at 20H2 s release), MS blocked it until the bug was fixed.
While the majority of people polled update right away, reader Jmgbooks explained waiting:
I wait because there always seem to be known and some unknown issues plaguing every update. So I pause updates for at least two weeks after each Patch Tuesday while I monitor various messageboards, Reddit, blogs and websites to see what problems people are reporting, is Microsoft aware of the issues and if they are offering any guidance or formulating a fix. If the issue(s) being reported are not germane to me (last Patch Tuesday the problems affected gamers, which I m not), I
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Build 2021 is almost here, and Microsoft has published its catalog for sessions that will be ongoing throughout the event. We ve rounded up some of the most interesting ones that we think you won t want to miss. Let s dive in!
What s new in Windows 10 for ALL developers
If you re looking for the latest and greatest in regard to Windows app development, this is the session for you. Find out what s new with Windows Terminal, Windows Subsystem for Linux 2, PowerToys, and the Windows Package Manager.
Speakers: Kayla Cinnamon, Deondre Davis, Craig Loewen
Description: Learn all that s new to support developers. We appreciate that you create many different solutions on Windows and not all of them are targeted to the Windows platform. Hear about innovations with Terminal and WSL2, performance improvements and delighters like PowerToys and the Windows Package Manager. If you develop for web, cloud, or other platforms including Windows, this is fo