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Brexit border tests at Channel Tunnel cause long M20 lorry queues

November 28, 2020November 27, 2020v-brnet

Long queues were formed on the M20 in Kent because of Brexit control tests at the Channel Tunnel. Lorry drivers were left queuing while French authorities conducted tests for border checking procedures. It comes ahead of the end of the Brexit transition period, scheduled for December 31. Highways England said it had closed the entry […]

Terry McLaurin limited in Tuesday’s practice

November 27, 2020v-brnet

Washington Football Team wide receiver Terry McLaurin took a step in the right direction at practice on Tuesday. McLaurin was listed as a non-participant on Monday’s estimated practice report, but moved up to a limited session with the team back on the field. McLaurin, who leads the team with 62 catches and 871 receiving yards, […]

Snorkeling gear, animal noses inspire better personal protective equipment

November 27, 2020v-brnet

In March, Stanford University bioengineer Manu Prakash flew from France to his home in California and spent two weeks in personal quarantine. After being holed up in the room where he stores his snorkeling and scuba equipment, Prakash emerged with an idea for addressing two of the pandemic’s most pressing challenges. First, he saw that […]

Berlin’s rent cap offers a new way of thinking about Britain’s housing crisis

November 27, 2020v-brnet

For most tenants in the UK – conditioned to the prospect of rising rents, poor living conditions and the ongoing threat of eviction – the very idea of receiving a letter from their landlord outlining a reduction in their monthly rent would be absolutely unthinkable. And yet this is exactly what has happened to thousands […]

AMD is happy to help Intel and Nvidia enable Smart Access Memory

November 27, 2020v-brnet

Smart Access Memory, or SAM, is a software/hardware trick that takes advantage of a PCI Express feature called Base Address Register. So far, only AMD is using with their new Radeon RX 6000 GPUs to eek out a little extra performance. It lets the CPU feed information directly into the entire video memory buffer, instead […]

Parents blast ‘terrible’ school meals including ham toastie with no ham

November 27, 2020v-brnet

Angry parents have blasted the meagre meals served out to students at a local secondary secondary Wendy Murray created a furore when she shared a picture of the ham and cheese toastie her son was given at Looe Community Academy in Cornwall. Other parents got in touch with the mum to express the same concerns […]